Then Inside Out 2 would have utterly destroyed it.
Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!
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it's 2024 they should have released tf one direct to streaming and then removed it after 6 months for tax write off or because they don't wanna pay residuals or whatever else bullshit reasons they have to take jive they fuckin own off their own streaming service.
At the very least the summer release would have meant more kids and families with more time to see more movies.
August would have been perfect. Far enough after Inside Out 2 and far enough ahead of both Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Wild Robot do not get nearly as obliterated by any of them.
All this "if it released in x, y would have destroyed it" just reminds me that the movie released in a window of its own and still made peanuts. At least here it would have a reason (and tbh it might still have made more since it'd be a season when people are in more of a moviegoing mood).
Amusingly, as we all fuss about “franchise fatigue” and all that…
Transformers 2007 was just put on Netflix (probably yesterday) and when I was on a few hours ago, it was number 3 on the day’s Top 10 listing for films.
Transformers 2007 was just put on Netflix (probably yesterday) and when I was on a few hours ago, it was number 3 on the day’s Top 10 listing for films.
Makes sense to me. Maybe fatigue is the wrong word, but I get it. TF07 was a genuine hit. People still like it, and also have lost all hope of future installments being worth bothering to see in theaters.
Clearly, TF One needs more Mojo.
I'd be willing to bet that the original Star Wars trilogy does quite well still, even if that franchise definitely has some major fatigue.
Yeah, "hey, this thing I remember fondly is on a platform I can watch here? Cool, let's see it again" is a considerably different situation from "Since you loved that thing from a decade ago, how about going out to see the newest one in that series now?".
Kind of like how our to-watch or to-read lists pile up as we keep going back to rewatching Brooklyn 99, except now the to-watch lists also involve driving out to do the watching.
Kind of like how our to-watch or to-read lists pile up as we keep going back to rewatching Brooklyn 99, except now the to-watch lists also involve driving out to do the watching.
Well, you really shouldn't be watching a program while driving anyway. That's dangerous.
Hmm...
So it got bumped back a year.
Was TF One moved at all? I'm wondering if it would originally have had more room to breath apart from Rise of the Beasts had things proceeded as originally planned.
Per the wiki: In May 2023 (a month after it was revealed at CinemaCon in April 2023), Paramount announced it was being moved from July 2024 to September 2024. No reason is given in the linked article, but the linked April 2024 trailer launch article notes that the move gets One further away from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
So, I just had a mind-boggling experience last night at work. Me and one of my co-workers were sweeping up the floor of the store in the final hour of operation, and we got talking about movies. Particularly ones starring the likes of Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, and not just the comedies but a lot of the dramatic ones they've done as well. Many of the award-winning critically acclaimed ones that made them all Hollywood legends.
Eventually the conversation shifted to talking about the Transformers movies, and when he asked me which of them is my favorite, I told him "The one that just came out." He then looked at me with a sigh of disappointment.
He proceeded to explain that he loves the Michael Bay movies, even citing Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon as his favorites. He was five when the 2007 movie came out, and feels that Bay is a directing genius. But in regards to both Bumblebee and One (the two films most beloved by the Transformers fandom), he feels that both of them are really really dumb movies.
We longtimers in this fandom may think we know what's best, but it's experiences like this that just show how far out of tune we old-timers are with the younger generations of today.
Eventually the conversation shifted to talking about the Transformers movies, and when he asked me which of them is my favorite, I told him "The one that just came out." He then looked at me with a sigh of disappointment.
He proceeded to explain that he loves the Michael Bay movies, even citing Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon as his favorites. He was five when the 2007 movie came out, and feels that Bay is a directing genius. But in regards to both Bumblebee and One (the two films most beloved by the Transformers fandom), he feels that both of them are really really dumb movies.
We longtimers in this fandom may think we know what's best, but it's experiences like this that just show how far out of tune we old-timers are with the younger generations of today.
I mean, there have been so many more substantial cases where our faith in where the bar lies in terms of good taste and even just common decency has been shown to be severely misplaced.
After the last four years, and certainly after the last four WEEKS, a case of "everything is someone's G1" seems almost quaint.
(I will reiterate what I've said previously elsewhere about Bay's expertise at crafting memorable, actually technically-clever visuals.)
After the last four years, and certainly after the last four WEEKS, a case of "everything is someone's G1" seems almost quaint.
(I will reiterate what I've said previously elsewhere about Bay's expertise at crafting memorable, actually technically-clever visuals.)
Hence why I led in with the notion that our conversation began with us talking about some really high caliber Hollywood films before it switched to the subject of the Transformers films.
In his case, I took it that he was simply blinded by nostalgia when it came to the Transformers movies.
Ehh, sure.
There's a guy at my job who will defend the Star Wars prequels up and down.
I mean, hell, let's be honest, that G1 Cartoon is kinda trash in many respects. (Great voice cast though.)
I have a lot of nostalgia for it, so I can power through a rewatch, but I tried watching the 80's GI Joe toon for the first time since I was a kid (and I barely watched it then) and it just wasn't grabbing me, even though quality-wise it's on par with Transformers.
I mean, hell, let's be honest, that G1 Cartoon is kinda trash in many respects. (Great voice cast though.)
I have a lot of nostalgia for it, so I can power through a rewatch, but I tried watching the 80's GI Joe toon for the first time since I was a kid (and I barely watched it then) and it just wasn't grabbing me, even though quality-wise it's on par with Transformers.
Have to admit, I agree with the general consensus that the film ideally needed a release date earlier in the year. (And why the months-long delay in getting a cinema release in my part of the world? It isn’t 1989 any more.)