Transformers 5: The Last Straw

We reached the end. The end of Bayformers. There is a reason why this was the last one.
Transformers: The Last Knight was meant to jumpstart a new universe, and instead it crashed and burned. It is truly a baffling experience.
Twitter: / hubpointless
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
04:45 Failed Plans
07:12 The Plot
11:10 The TRF
13:30 Cybertron
15:20 The Decepticons
21:52 England Times
27:17 The Bayformers Lore
30:38 Back to the Plot
33:56 Failure of the Fifth

[@biraptor6205]

Sam dying off-screen is like, the opposite of 'Somehow, Palpatine returned'

[@repulser93]

Sam dying off screen and his offscreen break up with Mikaela help you realize that Palpatine line isn’t so ridiculous in proper context.

[@merphul]

Sam dying off screen is all he deserved. The character did not warrant wasting film time to explain how/why he died. He's basically the equivalent of making Jar-jar a central character. No one asked for it, no one wanted it, no one cared for it. We just want to watch robots fight.

[@Venom3254]

​@@merphulThat's an insult to Jar Jar

[@draketurtle4169]

@@merphulSam was not nearly as bad a character as Mr Er- oh wait different Yeager.

[@grantcawby7225]

"Somehow, Sam died"

[@ValueNetwork]

I was not expecting Cody to whip out the Downton abbey lore to explain a Transformers character

[@jiado6893]

I wasn't expecting the Dragon Tales theme to come up. Or for it to be associated with Nazis.

[@kirby7294]

This movie really lead to some unexpected consequences...

[@azultarmizi]

this video is a masterpiece, The worse the transformers movie is, the better the video will be.

[@merrittanimation7721]

The whiplash could break necks

[@concept5631]

​@@azultarmiziThen this is the peak of Cody's TF series.

[@lisboah]

If you ever think yourself as stupid or worthless, just remember that King Arthur had alien technology, giant alien robot allies, and a gigantic alien dragon... and he somehow lost England to the Saxons.

[@jackychan9236]

Maybe the Saxons showed up with their Saxony Prime or something......

[@solsoups]

​@@jackychan9236SAXONY PRIME

[@RyanBright-wg1yk]

@@jackychan9236 Shows up with their casually superior German engineering degrees and builds a mech out of wooden longships with the German Volkswagen Logo on the side where the Autobot-Decepticon insignia should be.

[@evanlight2550]

Either the Transformers got bored of Arthur and helped the Saxons or the transformers were shit at actually fighting in long term wars and got beaten by the Saxons. Somehow

[@yrnsmuke5758]

Yooo that transformers animation show was him growing up😂 I forgot about that show

[@EpicGhostShadow]

I'm more invested in this KZbin series than the actual movies

[@rusty7984]

I couldn’t even make it past the age of consent law in the 4th one but this series is how I figured out how the rest of the movies past 3 went and I’m glad I dropped it after Dark of the Moon

[@EpicGhostShadow]

@@rusty7984 same

[@ellipticallyambiguousone7875]

I have never seen transformer 4+ but thanks tho these videos I'm considering it 😆

[@EpicGhostShadow]

@@ellipticallyambiguousone7875 real

[@margarethmichelina5146]

​@@rusty7984The 4th one should be called: Transformers: Age of Consent and Welcome to China

[@sophisticautistic5453]

The autobots helping out Harriet in the underground railroad made me laugh harder than it should.

[@velocityxm]

anmwey 🤣🤣

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Starscream killed Abe Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was just a cover-up

[@MrDj232]

She probably needed them to punch out babies.

[@sophisticautistic5453]

​@halfmettlealchemist8076 there was no second plane! IT WAS STARSCREAM!

[@AnzelmK]

There is real risk that somebody in Transformer production team thought that it was actual railroad, and was picturing steam train autobot helping out.

[@LordyT34]

Gotta love the first three movies were about Sam and Bumblebees friendship and then Bumblebee doesn't care that he's dead apparently

[@astrowolvez]

Tells you a lot about their relationship.

[@merrittanimation7721]

Maybe Bumblebee is the one who killed him.

[@MrMajorasmask101]

@@merrittanimation7721in lore, cemetery wind most likely killed him while trying to get to bumble bee.

[@TheeTroutKing]

your forgetting, he's not human, he is a soldier who has killed many and seen many friends die, and hes been smacked around... a lot. Also he was a sort of assasin in a sense.

[@tristanc3873]

Would you feel bad if Sam died?

[@The13thRonin]

"Rethink your heroes." Nah... How about... "Rethink your writing team."

[@kevin_aldo]

😂😂😂

[@bread2375]

Anthony Hopkins death in this movie is legitimately the funniest movie death I have ever seen, it is so ridiculously funny watching him get slow mo blasted and then megatron flying off in the background

[@toastergaming7783]

Gmod ragdoll ahh death

[@737215]

35:30 if anyone is wondering

[@archalys0]

​@@737215THANK YOU OMG

[@5Oblivion]

Optimus landing on Cybertron and exclaiming "what have they done to my world!?" is like Harry Truman visiting Hiroshima the day after the bombing and saying "who did this!?"

[@henkondemand]

It's all so random, the crash landing really did a number on the guy.

[@Meteorknite]

There were couple corrupt rulers and ofc bff megatron with him there too Hope the rulers dont forcefully give optimus matrix sending megatron into depression

[@Nebulous_Neuhaus]

*Hitler walking into Auschwitz* "Who did THIS?"

[@eyo8766]

​@@Nebulous_Neuhaus I SAID A GLASS OF JUICE NOT GAS THE [Redacted]

[@Windwalker88]

@@eyo8766 😂 "damn autocorrect!"

[@Kyuuwai]

I like how Optimus Prime just Heroically fly throughout the vastness of outerspace just to find their origin, and ended just freezing his ass on the Jupiter

[@walnzell9328]

Jupiter's got hands.

[@Apple_Beshy]

@@walnzell9328 Space*

[@MrREAPERsz]

He didn't even get halfway to Cybertron lmao. He was still near the sun too. Don't these giant robots prepare themselves to travel thru space???

[@dankerbell]

​@@MrREAPERszhe's traveled through space before as a protoform when he landed in the first movie, idk why he didn't do that again

[@merrittanimation7721]

“Guess I’ll die” -Optimus Prime

[@theZinator]

This movie feels like every scene had a different writing team and there was no coordination between them. One team wanted a cool Suicide Squad-style montage introducing the bad guys, the team for the next scene wanted the bad guys to get instantly curbstomped by the heroes. One wanted a ton of exposition, one wanted a humanoid robot voiced by the Downton Abbey butler, one wanted a scene with Evil Optimus.

[@Alex-cv2gi]

If you listen really closely during Optimus Prime's reactivation in Age of Extinction you can actually hear him say “No, No! Sam run!” Meaning Sam was there during the ambush and was then killed by one of the men in Cemetery Wind as Optimus Prime explained what happened later on.

[@luigiboi4244]

That would be absolutely horrifying if it were in a better movie

[@masterkiloren99]

I don’t know why I’m so invested in this series but I regret nothing

[@Solar_1011]

Same here, man. Same here.

[@chrisbanos1112]

So maybe

[@concept5631]

Same here

[@ShudderingSeagull]

Saaaame

[@mikewozawski1634]

Yes I love this whole channel but this is special to me

[@crytkryssus9851]

Prime really said: The plot armor will protect me in space. The plot armor did not protect him in space.

[@legendoflink0031]

I mean it kinda did though. The mf was back soon after that.

[@blueskiesj]

I honestly wish there were more batshit insane Transformers films so I could see more of these reviews

[@sonicrose8430]

19:29 I just want to take a second to acknowledge that VA’s golden line delivery of “WHAT!!!!”

[@liaminator4950]

Same as cosmo from fairly oddparents btw

[@Notlordstark]

I like to think Unicron would’ve transformed into a gigantic car floating in space

[@YouAreStillNotablaze]

Rhis comment alone made clicking on such a depressing video worth it.

[@jordannieland365]

We are going to have Moonfall in reverse.

[@triplet7788]

Turns into a damn military class 6 wheel hummer and makes an appearance in the new Mario cart..

[@YouAreStillNotablaze]

@@triplet7788 No just a regular mid -oughts 4 door sedan.

[@someonewhocommentsonyoutub3779]

Unicron: *transforms into a planet* Drift: I was expecting a giant car

[@tumulovermelho93]

I just realized something. Optimus turning bad and fighting Bumblebee was the movie ripping off the trend of heroes fighting each other from that era too. Like we had BvS and Civil War.

[@JoshuaG]

True , another thing they ripped off

[@zaynoonmoses]

So people can’t turn evil anymore like wow like why

[@DarlingMissDarling]

​@@zaynoonmoses lol you really posted that absolute tranformers 5 simpage for other people to see. Transformers _FIVE_ . That's actually impressive 😂👏👏👏

[@ironmaster6496]

i can't even use the nemesis prime card because they always were different characters altogether

[@ShockwaveFPSStudios]

If there’s one thing I’ll give BvS and Civil War this, at-least that they made it clear they’re fighting each other. I forgot The Last Knight had that fight scene.

[@dogeboi1804]

Decepticon *Gets sorrounded and about to blasted to pieces* Saul Goodman: Do you know you have rights? The constitution says you do and so do I.

[@macrussell78]

8:45 That is literally metal King Ghidorah and no force on heaven or earth can convince me otherwise.

[@Yeagerallday]

The real Ghidorah would've wiped the floor with everyone and also bows to no one.

[@matthewdavies986]

I love the bizarre English version of Arthur who is somehow English, speaks English, defends England and is surrounded by English flags. But is also fighting the people who established the kingdom of England, and who English is literally named after

[@pcenero]

Pretty sure they confused "king of Britain" with "king of England."

[@Maggot-Milk]

its the equivalent of saying the autobots helped the aztecs fight the spanish 😂

[@nbewarwe]

@@Maggot-Milk And the Aztecs are speaking Spanish and flying the cross of Burgundy.

[@concept5631]

​@@dpassch7God that would be a sight to see.

[@Maggot-Milk]

@@nbewarwe lol that's even better

[@Kingololz]

“Optimus is just… stupid” followed by Optimus’ corpse floating into the abyss has to be the best bit in the video

[@IronShocker77]

It's even funnier that Optimus froze in space because Megatron froze when entering Earth from space. Both are dumb.

[@wat5709]

Them frolicking through the field has to top it

[@jeremybasset9041]

I haven't watched these transformer movies but the 4th ending with Optimus taking off into space and the 5th picking up with optimus being a frozen scrap pile who couldnt even make it past 2 planets is so insanely stupid I just cant

[@DiamondNuts]

He went into stasis he didn’t die

[@UGNAvalon]

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8 Pretty sure Jesus Christ didn’t repent to me. 🤔

[@ARStudios2000]

That thing on the aspect ratios was something I noticed in Age of Extinction too. I thought it was odd that it kept happening, and I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who noticed this.

[@davidsavage5630]

That's only in the IMAX 3D versions of Age of Extinction (and Revenge of the Fallen to be fair). And it only switches between IMAX and Panavision the same as The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises on blu-ray or 4K. I have Age of Extinction on 4K and there's no switching. The Last Knight switches between three non IMAX ratios and it does it no matter how you watch it. At least it made sense how it was employed on Age of Extinction. I think Michael Bay was on crack when he made The Last Knight (for many reasons) because the ratio switching is completely random in it. It's insanity..

[@pearlstar5323]

@@davidsavage5630there’s an aspect ration change even more jarring than this in eternals. This doesn’t look as bad as that did but I didn’t even know this could be an issue.

[@stevemanos5770]

20:17 he has a vendetta against small doors

[@guidomista9565]

Transformers 5 is the movie version of going into a room and forgetting why you where there

[@three_frogs_in_a_trench_coat]

*makes movie* What...what was I making this movie for?

[@yacquubmohamed2451]

@@three_frogs_in_a_trench_coatkooo

[@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD]

TLK*

[@MellowMutant]

THIS 🤣🤣

[@spotlessmind9263]

...or becoming evil & forgetting you were evil

[@ajzmn3538]

The fact that Shia LaBeouf's characters keep getting killed off-screen is funny as hell

[@harveylong5878]

killing off ALL the human characters wouldve ben a bonus. we didnt want or need human characters eating up 80% of the plot

[@oddballskull1941]

What other movies?

[@ajzmn3538]

@@oddballskull1941 Indiana Jones, Mutt dies in 'Nam

[@Stan_Vanderakt]

He couldn't handle losing Capture the Flag to 4Chan repeatedly.

[@concept5631]

​@@ajzmn3538 Oh shit I just realized that. That's funny.

[@crizman7032]

apparently, in an early version of the movie, Cogman was supposed to be a "Headmaster", a type of cybertronian (or person in mechsuit) that can transform into the head of another robot body and can control it. This can be seen in one of his toys, where he has a car mode and is at scale with the other transformers, as well as them calling him a Headmaster in the movie.

[@jacksondavies3595]

The toys had more thought put into them than the $200 MILLION BLOCKBUSTER!

[@davidsavage5630]

You should read about the very earliest version of the movie so you can be as mad as I am that they chose to make whatever this is instead of that. Instead of being the worst Transformers movie it would have been possibly not just the best Transformers movie but maybe even Michael Bay's best movie. So of course they didn't do it..

[@sebastiancintron29]

​@@davidsavage5630 I find it hard to believe any version of this movie to be anything but dogwater.

[@gladiator_jayy]

I read somewhere that he was going to pilot nitro zues body after bumblebee killed him

[@luigiboi4244]

Could you provide a link or something?

[@EhFrank]

16:05 I've never seen this movie, but I came across a video a while back called "Best Modern Villain Intro Scenes", it had The Departed, Dredd, The Dark Knight Rises (Bane instead of Joker? Already questioning the choices), Inglorious Basterds.... and for whatever reason (the video didn't have any commentary or anything), the scene of Megatron listing off his "crew". That inclusion was so freakin' jarring and hilarious.

[@scottishthesanta]

The fact the TRFs hate the TRANSformers is so accidentally genius

[@marvelousball]

Megatron says trans rights

[@burninsherman1037]

Either someone on the writing team is a genius, or that's one of the best accidents in shitty film history.

[@leonrussell9607]

​@@marvelousballnow that is evil

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

According to the Transformers comic books (yes, there’s a Transformers comic book, go read it, it’s great) Cybertronians actually have no concrete concept of gender, what with them being artificially constructed, and many of them (including Arcee!!) canonically identify as gender-fluid. Make of that what you will. Edit: Welp, the transphobes found the reply section, gang, it was nice while it lasted

[@effluviah7544]

@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Cannot recommend the IDW comics enough. Especially More Than Meets the Eye and Lost Light. Hell yeah.

[@superbad8008]

I know nothing about Transformers, but seeing them inserted into historical photos like it’s a meme template is just as amazing as Moses using a Bayblade to split the Red Sea.

[@kira-dk2mx]

I'm keep forgetting that Metal Fusion still of Moses and the universe always makes sure to remind me. I still can't believe it.

[@PirvateerKurei]

That was a thing? I never saw Metal Fusion, but I'll be the first to say: I believe it. God gave Moses the Blade and told him to let it rip for Freedom.😂😂😂

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

​@@PirvateerKureiyou made me laugh out loud on a public toilet

[@flatcap957]

No he used a bakugan! Fun fact bakugans are actually transformers

[@tetraxis3011]

The Holy Bayblade

[@TrinsitCom]

I about died when he said, “1600 years later, Optimus Prime is dead”. That really summed up this slow motion train wreck of a bad “viewing experience” 😂 I just started watching this again, and re-experienced that line, and I found it just as funny today as I did a month ago. Bravo

[@thebatman7347]

"Your honor my client deserves a fair trial" Dreadbot: grrrrrr

[@chromo5687]

I like how fatigued he sounds. Like it really does sound like he watched all 5 and a part of his soul is gone

[@PunishedKrab]

He’s a true hero for doing so

[@bigbangrafa8435]

There's one good thing about this movie: Sir Anthony Hopkins was having the time of his life. I think they just told him where to go and when and then allowed him to do whatever the fuck he wanted to, and we all know he loves being crazy and weird in movies. After being a stoic and boring version of Odin for three Thor movies, he probably loved doing this one.

[@dfastillo]

And now we make him watch the 6th

[@kingswarthy]

I can’t tell if you mean Optimus Or Pointless

[@quynhphannhu7175]

​@@dfastilloit not really a 6 more like a 1, it the start of a trilogy in the reboot universe, it not connected to the Bayverse at all, it have new directors and visions.

[@c.kiousis3663]

Bayformers 6 would have DEFINETELY forgot that unicron is earth.

[@concept5631]

100%

[@Commander_Appo]

I thought you were saying that this movie said Earth was a unicorn

[@guggelguggel7491]

@@Commander_Appo might as well with incoherent this plot was..

[@CoraCreates]

@@Commander_Appothis is and always has been my favorite ever joke in any transformers media.

[@Albert_Lecter03]

Or funnier unicron gets amnesia that he is unicron and just refers himself as Earth because that’s what almost everyone refers it as lmao

[@DoomDogLazy7335]

Megatron's Real Job, Is Just Babysitting an Army Of Children?! 😂🤣😅 19:12

[@benpowell-punmaster1214]

I have an idea for how they could make Megatron’s “crew” more interesting. 1: Have them be in the actual movie for more than a scene. Have them be hunting the main cast throughout the movie. 2: Instead of making up a bunch of new Decepticons, why not make them the Combaticons? Onslaught is there, just add the rest. You can even have them combine into Bruticus for the final fight.

[@kaelumHodder]

The court scene for ‘how did they charge him’ had me dying haha

[@comixproviderftw_02]

“This gentle giant just bleeds out yet the demon monster gets a rap sheet.”

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

"Was there a trial? Did they give him an attorney?"

[@nathanpierce7681]

saul goodbot, representing his client dreadbot

[@guccifer764]

@@nathanpierce7681 “Hi, I’m Saul Goodbot. Did you know you have rights? The Allspark says you do!”

[@balsasjekloca9308]

​@@guccifer764"Until proven guilty, I believe that every bot, con, and protoform is innocent. And that's why I fight for you Iacon!"

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

The "robbing a bank, murder, double murder, triple murder, 9 dead, didn’t even take the money" killed me every time

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

I like how all of the murder convictions are listed like they’re separate incidents and not like they’re all referring to the same thing and also like the murderer wasn’t a fifteen-foot-tall metal behemoth who unloaded a plasma cannon into a crowded bank vault

[@d00gz_]

It’s completely out of place but that’s a really funny line

[@WhenGoatsWentBaa]

I still just find it funny that they refuse to release him because of that, despite the fact that most Decepticons have probably killed a lot more than 9 people for a lot less

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

@@WhenGoatsWentBaa This is an excellent point. Practically every single Transformer in the Bayverse at this point has gone through the Geneva Convention like it’s a grocery list, and yet it’s the guy who shot up a bank in a heist gone wrong that the military has moral qualms about allying with, while still being totally down to team up with _fucking Megatron._ It’s so stupid, and I love it for that.

[@KIager]

Maybe I'm stupid, but murder, double murder and triple murder sounds like 6 people.

[@inabstract]

I just cant wrap my head around that phrase "Dont kill the messenger, or the messenger will kill you". I can understand "kill the messenger, or he will kill you". But... -Dont kill me, or i will kill you... wait what? 🤔 Im confused with this semantics lol

[@mattthornhill554]

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize the Cemetery Wind faction logo is basically the Outer Heaven logo with a little marine raider flair added

[@MaddogSamurEye]

Fun fact: Apparently Sir Anthony Hopkins had a ball filming TF5. While its a departure from all the best films he's in, the atmosphere, the crew being nice, and lax filming made it the most fun he's ever been in a production. He admits the film is a lot of shite once he got the final product, but he'll give anything to have what he had during filming for TF5 from the cast and crew.

[@javierpowell4705]

which makes the micheala qoute of bay being 'hitler' on set more hilarious

[@NounOzlos]

@@javierpowell4705 It's entirely possible that Bay treats the legendary elder actor and a young woman actor very differently, wouldn't you say?

[@creed8712]

@@NounOzlosthat’s true but we also know of the people Fox had to deal with within the industry I don’t recall Bay being on that shit list

[@greenstorm5568]

More proof that TF5 was just a load of f@#$ing around lol

[@redtoneredtone6592]

​@@creed8712I believe fox but anthony Hopkins is cinema royalty if he said that bay mistreated him then bay would absolutely get fucked

[@mumkeymaan4600]

The moment when humans in this movie decided it was worth recruiting the faction of Transformers who tried to wipe out humanity in order to hunt down the faction of Transformers who saved humanity… is the moment you realize humanity has no justified reason to live

[@storygirl747watts4]

That is 100% accurate and that is sad. I remember when I saw that part in the theatre. My exact thoughts were "Wait a damn minute. William Lennox, did you not spend a significant part of your military career trying to defend the whole ass planet from these shit heads?! Why the fuck are you working with them?! And why to track down the people who actually saved your life on more than one occasion?!" I was so angry I almost missed someone saying nearly the exact same thoughts out loud a few seats down from me.

[@jarlathquinn2628]

Silence heretic

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

😂😂😂

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

@@storygirl747watts4 😂😂😂😂

[@michaell8000]

And then he proves that yes he did drop any and all respect you could ever have for him back in the third movie by bailing out because a nerd back at base said 'we have the solution' I was genuinely just saying Optimus just go take your bots and get off the planet and let whatever bullshit going on happen seriously they don't deserve your help.

[@Connor-vj7vf]

33:46 caught me off guard with that one

[@obisvanainobis9950]

"Optimus prime is stupid". I cant help but chuckle at how absurd yet true that is since the plot got so convoluted and dumb just realising that now gives me a good luagh

[@Teeheehee093]

In Rise of the Beasts, Anthony Ramos character asks Optimus Primal if the Maximals built the temples in Peru and Primal says no and that ''we can't take credit for human ingenuity'', almost feels like a direct shot at how everything in history in the Bay films is the Transformers fault

[@Meteorknite]

Thats more sad than good. No transformers and human efforts the point was alien and humans making something

[@kevinp.h8655]

Ancient aliens

[@guggelguggel7491]

Tbf a lot of the reboot stuff feels like a dig at the Bayverse. Like how the bumblebee movie really focued on the human and bee bonding, and I got some Michaela vibes off of Charlie (young mechanic with parental issues) while her useless sidekick is a guy with a hopeless crush on her and they make a point of them not getting together at the end. (Edit) also the military is Not in on the Big Secret before everyone else and fucks up in a way that isnt simultaneously glorified. Rise of beast felt like an attempt at mixing the brutal and agressive Optimus with the classical type. Mirage bonded with a down on his luck guy having a hard time finding a job, he doesnt date the girl, the thing you mentioned about the robots not actually being behind human ingenuity... Its not a one on one, it feels like theyre trying to be their own thing, but it got little things that I feel like are meant to be a "we've improved" thing. Hopefully they dont go fully up their ass with self criticism/past shame. Though the Gi Joe teaser... I actually laughed in disbelief and then sighed in disappointed. Oh well. They want a cinematic universe. What else is new.

[@pablocasas5906]

Perhaps, but it's more likely because nobody wants to be reminded of that dumb Ancient Aliens show and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I think nowadays most people know that those conspiracy theories about aliens building the pyramids or other ancient monuments are pretty offensive

[@DIEGhostfish]

But that's not Optimus Primal.

[@StopMoshin]

Fun fact: Merlin was actually in the 80s cartoon for a one episode cameo where the autobots travel back in time to the medieval era, and Merlin is just there, and he is an actual wizard with real spells that he uses to help the autobots. Of course it's stupid but it was an 80s cartoon, that was to be expected, unlike this movie.

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

Idk him being an actual wizard who used actual real spells that work would have made this movie so much better

[@StopMoshin]

@@bruhbruh-us6gl I mean you ain't wrong

[@occam7382]

@@bruhbruh-us6gl, I actually found the idea of Merlin being this drunken con-man to be hilarious. It's one of very few things in this movie I actually get a shred of enjoyment out of.

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

@@occam7382 Maybe some enjoy it, but it’s a cheap and cynical joke in my eyes. It’s certainly more fun if he was an actual real wizard. Besides, the contrast between giant alien robots and old wizards is funny. Reminiscent of 40k, even.

[@HexCypherr]

@@bruhbruh-us6glgive zero explanation for it as well have it just be “Merlin is a full on wizard” it’s the 5th movie fuck it there’s a magic dude now

[@davidsavage5630]

I love that the Monsterverse is the only other cinematic universe that is working. I think people like it because it's made up for not being the financial monster that Marvel is by not feeling like it's shoved down everyone's throat 24/7. It actually fucks off every once in a while until it's got a new movie every few years lol..

[@GyroZeppel]

I will never forget the Bernie Mac line “if I had a rock, I’d bust your head bitch!” So hilarious, especially since he’s saying it to his grandma hahaha 🤣

[@springfnafreviews7476]

The thought of a decepticon possibly going to court is way too funny OMG THANK YOU ALL FOR 2K LIKES!

[@walnzell9328]

Imagine a Decepticon with connections to the Nazis decades later getting sent to court for bank robbery and being put in prison like a normal dude.

[@marley7868]

@@walnzell9328 honestly I'd wanna see that trial taking all bets how low till he's held in contempt?

[@electricfeverx976]

@@walnzell9328 The precedent they've set also made me wonder, did any Decepticon get tried at the Nuremburg Trials?

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

“Hi, I’m -Saul- Soundwave Goodbot. Did you know that you have rights? The Pax Cybertronia says you do. And so do I.”

[@MrREAPERsz]

It would've worked too if people weren't murdering autobots on sight.

[@RED-sl2le]

It took me 5 minutes to realize, this isn’t a new film that just came out last year. This has been out since 2017, and that speaks volumes.

[@rnpee]

I keep thinking the 4th movie was the one made in 2017, but no that’s this one. I feel old

[@merrittanimation7721]

It feels like this movie came out in like 2013 to me.

[@samuelpoulin8148]

Omg you reassured me 😅 frl I was like "wait... I've seen some of those images some years ago... I'm crazy or what?"

[@Thesavagesouls]

And that they released 2 more movies and one of them this very year.

[@betoh7140]

I legit thought this had just been released and I was completely unaware for days. Turns out I was unaware for years

[@Direwolf13PS3]

11:26 Plucky Scavenger girl alongside her little companion. Sounds a lot like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Rey's introductory scene might as well have been plagiarism.

[@macboi916]

As an edgy and depressed 9-year-old during the pandemic's infancy, my dad decided to put this movie on, and I was excited. I was bored af. I went off to the bedroom to do other stuff. That's how soulless it is.

[@skeletonlight2118]

Rest in peace onslaught all he wanted was a bigger door

[@sinistrality7883]

RIP Nitro Zeus, all he wanted was to fuck that one random worker's wife.

[@yocapo32]

@@oogabooga265 Every building in Cybertron is built to Prime size, and he kept hitting his head on the frame, and no matter how much he complained about it no one wanted to make bigger doors, so he joined the Decepticons out of spite.

[@Linki8uu]

@@yocapo32now I’m imagining that he’s just a really nice guy who’s terribly misunderstood and nobody cared about him so he just decided welp guess I’ll do it myself and started blowing up doors

[@The13thRonin]

He deserved better than this movie. It was a mercy.

[@artemisorwhatever9828]

@@yocapo32 Ironically, that would kinda fit the TFP origin story of the decepticons, if you squint at it a bit. Megatron was mostly gathering a political gathering based on the inequality rampant throughout Cybertron, which to some extent would probably include architecture not made with unusually-sized cybertronians in mind.

[@robertkarnick1286]

My favorite part of this movie is how the writers literally forgot that Megatron became Galvatron in the 4th movie

[@julianarwen]

Yeah, they don't even bring up how he's got a spark now (we're supposed to assume Quintessa gave him one, but it was cut from the script)

[@x_xnicko]

They even remember that Starscream's head just appears intact when his head literally EXPLODES IN DSM

[@shawklan27]

​@@x_xnicko I love how little the writers gave a shit about this franchise at this point

[@logicplague2077]

"Well, all I have to say is.....WWRRAAAAA!" - the writers, probably

[@signs921]

That was due to copyright apparently, the name Megatron wasn't used for a while during that period in transformers so they almost lost the name Megatron because of the animated aligned continuity Megatron was dead for all of RID15, galvatron in the movie, and I think there was little to no toy of him released

[@andrewoldham3675]

The whole bit about the Autobots being in the American Revolution helping out General George Washington is very batty. Was Bumblebee on the ship in the Boston Harbor, helping dump British tea during the Boston Tea Party? Was Ironhide riding with Paul Revere and William Dawes, warning about the Redcoats coming to Lexington and Concord? I actually would have been willing to watch a Transformers movie about that to see how that would have worked. I now all of sudden want to transport to an alternate universe where The Last Knight inexplicably became a billion dollar hit and we got that Bayformers Cinematic Universe just to see how nuts it would have gotten.

[@berserkerrex4411]

At 2:15 the drone looks like Darth Vader's TIE Advanced X1 and I can't unsee it now. And now neither can you.

[@thatnirvanatool6045]

The madman really went and reviewed past the 4th transformers movie. He truly has a mental tolerance far beyond our own.

[@DigiMaster236]

@@waxblast7528 Because he's referring to Michael Bay's transformers which is well and truly dead. Bumblebee killed it.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@DigiMaster236 Yes, but also no. Bay is no longer the director or creative lead, but he is still a consultant and advisor to the writing team. He said that he wanted to make sure the movies going forward stuck to his idea of what the world should be like. That's why one of the first credits in the opening of the movie is for Bay Films.

[@davisdf3064]

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio Even then, I'm glad he is not that important anymore because now, Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts has a soul

[@SJ9001]

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio Trouble is, this world is a bloated, incoherent, unimportant mess that changed its own rules on a whim even before TF5, and that was so bad, I dread the thought of a sequel. Why should future films have to be beholden to Bay's vision when his vision crashed so badly, they (rightly) retooled _Bumblebee_ as a full reboot? And how _can_ anyone make heads or tails of this world anyway?

[@treemannick2969]

RIP Onslaught, all he wanted was a bigger door. He remains in my thoughts and prayers every night 😢

[@BMH_cinema]

😂😂😂

[@wilhelmburgdorf9309]

honestly the decepticons in this movie were kinda just vibing, their goofy personality really made it difficult to root against them

[@SrRurik]

he found the biggest doors in transformer heaven

[@gem9535]

My mother loves this movie, and it just solidifies my theory that my mother just loves garbage movies. The more nonsensical and horrible they are, the more my mother loves them on principle. And before anyone goes "Some people like watching movies that are so bad, they're good," no. She doesn't acknowledge that they're bad. She genuinely thinks they're good movies, even when they're horrible. I watch movie reviews all the time, including of ones her and I watch, and she gawks and squawks whenever I watch one that criticizes one of the awful ones. She won't go so far as to say they're works of art, but she still thinks they're good movies, and I don't understand it.

[@TheProtronic]

The director of Mad Max: Fury Road would have been an epic director for these films. Hell, the dirt bike gang seems to be an homage to the Junkions.

[@TheRealWoopSlap]

I still think the dumbest scene out of the Bayverse is how Cade stopped a attack from one of the Guardians

[@julianarwen]

All because he had Exaclibur. Yup, that was supposed to be excalibur, but it's never referred to as such. ...and it's literally never used again after this scene.

[@mynameisabe446]

What pisses me off about that scene is how poorly edited it is. There was a low angle shot behind Cade with a good angle on him as well as the transformer knight swinging the sword. Yet, for some inexplicable reason it was cut in the middle by another angle of just Cade swinging the sword, all that did was break the moment. This was supposed to be Cade coming out as the Last Knight (lol) yet all I think is how poor the editing is.

[@Eternal_Sky_Universe]

it's on par with how Noah was able to hold Optimus and pull him in ROTB

[@a_wolf8889]

⁠​⁠@@Eternal_Sky_UniverseIn ROTB Noah had a full transformers armor so super strength is acceptable, but in that movie the guy just had a sword.

[@Eternal_Sky_Universe]

@@a_wolf8889Even tho he had an armor, he was still way too tiny compared to Optimus. Someone that small shouldn't be able hold Optimus while he was getting sucked into the black hole thingy. Like, we see Noah sticking his feet on the ground but he was holding Optimus before that. So Optimus just looses his grip on the axe but Noah was able stop Optimus from flying away with just one arm? I love ROTB but i can't excuse the bad writing in that scene "in that movie the guy just had a sword." I'm not saying Cade stopping that giant sword makes sense but in the movie, the sword that Cade used to block the robots attack was actually the excalibur

[@suenzhong7891]

Sam dying off screen was one thing (a bad thing) but having Lennox switching sides to hunt down the Autobots when he was a professional soldier who fought against the Decepticons alongside the Autobots and had Ironhide lived with his family at some point was just a a kick in the balls.

[@storygirl747watts4]

Thank you for saying this. Like this part of the movie really bothered me. I wanted nothing more than to kick him in the balls during the whole damn movie. As fucked up as it is, I can understand humanity doing this to the Autobots, but not him. I know I'd lose a fight to his character, but I would still try to fight and beat his ass for what he did.

[@theboyinthedark6521]

Can’t believe that

[@wes186]

Where do they mention the Ironhide thing? I don’t remember that at all.

[@suenzhong7891]

@@wes186 I honestly can't remember because it's been so long but I think it was in the comics/books tie in? Edit: don't quote me on this as I may be wrong. What I am sure about is that many TF fans back in 2007 said that Ironhide was the Lennox family guardian (possibly because Ironhide dropped Lennox off at his house and since Lennox is the other main human character besides Sam it just made sense that he gets a Transformer buddy too).

[@pz4642]

yes he was one of my favorite characters and i was just so confused

[@CassiusSharp]

14:39 yes we do get that reveal the Knights call her the Great Deceiver. I’m a 2010s kid was one of the few people who actually cared about the last as Transformers were everything to me

[@zacharyzeller7764]

Thank you so much for bringing up Prehisteria, it's been so many years since anyone recognized the movie that I genuinely wondered if I imagined it

[@Burgerboy]

I love the part where Optimus said: "I have come" and than he came all over the place.

[@retroicdescent]

Would have been a better plot than what was actually made.

[@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden]

So he announced he had finished before he ever started?

[@TheOriginalDuckley]

@@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_WaldenHe was holding it in for dramatic purposes lmao

[@The-Plaguefellow]

Transformers: The Last Nut

[@prashantteelucksingh2964]

Am what transforms where you watching

[@barsx7634]

"He's not even trying, and still manages to outperform everyone in the frame" Anthony was actually an amazing part of the film, it was so much fun seeing him and his sociopath transformer friend go insane on screen

[@blanco0949]

I remember being like 10 when this came out and dying at every single scene with them

[@user-jh5wt8lq9x]

​@blanco0949 You made me feel old I was 10 when I watched the second movie in cinemas

[@gamblorrr]

​@user-jh5wt8lq9x you make me feel old I was 13 when the first one came out

[@NordisktLejon]

@@gamblorrr oh you young whipersnapper, I was 14 when the first one came out!

[@novustalks7525]

They were genuinely hilarious

[@arandomnobody1725]

I thought sam died helping optimus but was killed by lockdown Because as soon as Optimus wakes up in age of extinction he yells “sam run”

[@ichaseiyoutube]

That'd be a suitable explanation.

[@biggerbonbon1921]

I feel the idea of the transfromers helping the knights sounds like it would make an amazing story if it wasn't done so poorly

[@davidsavage5630]

True to Hollywood, there was an early screenplay or something for this years ago that seemed about a thousand times better...at least on paper. So of course they didn't make that version. If they had filmed THAT script (called The Last Knights) it might have been the best one..

[@elite3254]

I once went on a walk with a friend and during the walk he gave me a 20 minute summary of this movie off the dome. I didn’t know it even existed, I legitimately thought he was messing with me.

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

I commend your friend for being able to do that.

[@Shane_-M]

“So Megatron goes to white army guy from the first three movies and asks him for some decepticons who are locked up in jail” “And then we find out that transformers helped humans carry out both the Underground Railroad, and the holocaust” Honestly you couldn’t make either of those up if you tried to

[@user-yf4gx9lw6c]

@@Shane_-M I mean you could make that up… if you took very strong hallucinogenic drugs.

[@Dave1507]

@@Shane_-M someone did though...

[@2nd3rd1st]

What are you, 60? Who at a Transformers watching age goes on walks with their friends lol 😂

[@felixalexander7399]

Coming from someone who lives in Chicago I can tell you right now that seeing construction on the city taking longer and somehow going backwards at the same time is the *MOST REALISTIC THING IN THIS MOVIE*

[@Billy-tn3ft]

Speaking of construction, you think it’ll ever end on the Eisenhower?

[@felixalexander7399]

@@Billy-tn3ft our only hope for a fixed Eisenhower died with the AllSpark

[@peep3298]

The Eisenhower has been under construction since I was a kindergartener. I am currently on my 3rd year of university and I’m pretty sure it’s still not done

[@patrickbasedman8532]

@@Billy-tn3ftholy shit i completely forgot about that

[@Elvusmiw]

The relatable aspect of the bayverse

[@wesleymiles8756]

I can’t stop watching this. The way you so elegantly yet simply rip this movie to absolute shreds is so entertaining.

[@willh3972]

My buddy and i saw the trailer for this while not having seen the prior movie, so optimus floating across the screen frozen solid with Hopkins saying he "left us" was both confusing and hilarious

[@katkratevideosgunner2137]

I love how this series has done ancient aliens better than ancient aliens itself.

[@AZ_sports_are_better]

W comment.

[@romanscum5678]

W comment.

[@ljjmac6983]

W comment

[@JasonSighn]

W comment.

[@floatingf8783]

This is. . . Requiem

[@kingbash6466]

I love how the Unicorn plot was pulled directly from Transformers Prime, arguably the best show in the entire franchise, and they somehow made it absolutely terrible.

[@davisdf3064]

It's incredible, they really found a way to absolutely destroy any plot put in their hands

[@Micheal.00]

Prime was peak transformers content

[@shawklan27]

That's the magic of Micheal Bay for ya!

[@aerickmon3350]

Prime is just the best at everything transformers Everything

[@PBart7]

Prime and Beast Wars are unironically peak fiction

[@jonhulsart]

the constant switching of aspect ratios is one of the funniest parts of this movie

[@MegaFireFlare]

Honestly part of me loves this movie for how absurd it is, it just dives off the deep end and watching it in theaters was like a fever dream I can never remember it as just one movie, it makes me think there are like three extra transformer movies in my brain

[@LukePowerstancedUp]

One of the things I love about this movie is how not only did everyone forget this wasn't the first time Cybertron was about to hit the Earth, but also Cybertron is way smaller than it was in Dark of the Moon.

[@user-qx8jo3ed9u]

And it has plants for some reason.

[@crimsondynamo615]

@@user-qx8jo3ed9ubeast machines flashbacks

[@moredac2881]

I thought I felt some deja vu

[@leewooboi]

⁠it’s smaller and looks like that because it got ripped apart after the Space Bridge shut on it.

[@didiportia1022]

😅

[@Howesenberg]

This movie being called a 'grease trap' of culture at the time is so spot on it hurts

[@saprogeist31]

Howesenberg! Fancy seeing you here. I like your videos.

[@Howesenberg]

@@saprogeist31 I'm a big fan of his. Good to see one my fans here!

[@RasnakJS]

Love your videos! Already watched your last of us one twice while at work.

[@21powah]

23:29 Hmm... I wonder. If these movies ever got sequels, would Cogman be revealed as a kind of compressed transformer? Like, he's actually way more massive than he looks and his deal is that he doesn't transform into a different shape just different sizes? He's awful small to put... the green transformer here in a hold like this so the hidden weight/strength could make this make sense? I dunno, I'm just spit balling. There's not a lot to grab hold of in this movie.

[@user-pv3rq5ib3y]

I really love that line bro " luckily we have ray from Star wars here" damn cool you roasted with this line

[@Tyberes]

Sir Anthony Hopkins being the only actor in this movie who feels like they're having fun tracks. From the way I understand the story the man went to his agent and said something like "I think my resume is impressive enough, I want to cut loose, go find me some absolute garbage"

[@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079]

dude just acts in garbage movies as his average wednesday hobby that is one major power move right there

[@SolariusScorch]

​@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 Hmm, just like Christopher Lee!

[@snelldor1474]

If you’re going to be in an absolute pile of shit, at least have fun with it.

[@ozpin8329]

The same reason Sir Patrick Stewart voiced Poop in the Emoji movie

[@thegnarledpirate9198]

The Monsterverse has done a great job at making every single one of its movies introduce a new element to its lore. And it is about a giant radioactive lizard.

[@repulser93]

And it’s actually engaging. And makes it clear that the monsters are the main stars of the show.

[@leithaziz2716]

Heck, they managed to give Kong and Godzilla personallities in the last film, and they never spoke aside from roars and some face expressions.

[@thegnarledpirate9198]

@@leithaziz2716 Kong has more character than Godzilla, arguably.

[@leithaziz2716]

@@thegnarledpirate9198 Probably. They gave him a pridefull "pondering my legacy and living up to it" attitude which was interesting and I'd say worked even if they didn't spend too much time on it. Godzilla ranged from a "hesitant protector/anti-hero" to "entertaining troll", which seems kinda messy in hindsight.

[@boshwa20]

Not to mention Legendary seems like they just let their cinematic universe just do it's own thing. They don't have a year long plan for everyone to see, it just....HAPPENS

[@callmev3531]

32:58, In theory, they could have used Quintessa’s manipulation of Optimus to have him address his more cynical and brutal disposition as these films went on by having this be the culmination of his declining virtue and the end of the film could see a return to the more noble Optimus the series started with, one who is more optimistic (no pun intended).

[@solareagle1802]

Just realized that the part about the horns coming out of the ground was foreshadowing about Earth being Unicron. He was preparing to transform to fight Cybertron and Quintessa. Also, Unicron being able to to spread his evil to living beings near him would be an explanation for why so many characters seem so negative the further along these movies go, Unicron is pushing his evil more after Optimus arrives, knowing that Optimus could find the Matrix of Leadership.

[@mynameisharry8739]

The most ironic thing about Paramount wanting to make a cinematic universe out of Transformers, is that it's NOT a bad idea at all. Transformers has more than enough lore and decades of stories behind it to run a cinematic universe. Beast Wars, pre-war Cybertron, post-war Cybertron, Shattered Glass etc. It's just that the movies never seemed brave enough to explore anything beyond the surface of "robots fighting eachother on earth"

[@mrscruffles801]

Well they seem to be setting that up, given the new movie...

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

​@@mrscruffles801 I don't trust Paramount enough with making that plan work. The _only_ cinematic universe that has worked is Marvel's. I think the conclusion is obvious: It can't be done. It's pure RNG.

[@zackarysullivan9019]

@@mrscruffles801 problem is a GI JOE crossover sounds significantly less exciting or interesting than any of the other options OP gave

[@-libertyprimev1-902]

Really doesn't need to be said but the other problem is none of these production studios have an ounce of patience, they saw the MCU craze that built up over a decade and a half then forgot the "decade and a half" part thinking they could start one in 2ish hours with 10 halfbaked ideas...

[@mrscruffles801]

@@zackarysullivan9019 I agree. That was a dumb idea. I was intentionally vague to not post spoilers but I guess that doesn't matter now.

[@firebrony101]

Also, kinda shocked that Cody never mentioned Galvatron from the previous movie magically being reverted back to Megatron for no apparent reason at all, other than Bay wanted Megatron back.

[@astrowolvez]

Wait!

[@_somestuff]

Honestly, Megs doesn't even matter by this point, that it makes sense he doesn't mention it.

[@dankerbell]

and that bee already regained his voice and cybertron was properly destroyed being sent back through space in dotm

[@EJ_Red]

Megatron returning wasn't even needed in that movie, Galvatron could have been an entirely new and different character that inherited Megatron's personality traits and used them to develop its own - becoming somewhat of a Megatron clone but potentially more vicious and violent, or just a crazy version of him.

[@deralbtraumritter8573]

28:00 It’s funny how the older Whitickan transformers all look like Ironhide and Optimus Prime. 29:23 maybe it’s some kinda back code that’s activated when in proximity to another knight. 30:00 It’s funny bc apparently bumblebee was in WW2, gets trapped or goes back to space and has amnesia… Also love how they gloss over the albite superior transformations from the last film are gone. 37:00 that’s what happened to the last game (Cortona going rogue). If there was an explanation… I never saw it when playing Infinite.

[@vatatheoanonymous3705]

I haven't heard the dragon tales theme since I was a kid. It's 1 am here, and I'm alone in my house trying to sleep, and just got slammed in the chest by a sorrowful sledgehammer of nostalgia... I'm going to call my brothers tomorrow... Thank you for that, sincerely.

[@dendostar5436]

Cody, I’m 41 years old. I’ve seen every franchise I ever cared about destroyed beyond comprehension multiple times over. I love these videos. They help.

[@SP-sy5nq]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ricardozk]

😢😢😢

[@Slybo371]

His hatred fueled a great video

[@jordannieland365]

Did they end your marriage?

[@Binks182]

Fuck I'm 25 and I've seen star wars, got, indiana jones, doctor strange and marvel get seemingly ruined.

[@FrozenRiver-mi8yf]

I like to imagine dread bot in a giant suit trying to convince a judge that he’s not guilty

[@herbertschulz4313]

After he already murdered three previous judges

[@a_wolf8889]

⁠@@herbertschulz4313”it was self defence” -dread bot

[@trooper9249]

"Your honor, I'm just an alien robot from outer space. Your world confuses and enrages me. The sight of your fleshy forms disgusts me on a level beyond comprehension. Yes, I may have killed a number of humans -- but if our positions were reversed and you were stuck on a world full of hideous mechanical beings, you would have doubtlessly reacted the same way."

[@RegalRoyalWasTaken]

I need to see the court case footage of nitro zeus im begging you michael bay

[@some_shitposting_idiot3023]

​@@trooper9249"bro you're literally genociding my race I'm entitled to do the same"

[@assassinsa1]

Ngl. I went to theaters to watch this. The beginning made me think I was in the wrong theater

[@HoodieHorizon]

this movie didn't jump the shark, it jumped the whole ocean

[@nathanwalker7983]

32:31 I love how the big emotional moment of Bumblebee regaining his voice is completely undermined by 1.) the fact that this is not actually his first time speaking in the films and 2.) the fact that he was explicitly established earlier in the movie to not have a voice box and there's no explanation for how he is able to speak now.

[@cillbipher2613]

Amazing how he regains his ability to speak at the end of the first one...then loses it for four more films outside of like a warped "whatever" in Fallen iirc Then he gets it back here for a shoddy emotional moment thus ignoring the fact that he literally can't speak in this movie

[@SWHalo2]

Also, they didn't even bother getting a proper voice actor for Bumblebee, they just got a sound engineer from the SFX Department to voice him.

[@joshuakim5240]

@@cillbipher2613 If i recall, the reason he initially couldn't speak in the first film was because his voice module got damaged and he barely managed to speak via willpower. Then in the second film his voice module is fixed...but now clogged with dust and dirt so it doesn't work. After that his voice module magically no longer exists just to keep up the gimmick of communicating via song lyrics.

[@ChimeraMK]

I read people actually defend the first thing by saying "No, Bumblebee didn't really speak in the first movie. That was just another voice clip. It came from something in-universe, so of course the audience wouldn't know." Why would they want to defend The Last Knight, I dunno.

[@cillbipher2613]

@@ChimeraMK That's a pretty crap defense they used lol cuz the characters clearly act like he's regained his speech.

[@JamesTheDominator]

I love how the writer just forgot that the ones who created the transformers according to the 4th film were squid like aliens when they went with Quintessa. Truly a franchise with a true commitment to continuity

[@connorp3764]

I mean…Quintessa was called the “great deceiver” so like she was most likely just plain lying to manipulate Optimus.

[@JamesTheDominator]

@@connorp3764 considering all the other continuity snubs in the film you honestly think the discrepancy is intentional?

[@connorp3764]

@@JamesTheDominator considering it was a major aspect of both AOE and TLK and they literally put the line in the movie yeah I would think so. Pointing out the existence of continuity errors in the film which somehow means everything else is probably a continuity error too is fairly odd logic imo.

[@Sheriff_Curtis]

​@@connorp3764ultimately we'll most likely never know because the Bayverse has finally been put to rest.

[@peterfrank3365]

Each movie has a brand new lore that contradicts each other.

[@alexkogan9755]

I find it funny how the only franchise that managed to crawl into having a “universe” second to the MCU has been the combined Godzilla/Kong MonsterVerse by Legendary (which is also funny considering WB had more of its eggs put into the DC Comics basket and that keeps falling).

[@kylorage5964]

The Prehysteria reference was gold!! 😂

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

"It has that rad '90's vibe, only shameless and corporate". Which is funny because everything "rad" in the '90's was shameless and corporate.😂

[@jeff5534]

I love that they just photoshopped a transformer onto the painting of the Battle of Waterloo, like there was just a giant robot walking around in the middle of one of the most documented battles in history and everyone just forgot about it afterwards

[@WlatPziupp]

Paintings working like photographs is my favorite trope. Gigantic metal people that can change shapes obviously would be mentioned in every letter from every soldier who saw one, but I just love this idea of them being "caught on paint"

[@l-nolazck-rn24]

He was the one soldier from the Waterloo film who broke rank and cried out against the tragedy that is war. In true Anglo-Saxon, the directors of Waterloo changed him for a human, shameless!

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

If people could come back from the dead, I could see an extremely irate Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington coming back to set the record straight, regardless of the fact that this is fiction. Up with this, the Iron Duke would not put.

[@EJ_Red]

@@WlatPziupp With WWI being the invention of tanks, you'd also expect some kind of schematic detailing a transformer-like vehicle/weapon that would have eventually become the tank too

[@danielchavez919]

To think that a comic book company literally built a timeline for the Bayverse, and developed characters better than the writers of the Bayverse did in their 10 years at the helm of the film saga... just gives you an idea of ​​how much effort they put into it.

[@repulser93]

Primus bless John Roberts. I’d kill to get a Lost Light movie.

[@leithaziz2716]

You can read the IDW comics, play the Cybertron games or watch some of the Transformers shows (most notably Prime, Animated and Beast Wars) to see what can be done with the source material. It actually makes the bay-verse movies worse in hindsight. Outside of the character development, there's also just some really cool worldbuilding.

[@shcdemolisher]

@@leithaziz2716 Ohh yeah! I’ll play the cybertron games until the end of my life, they are so good!

[@PsycheTrance65]

I really hate the trend of companies making movies of beloved franchises and then being ashamed of the source material. Regardless of whether you think BB or ROTB are good, at least they're not hell bent in changing everything beyond recognition.

[@causticchan4617]

Its not even effort at this point just fucking follow the source material this trend is way outta hand now and its destroyed so many franchises look at halo tv series or the witcher. im jealous of last of us fans atleast they got a decent show🥲 Edit i didnt read the above comment but yea :(((((

[@dkkanofkash8798]

7:09, man, that was one POWERFUL pause. No immediate obnoxious cut that distracts your attention from what just happened by transitioning to the next scene, no, this one leaves you hanging even if it lasts 2 or 3 seconds longer than the real thing, and you’re just sitting there thinking “what did I just watch?” Usually when you watch a movie and pause after a scene, it leaves you thinking about what just happened, what came before, how it all connects, and leaves you wanting to see more. Here, you are just dumbfounded.

[@wargriz8213]

Best part of this whole back half of the Bayformers, is that they never bring up Autobots getting killed on site, but not only are Decepticons getting arrested and jailed, the military will work with Megatron and release them!