The latter. We have known for a while there was a mysterious space mining company that preceded the first apocalypse on the show, and the new planet was settled by a secret expedition also sent out by that company. But that is about all we know about it yet. 

You aren’t crazy!

I liked The Island better the first time around, when it starred Peter Graves and Keenan Wynn and a man and his robot friends were making fun of it.

I agree with your take. It’s more and more obvious that Bay does not give a shit about the Transformers movies anymore. The guy seems to be in a real low place artistically, as if he has lost all passion. I was thinking recently that I may have a solution for that - give Bay a dog movie. Bay loves dogs, and they seem…

Michael Bay has also made a decent film or two.  The Rock is actually a good popcorn flick.  Has Zach Snyder actually done anything worthwhile other than the opening credits to Watchmen?

He’s also missing the point that’s very little that’s realistic about these characters.

Yeah, hilarious isn’t it? Why yes, Mr. Super-Smart and All-Knowing Zack Snyder, I am living in a dream world. It’s called comic book escapist fiction!

One thing I give Bay over Snyder will always be that Bay at least doesn’t seem to have any weird delusions of grandeur. He knows he shoots the boobies and explosions with cameras, and he’s gonna keep doing that. 

The whole problem with much of the DC Cinematic Universe under his care is that he refuses to see the value in bringing dream worlds to life. 

Is there a reason we’re still listening to the poor mans Michael Bay? Sounds like someone forgot their cinematic murderverse is getting rebooted in real time because everyone hated it.

Seriously. What a hyper-aggressive, overcompensating way to even begin a sentence. Tells you everything you need to know about this hack.

Snyder does not have a point. Because his argument is “if you believe Batman doesn’t kill, you live in a dream world.” Except that dream world is called comic books. So trying to say “Hey, fanboy nerds, your comic books are stupid and you should wake up to the real world where your superhero murders people!” isn’t…

“My version is the best, it’s you people who read comics that are wrong.”

First off, this man is such a dick. For him to take a miniscule amount of instances throughout an 80-year history and trying to gaslight people by insisting this was the dominant theme is complete and utterly disingenuous bullshit.

Wow CPM, way to lose a lot of Geek cred defending this dude’s ass backwards narrative take on an 80yr old character. WTF?

Realistic approach about a guy that dresses up like a bat and an alien that wears a bright red cape? Trying to justify both of these characters with no kill codes of morality murdering on screen as realistic is a pretty silly thing to say. When you make an adaption of an established character the core of the mythos…

the operatic smoke on the water is pretty fucking bad tho

First reaction: the first half was awesome. I really love the creature design. The thing over the Thames was great. Interesting acting choices all around. Second half felt like it overstayed its welcome and by the end it just seemed to be trying too hard. Meh.

Many of the set pieces look fun but it also looks like there is a *lot* going on. Unless the run time is much longer than I would expect I suspect this is going to be a little too overstuffed for its own good. Hopefully I’m wrong.