When I saw this in theaters I was on a date with a girl who insisted she loved the transformers movies. The day prior I had gotten a horrible sunburn and for the whole movie she was laying on my shoulder but I didn't have the heart to tell her. I was in excruciating mental and physical pain the whole movie. When the movie was over, she turned to me and said "you're right. these movies are horrible". And we never spoke again.
To be honest, I think being stuck watching any of the Michael Bay movies without being able to get up and leave is considered a psychological crime. No relationship would move past that. Ever.
I worked at a movie theater when this came out and I saw a guy see this film 5 times. And that's only on my shifts. He told me he saw Age of Extinction 15 times in theaters. He is the reason they still made this so long.
I'm really surprised that you guys didn't even mention that Anthony Hopkins just randomly kills himself in this movie. That's the best part. He just charges evil robots all of a sudden. It's my favorite Anthony Hopkins suicide.
@@EvanFowler Ah yes, Meet Joe Black; where in the end, Anthony Hopkins walks over a hill to disappear from this mortal coil - and is presumably run over by a minivan.
@@Dream0Asylum I like the idea that Death claims people exclusively via unexpected minivan attacks. Like immediately following his conversation with the Jamaican lady, a minivan comes inexplicably careening through the wall of her second story hospital room.
A part of me thinks that Michael Bay got Mark Wahlberg to be in these movies because he sang "You Got the Touch" in Boogie Nights, but that would imply that Michael knows everything about Transformers.
†ooli C not the movies but a failed 1998 “revival” show. They will probably do the 2000 and 2006 films likely closer to the 25th anniversary of the franchise next May
The reason Optimus Prime isn't in these movies is the Goku effect. That's when your main character is the guy who pretty much always wins you have to keep him out of fights to let the bad guys get some wins against the supporting characters and establish them as threatening and create some tension before Optimus or Goku or Superman (in the Justice league movies anyway) turn up and defeat whoever the enemy is.
IIRC, Optimus never loses any head-on, 1v1 or even 1vmultiple fight in AOE. Heck, he actually beats Lockdown in round 1 and in later fights, the bounty hunter has to rely on either sucker punches or distractions to beat Prime.
@@rocketpunchgo1 In Transformers and Justice league I'd say its poor writing, in Dragonball however it led to some of the most iconic moments and fights in the series.
To be fair, they killed Optimus off in the original cartoon series and replaced him with Hotrod, and fans complained Hotrod was inept because the writers wanted the new seasons to be slightly darker.
The love story subplot is the most cliched thing ever. - They meet - They don’t like each other - They bicker - People view them as a couple and they get angry at that - He does heroic things that she notices - She acts like she’s more than a love interest and has actual depth - She sees him shirtless - They have a moment - They fall in love
Literally "Random ASS Characters": Either a bunch of people being assholes or some chicks having their asses followed by the camera on an uncomfortably long dolly shot :v
Remember a trailer for that girl about how she's a badass but after the movie released and people said she's barely in it. I feel like she was put in after Logan released and made X-23 cool with a girl so MB though just put her in
While that's likely to be true in some form anyway... it was probably marketed that way to entice (more) young girls into the franchise since Transformers was largely more suited to young boys (and men who never grew up). A way to widen to their demographic and customer base beyond just being PG rated
That being said, Megan Fox's character has still been the most interesting and useful female character of the franchise. Despite the way she's shot, she actually does more than Sam ever did and had a way more complex and interesting backstory of stealing cars and turning her own father in to the police. But ya know, we can't look at nice things anymore... but it's totally necessary to get all those super important topless shots of Chris Hemsworth, Henry Cavill, Jason Mamoa... don't forget Ben Afflecks ass, it's integral to the film!
@@SA80TAGE At least she was legal. Bay spent all of TF4 trying to justify ogling an underage girl with the Romeo and Juliet law. We even turned it into a drinking game halfway through the movie. (although cringey product placement gets you drunker...)
"At the end of the day they may not be the most intelligently written movies, they may not be the most they may not be the cleverest movies, they may not be the most fun movies... anyway that is the end of that sentence." lmao Mason XD
I fell asleep watching tv once & when I woke up, this was on. It was halfway through or something. Anyways, there was an action scene & the aspect ratio kept on changing repeatedly, in quick succession that I legit almost had a mini heart attack thinking there was something wrong with my tv. It was a new tv that I'd had for literally a week. I was legit scared for a sec. 😂 That's the only memory I have of this movie.
That would be such a good plot honestly like him getting tricked into thinking he’s a Decepticon or government experiment or something like anything other than what we got
@@mpeacraft8585 He's doing it for a shit-ton of money. He doesn't give a fuck what anybody thinks, he's Hannibal Lecter. He doesn't have to prove anything.
@@TwiStedReality1313 Most of us 'stage actors' live in poverty. Hopkins is in the top 1% of the top 1% of actors with brilliant careers both on stage and screen. He has the respect of his peers, he has self respect. He doesn't need yours.
As someone with a 6th gen Camaro that knows about how the aftermarket doors work the reason they’re up sometime and not in other shots is because the way those kits work is that you open the door normally and then push them up and they’ll say upward but you can also use them as normal doors hope that made sense
Why would they choose to make Hot Rod French, since when are theFrench known for souped you cars?! The term hot rod is referring specifically to American Cars anyways
@@goodial that’s actually a good point, because in the French dub Hot Rod is Italian. I was in France when this movie was about to release and there was a really big ad campaign over there for it, and I thought Hot Rod’s accent was to appeal to the market like AOE’s China scenes, but according to this video and the wiki he’s not got the accent there and that’s not even why they added it. Baffling shit.
I did see this movie, and I honestly forgot that Unicron was mentioned at all. It's kind of Bay's thing. He throws an Easter egg like that in the film to appease the nerds, and then never mentions it again. He slept through class in film school the day they covered foreshadowing. And most of the other days too.
One of the most underrated things about this movie is this one shot at 4:15 that features a row of soldiers from either World War 1 or World War 2, with a big old Ironhide just lazily photoshopped in like the soldiers can’t even see him, they’re trudging along, he’s just striking up a stoic pose and he clearly has the exact same parts as the version of him that transforms into a modern pickup truck. OH and Optimus Prime standing and striking up a pose right in the middle of a hundreds of years old napoleonic war battle, as the version of himself that turns into a semi-truck. Hundreds of years ago. And he appears to… have a cannon sitting on his shoulders Seriously, not even the prop designers gave a shit about this movie, this is quite possibly one of the worst blockbuster films in existence. In cinema history, this might be the worst one ever.
I don’t know how I never noticed this, but... How is Megatron himself in this movie when he was Galvatron in the previous movie? As for Nolan, start with Memento!
I think it's because "Galvatron" was suppose to be the artificial reincarnation drone. But since Megatron infected the "Galvatron" bot with his own mind or whatever, he basically just remained Megatron.
From what i gathered watching these a couple years ago. There were parasites with megatrons consciousness or some shite. Which gave galvatron his memories or something. So galvatron could just be megatron cause hes one of the weird transformers
I would say perspective? But I’ve only seen this movie once and I was just taking the piss out of it. So it’s most likely a very obvious continuity error.
@@dubbingsync 100% the second seeing how this entire 5 film franchise is just one big very obvious continuity error. With them having no clue what has happened from one movie to the next.
I felt at one point that Michael Bay was trying to make the young girl the "hot chick" in this movie. And I was like "oh no...". Then the British lady showed up and I was like "oh no..."
I was 14 when the movie came out, and I remember me and my friends thought she was in fact the hot chick of the movie. And her interactions with the other kids still suggested that too. Currently, I feel like she was a sort of “hot chick, but, for the younger audiences, ‘cuz children love sexual characters in their movies, right?” And I have no idea what would’ve gone through the producers’ minds if I’m right.
The train wreck that is the Transformers movie franchise is the only movie franchise where they changed the history and premise of everything in each sequel as they went. I hate the TF movies. Utter garbage.
Right I was forced to see the first one in theaters and Ive had such disdain for the franchise ever since. Thanks to mr sunday for turning something I'd never want to touch with a ten foot pole into something incredibly entertaining
They need to stop trying to make the story "deep" and just make it a fun movie about alien robots tbh, I sure as hell didn't come to the movies to watch humans fuck around
@@AB-pg1mi The XMen movies aren't nearly as bad. The problems started with First Class which felt like it was supposed to be a reboot, but then DOFP tied it to the originals. After that I think they just accepted how screwed up the continuity was and stopped trying to fix it instead just making everything stand alone.
I kinda enjoyed the first one, I also really like the design of the robots. But as movies they are not great. I also think the robots gets to little time to grow as characters.
Transformers: The Last Knight - Sequel to Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur Pacific Rim - Movie with Transformer like robots. The connection: the blonde haired demon that is Charlie Hunnam. Somehow, someway, Charlie Hunnam is the key to the Transformers Universe.
14:07 that shot was filmed in my hometown of Gosport. You can see the Spinnaker Tower in the background in Portsmouth. However in this film it is implied that the submarine museum is in London. IT IS NOT. The Submarine Museum is in Gosport, Hampshire. South Coast of the United Kingdom.
Honestly the most enjoyable parts of the movie for me where Sir Anthony Hopkins, I love that man and at least he looked like he was having a good time.
I saw this in Theaters and I was waiting for you to talk about how HORRENDOUS the aspect ratio was on this movie! I genuinely thought my theater had messed up at first and then realized it couldn’t be that, Michael Bay stopped caring so much that he just let it go.
That last sentence about Bay letting it go - am I the only one who thinks that Arrival to Earth and ..erhm.. Frozen's Let it go is kind of similar? Must be chord progression or something like this
Something I found in this movie is how it always felt like there was a scene missing. Like in dreams when you start in the middle, but applied to a movie where characters, tech, establishing shots, nothing that introduces anything exists. That friend of Cade’s says _”I found Optimus”_ when there wasn’t a scene that showed that. It just had Optimus and that guy running through the hill
This movie was on at my house while I was doing housework and i hear my dad say "It must be embarrassing for an actor of his caliber to have to act like that" So naturally I wanted to see which high caliber actor that transformers somehow got because they got some real high caliber actors.... ...it was mark Wahlberg. Lol what the hell. It was the scene with the baby dinos in the junkyard.
Bay really heard for so many years straight how his movies were just awful because if the writing and the shitty camera work. And every movie it just gets worse 😂
@@calebmurphy9406 Oh, believe me they are criticized. Bay's problem is he uses his signature style of pretty angles, highly dynamic motion and lighting, and loud colour correction, which is good for action and establishing scope, but he uses it in virtually every shot, for which most of the time they are hugely inappropiate in some way or another, even for simple storytelling, because he's a tone-deaf simpleton. It therefore becomes headache and/or vomit-inducing. TL;DR: The only thing in his toolbox is a hammer.
I remember when he said "It doesn't matter how much it sucks. You'll still go pay to watch it." And what's hillarious is that every transformers movie got worse and made successful and Bumblebee (which wasn't made by Bay) failed and made the least amount at Box Office
The bayverse just doesn't care about transformers. The Knightverse does. That's why they're so in the background. They only care about human characters. Not our favorite robot heroes or villains
Yet to start the video, but I'd just like to say that this film felt like I was having a brain haemorrhage when I was watching it, like it was physically painful in how bad and disorientating it was.
I'm glad I stopped watching this franchise after the third movie, because I feel like watching the next two, especially this one, would make me dumber.
I heard someone said that if you were to show a person from like 40s a modern day movie they couldn't take how fast paced it was and would probably die. Now imagine what these movies would do to those poor souls.
Anthony Hopkins and Cogman best part of the movie. He seemed to have the time of his life in this movie. Loved how crazy he was, and hearing him cursing, flipping birds at police, taking part in the final battle shooting Megatron then flying through the air in slow-mo😂 Only Michael Bay could do all that. Bet that with any other director with the script he had before Bay started shooting, he would just be a stoic, bland character just being there for the check. In The Last Knight he certainly brought insane amount of energy and joyness I don’t think i’ve ever seen from Hopkins. Also he called Bay a genius.
I saw this in the theatre when I was very overtired. I was slightly irritated by how terrible it was until around the third act where I started cry-laughing at how terrible it was. I couldn't stop for the rest of the movie. They were just falling out of the sky for like 20 minutes in the final fight and it was hysterical.
Gen 1 Hot Rod grew from a narcissist to super-empath in less than two hours, he was an inspiration to not give up on self and others and was a great new character to refresh the series. Where would the franchise be if Prime didn't die?
"[starscream] is treacherous in the cartoons, he's very loyal in the movies." THANK you idk what the hell they were doing with him. like they didn't have time to do the backstabbing thing? so he's just kind of a whimpering Igor-like character? but he's not even coy he's just like 'aw megatron you're in rough shape ):' very genuinely LMAO. smh kind of a waste of charlie adler but at least we got steve blum in tfp recreating that voice in a much better starscream.
In fairness, outside of the more lightheart cartoons it's hard to take a constantly treacherous character like Starscream seriously, it just makes Megatron look like an idiot to why he even allows someone like starscream around himself so much willingly (and in the original animated transformers movie, Starscream nearly kills him by just simply throwing him out in space.) I say what could've made him work is that he was seemingly loyal for most of the movies, but in the last movie or second to last movie as soon as it looks like Decepticon victory is seemingly ensured like in dark of the moon Starscream stabs him in the back to take over the Decepticons himself and shows his true motivations like what the first episode of Transformers animated did in it's first episode. But Megatron recovers and once he encounters starscream again he’ll make sure he is punished in the worst ways possible that he wished he was dead.
@@brandonlyon730 counterpoint: I wanna hear whiny Cobra Commander as a red and silver fighter jet robot constantly sniveling "But, Megatron.....!" The Decepticons were woefully underserved for not having anything close to personalities, even with the still pretty sub-par Bay interpetations of Autobot personalities as measuring sticks.
@@brandonlyon730 i mean yeah!! i believe in the bayverse comics starscream is apparently a teacher of some sort? i'm of the mind that while g1 is great, its pretty doofy and maayybe we shouldn't rely on it quite so much for character traits. or, the singular trait g1 characters tend to have, heh. anywho, i like the idea of teacher starscream whose less deceptive and more 'i'd knife you, but only because i'm tired of war and want it over with.', but like most things bayformers any potential intrigue gets coated in a fine, greasy film of explosions and screaming. i also don't mind him just. being loyal? but bayformers just bungles everything so.
In the first movie, I believe you can carefully watch Starscream shoot out a bunch of fighter jets, then transform into a fighter jet, and *then* shoot Megatron in the street. Then in the second movie, it was other Decepticons revived Megatron and not Starscream. The old cartoon did it better but the movies kind of hinted at Starscream not liking Megatron
Oh boy, as much as I’m looking forward to the boys talking about Prestige. I’d love to hear Ben’s artsy take on it. Man, I love hearing him analyse a movie.
I remember watching this in the cinema where by the time the 3rd act started and Bumblebee was trying to remind Optimus who he is that I felt the film had dragged on for too long and was genuinely no longer interested in the plot . When we left, my sister suddenly asked us, "Did anyone else get bored as the explosions started?" and a bunch of people (not in our group) suddenly started mumbling their agreement.
@Straight Busta Michael Bay is a money machine for Hollywood execs. That's why he keeps getting movies to directing. Even if his movies are garbage (Bay movies pre Pearl Harbor, we're OK and Bad Boys 2 was fun), he makes them on time, under budget, and he has 0 issues filling them up with product placement while pandering to the Chinese market.
Yeah what the hell, we see the autobots come to earth in the first movie set around 2007 but somehow Bumblebee was a nazi in the 80s? And what's with Americans and always needing Nazis to finish any stroy line damn
@@ProxyDoug my bad my memory of this movie is hazy, you're right he was only a soldier but still he was supposed to arrive in 2007, this movie went rogue and did it's own thing lol
CountJoe1 you're right. Before he accepted it he described it as a stupid toy movie I meant his idea of comedy and character interaction. As soon as the first line where Merlin says "I'm sozzled" I knew it was going to be terrible. The first line
@@stethespaniard2 he wants ppl to go to the theatre and not take things too seriously. There is already enough seriousness and terrible things happening in the world. He makes a giant blockbuster with big robots fighting end of the world, as well as it being light and having a lot of jokes and famous actors going completely over the top. I love that, and I think people are too harsh on Bay. The TF movies by Bay brought in 4.5 bn dollars. More than all of Snyders DC movies, more than Pirates series. So certainly people went to the theatre no matter what shit they say. I have bought all these movies in 3D and 4K, and let me tell you. These movies looks and sounds AMAZING. shot with 3D cameras, not post converted like most other stuff. These are showdowns of some of the best looking CG live action movies ever made. And it is so infuriating that ppl don’t even bother to mention that, and are cought up in superflous things that aren’t so important. And large scale action/battle sequences is another thing Bay is a master at delivering, DOTM and TLK final hour beats anything Marvel or Dc have brought to the table. Period. And that is why these movies are in fact great. Go watch the editor, Bens praising of Transformers.
@@believer4002 I’m not watching anything about this shit. If you like them great but I do not. The first was okay but they just got worse and worse. I kept seeing them because I kept thinking it can’t be worse than the last one but every time it was. I’m a huge transformers fan and what he’s done with it really annoys me. Yes they look good but the characters are terrible. The dialogue is terrible. The comedy is terrible juvenile and most of the time straight up racist or offensive. The plot is the same every time. This is a civil war between a whole planet of beings and being light and full of jokes only takes away from what really should be serious
@@stethespaniard2 since they go so hard on violence and the aggresively macho tone troughout, I think they feel they have to compensate with adding humour since this is aimed at kids. But most of the humour is really a lot of R-rated stuff anyways so… but if you seriously say you’re a TF fan, I don’t get how you doesn’t like Dark of the moon. That movie is legitemately terrific. One of the best action movies of the decade. That last hour in Chicago. No other director could give you you’re ticket’s worth as much as Bay with that brilliant display of spectacular sequences like the tilting building, Optimus flying and shooting at Driller, last showdown between Optimus/Sentinel/Megatron. C’mon if you say you’re a «fan» I expect you mean you’re a fan of G1 and so on, don’t say TF3 doesn’t bring you some joy. I totally get you disliking TF2, 4 and 5. but 1 and 3 are great TF movies and action movies in general. When Bay is focused and commited like he was with TF3, it proves why he is the best choice for a movie like that.
This Transformers series deserves the rank and title of Caravan of HOT Garbage, just a parade of dumpster fires being rolled down the street for all to see.
I've never seen this movie, but I laughed so hard at this I almost want to. The Cogman part really had me going. Great work as always, Ben, Mason and Mr Sunday Movies! And special thanks to The Touch edit by Matt. Wow.
I remember these movies being bad, but the barrage of every single one being reviewed over an afternoon has made me realize how bad they actually were. I appreciate you guys suffering through all of them. This has been a lot of fun watching this series. I laughed, I raged, I yelled, and I might have cried. Lol.
@@HouseholdWheel Anthony Hopkins character said that he was the last of the Order of Witwiccians. Sam was part of that order. If Anthony Hopkins is that last one, that means Sam died. tfwiki.net/wiki/Order_of_the_Witwiccans
@@ProxyDoug holy shit theres an Actual Reason? Im amazed there is an explanation, both that the film actually thought through, and that you payed it enough attention
I was pretty forgiving to these movies having liked them as a young lad but when Prime just straight up forgets Bumblebee spoke in the first movie, I was so done with them
My dad took his class on a field trip to watch this movie and asked if I’d like to tag along. I agreed. Halfway through this video, and I genuinely can’t remember some of this shit.
I'm torn between this and Red Sparrow as these were the only films i almost walked out of...but RS was just kinda boring, this was an absolute clusterfuck!
@@Enzombie Personally, given a choice between those two and these last two Transformers, I would rather watch Age of Extinction and The Last Knight; I guess I just prefer 'boring and nonsensical' over 'annoying and nonsensical' lol
