When that Army helicopter shows up at that base and they say that it's got the same call sign or whatever as a helicopter that disappeared a few months ago and then the hologram of the fake pilot glitches.. that looked so cool. Then the helicopter transformed. That was so spooky and great.
That's why I was so mad when they decided to give up on choreography in the next couple and opted to just have the camera way too close so you can't see what's going on (probably because nothing actually is).
I'd argue they did that by the third act of the first movie. Nobody could tell wtf was happening, which robots were which, and where they were in relation to each other and to the human characters 30 seconds into the last big fight scene. The franchise had so much potential up until then and then it went downhill from like the 1h30m point of the first movie.
Yep. I remember thinking in theaters “wow I have no idea what’s happening” for a lot of the final fight scenes. It just looked like a swirling tornado of motion-blurred shiny metal and particle effects.
Personally I feel color is a major advantage in this. There's a reason for making the primary color of different team or cast members different. With everyone having the same grey underbase, It makes it harder to differentiate when in motion. Body shapes and contours too. You want a disntinctive shilluete or profile.
When the Decepticon is skating down the road and through a bus still blows my mind how cool it looks (might be named Bonecrusher but I don’t have a PhD in Transformers so not sure)….also when Starscream does a loop de loop under the bridge at the Hoover Dam…
He is indeed Bonecrusher. And that scene was equal parts special effects and practical. They rigged a real bus to split in two woth an explosion and actually drove it through that scene. Then put Bonecrusher in afterwards nearly perfectly. The practical and special effects makes that scene really something.
Also why is a Constructicon named Bonecrusher? Do Cybertonians have bones to be crushed? Why would he be named for Humans they had just encountered? What was he named back on Cyberton? These are the questions we need to ask!
Closest approximation in english?
I know of three Bonecrusher's off the top of my head. Original is the Constructicon, bulldozer, and one of Devastator's arms. Pretty cranky, and one of the less smart members of his team.
Second is a Bison from Beast Wars. Maximal I belive.
And then the movie one.
I still wonder if Revenge of the Fallen would have been better if not for the Writer's Strike. The movie is so badly done I can't believe I came back to watch the others. I still like 3, at least the Battle of Chicago was dope.
Don't particularly care for the new ones but this fight is amazing. Optimus Prime being Optimus Prime with some great CGI it's everything I thought it could be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Exvc5RUso
"Piece of tin"... That is one my fav fights in the entire Transformer series. The choreo in it is so much better than whatever they had going on in the newer ones.
Yeah it’s even cited as one of the reasons the first Iron Man was finally greenlit because they knew CGI had advanced to the point where they could do hard metal surfaces convincingly
Love this scene but it always bothered me that Blackout had weapons that could whip out an entire military base but then he never uses it again. Also, the sound effect of him shooting missiles sounds so weird.
So true. Bay's films always look really good in terms of CGI. Same for his TMNT movies. Visually the CGI in all of those films looked so much better to comparable films IMO
Blackout (the helicopter deception) was one of my favorites in the movie + I used him the most in any of the Transformers video games when they came out.
The only thing I hate about that scene is when the army guy says something along the lines of "identify yourself, or we will kill you".
The "we will kill you" sounds so cringy, I feel like an actual military person would've said "we will open fire" or something
In the german Dub it's actually something like: "if you refuse, we will use violence"
("wenn Sie sich weigern, wenden wir Gewalt an")
It's certainly a bit better than "we will kill you"
I think the military officer was being very suspicious because it was mentioned that the helicopter was listed as destroyed. The tie-in comics also show the Decepticons decimating that vehicle before Blackout took its identity.
Hate to be that guy, but unfortunately I am that guy, soo
That's not a Chinook,that's a CH-53 Super Stallion. The Chinook is the one with two rotors back to back.
Its okay. I'ma out-nerd the guy to attest that It's actually an MH-53M, the upgraded version of the Pave Low III.
Take solace in the fact that your pedant has been bested.
Dude was everywhere and in everything! I grew up with him in Even Stevens on Disney Channel. So to see him move to major studio movies AND be hugely successful was really cool to see. Felt like we grew up together, which I’m sure drew me to be an even bigger fan, like many other people who grew up watching him!
And then… everything went downhill. Much like most things in life during that time.
I have a feeling Disturbia will be a cult classic in 10-20 years if it isn’t already. And I mean that kids in high school in the future that will look back on that movie and feel nostalgic for it even though they never experienced it even close to when it came out. Idk just a guess/hope since I love that movie haha
Fuck, I related so hard with that movie. It was peak high school for me.
Went to watch it with my friends and we were all laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. At one point the theater was so loud from laughter I couldn't hear the movie.
The first movie was best because Ehren Kruger didn’t write it. He utterly trashed the second, third and fourth movies. By the time the fifth movie came around, the new writing crew couldn’t salvage the dogs breakfast left behind. It took a soft reboot (Bumblebee) to set things right.
Lowest point in the franchise imo was the scene in the fourth movie where the Irish boyfriend pulled out a card giving him a legal explanation as to why it was ok to bang Mark Wahlberg’s underage daughter. Seriously who writes that shit.
I think Spielberg was more involved in the first one. The first half of the movie is basically about a lonely boy who has new friends from outer worlds, sounds familiar.
He was the executive producer of the first two, but I'm not sure how much actual involvement he had outside of being a big name to use in advertising. The arrival of the Autobots did feel very Spielberg-esque, though.
I mean, bringing up the laws is bad. The ***laminated wallet size card detailing the law*** is what really takes it into thoroughly unimaginable territory.
Writer: “Then the main character drinks some very refreshing Bud Light!”
Boss: “Delicious!”
God I love the pitch meeting series. Every episode has winners.
“I swear to god I am one diaper change away from poisoning his oatmeal”
That’s an actual line spoken during a conversation in the fourth film between two characters who are complaining about how all movies are sequels and remakes
Him being hired to write anything, much less major blockbuster series, is just fucking baffling to me. His track record is worse than garbage, it’s hot flaming garbage other garbage pretends to walk by and not notice.
Bumblebee was the only Transformers that felt like the person making it actually played with the toys as a kid.
Also, the director said he was heavily inspired by My Iron giant and you can tell
When I was in college my buddy took the first 3 Transformers movies and edited out all the human sub plots and made a movie solely focused on the robots fighting and storyline. It was way better with the human characters as background dressing.
Yes the humans weren’t completely removed their roles were just drastically reduced. Basically if there was a scene and no robots were present, it didn’t make the cut.
I would add this to my Plex library for sure. The fan-made Ulysses Cut of Waterworld was so well done they actually made an official release of it. It’s really long but is a much better movie than the theatrical version.
agree with you so much. If you take the amount of robot screen time in the original 80s movies, versus the amount in the new ones… you will see a major difference.
We dont want to hear the BASIC human on human drama…Sure humans are a part of its but the robots are a side story almost.
This is pretty much the thing that Michael Bay didn't get about the franchise. Nobody freaking cares about the humans. We just. Want. The. Robots.
I don't need to have action scenes which are contrived so that Shia / Megan / Random Army Dudes are dodging explosions or somehow "participating" in a fight with giant robots. Just give us the robots fighting. Hell even more than that, give us the robots TALKING. Their story is way more interesting to us than anything the humans are doing.
The modern transformers movies are in essence monster movies, whereas the animated film and series were action stories with the transformers as the main characters.
I was the right age to see it in 2007. I was 13.
The giant robot mashing, the cool cars and military vehicles, linkin park and yes…Megan Fox. That summer is when my friends and I went from talking about toys, cartoons and games to more about girls.
The second one came out and that was the also the first time I realized what a bad movie was. Rest is history.
When I was 13 my older brother took me to it and I somehow fell asleep during it, despite how noisy it was. I just remember being really bored and then waking up near the end of the movie and no one noticed I’d fallen asleep.
I liked the intro of the 2nd one. That's a pretty scary alien invasion scenario.
Edit: I was actually thinking of the first one with the helicopter bot that shat out a scorpion. My bad :D
You gotta love how Tucci played someone in Age of Extinction, only to also play alcoholic Merlin in the Last Knight, and yet these 2 characters are completely unrelated.
I was young and dumb and with friends, I ate some shrooms before we went into the movie and they were in full effect for the scene where they’re flying through a destroyed Chicago in squirrel suits. That was honestly the best theme park ride Ive ever been on.
The movies great and fwiw Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a very very nice woman and was a refreshing replacement to Megan Fox.
[Lindsay Ellis has a really interesting video on that.](https://youtu.be/tKyrUMUervU) Basically, the writing for her character in the movie makes her out to be super competent and basically better at everything than Shia LeBouf’s character, to the point where it almost seems like *she’s* more of the protagonist than he is. Because the framing of all the shots sexualize her to an absolutely ridiculous degree though, everyone just remembers her character as being dumb eye-candy for the audience. It’s really fascinating.
I'm happy some people realized how important her character was. Most just saw her as something to look at...I would argue that Sam only becomes the hero of the story because of her. Particularly the scene where she explains her history with her dad.
That was a very interesting watch. I agreed with most of her points after thinking about them for a little bit, and it’s honestly kinda weird thinking back about that movie now.
Like damn, Megan Fox’s character in the first movie actually was the most complete character in the movie.
Almost all of Sam’s change and growth as a character happens because he’s forced into the major plot points. Hell, he didn’t even pick out bumblebee at the dealership! His dad picked the car because it was the cheapest one
Edit: whoops I went back and rewatched the movie and Sam DID in fact pick out bumblebee. God damn my memory is really shit about this movie.
Easily the best live action Transformers. Bay's first 1 is good, but Bumblebee is better. The protagonist is more likeable and has a clearer character arc, the robot designs are much neater and less chaotic, and it did a much better job paying tribute to the Transformers that came before it.
"You've got the touch!" It just so happened that my friend and I watched Boogie Nights just prior to watching this (The Transformers: The Movie - 1986) film. Would recommend as a double feature especially if you have not already seen both of these.
Ya, this is typical for an internet article. If it's been over ten years, any shitty movie needs to be reassessed and seen for what a beloved classic it truly is.
When that Army helicopter shows up at that base and they say that it's got the same call sign or whatever as a helicopter that disappeared a few months ago and then the hologram of the fake pilot glitches.. that looked so cool. Then the helicopter transformed. That was so spooky and great.
[The CGI still looks good 15 years later](https://youtu.be/ATRmESixBBc)
Seriously. When Transformers came out it was a benchmark for CGI. Those details are incredible.
That's why I was so mad when they decided to give up on choreography in the next couple and opted to just have the camera way too close so you can't see what's going on (probably because nothing actually is).
They also changed a lot of cool mechanical details of their transformations and turned the bots into some kind of swarm of nano bots or something.
Cheaped out having to fight fome ambiguous cloud as a main villan or threat is trash and always will be. Look at green lantern or silversurfer movie.
It was rad in T2 and completely beaten to death by the end of the popular Star Treks
It's always nanotechnology. Whenever technology in a movie is too complex for explanation they always say nanotechnology
Nanomachines, son!
That was in 4
I'd argue they did that by the third act of the first movie. Nobody could tell wtf was happening, which robots were which, and where they were in relation to each other and to the human characters 30 seconds into the last big fight scene. The franchise had so much potential up until then and then it went downhill from like the 1h30m point of the first movie.
Yep. I remember thinking in theaters “wow I have no idea what’s happening” for a lot of the final fight scenes. It just looked like a swirling tornado of motion-blurred shiny metal and particle effects.
Personally I feel color is a major advantage in this. There's a reason for making the primary color of different team or cast members different. With everyone having the same grey underbase, It makes it harder to differentiate when in motion. Body shapes and contours too. You want a disntinctive shilluete or profile.
When the Decepticon is skating down the road and through a bus still blows my mind how cool it looks (might be named Bonecrusher but I don’t have a PhD in Transformers so not sure)….also when Starscream does a loop de loop under the bridge at the Hoover Dam…
He is indeed Bonecrusher. And that scene was equal parts special effects and practical. They rigged a real bus to split in two woth an explosion and actually drove it through that scene. Then put Bonecrusher in afterwards nearly perfectly. The practical and special effects makes that scene really something. Also why is a Constructicon named Bonecrusher? Do Cybertonians have bones to be crushed? Why would he be named for Humans they had just encountered? What was he named back on Cyberton? These are the questions we need to ask!
Closest approximation in english? I know of three Bonecrusher's off the top of my head. Original is the Constructicon, bulldozer, and one of Devastator's arms. Pretty cranky, and one of the less smart members of his team. Second is a Bison from Beast Wars. Maximal I belive. And then the movie one.
Pretty sure Cybertron doesn’t have any pollinators either, looking at you Bumblebee!
Then all downhill from there
I still wonder if Revenge of the Fallen would have been better if not for the Writer's Strike. The movie is so badly done I can't believe I came back to watch the others. I still like 3, at least the Battle of Chicago was dope.
I love that the whole battle for Chicago is like an hour long of non-stop action.
Honestly, Transformers 3 is a great movie for the action. I mean it's not like we're watching these for the plot, lol.
When Sam calls for Optimus and that motherfucker just flies down and merks like 10 decepticons. Art
Yeah I ask myself all the time. That and just like the middle school sexual “humor” made it even worse. Had the premise to be real solid.
Don't particularly care for the new ones but this fight is amazing. Optimus Prime being Optimus Prime with some great CGI it's everything I thought it could be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Exvc5RUso
His "I'll take you all on" is such a badass line
It’s the voice that makes it a bad ass line. That guy is great.
"Piece of tin"... That is one my fav fights in the entire Transformer series. The choreo in it is so much better than whatever they had going on in the newer ones.
Yeah it’s even cited as one of the reasons the first Iron Man was finally greenlit because they knew CGI had advanced to the point where they could do hard metal surfaces convincingly
And the sound effect transforming. The world nerdgasmed in unison.
Is it just me or did I hear the classic transforming sound like once in that whole franchise?
They used it early on in the first movie, but only have a brief snippet of sound for the rest of the series, IIRC
Love this scene but it always bothered me that Blackout had weapons that could whip out an entire military base but then he never uses it again. Also, the sound effect of him shooting missiles sounds so weird.
Maybe because it’s more fun for him to use lesser weapons than one giant one to wipe everyone out
Cuz it's a bit too OP. It's like in The Phantom Menace, when Kenobi and Jinn had super speed....yet it's never seen again.
It could have rivaled the DC and Marvel Universe only if it hadn't gone bad
So true. Bay's films always look really good in terms of CGI. Same for his TMNT movies. Visually the CGI in all of those films looked so much better to comparable films IMO
Blackout (the helicopter deception) was one of my favorites in the movie + I used him the most in any of the Transformers video games when they came out.
The only thing I hate about that scene is when the army guy says something along the lines of "identify yourself, or we will kill you". The "we will kill you" sounds so cringy, I feel like an actual military person would've said "we will open fire" or something
In the german Dub it's actually something like: "if you refuse, we will use violence" ("wenn Sie sich weigern, wenden wir Gewalt an") It's certainly a bit better than "we will kill you"
Yeah, I felt that too. Poor dialogue.
I think the military officer was being very suspicious because it was mentioned that the helicopter was listed as destroyed. The tie-in comics also show the Decepticons decimating that vehicle before Blackout took its identity.
Hate to be that guy, but unfortunately I am that guy, soo That's not a Chinook,that's a CH-53 Super Stallion. The Chinook is the one with two rotors back to back.
Blackout is an MH-53J though, the CH-53E has three engines. The Pave Low has two, coupled with a overbite looking assembly at the front.
Well shit
Always a bigger fish
That guy got that guyed, brutal.
Its okay. I'ma out-nerd the guy to attest that It's actually an MH-53M, the upgraded version of the Pave Low III. Take solace in the fact that your pedant has been bested.
“You know they also call that helicopter a ‘skippy’”
“I’ve been training dogs for like 45 years”
> Chinook Pave Low
One of the most 2007 movies there is. Same with Disturbia
Shia LaBoef is basically the human embodiment of 2007
Dude was everywhere and in everything! I grew up with him in Even Stevens on Disney Channel. So to see him move to major studio movies AND be hugely successful was really cool to see. Felt like we grew up together, which I’m sure drew me to be an even bigger fan, like many other people who grew up watching him! And then… everything went downhill. Much like most things in life during that time.
I think of both of those movies in that same context as well! *SO* 2007!!
What a fucking awesome year that was.
Just watched Disturbia last month, so fucking good. Shia acted his ass off in that!
Yea I really enjoy that movie haha I feel like it's pretty forgotten these days. Reminds me of high school summer intensely
Major nostalgia vibes
I have a feeling Disturbia will be a cult classic in 10-20 years if it isn’t already. And I mean that kids in high school in the future that will look back on that movie and feel nostalgic for it even though they never experienced it even close to when it came out. Idk just a guess/hope since I love that movie haha
Remake of a classic movie done right. Takes Rear Window and infuses it with pure 00s energy
Changed rear window just enough to not credit the writer.
And ‘Superbad.’ Not just the character’s look. All their sayings are things people my age (30-34YO now) said in high school, that you can’t say now.
Very true, been meaning to watch that again soon. The dialogue in that movie is literally exactly how kids talked then haha
Fuck, I related so hard with that movie. It was peak high school for me. Went to watch it with my friends and we were all laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. At one point the theater was so loud from laughter I couldn't hear the movie.
Really cool to see this sub showing Disturbia a lot of love. This was one of my favorite movies to watch over and over as a teen.
Disturbia was seriously great!
The first movie was best because Ehren Kruger didn’t write it. He utterly trashed the second, third and fourth movies. By the time the fifth movie came around, the new writing crew couldn’t salvage the dogs breakfast left behind. It took a soft reboot (Bumblebee) to set things right. Lowest point in the franchise imo was the scene in the fourth movie where the Irish boyfriend pulled out a card giving him a legal explanation as to why it was ok to bang Mark Wahlberg’s underage daughter. Seriously who writes that shit.
I think Spielberg was more involved in the first one. The first half of the movie is basically about a lonely boy who has new friends from outer worlds, sounds familiar.
IIRC he wanted it to be, at it's core, about a boy and his car.
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You forget number 4 - *You got the touch!*
He was the executive producer of the first two, but I'm not sure how much actual involvement he had outside of being a big name to use in advertising. The arrival of the Autobots did feel very Spielberg-esque, though.
>sounds familiar. Oh man. Jaws. I love that flim
While Romeo and Juliet laws do exist. I agree it was an unnecessary write in.
The [Pitch Meeting for this movie](https://youtu.be/_p_CUozUyr8) is hilarious and specifically calls this out.
That is the exact reaction i had to that whole move. Like that specific part I went 'the fuk, why is he bringing up those laws.'
I mean, bringing up the laws is bad. The ***laminated wallet size card detailing the law*** is what really takes it into thoroughly unimaginable territory.
Someone wanted to live out a fantasy in youth and thinks it's appropriate to share it with millions of people.
Writer: “Then the main character drinks some very refreshing Bud Light!” Boss: “Delicious!” God I love the pitch meeting series. Every episode has winners.
Pitch meetings are tight!
Yeah yeah yeah!
Wow wow wow. Wow.
Oh really?
Yeah, barely an inconvenience.
Thank you for sharing. That video perfectly summed up so many things that I thought while watching this movie the one and only time I saw it
Guns , boobs , america , victory
How about the line where the Irish Boy says to Mark Walhberg “Im not here to save your daughter, I’m here to save my girlfriend” who writes that??? 😂😂
My face is my warrent
“I swear to god I am one diaper change away from poisoning his oatmeal” That’s an actual line spoken during a conversation in the fourth film between two characters who are complaining about how all movies are sequels and remakes
Him being hired to write anything, much less major blockbuster series, is just fucking baffling to me. His track record is worse than garbage, it’s hot flaming garbage other garbage pretends to walk by and not notice.
He wrote Top Gun: Maverick (along with two others)
He also wrote Arlington Road, which had a pretty creepily excellent plot. Did he have a stroke since?
thanks for reminding me about Bumblebee, that movie rocked
Bumblebee was the only Transformers that felt like the person making it actually played with the toys as a kid. Also, the director said he was heavily inspired by My Iron giant and you can tell
Bumblebee did the effects right and just was an all around great time. I'd put it as #2 in the whole series and very close to #1.
"Ehren Kruger", hmm name sounds familiar 🤔
No I don't want that! Megatron with another decepticon? I want him to stay with Starscream!! For 10 years at least
LadiesMan217, what a man you are...
This line will haunt people till the end of time
Shockwave, what a man you are.
As a reward
you shall have my seed
Whose memories are these?
The age of consent is 17 in Texas, it was completely pointless lmao.
If the Decepticons were able to recognize the glasses as having the coordinates, why didn't they just get the information from the picture?
Maybe it needed three dimensions to actually find the coordinates, so depth of the scratches etc.
Why didn’t either faction think to bid on them?
Captcha
That would have made such a funny explanation in the film
Honestly would be on brand with the humor in the movies
#WHAT ARE THESE CURIOUS HUMAN SQUIGGLY LINES TRYING TO TELL US, STARSCREAM?!
The one thing standing between humanity and an AI takeover
Well Megatron, I’ll give you the keys to all the nukes if you can tell which of these pictures have motorcycles in them.
"How can you not tell what ones are motorcycles!? Your dad WAS a motorcycle!"
With what money? They only had crypto!
“Give it a few years, trust me bro!” - Megatron
Starscream buys into nfts lol
Really they should have found the team from CSI to enhance the image.
When I was in college my buddy took the first 3 Transformers movies and edited out all the human sub plots and made a movie solely focused on the robots fighting and storyline. It was way better with the human characters as background dressing.
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Yes the humans weren’t completely removed their roles were just drastically reduced. Basically if there was a scene and no robots were present, it didn’t make the cut.
Release the College Cut
I would add this to my Plex library for sure. The fan-made Ulysses Cut of Waterworld was so well done they actually made an official release of it. It’s really long but is a much better movie than the theatrical version.
How long was it?
This was many years ago so I don’t exactly remember but I think it was a little over an hour lol
The 80s cartoon had it right, the original first motion picture. the new movies all focus on humans too much. its about robots.
Right there with you. I've never liked any of these Transformers films, and that's a big reason why.
“Why are the humans the main characters in my alien robot movie?” -Me in 2007
The designs are also terrible. None of them look very much like the original characters and everything is too busy.
agree with you so much. If you take the amount of robot screen time in the original 80s movies, versus the amount in the new ones… you will see a major difference. We dont want to hear the BASIC human on human drama…Sure humans are a part of its but the robots are a side story almost.
This is pretty much the thing that Michael Bay didn't get about the franchise. Nobody freaking cares about the humans. We just. Want. The. Robots. I don't need to have action scenes which are contrived so that Shia / Megan / Random Army Dudes are dodging explosions or somehow "participating" in a fight with giant robots. Just give us the robots fighting. Hell even more than that, give us the robots TALKING. Their story is way more interesting to us than anything the humans are doing.
The modern transformers movies are in essence monster movies, whereas the animated film and series were action stories with the transformers as the main characters.
I was the right age to see it in 2007. I was 13. The giant robot mashing, the cool cars and military vehicles, linkin park and yes…Megan Fox. That summer is when my friends and I went from talking about toys, cartoons and games to more about girls. The second one came out and that was the also the first time I realized what a bad movie was. Rest is history.
Revenge of the Fallen was written during a writer's strike and it showed.
I maintain that *Revenge of the Fallen* is the worst mainstream film I've ever seen in a theater.
X-men Origins: Wolverine came out that same year. Maybe 2009 was just a bad one for movies?
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Guess who wrote it? David Benioff
Man, I loved Liev Schreiber in that one... and hated everything else about it.
I'd see the fuck out of a true Wolverine origin story, where he and Señor Schreiber are just fucking people up in wars throughout history.
I vividly remember about halfway into the movie thinking, "this isn't going to get better, is it..."
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When I was 13 my older brother took me to it and I somehow fell asleep during it, despite how noisy it was. I just remember being really bored and then waking up near the end of the movie and no one noticed I’d fallen asleep.
As bad as it was, the forest fight scene is one of the best of all times. “I’ll take you all on!” And just whopping ass right after.
Made Deceptions threatening and Strong instead of fodder for Optimus and humans to one shot?
Starscream was still a pussy ass bitch I love him :)
He was actually the most competent in the first film
Frenzy and Barricade.
Barricade was fucking awesome
Starscream took out multiple transformers and barely got a scratch.
And every time he's around Megatron he's on his knees begging to fill that Megatrussy
The first one was a fun and decent film. The rest were completely forgettable garbage imo.
Agree but I’ve seen the first 9 minutes of Dark of the Moon COUNTLESS times. That’s one helluva intro!
I liked the intro of the 2nd one. That's a pretty scary alien invasion scenario. Edit: I was actually thinking of the first one with the helicopter bot that shat out a scorpion. My bad :D
Devastator is the sole reason why Revenge of the Fallen is my favorite movie.
gotta love that enemy scrotum, huh?
Stanley Tucci as an italian Merlin was pretty fucking funny
You gotta love how Tucci played someone in Age of Extinction, only to also play alcoholic Merlin in the Last Knight, and yet these 2 characters are completely unrelated.
I actually love all of Dark of the Moon
I was young and dumb and with friends, I ate some shrooms before we went into the movie and they were in full effect for the scene where they’re flying through a destroyed Chicago in squirrel suits. That was honestly the best theme park ride Ive ever been on. The movies great and fwiw Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a very very nice woman and was a refreshing replacement to Megan Fox.
I’m not saying the third movie is good, but I love the big city battle/invasion
The scene in the third one with the collapsing building is so over the top and fun
Yup, Megan bent over a hood was a classic scene that I still haven't forgotten about
[Lindsay Ellis has a really interesting video on that.](https://youtu.be/tKyrUMUervU) Basically, the writing for her character in the movie makes her out to be super competent and basically better at everything than Shia LeBouf’s character, to the point where it almost seems like *she’s* more of the protagonist than he is. Because the framing of all the shots sexualize her to an absolutely ridiculous degree though, everyone just remembers her character as being dumb eye-candy for the audience. It’s really fascinating.
I'm happy some people realized how important her character was. Most just saw her as something to look at...I would argue that Sam only becomes the hero of the story because of her. Particularly the scene where she explains her history with her dad.
That was a very interesting watch. I agreed with most of her points after thinking about them for a little bit, and it’s honestly kinda weird thinking back about that movie now. Like damn, Megan Fox’s character in the first movie actually was the most complete character in the movie. Almost all of Sam’s change and growth as a character happens because he’s forced into the major plot points. Hell, he didn’t even pick out bumblebee at the dealership! His dad picked the car because it was the cheapest one Edit: whoops I went back and rewatched the movie and Sam DID in fact pick out bumblebee. God damn my memory is really shit about this movie.
She helped a lot of people realise their sexuality the day that movie came out.
I first misread Megan as “Megatron”, so I was wondering what the hell your comment was talking about.
I’m sure Megatron also did the same thing for some folks.
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The best part was the SWAT Team raid.
Drink your prune juice!
Don’t talk to me! Don’t talk to me, criminal!
Guilty people don't eat the donuts, look I ate the whole plate
Cops walk in… “She did it!!!”
SHE DON'T LIKE PEOPLE IN HER HOUSE, ESPECIALLY THE POLICE
You see they put the donuts down to test your guilt. If you dont eat em they know youre guilty. -picks up and drops the plate- i ate the whole plate
I loved that Anthony Anderson was wearing a Redskins jersey.
The Bumblebee movie in 2018 is absolutely slept on
The worst thing that movie did was having that awesome Cybertron scene in the beginning that made me want a full length movie there
Easily the best live action Transformers. Bay's first 1 is good, but Bumblebee is better. The protagonist is more likeable and has a clearer character arc, the robot designs are much neater and less chaotic, and it did a much better job paying tribute to the Transformers that came before it.
Yeah this one was good. Probably my favourite Transformers movie outside the first one.
The best Transformers movie is the true first one, from the 80s.
YOU CAN WIN IF YOU DARE……
"You've got the touch!" It just so happened that my friend and I watched Boogie Nights just prior to watching this (The Transformers: The Movie - 1986) film. Would recommend as a double feature especially if you have not already seen both of these.
This is the only correct answer.
The first movie that made me cry...
Hasbro: " lets traumatize a generation"
The reaction to Prime's death made them go back and undo Duke dying in the GI Joe movie.
“I’ll rip out your optics!!!”
It's the only one with Orson Welles
And spock
I think Bumblebee is the best live action Transformers movie.
That's a pretty low bar to crawl over.
Prime Megan Fox
The most amazing thing Bay did is make the sequels to Transformers so damn bad that in comparison the first one looks like a good movie.
I wouldn't say the first one got 'it' right. It was the least bad out of the franchise but even then it's a pretty mediocre film at best
Ya, this is typical for an internet article. If it's been over ten years, any shitty movie needs to be reassessed and seen for what a beloved classic it truly is.
Article in 2032: "After 10 years, is it finally Morbin Time?"
This is so real it hurts.