All that extra detail worked great for Bay's Transformers.

Disney-Marvel has a lot of goodwill built up. One meh trailer can be salvaged. Sony-Marvel and Fox-Marvel, well... they still have a lot to prove.

All I could think of while watching...

Gotta get that PG demographic...

Ah, but you'll be left out of the Dwip social media crazy where you share your deepest thoughts online. Pay no attention to the corporate data mining rummaging through your head (shared with the NSA, of course) while connected.

It's still pretty relevant to today. They all live in elevated arcologies, I always presumed because the Earth's surface, by then, had become uninhabitable.

Indeed, there were so many loving and caring members of Our Betters making plenty of honorable quotes this week at Davos.

Be careful what you wish for.

Lucas' problem is he needs constraints. He needs to be told no, you can't do that. There's a reason his best stuff was early in his career. It's what caused the prequels to be less than they should have been because he was surrounded by yes men, due in part to his (near?) complete financial independence.

I certainly won't emerge from the studio system.

Instead we'll be getting a mish-mash of recycled/rebooted EU stories and XTREME! scripts. Hooray?

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It's DARPA, they're not spending money to make a hippie-bot. It'll get crowd suppression autocannons soon enough.

And how would this be worse than Snyder's model of limited acting ability?

Marketing is like a Jedi Mind trick — only works on the weak minded. Keep your critical thinking skills handy and you can see right through it.

It's not so much "we" as those who are the .001% of the population with the money and power to drive us all off the cliff.

Logic and formality are not going to break those who are paid to FUD science. Logic and formality are not going to persuade those who are indoctinated by Fox News and other sources to doubt science. The "Global Deniers" are winning because they have money and power.

Mockery and social shaming is a perfectly valid response to morons and paid operatives.

My quarterly check from Exxon is enough to keep me from believing in so-called "climate change."

With the "Affluenza" defense you can do all those things without robots a still evade any repercussions.