I went to the cinema as a kid to see this movie with my friends (chaperoned by my mum).
Nothing prepared us for a Transformers “bloodbath”.
Hasbro used the movie to kill off many of our much-loved characters and sell us a bunch of new ones. It worked on me — I got Galvatron the following Christmas.
Whereas the TV show was extremely tame in portraying conflict and death, the movie is like watching a Scarface version of Toy Story. It was brutal and… amazing!
We were enthralled, entertained and emotionally scarred (except my mum who was bored rigid).
I have watched it again as an adult and still really enjoy it, but it’s hard to know how much of that enjoyment comes from childhood nostalgia.
Orson Welles famously said “I started at the top and worked my way down.” This movie featured his last performance.
Discuss.
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4 Antworten[quote]Scarface version of Toy Story[/quote]Where can I see this? It seems like a must watch
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2 AntwortenI watch it still from time to time.
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1 AntwortenI saw it on VHS.... I was too old to get that wrapped up into it, but I did have a Red Alert (which no one seems to remember), and Sludge. I watched the cartoons when I could. My sons have them stored away somewhere now. All I really remember of the movie was Robert Stack voicing Optimus, and Starscream finally getting shut up.
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1 AntwortenConstructicons! Merge for the kill!!!! Nah f that. Dinobots!! DESTROY DEVASTATOR!!! *Grimlock takes a cement truck to the face*
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Dude I was not prepared either. Watching all my favorite characters die like that was brutal. Movie came out swinging! All those Autobot Deaths hurt... Especially on that shuttle. At least Optimus came back later in the series. [spoiler] Galvatron killing Starscream was so badass tho, that's how you make an entrance[/spoiler] -
7 AntwortenI’ve yet to watch that. My earliest memories of Transformers were at my uncle’s house and he showed me the first movie in the Michael Bay trilogy. Didn’t realize how insane it was at the time But god that movie (and Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon) are so brutally violent and I love them, even if the writing itself is questionable at best.
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2 AntwortenI actually hated it. The TV show is surprisingly endearing with its characters. The movie then kills them all and replaces them with boring nobodies with worse designs. At least Soundwave said the line.