Transformers - The Movie (1986) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | AUTOBOTS ROLL OUT!!!
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For my money, Peter Cullen as Optimus in Transformers and Kevin Conroy as Batman in Batman: The Animated Series are the pinnacle of animated hero voices.
Cullen's story of his brother and how he came up with Prime's voice gets me emotional every time I hear it.
Frank Welker be like: "allow me to introduce myself"
And Let's not forget Luke Skywalker, AKA, Mark Hamill as the Joker is the OG
Definitely. They're both awesome
@@McD5791what character voiced by Welker is as iconic as the two mentioned by OP? Fred from Scooby Doo?? Lol gtfo
No animated film should have a soundtrack that rocks THIS hard!
It's honestly worth downloading the soundtrack to listen to while you're just doing your daily stuff- chores, fighting robots, digging graves, etc.
try looking up Cybertronic Spree, those Transformers cosplayers are an awesome band that really rock especially when they're doing songs from TF the movie - can't watch their videos without getting a smile on my face!
Ever heard the Heavy Metal (1981) soundtrack it's one my of favorites it's another one that rocks hard
@@user-mi8wc8we6j Definitely?
The soundtrack to 'Highlander' was pretty awesome. But then, I'm a big Queen fan, so I'm biased
I still have the soundtrack on cassette from back in the day.
I had the original Megatron toy when I was a kid. I wish I kept it. It was made out of metal and turned into a realistic looking gun. The 80's were wild.
Same. My mother had no problem with us running around with a fake metal gun that transforms into a toy.
So jealous. My cousin had Optimus Prime. The only one I had was the Helicopter. Can't recall what he was called but I pretended that he was Airwolf and I loved it.
I had Megatron, Optimus, Starscream, Bumblebee, Grimlock, and a couple of random ones. One had a hidden symbol that only revealed itself with the heat of your finger.
I never had Optimus or Megatron but I had plenty of the others.
Have a nice masterpiece one that turn into a gun instead
Shout out to all those who saw this movie in theaters back in 1986! I went to see this with my best friend.
It was my 12th bday when it opened and i was at the first showing!! Good times bro
Right there with you. I saw it and received my emotional scarring in theater as well!
I admit to hating it the first time because...well..you know. It grew on me though and has become one of my favorite movies. My kids loved it too when I shared it with them. We've all watched it together many times.
I knew nothing about the movie back then, and was 30% afraid it would be one of the two original 'movies' :>
I saw it three times that summer, 7 year old me loved it just as much back then, despite the emotional turmoil it put me through.
A lot of my friends saw it kn theater. I had to wait until it was on video. My Aunt rented it for my cousin's birthday party. One of the best parties ever. Tied with 8th grade when one of my friends played us the Holy Grail at his birthday party. My sense of humor has never been the same.
Many children were actually traumatized by Optimus Prime's death. Hasbro received a tremendous amount of complaints from parents. The whole thing was urgent enough to call an emergency meeting and work towards Prime's revival in the following season of the cartoon.
Not only that but the ending of GI Joe was changed at the last minute. Duke was supposed to die as his toy line was discontinued. There’s a brief scene of Scarlett popping her head in to say something like, “Duke’s gonna make it”.
As the purpose of the shows was simply to sell the figures, after a line ended they just killed the character off. Hasbro certainly traumatized a lot of kids in 86, and angered their parents as well.
Very true. Even Peter Cullen who voiced the character said he hated it too. He didn't know the character was popular and how much Optimus Prime meant to everyone until he heard of what happened.
yes, and all this during the 80's long before the internet... really had to put some effort into it to connect with other people and get movements like that going. Couldn't just instant message, email, or post any comment - it was snail mail and maybe telephones with long-distance charges... SO much different from today's conveniences.
The script writers warned hasbro execs that killing off prime was a mistake but the execs insisted they knew better. Another case of stupid execs ruining a good thing
@@eviljack One of them happened to warn the execs not to kill Optimus Prime because of how much Optimus means to children. He is more than just a fictional character. He's a father figure to them and yes, killing off Prime is a mistake. I agree with you. It's another case of studio stupidity and execs not knowing better.
This movie single handedly cemented the field of child therapy in the 80s. Not even Robotech, with the death of Roy Fokker and Ben Dixon (in back to back episodes, no less), could do that.
The invasion of the Autobot shuttle hits so differently if you watched it as a kid vs if you never grew up with it and are watching it for the first time now.
For us it was about the brutally violent deaths of four major characters from the first two seasons. (I personally found Prowl’s death rather creepy, with the glowing eyes and smoke from the mouth)
In fact the body count was really rather shocking given that no one ever died in the original series.
For reactors today, it’s “what? Megatron turned into a gun?”
They battled for millions of years and shrugged off powerful blasts like they were nothing, but it seems like more deaths happened in one half hour than the entirety of the war!
from what I heard, Hasbro wanted to kill off characters in order to sell toys of new characters that they wanted to push on us kids at the time... "no one's going to miss Optimus, surely Rodimus will work as a substitute, right?" - they didn't know the trauma they would cause by doing that and the backlash that followed. - It was a marketing ploy... no such thing as reissues and homages and masterpieces at the time. No live-action Michael Bay version, no Cyberverse version, etc. all they had was Gen1 cartoon, and they wanted to sell more toys - and even to this day, if there's nothing selling, then we don't continue to get awesome collectibles... it's a cycle and the reality of business, so I personally can't blame Hasbro too much for wanting to stay in business. Just hate that it took traumatizing us as kids to do it.
I saw this in the theaters when it came out. It was fairly shocking. It was the first time a kids cartoon movie had a hard-rock soundtrack. It also had the main beloved characters die. Yes, this movie's SOLE premise was to kill off the old characters to make way for new characters. However, they hadn't considered the attachment that kids had to those old characters. So much hate mail filled the offices that they were forced to alter the production of G.I.Joe the Animated Movie, because they were going to kill off Duke and others for the same reason. That's why, in that movie, Duke miraculously comes out of his coma at the end, despite never showing him alive.
Transformers the movie is also the very LAST movie that Orson Wells did. He died shortly there after and Leonard Nimoy was brought in to loop a few of his lines post production.
Orson after he got to heaven:
Maybe if I didn't do that transformers movie where my character (unicron) died,
I wouldn't be here now.....
I don't think it's ever been stated that Nimoy recorded any of the Unicron lines. Most official sources say Wells did them all, and that rumors spread that Nimoy did the last few lines of Unicron.
Edit: Yeah, the voice director, Wally Burr, has stated that Nimoy didn't record any lines for Unicron and that Wells had finished all of his lines before he died.
It was also the last movie for Scatman Cruthers (Jazz) and Roger C. Carmel (Cyclonus/Quinteson magistrate).
One of my most favourite, but also traumatic movies of my childhood. Some of it scarred me for life, but I still love it.
That widespread trauma is why they changed the GI Joe movie to just put Duke in a coma instead of killing him as planned.
@@JeshuaSquirrelYes, with a VO announcement. "Hey! Duke is alive!"
Glad you finally had a chance to watch the greatest movie ever made.
after the movie came out in 1986 , I used to watch reeuns on weekends @ Grand Lake theater in CA , for only 25c for kids.
@@markplott4820 That's awesome! Today, it's not implausible to pay up to $25 for a ticket.
@@markplott4820Oakland California baby!
optimus dying in this made the makers of the gi joe movie change the end and forced the to keep duke alive. duke was supposed to really die at the end of the gi joe movie, but there was such a huge backlash against prime dying that they had to add in an adr line about duke surviving to try and salvage the movie.
Transformers and G.I. Joe were my two favorite cartoons growing up as a kid. This movie was one of my all time favorites that my family and I would rent at the local video store. The soundtrack is absolute gold and 100 percent defined the entire 80s decade right there. This entire movie and experience is a total banger.
Yes. The purpose of the movie was to kill off the characters who’s toys were being discontinued and introduce the new toys.
However the producers didn’t realize how beloved Optimus Prime was (this film began production around the 1st season of the show in 1984 before the could know) they quickly realized and brought Optimus back in the series a year later with a new toy replacing Rodimus Prime.
He’s been the leader ever since.
They also brought back Starscream as he had also become too popular to throw away.
@niorgatherer As A Ghost LOL! 👻🚫🤖
@@KingCrab85 don’t mock powered up Starscream. He can hear you.
Frank Welker was the MVP of the cast, given how many characters he voiced. Megatron, Soundwave, Soundwave's cassette minions, Sludge, and Wheelie. Also the voices of Fred and Scooby Doo.
A talent like him is extremely rare.
Frank had too many popular characters to count. Don’t forget Rat and Sooner from Ghostbusters, Darkseid from Superfriends, Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget (basically Soundwave’s voice without the modulation effects), etc. Cullen had an impressive voice list as well. True legends.
@@scottamann2445 Couldn't believe he did Claw until you see him perform the voice. He's the go to voice if you want animal sfx - aside from Dee Bradley Baker.
During the casting call there was a table with drawings of all the characters in the pilot and a sign that said, "Choose 3." Frank Welker grabbed a handful and figured they would just hire him for his best three. They instead hired him for all of them.
@@scottamann2445 What kills me about Cullen's filmography is that he's the one who did all the sounds and roars for the Predator. You'd think that would be more of a Welker gig, but nah, that's Cullen.
Starscream is Chris Latta. Yes, he was also Cobra Commander. As well as the original Mr. Burns on the Simpsons.
I love the juxtaposition of watching the Autobots morn Prime and Magnus reluctantly accept leadership, then cut to the Decepticons just tossing out Megatron and fighting over who replaces him.
They even gave Cobra Commander.. I mean... 'Old Snake' a cameo in Transformers ;D
Sheepishly
“Megatron….is that you”?
“HERE’S A HINT”!!!
always laughed when Galvatron said that, lol.
Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime's vehicles are actual concept vehicles shown at the Detroit Auto Show. Rodimus isn't an RV, he's a concept trailer truck.
GI Joe was not released in theaters. After the financial failures of My Little Pony and Transformers, the studio pulled GI Joe from the release schedule and went straight to VHS.
OH HELL YES!!!!! I did a reaction of this two months ago and I can guarantee you guys are gonna have a good time.
I saw your reaction to this and loved it as well dude!!!
@@rockstarbd82 Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is genuinely an amazing movie.
@@LooneyTuneLegendYT I’m the one who requested it for Mr & Mrs Movies. Was so nervous that Mrs Movies might be hit hard by the death of Optimus but relieved she took it better than I thought and that it brought back nice toy memories for her and the Mr.
But yea your reactions were funny and spot on too.
@@rockstarbd82 Again Thanks. I put in a lot of hard work into that movie watch.
Hasbro was literally killing off our old toys …. brilliant marketing..
I wonder how many kids entombed Ironhide, Ratchet, Brawn, and Prowl..? lol
Saw this in the theater at 10 years old. Fond memory.
I was 9 years old when I saw this in the cinema
Are we THAT old 😅
@@solomonkane6442 Old in body, but not in mind! *looks for Ibuprofen
The Hubby:" Don't think I've ever seen this movie."
Me:" I have literally seen over 130 times in my life. lost count in the early 2000s"
I still have 3 of my transformers with all their pieces. Ramjet, Dirge and Thrust.
Saw this in the theater opening day. My mind was blown to another level afterwards. This was a non stop assault of awesomeness on your neurological senses.
the music, the animation, the colors, shading, cuss words, the future, (2005) autobots getting murked, this was the most adult and badass movie I ever saw as a kid.
The DINOBOTS in the Comic Books were actually ancient. Reading that as a kid was very surreal…. Ratchet woke up in the Jurassic period and walks around being spied on by Shock-Wave.. it’s CRAZY
In the TV show they just find a lot of old bones and skeletons of dinosaurs and decide to make Dinobots to help combat the Decepticons and Devastator.
@@kevinstull8552 I remember they kicked Optimus Primes ass after Megatron lied to them.
“
No talk.. or we terminate you now..”
38:00 I love how that's actually a good point that comes later in the tv show
This film was the on-screen debut of Arcee, who would end up becoming arguably the most famous female Cybertronian/Transformer of all time. In her original incarnation, she was a type of car that was really popular with (and chiefly associated with) women at one point (have no clue what the make and/or model is, even though I've tried to find it constantly), but at some point in her lore/history her vehicle form was changed to a motorcycle, and that version is the one she's kept to this day.
Arcre voiced by Sue Blu, Tina's mom on Friday the 13th part 7
41:00 - The original Galvatron toy was described as a 'city commander' and was intended to be a different character. The movie producers decided to make him a reincarnation of Megatron, which has since been accepted by many fans as cannon.
It was very hard for 8 year old me to see some of my favorite Autobots get killed, especially in the first few minutes of the movie. Prowl, the Porsche 911 cop car was awesome. i can't believe he got wasted along with Ironhide, Ratchet and Wheeljack. But the totally AWESOME soundtrack makes up for it. Stan Bush, NGR and Weird Al had some great songs. "The Touch" is still an awesome jam. We grew up with these inspirational songs, not just from this movie but others- Karate Kid, Flash Dance, Blood Sport. That why Gen X rules.
one of my favorite moments in gaming history is the final mission in Saints Row 4: "Punch the Shark"
skydiving through Zinyak's spaceship in power armor, dodging death lasers and killing Zin foot soldiers like piñata's with your hentai bat, all set to Stan Bush "The Touch".
epic
Just to nitpick, Prowl wasn't a Porsche; he was a Datsun (Nissan) 280Z, as were Bluestreak and Smokescreen.
@@Brickerbrack Damn, you're right. All this time I thought he was a Porsche like Jazz, just transformed differently.
“How do Transformers reproduce?”
Assembly line.
So, a bunch of male Transformers line up alongside a conveyor belt that has a female Transformer on it........
I remember laughing out loud at Spike swearing after realizing they did nothing to Unicron.
i still got a VHS tape of this !!!! :D loved this movie. Also the person who does optimus primes voice then still does the voices now in todays movies
I looked for years (before ebay was around) to find a 📼 VHS copy. Finally found it at a comic book store 9 years ago.
"He's kind of a big deal".
Yup, he was. And killing him made him an even bigger deal.
I'm about to date myself but, I saw this movie in the theater. I was 16 at the time. This was Orson Welles last role before his death. The bird was Laser Beak, one of Soundwave's spies
The thing with Bumbelbee is that he didn't have that influence back then.
Bumbelbee was only made into this great warrior in the films.
In the series he became Goldbug and from then on he resorted to weapons more. But I see Goldbug more as a rebirth than as a repair.
The movie was made to usher out the old toy line and introduce the new line. Killing off Optimus, kids, myself included, lost our minds, parents complained to Hasbro saying WTF! My kid has locked themselves in the bathroom bawling! Prime returns in the cartoon. Starscream exists as a ghost and teams up with Unicron and makes an appearance in Beast Wars. Daniel becomes Arcee's head in the headmasters series. Galvatron is actually a triple changer, cannon, gun, robot.
It's funny that you said "Hot Rodimus," because that's his name in Japan.
I first watched this movie cold (like you), but I watched it a couple more times and got more into it. We had an old VHS tape of "The Return of Optimus Prime" (is it a spoiler if it's the episode title?) lying around and I became a Transformers fan for life.
18:33 Unicron: "OH, Cybertronian meatball!?!" - "Spicy!"...
23:52 When I saw this I was like "Here comes the Australian robots!"
I remember seeing this at the cinema for my friends 9th birthday party, followed by a McDonald's. Back in those days, we only ever went to a fast food place for birthday parties, not weekly like some kids today lol
The insane five faced Quintesson judges were the creators of the Transformers, millions of years before the movie. They've mostly gone insane over the millennium and their empire collapsed.
The Quintessons made robots for the neighboring organic species to use as slaves- military models for fighting wars and domestic models for construction, transportation, etc.
The robots eventually overthrew their creators and eventually their distinct nature's brought them into conflict- the former military models became Decepticons and the domestic units were the ancestors of the Autobots.
And they've been fighting mostly non-stop ever since.
The Autobot Matrix Of Leadership is a repository of the knowledge of all their past leaders- and a means to upgrade whatever leader it seems worthy.
It imparts wisdom but can also be used to commune with the "souls" of past leaders.
(Like the Black Panther herb does in Marvel, kinda).
Megatron so badass he's rockin' a mullet.
My childhood! I actually ran away from my babysitter and hid in the tree-line. I was 10 years old. Her game was over 9,000 because she left, rented this movie and bought a pizza....and used both to lure me out of my 'hidey-hole'.
This was traumatic as a kid in the 80s watching this at 5am in the morning back in 1987 seeing the autobots getting wiped out, ironhide killed with megatrons cannon to the face and then the hardest death scene too watch, the death of optimus prime. im not ashamed to say that i cried hard as a little kid. you have to understand back then optimus prime was a role model an icon to us kids and when his death hit it was like losing a member of your family. some kids even locked themselves in their room it was that powerful. Hasbro had no idea what they were doing. they thought they were just getting rid of the old toyline and bringing in the new one. they had no idea they were about to piss off and make so many boys cry back then. Which is why they bring him back in later seasons and they changed the script in GI JOE THE MOVIE (which came out at the same time as TF:TM) with the killing off of another main character DUKE. but regardless of mine and countless others childhood trauma, this continues to be my favourite movie to this day. awesome animation, excellent story, filled with 80s rock and nostalgia. Even the live action transformers movies dont come close to this. TILL ALL ARE ONE!!
17:44 - Megatron wasn't the only one through with his shit. The producers were sick of having to bail the voice actor out of jail.
I definitely remember seeing this movie in theaters when it came out. My Aunt that passed away 2years ago took me and my brother to see it and she cried when Optimus prime died. Just seeing the clips from the reaction got me misty eyed and when Hot rod became the new prime and the song started it made me cry hard and I haven’t cried in years. Thanks for this it brought back so many memories.
I remember this movie from when I was a kid. Back then, there was talk about kids shows/movies getting too violent or being too commercialized for selling toys. Us kids didn't care about any of that, we just wanted to watch and play with the toys, but looking back, I think the shock of Optimus's death was the turning point against the industry at the time. That was when they had finally gone too far given what it did to so many kids. The animated G.I. Joe movie's change was the first notable one. Since then, they've progressively dialed it back bit by bit to get the lame shows we have now.
The 90s animated shows like X-Men, Batman, Gargoyles, etc., were as close to a balance as the industry was ever going to get. Since then, if you want something animated that's not lame but not something like South Park/Family Guy/Sponge Bob/etc., you have to go to anime now...
Transformers was my favorite cartoon growing up, because it was one of the few that I felt wasn't talking down to me (I was five when it started airing). The best part of this movie for me was the depictions of how each faction handled succession, because it underlined the differences in their philosophies better than anything that had happened previously. Optimus knew he was dying and attempted to choose his successor; whereas Megatron, on the verge of death, refused to let go of his status, was discarded as trash by his not-so-trusted second, and succession was decided through trial by combat. Obviously I couldn't articulate it in just that way when I was seven; I just thought it was a really cool scene.
I've seen it a hundred times. But "Arise, Rodimus Prime" still gives me a chill every time.
Hearing unicrons voice in the theater with surround sound speakers was actually kinda terrifying back in the day
So this film was rated PG when it was released in theatres. This was to give it the best chance of making its money back because PG films got more showings than U rated films. And how did they get the PG? Was it the all the robots getting blown up and dying? Nope, it was the use of the word “shit” which Spike says after the bomb in Moon Base 2 fails to damage Unicron
I was 8 when this movie came out. When I saw it, it was the first time that I had dealt with the concept of death. Seeing my favorite Transformer characters dying was definitely a shocker. In retrospect, it was very risky for them at that time to take that kind of approach with a cartoon series as they transitioned between seasons.
Not for me. I was the same age you were, but I already saw the "Sesame Street" episode "Farewell, Mr. Hooper", in 1983, where Big Bird had to accept that his friend had died. The actor who played Mr. Hooper died in 1982, and the show's producers planned to replace the actor, but the staff psychiatrist said no because they wanted to expose children to the concept of death. The episode aired on Thanksgiving Day, 40 years ago. I turned six the previous day, but I grew up a little more when I cried for Big Bird since he lost a friend. I learned about empathy.
Crying over an animated character's death seems silly to me because that's all the character is. Crying over a real human being's passing and the sorrow of his friends isn't silly at all.
@@Madbandit77 For me it was Robotech. A few years prior with the death of Roy Fokker. Its what made me love anime so much cause it let me know that no character was safe. One of the reason i love this movie cause it took a step in that direction unlike the tv series that never had anyone die just badly hurt till repair.
@@Marveryn Well, Robotech/Macross is a Japanese production. So it's all about cultural/national sensibilities. Anime was more bolder than American-produced animation.
This was actually the movie that taught me about death with the loss of Optimus. It was a very formative movie for a whole generation.
I'm not a big rock and roll fan but when it's put in a game or like in this movie it's the greatest compliment.
The one thing I always notice in this film is that Unicrons eyes are literally just windows. There is no mechanism connecting them to his brain at all.
Got this movie on Blu-ray
The main theme of this movie was "Hey kids, your toys are all dead, get your parents to buy these new ones!"
I remember Christmas time that year. My uncle bought me Galvatron the biggest one they had forget what class it was ,,it was huge. Made noises and everything... after a year or so I gave it to my neighbor with all my transformer toys I had all the jets and everything devastator you name it I had it.. maybe one day I'll buy it again all the ones I had, probably not though I'm downsizing all my toys.. I have just about every toy from 2000 on when it comes to dc and marvel.. I have all the transformer movie figures from every movie
I saw this in the theater and thought it was a lot of fun, despite the carnage. Great soundtrack and some really decent animation.
If you can find it, the 20th Anniversary DVD has a great Fan Commentary where they talk about the weird sense of scale that the robots have. Megatron turns into a gun that another one fires, Astrotrain is apparently big enough to transport the Decepticons, including Devastator, but seems to be the same size outside as the others, etc.
Dang it, I'm going to have to watch this again tonight.
they have the Dr Who Tardis ability where things are much larger on the inside. Astrotrain is not the only transformer with this ability nearly all the space craft ones seem to have it.
You may not know it but when Megatron was floating towards Unicron , he was the only one alive . All the other decepticons died from their wounds in space. This movie was a massacre to the G1 line . Pretty much all the original characters good or bad were killed for new characters ( Toys ) .
The funniest thing is they put the "Shit" and "Damn it" in for the PG rating so that parents would have to accompany their kids to the movie, allowing the kids to tell their parents exactly which characters/toys they wanted them to get.
Ultra Magnus was voiced by the late Robert Stack, who was the host of the popular series "Unsolved Mysteries" for 11 seasons.
Hello childhood. Oh how I’ve missed you. This is epic!!
Have to give one last huge thank you to @You, Me, & The Movies Mr & Mrs Movies for this one time opportunity to request this underrated classic. So glad you both enjoyed it and thank you especially for the bday wishes 😊!!!
Also am very happy to see a large majority of their fans not only enjoyed the film reaction but are also oldschool TF fans like myself. Was so happy to bring back some energetic nostalgia for all of ya with the film, the toys, and that hair rising soundtrack that never gets old.
Though i did want to give some suggestions on episodes for kind of an abridged key episode binge if the Mr/Mrs or anyone else here want to watch the G1 series:
[Season 1]
-More Than Meets the Eye (pilot episodes 1, 2, and 3)
-Fire in the Sky (great episode with the Robotech toy that became a Transformer, SkyFire (aka Jetfire)
-SOS DinoBots (debut of the DinoBots and yes they were created by Wheeljack/Ratchet with Spikes knowledge of Dinos like everyone’s saying here)
-The Ultimate Doom (parts 1, 2, and 3) (partly what Transformers Dark of the Moon based its story on)
-War of the Dinobots (debut of Swoop & Snarl)
-A Plague of Insecticons (debut of the Insecticons)
-Heavy Metal War (debut of Devastator)
[Season 2]
-Megatron's Master Plan (parts 1 & 2) (also partly what Transformers Dark of the Moon based its story on)
-The Key to Vector Sigma (parts 1 & 2)
-StarScream's Brigade (great episode for Starscream)
[Season 3 (after the events of the Movie)]
-The Five Faces of Darkness 5 parter story (gives background on the Quintessons from the film)
-Ghost in the Machine (if you want to see what happens to StarScream and Unicron’s Head)
-Call of the Primatives (great episode for Grimlock)
-Dark Awakening (pre-story to the last 2 episodes)
-The Return of Optimus Prime (parts 1 & 2. Redeems the sad part of the movie.)
Don’t bother with the Japanese Headmasters series as it’s its own continuity after season 3 and quite depressing/nonsensical (imo).
All are available to watch for free on RUclips.
As a kid it always bothered me that so many Autobots straight-up died while, with the exception of Starscream, the Decepticons just get upgraded into powerful, new bodies. Even then, Starscream gets to come back as a ghost.
A lot of fans were upset by that.
Wheelie say gonna watch you ,me ,and the movies today
If you can't see the Faction Face (symbol) look at the eyes. When they're not using robo-binoculars, Autobot eyes are blue and Decepticon eyes are red (with some exceptions here and there).
I *adore* this movie - no joke, i think i've watched this more than any other animated film, ever. Pretty sure i can quote it almost word for word the entire way through, not just the dialogue, but the lyrics for the sound track too lol.
Me Grimlock King!!!!!
The next Transformers movie that's coming out is animated in the same way this one was. It will star Chris Hemsworth as the voice of Optimus Prime, but when he was younger and did not have the matrix of leadership. His name will be "Orion Pax". I am soooo excited to see this, because they say the animation style will be along the same lines as the original 1986 film. I was 7, going on 8 when the original came out, and the Transformers were my show AND my toy!! Lol...I'll never forget how when we came back from summer vacation (it came out August 8th, 1986, and we went back to school like 3 weeks later), it was ALL we could talk about at the lunch table!! We COULD NOT believe they killed off Prime and sooo many others! It was shocking, but we were all amazingly resilient about it! This movie has SO many good memories attached to it! One of the best animated features ever done!! 😁
I believe my favorite description of Unicron besides his normal epithets of the Chaos Bringer, is "The Death Star with a Digestive Tract".
The thing about the Quentsons is that it doesn't matter to them if your guilty or innocent, you will die by the Sharkacons.
My family was too broke to take me to see this in theaters, so I was BEYOND excited when we visited my rich aunt the next year, who had a… gasp! VCR!!!… and she rented this and Top Gun for me and my cousins. It was even more agonizing, though, because they wanted to watch Top Gun first, and the tape sat right there… on the coffee table… mocking me.
5:31 - Peter Cullen talked about how he figured Optimus Prime's voice. He was talking to his brother and asked for vocal advice. His brother told Peter to not be a Hollywood hero with yelling, but instead "be strong enough to be gentle".
,😂👍 @19:46 "They're going to go PARK somewhere..." ??? LMAO 😂
Later in Transformers lore it is discovered that all Transformers have what is called a spark and then there are Proto forms
My first memory of Transformers, was watching the pilot episode, when it first came out. Optimus Prime was my immediate favorite, and throughout G1, and the Michael Bay movies, (I never watched the later cartoons) that never changed. From day one, G1 Optimus Prime somehow always reminded me of John Wayne. (A solid, tough character.) As it turned out, they did indeed base some of his character on John Wayne. Makes sense why he would be an instant favorite, for me. Other than Optimus Prime, Ironhide (also voiced by Peter Cullen) was my second favorite. Favorite Decepticons: Megatron, then Shockwave.
Love this movie, I remember being so pressed about how Danny is fine after he transforms. I know it's a movie/cartoon but my dudes limbs would've snapped like pretzels. 😂😂😂
Also the fact like half the original cast are wiped out in the first 10 minutes.
Is it any wonder Gen-X is the way we are? We saw Optimus Prime killed in the first fifteen minutes of this movie, saw John Wayne killed in movies, watched seven people die live on TV during school with the Challenger, then as we were becoming adults, saw Dale Earnhardt die in the Daytona 500 live on TV.
“There gunna go park somewhere” 😂😂
A sweet story about this movie. When I was in first grade, a girl in my class was crushing on me hard and I gave her the comic adaptation of this movie as a gift. I never saw her again, but she found me on Facebook a few years ago and told me she still had that comic book.
I was 14 when I saw this in the cinema. Because I watched the TV series I thought nothing much would change. Didn't expected to see iron hide,ratchet and braun murdered in such a violent way. I cried
In the Transformers universe, the Cybertronians are more than mere machines.
Optimus Prime is the Batman of the Transformers Universe;when he died you can't just give some random dude the mantle.
Still the best Transformers movie.
Autobots... Roll Out!
In answer to her confusion about the goal of the series, and going from memory, the general goal was usually to stop the Decepticons from draining Earth's energy resources to create the fuel Energon, and also from harming humans. Decepticons and Autobots had been at war on their home planet for millions of years and it drained their own resources. The Decepticons wanted to take the fuel back to their planet and create an Empire.
This whole movie was about selling new toys. I dont remember watching this but my mom told me a story about me 3 years old at the theater. Back then Optimus Prime was my favorite transformer. She had to carry me out of the theater screaming and crying at 3 years old because they killed Optimus. It was so controversial that they rolled back Duke dying in the GI Joe animated movie. He only went into a coma.
Saw this in the theater at 5 years old. When Optimus Prime turned grey, it traumatized every kid in that theater. Cult classic though, we all love it as adults now.
The fallout from Optimus Prime's death (some kids were so devastated that they apparently did things like locking themselves in their rooms and refusing to eat) made them change the ending of the G. I. Joe movie. It was last minute so there is just one or two obviously inserted lines of dialogue off-screen saying the character was just in a coma but was going to live.
It was so ridiculous. Duke obviously died but off screen, Scarlett said, "He's gone into a coma. On screen, she's crying. The last line in the movie is, "Duke's going to be okay!" 🤣😂🤣😂
The Dinobots were made on Earth by Wheeljack and Ratchet, along with Spike's knowledge of dinosaurs when they found bones in the volcano where the Arc the name of their ship had crash-landed. And deactivated for a time because they were to destructive later, they had their own island that they could live and train on that was prehistoric with other living dinosaurs
That was their first origin but as was often the case in Transformers, many characters had multiple origin stories that were totally inconsistent.
@@fiveoctaves the constructicons - say no more.
@@darthdmc 🤣😂🤣😂
This movie put a nail in the coffin of my childhood. I just finished sixth grade and was going into junior high and this movie f***** me up.
I watched this for the first time in October 1986. One of the few times I've cried during a movie. Watching Prime's glowing eyes go out and the color leave his body was one of the most traumatizing moments in cinematography even though it was an animated one. Hasbro got ALOT of angry fan letters in response to them killing off Optimus, so much in fact that at the end of season 3 they released a 2 part season finale dubbed "The Return of Optimus Prime".
If you were a kid in the 80s this movie was hearbreaking. Kids in the theatre were freaking out. People stopped taking there kids to see it and that's why it flopped.
Can you believe this is almost forty years old, and the animation beats most stuff that came out even recently?
I think you're exaggerating quite a lot with that second part. I love the animation in this movie, but it does not beat most animation done today. Not in any technical aspect.
Anyone who has some decent exposure to animation could date this movie based on the janky 80s style. Very few people do animation like this anymore. It's just much easier to add significantly better fidelity than it used to be.
17:09 "Just creating more toys for kids to buy."
More than you could imagine, viewers. 😂😂😂😂
Props to the guy who recommended this, but considering his comment......I have NEVER seen anyone react to the He-Man/She-Ra cartoon The Secret of the Sword. That would be amazing
I saw this in the theater as a 6 year old and was totally traumatized by it! It's one of my favorite movies now, I watch it at least a dozen times a year
34:13 Unicron's influence really does spread everywhere XD
This was Orson Welles' final performance.
The "oh shit" line was removed on the VHS release originally.
Dinobots were originally converted by the ship they arrived on to match the lifeforms on Earth. At that time dinosaurs. Millions of years later the volcano the ship was crashed into erupted reawakening the ship. It then observed machines on the Earth and took them for the inhabitants which is why the others were converted to the objects they become.
If you've watched the first 2 seasons of Transformers the invasion of the Autobot shuttle at the beginning will hit different. For me seeing Brawn (he was my favourite) and the rest get killed was a HUGE shock, no Autobot died like this during the animated show. But for those who haven't watched the animated show, that scene only gets a aww and seeing Megatron turn into a gun is the surprise.
I hope she saw season 1 or this might be painful for her 😅
That would have been a boring childhood if she didn't watch it before school every morning.
I think it stands on it's own. She just might not know that a lot of the original main cast is dying right in front of her. lol. LIKE A LOT of the main cast.
Hasbro executives: “We’re going to make Transformers movie where everyone dies a grisly death!”
“For kids?”
“Who??”