• [Filmento] Bumblebee - How Character Killed A Movie Anatomy Of A Failure
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Well he sounds...very monotone and bland. The way he speaks its like the vocal programs used to read documents out loud in Microsoft Word. Clickbait thumbnail is VERY clickbait. Also this dude pretty much spoils the whole movie before the film comes out in DVD and Blue Ray so be warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkD8LguElQc I honestly disagree with what he's saying, as it's just boiled down to "This film has no plot, so I was bored". I mean apart from being a homage to classic Spielberg films like ET and being just about a girl and her robot like The Iron Giant, that was it and yet it still worked. Every actor was giving it their all, the CGI was not to intrusive, and Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie was a wayy better protagonist that Shia Lebouf's and Marky Mark's characters, making the film a lot better in the long term when she interacts with her CGI co-star.
I watched it for the first time last week and actually really liked it. It felt a lot more like transformers than the baybortions did. But for me it had the same fault the bay movies did- it focused and relied too much on people. I don't give a shit about people, Im here for the robots and their story.
While this is true, and I do think it's a bit criminal that the villains all had like ten minutes worth of screentime while Charle's plot takes up a chunk of the movie, you got to keep in mind that Bee isn't a proper soldier in most iterations which is why he doesn't get a ton of action scenes like Bayformers do. He's the scout of the team, but he's also the liaison and is the one who interacts the most with the humans when the Autobots arrive on Earth. This is why when he runs into Agent Burns in the beginning he runs away and tries to talk his way out. Bumblebee was always part of the human element in Transformers, but given what happens in the end it all leads to something bigger the movie has hinted at the recorded message sent by Optimus Prime before he lands on Earth with his resistance team. It's the MCU idea where at the end of Iron Man 1 where Stark meets Nick Fury at the end credits asking him about the Avenger's Initiative. Basically we're getting more movies from where this movie left off, but with feedback from the audience they know exactly what the next movie NEEDS to be about. I don't think Paramount has the money plan to repeat exactly what Michael Bay did for ten years running.
I could not help but find it weird for the whole movie that Bumblebee is a grown-ass man who was basically made retarded for the majority of the movie. And we're never ever getting a Transformers movie that puts the robots first and humans second because one, test audiences and focus groups are stupid and want more humans and less robots in their robot movies, and because robots are expensive to animate.
Re-watching the movie again since I bought it today, the reason Bumblebee was acting almost childlike is part of him losing his memory and possibly his fight or flight response. Since his total disrepair from the Seeker fight he's been dormant in VW Beetle mode for a while until Charlie came and try to fix him up. Being in a total strange environment and losing a way to properly fight, he's at the mercy of the humans until Charlie tries to get him fixed up. It's not until the beatdown from the Decepticons and Charlie reviving him did his memories start coming back in full. It's a bit odd given how the Transformers works, but it kinda of works help but you really can't kill him in his darn movie. Especially when this movie acts like a total reboot to shake things up for people fucking tired of the last five garbage films. And I totally disagree with the 2nd statement. This movie's budget was slashed to keep up with TF5's losses and it shows in some places, but what Travis Knight did as a talented animator was to make use of the budget to make a more scaled down but more solid version of the yellow/black Autobot and also the best looking movie Autobots and Decepticons in recent memory. And if you read some reviews online, you won't be hard pressed to see that while Charlies sidestory was good, they did ask for more scenes of the Transformers and I can see why this movie isn't a total 10/10 from that alone. I bet you when Avengers: Endgame and the new Godzilla film have their time Paramount will be out there taking notes on what the next approach to the next set of films.
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