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The Matrix was designed to automatically accept the next transformer that touched it. If Hot Rod had let it hit the ground the Autobots would have actually gotten a competent leader instead of him.
I had to adapt to what he gave me.it's me Grimlock no bozo me king smh
You should actually watch the OP's videoNo it's not. It's a different kind of bad than the Bayformers.
Gave it a rewatch some months ago, I was surprised how poor some of the animation looks, compared to what I remembered.
The Matrix was designed to automatically accept the next transformer that touched it. If Hot Rod had let it hit the ground the Autobots would have actually gotten a competent leader instead of him.
Bayformers is absolute garbage. As someone who grew up with the franchise and owned over 80 of those action figures, bringing those films to live-action should have been an easy win for me. I haven't even watched the last three... and I'm a movie enthusiast. I seek out anything that's good. Which says it all right there, doesn't it?Say what you will about Transformers '86, but Bayformers is repugnant on multiple levels. I don't feel like I'd need to take a shower after watching the animated movie.
It actually had a female Autobot character that didn't die after saying two words.
it's me Grimlock no bozo me king smh
It is such a good movie that for a few years it tricked me into liking Hot Rod and accepting him as a suitable replacement of Optimus Prime.Man, I wasn't expecting to just take that 47-minute retrospective in one uninterrupted viewing.
Bob Chipman knows how to keep an audience engaged. Gotta give it up to him.
And yeah, as a 9-year-old kid who caught it in theaters, Transformers the Movie did a great job of blowing my mind... and selling me a whole host of new toys.
The Matrix was designed to automatically accept the next transformer that touched it. If Hot Rod had let it hit the ground the Autobots would have actually gotten a competent leader instead of him.
I never got the toy commercial vibe the movie at all when I was a kid and I still don't at 39.
Yes, they had a new line of toys, but it's not like the movie felt that way..I mean shit they killed off one of the new toys right in the middle. (Until he is rebuilt, anyway)
It's a great movie.
You should actually watch the OP's video
Okay.
The way this dude speaks nonstop at 100 miles an hour is annoying, and there's something wrong with the video production of this guy, why is every element so low resolution and jagged, particularly the two massive watermarks. I cannot watch this for 48 minutes.
It is hilarious that Hot Rod fked up big and showed no leadership acumen yet got awarded the mantle.
Ultra Magnus dropped the ball. He missed his chance. If Hot Rod didn't catch it, it would've either bounced and hit somebody in the leg (that time-honored method of leader selection) or Autobot City would've become the Autobots new leader.The Matrix was designed to automatically accept the next transformer that touched it. If Hot Rod had let it hit the ground the Autobots would have actually gotten a competent leader instead of him.
Yeah, yeah, and Film Crit Hulk's caps hurt your delicate eyes, I'm sure. Everyone always has an excuse for passing up quality criticism these days.
Hot Rod brought the right things to the table. He was a youthful fuckup, but he had heart and creativity and courage and inventiveness.
Optimus Prime was the greatest Autobot warrior, whose greatest strength was not even in his own combat ability, but in his ability to lead lesser Autobots and bring out the best in them. But by the end of his story, he had reached his limit and (after Megatron fucked up Autobot City and killed all those Autobots) he couldn't tolerate even one more costly back-and-forth sparring with Megatron, so he bet everything he had on one last all-or-nothing battle (one shall stand, one shall fall), which risked the future of everyone who still depended on him for leadership.
Ultra Magnus was the second best Autobot warrior. A pale imitation of Optimus, with the heart and mind of a soldier, and very little true leadership ability.
Optimus chose Ultra Magnus to be his successor because at face value Ultra Magnus was the best out of many bad options, and Optimus Prime wasn't some kind of prophet, he couldn't see everything.
The Matrix confers the strength, experience, and wisdom of all previous Primes. Add that to Ultra Magnus and you merely get a stronger, smarter Ultra Magnus. Add that to Hot Rod and the boy becomes a man, a fresh new Prime ready to lead the Autobots into a brand new age.
Also, Hot Rod's rulebreaking is the only reason Autobot City (and Ultra Magnus) survived Megatron's assault long enough for Optimus to arrive and save the day, since Hot Rod broke into Lookout Point to watch the shuttle land and was able to observe the Decepticon raiding party, immediately launching into attacking it, which foiled Megatron's Trojan Horse plan, buying the Autobots the seconds they needed to get their defenses up.
Ultra Magnus dropped the ball. He missed his chance. If Hot Rod didn't catch it, it would've either bounced and hit somebody in the leg (that time-honored method of leader selection) or Autobot City would've become the Autobots new leader.
Also, "first one to touch it" doesn't fit with how Optimus got the Matrix in the first place (Orion Pax was a youthful fuckup, who was saved from mortal wounds by Alpha Trion, who apparently healed him by delivering him the Matrix).
People are right to skip Hulk's bullshit
Fuck Hulk.
It is funny how Birth Movies Death is basically the last semi-legitimate enthusiast press outlet that still indulges that dumb-as-fuck AICN-era nickname/gimmick bullshit.
I didn't grow up in Transformers' heyday. I was born just after, and I got my fix with their "Generation 2" reruns in the late 80's and early 90's and my parents buying the VHS of the movie for me.
This movie was a huge one in my childhood. The old VHS my dad bought for me at an insanely high price from Suncoast stopped working about 3 years after we got it because I used to watch it at least once a week.
I oddly never knew that this movie was near-universally hated until now...
I never got the toy commercial vibe from the movie at all when I was a kid and I still don't at 39.
Yes, they had a new line of toys, but it's not like the movie felt that way..I mean shit they killed off one of the new toys right in the middle. (Until he is rebuilt, anyway)
It's a great movie.
All the complaining of Rodimus also comes down to Season 3, not the movie. I can understand what they were going for with the whole "inexperienced new leader trying to deal with difficulties of leadership" but ultimately they fucked up. It was ambitious of them to try. Had they done better in conveying that, Rodimus might be better viewed within fandom.
This movie is hot steamy toy-sale driven trash.
The soundtrack ruins the movie for me.
Movie-Rodimus was written by Ron Friedman, while TV-Rodimus was written by Flint Dille.
Friedman argued against killing Optimus because Optimus was an icon, the moral and virtuous core of the Autobots that other characters mixed with to create interesting stories. But Hasbro ordered him gone, so Friedman had to play with the cards he was given, choosing to give him a powerful death that had meaning. Friedman also chose to have Rodimus represent Optimus' "natural" path to immortality, which is passing on everything that is good about him (his wisdom and morals), and having the son grow up to become the father, as opposed to Megatron's "unnatural" path to immortality, which was selling his soul to the Devil.
Friedman's Movie-Rodimus was Optimus 2.0, while Dille chose to take that freshly-minted character and give him flaws, because flaws allegedly make characters more interesting. But then, Dille's flawed TV-Rodimus was unable to fill Optimus Prime's shoes as the moral and virtuous core of the Autobots.
It's also worth noting that for all the flak Transformers the Movie gets for taking a shotgun to the toybox, Flint Dille wanted to do it with more carnage and less emotion. Which isn't to say that Dille's a bad writer, but Rodimus was inevitable, and Friedman got Rodimus right, while Dille got Rodimus wrong.
A lots of hate for this cartoon movie in this thread lol.
It's a pretty good animated film for it time with a lots of memorable quotes.
I gave up on FilmCriticHulk when I realized I was reading the same damn thing from him near every article. Far too often he falls into the same schtick of talking about how "honest" he perceives a movie as being and trying to psychoanalyze the director for their motives.Yeah, yeah, and Film Crit Hulk's caps hurt your delicate eyes, I'm sure. Everyone always has an excuse for passing up quality criticism these days.
This movie is an endlessly rewatchable and eminently quotable classic. And it features one of the best soundtracks of all time.
I have to admit, it's probably mainly the animation, soundtrack, and 80s vibes (and by proxy nostalgia) that make me still think fondly of it. Take all of that away and you probably would be left with something more remarkable for its willingness to kill off major characters so readily in a kids movie than anything else.Not a fan of the movie as a man in his 40s.
However the animation still kicks ass, and the soundtrack....
I love that it conversations always start with "Transformers, or The Touch?"
Tell my iPhone that.it's kup
Exit is that way, pretender.
I have to admit, it's probably mainly the animation, soundtrack, and 80s vibes (and by proxy nostalgia) that make me still think fondly of it. Take all of that away and you probably would be left with something more remarkable for its willingness to kill off major characters so readily in a kids movie than anything else.
I'd still happily get it on blu-ray at an opportune time though.
This payoff took way too long.
In a TRANSFORMERS thread even.
I like this series of videos, and this one was no exception (despite having not seen the movie), but.....at this point it feels like he just kind of uses it as a way to talk about movies he likes that he has a lot to say about, and not movies that are "really that good". Because he admits that this one is deeply flawed. It feels like something that would better fit his "GEM: Good Enough Movies," series, except he has a lot more to say about this movie here than could fit into the average length of one of those episodes.
Why throw away your life so recklessly?"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost..."
Greatest moment in movie history.
Why throw away your life so recklessly?
Fuck this shit.That's a question you should ask yourself!
Film is epic and the most epic is Unicron. Everything about him is fucking awesome.