It was a crap movie but I liked it.
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It was a crap movie but I liked it.
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I would argue that it is not a necessary evil on two points
-the transformers brand would have had adequate longevity for the next 10-15 years without any feature films, let alone the ones we received. Sure sales might not have been as supreme but the toyline/cartoon formula has never gone wrong.
-ROTF (and the first movie) could have been so much more, an awesome angel instead of a necessary evil.
That said, i don't think ROTF has wounded the mighty TF franchise at all. Plenty of popular fictional characters have suffered more-atrocious-than-ROTF feature films adaptations in the past without any real detriment to their existing popularity or overall longevity. I think in this and many other cases, film adaptations are dependent on the existing longevity/recognizability of a brand rather than the other way around.
All this coming from someone who hasn't even seen ROTF yet
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