So, last night I was bored and wanting to watch a movie. What typically happens is that I immediately get analysis paralysis with all of my options and I put something on familiar and just watch it until I get tired and go to bed. Kind of late and it's just one of those habits I do. Get on Prime, see this and think to myself I'll just put this on because I've seen it a few times and I'll half ass pay attention until I get tired.

Um, I've never seen this movie.....I've watched all of these Transformer movies (or so I thought) a hundred times in the background and I've literally never seen this movie. I don't know how that is possible. My only other explanation is that I was hammered drunk the first time I saw it and have no recall of it or my mind is finally going.

Anyway, I thought this was pretty good. It's almost Oscar worth movie making compared to the BSC chaos that is The Last Knight. It might actually be my favorite Transformer movie. Was also struck at the similarities between the climax of this movie and The Avengers with both bad groups trying to open a portal to end the earth. The big alien ships even looked basically the same. Anyway, fun surprise last night.

MuckRaker96 said:

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YouBet said:

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Get on Prime

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That's the adult film Optimus made when he hit hard times and was fueling his energy cube addiction.

EDIT: One of these days I need to do a bracket solely about Transformers: The Movie from the 1980s.

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Would participate. Dark of the Moon borrowed a few things from that most excellent of films.

Anyone else watch the new Netflix series? It's only 6 episodes and a prequel to the 84 series. It took me a couple of episodes to get into, as the animation is off, but it's better than any of the Michael Bay movies.

I will put something together tonight

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"

I'm pretty sure Ultra Magnus is going to win

Revenge of the Fallen was on TBS yesterday and I randomly had it on while I worked, out of pure curiously, since it'd been forever since I'd seen it. For as bad as that movie was when it came out in 2009, and how much sh*t it got... it was somehow so much worse than I even remembered. It felt like it was made in a completely alternate universe, to the point where it was honestly kind of shocking how much has changed in the past 11 years, culturally speaking. The creepy, lingering gazes of Megan Fox's ass and of Megan Fox changing... to Sam's aggressively horny roommate... to the insane "comedic" tone (which, at one point, involved a robot literally humping Megan Fox, not to mention the infamous Constructicon testicles)... to Sam dying and going to robot heaven...to how "offensively" bad the movie is in general... I was just in pure awe of it all. It really is up there with some of the worst blockbusters ever made, both in terms of plot, but also in terms of its "PC-ness."

That said, I do remember Dark of the Moon being "better," relatively speaking, and now I kind of even want to rewatch it as well, as insane as my experience was yesterday, in combination with this thread.

I actually think Dark of the Moon is the worst of the first three.

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Revenge of the Fallen was on TBS yesterday and I randomly had it on while I worked, out of pure curiously, since it'd been forever since I'd seen it. For as bad as that movie was when it came out in 2009, and how much sh*t it got... it was somehow so much worse than I even remembered. It felt like it was made in a completely alternate universe, to the point where it was honestly kind of shocking how much has changed in the past 11 years, culturally speaking. The creepy, lingering gazes of Megan Fox's ass and of Megan Fox changing... to Sam's aggressively horny roommate... to the insane "comedic" tone (which, at one point, involved a robot literally humping Megan Fox, not to mention the infamous Constructicon testicles)... to Sam dying and going to robot heaven...to how "offensively" bad the movie is in general... I was just in pure awe of it all. It really is up there with some of the worst blockbusters ever made, both in terms of plot, but also in terms of its "PC-ness."

That said, I do remember Dark of the Moon being "better," relatively speaking, and now I kind of even want to rewatch it as well, as insane as my experience was yesterday, in combination with this thread.

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Basically the entire Transformer series is an insult to humanity. Some of Bay's movies are at least watchable. I have no idea what he was doing with this garbage. The humor is just repulsive haha.

Transformers are better left in the 80s when they melted your face off because they were so cool. When you grow up, it's all gobbledygook nonsense.

I don't think I even remember the plot to Dark of the Moon.

Revenge of the fallen was the one where Spock made Megatron his b-tch, right?

Born in 1974, I was 10 when the cartoon came out and 12 for the movie, a slam dunk age for both. When the movie came out in 2007, I was 33 watching that final all-out fight thinking to myself "Except for Optimus Prime, I have no idea who anybody is."

I'm forever appreciative that they allowed Peter Cullen to come back as the voice of Prime - in the 80s he did that voice, Ironhide, the narrator of Voltron, and the voice of Venger on Dungeons and Dragons. Dumb as those movies have been, watching him transform the first time and utter the phrase "and we must find it before Megatron" was a real inner-childhood check mark for me.

TCTTS said:

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Revenge of the Fallen was on TBS yesterday and I randomly had it on while I worked, out of pure curiously, since it'd been forever since I'd seen it. For as bad as that movie was when it came out in 2009, and how much sh*t it got... it was somehow so much worse than I even remembered. It felt like it was made in a completely alternate universe, to the point where it was honestly kind of shocking how much has changed in the past 11 years, culturally speaking. The creepy, lingering gazes of Megan Fox's ass and of Megan Fox changing... to Sam's aggressively horny roommate... to the insane "comedic" tone (which, at one point, involved a robot literally humping Megan Fox, not to mention the infamous Constructicon testicles)... to Sam dying and going to robot heaven...to how "offensively" bad the movie is in general... I was just in pure awe of it all. It really is up there with some of the worst blockbusters ever made, both in terms of plot, but also in terms of its "PC-ness."

That said, I do remember Dark of the Moon being "better," relatively speaking, and now I kind of even want to rewatch it as well, as insane as my experience was yesterday, in combination with this thread.

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There is some blatant ass imagery in the beginning of this one, but I would say this movie is "superior" to both Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Knight.

It doesn't have as many ridiculous clown moments like the former and the plot is actually, mostly coherent vs the latter.

One thing I've always found funny about these movies is the immaculate conception of the Transformers. Every movie there is a new stable of secondary characters that I guess were conjured out of thin air. Where are they coming from? We just start the movie as if all these transformers have been around the entire time.

The last two posts are another prime example of a movie maker not understanding the material, nor the audience. Disney/Abrams/Johnson had the same problem.

I remember reading at the time that Michael Bay wanted to downplay the transformers and have the human characters be the real focus. That's why it was almost impossible to tell any of them apart, and why they just threw new ones out there. "We only need them to transform and blow something up a few times. Maybe make a joke."