Don Murphy Comments on the Future of the Movie Franchise

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Nelson

Like John Lennon said: imagine.

The Autobots split up and were ambushed.

And if Bay had told you, then you would've called it spoonfeeding.

I dont want to get in a debate over it because tone of voice gets lost over a keyboard and valid points come across as hating/moaning.

That scene was just distracting, to me at least, and took me out of the movie for a sec to question what was going on, thats all.

RzaSharp

LOL. Lil' Don, you should ask yourself that question before planting it on other people. So precious, Lil' Don.

Rza, you'll have to work on another nickname for me. I am 6' 2". 25 pounds overweight and probably twice your age. I ain't Lil'. Dumbass.

Ash from Carolina

This might seem like an odd question but since you are nice enough to drop by and talk with people I figure I'll put it out there. Why bother to go after people you consider "haters"?

As you pointed out just about any film you can name has people who did not like it, but if a film was successful at finding an audience and did well at the box office it seems rather silly to go after the people who did not like it for some reason. Why not just shrug your shoulders and say you can't please every single person every single time but maybe next time we can please a few more.

I didn't go AFTER haters I pointed out a few on my private personal message board. I didn't even read anything over here until that Rza guys started threatening my family.

Even if he was just directing it at the hate on his forum, it still applies to the fanbase because the issues he mentions are widespread. I was perplexed at the scene where the autobots were suddenly captured, i dont need it spoon fed to me but i payed to see a complete story, not a connect the dots effort.

bellpeppers

What an idiot.
He launches an internet wide assault back in '06 against anyone who doesn't give him an e-blowjob.
He starts accounts on message boards to curse out fans who didn't like certain aspects of the leaked script or robot designs.
He actually went to war against 1 particular message board owner.

And he has the nerve to call others 'haters'.

What a real class act, don! If I were your parents, I'd change my name and move.

I think him, Nelson and Orci are all fruit that fell from the same tree. I sincerely hope for a reboot now, simply in hope that a more civilized production team gets involved and that hopefully a more civil tone will trickle down into the fanbase.

I love the hypocrisy of some of the fanbase.

Like when they take it personal, call us names, and them get pissed when we respond in kind.

I for one, respond in kind. If you're civil with me, I'm civil with you.

Hot Shot.

The Transformers movies are far more divisive than any of those, among fans and critics. Also, those movies stuck much closer to their source material and lost absolutely nothing for it.

Finally someone who understands!

DonMurphy

Dear Smart Bot Boy,

What is Dreamwave and where can I buy one?

D

He might have been confusing DreamWorks for Dreamwave a comic book company that published TF comics until it's demise in 2004.

Mr. Murphy, I wan't a reboot because if you replace Mr. Bay and Shia in the same film series it won't feel the same, I can do without Megan Fox but if Shia and Mike are leaving we might as well get a reboot. Anyway, Megatron and almost all of the Deceps are dead if the movie had ended as the original script intended (Megatron and Optimus forming a truce with Megatron and his armies returning to Cybertron to rebuild it I might have been in favor for a sequel, but with the way DOTM ended in it's entirety I would be in favor of a reboot

vektsilver

All I got out of Murphy's rant was that he is really self centered guy who takes the criticism personally for some reason but then says it doesn't effect him. lol

Look this is the thing the whole point about bringing about good ideas is to second guess things some people are good at it some not. Im sure he is guilty of the same exact things but lets face it the reality is his job is to take cherished items of peoples past and bastardize them for hollywood. That is really what it is cause if it can make something more money they will make that ugly girl a pretty girl etc etc.

To say he is right because it made billions means to me he was only lucky that ILM was doing the CG because you cant sell that movie or movies with out it looking as real as it did. You just believe they are on screen even from TF1 and on and that is worth the price of admission alone.

My feeling on his post is that it sounds like he is afraid of a reboot more so than there not being one. If a reboot is done and it gets more praise an platitudes I guess it would be fair to feel stepped on as you were the gateway movie to more but then again Transformers is not yours to dictate just in the same way fans want a reboot but its not theirs either.

So you know what congratulations you did bring about something that has been long awaited and that even the buzz before the first one showed up in theaters there was going to be box-office smash and it may have been an uphill battle but you got it done.

So stop bitching post film as people are allowed to dislike the direction the films went especially since they vaguely followed the transformers tradition and in some cases completely tarnish beloved generational characters in "some" cases. You cant convince people that they should like something just because it sold more money that is just everyone a mindless sheep.

I vote for a reboot as with all the destruction caused on earth there is really only one option left and that would be unicron and honestly Transformers is no good with out cybertron.

Thank you for your vote but as with most of your life it has been noted and ignored.