Third movie excitement?

[Lord_Zed]

I don't get excited till we get to the home stretch, which is usually about 4-2 months before release. It was the same for ROTF. ROTF might lower my expectations a little, but hey it's Michael Bay I never had great expectations going into the previous TF movies, Just seeing TF's on the big (or really big) screen got me excited. If the third movies crap and we get to a fourth movie, then hey by then the novelty might be gone, but it's not gone yet.

Besides generally speaking IMO TF fiction has been declining all across the spectrum these days.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I'm sure I'll get SUPER excited when we get a first trailer...

LOl yeh, and then the tears....

I will get excited if its called "Revenge of the Fan"

[SharkyMcShark]

I quite liked both movies (but then I didn't go in with great expectations), so yes I'm quite the pumped for this.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm w/ Kyle - I'll be more pumped when the first teaser trailer comes out.

"Bring it!"

[Kyle]

Given how the 1st movie was a success, Bay probably got over confident and went too much his own way in the 2nd one. Hopefully he learnt something from the reactions to the 2nd one, and the 3rd won't be as bad.

[kup]

Given how the 1st movie was a success, Bay probably got over confident and went too much his own way in the 2nd one. Hopefully he learnt something from the reactions to the 2nd one, and the 3rd won't be as bad.

That's something I am skeptical of. Bay learning anything.

[liegeprime]

That's something I am skeptical of. Bay learning anything.

He doesnt get the difference , coz POW, BOOM, ZAP "Im Michael Bay"

[1orion2many]

I started this thread because there was a lot more HOOHA this far out from the first movie, not so much with the second, it just seems to me it's getting less talked about by the Fans in general. I was utterly disgusted in the way Prime was turned into hunt them down and kill them type of leader, if they wanted that sort of thing they should have brought in Grimlock as he has the violent tendancey towards that sort of thing and making Jetfire a gerriatric was another dissappointment for me in the second movie.

[Hereticpoo]

The problem is TF3 doesn't need to be a good movie because alot of people will go to see it no matter if it reviews well or not. ROTF sold outrageously well in spite of the movies flaws so the studio has no reason to change the quality of the franchise.

[griffin]

Given how the 1st movie was a success, Bay probably got over confident and went too much his own way in the 2nd one. Hopefully he learnt something from the reactions to the 2nd one, and the 3rd won't be as bad.

Considering that the second movie was a bigger success than the first, if the 3rd one is 'as bad', the people invested in it (Paramount, Hasbro, Bay) will be more than happy with that same winning formual. Box office takings is all that matter to those people, which also determines the future direction of the franchise.

Even if Michael Bay felt there were things wrong with the movie, he (and the other interested parties) won't risk messing with what worked in drawing in the record crowds.
It's just a necessary evil that we end up benefiting from, due to the greater funding now allocated to the toyline, giving us a greater range of toys and a better chance of finding figures that interest us.

I agree with those that are excitedly and optimistically looking forward to the next chapter, when it starts leaking info and teaser trailers. The movies have still been a bit of fun, and entertaining, and I just don't over-estimate my expectations of them.
After all, I love the 1986 movie, but critics and patrons passed on it at the time - and how would fans have reacted to it if the internet existed back then?