>Arcee’s hips and thighs sway with literally every step she takes in the movie.
Primus was on to something.
Went in knowing frick all about the movie, it was alright, the standard of the Bayformers has me at broken perception of what makes a good Transformers movie. Raveger was a right bastard, the excuses to get the humans in the movie was thin, as is transformers tradition, but not intolerable. Could’ve been better yeah, could’ve been a HELL of a lot worse. Didn’t mind, it’s aight.
I'm seeing it tomorrow. How were the robots handled this time?
They didn't learn the lessons they should have from Bumblebee.
Which lessons? Preferably without spoilers?
I boil it down to this: "Make a GOOD movie. Don't make a BAD movie."
They basically reverted back to AOE/TLK style storytelling instead of following Bumblebee's example of "Make the plot make sense. Explain things. Don't have things happen for no reason. Have the characters act like characters"
>he didn’t enjoy the sickle cell anemia subplot or the black carjacker character
Lol Bumblebee didn't have a plot. It was a series of shtick and nostalgic pandering until the decepticons showed up.
Some get more focus than others
Nightbird was cool. Pete Davidson was okay.
Optimus was as brutal as always. “I’ll take the key and then I’ll take his head.” Total butthole the whole film kek
It's basically just Mirage, and his friends the Autobots. Prime doesn't get a lot to do, he's just a massive stupid prick the whole movie, Bumblebee is dead for most of the runtime, Pablo, Rhinox, and Cheetor may well have not existed (the way they couldn't even get clear shots of their robot modes during the fight almost seemed to be on purpose), Arcee is just there for fap bait and I think the production knew it.
Arcee’s lips in that one scene lol
You got my curiosity and attention gentlemen. Can someone do what we did with Gogo Tomago scenes? I don't feel like wasting my internet downloading this movie in 4k but those descriptions are really tempting
Everything tells me the maximals could've just not existed in this movie.
I find it fricking hilarious how they double-triple down on Optimus being a bloodthirsty psychopath. Optimus Primal started off admiring him then got freaked out when they actually met. Yes, he DOES go for the main villain’s face even though he’s supposed to be invincible by shoving it into lava after tearing off his arms. And his reaction to Unicron offering him anything to keep the transwarp bridge open is howling I WANT YOU TO DIE and the sky
At least this was one of the few times when it was justifiable.
No, there's no designated female character fight., they fight everyone equally. Arcee gets fricking bodied by Battletrap at one point.
The early action scenes in the movie are great, they just fall back to the same boring (and completely inexplicable) "horde of generics" deal at the end.
>I WANT YOU TO DIE
Nah that was kino, I kek'd.
Also they acknowledge Unicron is a god. This does not dampen Optimus’ enthusiasm for killing Unicron himself if he ever dares show his face on Earth again, seriously they’re doing this big speech about Maximals and Autobots working together and Prime’s just like I WILL KILL A GOD
we in JRPG territory now
Back from seeing the movie
all at I got say is I didn't expect that ending
I don't think anybody was expecting it to lead into the Fortnite Movie
>she
This ain’t IDW Arcee.
it's a robot, they don't have sex or gender
Transformers aren't actual beep boop robots, they're Star Trek energy lifeforms running around in robot suits.
Shut the frick up with this, having sparks does not make them energy beings.
??????????????
That's LITERALLY what sparks are. We've had multiple stories from myltiple continuities about that.
Starscream is my favorite Buddha.
Bloody hell is this IDW?
Didn't know it went this hard.
What's the context?
This was released during October, it's supposed to be unnerving.
It ends kinda anticlimactically, but still unsettling.
IDW2 Halloween special. It goes harder.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Transformers-Halloween-Special/Full?id=189056
Prime reaction image material. Also Jesus Fricking Christ that was spooky.
In IDW2, Cybertron is pre-war and home to several organic refugee species. One if these species keep servant apes attached to them with head cables. Starscream is fricking around in the Cybertronian wilderness when he hears spooky noises, which are often attributed to a age-old mythological terror. He finds an escaped ape, its damaged head cable tangled on the environment. Starscream figures out it's starved and gone mad and has only survived by the head cable siphoning energon from the planet.Deciding to put the ape out of its misery and to stop the indignity of an organic draining Cybertron's resources, he moves to kill the ape. But the damaged cable sucks his spark out of his body. Starscream freaks the frick out in the ape's body, until he realises he's not alone in it. There's another spark trapped inside.
It's Starscream's old mentor, essentially his mother figure. In IDW2 some Transformers allow Cybertron to absorb their body and spark when they feel their life is over. Except, MomScream got trapped in the ape instead. She's been making the ape panic and scream, hoping someone would investigate. Instead, it's been driving Cybertronians away. Oh, also, she's gone crazy from isolation.
MomScream figures she can move the ape over to Starscream's body, move her spark to it, and take revenge on Cybertron for not helping her. She and Starscream race throughout the ape's body, havibg a metaphorical battle for doninance. Starscream prevails and returns to his body. He breifly reconsiders he initial plan of putting the ape (and thus also MomScream) out of their misery, but insteads decides to keave the ape alive. The myth if the wilderness screams is a part of Cybertronian culture, you see, and Starscream loves Cybertron. MomScream realizes Starscream is leaving her trapped in the ape, and it begins screaming again - not for help, but in pure anguish.
The IDW2 comics were pretty good, it's a shame they ended so abruptly. I was a fan of the new setting and sci-fi detective thriller story they had going on for a bit.
I don't know, I found them pretty boring and meandering.
I can totally get that, too. There were parts that definitely dragged. You could tell IDW thought they had more time than they did.
film is trash and Arcee literally does nothing, her guns fire nerf darts
That's just brand synergy, Nerf and TF are both Hasbro products
i miss starscream
Now that GI Joe and Transformers are together in the Hasbro Cinematic Universe, how much longer for pic related to hit the big screen?
I like how Elena was a literal non-character, and was there solely to say "it's in peru" and nothing more
bumblebee is still the best live action movie
Does Airazor transform during the movie?
Yes. Into a corpse.
Let me rephrase the question then. Does she transform into her robot mode?
No!
Oh boy, I can't wait to hear a certain toy reviewer complain.
Her Studio Series toy kind of spoiled this since there's no control art of her robot mode on the box.
That "don't call it a comeback" scene is kino
I hope this movie bombs hard so these monstrosities can frick off for atleast a decade
It's projected to open at #2 behind Spider-Verse so you'll get your wish
Female transforms and Simon Furman did nothing wrong with trying to retcon that garbage out.
>That one shot where her chest panels look like titty jiggle
It’s a necessary detail to the canon.
>No Grey
I'm not giving this shit the remotest chance in hell.
They picked some literal nobody to voice Arcee, frick this noise.
>Beast Wars comes in to save the Transformers IP
>Again
Ah, time is a revolving circle.
I've seen people mad it's not Bay sized explosions
I've seen people mad it's not small like BB was
It's got a lot of things fans will like and does a good job balancing human to robot time, just not good balancing the robots with each other.
Good villain's again that are a threat.
The ending was covered in Lorenzo bullshit with the hoard of generics.
At least they cut down on murder Prime by cutting the Transit scene.
Really a shame it was not longer, plot rushes and skips over the Maximals.
I liked Noah. Wish they'd done more with his tech wizardry. Like, if he'd tried to repair Bee, but failed, getting the idea that there was a whole new level of tech that surpassed everything humans knew. Speaking of Bee, what was the point of 'killing him' midpoint when the trailer shows him in the final battle? For a moment I believed the film would pull something, like the trailer was fake and Bee really died. Also, the beasts didn't do a lot of rising for a movie called Rise of the Beasts.
Is Megatron in or no? Don't feel like gambling money on tickets to may or may not see him
Megatron is not in this movie.
I really like how despite being depicted as a bog-standard 'sexy lady' in humanoid form, her proportions make her look like a normal woman with an actual torso and not a pin-wide hourglass figure. It would have been so easy to make her waist one-inch-wide and have her arms be chopsticks, but she looks like a real person. It's pretty nice to see hollywood move on from twig women to women who at least look like they have internal organs, even if this iteration isn't actually a human woman she is at least styled to imply one.
>her proportions make her look like a normal woman with an actual torso
that was made to accommodate the toy's transformation
How Woke was it?
Nightbird makes sexual inuendos all the time and Arcee moves like a bawd so make up your own mind
Cheetor is now black because he's a cheetah I guess.
Unicron is black
There were a bunch of evil white men and women holding the two humans leads down and being racist towards them at the start of the movie.
You lie.
- White hiring guy: Your references show you being uncooperative, and I don't want to hire someone like that. (shit sucks, but he's not racist)
- White clinic lady: You are overdue in paying us, and your brother's condition is not life threatening at the moment. (american health system is terrible, but she's not racist)
- White boss lady: just a typical bad boss, had no racist undertones. was nice to black lady character when not being a bad boss
And at the end:
- Different white hiring guy: Offers Noah a job, sets up payment for bother's treatment
Race only comes up twice in the movie:
- Noah mom tells him to laugh at all the interviewer's jokes, because white people fall for that
- Wheeljack has being hanging around Peru and picked up an accent, they do a lame "are you being racist" joke.
The soundtrack is all black hip hop songs though.
If you think that qualifies something as being "woke", you have stage omega terminal /misc/ brainrot and need to go outside desperately.
Speaking of Wheeljack, there was literally NO reason for him to be Wheeljack. He contributes absolutely nothing to the plot, shows up out of nowhere (We need to go to Peru! Oh btw Wheeljack's already in Peru conveniently), and he does nothing Wheeljack-like. They had a great classic Wheeljack design in Bumblebee and they threw everything about it away simply to make him look like Urkel. Except he doesn't do anything Urkel-like either! Literally his only contribution to the movie was making the racism "joke" and letting Arcee and the humans ride in him while the others fought.
He felt like he could have been a Rattrap stand in so they didn't have to shove in a giant robot mouse in with the cooler Maximals but the concept got away from them as production went on. He even said the "we're all gonna die" line.
>Noah mom tells him to laugh at all the interviewer's jokes, because white people fall for that
Oh is that all? That’s totally fine then, white people aren’t funny anyway. Glad the movie isn’t woke, thanks anon.
Arcee doesn’t even cup the dude’s balls when she sucks him off. Truly, we’ve fallen as a society.
Do we get an Arcee vs Nightbird catfight?
Nah. Bumblebee shreds Nightbird midair
>Early in the movie, there's a sequence of the surrounding area transforming into Unicron
>It's clearly shown that this is a vision Scourge is having while Unicron communicates with him.
>Later on, the exact same thing happens
>Except in an extremely whiplashing moment, the movie suddenly shows it's ACTUALLY HAPPENING so they can set up the tower for the final battle location, but absolutely nothing explains WHY it's happening. The Earth just spontaneously shits out a massive Cybertronian tower for no reason. Also, said tower can, itself, shit out a billion generic lifeforms. Also, Primal knows the details of its tunnels because..... ??????????
>It's also never really explained. WHY Unicron needs the key so badly. "With it, he'll be able to eat the whole galaxy!". Okay, but... why? He's clearly shown moving around just fine at the beginning.
>Mirage has holograms
>doesn't use holograms to give himself different alt-modes, just actually transforms all willy-nilly into them like DotM Laserbeak
>including into a massive garbage truck, when the live action movies shy away from mass shifting
I get that his hyper-transformation abilities are used for the battlesuit bit, but come on.
The tower, I think, you can hand wave away by just saying the Transwarp key manifests a bridge from bullshit space magic. And Unicron needed it so he could jump between points in space, otherwise he's just floating around. Now he just has to float slowly to Earth the old fashioned way for revenge just in time for the big finale team-up movie.
No idea on why the bridge would need a built-in security system of creepy evil-looking robots though.
Bumblebee's ENTER scene was the best part
What exactly is the timeline for these movies? I think I only saw the first three Bayformers, and dipped. Never saw Bumblebee...was that supposed to be a reboot? Or tangentally connected to Bayformers? Is THIS movie technically in the Bayformer timeline? Or is this a sequel to Bumblebee, or is its own thing?
watch Bumblebee, you can go into this one just having watched that one.
Interesting. I'll have to watch Bumblebee then, and then see this one. Thanks guys.
Have fun, anon 🙂
Bayverse and Bumblebeeverse are different continuities.
Bayverse:
>Transformers
>Revenge of the Fallen
>Dark of the Moon
>Age of Extinction
>The Last Knight
Bumbebeeverse:
>Bumblebee
>Rise of the Beasts
Bumblebee started production as a prequel to Bayverse, but it got changed halfway through to be a reboot. As a result, there's some lingering references to Bayverse, but those can be treated as simple references and not actual story connections. I mean, Bumblebee turning into a VW doesn't make the movie G1, does it? No.
It's kind of a mess where everyone who's working on them seems to be fighting each other on if any of these movies are reboots, sequels, or other. From how I look at it, the first 3 are one continuous continuity, 4 and 5 use the first 3 as a loose skeleton for what happened before but freely ignore stuff that it doesn't want to use. Bumblebee is a straight reboot, but since it was initially filmed as a prequel some of that slips through in the final cut. RotB is a light sequel to Bumblebee, its only connection being a throwaway line that references Charlie (but not by name). RotB can still weasel its way into the original 3 movies' continuity with a little bit of retconning, but it definitely cannot be a part of 4 and 5's.
Unless you're as moronic as Lorenzo di Bonaventura who is still adamant that all of these movies are telling the same continuous story.
>Unless you're as moronic as Lorenzo di Bonaventura who is still adamant that all of these movies are telling the same continuous story.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura literally doesn't understand what a reboot is. He said so himself in an interview at one point. Like, his brain does not have the ability to conceptualize different continuities. And yet he works in Hollywood, the land of reboots.
In the Latin Spanish dub Optimus explicitly speaks of Charlie so that's based if they added that.
The way it was done in English is he said something along the lines of "I know you made a connection with a human in the past" when he was being a pissy b***h about fraternizing with humans to Bumblebee.
They’re rebooting Gi joe again?!
The Joes were in it?
No, the main character gets a recruitment offer at the end by a generic office man.
Oh
why is everyone praising this movie
now i'm no transformers obsessed superfan
i watched transformers 2007, loved it
watched transformers animated, liked it
but this movie?
felt like it was written by ChatGPT
>human had zero character, black woman was completely pointless
Sam Witwicky I actually cared about after 5 mins. also sexy Megan Fox
>beasts don't do much except the eagle
>no based Starscream transforming mid-air
>what did Arcee even do
>that fricking GI Joe ending (wtf?)
It would have been better if that was Sector Seven from Transformers 2007
so so much better
oh well at least the cargo plane Transformer was cool
>that fricking GI Joe ending (wtf?)
Transformers crossing over with GI Joe is a staple of Transformers, dating back to both the original cartoon and original comics. In the comics, sharing a universe with GI Joe is how Bumblebee dies and Megatron is reborn. In the cartoon, one of the main human characters is the daughter of some Joes, and Cobra Commander shows up for an episode.
Transformers has crossed over with GI Joe in 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
>Movie is getting trashed by anyone who isn't autistic
>moronic anon pops up to whine it's being praised
Are you schizophrenic?
Skywarp when?
2018
If I don’t see him and Rock ‘n Roll on the screen at the same time there will be consequences.
>Tfw we were so close into having an accurate movie
>Tfw we will never have these kind designs again and are regulated to Bayformers again
It’s not fricking fair, they had it THEY HAD IT AND BLEW IT UP
>We split the key in half and kept the location of the two halves secret from one another to safeguard it from misuse.
Okay, that's a sensible precaution.
>We also kept the emergency shutdown password split in half and secret from one another.
WHY.
I liked it, it had that dumb cartoony feel.
>Kid playing Game Boy
>NES SMB1 death sound
>"I can't beat Bowser!"
Could be playing SMB Deluxe
Came out in 1999.
Haven't seen the movie yet, did Optimus kill someone brutally like he did in the Bayverse?
He tears Scourge apart while he boils him under a waterfall molten lava.
Neat. I'm glad Violentus Prime is back
>made 8 million last night
Thats good, right?
For corporate synergy in the new transformers, the main characters (an older brother and younger brother) call each other sonic and tails as nicknames. It's also established the younger brother is fighting some disease but he's also playing mario and notes twice in the movie how he's struggling to beat Bowser and how he will do it.
They never show him beating Bowser which bothered me cus I thought it was setup and was gonna correlate to the theme of overcoming the odds or whatever. It's never potrayed in a comedic sense and more of a dramatic one because in the second scene his hands are all hurt because he keeps losing the boss.
But it also makes me think, why wasn't the kid just playing a sonic game? Would much change if he said he had to beat Dr Eggman/Robotnik instead of Bowser? Is it just because Bowser is probably a more well known name?
a kid can like two games anon
>some disease
they literally name it. It's not like it's some obscure disease either, it's a pretty well known one
>why wasn't the kid just playing a sonic game?
because the script had some walking out to the kitched playing it, and they'd have to have him hold a game gear for that to happen. the game boy is much more recognizable to audiences, which is also probably why they had the NES sounds and Bowser instead of anything that what actually on the game boy.
SMB Deluxe was a Game Boy Color game.
Mirage was previously established to be a Shifter in the movie and "human helps control the Transformer body" isn't new in the franchise either. Though it begs the question why Mirage didn't just form himself into a smaller, autonomous form after being damaged.
I think Mirage is gay and wanted to bang Noah.
When the iron man suit came out I almost died. How stupid that moment was combined with the poor air quality had me literally weezing.