China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing

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Thanks to an article from The Hollywood Reporter, we have news that China's Dalian Wanda Group has joined the advertising for the upcoming Transformers: The Last Knight film. Wanda is set to advertise for the movie throughout China, using a vast array of promotional movie material. The firm is the 3rd to join the advertising side of the movie, following the Weying Technology and Huahua Media. The film is now playing, so head on out and check out the movie for yourselves!

Wanda will market and promote the film in China through its vast cinema network, while also serving as a merchandising partner in the country. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

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Wanda is the third Chinese firm to board Transformers 5. Last week, Weying Technology bought a stake in the film, saying it was entitled to an undisclosed share of global revenue for the movie, including theatrical, video, TV, VOD and merchandising. Chinese film company Huahua Media, which served as a marketing partner on Transformers 4, announced an unspecified stake in the new film at a Shanghai signing ceremony in December.

Credit(s): The Hollywood Reporter

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Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1890660)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 19th, 2017 @ 9:59pm CDT

One more thing about that Nostalgia Critic video: It's not a review episode, it's an editorial episode. His review episodes are for entertainment purposes, while his editorial episodes vary from different purposes depending one the subject of each editorial. In this case, it was one of his editorials meant for thought-provoking purposes.

And frankly, given just how much on the nose he was with describing the contents of this movie that we've seen in all the trailers so far in the same vein as the similar contents of the previous films, I really am not expecting his predictions to be that far off from the final product.

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Posted by Sabrblade on June 20th, 2017 @ 12:01am CDT

Bronzewolf wrote:Has it been too long since you've seen Age of Extinction? Need a crash course before you walk in to The Last Knight? Just want to see it one more time? Have you seen it too many times? Well I can't help you there BUT for all those other situations, let me point you toward a deal that RedBox is currently putting on: If you rent AOE, you'll get a code via email for $5 dollars off your TLK movie ticket!

This deal comes to us from Seibertron himself, who provided a photo of the Redbox, featuring posters for the discount and everything!

Has anybody else here tried this yet? I just rented AOE from RedBox earlier this evening (a few hours ago) hoping to get the $5 off promo code, and submitted my email address as well, but have yet to receive any email about it. All I've gotten so far are one email confirming my rental purchase, another asking me to confirm my email address for a Free Movie Night promo code, and a third email with said promo code (but which isn't for the $5 off my TLK movie ticket). How long does it take for the $5-off email to come?

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Posted by Va'al on June 20th, 2017 @ 5:57am CDT

There was an expectation for Tyrese Gibson to rejoin Josh Duhamel for Transformers: The Last Knight - as his character from the 2007 movie, Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon - but plans did not go as ..well, planned. Due to scheduling conflicts, Gibson was taken up by Fast 8 during the location shootings for TLK, and it just didn't work out. Read more below, and here for the full piece!

“I’m not in the next one,” he explained. “So the truth is when we were shooting Fast 8, I closed my deal for Transformers 5, and I was supposed to go from Fast 8 to T5.

“But because they shot a lot of the movie in Europe, my schedule didn’t allow for me to go from Atlanta to London in between those days.

“I mean, I was p****d. The goal was for me and Josh Duhamel to come back and surprise the fans, that two of the guys from the original Transformers were back. Josh Duhamel was available and I wasn’t. So I was p****d.”

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Posted by Randomhero on June 20th, 2017 @ 6:11am CDT

I read this last night and I swear he was in a trailer! I thought he was the dude who says "were going home izzy!" I guess I not! It's a shame but hopefully he can come back in another one.

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1890739)
Posted by JacksonWright on June 20th, 2017 @ 6:59am CDT

*SPOILERS*

Reviews for the new flick have started to emerge on youtube

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yfqAQEc8Fk[/youtube]

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1890740)
Posted by JacksonWright on June 20th, 2017 @ 7:14am CDT

YouTuber "George Sartiano" has done a review of the film called "Transformers: The Last Knight Review (Rant)"

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Posted by Va'al on June 20th, 2017 @ 8:30am CDT

As fellow Seibertronian Clockwork Animations rightly points out, it looks like Paramount may be trying for the 50 clips prior to worldwide release for Transformers: The Last Knight! The latest one, embedded below, features Cogman playing the organ, alongside old footage. But there are also three more, featuring Hot Rod (with Omar Sy's voice), Drift, Hopkins and Haddock and Wahlberg, more Cogman and general Bayhem, bringing us up to 46 or 47 clips by now - check them all out below!

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Posted by WreckerJack on June 20th, 2017 @ 10:09am CDT

Might go see TLK tonite. Last I heard my theater was playing it tomorrow. Guess it depends on what my friends would like to do really. (But if no one communicates then I am gonna go, no time to waste on people being indecisive!)

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1890865)
Posted by robotcaveman on June 20th, 2017 @ 1:50pm CDT

A friend of mine heard from somewhere that there's going to be a total of 14 tf movies. But the tv spots for t5 have been saying "experience the final chapter". I'm confused. Will there be anymore movies after the Bumblebee spin-off?

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1890924)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 20th, 2017 @ 3:44pm CDT

robotcaveman wrote:A friend of mine heard from somewhere that there's going to be a total of 14 tf movies.

That's false. 14 ideas for the fifth movie were proposed by the writers' room, not 14 movies.

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 3:46pm CDT

robotcaveman wrote:A friend of mine heard from somewhere that there's going to be a total of 14 tf movies. But the tv spots for t5 have been saying "experience the final chapter". I'm confused. Will there be anymore movies after the Bumblebee spin-off?

There is not going to be 14 movies whoever told you this is either lying or misinformed.

The only actually planned movies we know of are the two spin off films (The bumblebee movie, and Transformers one which is an animated prequel set on Cybertron presumably during the war) and the sequel to this movie Transformers 6 (7?)

The final chapter thing probably means either the fact this is Bay's last movie or that the next film is part 2 of TLK and that is the last movie not including spin offs.

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 3:48pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
robotcaveman wrote:A friend of mine heard from somewhere that there's going to be a total of 14 tf movies.
That's false. 14 ideas for the fifth movie were proposed by the writers' room, not 14 movies.

And two of those ideas were "crash combined" into TLK. (I think the two ideas were War world 2 and knights but I'm not sure)

Thanks Lorenzo. :HEADHURTS:

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Posted by Sabrblade on June 20th, 2017 @ 4:04pm CDT

Deadput wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
robotcaveman wrote:A friend of mine heard from somewhere that there's going to be a total of 14 tf movies.
That's false. 14 ideas for the fifth movie were proposed by the writers' room, not 14 movies.

And two of those ideas were "crash combined" into TLK. (I think the two ideas were War world 2 and knights but I'm not sure)

Thanks Lorenzo.

Three ideas: King Arthur, WWII, and a continuation of AOE's Creators/Knights subplot.

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 4:18pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Three ideas: King Arthur, WWII, and a continuation of AOE's Creators/Knights subplot.

I mean isn't the first and the last one the same thing. :lol:

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Posted by Sabrblade on June 20th, 2017 @ 4:34pm CDT

Deadput wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Three ideas: King Arthur, WWII, and a continuation of AOE's Creators/Knights subplot.

I mean isn't the first and the last one the same thing.

Quintessa is King Arthur?

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 4:49pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
Deadput wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Three ideas: King Arthur, WWII, and a continuation of AOE's Creators/Knights subplot.

I mean isn't the first and the last one the same thing.
Quintessa is King Arthur?

I thought she was the lady of the lake eh? :DANCE:

Apparently there is this unnamed excavator Autobot at the junkyard who doesn't speak and has less screen time then Jolt in ROTF... but why does he even exist?

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Posted by Kurona on June 20th, 2017 @ 4:57pm CDT

While 14 movies was confirmed as miscommunication and misunderstanding of there being 14 ideas, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if we ended up with 14 or more. We're already at 9 and these movies keep getting made with no sign of stopping...

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 5:02pm CDT

Kurona wrote:While 14 movies was confirmed as miscommunication and misunderstanding of there being 14 ideas, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if we ended up with 14 or more. We're already at 9 and these movies keep getting made with no sign of stopping...

What's the 9'th?

I mean It's possible and we are definitely at 6 since Bee movie is probably already far in production but Transformers one and transformer 6 (7) could always be canned because the movie bombs and with the way reviews are going it seems that TLK might bomb.

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Posted by Kurona on June 20th, 2017 @ 5:08pm CDT

Deadput wrote:
Kurona wrote:While 14 movies was confirmed as miscommunication and misunderstanding of there being 14 ideas, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if we ended up with 14 or more. We're already at 9 and these movies keep getting made with no sign of stopping...

What's the 9'th?

I mean It's possible and we are definitely at 6 since Bee movie is probably already far in production but Transformers one and transformer 6 (7) could always be canned because the movie bombs and with the way reviews are going it seems that TLK might bomb.

We don't know anything about the 9th yet - considering how far away it'd be, I'd be surprised if we had anything at all - but I remember it being confirmed that there are four movies confirmed to be coming after TLK.

These movies get negative reviews all the time - didn't stop all of them from breaking box office records. Maybe 5th time's the charm, but I doubt negative reviews will culminate in TLK bombing.

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 7:32pm CDT

So this movie has a 13 percent on RT right now which is lower from ROTF and AOE's 19 and 18 percent.

I'm calling Bull since everyone believes Bay's the god damn devil.

Why do people expect more out of transforming robot action movie Transformers as an idea will never be good only entertaining just like how every cartoon has been objectively bad but entertaining even if Bay and every other person left the film or if Disney made them they would still be the same!

It god damn bombed and with the lackluster mostly unknown Rid cartoon and the dwindling comic sales this franchise is going to crash and burn and end just like GI Joe and every other "franchise" Hasbro has made into films.

And people think the Star Wars films are "good" instead of just simply entertaining.

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Posted by Kurona on June 20th, 2017 @ 7:57pm CDT

Is it true that Optimus takes up the mantle of The Fallen/Shockwave/Dinobots in this movie? Pulls in short appearance(s) in the start or middle of the movie but mostly appears at the end?

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Posted by Deadput on June 20th, 2017 @ 8:00pm CDT

Kurona wrote:Is it true that Optimus takes up the mantle of The Fallen/Shockwave/Dinobots in this movie? Pulls in short appearance(s) in the start or middle of the movie but mostly appears at the end?

He's in the film for like 10-15 minutes but with his role what else would he do.

He's not even on Earth as far as I know so any character in his place would have a shorter role.

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Posted by Sabrblade on June 20th, 2017 @ 9:47pm CDT

This is the spoiler-free thread for the movie. This is the spoiler thread.

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Posted by SlyTF1 on June 20th, 2017 @ 10:29pm CDT

Just saw TLK. I never thought I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the goddamn day where I walk out of a Transformers movie, not only disappointed, but pissed the **** off. I don't know. Maybe I'm going insane. Maybe I'm just being conformed to be just like everyone else on this stupid ass planet. I don't know. I'm going to need to sleep on this before I just start going off.

For reference, the first 2/3's of this movie were brilliant. Everything I ever wanted in a TF movie. But that last act... goddamn, did the writers and producers just stop giving a shit. I'm sorry, but I need to sleep on what I just saw. I feel broken and empty right now, and I just can't wrap my head around it at the moment.

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Posted by william-james88 on June 20th, 2017 @ 10:37pm CDT

SlyTF1 wrote:Just saw TLK. I never thought I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the goddamn day where I walk out of a Transformers movie, not only disappointed, but pissed the **** off. I don't know. Maybe I'm going insane. Maybe I'm just being conformed to be just like everyone else on this stupid ass planet. I don't know. I'm going to need to sleep on this before I just start going off.

For reference, the first 2/3's of this movie were brilliant. Everything I ever wanted in a TF movie. But that last act... goddamn, did the writers and producers just stop giving a ****. I'm sorry, but I need to sleep on what I just saw. I feel broken and empty right now, and I just can't wrap my head around it at the moment.

Just remember that you have people here that care about you and can share in your misery. Rest well!

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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 20th, 2017 @ 10:47pm CDT

With the movie now upon us, Deadline Hollywood has uploaded a new story highlighting what they think will happen money-wise with The Last Knight. While the United States don't appear to be holding a strong torch at the moment, with an estimated 5 day total of $70 million, down from $100 million for Age of Extinction, it is expected that international markets will push this movie to be a hit overall. You can find some of the highlighted text below, and you can read up on the whole story by following the above link.

In what looks to be another case of summer franchise fatigue at the domestic box office, Paramount’s Transformers: The Last Knight opens tonight in the U.S. and it’s projected to be the lowest opening in the Hasbro cinematic series with a five-day take of $70 million at 3,800 theaters.

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Age Of Extinction per Deadline’s film finance sources, minted a profit of $250M after all ancillaries with an estimated $30M in revenue coming from merchandising — the real reason why studios continue to keep these dusty franchises in business, particularly with the wane of home entertainment monies. Age Of Extinction and 2011’s Dark Of The Moon cleared $1.1 billion and $1.12B at the global box office, respectively, and the trick for Paramount is getting Last Knight to that same result.

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Posted by Rodimus Prime on June 20th, 2017 @ 11:54pm CDT

Honestly, I think that the fact that it was so heavily promoted, and having a shorter run-time, as well as opening in nearly 4,000 theaters, it will hit 100 million bucks in 5 days. Probably get to a billion as well by the time it's through.

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Posted by dabattousai on June 21st, 2017 @ 2:27am CDT

Just got back from seeing the movie and was disappointed with a lot of the concepts, one of them being a spoiler so I will not say. I really hope Michael Bay is done after this...

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Posted by Burn on June 21st, 2017 @ 2:48am CDT

william-james88 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:Just saw TLK. I never thought I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the goddamn day where I walk out of a Transformers movie, not only disappointed, but pissed the **** off. I don't know. Maybe I'm going insane. Maybe I'm just being conformed to be just like everyone else on this stupid ass planet. I don't know. I'm going to need to sleep on this before I just start going off.

For reference, the first 2/3's of this movie were brilliant. Everything I ever wanted in a TF movie. But that last act... goddamn, did the writers and producers just stop giving a ****. I'm sorry, but I need to sleep on what I just saw. I feel broken and empty right now, and I just can't wrap my head around it at the moment.

Just remember that you have people here that care about you and can share in your misery. Rest well!

Heck no! He's given us 8 years of misery, 8 years of abuse, 8 years of condescension, he can suffer in his jocks on his own!

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Posted by Blackstreak on June 21st, 2017 @ 3:02am CDT

Having seen the first showing for the Cincinnati area I don't see why The Last Knight can't do what it's predecessor did. The only thing I would have liked to see was more Dinobot action.

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Posted by Va'al on June 21st, 2017 @ 4:49am CDT

The official Steve Jablonsky Facebook page has posted an update from the Transformers music composer - including for The Last Knight - confirming his presence this Friday 23 June in LA, for the Score: A Film Music Documentary, for a Q&A and more!

Hey if you're in LA this coming Friday and want to come say hi and ask me stuff.....maybe questions like "how did you get to be so awesome?" or "is it difficult being so awesome?".....I'll be hanging out at this ArcLight Cinema for a screening of Score: A Film Music Documentary. Hope to meet some of you there!

But if you're here for The Last Knight news, as you probably are, we have a non-update on the full score for the movie, thanks to Jablonsky himself on Twitter. We'll just have to keep waiting for now...

Don't have an official release date yet but it's currently sitting on my desktop

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Posted by Va'al on June 21st, 2017 @ 4:56am CDT

Notified by a Hasbro Twitter update, we have images of another type of screening for Transformers: The Last Knight, featuring both cast member Mark Wahlberg and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner - a charity screening for the Mark Wahlber Youth Foundation! Check out the images featuring the two below, and let us know if you attended any special screenings by you in the Energon Pub!

Have spoilers or want to discuss the movie itself with other fans who've seen it? Head to our spoiler thread for TLK - right here!

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR HASBRO - TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT star, Mark Wahlberg talks to the crowd during the pre-screening festivities at the TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Charity Premiere with the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation at Showcase LIVE, Patriot Place in Foxborough, Mass., Monday, June 19, 2017. (Photo by Stew Milne/Invision for Hasbro/AP Images)

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Posted by TurboMMaster on June 21st, 2017 @ 7:13am CDT

Burn wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:Just saw TLK. I never thought I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the goddamn day where I walk out of a Transformers movie, not only disappointed, but pissed the **** off. I don't know. Maybe I'm going insane. Maybe I'm just being conformed to be just like everyone else on this stupid ass planet. I don't know. I'm going to need to sleep on this before I just start going off.

For reference, the first 2/3's of this movie were brilliant. Everything I ever wanted in a TF movie. But that last act... goddamn, did the writers and producers just stop giving a ****. I'm sorry, but I need to sleep on what I just saw. I feel broken and empty right now, and I just can't wrap my head around it at the moment.

Just remember that you have people here that care about you and can share in your misery. Rest well!

Heck no! He's given us 8 years of misery, 8 years of abuse, 8 years of condescension, he can suffer in his jocks on his own!

No this long here, but I agree. To be honest, If Sly liked DOTM, witch was a terrible movie for me, then maybe we should take dis disappointment as a good coin :-?

?

And considering Author, no doubt about soundtrack in this one. He never dissapoints.

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Posted by dragons on June 21st, 2017 @ 9:24am CDT

I liked movie compare what we get in cartoons and comics it kind matched up good little girl parts where little slow hope we get sequel not reboot to see unicron in sequel some new directors are good on series and some new directors are bad where series had left new director picking up gi joe retaliation better than first, batman forever and batman robin bad bat nipples on guy costumes and no bat nipples on batgirl costume costumes don't need nipples but guys get them not female, and city was to colorful,.

If we get sequel by new director it could be bad or good

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Posted by robotcaveman on June 21st, 2017 @ 9:27am CDT

Just saw the movie last knight. BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Posted by Big Grim on June 21st, 2017 @ 10:09am CDT

Whoa. The last few reviews of this film are freakin' savage. This film is worse that AoE? That's hard to imagine.

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Posted by SlyTF1 on June 21st, 2017 @ 10:18am CDT

TurboMMaster wrote:
Burn wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:Just saw TLK. I never thought I'd see the day. I never thought I'd see the goddamn day where I walk out of a Transformers movie, not only disappointed, but pissed the **** off. I don't know. Maybe I'm going insane. Maybe I'm just being conformed to be just like everyone else on this stupid ass planet. I don't know. I'm going to need to sleep on this before I just start going off.

For reference, the first 2/3's of this movie were brilliant. Everything I ever wanted in a TF movie. But that last act... goddamn, did the writers and producers just stop giving a ****. I'm sorry, but I need to sleep on what I just saw. I feel broken and empty right now, and I just can't wrap my head around it at the moment.

Just remember that you have people here that care about you and can share in your misery. Rest well!

Heck no! He's given us 8 years of misery, 8 years of abuse, 8 years of condescension, he can suffer in his jocks on his own!
No this long here, but I agree. To be honest, If Sly liked DOTM, witch was a terrible movie for me, then maybe we should take dis disappointment as a good coin ?

And considering Author, no doubt about soundtrack in this one. He never dissapoints.

I think I still liked TLK more than DOTM. I never really cared for the first half of DOTM, whereas only the last act of TLK retroactively ruined the rest of the movie. It was like they were building up a bunch of interesting concepts that either just never went anywhere, or just completely fell apart. AOE is still my favorite.

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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 21st, 2017 @ 10:55am CDT

Big Grim wrote:Whoa. The last few reviews of this film are freakin' savage. This film is worse that AoE? That's hard to imagine.

I don't think that is really the case, but we will cover that in some spoiler reviews later!

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Posted by Big Grim on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:16am CDT

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Big Grim wrote:Whoa. The last few reviews of this film are freakin' savage. This film is worse that AoE? That's hard to imagine.

I don't think that is really the case, but we will cover that in some spoiler reviews later!

We'll see in time, sure. I mean, these reviews are not from TF sites.

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Posted by SlyTF1 on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:21am CDT

What hurts me the most about this movie is that I feel like I'm betraying the movie franchise by being disappointed by TLK. I've been the only person willing to defend these movies to the death, but now I don't feel like I can't do that with this one. I wanted to like it much more than I do, but I can't, and I truly feel like I'm betraying something here.

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Posted by Deadput on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:33am CDT

Have not seen the movie myself yet (But will today) I heard the first hour is the best part.

Keeping my expectations low especially since Sly himself is disappointed which worries me as someone who is a fan who can accept and overlook the flaws of the previous films.

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Posted by G1OPT1MU5PR1M3 on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:36am CDT

I saw this movie at a fan screening last night...This movie has destroyed any chance of me caring of any transformer movie moving forward into the future of Michael bay films. I can't believe no one was on deck to tell him to trash this movie.
So sad...

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Posted by SlyTF1 on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:51am CDT

Deadput wrote:Have not seen the movie myself yet (But will today) I heard the first hour is the best part.

Keeping my expectations low especially since Sly himself is disappointed which worries me as someone who is a fan who can accept and overlook the flaws of the previous films.

I'd say the first hour and a half are great. There's a moment halfway through one particular fight scene where you can tell the writers just stopped giving a shit. Even the quality of the dialogue dropped exponentially, and it stayed that way through the rest of the movie.

I was fine with AOE's shitty dialogue, because it was throughout the entire movie. That was its style. But here, some of the best dialogue that's ever been uttered in the entire franchise permeated the first half, while the second half dropped even below AOE's standards. And it's not just the dialogue that drops. You'll just have to see for yourself.

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Posted by william-james88 on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:52am CDT

SlyTF1 wrote:What hurts me the most about this movie is that I feel like I'm betraying the movie franchise by being disappointed by TLK. I've been the only person willing to defend these movies to the death, but now I don't feel like I can't do that with this one. I wanted to like it much more than I do, but I can't, and I truly feel like I'm betraying something here.

What makes this film so much worse than the rest?

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1891170)
Posted by SlyTF1 on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:55am CDT

G1OPT1MU5PR1M3 wrote:I saw this movie at a fan screening last night...This movie has destroyed any chance of me caring of any transformer movie moving forward into the future of Michael bay films. I can't believe no one was on deck to tell him to trash this movie.
So sad...

It's not Bay's fault at all. It was the producers that ruined it. They were going to make Bay shoot without a completed script. BAY is the one who had to force them to hire a team of writers. And this is what they gave him. That's why I think Bay wants out of the franchise after this movie. They gave him bullshit to work with, out of spite.

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1891174)
Posted by SlyTF1 on June 21st, 2017 @ 11:57am CDT

william-james88 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:What hurts me the most about this movie is that I feel like I'm betraying the movie franchise by being disappointed by TLK. I've been the only person willing to defend these movies to the death, but now I don't feel like I can't do that with this one. I wanted to like it much more than I do, but I can't, and I truly feel like I'm betraying something here.

What makes this film so much worse than the rest?

There were so many plot points that were brought up that were just glossed over. Even the knights and the creators, which was my absolute favorite part of AOE, the mystery behind them, was completely glossed over. Anything else, and I'd be getting into spoilers.

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1891195)
Posted by It Is Him on June 21st, 2017 @ 1:42pm CDT

Brands don't need you to defend them. They're not our friends, no matter how hard they try to ingratiate themselves into our lives. We can be vocal about fandom without justifying this one small part of it

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1891203)
Posted by Dmhead on June 21st, 2017 @ 2:19pm CDT

The word of mouth for this film is quite bad. Could TLK perform well despiste being panned by the critics?

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1891269)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 21st, 2017 @ 6:13pm CDT

Thanks to an Entertainment Weekly article, we have news that Steve Jablonsky has uploaded a full song for our enjoyment that is featured in Transformers: The Last Knight! Jablonsky, who has worked extensively with the music for the movies, created something new and special for the latest movie when he had to make some music for a medieval scene where the knights of the round table fight off barbarians. This new piece excited Jablonsky, and he allowed Entertainment Weekly to show off his song in their article! You can listen to the piece, titled "Merlin's Staff," by following the above link, and you can check some of his interview with Entertainment Weekly below!

Steve Jablonsky has written music for every one of Michael Bay’s Transformers films. But for the fifth installment, Transformers: The Last Knight, the composer had to take things back — way back — to Medieval times.

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“I met with Michael before he started shooting Transformers: The Last Knight,” Jablonsky said in a press release. “He showed me some amazing concept art and explained how the story connects the history of Transformers all the way back to the times of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I loved the idea because it gave me the opportunity to explore new musical ideas…

Re: China's Dalian Wanda Group Joins Transformers: The Last Knight Marketing (1891301)
Posted by Dagon on June 21st, 2017 @ 8:20pm CDT

My wife and I just got back from seeing the movie. I have been disappointed by every live action ablution beside the first one, which was cool as a live action realization of the Transformers but plotless and boring otherwise.
I went in to this one with the lowest of expectations. I expected to see moving images and hear loud noises for two and a half hours. And I was still incredibly disappointed by this movie. I know there's a word filter that will block swear words, so there isn't a way I can express my feelings about this film. But this, like the last three movies, is a bad, bad, nonsensical and stupid movie.

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