There is real risk that somebody in Transformer production team thought that it was actual railroad, and was picturing steam train autobot helping out.
I haven't watched these transformer movies but the 4th ending with Optimus taking off into space and the 5th picking up with optimus being a frozen scrap pile who couldnt even make it past 2 planets is so insanely stupid I just cant
The whole reason they did "Optimus is bad" was that 2016 to 2017 was the "Batman fights Superman, Captain America fights Iron Man" era. My personal favorite example is Fast and Furious 8, Dom fights the Fast and Furious.
Kinda disappointed they went with Optimus turning evil instead of using nemesis prime, would’ve probably been better anyway since (iirc) nemesis was sometimes depicted as an evil clone of Optimus, heck they could’ve just had nemesis be quintessa’s pet project instead of forcing Optimus to become “Optimus primevil”
I like how all of the murder convictions are listed like they’re separate incidents and not like they’re all referring to the same thing and also like the murderer wasn’t a fifteen-foot-tall metal behemoth who unloaded a plasma cannon into a crowded bank vault
I still just find it funny that they refuse to release him because of that, despite the fact that most Decepticons have probably killed a lot more than 9 people for a lot less
@@WhenGoatsWentBaa This is an excellent point. Practically every single Transformer in the Bayverse at this point has gone through the Geneva Convention like it’s a grocery list, and yet it’s the guy who shot up a bank in a heist gone wrong that the military has moral qualms about allying with, while still being totally down to team up with _fucking Megatron._ It’s so stupid, and I love it for that.
I like how Optimus Prime just Heroically fly throughout the vastness of outerspace just to find their origin, and ended just freezing his ass on the Jupiter
Sam dying off screen is all he deserved. The character did not warrant wasting film time to explain how/why he died. He's basically the equivalent of making Jar-jar a central character. No one asked for it, no one wanted it, no one cared for it. We just want to watch robots fight.
The biggest sin in this movie for me is Megatron politely negotiate with the army to release his crew instead of just busting in and get them himself. It's as jarring as seeing Joker saying he's afraid of the IRS.
@@rnlansdownemobile But the Joker is right to fear the IRS. He can't plead insanity in regards to paying taxes, and he would be thrown to federal prison where he would spend years. Not paying taxes is what got Capone thrown in jail.
your forgetting, he's not human, he is a soldier who has killed many and seen many friends die, and hes been smacked around... a lot. Also he was a sort of assasin in a sense.
I know nothing about Transformers, but seeing them inserted into historical photos like it’s a meme template is just as amazing as Moses using a Bayblade to split the Red Sea.
That was a thing? I never saw Metal Fusion, but I'll be the first to say: I believe it. God gave Moses the Blade and told him to let it rip for Freedom.😂😂😂
@@legendoflink0031 Not gonna lie. Pointless’s alt fan fiction where LOTR Two Towers begins with a title crawl expositing that Sam & Frodo drowned in the river off screen because they couldn’t figure out how to paddle a canoe sounds pretty lit! 😅
I think it actually works fine. Both Optimus and Megatron attempted space flight and both lost control and ate shit when arriving at their destination. I guess transformer space travel is less flight and more like throwing a rock in the general direction of the place you want to go to. About as reliable as an uber eats delivery I guess? Even though transformers have space warping tech?
Optimus landing on Cybertron and exclaiming "What have they done to my world!?" is like Harry Truman visiting Hiroshima the day after the bombing and asking "Who did this!?"
There were couple corrupt rulers and ofc bff megatron with him there too Hope the rulers dont forcefully give optimus matrix sending megatron into depression
There's one good thing about this movie: Sir Anthony Hopkins was having the time of his life. I think they just told him where to go and when and then allowed him to do whatever the fuck he wanted to, and we all know he loves being crazy and weird in movies. After being a stoic and boring version of Odin for three Thor movies, he probably loved doing this one.
@@dfastilloit not really a 6 more like a 1, it the start of a trilogy in the reboot universe, it not connected to the Bayverse at all, it have new directors and visions.
Fun fact: Merlin was actually in the 80s cartoon for a one episode cameo where the autobots travel back in time to the medieval era, and Merlin is just there, and he is an actual wizard with real spells that he uses to help the autobots. Of course it's stupid but it was an 80s cartoon, that was to be expected, unlike this movie.
@@bruhbruh-us6gl, I actually found the idea of Merlin being this drunken con-man to be hilarious. It's one of very few things in this movie I actually get a shred of enjoyment out of.
@@occam7382 Maybe some enjoy it, but it’s a cheap and cynical joke in my eyes. It’s certainly more fun if he was an actual real wizard. Besides, the contrast between giant alien robots and old wizards is funny. Reminiscent of 40k, even.
I just realized something. Optimus turning bad and fighting Bumblebee was the movie ripping off the trend of heroes fighting each other from that era too. Like we had BvS and Civil War.
@@zaynoonmoses lol you really posted that absolute tranformers 5 simpage for other people to see. Transformers _FIVE_ . That's actually impressive 😂👏👏👏
If there’s one thing I’ll give BvS and Civil War this, at-least that they made it clear they’re fighting each other. I forgot The Last Knight had that fight scene.
optimus at the end of tf4: "this message is to my creators, leave planet earth alone, because i'm coming for you." optimus in tf5: "WhAt hAs HaPpEnEd tO mY WoRlD!!!????"
The idea that all the Autobots are getting hunted down and killed on sight, while the Decepticons are getting due process and jail sentences, and Josh Duhamel's character who spent 3 movies fighting the Decepticons and was in Chicago when they blew it up is now fighting with them... is just so fuckin depressing
Fr lmao That military guy fought against decepticon THRICE and he accepted deal to fought with decepticon... To hunt autobot?! I knew at this moment this movie is just tax write off
This movie is so fucking stupid that it becomes infuriating, literal 0 thoughts were put in the making of this film and everyone involved got they IQ drastically reduced
@@sleazymeezypolitics and race grifters have destroyed peoples minds. It’s wild. I think we were better off with organic diversity than this ‘everything is racist, sexist and homophobic and it needs called our constantly’
Fun fact: Apparently Sir Anthony Hopkins had a ball filming TF5. While its a departure from all the best films he's in, the atmosphere, the crew being nice, and lax filming made it the most fun he's ever been in a production. He admits the film is a lot of shite once he got the final product, but he'll give anything to have what he had during filming for TF5 from the cast and crew.
7:09, man, that was one POWERFUL pause. No immediate obnoxious cut that distracts your attention from what just happened by transitioning to the next scene, no, this one leaves you hanging even if it lasts 2 or 3 seconds longer than the real thing, and you’re just sitting there thinking “what did I just watch?” Usually when you watch a movie and pause after a scene, it leaves you thinking about what just happened, what came before, how it all connects, and leaves you wanting to see more. Here, you are just dumbfounded.
I love the bizarre English version of Arthur who is somehow English, speaks English, defends England and is surrounded by English flags. But is also fighting the people who established the kingdom of England, and who English is literally named after
The moment when humans in this movie decided it was worth recruiting the faction of Transformers who tried to wipe out humanity in order to hunt down the faction of Transformers who saved humanity… is the moment you realize humanity has no justified reason to live
That is 100% accurate and that is sad. I remember when I saw that part in the theatre. My exact thoughts were "Wait a damn minute. William Lennox, did you not spend a significant part of your military career trying to defend the whole ass planet from these shit heads?! Why the fuck are you working with them?! And why to track down the people who actually saved your life on more than one occasion?!" I was so angry I almost missed someone saying nearly the exact same thoughts out loud a few seats down from me.
And then he proves that yes he did drop any and all respect you could ever have for him back in the third movie by bailing out because a nerd back at base said 'we have the solution' I was genuinely just saying Optimus just go take your bots and get off the planet and let whatever bullshit going on happen seriously they don't deserve your help.
Sam dying off screen was one thing (a bad thing) but having Lennox switching sides to hunt down the Autobots when he was a professional soldier who fought against the Decepticons alongside the Autobots and had Ironhide lived with his family at some point was just a a kick in the balls.
Thank you for saying this. Like this part of the movie really bothered me. I wanted nothing more than to kick him in the balls during the whole damn movie. As fucked up as it is, I can understand humanity doing this to the Autobots, but not him. I know I'd lose a fight to his character, but I would still try to fight and beat his ass for what he did.
@@MotionlessInWes I honestly can't remember because it's been so long but I think it was in the comics/books tie in? Edit: don't quote me on this as I may be wrong. What I am sure about is that many TF fans back in 2007 said that Ironhide was the Lennox family guardian (possibly because Ironhide dropped Lennox off at his house and since Lennox is the other main human character besides Sam it just made sense that he gets a Transformer buddy too).
I once went on a walk with a friend and during the walk he gave me a 20 minute summary of this movie off the dome. I didn’t know it even existed, I legitimately thought he was messing with me.
“So Megatron goes to white army guy from the first three movies and asks him for some decepticons who are locked up in jail” “And then we find out that transformers helped humans carry out both the Underground Railroad, and the holocaust” Honestly you couldn’t make either of those up if you tried to
@@oogabooga265 Every building in Cybertron is built to Prime size, and he kept hitting his head on the frame, and no matter how much he complained about it no one wanted to make bigger doors, so he joined the Decepticons out of spite.
@@yocapo32now I’m imagining that he’s just a really nice guy who’s terribly misunderstood and nobody cared about him so he just decided welp guess I’ll do it myself and started blowing up doors
@@yocapo32 Ironically, that would kinda fit the TFP origin story of the decepticons, if you squint at it a bit. Megatron was mostly gathering a political gathering based on the inequality rampant throughout Cybertron, which to some extent would probably include architecture not made with unusually-sized cybertronians in mind.
The only explanation I can possibly think of is that there were 3 other people Dreadbot indirectly killed. But that begs the question, why would she not mention those 3 indirect kills?
The whole line is stupid, it isn't even a correct sentence, note she said "he didn't even take the money" which implies he wasn't interested in taking any money, so it wasn't even a bank robbery, it would be only be random destruction
@@Cr3zant Yes, but also no. Bay is no longer the director or creative lead, but he is still a consultant and advisor to the writing team. He said that he wanted to make sure the movies going forward stuck to his idea of what the world should be like. That's why one of the first credits in the opening of the movie is for Bay Films.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Trouble is, this world is a bloated, incoherent, unimportant mess that changed its own rules on a whim even before TF5, and that was so bad, I dread the thought of a sequel. Why should future films have to be beholden to Bay's vision when his vision crashed so badly, they (rightly) retooled _Bumblebee_ as a full reboot? And how _can_ anyone make heads or tails of this world anyway?
"He's not even trying, and still manages to outperform everyone in the frame" Anthony was actually an amazing part of the film, it was so much fun seeing him and his sociopath transformer friend go insane on screen
I couldn’t even make it past the age of consent law in the 4th one but this series is how I figured out how the rest of the movies past 3 went and I’m glad I dropped it after Dark of the Moon
Sir Anthony Hopkins being the only actor in this movie who feels like they're having fun tracks. From the way I understand the story the man went to his agent and said something like "I think my resume is impressive enough, I want to cut loose, go find me some absolute garbage"
In Rise of the Beasts, Anthony Ramos character asks Optimus Primal if the Maximals built the temples in Peru and Primal says no and that ''we can't take credit for human ingenuity'', almost feels like a direct shot at how everything in history in the Bay films is the Transformers fault
Tbf a lot of the reboot stuff feels like a dig at the Bayverse. Like how the bumblebee movie really focued on the human and bee bonding, and I got some Michaela vibes off of Charlie (young mechanic with parental issues) while her useless sidekick is a guy with a hopeless crush on her and they make a point of them not getting together at the end. (Edit) also the military is Not in on the Big Secret before everyone else and fucks up in a way that isnt simultaneously glorified. Rise of beast felt like an attempt at mixing the brutal and agressive Optimus with the classical type. Mirage bonded with a down on his luck guy having a hard time finding a job, he doesnt date the girl, the thing you mentioned about the robots not actually being behind human ingenuity... Its not a one on one, it feels like theyre trying to be their own thing, but it got little things that I feel like are meant to be a "we've improved" thing. Hopefully they dont go fully up their ass with self criticism/past shame. Though the Gi Joe teaser... I actually laughed in disbelief and then sighed in disappointed. Oh well. They want a cinematic universe. What else is new.
Perhaps, but it's more likely because nobody wants to be reminded of that dumb Ancient Aliens show and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I think nowadays most people know that those conspiracy theories about aliens building the pyramids or other ancient monuments are pretty offensive
All because he had Exaclibur. Yup, that was supposed to be excalibur, but it's never referred to as such. ...and it's literally never used again after this scene.
What pisses me off about that scene is how poorly edited it is. There was a low angle shot behind Cade with a good angle on him as well as the transformer knight swinging the sword. Yet, for some inexplicable reason it was cut in the middle by another angle of just Cade swinging the sword, all that did was break the moment. This was supposed to be Cade coming out as the Last Knight (lol) yet all I think is how poor the editing is.
@@a_wolf8889Even tho he had an armor, he was still way too tiny compared to Optimus. Someone that small shouldn't be able hold Optimus while he was getting sucked into the black hole thingy. Like, we see Noah sticking his feet on the ground but he was holding Optimus before that. So Optimus just looses his grip on the axe but Noah was able stop Optimus from flying away with just one arm? I love ROTB but i can't excuse the bad writing in that scene "in that movie the guy just had a sword." I'm not saying Cade stopping that giant sword makes sense but in the movie, the sword that Cade used to block the robots attack was actually the excalibur
"Your honor, I'm just an alien robot from outer space. Your world confuses and enrages me. The sight of your fleshy forms disgusts me on a level beyond comprehension. Yes, I may have killed a number of humans -- but if our positions were reversed and you were stuck on a world full of hideous mechanical beings, you would have doubtlessly reacted the same way."
One of the things I love about this movie is how not only did everyone forget this wasn't the first time Cybertron was about to hit the Earth, but also Cybertron is way smaller than it was in Dark of the Moon.
If you ever think yourself as stupid or worthless, just remember that King Arthur had alien technology, giant alien robot allies, and a gigantic alien dragon... and he somehow lost England to the Saxons.
@@jackychan9236 Shows up with their casually superior German engineering degrees and builds a mech out of wooden longships with the German Volkswagen Logo on the side where the Autobot-Decepticon insignia should be.
Either the Transformers got bored of Arthur and helped the Saxons or the transformers were shit at actually fighting in long term wars and got beaten by the Saxons. Somehow
Want to know what's weird? I was running security for a theater last weekend and some big cool dude walked up to me wondering where the Transformers movie was showing and I had to look it up on the roster for him. lol
The plane behind is a Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant, the idea seems to be that it's started to transform. Might be using a photoshopped Megatron face as a placeholder for the concept art, I guess.
Coming from someone who lives in Chicago I can tell you right now that seeing construction on the city taking longer and somehow going backwards at the same time is the *MOST REALISTIC THING IN THIS MOVIE*
The Eisenhower has been under construction since I was a kindergartener. I am currently on my 3rd year of university and I’m pretty sure it’s still not done
People may have forgotten this movie, but I’ll never forget the day I first watched it. Being 3 minutes late to the theater screening and walking in just before the Merlin scene, being confused if I was actually in the right place only to realise I was actually where I was supposed to be the moment merlin walked up and regurgitated cringy dialogue to a giant medieval robot. It just perfectly represents this movie and the franchise as a whole.
I love that they just photoshopped a transformer onto the painting of the Battle of Waterloo, like there was just a giant robot walking around in the middle of one of the most documented battles in history and everyone just forgot about it afterwards
Paintings working like photographs is my favorite trope. Gigantic metal people that can change shapes obviously would be mentioned in every letter from every soldier who saw one, but I just love this idea of them being "caught on paint"
He was the one soldier from the Waterloo film who broke rank and cried out against the tragedy that is war. In true Anglo-Saxon, the directors of Waterloo changed him for a human, shameless!
If people could come back from the dead, I could see an extremely irate Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington coming back to set the record straight, regardless of the fact that this is fiction. Up with this, the Iron Duke would not put.
@@WlatPziupp With WWI being the invention of tanks, you'd also expect some kind of schematic detailing a transformer-like vehicle/weapon that would have eventually become the tank too
I used to watch Transformers: Prime as a kid with my brother. So years later, as a surprise, our parents brought us to see this movie. For the first 10 minutes, I really thought they bought us the wrong tickets. We all left halfway through it.
There’s an unsettling feeling watching a review of a movie from some years ago and slowly remembering that you actually watched it. It’s like a repressed memory surfacing.
The most annoying thing for me with this movie was the fact we saw the original bots come to earth, and then we are told they have been here for centuries.
For me it was the crashing of Cybertron into Earth. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was the size of a mountain. That’s huge but Cybertron is much bigger. Just one of Cybertron’s big hanging parts crashing to Earth should be enough to wipe out all life on Earth. Another one that was close for me was when the map of Earth with all the sticking out giant horns was reversed to Pangea the giant horns made a circle. The characters claimed that something must be hidden in its center and they even marked the center with a red dot. The center was in Sardinia, Italy but when they zoomed it turned out to be Stone Handge.
@@ГеоргиПунчев The only way I was able to somewhat enjoy some of this movie is by turning off my brain completely and dividing my IQ by my age so that I would completely lose the capacity to think and process information while watching it.
This movie feels like every scene had a different writing team and there was no coordination between them. One team wanted a cool Suicide Squad-style montage introducing the bad guys, the team for the next scene wanted the bad guys to get instantly curbstomped by the heroes. One wanted a ton of exposition, one wanted a humanoid robot voiced by the Downton Abbey butler, one wanted a scene with Evil Optimus.
I didn’t find it fun. I found it confusing, overloaded, unnecessary stupid and a complete block from number four. Megatron should’ve never came back. Galvatron should’ve led the next series of movies. They should’ve canceled out the whole English Stonehenge ancient transformer, bullshit.
31:20 you know what would’ve probably worked better than turning Optimus evil like this? If they introduced nemesis prime or something, at least there it would’ve fulfilled the evil Optimus quota to just chuck nemesis prime into the film
Also, kinda shocked that Cody never mentioned Galvatron from the previous movie magically being reverted back to Megatron for no apparent reason at all, other than Bay wanted Megatron back.
Megatron returning wasn't even needed in that movie, Galvatron could have been an entirely new and different character that inherited Megatron's personality traits and used them to develop its own - becoming somewhat of a Megatron clone but potentially more vicious and violent, or just a crazy version of him.
@@leithaziz2716, he is. Starscream is by far my favorite Decepticon in Transformers Prime (My favorite Autobot in the show is Arcee, in case you were wondering).
Bro, the worst part from me was character assassinating Lennox. He's literally an easy character to write, how do you screw up Lennox and reduce him to a traitor that hunts down his own brothers in arms?
I mean, from what I seen, i THINK he's only working as a military liason? Like, he even stops those one bunch of guys from shooting at Bumblebee, and vice versa iirc, when he shows up? I don't know
The order of the witwiccans scene is one of my favourite moments in cinema history. The absolute biggest shark jump in the history of world building with zero fucks given by anyone who made it. It's the definition of "so bad it's good" for me
I love how the writer just forgot that the ones who created the transformers according to the 4th film were squid like aliens when they went with Quintessa. Truly a franchise with a true commitment to continuity
@@JamesTheDominator considering it was a major aspect of both AOE and TLK and they literally put the line in the movie yeah I would think so. Pointing out the existence of continuity errors in the film which somehow means everything else is probably a continuity error too is fairly odd logic imo.
32:31 I love how the big emotional moment of Bumblebee regaining his voice is completely undermined by 1.) the fact that this is not actually his first time speaking in the films and 2.) the fact that he was explicitly established earlier in the movie to not have a voice box and there's no explanation for how he is able to speak now.
Amazing how he regains his ability to speak at the end of the first one...then loses it for four more films outside of like a warped "whatever" in Fallen iirc Then he gets it back here for a shoddy emotional moment thus ignoring the fact that he literally can't speak in this movie
@@cillbipher2613 If i recall, the reason he initially couldn't speak in the first film was because his voice module got damaged and he barely managed to speak via willpower. Then in the second film his voice module is fixed...but now clogged with dust and dirt so it doesn't work. After that his voice module magically no longer exists just to keep up the gimmick of communicating via song lyrics.
I read people actually defend the first thing by saying "No, Bumblebee didn't really speak in the first movie. That was just another voice clip. It came from something in-universe, so of course the audience wouldn't know." Why would they want to defend The Last Knight, I dunno.
Sam Witwicky just being dead has got to be both the funniest and saddest thing about this movie. Like there's no montage or memorial scene of him. It's just "oh yeah the main character of the first 3 movies is dead idk lol" and nobody gives it a second thought.
Anthony Hopkins’ death in this movie is legitimately the funniest movie death I have ever seen, it is so ridiculously funny watching him get slow mo blasted and then megatron flying off in the background
The worst part of terrible plot holes is that they are so obviously the case of first drafts. Like the Witwicky-Witwiccan connection: rather than have Archibald be a prominent member and introduce all the plot holes that come with that, instead have the Witwiccans have some terrible infight centuries ago, and some member families forgot where they came from. But I have the suspicion that I, a person who never even saw the movie, have put more thought into this than the writers themselves.
Is that the lore of the order, the members going, " F*ck this, we're out and we're taking the name with us?" I thought from how the movie presented itself was that it was one big related family, with Sam being a family member.
@@CalvinKalisto I assumed the order lost influence and power and dwindled heavily before the 1800s until a very, very few remained (Hence why there is only one ny the time TF5 happens), and the Witwicky family was just the relic of a bygone era that just happens to be not just descended from one of the Witwiccans family but was one of its most prominent families that somehow endured, hence why its name sounds so similar and why it still uses the motto for its own
Honestly, I love that the Dicepticons are backstabbers among eachothers. It makes sense why they only function with a master, a big boss, an unbackstabbable leader, like Megatron, at the head. Because it doesnt only show how selfish, and thus dangerous, they are, but also how competant Megatron actually is.
That actually happens a lot. Often tribal, nomadic, clan based, and other decentralized cultures would only unite under a strong leader but otherwise fight one another: like ghengis khan or harald hadradra. Happens in the modern day too with cartels, rebel groups, terror cells, and other militant groups. Dictatorships built around cults of personalities are also susceptible to this because they're often held together by sheer force of will of the ruler.
The Monsterverse has done a great job at making every single one of its movies introduce a new element to its lore. And it is about a giant radioactive lizard.
@@thegnarledpirate9198 Probably. They gave him a pridefull "pondering my legacy and living up to it" attitude which was interesting and I'd say worked even if they didn't spend too much time on it. Godzilla ranged from a "hesitant protector/anti-hero" to "entertaining troll", which seems kinda messy in hindsight.
Not to mention Legendary seems like they just let their cinematic universe just do it's own thing. They don't have a year long plan for everyone to see, it just....HAPPENS
9:19 - 9:45 made me laugh. How the hell did Optimus die from the vacuum of space? And the fact he didn’t even make it past Jupiter made me laugh even more.
Hi I'm a huge Transformers fan (and part-time studier of the Bayverse) and I need to clarify something about this so please excuse me if this takes too long and I sound like a huge nerd who needs to be shoved in a locker. There was a prequel comic to this film that explained that Optimus made a pit stop to a planet because he needed more energon. But he had to fight a sentry guy protecting the resource. In the end, Optimus takes a little bit of it so that he can make it to Cybertron but only in stasis mode. And also so he can share it with the sentry man. This comic was included in the Blu-Ray release of TLK. But only at Toys-R-Us. Whether or not it's canon to the film is debatable. Not to mention the distance he traveled from Earth to this planet to Jupiter. TL;DR: Optimus didn't die in space. He's just on autopilot after a quick pit stop.
30:56 “What happened to him?” This comment comes late I know, but just because I went down the rabbit hole, there are several theories about what happened to Sam in these movies. The theory that holds the most water to me is that Sam was killed by Cemetery Wind when they started hunting down the Autobots, specifically Prime. This is supported in 4 when Cade reactivates Prime, you can hear him telling Sam to “Run” and “stay down” as he is transforming, implying Sam was caught in the crossfire. This also explains why Prime has a new vehicle mode and why his attitude regarding humanity has changed so drastically. The second theory, meanwhile, comes from Bay saying that Sam isn’t dead and Anthony Hopkins’ character is just crazy… and he has stuck with that for years. I’m not a Bay-formers fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I appreciate a better explanation than just “crazy guy says something that isn’t true”.
One thing I love about the entire films lore is how The instant humanity catched up technologically so we even began to have a chance against Transformers we immediately tried to inprison, outlaw, enslave and eradicate them. 10/10 writing
I would find it hilarious if they actually did that instead of playing favorites, killing autobots but imprisoning actual dangerous decepticons, and letting them loose after Megatron requested it
The story of this series is basically that the U.S government is best friends with the Autobots for the first two films. Then the U.S doesn't need them anymore and declare the Autobots terrorists and drone strike them all to death. They do this while parlaying with the Autobots' counterparts who are worse in every conceivable way. Pretty realistic 10/10
I still find it so hilarious how after that badass speech Optimus gave about how he was going to find the creators. This film reveals he proceeded to get lost in space and froze. That is just a hilarious way to undermine the last films ending it felt almost like a joke someone made. Like someone saw that ending and gave a joking nitpick of how 'Lol he has no ship, wouldn't he just freeze?' and then the writers just made that canon.
Somehow these were some of my favourite decepticons They had character, they were funny and all onslaught wanted was a bigger door before being murdered within 5 minutes of his introduction
Earth actually being Unicron would actually be a really cool thing imo and could somehow bring a bit more sense as to why transformers are always drawn to it. Like how everything important about an ancient alien empire somehow always ended up revolving around this seemingly random planet (Like how the allspark got there, megatron and sentinel crash landing there too and so on).
That was due to copyright apparently, the name Megatron wasn't used for a while during that period in transformers so they almost lost the name Megatron because of the animated aligned continuity Megatron was dead for all of RID15, galvatron in the movie, and I think there was little to no toy of him released
To think that a comic book company literally built a timeline for the Bayverse, and developed characters better than the writers of the Bayverse did in their 10 years at the helm of the film saga... just gives you an idea of how much effort they put into it.
You can read the IDW comics, play the Cybertron games or watch some of the Transformers shows (most notably Prime, Animated and Beast Wars) to see what can be done with the source material. It actually makes the bay-verse movies worse in hindsight. Outside of the character development, there's also just some really cool worldbuilding.
I really hate the trend of companies making movies of beloved franchises and then being ashamed of the source material. Regardless of whether you think BB or ROTB are good, at least they're not hell bent in changing everything beyond recognition.
Its not even effort at this point just fucking follow the source material this trend is way outta hand now and its destroyed so many franchises look at halo tv series or the witcher. im jealous of last of us fans atleast they got a decent show🥲 Edit i didnt read the above comment but yea :(((((
According to the Transformers comic books (yes, there’s a Transformers comic book, go read it, it’s great) Cybertronians actually have no concrete concept of gender, what with them being artificially constructed, and many of them (including Arcee!!) canonically identify as gender-fluid. Make of that what you will. Edit: Welp, the transphobes found the reply section, gang, it was nice while it lasted
The way the "universe" of MB's Transformer's series died with the movie they meant to start with is strikingly similar to the renowned tragedy of the dark ages. Babies would often die minutes after being born due to many, many problems but would also cause the death of their own mothers during or after the birthing process. So in essence, Transformers 5 is the baby that died before being able to start a legacy whilst also killing off its mother being the 3 (maybe 4) movies before it. And it's just ironic icing on the moldy cake that this failure of a film takes place in said dark ages.
This was the movie that made my brother realize he actually had standards. He enjoys a lot of movies that many would consider absolute dumpster fires (I still love ya bro), so if someone like him dislikes this movie, you know it’s bad The kaiju fan in me says the dragon was the best thing about it
Freaking Pacific Rim at least was self-aware, it was meant to be a goofy cheesy anime-like action feast that you don‘t have to think about a lot. Transformers 5 though? It makes you go „seriously?“ every five minutes, and not in a fun way
@@vodafoneuser1690 I really want him to talk about the Pacific Rim movies and the Monsterverse movies, as well as the 1998 “Godzilla” Edit: I got my wish
@@vodafoneuser1690pacific rim wasn't meant to be cheesy if it was killing off most of it's cast 😅, it's not like the bayverse or godzilla vs kong where it's mindless fun with no plot. It's just a well written dark movie with some comedy in it and good action through and through. Take a look at uprising if you want a pacific rim movie with mindless action and no plot and is actually cheesy
This movie is the very definition of a Frankensteins monster of a movie, especially when it comes to how it was even concieved in the first place. Originally, Transformers 5 was supposed to conitinue from Age Of Extinction where Optimus takes the fight to the Quintessons, and further develop a lot of the plot threads left open by the 4th film. But since the studio wanted to rush everything, they took only small elements of the fifth movie's script and mashed it with a Transformers Knights film and a WW2 Transformers film, which were both planned to be entirely seperate from each other with their own stories in mind. To make things worse, Steve Jablonsky confirmed they removed 40 mins of the film entirely, which all had pivotal story information and a lot of Steve's work cut out as a result. So this movie was pretty much doomed to fail due to a lot of studio interference and Bays lack of care of the source material at this point lol.
The intro with the bootleg Rey girl also felt like an entirly different movie. God imagine something mad max esque but with transformers? Sounds way more entertaining.
I love how the Unicorn plot was pulled directly from Transformers Prime, arguably the best show in the entire franchise, and they somehow made it absolutely terrible.
That makes me realize something. None of the autobots in The Last Knight react or even learn about that. So that means in the future of that universe Unicron transforms and everyone dies because the autobots were stupid
The most ironic thing about Paramount wanting to make a cinematic universe out of Transformers, is that it's NOT a bad idea at all. Transformers has more than enough lore and decades of stories behind it to run a cinematic universe. Beast Wars, pre-war Cybertron, post-war Cybertron, Shattered Glass etc. It's just that the movies never seemed brave enough to explore anything beyond the surface of "robots fighting eachother on earth"
@@mrscruffles801 I don't trust Paramount enough with making that plan work. The _only_ cinematic universe that has worked is Marvel's. I think the conclusion is obvious: It can't be done. It's pure RNG.
Really doesn't need to be said but the other problem is none of these production studios have an ounce of patience, they saw the MCU craze that built up over a decade and a half then forgot the "decade and a half" part thinking they could start one in 2ish hours with 10 halfbaked ideas...
Yeah, I hate the way Michael Bay does these which is why I stopped watching after the second one, and even with just watching PointlessHub's explanation of it, I was pissed. Bay really is an asshole.
@@Chzrm3 Steven Spielberg is probably thinking "Ain't gonna say I told you so!" after he SPECIFICALLY told him *NOT* to make another Tramsformers movie! Moral of the Story, If "Steven Spielberg" tells you stop, then you have to stop! Yeah ignore the advice from the greatest director of all time, It's not like he directed JAWS! 🤣
The autobots helping out Harriet in the underground railroad made me laugh harder than it should.
anmwey 🤣🤣
Starscream killed Abe Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was just a cover-up
She probably needed them to punch out babies.
@halfmettlealchemist8076 there was no second plane! IT WAS STARSCREAM!
There is real risk that somebody in Transformer production team thought that it was actual railroad, and was picturing steam train autobot helping out.
I was not expecting Cody to whip out the Downton abbey lore to explain a Transformers character
I wasn't expecting the Dragon Tales theme to come up. Or for it to be associated with Nazis.
This movie really lead to some unexpected consequences...
this video is a masterpiece, The worse the transformers movie is, the better the video will be.
The whiplash could break necks
@@azultarmiziThen this is the peak of Cody's TF series.
“Optimus is just… stupid” followed by Optimus’ corpse floating into the abyss has to be the best bit in the video
It's even funnier that Optimus froze in space because Megatron froze when entering Earth from space. Both are dumb.
Them frolicking through the field has to top it
I haven't watched these transformer movies but the 4th ending with Optimus taking off into space and the 5th picking up with optimus being a frozen scrap pile who couldnt even make it past 2 planets is so insanely stupid I just cant
He went into stasis he didn’t die
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8
Pretty sure Jesus Christ didn’t repent to me. 🤔
The whole reason they did "Optimus is bad" was that 2016 to 2017 was the "Batman fights Superman, Captain America fights Iron Man" era. My personal favorite example is Fast and Furious 8, Dom fights the Fast and Furious.
“Dom fights the Fast and Furious” that makes it sound like the name of the crew/family in those movies is literally “The Fast and Furious”
Kinda disappointed they went with Optimus turning evil instead of using nemesis prime, would’ve probably been better anyway since (iirc) nemesis was sometimes depicted as an evil clone of Optimus, heck they could’ve just had nemesis be quintessa’s pet project instead of forcing Optimus to become “Optimus primevil”
This movie in really anything that was popular in the 2010, smashed together
Batman is hardcore yo
He wants to kill yo
Violent Batman is so dope yo
Optimus Prime is in the house G
Don't forget the Master Chief vs. Spartan Locke!
The "robbing a bank, murder, double murder, triple murder, 9 dead, didn’t even take the money" killed me every time
I like how all of the murder convictions are listed like they’re separate incidents and not like they’re all referring to the same thing and also like the murderer wasn’t a fifteen-foot-tall metal behemoth who unloaded a plasma cannon into a crowded bank vault
It’s completely out of place but that’s a really funny line
I still just find it funny that they refuse to release him because of that, despite the fact that most Decepticons have probably killed a lot more than 9 people for a lot less
@@WhenGoatsWentBaa This is an excellent point. Practically every single Transformer in the Bayverse at this point has gone through the Geneva Convention like it’s a grocery list, and yet it’s the guy who shot up a bank in a heist gone wrong that the military has moral qualms about allying with, while still being totally down to team up with _fucking Megatron._ It’s so stupid, and I love it for that.
Maybe I'm stupid, but murder, double murder and triple murder sounds like 6 people.
I like how Optimus Prime just Heroically fly throughout the vastness of outerspace just to find their origin, and ended just freezing his ass on the Jupiter
Jupiter's got hands.
@@walnzell9328 Space*
He didn't even get halfway to Cybertron lmao. He was still near the sun too. Don't these giant robots prepare themselves to travel thru space???
@@MrREAPERszhe's traveled through space before as a protoform when he landed in the first movie, idk why he didn't do that again
“Guess I’ll die” -Optimus Prime
Sam dying off-screen is like, the opposite of 'Somehow, Palpatine returned'
Sam dying off screen and his offscreen break up with Mikaela help you realize that Palpatine line isn’t so ridiculous in proper context.
Sam dying off screen is all he deserved. The character did not warrant wasting film time to explain how/why he died.
He's basically the equivalent of making Jar-jar a central character. No one asked for it, no one wanted it, no one cared for it. We just want to watch robots fight.
@@merphulThat's an insult to Jar Jar
@@merphulSam was not nearly as bad a character as Mr Er- oh wait different Yeager.
"Somehow, Sam died"
The biggest sin in this movie for me is Megatron politely negotiate with the army to release his crew instead of just busting in and get them himself. It's as jarring as seeing Joker saying he's afraid of the IRS.
@@rnlansdownemobile But the Joker is right to fear the IRS.
He can't plead insanity in regards to paying taxes, and he would be thrown to federal prison where he would spend years.
Not paying taxes is what got Capone thrown in jail.
I mean they keep kicking megatrons ass every movie, if i were him I'd get the memo by then and just start negotiating too, ngl
@@lisboah Joker murders people, pretty sure he would still be thrown in prison just for that regardless of tax evasion or not.
@@cujo7600he only got respect in the first movie and the video games and in-comics
Transformers 5 is the movie version of going into a room and forgetting why you where there
*makes movie*
What...what was I making this movie for?
@@three_frogs_in_a_trench_coatkooo
TLK*
THIS 🤣🤣
...or becoming evil & forgetting you were evil
Gotta love the first three movies were about Sam and Bumblebees friendship and then Bumblebee doesn't care that he's dead apparently
Tells you a lot about their relationship.
Maybe Bumblebee is the one who killed him.
@@merrittanimation7721in lore, cemetery wind most likely killed him while trying to get to bumble bee.
your forgetting, he's not human, he is a soldier who has killed many and seen many friends die, and hes been smacked around... a lot. Also he was a sort of assasin in a sense.
Would you feel bad if Sam died?
I know nothing about Transformers, but seeing them inserted into historical photos like it’s a meme template is just as amazing as Moses using a Bayblade to split the Red Sea.
I'm keep forgetting that Metal Fusion still of Moses and the universe always makes sure to remind me. I still can't believe it.
That was a thing? I never saw Metal Fusion, but I'll be the first to say: I believe it. God gave Moses the Blade and told him to let it rip for Freedom.😂😂😂
@@PirvateerKureiyou made me laugh out loud on a public toilet
No he used a bakugan! Fun fact bakugans are actually transformers
The Holy Bayblade
"You _wretched_ human!"
**BLASTS HOPKINS**
(Flys off, Hopkins slo-mo ragdolls)
that shit kills me every time
35:28
Prime really said: The plot armor will protect me in space.
The plot armor did not protect him in space.
I mean it kinda did though. The mf was back soon after that.
@@legendoflink0031 Not gonna lie. Pointless’s alt fan fiction where LOTR Two Towers begins with a title crawl expositing that Sam & Frodo drowned in the river off screen because they couldn’t figure out how to paddle a canoe sounds pretty lit! 😅
@@davemccage7918 Bruh, get out a pen and paper rn! That sounds cool af
I think it actually works fine. Both Optimus and Megatron attempted space flight and both lost control and ate shit when arriving at their destination.
I guess transformer space travel is less flight and more like throwing a rock in the general direction of the place you want to go to. About as reliable as an uber eats delivery I guess? Even though transformers have space warping tech?
@@davemccage7918 I would pay to see it adapted
I don’t know why I’m so invested in this series but I regret nothing
Same here, man. Same here.
So maybe
Same here
Saaaame
Yes I love this whole channel but this is special to me
Optimus landing on Cybertron and exclaiming "What have they done to my world!?" is like Harry Truman visiting Hiroshima the day after the bombing and asking "Who did this!?"
It's all so random, the crash landing really did a number on the guy.
There were couple corrupt rulers and ofc bff megatron with him there too
Hope the rulers dont forcefully give optimus matrix sending megatron into depression
*Hitler walking into Auschwitz* "Who did THIS?"
@@LOWBORN-the-LOATHSOME
I SAID A GLASS OF JUICE NOT GAS THE [Redacted]
@@eyo8766 😂 "damn autocorrect!"
I dunno, I think the black-bar aspect ratio thing is kind of brilliant, the way it emulates the audience struggling to keep their eyes open.
I like how fatigued he sounds. Like it really does sound like he watched all 5 and a part of his soul is gone
He’s a true hero for doing so
There's one good thing about this movie: Sir Anthony Hopkins was having the time of his life. I think they just told him where to go and when and then allowed him to do whatever the fuck he wanted to, and we all know he loves being crazy and weird in movies. After being a stoic and boring version of Odin for three Thor movies, he probably loved doing this one.
And now we make him watch the 6th
I can’t tell if you mean Optimus Or Pointless
@@dfastilloit not really a 6 more like a 1, it the start of a trilogy in the reboot universe, it not connected to the Bayverse at all, it have new directors and visions.
Fun fact: Merlin was actually in the 80s cartoon for a one episode cameo where the autobots travel back in time to the medieval era, and Merlin is just there, and he is an actual wizard with real spells that he uses to help the autobots.
Of course it's stupid but it was an 80s cartoon, that was to be expected, unlike this movie.
Idk him being an actual wizard who used actual real spells that work would have made this movie so much better
@@bruhbruh-us6gl I mean you ain't wrong
@@bruhbruh-us6gl, I actually found the idea of Merlin being this drunken con-man to be hilarious. It's one of very few things in this movie I actually get a shred of enjoyment out of.
@@occam7382
Maybe some enjoy it, but it’s a cheap and cynical joke in my eyes. It’s certainly more fun if he was an actual real wizard. Besides, the contrast between giant alien robots and old wizards is funny. Reminiscent of 40k, even.
@@bruhbruh-us6glgive zero explanation for it as well have it just be “Merlin is a full on wizard” it’s the 5th movie fuck it there’s a magic dude now
I just realized something. Optimus turning bad and fighting Bumblebee was the movie ripping off the trend of heroes fighting each other from that era too. Like we had BvS and Civil War.
True , another thing they ripped off
So people can’t turn evil anymore like wow like why
@@zaynoonmoses lol you really posted that absolute tranformers 5 simpage for other people to see. Transformers _FIVE_ .
That's actually impressive
😂👏👏👏
i can't even use the nemesis prime card because they always were different characters altogether
If there’s one thing I’ll give BvS and Civil War this, at-least that they made it clear they’re fighting each other. I forgot The Last Knight had that fight scene.
optimus at the end of tf4: "this message is to my creators, leave planet earth alone, because i'm coming for you."
optimus in tf5: "WhAt hAs HaPpEnEd tO mY WoRlD!!!????"
The idea that all the Autobots are getting hunted down and killed on sight, while the Decepticons are getting due process and jail sentences, and Josh Duhamel's character who spent 3 movies fighting the Decepticons and was in Chicago when they blew it up is now fighting with them... is just so fuckin depressing
Fr lmao
That military guy fought against decepticon THRICE and he accepted deal to fought with decepticon... To hunt autobot?!
I knew at this moment this movie is just tax write off
This movie is so fucking stupid that it becomes infuriating, literal 0 thoughts were put in the making of this film and everyone involved got they IQ drastically reduced
It's also very accurate yet unintentional political commentary (blm vs Jan 6th)
@@Aryasvitkonagold medal mental gymnastics comment right there
@@sleazymeezypolitics and race grifters have destroyed peoples minds. It’s wild. I think we were better off with organic diversity than this ‘everything is racist, sexist and homophobic and it needs called our constantly’
Fun fact: Apparently Sir Anthony Hopkins had a ball filming TF5. While its a departure from all the best films he's in, the atmosphere, the crew being nice, and lax filming made it the most fun he's ever been in a production. He admits the film is a lot of shite once he got the final product, but he'll give anything to have what he had during filming for TF5 from the cast and crew.
which makes the micheala qoute of bay being 'hitler' on set more hilarious
@@javierpowell4705 It's entirely possible that Bay treats the legendary elder actor and a young woman actor very differently, wouldn't you say?
@@NounOzlosthat’s true but we also know of the people Fox had to deal with within the industry I don’t recall Bay being on that shit list
More proof that TF5 was just a load of f@#$ing around lol
@@creed8712I believe fox but anthony Hopkins is cinema royalty if he said that bay mistreated him then bay would absolutely get fucked
The court scene for ‘how did they charge him’ had me dying haha
“This gentle giant just bleeds out yet the demon monster gets a rap sheet.”
"Was there a trial? Did they give him an attorney?"
saul goodbot, representing his client dreadbot
@@nathanpierce7681
“Hi, I’m Saul Goodbot. Did you know you have rights? The Allspark says you do!”
@@guccifer764"Until proven guilty, I believe that every bot, con, and protoform is innocent. And that's why I fight for you Iacon!"
7:09, man, that was one POWERFUL pause. No immediate obnoxious cut that distracts your attention from what just happened by transitioning to the next scene, no, this one leaves you hanging even if it lasts 2 or 3 seconds longer than the real thing, and you’re just sitting there thinking “what did I just watch?” Usually when you watch a movie and pause after a scene, it leaves you thinking about what just happened, what came before, how it all connects, and leaves you wanting to see more. Here, you are just dumbfounded.
I love the bizarre English version of Arthur who is somehow English, speaks English, defends England and is surrounded by English flags. But is also fighting the people who established the kingdom of England, and who English is literally named after
Pretty sure they confused "king of Britain" with "king of England."
its the equivalent of saying the autobots helped the aztecs fight the spanish 😂
@@Maggot-Milk And the Aztecs are speaking Spanish and flying the cross of Burgundy.
@dpassch7God that would be a sight to see.
@@nbewarwe lol that's even better
I like to think Unicron would’ve transformed into a gigantic car floating in space
Rhis comment alone made clicking on such a depressing video worth it.
We are going to have Moonfall in reverse.
Turns into a damn military class 6 wheel hummer and makes an appearance in the new Mario cart..
@@triplet7788 No just a regular mid -oughts 4 door sedan.
Unicron: *transforms into a planet*
Drift: I was expecting a giant car
The moment when humans in this movie decided it was worth recruiting the faction of Transformers who tried to wipe out humanity in order to hunt down the faction of Transformers who saved humanity… is the moment you realize humanity has no justified reason to live
That is 100% accurate and that is sad. I remember when I saw that part in the theatre. My exact thoughts were "Wait a damn minute. William Lennox, did you not spend a significant part of your military career trying to defend the whole ass planet from these shit heads?! Why the fuck are you working with them?! And why to track down the people who actually saved your life on more than one occasion?!" I was so angry I almost missed someone saying nearly the exact same thoughts out loud a few seats down from me.
Silence heretic
😂😂😂
@@storygirl747watts4 😂😂😂😂
And then he proves that yes he did drop any and all respect you could ever have for him back in the third movie by bailing out because a nerd back at base said 'we have the solution'
I was genuinely just saying Optimus just go take your bots and get off the planet and let whatever bullshit going on happen seriously they don't deserve your help.
out of this whole video I gasped at the "Dragon Tales" theme song at the end because it made my inner child happy
Sam dying off screen was one thing (a bad thing) but having Lennox switching sides to hunt down the Autobots when he was a professional soldier who fought against the Decepticons alongside the Autobots and had Ironhide lived with his family at some point was just a a kick in the balls.
Thank you for saying this. Like this part of the movie really bothered me. I wanted nothing more than to kick him in the balls during the whole damn movie. As fucked up as it is, I can understand humanity doing this to the Autobots, but not him. I know I'd lose a fight to his character, but I would still try to fight and beat his ass for what he did.
Can’t believe that
Where do they mention the Ironhide thing? I don’t remember that at all.
@@MotionlessInWes I honestly can't remember because it's been so long but I think it was in the comics/books tie in?
Edit: don't quote me on this as I may be wrong. What I am sure about is that many TF fans back in 2007 said that Ironhide was the Lennox family guardian (possibly because Ironhide dropped Lennox off at his house and since Lennox is the other main human character besides Sam it just made sense that he gets a Transformer buddy too).
yes he was one of my favorite characters and i was just so confused
I once went on a walk with a friend and during the walk he gave me a 20 minute summary of this movie off the dome. I didn’t know it even existed, I legitimately thought he was messing with me.
I commend your friend for being able to do that.
“So Megatron goes to white army guy from the first three movies and asks him for some decepticons who are locked up in jail”
“And then we find out that transformers helped humans carry out both the Underground Railroad, and the holocaust”
Honestly you couldn’t make either of those up if you tried to
@@Shane_-M I mean you could make that up… if you took very strong hallucinogenic drugs.
@@Shane_-M someone did though...
What are you, 60? Who at a Transformers watching age goes on walks with their friends lol 😂
Rest in peace onslaught all he wanted was a bigger door
RIP Nitro Zeus, all he wanted was to fuck that one random worker's wife.
@@oogabooga265
Every building in Cybertron is built to Prime size, and he kept hitting his head on the frame, and no matter how much he complained about it no one wanted to make bigger doors, so he joined the Decepticons out of spite.
@@yocapo32now I’m imagining that he’s just a really nice guy who’s terribly misunderstood and nobody cared about him so he just decided welp guess I’ll do it myself and started blowing up doors
He deserved better than this movie.
It was a mercy.
@@yocapo32 Ironically, that would kinda fit the TFP origin story of the decepticons, if you squint at it a bit. Megatron was mostly gathering a political gathering based on the inequality rampant throughout Cybertron, which to some extent would probably include architecture not made with unusually-sized cybertronians in mind.
18:00 "murder, double murder, triple murder, 9 dead." 1+2+3=9? Its 6. How tf did she come up with 9 dead? Do they assume we cant count?
The only explanation I can possibly think of is that there were 3 other people Dreadbot indirectly killed. But that begs the question, why would she not mention those 3 indirect kills?
The whole line is stupid, it isn't even a correct sentence, note she said "he didn't even take the money" which implies he wasn't interested in taking any money, so it wasn't even a bank robbery, it would be only be random destruction
The madman really went and reviewed past the 4th transformers movie. He truly has a mental tolerance far beyond our own.
@@waxblastt Because he's referring to Michael Bay's transformers which is well and truly dead. Bumblebee killed it.
@@Cr3zant Yes, but also no. Bay is no longer the director or creative lead, but he is still a consultant and advisor to the writing team. He said that he wanted to make sure the movies going forward stuck to his idea of what the world should be like. That's why one of the first credits in the opening of the movie is for Bay Films.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio
Even then, I'm glad he is not that important anymore because now, Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts has a soul
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Trouble is, this world is a bloated, incoherent, unimportant mess that changed its own rules on a whim even before TF5, and that was so bad, I dread the thought of a sequel. Why should future films have to be beholden to Bay's vision when his vision crashed so badly, they (rightly) retooled _Bumblebee_ as a full reboot? And how _can_ anyone make heads or tails of this world anyway?
"He's not even trying, and still manages to outperform everyone in the frame"
Anthony was actually an amazing part of the film, it was so much fun seeing him and his sociopath transformer friend go insane on screen
I remember being like 10 when this came out and dying at every single scene with them
@blanco0949 You made me feel old I was 10 when I watched the second movie in cinemas
@user-jh5wt8lq9x you make me feel old I was 13 when the first one came out
@@gamblorrr oh you young whipersnapper, I was 14 when the first one came out!
They were genuinely hilarious
I love how this series has done ancient aliens better than ancient aliens itself.
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This is. . . Requiem
Many a deep sigh was had at this movie. And thanks for making me aware of the god awful aspect ratio switching, I will never be able to unsee that.
I'm more invested in this UA-cam series than the actual movies
I couldn’t even make it past the age of consent law in the 4th one but this series is how I figured out how the rest of the movies past 3 went and I’m glad I dropped it after Dark of the Moon
@@rusty7984 same
I have never seen transformer 4+ but thanks tho these videos I'm considering it 😆
@@ellipticallyambiguousone7875 real
@@rusty7984The 4th one should be called:
Transformers: Age of Consent and Welcome to China
Sir Anthony Hopkins being the only actor in this movie who feels like they're having fun tracks. From the way I understand the story the man went to his agent and said something like "I think my resume is impressive enough, I want to cut loose, go find me some absolute garbage"
dude just acts in garbage movies as his average wednesday hobby that is one major power move right there
@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 Hmm, just like Christopher Lee!
If you’re going to be in an absolute pile of shit, at least have fun with it.
The same reason Sir Patrick Stewart voiced Poop in the Emoji movie
In Rise of the Beasts, Anthony Ramos character asks Optimus Primal if the Maximals built the temples in Peru and Primal says no and that ''we can't take credit for human ingenuity'', almost feels like a direct shot at how everything in history in the Bay films is the Transformers fault
Thats more sad than good. No transformers and human efforts the point was alien and humans making something
Ancient aliens
Tbf a lot of the reboot stuff feels like a dig at the Bayverse.
Like how the bumblebee movie really focued on the human and bee bonding, and I got some Michaela vibes off of Charlie (young mechanic with parental issues) while her useless sidekick is a guy with a hopeless crush on her and they make a point of them not getting together at the end. (Edit) also the military is Not in on the Big Secret before everyone else and fucks up in a way that isnt simultaneously glorified.
Rise of beast felt like an attempt at mixing the brutal and agressive Optimus with the classical type. Mirage bonded with a down on his luck guy having a hard time finding a job, he doesnt date the girl, the thing you mentioned about the robots not actually being behind human ingenuity... Its not a one on one, it feels like theyre trying to be their own thing, but it got little things that I feel like are meant to be a "we've improved" thing.
Hopefully they dont go fully up their ass with self criticism/past shame. Though the Gi Joe teaser... I actually laughed in disbelief and then sighed in disappointed. Oh well. They want a cinematic universe. What else is new.
Perhaps, but it's more likely because nobody wants to be reminded of that dumb Ancient Aliens show and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I think nowadays most people know that those conspiracy theories about aliens building the pyramids or other ancient monuments are pretty offensive
But that's not Optimus Primal.
90% of Megatron's job is babysitting an army of children.
The other 10% is when he's working with Soundwave.
I still think the dumbest scene out of the Bayverse is Cade stopping an attack from one of the Guardians
All because he had Exaclibur. Yup, that was supposed to be excalibur, but it's never referred to as such.
...and it's literally never used again after this scene.
What pisses me off about that scene is how poorly edited it is. There was a low angle shot behind Cade with a good angle on him as well as the transformer knight swinging the sword. Yet, for some inexplicable reason it was cut in the middle by another angle of just Cade swinging the sword, all that did was break the moment. This was supposed to be Cade coming out as the Last Knight (lol) yet all I think is how poor the editing is.
it's on par with how Noah was able to hold Optimus and pull him in ROTB
@@Eternal_TardisIn ROTB Noah had a full transformers armor so super strength is acceptable, but in that movie the guy just had a sword.
@@a_wolf8889Even tho he had an armor, he was still way too tiny compared to Optimus. Someone that small shouldn't be able hold Optimus while he was getting sucked into the black hole thingy. Like, we see Noah sticking his feet on the ground but he was holding Optimus before that. So Optimus just looses his grip on the axe but Noah was able stop Optimus from flying away with just one arm?
I love ROTB but i can't excuse the bad writing in that scene
"in that movie the guy just had a sword." I'm not saying Cade stopping that giant sword makes sense but in the movie, the sword that Cade used to block the robots attack was actually the excalibur
It took me 5 minutes to realize, this isn’t a new film that just came out last year. This has been out since 2017, and that speaks volumes.
I keep thinking the 4th movie was the one made in 2017, but no that’s this one. I feel old
It feels like this movie came out in like 2013 to me.
Omg you reassured me 😅 frl I was like "wait... I've seen some of those images some years ago... I'm crazy or what?"
And that they released 2 more movies and one of them this very year.
I legit thought this had just been released and I was completely unaware for days. Turns out I was unaware for years
I like to imagine dread bot in a giant suit trying to convince a judge that he’s not guilty
After he already murdered three previous judges
@@herbertschulz4313”it was self defence” -dread bot
"Your honor, I'm just an alien robot from outer space. Your world confuses and enrages me. The sight of your fleshy forms disgusts me on a level beyond comprehension. Yes, I may have killed a number of humans -- but if our positions were reversed and you were stuck on a world full of hideous mechanical beings, you would have doubtlessly reacted the same way."
I need to see the court case footage of nitro zeus im begging you michael bay
@@trooper9249"bro you're literally genociding my race I'm entitled to do the same"
2:16 Joker 2 came out this year just to prove you wrong
Also about the last 4 years of Star Wars except for mandalorian season 1-2
@hungry_hungarian Why does everyone sleep on the animated shows? Those are good!
@hungry_hungarian Andor exists too.
One of the things I love about this movie is how not only did everyone forget this wasn't the first time Cybertron was about to hit the Earth, but also Cybertron is way smaller than it was in Dark of the Moon.
And it has plants for some reason.
@@goj1_lag00nbeast machines flashbacks
I thought I felt some deja vu
it’s smaller and looks like that because it got ripped apart after the Space Bridge shut on it.
😅
If you ever think yourself as stupid or worthless, just remember that King Arthur had alien technology, giant alien robot allies, and a gigantic alien dragon... and he somehow lost England to the Saxons.
Maybe the Saxons showed up with their Saxony Prime or something......
@@jackychan9236SAXONY PRIME
@@jackychan9236 Shows up with their casually superior German engineering degrees and builds a mech out of wooden longships with the German Volkswagen Logo on the side where the Autobot-Decepticon insignia should be.
Either the Transformers got bored of Arthur and helped the Saxons or the transformers were shit at actually fighting in long term wars and got beaten by the Saxons. Somehow
Yooo that transformers animation show was him growing up😂 I forgot about that show
I always found it bizarre the direction the plots went with these movies about giant robots that turn into cars.
Want to know what's weird? I was running security for a theater last weekend and some big cool dude walked up to me wondering where the Transformers movie was showing and I had to look it up on the roster for him. lol
30:34 is that a nazi starscream with a massive vomiting megatron head behind him? What the…
Artist rendition
Perhaps
The plane behind is a Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant, the idea seems to be that it's started to transform. Might be using a photoshopped Megatron face as a placeholder for the concept art, I guess.
The fact that Shia LaBeouf's characters keep getting killed off-screen is funny as hell
killing off ALL the human characters wouldve ben a bonus. we didnt want or need human characters eating up 80% of the plot
What other movies?
@@oddballskull1941 Indiana Jones, Mutt dies in 'Nam
He couldn't handle losing Capture the Flag to 4Chan repeatedly.
@@ajzmn3538 Oh shit I just realized that.
That's funny.
Coming from someone who lives in Chicago I can tell you right now that seeing construction on the city taking longer and somehow going backwards at the same time is the *MOST REALISTIC THING IN THIS MOVIE*
Speaking of construction, you think it’ll ever end on the Eisenhower?
@@Billy-tn3ft our only hope for a fixed Eisenhower died with the AllSpark
The Eisenhower has been under construction since I was a kindergartener. I am currently on my 3rd year of university and I’m pretty sure it’s still not done
@@Billy-tn3ftholy shit i completely forgot about that
The relatable aspect of the bayverse
This movie being called a 'grease trap' of culture at the time is so spot on it hurts
Howesenberg! Fancy seeing you here. I like your videos.
@@saprogeist31 I'm a big fan of his. Good to see one my fans here!
Love your videos! Already watched your last of us one twice while at work.
33:15 the amount of kinetic energy in the swing that cade blocks here wouldn't turned his entire body into goo
People may have forgotten this movie, but I’ll never forget the day I first watched it.
Being 3 minutes late to the theater screening and walking in just before the Merlin scene, being confused if I was actually in the right place only to realise I was actually where I was supposed to be the moment merlin walked up and regurgitated cringy dialogue to a giant medieval robot.
It just perfectly represents this movie and the franchise as a whole.
Bro, I remember when I first saw the film too. I was immediately confused and almost left the theater because I thought it was a different movie.
I love that they just photoshopped a transformer onto the painting of the Battle of Waterloo, like there was just a giant robot walking around in the middle of one of the most documented battles in history and everyone just forgot about it afterwards
Paintings working like photographs is my favorite trope.
Gigantic metal people that can change shapes obviously would be mentioned in every letter from every soldier who saw one, but I just love this idea of them being "caught on paint"
He was the one soldier from the Waterloo film who broke rank and cried out against the tragedy that is war.
In true Anglo-Saxon, the directors of Waterloo changed him for a human, shameless!
If people could come back from the dead, I could see an extremely irate Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington coming back to set the record straight, regardless of the fact that this is fiction. Up with this, the Iron Duke would not put.
@@WlatPziupp With WWI being the invention of tanks, you'd also expect some kind of schematic detailing a transformer-like vehicle/weapon that would have eventually become the tank too
I used to watch Transformers: Prime as a kid with my brother. So years later, as a surprise, our parents brought us to see this movie. For the first 10 minutes, I really thought they bought us the wrong tickets. We all left halfway through it.
Sounds about right
They even stole the unicron plot line from the show
The transformers movies stole from themselves
bruh i can't blame you and it's really funny
Damn yall missed out on a good movie
@@Anonymous-wg5cz good is a strong word
@@Anonymous-wg5cz, yeah.
Predacons Rising is a good movie.
I'm glad Transformers One has come to save the franchise.
I'm just a little sad that perhaps it's too late...
It's never too late. Transformers no matter what will always come back.
Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Given the general response to One, I think it’s gonna come back.
@@diamondmetal3062 I hope so.
There’s an unsettling feeling watching a review of a movie from some years ago and slowly remembering that you actually watched it. It’s like a repressed memory surfacing.
Lol same
@@arandomscoutmainI can’t believe this movie came out 6 years ago. It feels like it came out just a few but my memory of this movie is just corrupted.
Right! Like I know I watched the 4th movie… but watching a video on it, I can only recall the first half of the movie.
The most annoying thing for me with this movie was the fact we saw the original bots come to earth, and then we are told they have been here for centuries.
For me it was the crashing of Cybertron into Earth. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was the size of a mountain. That’s huge but Cybertron is much bigger. Just one of Cybertron’s big hanging parts crashing to Earth should be enough to wipe out all life on Earth.
Another one that was close for me was when the map of Earth with all the sticking out giant horns was reversed to Pangea the giant horns made a circle. The characters claimed that something must be hidden in its center and they even marked the center with a red dot. The center was in Sardinia, Italy but when they zoomed it turned out to be Stone Handge.
@@ГеоргиПунчевLAMO
@@ГеоргиПунчев The only way I was able to somewhat enjoy some of this movie is by turning off my brain completely and dividing my IQ by my age so that I would completely lose the capacity to think and process information while watching it.
I mean we’ve known a few were there for awhile.
every transformers movie retcons the pervious one, kind of a tradition they share with the x-men movies
This movie feels like every scene had a different writing team and there was no coordination between them. One team wanted a cool Suicide Squad-style montage introducing the bad guys, the team for the next scene wanted the bad guys to get instantly curbstomped by the heroes. One wanted a ton of exposition, one wanted a humanoid robot voiced by the Downton Abbey butler, one wanted a scene with Evil Optimus.
This honestly sounds about right. Its hard to see it otherwise.
Honestly this is the reason I love this movie. The franchise was dying anyway, so why not have fun?
@@melo_maniac_studioI wouldn’t exactly call it “fun.” More like schizophrenic, which can be fun in its own way I guess.
I didn’t find it fun. I found it confusing, overloaded, unnecessary stupid and a complete block from number four. Megatron should’ve never came back. Galvatron should’ve led the next series of movies. They should’ve canceled out the whole English Stonehenge ancient transformer, bullshit.
@@melo_maniac_studio Are you sure you guys are being honest? Be honest now.
31:20 you know what would’ve probably worked better than turning Optimus evil like this? If they introduced nemesis prime or something, at least there it would’ve fulfilled the evil Optimus quota to just chuck nemesis prime into the film
Also, kinda shocked that Cody never mentioned Galvatron from the previous movie magically being reverted back to Megatron for no apparent reason at all, other than Bay wanted Megatron back.
Wait!
Honestly, Megs doesn't even matter by this point, that it makes sense he doesn't mention it.
and that bee already regained his voice and cybertron was properly destroyed being sent back through space in dotm
Megatron returning wasn't even needed in that movie, Galvatron could have been an entirely new and different character that inherited Megatron's personality traits and used them to develop its own - becoming somewhat of a Megatron clone but potentially more vicious and violent, or just a crazy version of him.
It's implied he flew and met Quintessa (before Optimus probably due to him having flight capabilities) and she changed him back.
"It's Knockout's fault!" has got to be one of my favorite moments in Prime. I love Starscream.
Precisely, my WHAT!?!? 🤣💀🤣💀🤣💀
A glorious line for a glorious character in a glorious show. Cody needs to review that to regain his sanity.
Oh, how I love the nod to Starscream and Knockout's one braincell work relationship back in Transformers Prime. Lol
Starscream is such a funny character.
@@leithaziz2716, he is. Starscream is by far my favorite Decepticon in Transformers Prime (My favorite Autobot in the show is Arcee, in case you were wondering).
i love how the phrase "if you dont think about it" usually happens when some big suits upend your favorite franchise
If you don't think about it, you won't notice that the government made TIE fighter drones for their genocide.
Toy story OG scene -"And Unicron was earth the entire time." 😂 That editing was simply perfect.
Bro, the worst part from me was character assassinating Lennox. He's literally an easy character to write, how do you screw up Lennox and reduce him to a traitor that hunts down his own brothers in arms?
pretty easily when you don't care about the franchise at all.
Who's Lennox? I didn't bother memorizing anyone's names in these movies
@@ThwipThwipBoom the commander that has been working with the Autobots since the first movie.
I mean, from what I seen, i THINK he's only working as a military liason?
Like, he even stops those one bunch of guys from shooting at Bumblebee, and vice versa iirc, when he shows up? I don't know
@@cirnotheicefairy3609 Oh that guy thanks
The order of the witwiccans scene is one of my favourite moments in cinema history. The absolute biggest shark jump in the history of world building with zero fucks given by anyone who made it. It's the definition of "so bad it's good" for me
19:29 I just want to take a second to acknowledge that VA’s golden line delivery of “WHAT!!!!”
Same as cosmo from fairly oddparents btw
Transformers prime is a treasure, and Knockout is one of the best characters
@@michaelscott5171The best part about Knockout, is he being dubbed by Timmy's father
@@michaelscott5171i need to rewatch it someday
@@mattheusjob3287He also played J.Jonah Jameson in The Spectacular Spider-Man
I adore the tone of your videos and script. Bang on. Really makes me happy in this wall-to-wall sh*tty world
That compilation of “You need a bigger door!” was honestly one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while
Agreed
They beheaded hi.
They beheaded him
I love how the writer just forgot that the ones who created the transformers according to the 4th film were squid like aliens when they went with Quintessa. Truly a franchise with a true commitment to continuity
I mean…Quintessa was called the “great deceiver” so like she was most likely just plain lying to manipulate Optimus.
@@connorp3764 considering all the other continuity snubs in the film you honestly think the discrepancy is intentional?
@@JamesTheDominator considering it was a major aspect of both AOE and TLK and they literally put the line in the movie yeah I would think so. Pointing out the existence of continuity errors in the film which somehow means everything else is probably a continuity error too is fairly odd logic imo.
@@connorp3764ultimately we'll most likely never know because the Bayverse has finally been put to rest.
Each movie has a brand new lore that contradicts each other.
32:31 I love how the big emotional moment of Bumblebee regaining his voice is completely undermined by 1.) the fact that this is not actually his first time speaking in the films and 2.) the fact that he was explicitly established earlier in the movie to not have a voice box and there's no explanation for how he is able to speak now.
Amazing how he regains his ability to speak at the end of the first one...then loses it for four more films outside of like a warped "whatever" in Fallen iirc
Then he gets it back here for a shoddy emotional moment thus ignoring the fact that he literally can't speak in this movie
Also, they didn't even bother getting a proper voice actor for Bumblebee, they just got a sound engineer from the SFX Department to voice him.
@@cillbipher2613
If i recall, the reason he initially couldn't speak in the first film was because his voice module got damaged and he barely managed to speak via willpower. Then in the second film his voice module is fixed...but now clogged with dust and dirt so it doesn't work. After that his voice module magically no longer exists just to keep up the gimmick of communicating via song lyrics.
I read people actually defend the first thing by saying "No, Bumblebee didn't really speak in the first movie. That was just another voice clip. It came from something in-universe, so of course the audience wouldn't know."
Why would they want to defend The Last Knight, I dunno.
@@ChimeraMK That's a pretty crap defense they used lol cuz the characters clearly act like he's regained his speech.
Sam Witwicky just being dead has got to be both the funniest and saddest thing about this movie. Like there's no montage or memorial scene of him. It's just "oh yeah the main character of the first 3 movies is dead idk lol" and nobody gives it a second thought.
It’s even funnier because that picture Anthony Hopkins’ character has to commemorate him is his fucking eBay pfp from 4 movies ago!
@diamondmetal3062 LMAO
The thought of a decepticon possibly going to court is way too funny
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Imagine a Decepticon with connections to the Nazis decades later getting sent to court for bank robbery and being put in prison like a normal dude.
@@walnzell9328 honestly I'd wanna see that trial taking all bets how low till he's held in contempt?
@@walnzell9328 The precedent they've set also made me wonder, did any Decepticon get tried at the Nuremburg Trials?
“Hi, I’m -Saul- Soundwave Goodbot. Did you know that you have rights? The Pax Cybertronia says you do. And so do I.”
It would've worked too if people weren't murdering autobots on sight.
Anthony Hopkins’ death in this movie is legitimately the funniest movie death I have ever seen, it is so ridiculously funny watching him get slow mo blasted and then megatron flying off in the background
Gmod ragdoll ahh death
35:30 if anyone is wondering
@@737215THANK YOU OMG
Megatron really said “gotta blast!”
YOU **WRETCHED** HUMAN!!!
The worst part of terrible plot holes is that they are so obviously the case of first drafts. Like the Witwicky-Witwiccan connection: rather than have Archibald be a prominent member and introduce all the plot holes that come with that, instead have the Witwiccans have some terrible infight centuries ago, and some member families forgot where they came from. But I have the suspicion that I, a person who never even saw the movie, have put more thought into this than the writers themselves.
Is that the lore of the order, the members going, " F*ck this, we're out and we're taking the name with us?"
I thought from how the movie presented itself was that it was one big related family, with Sam being a family member.
@@CalvinKalisto I assumed the order lost influence and power and dwindled heavily before the 1800s until a very, very few remained (Hence why there is only one ny the time TF5 happens), and the Witwicky family was just the relic of a bygone era that just happens to be not just descended from one of the Witwiccans family but was one of its most prominent families that somehow endured, hence why its name sounds so similar and why it still uses the motto for its own
The dragon tales theme at the end for some reason hit me in the feels. I remember watching that when I was a little little kid ;-;
Honestly, I love that the Dicepticons are backstabbers among eachothers.
It makes sense why they only function with a master, a big boss, an unbackstabbable leader, like Megatron, at the head.
Because it doesnt only show how selfish, and thus dangerous, they are, but also how competant Megatron actually is.
That actually happens a lot. Often tribal, nomadic, clan based, and other decentralized cultures would only unite under a strong leader but otherwise fight one another: like ghengis khan or harald hadradra. Happens in the modern day too with cartels, rebel groups, terror cells, and other militant groups. Dictatorships built around cults of personalities are also susceptible to this because they're often held together by sheer force of will of the ruler.
They remind me of 40k Orks.
Lovable idiots who just do whatever they want and are only a significant threat when lead by a competent boss.
@@dudemcfurgusson7179 just like the French
@@arthas640 they don't surrender enough to be french.
@@arthas640 So Iraq would've had a civil war without the US overthrowing Saddam. What if he simply croaked as old men are prone to doing?
The Monsterverse has done a great job at making every single one of its movies introduce a new element to its lore. And it is about a giant radioactive lizard.
And it’s actually engaging. And makes it clear that the monsters are the main stars of the show.
Heck, they managed to give Kong and Godzilla personallities in the last film, and they never spoke aside from roars and some face expressions.
@@leithaziz2716 Kong has more character than Godzilla, arguably.
@@thegnarledpirate9198 Probably. They gave him a pridefull "pondering my legacy and living up to it" attitude which was interesting and I'd say worked even if they didn't spend too much time on it. Godzilla ranged from a "hesitant protector/anti-hero" to "entertaining troll", which seems kinda messy in hindsight.
Not to mention Legendary seems like they just let their cinematic universe just do it's own thing. They don't have a year long plan for everyone to see, it just....HAPPENS
9:19 - 9:45 made me laugh. How the hell did Optimus die from the vacuum of space? And the fact he didn’t even make it past Jupiter made me laugh even more.
Hi I'm a huge Transformers fan (and part-time studier of the Bayverse) and I need to clarify something about this so please excuse me if this takes too long and I sound like a huge nerd who needs to be shoved in a locker.
There was a prequel comic to this film that explained that Optimus made a pit stop to a planet because he needed more energon. But he had to fight a sentry guy protecting the resource.
In the end, Optimus takes a little bit of it so that he can make it to Cybertron but only in stasis mode. And also so he can share it with the sentry man.
This comic was included in the Blu-Ray release of TLK. But only at Toys-R-Us. Whether or not it's canon to the film is debatable. Not to mention the distance he traveled from Earth to this planet to Jupiter.
TL;DR: Optimus didn't die in space. He's just on autopilot after a quick pit stop.
@@davidtheboy448that’s actually very interesting, kinda wish they explained that in the movie.
@@davidtheboy448 seeing Optimus fighting a random guy in space would be fire
@@davidtheboy448 A story as compelling as "my face is tired.."
😂😂
30:56 “What happened to him?”
This comment comes late I know, but just because I went down the rabbit hole, there are several theories about what happened to Sam in these movies.
The theory that holds the most water to me is that Sam was killed by Cemetery Wind when they started hunting down the Autobots, specifically Prime. This is supported in 4 when Cade reactivates Prime, you can hear him telling Sam to “Run” and “stay down” as he is transforming, implying Sam was caught in the crossfire. This also explains why Prime has a new vehicle mode and why his attitude regarding humanity has changed so drastically.
The second theory, meanwhile, comes from Bay saying that Sam isn’t dead and Anthony Hopkins’ character is just crazy… and he has stuck with that for years.
I’m not a Bay-formers fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I appreciate a better explanation than just “crazy guy says something that isn’t true”.
One thing I love about the entire films lore is how The instant humanity catched up technologically so we even began to have a chance against Transformers we immediately tried to inprison, outlaw, enslave and eradicate them. 10/10 writing
I would find it hilarious if they actually did that instead of playing favorites, killing autobots but imprisoning actual dangerous decepticons, and letting them loose after Megatron requested it
The story of this series is basically that the U.S government is best friends with the Autobots for the first two films. Then the U.S doesn't need them anymore and declare the Autobots terrorists and drone strike them all to death. They do this while parlaying with the Autobots' counterparts who are worse in every conceivable way. Pretty realistic 10/10
@@blackdressbess195Literally Operation Paperclip but there are no pros to it at all.
Mujahideen:
Italy in WW1:
Allied Native Americans:
Buffalo Soldiers in Brownsville:
Harlem Hellfighters:
@@wildfire9280 What?
I still find it so hilarious how after that badass speech Optimus gave about how he was going to find the creators. This film reveals he proceeded to get lost in space and froze. That is just a hilarious way to undermine the last films ending it felt almost like a joke someone made. Like someone saw that ending and gave a joking nitpick of how 'Lol he has no ship, wouldn't he just freeze?' and then the writers just made that canon.
RIP Onslaught, all he wanted was a bigger door. He remains in my thoughts and prayers every night 😢
😂😂😂
honestly the decepticons in this movie were kinda just vibing, their goofy personality really made it difficult to root against them
he found the biggest doors in transformer heaven
Somehow these were some of my favourite decepticons
They had character, they were funny and all onslaught wanted was a bigger door before being murdered within 5 minutes of his introduction
Earth actually being Unicron would actually be a really cool thing imo and could somehow bring a bit more sense as to why transformers are always drawn to it. Like how everything important about an ancient alien empire somehow always ended up revolving around this seemingly random planet (Like how the allspark got there, megatron and sentinel crash landing there too and so on).
they did that in prime actually
My favorite part of this movie is how the writers literally forgot that Megatron became Galvatron in the 4th movie
Yeah, they don't even bring up how he's got a spark now (we're supposed to assume Quintessa gave him one, but it was cut from the script)
They even remember that Starscream's head just appears intact when his head literally EXPLODES IN DSM
@@x_xnicko I love how little the writers gave a shit about this franchise at this point
"Well, all I have to say is.....WWRRAAAAA!"
- the writers, probably
That was due to copyright apparently, the name Megatron wasn't used for a while during that period in transformers so they almost lost the name Megatron because of the animated aligned continuity Megatron was dead for all of RID15, galvatron in the movie, and I think there was little to no toy of him released
To think that a comic book company literally built a timeline for the Bayverse, and developed characters better than the writers of the Bayverse did in their 10 years at the helm of the film saga... just gives you an idea of how much effort they put into it.
Primus bless John Roberts.
I’d kill to get a Lost Light movie.
You can read the IDW comics, play the Cybertron games or watch some of the Transformers shows (most notably Prime, Animated and Beast Wars) to see what can be done with the source material. It actually makes the bay-verse movies worse in hindsight. Outside of the character development, there's also just some really cool worldbuilding.
@@leithaziz2716 Ohh yeah! I’ll play the cybertron games until the end of my life, they are so good!
I really hate the trend of companies making movies of beloved franchises and then being ashamed of the source material. Regardless of whether you think BB or ROTB are good, at least they're not hell bent in changing everything beyond recognition.
Its not even effort at this point just fucking follow the source material this trend is way outta hand now and its destroyed so many franchises look at halo tv series or the witcher.
im jealous of last of us fans atleast they got a decent show🥲
Edit i didnt read the above comment but yea :(((((
The fact the TRFs hate the TRANSformers is so accidentally genius
Megatron says trans rights
Either someone on the writing team is a genius, or that's one of the best accidents in shitty film history.
@@marvelousballnow that is evil
According to the Transformers comic books (yes, there’s a Transformers comic book, go read it, it’s great) Cybertronians actually have no concrete concept of gender, what with them being artificially constructed, and many of them (including Arcee!!) canonically identify as gender-fluid. Make of that what you will.
Edit: Welp, the transphobes found the reply section, gang, it was nice while it lasted
@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Cannot recommend the IDW comics enough. Especially More Than Meets the Eye and Lost Light. Hell yeah.
The way the "universe" of MB's Transformer's series died with the movie they meant to start with is strikingly similar to the renowned tragedy of the dark ages.
Babies would often die minutes after being born due to many, many problems but would also cause the death of their own mothers during or after the birthing process. So in essence, Transformers 5 is the baby that died before being able to start a legacy whilst also killing off its mother being the 3 (maybe 4) movies before it. And it's just ironic icing on the moldy cake that this failure of a film takes place in said dark ages.
This was the movie that made my brother realize he actually had standards. He enjoys a lot of movies that many would consider absolute dumpster fires (I still love ya bro), so if someone like him dislikes this movie, you know it’s bad
The kaiju fan in me says the dragon was the best thing about it
And it had extremely little screen time besides shots of it flying lmao
Freaking Pacific Rim at least was self-aware, it was meant to be a goofy cheesy anime-like action feast that you don‘t have to think about a lot.
Transformers 5 though? It makes you go „seriously?“ every five minutes, and not in a fun way
@@vodafoneuser1690 I really want him to talk about the Pacific Rim movies and the Monsterverse movies, as well as the 1998 “Godzilla”
Edit: I got my wish
Bay somehow made a movie with a three-headed robot dragon a snooze fest. But at least the dragon part is awesome.
@@vodafoneuser1690pacific rim wasn't meant to be cheesy if it was killing off most of it's cast 😅, it's not like the bayverse or godzilla vs kong where it's mindless fun with no plot. It's just a well written dark movie with some comedy in it and good action through and through.
Take a look at uprising if you want a pacific rim movie with mindless action and no plot and is actually cheesy
This movie is the very definition of a Frankensteins monster of a movie, especially when it comes to how it was even concieved in the first place. Originally, Transformers 5 was supposed to conitinue from Age Of Extinction where Optimus takes the fight to the Quintessons, and further develop a lot of the plot threads left open by the 4th film. But since the studio wanted to rush everything, they took only small elements of the fifth movie's script and mashed it with a Transformers Knights film and a WW2 Transformers film, which were both planned to be entirely seperate from each other with their own stories in mind. To make things worse, Steve Jablonsky confirmed they removed 40 mins of the film entirely, which all had pivotal story information and a lot of Steve's work cut out as a result. So this movie was pretty much doomed to fail due to a lot of studio interference and Bays lack of care of the source material at this point lol.
The intro with the bootleg Rey girl also felt like an entirly different movie. God imagine something mad max esque but with transformers? Sounds way more entertaining.
:/
-drop a bombshell
-end with lol
-leave
This isnt a movie. This is a triple homicide
it sucks that they ruined the storyline of the transformers live action movies
I like how Anthony Hopkins is just here to set himself loose and sometimes get confused. It's golden.
32:16 was not expecting that scream 😂
I love how the Unicorn plot was pulled directly from Transformers Prime, arguably the best show in the entire franchise, and they somehow made it absolutely terrible.
It's incredible, they really found a way to absolutely destroy any plot put in their hands
Prime was peak transformers content
That's the magic of Micheal Bay for ya!
Prime is just the best at everything transformers
Everything
Prime and Beast Wars are unironically peak fiction
Transformers Prime managed to make the concept of "Unicron being Earth the entire time" work somehow
That makes me realize something. None of the autobots in The Last Knight react or even learn about that. So that means in the future of that universe Unicron transforms and everyone dies because the autobots were stupid
@@aceofspades8169Optimus actually learns about Unicron through quintessa in the beginning of the film iirc
@@ashuraomega1000 oh right I forgot about that
@@aceofspades8169 Don't worry I'm sure Optimus did as well.
@@concept5631 ayyyyy
Can’t believe how fast this videos hit with people in less than 5 minutes… you sir have reached the right audience.
1k likes (in a few minutes) is really good, I love his videos
I got lucky to have been on UA-cam shortly after it was dropped and YT for once did the right thing and recommended it for me.
Cody deserves all the attention for his amazing editing and witty humor. Lol
Ranting on the transformers films are more popular than you think
I saw it pop into my feed early on, but I waited a couple hours so I could watch it while I ate - the highest honor I can bestow lol
"to that I say I'm sorry. And it's going to get a whole lot worse. "
Oh dear God I need to strap in for this one 💀
Honestly Castro offering sanctuary to transformers is actually pretty believable.
The most ironic thing about Paramount wanting to make a cinematic universe out of Transformers, is that it's NOT a bad idea at all.
Transformers has more than enough lore and decades of stories behind it to run a cinematic universe.
Beast Wars, pre-war Cybertron, post-war Cybertron, Shattered Glass etc.
It's just that the movies never seemed brave enough to explore anything beyond the surface of "robots fighting eachother on earth"
Well they seem to be setting that up, given the new movie...
@@mrscruffles801 I don't trust Paramount enough with making that plan work.
The _only_ cinematic universe that has worked is Marvel's. I think the conclusion is obvious: It can't be done. It's pure RNG.
@@mrscruffles801 problem is a GI JOE crossover sounds significantly less exciting or interesting than any of the other options OP gave
Really doesn't need to be said but the other problem is none of these production studios have an ounce of patience, they saw the MCU craze that built up over a decade and a half then forgot the "decade and a half" part thinking they could start one in 2ish hours with 10 halfbaked ideas...
@@zackarysullivan9019 I agree. That was a dumb idea. I was intentionally vague to not post spoilers but I guess that doesn't matter now.
I cannot emphasize the level of rage that went through me when those deceptions just fucking died after they got a MONTAGE
Yeah, I hate the way Michael Bay does these which is why I stopped watching after the second one, and even with just watching PointlessHub's explanation of it, I was pissed. Bay really is an asshole.
@@Chzrm3 Steven Spielberg is probably thinking "Ain't gonna say I told you so!" after he SPECIFICALLY told him *NOT* to make another Tramsformers movie!
Moral of the Story, If "Steven Spielberg" tells you stop, then you have to stop! Yeah ignore the advice from the greatest director of all time, It's not like he directed JAWS! 🤣
Videos like this are the main way I have been watching new movies in the past years and I feel like that was a good decision