>>99623572That's probably lower poly than some cinematic game models now.
The only complexity is welding the guy's face on and compositing with live action performances, but to be fair, it's a lot better at that than Green Lantern was.
>>99623330Bay's strength as a director/producer of these kind of things is that he goes to the heart of what the original material was. He doesn't fuck around painstakingly retelling.
Don't get me wrong, a TFTM remake in "live action", dated as it would look by now? I'd have watched the fuck out of that in 2007. But what he did instead was create a new movie that used familiar characters and concepts in novel ways.
The Witwickys were always whiny, needy pricks; Prime was always a barely-contained sociopath who randomly screamed at people. They even got his voice back, but they didn't make it a trukk movie exclusively and took elements from later versions that also worked out well, and combined them together.
Are the movies good? No. Do they respect the core concepts that made the original franchise and its reiterations so popular? Yes. That's why they also sell. Fuck, if they'd been able to put tits and piss jokes in the 80s cartoon Reagan would still be president.
>>99623446>Tfs were less mainstreamNo.
No, they really weren't. Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman are mainstream in the sense that everybody can name them thanks to some often repeated mass-media outings they had. The DCU as a whole - not so much.
Transformers? Simple concept. No lore really required (if you can get that they transform into stuff, you understand what's happening). Been constantly in tv production for 20 years when the first movie came out.
Fewer actual people bought comic books in that whole time than saw Catwoman in theaters. If anything, their easier acceptance meant they were more mainstream concepts than anything DC has. Hell even the 78 movie had to have an hour explaining where Superman came from before he even put on the suit.
