The Most Messed Up Transformers Movie

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[@jclombardi8471]

In a franchise filled with absolutely batshit insane moments, Optimus publicly executing Sentinel with a shotgun while he begs for his life is certainly up there.

[@flaveragejoe5076]

The wording of this comment has me cackling

[@michaelm5542]

I mean... Sentinel wasn’t gonna stop, he had several chances... bearing in mind Megatron had ripped his guts out already, so was already in pain. But yeah, not the best idea in concept.

[@GoddoDoggo]

@@michaelm5542 Considering they're robots, the filmmakers could have just "deactivated" him or had him "power down" or something, but they made the active decision to show him kneeling and begging for his life as our hero, Optimus Prime, sets a shotgun against his head and blows his robo brains out. With robo blood effects.

[@alenor210]

I still can’t believe that Optimus Prime, the goodest of good guys, fucking ripped Megatron’s head and spine out of his body and then shot a man in the back of the head while he begged for his life.

[@Qprah]

@@alenor210 Not only that, he ripped Megatron's head and spine out of his body less than a minute after Megatron saved Optimus from being executed himself.

[@Harmonmj13]

Fun fact: the scene where Megatron sits in the Lincoln Memorial is lifted straight from the original cartoon, except in the cartoon he just lifts Lincoln out of the chair whereas in the movie Megatron pulls a John Wilkes Booth

[@cadethumann8605]

Ironically, like the assassin, he doesn't live much longer after desecrating Lincoln. I bet as his head was ripped off, Megatron thought of his body as "Useless..." Lol. Sorry, I was trying to be somewhat clever. I guess I was not.

[@murciadoxial8056]

@@cadethumann8605 another bit of irony is that megatron got shot in the head on the same side as lincoln

[@TokuWaffle]

A few other plot elements are lifted from the cartoon - for example, the Autobots being exiled by rocket, then being thought to have been killed by the Decepticons was from Megatron's Master Plan (although in that episode, the intended method of killing was to program the rocket into the sun).

[@tomgu2285]

@@TokuWaffle the cartoon is of course smarter

[@TokuWaffle]

@@tomgu2285 wouldn't say smarter, but it is better.

[@jeebus2313]

"What if he's actually like really racist?" It's funny you say that, actually, because in one of the tie-in comics for this movie right before he kills Ironhide (or after, I don't remember) he says something about how he never liked his "kind", since Ironhide was mentioned previously as essentially being a different sub-type of Cybertronian. So in other words, yes, Sentinel Prime is racist.

[@sheena1521]

Robo racism

[@GatlingHawk]

@@sheena1521 “Clanker”

[@callous2k486]

@@GatlingHawk nice Star Wars reference

[@existential_narwal9257]

hes racist because he shot the black transformer

[@RoyalDoct]

Yeah but I mean there's also that one moment where he decides to enslave the entire human race to rebuild his own race in the movie so...

[@rockyraccoon24]

i love how the entire second half of this video is just Marcus literally shaking in his seat with laughter while Dan stares with wide eyed disbelief at the movie’s bewildering series of events.

[@gibbysan123]

My favorite thing about this movie is when my friend's sister asked, 100% genuinely, if they had to rebuild the city after filming it. She was a full grown adult

[@froddobaggins]

Damn, your sister isn't too bright is she

[@BeeEmpress]

What did you tell her?

[@TheShanicpower]

Is she also your nephew?

[@michaelcarter3149]

Unfortunately there are a very large number of people who are truly dumb. There's a channel called Fleccas Talks that occasionally goes out and asks people extremely basic questions. Granted it's only showing the wrong answers, but holy shit it's horrifying. If you ever think you are stupid, just watch videos like that.

[@normak7041]

Funny thing is that in 2 movies we find out they didn’t and Chicago is basically Chernobyl now

[@JMMF698]

I always love the speeches optimus prime gives at the end after brutally murdering the decepticons

[@KRYPTIC05]

They deserve it…they’d do the same to him 😂

[@star88wars]

Yeah like the other two movies ends with a long hopeful monologue and this one just fucking ends. Like the bad guys are death, the end. Now leave the theater.

[@flowersinawasteland]

Optimus: “We must stand as symbols of hope for this planet” 5 minutes earlier: * rips out someone’s spine *

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Optimus Prime: “Peace and justice will always prevail. We must work towards building a better future, not just for ourselves, but for all who will follow in our footsteps.” Also Optimus Prime: **fucking executes a defenseless non-combatant in cold blood**

[@Transit0422]

Pure Giga Chad energy

[@Jagorim_Jarg]

I've been trying to tell my friends for YEARS, this movie is one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I'll still never get over Optimus Prime, hero and role model for kids for decades, walking into frame and boldly proclaiming "We will kill them all" while pumping a shotgun. Also I always tried to imagine how brutal these kills would look if they were humans, I'm glad Marcus picked up on that.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

This is certainly one of the films ever made

[@superxavxii421]

G1 Prime is what he should be tbh, Bay Prime is a fucking Mortal Kombat character, lol

[@Jesse-xg8rk]

@@superxavxii421 I still love them both for who they are, it's fun seeing a childhood hero engaging in some ultraviolence now and again

[@chrishardin9774]

@@superxavxii421 you mean the same Optimus who slaughtered every decepticon and went straight to kill megatron when autobot city was ransacked

[@aname6771]

I really wish we got to see the reaction to Optimus brass knuckles

[@Vinthechad]

Transformers 3 is honestly the most violent PG-13 movie i can think of. There's so many deaths where it makes you question "how did this get pass the test screenings?"

[@tmac731]

Yes when I first watch this in 2011 I thought it should’ve been rated r. Even if they are robots lol

[@arnathan1792]

There’s even 2 f-bombs in the movie

[@sunvaroya]

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 just stepped in for the title

[@JohnWall-lj1mx]

You can get away with the most violent shit imaginable if you make the things getting killed robots megatron getting an axe lodged into his face then having his head removed with his spine attached would bump the movies rating to 18+ if he were a human

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

Robot lives don't matter (In the eyes of media and entertainment)

[@Cryster99]

Corporations expecting people to keep going to work while the population gets vaporized is the single most realistic part of this movie

[@fupoflapo2386]

Insert hobo Santa

[@my9thaccount140]

Similar shit happened on 9/11. Some people didn’t leave the second tower after the first one got hit.

[@lorenzogarompolo8074]

@@my9thaccount140 WHAT.

[@Anthonyfpm20]

They were “essential” workers lol

[@nickthepick8043]

@@Anthonyfpm20 I was working at Walmart RIGHT when Covid started happening. This feels too real. I stopped working for them a year ago.

[@abemrofchak]

Nothing makes me happier than being able to wonder "is this the one where Optimus Prime executes someone begging for mercy"

[@kildaver]

There can be ONLY ONE!

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Good thing the Geneva Conventions don’t exist in space, otherwise this movie would be a lot more fucked up

[@leonrussell9607]

And then rips off megatrons head while he attempts to start peace talks

[@littleredruri]

@@leonrussell9607 that is really funny actually

[@linusekstrom272]

I love the way Marcus laughs at the grotesque robot violence, like the movie really did make him go mad

[@kennorcott7074]

Not just laughter. Full on hysterical laughter

[@paddyestrella]

Big up the guy who had this reuploaded for months, we won’t forget

[@superxavxii421]

Fr, he was a warrior

[@movieblocks9164]

Its very weird how optimus always calls them a "peaceful race" when they were literally an isolationist slave state that was genociding the low class cybertronians.

[@thesolidestsnake]

Up there with Carbombya

[@xninewxw7559]

Ccsnt believe they made trbansformer polfitical

[@ikematthew3306]

so basically the british empire

[@destiny5282]

IKR the plot of transformers is literally WAR.

[@nickasaro8789]

Optimus is pretty much parroting Autobot propaganda.

[@scottbecker4367]

"They voted for Optimus to leave, and he did." Now I'm imagining Optimus standing on the launch pad yelling, "This is democracy manifest!"

[@doclouis4236]

"Get your hand off my Penis." - Michael Bay Optimus Prime

[@pcrana1]

"get your hand off my rocket!"

[@robertborland5083]

@@pcrana1 "What is the charge? Eating some steel? Some succulent, low-background steel!?!"

[@NaskaRudd]

@@robertborland5083 Your comment has brought me to literal tears. My sides are aching imagining that line in Optimus' booming bassy voice

[@twitchybristles]

"Ta ta, and farewell - ", as the Decepticons shoot down the shuttle.

[@SuperHalofan64]

What's funny about the ending of this film is that apparently it wsnt the original ending. The novelization, which is based on the script at the time, ends it with Optimus only killing Sentinel, and not only he is more conflicted about it, but him and Megatron even decide to end the war with a truce because they are both just done with the fighting. There is even a little jab at the usual characterization of Optimus when he goes "unlike you, I wont kill someone who is looking for peace" when Megatron tries to goad Optimus to try killing him for a moment.

[@frozenlizard3370]

Why couldn’t we have that movie?!

[@OldBuggaboo]

@@frozenlizard3370 yeah I would've liked that too

[@ltb1345]

@@frozenlizard3370 I wish.

[@glendian]

@@frozenlizard3370 The Novel ending was accidentally leaked, so Michael Bay and the crew scrapped for the ending we got in the movie

[@accidentalmadness1708]

@@glendian that happens way too often.

[@ericwheeler7705]

I mentioned this video to a friend yesterday by talking about how crazy the War Crimes were in this movie and we were both surprised that "War Crime" wasn't just a Decepticon's name lmao

[@tozarkt9805]

That’s be so fucking funny if that’s how Decepticons were named, just after abhorrent moral atrocities. Like ones called Ethnic Cleansing and the other is called Holocaust

[@superxavxii421]

Honestly, this is a good TF name. Lots of Transformers are just two cool names but together. (Ironhide, Blackout, Cliffjumper, Knockout, etc)

[@JacobHillSBD]

In the Transformers franchise as a whole all of the best characters have committed several pages worth of war crimes, especially in the comics.

[@ltb1345]

That should be Flamewar's new name if Hasbro loses the copyright, lol.

[@ddstudios2148]

Optimus was really out there like " we did it Patrick! We saved the city!" As like three buildings collapse behind him

[@alexanderguerrero347]

To be fair they saved the world all for the price of Chicago.

[@jackmclean4120]

Like he's made so many people homeless

[@Master10k2]

@@alexanderguerrero347 I say that's a good trade :P

[@DaLatinKnight]

@@Master10k2 Chicagoans just minding their day: this is the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals. Thanks Optimus for making our crime rate go up by 5% by including cybertronian war crimes

[@kingslayerx1716]

@@alexanderguerrero347 that’s a steal if you ask me

[@connerdearing]

The scene of Optimus quietly picking up a gun while the old robot begs for his life unaware and Marcus’ reaction has me losing my mind

[@jwroot]

Marcus' reaction was what officially got me man!🤣

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

Ok

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

​@@jwrootok

[@Indigo8899]

glad to see them watching another movie knowing how much they truly love this series

[@kennorcott7074]

If they don’t do all of them riots shall be had

[@Bfyobrian12]

Same, you have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for another Transformers CVH

[@yurifairy2969]

the last two movies are fucking miserable

[@bryansantos814]

@@yurifairy2969 so are the first two

[@katiewatie2458]

@@bryansantos814 i think thats what the meant by "the last 2"

[@HDRodger]

God this video is easily a 10/10, so many hilarious quotes: “We’ve been democratically voted off the planet” “There are no days off in Megatron’s regime” The Decepticon being ripped apart like the demon from Smiling Friends People’s clothes lying around like they were killed by Cell Truly a classic.

[@BrabusTKR]

best comment!

[@JoboVT]

"I know who can help us my old boss he's just a little racist"

[@pitaalfereti58]

"What is this.... GHOUL"

[@Msobama]

“Soldier you are just good enough to be super spy!”

[@williamcatala154]

Also, “He’s a warmongering car man!”

[@spinyslasher6586]

In this one movie you have: 1) An entire city getting destroyed and its civilians massacred. 2) Robots getting publicly executed by firing squads. 3) Robots dying violent deaths, like getting their heads blown off from bombs in their eyes, getting torn limb by limb etc. 4) Optimus just decapitating Megatron and then domes Sentinel twice in the head as he begs for his life.

[@CallsignYukiMizuki]

Based

[@PakuTheMagnificent]

Mind you that the entire city gets demolished over the course of like 6 quick cuts. Like half of the movie is this akward expositional slog and then before turning into its own trailer for a minute and the entire city of chicago is leveled lmao.

[@FreshlyXpyr3d]

The OG ending was Optimus Prime making a truce with Megatron and they helped re-construct Cybertron. Lowkey sounds like a better ending

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

He doesn’t just decapitate Megatron; he violently digs an axe under his chin and uses that to rip his head off vertically. Like, holy fuck.

[@spinyslasher6586]

@@_somerandomguyontheinternet_ Along with his spine.

[@handsomelyerin]

sam's mom's delivery of "it reminds me of bumblebee... if bumblebee were a sad piece of shit" is genuinely funny

[@TheGabrielryu]

Hot take: Sam's Mom is actually pretty funny in a ironic way through out all the movies she's in

[@whiterabbit75]

Kinda sums up the whole series.

[@Batchall_Accepted]

That's cause Julie White is a great comedic actor and is doing the best she can with the dredge bay writes for her I wouldn't be surprised if she improv'd that

[@IndorilTheGreat]

​@@TheGabrielryuI like your profile pic. Great game.

[@springaj299backupchannel]

@@TheGabrielryualso want to add, Sam’s mom > Charlie’s mom in terms of humour

[@confusedcabal342]

It’s honestly kinda sad how badly the movie turned out, the original draft actually leaked a few years back and had things like Megatron actually talking with Optimus about how far they had both fallen before teaming up with with him to try and save both planets. It’s a shame we’ll never get to see how that story panned out.

[@JimBobJoeB0b]

I mean, the movies *are* being rebooted (starting with the Bumblebee movie), if the people behind the movies smart enough and caring enough, we may actually see something like that!

[@domL2507]

This was a actual good movie

[@RealestKinga]

Didn't the Decepticon faction originate from transformers who wanted to abolish an oppressive caste system that put the value of a life on the usefulness of their alternate form? I mean ok the conquering thing is bad but casteism is fucked up broh I wouldn't be rooting for the Autoboys too easily

[@confusedcabal342]

@@RealestKinga that’s how it was in the IDW continuity, things are a lot more vague in the bayverse.

[@honest_126]

@@JimBobJoeB0b That movie was awsome, using more orginal designs and had a first scene straight out of war for cybertron.

[@youngblood6281]

I still can’t get over the fact that Optimus Prime, a cartoon character made to sell toys to children, tore Megatron’s head off with an axe if it were God Of War, and then proceeded to blow Sentinel Prime’s head open with a shotgun as he was begging for mercy…. This franchise is wild

[@spikespiegel1754]

Prime went for the double tap let's not forget.

[@GenericProtagonist118]

_"Well I'll be, a booby trap that actually catches boobies."_ _"There he is my little guy, he is so cute."_ _"Give me your face."_ *~Optimus*

[@mr.ballergaming7755]

To be fair these aren’t the cartoon versions of negation and sentinel they have murdered thousands and was bout to end life to human so I see Optimus as just cause he didn’t start out this brutal it was progression

[@JinxTheLooneyToon915]

"Wild" is a compliment this days, my good buddy.

[@brookejon3695]

​@@mr.ballergaming7755 What is wrong with you? Do you not know what writing is?

[@andregarza5224]

Marcus losing it at Optimus shotgunning the bad guy to death is everything.

[@pcrana1]

The zoom on Optimus grabbing the shotty at 26:29 kills me every time I see it.

[@illastratorr2001]

Marcus dying of laughter in the end was genuinely the most funniest thing I've experienced in a while

[@superxavxii421]

The zoom in on Optimus picking up the shotgun sent me 😂

[@mrBluesky1986]

Truly the best part of my day😂

[@jupiterblitz9205]

The “They killed Geppetto” had me on the ground wheezing.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

"This movie thinks it's Sicario" is another good line

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

Fun fact: Original ending had Sentinel dying in combat, with Optimus and Megatron agreeing to a truce. The decepticons leave to rebuild, and autobots officially call earth their new home. Seriously, it was even in the novelization. But I guess Optimus' bloodthirst was too incredible to be ignored

[@godzillakaijuboy]

The novel got leaked, and they decided to change the ending at the last second

[@transformers_quotes5738]

“Oh, I read this in the book, this is the part where they make a truce.” *fifty seconds later* O_o

[@Whineanddine52]

Fun fact, Laser beak is an actual Decepticon that acts as Soundwave's pet/friend. He is extremally loyal and acts more like a bird and doesn't talk in the original series.

[@Zap_Master99]

There’s also his golden brother Buzzsaw

[@mrprogamer96109]

Another fun fact, in the OG marvel comics, Laser Beak once ran the whole Decepticons after a power play for leadership. then started the car wash of doom.

[@ltb1345]

Laserbeak is terrifying in this movie, but cute in the cartoon lol.

[@ltb1345]

@@mrprogamer96109 That was actually Ratbat, another casset-bot.

[@captainbrexit6730]

@@ltb1345 No, Buzzsaw is a genuine golden version of Laserbeak. He's just so unknown. I literally only found out about his existence through Transformers Devastation

[@bloodyraptor6251]

26:33 Holy shit, Sentinel's lips actually quiver after hearing Optimus' one-liner

[@alexjimenez5878]

"NO OPTIMUS!" was so funny and Marcus's reaction had me violently laughing and crying at the same time. Everyone is just a psychotic murderer

[@mgarchivearchive9776]

Same 😭🤣

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

I don't know why, but everyone in the Transformers films slowly devolves over the course of the series into a bunch of violent psychopaths, and I think this film was the tipping point. It's such a weird trend for a franchise to take, especially for fucking _Transformers._

[@bizuko2307]

@@halfmettlealchemist8076 I think the specific moment is when Optimus Prime shows up and says "We'll kill them all" as the Autobots pull a decepticon apart.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

@@bizuko2307 That moment was such a fucking fever dream to witness

[@prow6]

Violently laughing and crying? From that? Man I’d kill to feel such EXTREME emotions from something so… unremarkable like you’re able to

[@andreocasio6098]

Fun fact originally this movie was going to end with a truce between optimus and Megatron and Megatron would go back to cybertron to try to rebuild it but that ending got changed because a listing for the comic adaptation spoiled it months in advance

[@rocketman1614]

That sucks man that ending would have been dope

[@tmac731]

Cybertron was destroyed

[@storybookstone7318]

I don't often laugh out loud whenever I'm alone; But Marcus saying "What is this.. GHOUL" took me tf out LMAO

[@Crimson.Creates]

BRO SAME

[@selinaw.9751]

same XD

[@TheVirtualObserver]

Marcus singlehandedly made 'ghoul' one of my favorite words of all time with his pronunciation of it. 😅

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

​@@Crimson.Createsok

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

​@@selinaw.9751ok

[@soandsogaming7498]

Fun Fact: This is Leonard Nimoy’s second transformers movie he’s in. He played Galvatron in the 1986 animated movie.

[@Jesse-xg8rk]

That's awesome, that man was a gift to the universe

[@zzeroara9511]

i wish he could've played Galvatron in the bumblebeeverse...

[@slaveownergaming]

He's also Michael Bay's cousin (though marriage)

[@doemdirty2061]

Watching Optimus blow Sentinels brains out while he's begging for his life always make me laugh hysterically. It's so ridiculously out of character compared to other incarnations of him,Micheal Bay turned him into a remorseless sociopath and I love it.

[@Pranaynaynay]

Same with Megatrons line before "what would you be without me" had me so ready for like an optimus/Megatron fighting together scene but then optimus just slices him in half lol

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

My favorite part is when he's fighting Megatron, Starscream, and Grindor in the forest and he yells at the top of his freaking robot lungs: "I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" That's definitely the Optimus I remember from the cybertron cartoon I grew up with lmfao

[@doemdirty2061]

@@SeviathTheHumanDrago that scene lowkey went hard lmao. Wasn't it " I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON" though?

[@michaelm5542]

@@doemdirty2061 it was, only in the fourth one did he really start saying it.

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

@@doemdirty2061 Yep, my mistake. There's another instance where he shouts what I said but its against a horde of decepticons. I think it's the fourth movie when they retrieve the dinobots for the China battle now that I'm thinking about it.

[@aarcade6676]

If it helps to encourage you guys: while the transformers movies do get worse and worse, the later ones also get *less* racist.

[@captainbrexit6730]

Bumblebee's really good though

[@margotpreston]

@@captainbrexit6730 Compared to this absolute trash? Maybe, but that is not a high bar to get over.

[@bethanychatman9531]

Wow that's a very low bar. It would've just been great if the toy movies weren't racist to begin with.

[@barkley8285]

Who gives a shit about racism. The newer ones suck

[@spinosaurusaegypticus8341]

unfortunately they get more pedophilic which is ... Something

[@GamingwithRambofreak]

"You know what would be really cool? A movie about Optimus Prime" said every Transformers fan ever and yet they still won't give it to us :(

[@superxavxii421]

Still holding out hope for a Prime origin

[@Vinthechad]

We got a Bumblebee movie, so i hope we get one off of Optimus Prime

[@tfuniverse1651]

@@superxavxii421 The best bet is the animated Cybertron film being made about Optimus/Orion Pax and Megatrons friendship so hopefully that is basically that.

[@korinthegrimm5538]

I just wanna hear Peter cullen

[@NUCL3AR991]

I think they are scared they will ruin his character if he has more than 30 mins of screen time

[@ehhg9]

The transformers fandom as a whole has just accepted these movies are over the top hilarious garbage so it’s nice to know no one is getting offended by these videos

[@fupoflapo2386]

Yeah because it's amazing and I love it

[@Blue-Apple-fc9eo]

@@fupoflapo2386 Why do you have that profile picture?

[@fupoflapo2386]

@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo why not. It's great wouldn't you agree?

[@Blue-Apple-fc9eo]

@@fupoflapo2386 Sure.

[@stevenmark4407]

Dark of the moon and the first one isn’t garbage

[@johnofark]

14:22 he is actually, in the DOTM comic adaptation, Sentinel remarks that he "never really liked (Ironhide's) kind". In the movie's prequel comic, it's explained that Ironhide was a "Thetacon", a kind of tribal Cybertronian.

[@Guy_on_Youtube]

You mean "robot Aussies"

[@beebeesbakery3146]

So he's robot racist

[@demetriusean]

Robot racism is crazy 💀💀💀

[@HeliosThor64]

Those comics do a way better job at telling the story than these movies.

[@johnofark]

@@HeliosThor64 So true

[@thetohoapologist4240]

How could another transformers film on picture show go wrong? Also lit seeing the new setup.

[@crystalin_N]

Sentinel: “All I wanted was for our species to live.” Optimus: *You’ve seen Old Yeller right?*

[@spencercox7931]

The "sitting on the Lincoln Monument" is actually a nod to the original cartoon, where Megatron did the same thing.

[@creed8712]

You’d be surprised how many stupid shit people call these movies out for are from the cartoons, like the mass execution of all the transformers and random new ones appearing with no build up or reason how they got there

[@santos8468]

Oh, yeah. The cartoons were terrible. If you try to binge G1, you quickly realize that every single episode is the same.

[@Starkiller-f6q]

@@santos8468 Beast Wars, Animated, and TF Prime were good though?

[@santos8468]

@@Starkiller-f6q I don't know

[@T-REX-KNIGHT]

@@Starkiller-f6q I love prime. And the reputation of those you mentioned are goid

[@monsterjambrony]

Marcus: "How is this going to end?" Optimis: "Time to find out." Those two clips fit perfectly together!

[@faroffgrace5490]

6:17 Thanks for pointing this out! He's a background character in so much stuff. One show that I saw him in was Chuck, and he actually got a speaking role in the finale lol.

[@theweiser5792]

What’s his name?

[@SabeFett]

I’ve always noticed this guy in stuff too and he’s always been “That background kid in Spiderman!” Glad to know I’m not alone 😅

[@bbrbbr-on2gd]

They did that Super Bowl ad with him too.

[@anthonysegoviano8446]

I’ve noticed him on Nickelodeon shows, Spider-Man, and this movie. I remember thinking why is he in all of these movies? And he always got like a shot all to himself or that he was a very primary focus on

[@DoubleU159]

Chuck 🥺

[@trev9168]

I love how they don’t point out how the so called hero immediately murdered the one who saved his life. It’s hilarious.

[@sadchild9478]

Most transformer fans gloss over that too. It took me a while to realize it to honestly.

[@kingslayerx1716]

“So called hero murdered the one who saved his life” yeah. The “so called hero” who saved earth 5 fucking times because the “one who saved his life” tried to destroy it 5 fucking times.

[@trev9168]

@@kingslayerx1716 for all he knows megaton has a change of heart and decided to be a good guy.

[@kingslayerx1716]

@@trev9168 he’s been fighting a war for millions of years I’m sure he knows Megatron for who he really is.

[@DestroyerApollyon]

The Decepticons also literally are just trying to go home. After a millennia long uphill battle against fascists, saving his old friend and betrayer, Megatron just gets his head pulled out by him.

[@manofsemantics7936]

My favorite part of Transformers: Dark of the Moon is when Optimus kills the Decepticon helping him, and then double-taps a begging old man with a shotgun.

[@alexanderguerrero347]

He hates Megatron and does it because Megatron wants a truce not peace. He wants to fight later on and kill others in the process. In the second movie when Megatron wants to sacrifice Sam for the matrix. Megatron says what’s one life for our people. Optimus calls him out on his shit and says you’ll never stop at one and knows Megatron is dangerous. That’s why he kills him when he can. He knows he’s full of shit. He kills Sentinel for betraying him and killing ironhide

[@mattiasandersson8693]

He watched zombie land . Always double tap

[@matt-fb3mq]

@@alexanderguerrero347 ah yes, revenge. truly the best reason to murder your prisoners of war. there's a BIG difference between stopping the bad guy, and fucking executing him in cold blood.

[@edb4ll165]

the worst part is the the CGI in these movies actually looks really good compared to current marvel VFX

[@superxavxii421]

Yeah, TF movies always looks great with their CGI. It's always the story and character designs that fall flat on their face.

[@liaminator4950]

Its not like theyre making 10 transformers projects a year

[@leaffinite2001]

Must be the military propaganda money

[@leaffinite2001]

Actually as i think about it thats probably largely because marvel keeps trying to put cgi on ppl, while these movies use the cgi almost exclusively to create entirely cg robots that only ever look like robots or like, inanimate objects. Its gotta be way harder to make convincing cgi nanobot armor or whatever

[@edb4ll165]

@@leaffinite2001 Very true, and whenever CGI is layered over people in these movies it looks a lot worse so I guess they just chose to avoid that as much as possible

[@jakemitchell1132]

I’ve said it before, but Dark of the Moon is a guilty pleasure movie for me. It’s a C+ movie for me. The first half is absolutely awful, but once the freeway chase scene happens, I thoroughly enjoy the chaos from there on out.

[@a.c.slater7989]

The second half in Chicago was super hyped. The human stuff with Sam was mostly the letdown

[@mario167100]

It looks like the writers just wanted to have fun, so he just started writing whatever.

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

Tbh I’m fine with most of the first half

[@JD-jz5gu]

I’d say more like a B on regular movie standards but in terms of entertainment it’s like an A

[@kingslayerx1716]

I’d bump it to a B. It’s like the perfect popcorn film

[@movieblocks9164]

The fandom's reaction to bumblebee was like if someone was being starved for 30 years straight and then got fed a little stale mcdonalds french fry. How much can you really complain?

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Hey now, don’t diss Bumblebee like that. It was a pretty great movie/soft reboot for the Transformers films.

[@JoshuaIfidi]

@@halfmettlealchemist8076 eh, great is pushing it

[@gamemediafan1714]

@@halfmettlealchemist8076 to basically explain Bumblebee's continuity: The movie was originally being developed as a prequel to the Micheal Bay Transformers movies. After the financial underperformance of Transformers the Last Knight, Paramount decided go rework the movie into a reboot of the franchise.

[@vedpatil2353]

bumblebee was derivative but at least it was earnest

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

Bumblebee is that movie you love the first time cause of the Cybertron scene, but then the day after you struggle to remember anything else beyond that point

[@franciscoaguilar2597]

Optimus in G1: *Hesitates in killing a Decepticon pleading for their life, as he values lives of even enemies to a degree* Optimus in Bayformers: *executes a pleading Decepticon without hesitation*

[@kingslayerx1716]

And that’s why I’d rather follow bayverse prime

[@aleximusmagnus]

Sentinel was too dangerous to be left alive. He deserved to perish after causing the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Chicago and not to mention he brutally murdered Ironhide.

[@exquisitecorpse__]

@@kingslayerx1716 Behold, Kingslayerx17: The Lord-of-edge.

[@kingslayerx1716]

@@exquisitecorpse__ a leader who is willing to kill is much better than a leader who isn’t

[@jwroot]

But Sentinel Prime is an Autobot

[@my9thaccount140]

I wish they brought up the parts where Starscream dies after somebody sticks a spike grenade in his eye and the standard anti-transformer strategy used by infantry is sniping out the eyes so other troopers can blow off their legs. This movie is a fuckin war film using transformers and I kinda love it.

[@bl4ckw1ngz64]

screamers death was low key my favorite action scene even tho it was clearly written for Sam to look cool

[@superxavxii421]

I was hoping for that too, that death was morbid but funny considering that Screamer got killed by two fumbling humans

[@ltb1345]

Kind of a fitting death for Starscream.

[@alimations5226]

I imagine they react to it in the Patreon commentary

[@knucklejoe26]

Funfact! In the novelization of the movie, Megatron basically has enough of the war after beating up Sentinel and Optimus DOESN'T murder him in cold blood and they stop the war.

[@ngultrum1]

That was actually supposed to be the film ending, but test audiences disliked it. So it was changed.

[@Blue-Apple-fc9eo]

@@ngultrum1 probably because the test screen audience didn’t watch the original transformers.

[@God_gundam36]

@@ngultrum1 lol wait so test audiences hated it because prime went for PEACE instead of MURDER?

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

I thought you were going to say that Megatron has enough of war then Optimus Prime murders him anyway.

[@adonysmunoz4786]

@@ngultrum1 no it was because amazon leaked the ending via the comic adaptation, so michael bay rushed to reshoot the ending.

[@SuigaRou]

I remember seeing this movie in the theater. I walked out of that building feeling like I had just been through a lobotomy.

[@NeoNovastar]

This is the kind of shit they'd play for Alex when he's getting Ludovico'd in A Clockwork Orange

[@donovanfaust3227]

Why would you go see this voluntarily?

[@SuigaRou]

@@donovanfaust3227 I was a young fool.

[@PatrickBoyda]

I'll give this one a modicum of credit, the line "On Cybertron we were gods; but here, they call us machines" is raw as hell

[@matthewletexier]

Man it's weird to see an actual set for Cosmonaut. I remember when picture show first started, it's been deceivingly long since that all started

[@filipvadas7602]

Optimus in literally any other version: "We are a peacefull race , but we will fight if we must." Bayverse Optimus: "Your free trial on life has expired."

[@markibash2689]

Actually it’s the same idea. It’s a planet invasion he’s going up against. When has that ever not been brutal? The avengers were justified after raiding thanos’ home after the infinity war ended, just to then decapitate a defenseless and wounded thanos right on the spot. You can complain about war crimes all you want, but when talking about a planet invasion, that stuff is irrelevant. Also, tactically speaking, Optimus has admitted that his autobots were “overmatched and outnumbered”. The fact that the decepticons themselves also commit “war crimes”, the autobots should might as well give up at that point because there is no cartoon speech Optimus can give to win the war

[@zombomb1900]

@@markibash2689 I don't think the autobots needed to decapitate one of their species limb from limb to kill him

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

*”We will kill them all.”*

[@theblueone_14]

“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings…. that I deem worth of it”

[@commanderdragco3123]

After millions of years pf fighting i would do that to my enemy too

[@ZombieOwlYT]

Honestly having these two lines by the same person in the same movie is hilarious. 2:20 and 20:47

[@Ricekrispy10]

To be fair, he did say "we were once," not "we are currently"

[@ZombieOwlYT]

@@Ricekrispy10 true but it's still pretty funny

[@Vinthechad]

OP: kill them all Me: *imsorryWHAT?*

[@BDLabs2]

It’s called… “cHaRaCter DeVelOpMenT”

[@Twenty-Seven]

The hilarious part is that every time he said "Is that John Malkovich?!" The character _did_ slightly resemble John Malkovich

[@l_rob420]

Optimus is always like “yeah Cybertron used to be peaceful” but Cybertron has always been shitty

[@StickWithTrigger]

Cant have shit in Cybertron

[@LrdGalvatron]

As someone who unironically love these movies, watching you two tear into them is still entertaining and hilarious. Idk how yall do it

[@gabrielrodriguez8019]

Dude I’m exactly the same

[@Nowhats]

Im not gonna like i was lowkey sad they were tearing this one up because i thought this one was the good one out the whole franchise. Damn i didnt know how dumb it really is😭😭😭😭😭

[@polrusstomakriss9001]

Exactly 💯😊 it was FUCKING rad and Awesome

[@polrusstomakriss9001]

@@Nowhats Yeah same here, because my brain be off on airplane mode

[@LrdGalvatron]

@@Nowhats I think this one is the best too

[@austinamestoy2112]

You know, I unironically think this is the best film in the series. I kinda love it

[@littleserote546]

Agree everyone D riding these guys hard

[@shoto42]

Idk, age of extinction went kind of hard

[@blarghinatelazer9394]

The first one and this one are the best, 2 is just kind of a mess. Except for Optimus tearing The Fallen apart.

[@ltb1345]

Dark of the Moon is unironically the best out of the Bayformers movies. An actually sympathetic motive for the villains (wanting to revive Cybertron), plot twists, dark tone when things get serious, etc.

[@krypticunlimited6925]

Honestly had the best action for sure. Just skip the first half

[@octopancake_YT]

23:30 “optimus is stuck in the web” had me dying laughing for a good five minutes straight

[@DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993.]

I love that they just turn into full on war criminals for absolutely zero reason. They're just there and lay water to a whole planet just because

[@TheWinjin]

"The Badgers! They are the Badgers! They are the ter-rorr-rists and like to eat bab-ies!"

[@MCUHQ]

14:22 “what if he’s like really racist” Sentinel proceeds to kill the only black autobot

[@FrostyCapy]

In the comic version he actually says he doesn't like Ironhide's kind. So he actually is racist 😂

[@blackmanhere5063]

@@FrostyCapy not only that he killed skid and mudflap which at the time they was black

[@nickasaro8789]

Optimus: we were once a peaceful race. Also Optimus: violates the Geneva convention 80 times in one movie.

[@stinkybuttrat]

It's crazy that there is like... an underlying narrative here that would be super compelling if it wasnt such a fucking insane batshit psycho movie, about how idealism can be turned into radical fanaticism and how you can lose yourself in the horrors of war and how the innocent are always the first to suffer.

[@FelisImpurrator]

[cocks shotgun] WELL WE FUCKING AIN'T ANYMORE. 'MERICA, FUCK YEAH.

[@alexanderguerrero347]

To be fair by this point Optimus is tired of Megatron. Like Optimus realizes letting megatron goes means future battles so he chooses to kill him to end it.

[@line4169]

@@stinkybuttrat bruh you're just describing Attack On Titan!!!

[@stinkybuttrat]

@@line4169 I havent watched in a long time, I think I stopped once Erin turns into a titan or whatever, at the point I stopped the message seemed like, "sometimes shit is scary but when there is an existential threat you have to be brave and stand up to it"

[@comicalpeculiarity6174]

Shout out to the dude that had a re-upload posted whilst Marcus fought hard to get this re-published

[@FelisImpurrator]

Hey, Laserbeak is actually a real name. I'm still incredibly assmad about the fact that Jetfire basically just killed himself to give Optimus Prime a jetpack, which he used once and threw the fuck away. Like, when he gets the flying thing in later movies it's completely unrelated and he just has a totally different jetpack. Man, Optimus is such a dick in these movies.

[@AlisterTate]

I love that Marcus calls Epps “Roman” in these videos, literally might as well be the exact same character. Same universe. Vroom vroom shooty boom.

[@bl4ckw1ngz64]

I wish Epps did do car fu, Lennox gets to do his stunt on the bike in the first movie

[@trevorwhiteboy2649]

26:18-26:59 is the hardest I’ve ever laughed watching a picture show, and probably during this entire year

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

Same

[@Me-wx1mt]

*"NO, OPTIMUS, PLEASE"*

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

@@Me-wx1mt *”HE SAID ‘NO’! 😂🤣😂💀”*

[@Me-wx1mt]

@@_somerandomguyontheinternet_ lmao just their reactions alone was so funny

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

@@Me-wx1mt agreed.

[@Enixgeek]

26:30 I've been watching this movie since it came out. I don't think I could describe how unintentionally funny this is without sounding like a sociopathic madman.

[@TheSchaef47]

11:41 "it's the chicken from Moana!" poor Alan Tudyk. I love him so much, and he keeps ending up in stuff like this.

[@THAT_GUY119]

26:29 had me dying for 10 minutes i just kept rewinding it. Possibly the funniest picture show I have ever seen keep up the good work men

[@sebastiansuazo2734]

I still think until this day centinel was asking for mercy in vane but man..... Seeing optimus picking up the shotgun as he says that kills me, its open to such a wrong interpretation xf

[@THAT_GUY119]

@@sebastiansuazo2734 fax 💀

[@ashleybrooke2087]

This is actually how I watched all of these giant robot movies: with my guy friends taking the piss out of them the whole time so thank you for this. I'd never watch them otherwise. As for all these recognizable actors in this one, I don't blame them for getting that Michael Bay money while it lasted. Also, that "this is stupid" @13:41 with that expression & tone of voice was exactly my attitude.

[@kingslayerx1716]

How is it stupid?

[@The_Viktor_Reznov]

Taking the mature high ground because you refuse to watch a movie lmao

[@ashleybrooke2087]

@@The_Viktor_Reznov I've seen most of them. They were just more fun with my friends' commentary because they are just silly popcorn movies.

[@ashleybrooke2087]

@@kingslayerx1716 Ask him. He said it.

[@thehoodpinch7364]

@@The_Viktor_Reznov You can take the moral high ground when the movies in question are made by Michael Bay, who has no morals.

[@TheatreJosh24601]

In regards to the plot operating on "nine-year-old" logic, yeah, that's deliberate. A lot of the major plot points apart from Sentinel Prime being a traitor (the Decepticons convincing Earth to banish the Autobots, destroying the Autobot ship as they are leaving, taking now-defenseless humankind as slave labour, and transporting Cybertron into Earth's orbit) are pulled directly from episodes of the 1980s cartoon series. Specifically, the episodes "Megatron's Master Plan" and "The Ultimate Doom." Even Megatron sitting on Lincoln's throne is a nod to the original cartoon. Honestly, I find that to be a breath of fresh air into the films. It feels like the start of them making at least some effort to evoke any of the lore from elsewhere in the franchise. Of course, by the time _The Last Knight_ comes around, it devolves into utter incomprehensibility.

[@kingslayerx1716]

This movie had a ton of foreshadowing as well

[@tomgu2285]

@@kingslayerx1716 yep.

[@ltb1345]

Funnily enough, I watched this movie before I watched the original cartoon, so I retroactively got a lot of the references after watching the show.

[@nickmoore6861]

if the transformers movies taught me anything it was that killing prisoners of war is the right thing to do.

[@davidstinger1134]

It's the most practical thing to do, honestly, they are just another mouth to feed.

[@cheffftv1868]

Sick new set Love the vids man been watching for 5 years now, basically all the way through high school with my final year coming up in the next few weeks Love you so much keep doing what you do ❤

[@WSendam]

❤️

[@SilencedP2P]

Ive also been watchin that long bro!

[@vorpalweapon4814]

.... dont remind me

[@alexicology]

same here!! except all during college for me! onto my last year of uni now and i always rewatch old vids hehe

[@georgeealien]

"They can't re-build without a slave labour force" - Shows Cybertron re-building itself automatically - Shows the Decepticons massacring people in Chicago for no reason - Not a single scene of the Decepticons actually capturing humans to be used as slaves - What re-building would humans even do on Cybertron? Can humans even survive on it? It doesn't look like it has an atmosphere.

[@awkwardpo9186]

I just love that Optimus is supposedly all about peace but is an absolute fucking psychopath when he fights lmao

[@alien4292]

You know, I can appreciate a protagonist who has no chill when it comes to killing his enemies but when that character is Optimus Prime… maybe you shouldn’t have done that

[@TheWinjin]

Not only enemies, also former-ish enemies who come to save you from the brink of death, and stone cold executing another enemy after that!

[@alimations5226]

I agree that Optimus shouldn't really kill people. But honestly killing isn't really a horrible thing in this series, they're in a war after all, it's fair game. But they have Optimus murder these people in ways worse than a slasher villain while screaming about it, like Optimus you have a gun just aim for the head and be done with it

[@frozarburst6350]

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings," Optimus from the cartoons and comics "We will kill them all," Optimus in Bayformers

[@kilochampion787]

My mother was downtown at a coffee shop when they were filming this movie in Chicago. One of the guys working on this movie entered the shop and asked some of the people if they wanted to be extras in the movies. She didn’t end up doing it, but it’s a pretty cool story to me.

[@TheBat007]

Glad to see transformers making a comeback in this series lol

[@commando6683]

I can’t wait to see their reaction to Age Of Extinction and The Last Knight

[@fritothedemon6647]

The bit with the robots tearing that one apart with the smiling friends cut in actually made me choke on my food

[@killanelle]

the "they fly now!" references had me SCREAMING laughing

[@umbraz2840]

26:31 To this day i just cant get over how Optimus didnt even bother to listen to Sentinel's speech. He just IMMEDIATELY reaches for the shotgun, no remorse at all. He basically went "Yeah yeah keep talking, ive already decided you're seeing hell today"

[@jobascantu3510]

Marcus summed the franchise up perfectly in the first transformers video: “we are simply war mongering cars”

[@ihavenoideas8984]

The "NO, OPTIMUS!" will never fail to make me giggle like a little kid

[@gskate117]

6:20 this dude has been the biggest mystery to me for years. His name is Jesse Heinman and hes one of the most famous background actors, or most recognizable BAs.

[@Girlthatgotsweeptbybarrons]

its so funny to me that being an extra is like almost nothing for actors its not flattering at all but this guy found a way to get his fame

[@Crimson.Creates]

6:26 "What is this...GHOUL?!" made me laugh way harder than it probably should have.

[@superxavxii421]

And to think that "Ghoul" was supposed to be a character named Wheeljack. Wheeljack is an mad scientist but bay was just like "let's just make him Einstein and call it a day".

[@Crimson.Creates]

@@superxavxii421 like, Michael Bay looked at the mad scientist with the Brooklyn accent who turns into a race car, and went "we can do better than this," and proceeded to create the most haunting abomination in the history of cinema.

[@tatersalad76]

**THE DEAD SPEAK INTENSIFIES**

[@MrHoll87]

I was THIS CLOSE to walking out of the theater during Shai's meltdown scene. I was kinda glad I stayed though cause the battle in Chicago was dope. Wild movies man.

[@kingslayerx1716]

What? That scene had my entire theater laughing

[@ltb1345]

Dude that scene was peak comedy, what are you talking about?

[@MrHoll87]

@@ltb1345 How? A full grown man screaming and throwing a literal temper tantrum like a legit man baby isn't peak comedy to me. It's not even comedy at all. Somebody needed to take out back behind the shed and bend him over their knee and make sure he never behave like that again. What are YOU talking about?

[@MrHoll87]

@@kingslayerx1716 The theater I saw it in was packed and literally no one was laughing.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Fun fact: I’ve never seen this movie, but I have watched that one edit of the final battle where Sentinel tries to get Optimus to say the N-Word approximately 50 times by now. It’s one of my favorite videos on KZbin, and it wouldn’t have existed without Dark of the Moon, so I guess Michael Bay’s Transformers have technically had at least some positive impact on my life. So there’s that. Also, Marcus are you okay? You look more and more dead inside every time you do one of these Transformers watchalongs and I’m getting concerned

[@glibchubik4090]

Link plz

[@diegopalma7484]

Absolute banger of a video

[@superxavxii421]

That video is a classic

[@phillipjohnson8903]

I'm glad someone finally acknowledges how fucked up those robot deaths were.

[@murica7095]

War is fucked up

[@gren442.]

well they do have a war and we know what happens in war

[@julianjpantoja4603]

OMG IT'S BACK

[@DarthInsomnis]

This is the most and hardest I’ve seen Mark laugh probably ever

[@hyperdrone453]

6:29 saddest thing about this “creature” is it’s supposed to be Wheeljack

[@9dragonsguy]

I have such fond memories of crying with laughter in the theater with that final kill as a teenager Thanks for bringing it back

[@MediaLoverChris02]

Sentinel: “All I ever wanted was the survival of our race” Optimus: *cocks gun* “cool story bro”

[@MSTUD10S]

“We used to be a peaceful race” proceeds to shoot multiple warheads at the enemies.

[@williamcatala154]

Dan's "What?" followed by Marcus's "WHAT?" when Mr. Chang pulls out his guns is amazing.

[@flytrapYTP]

25:33 - DECEPTICON SIMPS, FIRE AT OPTIMUS.

[@Vipernatural]

But sire our troops

[@jameschapman2782]

Congrats on winning the Paramount war!

[@thelastknight6519]

ONE PIECE MENTIONED, LET'S GOOOO!!!!