Originally posted by TURBO CHARGER
by definition
M-E-T-A-P-H-O-R?
As in "despite huge amounts of money being spent on a film, it has wooden acting, casting clichés (hot female geek, clumsy geek played for laughs trying to get hot female geek, kid there just to look cute, bolted-on teen romance) and lots of cheese factor."
Godzilla, for instance, is a b-movie with a budget. Apart from French Bloke, who's the best thing in it...
No, and most people from the UK will probably say the same -- it wasn't shown over here much, and a lot of us tend to cringe at it because even then there was something better-written available.Originally posted by TURBO CHARGER
I might be wrong, but I think most of us in this fandom got into TF with the original cartoon series from the 80's.
I'm not really interested in nostalgia. Some of the original toys are good engineering for their day, and a few of the old comics rose above what the toy marketing they were being sold as. Given the choice between old and new stuff, I'd much rather have Binalts / new comics / "big" fan-written things like ~500 page novels.
Mostly I'd like to see Transformers as "real" science fiction / modern fantasy (anywhere on the scale from Trek to Asimov.) Gimmicks such as "the Allspark brings your VCR/camera/etc to life" don't help that.