Mr Prime's 3 Ways of Fixing Transformers

I’ve been a transformers fan for a lot of my life. I grew up watching parts of the unicorn trilogy and since then I feel I have enough knowledge to be considered a fan.

Now on to Michael Bay’s films.  They are not transformers. They are aliens. The movies are bland and they’re the type of movies you go to watch if you have a few hours to waste or if you just want to lay back and relax. Everything about the franchise is over bloated and horrible. There are few glimmers of hope in the pile of turd such as the visual effects and of course Peter Cullen as Prime however I’ve always felt Bay has not really captured transformers properly. Yes, the action is amazing and they visuals are absolutely stunning however I always find myself frustrated with all the humans in the film and the many other elements. Here are my ways of changing the transformer franchise.



1) New director.
 I’m sure you guessed this already but I feel that Bay has gotten really stale and needs to move on from Transformers. He’s more of an action director. I’d like to see someone with experience in sci-fi to maybe have a crack at the movies. I think Doug Liman or even Guillermo Del Torro could be fantastic if they ever helmed a movie. Both can do action very well and have proven that they can handle visual effects.  I’ve longed for the day where there is not a high contrast piercing my eye balls as it attempts to stab into my already numb brain.
More focus on Cybertron and less focus on humans.
I’m sure you’ve all heard of this before but the humans elements are always the weakest in the movies. The characters are not well written at all and the dialogue borderlines immature at times. Not only that but a lot of the times the humans end up complicating the plot instead of giving aid to it. We’ve always had to cut from the amazing action to some punk we don’t care about running away from the danger. Cybertron is ripe with stories. They could even rip off avatar a bit and have some humans travel to Cybertron like they did in the TV Show Transformers Prime and showcase them trying to revive cybertron while even cutting to some flashbacks of what cybertron used to be and the origins of Orion Pax and Megatronus. These stories can give that emotional core we never get in the movies. Of course this would require a huge budget and James Cameron to probably pull off.



2) Change the designs.
I always thought the Transformers looked cool in the movies however as time has gone on I have started to despised the designs. I understand they are going for the mechanical type of designs where the transformers are made up of a lot of nuts and bolts that you can see however I think this has hindered a lot of the designs of the characters. Megatron looks like a normal robot and none of his iconic looks from the cartoons are there. He looks like a normal goon with all the spikes coming out of his body. I think they should go for a more blocky design like the ones from the game transformers fall of cybertron.

3) Different Writers
Let Orci and Kurtzman touche up spidey before they work on transformers. Nothing more can be said.

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