>The film features the voices of Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, Lionel Stander, John Moschitta Jr., Scatman Crothers, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, and Orson Welles, who died 10 months before the film's release, in his final film role.
How the fuck did they get so many big names for a cartoon movie in the 80s?
Wow. THE Lionel Stander?
he was kup
Trans Formers was like the MCU of the 80's
Every actor who knew what was up wanted in so they could be cool with the kids
>How the fuck did they get so many big names for a cartoon movie in the 80s?
$$$
It was also Hasbro making it a point to kill off the characters from the first two years of the toy line to focus on new ones that Hasbro itself had more of a hand in designing and owning.
how did those space ayys at the beginning know what unicron was?
Orson Welles is known across the universe.
unicron is the devil in transformers mythology, you would know if he showed up
In the G1 world he was just a science experiment made by a monkey
That monkey's identity?... Albert Einstein.
Frank Stallone
he actually voiced a Transformer, he voiced Thunderhoof who was a mafia crime boss that had the appearance of a deer and turned into a farming tractor.
I AM FAR FROM OVER!
That's just the G1 cartoon, in the G1 comic he's a dark god and that's the origin that stuck.
Also there's nothing about the science monkey in the movie if you look at it as just a stand-alone film. Which I kind of do, it helps alleviate some of the silliness that came before and after it.
Primacron never made a lick of sense, especially with the Matrix just noping out in the background during the flashback. What the fuck man.
Why does he only have one cron?
Voice acting has always been a good excuse to burn up a mandatory on a contract. It's why so many of the GoT actors started doing it after the hype from that died.
OH SHIT
best line
No. Damnit, I’m a Doctor not a forklift is the best line.
They're allowed to say shit in a PG movie?
It was not in the theatrical release or the version I had on VHS.
First time I saw the version with the swear word was when I was able to get it more than a decade later on DVD.
It was when I saw it in theaters
the VHS cut it though
It was DEFINITELY in the theatrical release. That's all we could talk about in 1986.
It was the 80s. Beetlejuice was rated PG and had fuck in it.
NICE FUCKIN' MODEL! HONNNNK
This was before the 1990s when we let soccer moms ruin everything, with them trying to command the entire populace because Mortal Kombat scared them.
It started before that it the mid 80s when Al Gore's bitch wife got congress to go after Twister Sister & music
real shit? its Al Gore's fault for essentially modern discourse?
PG movies used to get by with nudity. I started watching Jabberwocky with kids in the room once when comes a 3 minute scene of a nekkid lady.
I should have guessed with it being a Terry Gilliam movie.
Clash of the Titans showed ass and titties and it was PG.
Based ancientfag
Holy fucking based. Thanks anon
Eat shit and die queerbait
No u. GAYLORD
Get that Go-Bots shit out of here.
Starscream had it coming
He did nothing wrong.
NOTHIN'S GONNA STAND IN OUR WAY
NOTHIN'S GONNA STAND IN OUR WAY
NOTHING'S GONNA STAND IN OUR WAY
NOT TONIGHT
WHEN I SEE WHAT I WANT IM GONNA TAKE IT
IF ITS AGAINST THE LAW YOU CAN BET ILL BREAK IT
DARE!
DARE TO BELIEVE YOU CAN SURVIVE!
YOU HOLD THE FUTURE IN YOUR HAND!
DARE!
DARE TO KEEP ALL YOUR DREAMS ALIVE!
DARE TO BE STUPID
As much as I usually dislike how pretentious hbomberguy is, I think he hit the nail on the head in his retrospective when he said that "Dare to be Stupid" is the moral core of the movie. If everything around you is being consumed by nihilism and death, and it seems like any good outcome at all is utterly impossible, the only way you can fight back is with radical positivity and by truly believing that things can be made better than they are. Even if it means being totally stupid.
Following that up by playing "Dare" while they infiltrate Unicron is just icing on the cake.
>"Come out, Autobot! We all must die sometime!"
>"Not today, Galvatron!"
>*punches the thematic representation of death and nihilism right in the face*
I learned less than 24 hours ago that this song is also in an earlier movie, performed by someone else. Savage Streets with Linda Blair from 1984. A prolonged rape scene initially earned it an X rating.
Yesss. That opening guitar riff could not possbly sound more like "Beat It" without getting sued.
YOU GOT THE TOUCH
They should use the original voice acting and soundtrack and let Michael Bay make a version with new visuals.
Remake the entire movie shot for shot with avatar level cgi
At this point, a singular chud with a nice computer and tons of free time could do it.
We need a "Directors Cut" of this where they fix all the little mistakes and animate the scenes that were storyboarded but cut.
I just want robots that transform with simple twists and bends and don't have gaping holes in their skin
>The Transformers The Movie
KINO
>Judd Nelson, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, Lionel Stander, John Moschitta Jr., Scatman Crothers, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker
Litereally fucking who?
>John Moschitta Jr.
The guy from Micromachines commercials. You have to be 18 to post here.
Who?
BULLSHIT
Well, Kasem, Crothers, Cullen, and Welker were already doing voice work for animation. Moschitta was a novelty pitchman, known mainly as "the Micro Machines guy." Nimoy, Stack, and Stander were at a slow point in their careers. Nelson was dealing with substance abuse probems. Welles' difficult reputation and alcoholism had reduced him to playing the voice of Robin Masters on Magnum, P.I. i don't know how Eric Idle got involved, but the others are pretty easily explained.
Biggest thing going at the time, good script, one big name joins, others interests are peaked, also believe it or not many actors will join projects like this based on their kids or grandkids liking it.
Bob Hoskins only did the Mario movie because of his kids.
This line made boomers shit and piss their pants in rage.
But xoomers loved it.
>new Transformers movie just came out
>no one gives a shit
>DARE TO BE STUPID
>DARE TO BE STUPID
>*8 year old me spazzes out*
You forgot Weird Al, DARE TO BE STUPID
>why throw away your like so recklessly?
>That a question you should be asking yourself Megatron
KINO
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>TV series you've never heard of
>has Ozzy Osbourne, Bonnie Tyler, Billy Connolly, pre-nonce Gary Glitter and for some reason Frank Bruno doing the lyrics and the London Symphony Orchestra doing the backing.
The series is mediocre as hell but the music is far better than it has any right to be.
There's something about Orson Welles' final role being fucking Unicron of all roles. It fits so well with his career
It's so processed it could be anyone. Rumor is that much of it isn't even him because he was an ornery old fuck.
white suburban parents would literally riot in the 80s over shipments of transformers or cabbage patch
after reagan made it legal to market to children toy franchises became the biggest thing going
cartoons go on Cinemaphile
Ascended kino, this movie rivals the Plane Scene in terms of quotability
>"DIE AUTOBOTS"
>"Such heroic nonsense"
>"I've got better things to do tonight than die"
>"Why throw away your life so recklessly"
>"One shall stand, one shall fall"
>"I thought you were made of sterner stuff"
>"MEGATRON MUST BE STOPPED, NO MATTER THE COST"
>"Soundwave superior, Constructicons inferior"
>"UNCHARISMATIC BORE"
>"Wait, I still function!" "Wanna bet?"
>"I have summoned you here for a purpose" "NOBODY SUMMONS MEGATRON" "Then it pleases me to be the first"
>"Your bargaining posture is highly dubious"
>"Proceed, on your way to oblivion"
>"This is bad comedy"
>"Megatron, is that you?!" "Here's a hint!"
>"Oh SHIT what are we gonna do now?!"
>"OPEN DAMN IT OPEN"
>"Bah-weep-granah-weep-ninnybong, it's a universal greeting!"
>"I have nothing BUT contempt for this court"
>"There was a time I considered sparing your wretched little planet, but now... you shall witness... its DISMEMBERMENT"
>"It's a pity you Autobots die so easily, otherwise I might have some sense of satisfaction"
>"I KNEW YOU HAD POTENTIAL KID"
You can argue that it's technically a glorified toy commercial, but damn, the dialogue is ridiculously punchy
And the fucking music... God, it slaps so much...
It may be forgotten by most today but it’s truly a gem and still stands high above any other Transformers media. The first Michael Bay movie is the only one that comes anywhere close, and it still isn’t close at all.
The one thing I liked about Rise of the Beasts is that they played Unicrons theme from this film
"The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys... I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen."
— Orson Welles: A Biography
Spoilers, Orson! WtF.