TF5 Motion Posters; First look at Cogman

[BigTransformerTrev]

Neither are objectifying shots of girls, sexual innuendo and toilet humour, but seeing them happening again doesn't make it any better.

"Man, BB-8 is kinda annoying."
"Jar Jar Binks was worse."
"Not helping!"

What the hell does that have to do with the news story of this thread? Which for anyone who has forgotten is:

Entertainment Weekly had recently revealed 8 motion posters for TF5. One of which shows Cogman for the first time, who seems to be Anthony Hopkins' sidekick. Other motion posters showcase Optimus, Bumblebee, Hound, Hot Rod, Megatron, Barricade and Sqweeks.

You can view all of the motion posters on their website (source): http://ew.com/movies/2017/03/22/tran...alflow_twitter

Woah, you're getting really bummed over one name. It's not like Transformers has been perfect up to now.

Exactly - it's one name. Who knows the history of it - it could be that he was discovered by humans in the 1800's and he couldn't speak English so the humans that found him gave him a name that seemed appropriate - Cogman - a man made of cogs and metal. But lets all have a whinge about it before we know the context eh. Personally I find Transformers misnamed or classic named used willy nilly to be far more annoying. And as Griffin pointed out, there have been other names used that have been just as bad or worse depending on your viewpoint.

Go for ya lives talking about if you don't like the name, I've no business trying to stop you (though I can make counterpoints) but can we please not turn every damn movie thread into a "Bay ruined my childhood and I'm going to bring up every issue I've had with the last four movies" rehash AGAIN. I think Griffin made a thread for people to specifically have their bitchfests in. Stuff like sexual content in the movies has nothing to do with this news story.

[GoktimusPrime]

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[Shirokaze]

Far out I think everyone's reading way to much into this. All I did was express my opinion about the name, (which lets be honest, does sound a little ill-conceived before you start trying to make up reasons to justify it) I even went on to say it'd probably be fine in context. Why can't I be a little bummed that they don't appear to be taking the lore as seriously as they lead us to believe this time around? Isn't that something that everyone desires?
And then out of nowhere people are acting like I've flipped out about it and we jump to bitchfests and "Bay ruined my childhood"?

[Paulbot]

Spoiler? New information anyway. Cogman is voiced by Mr Carson from Downton Abbey source which I think is pretty cool casting.

[M-bot]

With Cogman apparently being a headmaster, I'm wondering if this means his head comes off and is a smaller bot, or does he transform into the head of a larger bot?

Re the name Cogman, TFs have a long history of creating new names for characters. And plenty of TF names are corny, too, so that's not new.

[griffin]

Some leaked renders of the new character of Hotrod.



(every time I see this character, especially the head, for some reason I think of Rattrap...)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Far out I think everyone's reading way to much into this. All I did was express my opinion about the name, (which lets be honest, does sound a little ill-conceived before you start trying to make up reasons to justify it) I even went on to say it'd probably be fine in context. Why can't I be a little bummed that they don't appear to be taking the lore as seriously as they lead us to believe this time around? Isn't that something that everyone desires?
And then out of nowhere people are acting like I've flipped out about it and we jump to bitchfests and "Bay ruined my childhood"?

The few comments made were not specifically directed at you mate, and mine were more about how this was deteriorating into the usual complaints about previous flicks which you were not the only one doing Sorry if you felt attacked though mate, I don't think that was anyones intention

Anyway, I officially give up on trying to keep movie news threads on track and being about the actual news story rather than deteriorating into 'everything I found wrong with the last 4 movies'. I put up a post in another thread about how the new Bbee movie is officially going to be a prequel and aimed at a younger audience. It got one relevant comment followed by four 'the other movies sucked' comments

Apparently I'm in the minority that when I come to the Movie News section I want to read actual news - Movie News as it were rather than Movie Olds. I'm looking to hear about announcements pertinent to TF5 and others take on those announcements, not that they didn't like the sexism in ROTF or the swearing in AoE. But clearly I should cut my losses and just check out other TF sites when I want movie news and just let everyone else here have their fun. I don't get how it's fun to constantly rehash the same complaints again and again and again about years-old movies personally, but it's not my place to try and impose myself over others and as said, I seem to be vastly in the minority.

Have fun kids - Trev out!