FIRST TIME WATCHING *Transformers - The Movie (1986)*
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The heroic Autobots defend their homeworld Cybertron from the evil Decepticons. Both factions are seething with anger, and that hatred has blinded them to a hideous menace headed their way. 
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My mom saw this when she was younger, she said every kid in the theatre started crying the moment Optimus died
My dad was most likely one of the kids from the 80's that cried in theaters when optimus died
Was I the only one who was like, oh Optimus Prime is dead, how sad. Ten minutes later... Noo! They killed off Starscream 😭😭😭💔
I did. I didnt watch it in the cinema though, I just cried at home with my mum.
When I saw this in '86, I was the only kid in the whole theater that cheered when Prime died. haha I got a lot of dirty looks for that. ALL HAIL MEGATRON! Even as a kid I was a Decepticon through and through :D
I was 11 years old. I still had all my grandparents. This was the first time someone I cared about died. Sure, he was fictional. Still hurt.
“Arise Rodimus Prime and light our darkest hour”
Will always give me chills no matter what!!!
Every. Single. Time.
So great!
Kup is the reason anytime my dog sticks his nose in my face I say “get your noodle outta my face.”
Drop everything! Seb is watching the original G1 movie!
I'm not a die-hard Transformers fan, nor did I grow up with this movie or have even fully seen it, but I've come to learn some interesting details about it thanks to RUclips videos and comments. Like how Orson Welles, the voice of Unicron, couldn't have cared less about this role (to the point of not even remembering the character's name in an interview), which ended up being his last performance (he was already one foot in the grave when he recorded his lines, and he passed away before the movie was released), but many Transformers fans still often consider this to be the best voice Unicron has ever gotten.
Another fact I've learned is that Optimus Prime's death was so impactful on the kids who saw the movie that parents sent complaints to the people who made the Transformers cartoon about their children being crying messes after seeing the movie, so Optimus was later brought back to life before the show ended.
Welles pure apathy for the role honestly worked so well for Unicron. This is a godlike being of unimaginable power and age filled purely with evil. Of course he would have no excitement or anything in his voice, just monotone and bored, with only the occasional anger to keep his minions in line. It works so well. Other voice actors for the character somewhat miss the mark by trying too hard to sound "evil". He should be like an eternally bored office boss who has no qualms about firing somebody and ruining their career and life because they wore a mismatched suit or something. Evil to the bone, but not maniacally so, just evil and bored
"Pack a Punch starting Pistol" I'm Dying 😂😂😂
We will never forget this 80’s time capsule.
🎵You got the touch! You got the poweeeeer!🎵
This is a certified classic movie i grew up with. Hearing all kids cry in cinema, including me, when ironhide and optimus prime died was an expirience i'll never forget. And rewatching it i was suprised to hear a swear word that was suprising lol.
Transformers Prime TV show is worth watching too..its amazing
THIS! My absolute favorite tv series of all time!
So is Transformers Armada
And answers the question, "What if the Bay films were good?"
The legendary Orson Welles turned in this performance as Unicron near the end of his life. People have talked about how he sounds like he's phoning it in, but I think it really works for an ancient malevolent god.
Also, the soundtrack is just incredible.
"Where did Unicron come from?" He's kind of like a Transformers version of Galactus, where he's a primal god of destruction and hunger from before time began.
"Imagine Transformers cross over with Godzilla" G1 Transformers did have what was basically Mechagodzilla, in the form of Trypticon, an enormous dinosaur Decepticon that transformed into a city/base.
Doesn't Trypticon also transform into the Nemesis warship now?
@@the_oc_maniac8972 Not in G1, but in other continuities like WFC/FOC
Seb does mention Galactus in the video, so he's pretty spot on
23:20 Those are the Quintessons. In the original series, it was explained that they were the ones that created the Transformers to serve them as their slaves but they eventually rebelled and banished the Quintessons off Cybertron. Transformers: One is based on that.
The Quntessons only made the Decepticons, after they were beaten back from Cybertron by taking the dead.
It was Alpha Trion that made the Autobots in a slow process, like how Orion Pax made Optimus Prime.
@@shauntempley9757 Nope, the Quintessons made both the Autobots and the Decepticons. Autobots were workers and Decepticons were soldiers. It's explained like that in the show
@@me_a_person The Quintessons in a later episode after this film say that was a lie.
You can tell that is true, because the energon found on the Quintesson homeworld could be used without refining by Decepticons, while the Autobots were poisoned by it in the same episode.
The Decepticons on Cybertron were poisoned in turn by the energon found there, while the Autobots could use it.
The poisoning I am talking about, is like how we are poisoned by sea water, to the point if we drink too much, we die from its effects.
What was this like as a kid…..traumatising. I’m 45 and have watched this movie a few times since I was a child and I still feckin’ cry during this scene!
I am 45 also and I was a die hard Transformers fan in the 80s. My young soul couldn't believe they killed Optimus Prime and the others in this movie and I missed seeing them in the cartoon series after the movie. I was one of the kids in tears during that death scene and was like OMG! Is this the end of the Transformers!? Where are they going to go from here without Optimus!?
Prime died for our sin of not buying enough toys. Hasbro wanted to clear the toyshelves for this new wave of toys. They didn't realize they were killing off the surrogate father to a whole generation of latchkey kits.
The opening sequence in the Bumblebee movie, is the closest we've ever got to the animated movie.
I don’t understand why we can’t get a 2 out movie of that. James Cameron was able to make Avatar, it’s possible
I think it’s just too expensive to make, but yeah…I wish they could make it happen.
"Arise, Rodimus Prime" Easily my favorite scene from the movie
"I'll rip out your optics!" So badass!
The movie might have been a failure when it came out but nowadays, it is well remembered
The reason why many characters were killed off was because their toys were discontinued, having characters dying was something that never happened in the cartoon (at least in season 1 and 2)
Optimus’s death traumatized the kids, a lot of them left the theaters in that scene. At that time Hasbro saw Optimus as a product, they didn’t realized Prime was seen as an icon until this happened, to fix this they got to work on a two parter for the season 3 finale called “The return of Optimus Prime” and this is why now every time he dies he always come back
(cough) Dark Awakening (cough)
Saw this in the theater opening weekend. As soon as it was over, I ran out to a pay phone and called my friend and told him the entire movie. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen! The very next weekend, I was back to watch it again.
Before this movie came out, all the TV advertisements for it, always ended with "Does Optimus Prime die?" And let's just say with 80's kids cartoons, death wasn't an unknown thing...
So I was halfway expecting it. I think between that and being eleven years old, it was why I didn’t cry about Optimus Prime. I respected the movie for treating kids like adults who could handle it.
(Not knowing that it was just a marketing ploy)
But then most kids...they couldn't handle it and parents were _pissed._
And not just for that reason...
I remember when I saw it in the theater there was an older man with a young girl. They looked like a grandfather and granddaughter. All the Transformers fighting and dying, that was ok, but when Spike said, "Shit," the old man got up, grabbed his granddaughter, and marched her out of the theater. 😂
The cast this movie got is stacked, the biggest ones I think are Judd Nelson as Hot Rod, Orson Welles as Unicron, and Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron!
Also Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, Eric Idle as Wreck-Gar, and John Moschitta as Blurr (yes, he really can talk that fast)
@@ScooterBond1970 I know that he can.
It's worth noting that Judd Nelson has even come back to voice him again in a couple of shows.
@@pigs18 In Animated, yes I know.
@@transformandgobricks7820 And the web serials.
"How is this film so ruthless?"
Toy sales.
Can't wait for Transformers: One! Finally, the movie that will tell the origins of Optimus and Megatron!
We already know about Optimus Prime's origins, Megatron is the only origin we know the least about.
@@Zentronnot really we’ve seen it in the idw comics explains it just fine
@@GodKai24blat lol, IDW 😂
@@Zentron wut about it
@@Zentronbefore they went woke.Megatron's origin is actually a really good comic.
"Two big deaths in a half an hour" You apparently didn't see the shuttle fight, when a third of the cast got killed off
My dad showed me and my brother this movie when we were kids. My favorite thing about the movie was the DVD case. It featured Optimus Prime holding the matrix along with his fellow autobots, but it was one of those scratchy-changing-picture-when-tilted. When the case was tilted, it showed Hot Rod holding the matrix with his autobot friends and Daniel.
To be honest, now that I think about it, this movie is so much better than most of the Michael Bay movies. They're good, but they just fell short after Mark Walberg was in the next few movies.
Still, I'm so glad you watched this hidden gem. This really takes me back!
One thing that I hate about the Michael Bay movies is that the transformations are so disorienting in his movies. Growing up with the 80s cartoon and this movie and of course the literally million Transformer's toys (I swear every singe Transformer you saw you could buy a toy for!) I could at least follow the transformations and they made sense. Michael Bay seemed to use the transformation with all the moving parts and stuff to totally disorientate the audience and that turned me off of his films. It was visually uncomfortable.
16:41 Actually, in later lore, it was explained that Unicron is the evil twin brother of the God of Transformers himself, PRIMUS! He was the embodiment of creation while Unicron, of destruction!
This is essentially the Season Finale of G1 Transformers Season 2.
Season 3 picks up where the movie left off, and yes, Optimus Prime is legitimately dead.
It traumatized an entire generation of kids.
Don't forget that scene where the Decepticons break into the ship and slaughter Ironhide, Ratchet, and Prowl, or that Megatron, the Incesticons, Skywarp, and Thundercracker all got transformed into Galvatron, Sweeps, Cyclonus, and Scourge.
And that Galvatron slaughtered Starscream.
This movie was an absolute massacre designed to clear out the toyline and set it up to sell new characters.
Instead, it absolute devastated kids.
INCESTicons?
Movie recommendations for Seb:
Shindlers list
The boy in the striped pajamas
All quiet on the western front
1917
Come And See
The hunt (jagten)
Taken 2 & 3
Prisoners
The pianist
Cast away
Captain Philips
The imitation game
Her
Keep up the good content Seb ❤
Congrats on 300k subscribers Seb
We are definitely going to give Seb some ptsd with these ones, especially Come and see.
Lets just add Downfall, Stalingrad and one flew over the cuckoo's nest to the list and we are good to go 👍
@@JOJ0606 🤣😅
Owls of Ga'hoole
@@Watcherobot that is exactly what I've been wanting him to watch too
The context for this movie is important. It took place within the timeframe of the G1 TV series, after seasons 1 (16 episodes) and 2 (49!! episodes). Suffice it to say, the fans had had plenty of time to fall in love with Optimus, so when he was killed off, it was quite heartbreaking.
The guest voice cast in this was especially interesting. This was the last role of Orson Welles (of War of the Worlds radio drama fame, among many other credits), who voiced Unicron. And the voice for Galvatron is none other than Mr. Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy!
**Seb wonders why the Bayverse can't touch the 1986 movie**
Me With Gritted Teeth: Yes, indeed WHY PARAMOUNT?
I remember going to see this movie in theaters a few times when I was 10. We were C R Y I N G!! Back then parents would drop their kids off with money and be like "GO AWAY" and we would go see a movie or 2 and go to the arcade. Oh good days.
The events of this movie happen after the second season of the original TV-show.
It was literally produced in order to exchange most of the established characters and sell new toys.
And I think it worked out rather well.
There was another season after this movie and I think some episodes making up a short fourth season or something the like.
After that the show was more or less continued in Japan with various spin-off shows while in the US the next entry in this continuity was a 3D animated show named Beast Wars, which also ran over a few seasons before it was followed up with Beast Machines.
Of course Japan did something extra again creating another spin-off show named Beast Wars 2, which was followed by a theatrically released movie and a second spin-off show named Beast Wars Neo.
So technically this continuity of the Transformers franchise, assuming you really want to count each and everything, only ended many years later with the end of Beast Wars Neo.
As for how it ends..... well, just in the unlikely case you ever decide to watch all of this I won't spoil it.
It does involve a mammoth and a lion though.
I watched this as a child and to this day it’s a must watch movie and I refer to the 1986 movie as the best transformers
(the reason for it having so much combat and transformations is because the movie was made to sell toys of all the characters)
25:20 I’ve actually never realized this but Transformers Fall of Cybertrom game actually made that exact scene as a cutscene. That’s sick
The game also included the coronation scene as well! It was such a love letter to G1 fans, that game
I was seven 7 years old when this came out and it was both heart wrenching and heart lifting and I was one of those kids that was obsessed with Transformers and I had every toy you can imagined
Orson Wells DIED making this movie; he'd been in very poor health for a long time. His last interview had him talking about how "I play a toy who spends hours doing terrible things to other toys."
why is this so funny LMAO
Saw this in the theater with my Grandma, it was let!! I couldn't believe it when Optimus baught it, my Gran got mad when dude the dropped an S bomb.
Yes Megatron turning into a gun is the coolest thing in all of transformers
As a Gen-Xer I saw this on opening day in 1986. Packed theater with screaming fans. It introduced the Matrix before the Matrix and the tesseract before the Avengers. Yes, I grew up with this. You can be jealous now.
The multifaced creatures in the movie are Quintessons. They are actually the creators of both the Autobots and the Decepticons. Autobots were created for "domestic duties and labor" while Decepticons were created for military purposes. The Quintessons are very powerful, but also pretty defenseless, so they can access multiple universes and shut off access to entire regions of space, but they are helpless when their servants rise up as the Sharkticons did in the movie. I don't remember if that was retconned starting with this movie, or if that was always the lore. After all, it's been 38 years. I'm in my early 50s, so I actually watched the show and this movie when they originally came out. Optimus Prime's death was heartbreaking for everybody who watched the show.
So matrix is just a term that is used in science, math, logic, electronics, all sorts of places. It originally meant "something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form". In Transformers "Matrix of Leadership" is just something that powers up a chosen Autobot to be a leader for the rest.
Now some of those other uses of matrix, like in math or electronics where it means an organized array of digital information or arrangement of circuits, that's where the idea came to certain Sci Fi writers that a matrix like that could be used to make a simulated world. The first time that word was used for that concept was a Tom Baker era Doctor Who serial from 1976.
This film is my childhood. Peak transformers
Part of the impact you aren’t getting at the beginning is two seasons prior to this and many reruns of getting to know the individual characters you see in the first 10 minutes of this film horribly dead in battle. If you explore the series on RUclips, watch seasons one and two first.
You’ll also see Grimlock was a more interesting, dimensional character in those two seasons. He was something of a troll in the sense that he would lead his Dinobots against Prime’s command. He would talk back to Prime and those in charge. He had a charming way of being a bulldog. The third season really dumbed him down.
Unicron is literally one of my favorite villains and favorite characters in anything ever. This movie is a certified banger.
I saw this in the theater when I was 10 years old. I was surprised that there were so many adult men in the movies without kids. When the old Autobots and Optimus Prime died, you could hear people crying in the theater. It was really surreal. Grimlock is my favorite. As an adult, I can quote the lines in this movie for days. lol
I screamed as soon as I saw the title
26:09 The song that plays in the background was made by the legendary musician Weird Al Yankovic! He even later returned to the Transformers franchise to voice a character in Transformers Animated Wreck-Gar! And now he recently voiced Cosmos in Transformers Earthspark.
I'm so glad that you're watching the OG Transformers movie, Seb! This one is a classic right here and the Transformers franchise has lasted for over 40 years now.
The openning city battle goes so hard, the choice to have optimus prime die by bleeding out from a gut-shot on an operating table is definitely a bold one.
Not to mention Ironside getting executed via a shot to the back of the head, 5 mins in by Megatron. It really is just ruthless in the openning brawl.
The main purpose of the entire Transformers cartoon was to promote the toy line. The movie is essentially season 2.5 of the series. The reason so many characters were killed off/reformatted was to get rid of the 1984 and '85 characters in order to promote the 1986 line of characters. What Hasbro didn't realize was that the cartoon had taken on a life of it's own with children. So when they decided to kill off several of those characters, especially Optimus Prime, there was a MASSIVE backlash from fans. People were walking out of the theaters because kids were so upset by it and there were one kid who actually locked himself in his room for 2 weeks because of it. Back then, characters on cartoon shows didn't die so this was a huge blow. I saw the movie in theaters and I have no memory of it after Prime's death. To this day I still tear up even hearing the music that plays during his death scene.
Watched this in '86, and still watch it once a year, and got all the music on my playlist.
This was so good in the theater at 9 years old. Still love it.
I love this movie, it’s such a hidden gem. I didn’t grow up with it (i wasn’t born in the 80s, I was born in 2000) but I’ve heard stories of how kids reacted to this movie, specifically Primes death. Many kids locked themselves in their closets and bathrooms crying over Optimus’s death, He was (And still is) an icon. And hasbro didn’t even realize it until it was too late.
Thank you sir. For giving such a response. Most people just don’t understand.
I grew up with this & it was fucking AMAZING. Saw it in the theater & it basically defined all of Transformers for me. Optimus dying was like the end of the world for us lol. I love this damn movie. The music, the cinematography, the action, the visual style, voice work.. it's so awesome.
& as you said "this is THE Transformers film" Even after every other Transformers film that's come out, to me, this is the ACTUAL Transformers film.
This brought back so many memories 😢 it was like watching avengers endgame as a little kid
Saw this in theaters when I was a kid. Flashy bright lights and all. We weren't concerned or bothered by bright flashes. No one was. People have become too damn soft anymore. Also, Grimlock and the Dinobots have been, and always will be my favorites. They're what got me into this franchise to begin with.
Ah yes, because epileptics are just overly sensitive crybabies…
This was my favorite movie when I was a kid and probably the one I’ve seen the most. It’s always gonna be #1 in my book. 😊
This movie takes place after the first season of the old Transformers cartoon so it rolls right into the middle of a story. The movie was to promote new toys and get rid of some old ones, which is why plenty of bots died in the beginning and others were introduced. The G1 series (and this movie) are VERY disconnected from the Bayformer movies so there is no point in trying to connect the two franchises; there are similarities for sure but they are not related. This is not uncommon in the Transformers franchise; a lot of the animated series, movies, games and comics are either a retelling, something new, or take place in a different timeline/universe
This is THE movie of Transformers 🔥🔥
Words can describe the emotion and nostalgia I feel watching this😢I was literally a CHILD in the 2000’s when my dad put me onto the show and I couldn’t stop watching it…I remember when Optimus died I cried 😂and seeing galvatron was the coolest thing ever
Finally Transformers!
I know/read a comic strip about Rodimus Prime (Hot Rod) and Unicrons Head where also explain that Unicron and his brother Prime were godlike eternities who fight for order and chaos in the universe and both put their spirits in planets. Prime become cybertron and Unicrons his own planet/machine to still fight against prime. And the religion of Unicrons created the split in the cybertron population in autobots and decepticons and lead to a civil war the destruction of cybertron.
Great reaction - love that you loved this. This was a massive turning point for the classic Generation 1 Transformers. You cant beat the originals!
I saw this in theaters the day it came out! 11 y/o me bawling in the theater when Optimus died.
Also, in AOE, the Dinobots never f#cking talked, or spoke the entire movie, they just growled and roared as if they were dogs.
Also love soundwave and how loyal he is
Optimus Prime was the father I never had growing up, and my morals all come from him (dad worked too much). Seeing him die in the movie traumatised the living hell out of me for MANY years! And they then had the nerve to bring him back in the 3'rd season of the G1 series, only to kill him off again in an even more horrific manner?!? WORST PERIOD OF MY LIFE!!
I hate Hasbro!
I love this movie. I'm glad it's aged so well over the years
didn't expect this one
G1 Transformers is my childhood and I love it
It's not explained well at the beginning but this planet that first gets eaten is a small, peaceful colony planet called Lithone. Unicron is slowly moving closer to Cybertron.
I saw this movie a fair few years after its cinema controversy, so I wasn't one of the kids crying in the cinema, I simply just thought it was a cool Transformers movie!
It was good to see another female Transformer with Arcee's appearance, as we got very few episodes prior to this where we saw that female's actually existed on Cybertron.
I got to see this in the theatre with my older brother when I was 6 back in 85! Still love this movie to the day.
Back when this movie first got released on VHS they took the swearing out. It made it hard to get any of my friends who didn't see it in the theaters to believe me when I told them Spike said Shit and Ultra Magnus said Dammit. (I was an impressionable child. Hearing swearing in a cartoon movie blew my mind. HAHA)
Grew up watching this cause of my dad and love it
I love people reacting to this and realizing why so many people had problems with Bay.
29:45 Well, Hasbro is making Studio Series figures based on this movie. There's even a Haslab Unicron, which goes for about 700$!
Transformers season 3 follows this movie directly.
My childhood lol
29:34 Best line EVER!!
G.I. JOE: The (animated) movie 80s
I loved G.I. Joe and the Transformers cartoons when I was a kid. But I used to wake up at 4:30am with out an alarm clock to watch my favorite cartoon ROBOTECH. You can find them on RUclips. Hard to believe they haven't made a live action film of that yet.
congrats on 300k seb, well deserved.
I’ve seen this multiple times and I’m a 2003 baby I’ve always remembered the death scenes and songs in this hahah
Yeah it was placed in the middle of the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the tv show.
My childhood movie. Ty seb
congrats on 300k!
They killed off so many characters because the toy company wanted to introduce new characters/toys to sell, not realizing how attached kids were to the old characters. They were going to do a similar thing in the GI Joe movie that came out shortly after, by killing their leader, Duke. But after the backlash to Optimus' death, they retconned Duke's death to "He's in a coma", and a line of dialogue at end that Duke was recovered offscreen. 😏
29:35 action figures based of this movie are insane
Primus is the god of the Transformers. The Creator. The first transformer. Primus is also the planet Cybertron itself.
Unicron is Primus' twin brother, the God Of Destruction.
Similarly, Ultra Magnus is Optimus Prime's twin brother.
So you weren't totally off-base when you saw Ultra Magnus and thought it was Optimus.
They don't look like it, but they have identical bodies, except that Optimus is red, blue and grey, while Magnus is all white with blue and black accents
Ultra Magnus LOOKS huge and different because his trailer transforms into the Magnus Armor, and makes him blue, white, and red.
Optimus and Magnus weren't originally brothers.
ORIGINALLY there were 4 unrelated robots, Orion Pax, Ariel, Dion, and Magnum.
All 4 were killed by Megatron when he made his turn from heroic slave rebellion leader to conquering genocidal tyrant
Their corpses were collected by Alpha Trion (Alpha Trion is the 3rd of the 13 Primes - the Primes were the 13 God Transformers created by the Creator God, Primus).
Alpha Trion began rebuilding the robots as super robots with bigger upgraded superheroic forms that would allow them to lead the war against Megatron.
- Orion Pax was rebuilt as Optimus Prime and given the Matrix Of Leadership
- Ariel (Orion's girlfriend) was rebuilt as Elita-1 (Optimus' girlfriend), and she was seemingly given.....something, but I forget what it was.
and the last two robots were in much worse shape and couldn't BOTH be repaired.
Parts from one had to be sacrificed to rebuild the other.
- And so Magnum was rebuilt as Ultra Magnus, with an identical body to Optimus, but then he was also given the Magnus Armor, which would transform him to look more like his original Magnum body. Thus reforging Optimus and Magnus as identical twin brothers, recreated by their new "father" Alpha Trion.
- Dion, seemingly died.
Although it's thought that the leftover scraps MAY have been used to build the robot Huffer - a tiny Optimus Prime style truck who has a close association with Optimus, and hauls his trailer around for him like a loyal minion, and has EXTREMELY similar colors to Dion.
Didn’t see this coming. What a treat.
This movie takes place after the first two years of the TV series. That's where most of the characters were from.
10:04 You have no idea Seb how much Transformers have borrowed from Star Wars!
Man literally forgets everything he saw in live action series. You need to consider watching Transformers: Prime and Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy and Transformers: Botbots.
Every Gen-X kid when Vision dies (the 2nd time) in Infinity War... "YES! That's how it feels!" ... there is no way Vision losing his color is not inspired by Prime turning grey when he dies.
7:40 RIP wheeljack, the first transformer :(
I remember running home from school to watch Transformers and G. I. Joe
Now you need to watch transformers prime. You wont regret it
My Dad introduced me to this Film ever since I was like 5 or 3 and It's still one of the best Films I've ever seen!
Also Optimus's fight scene is the Greatest scene in Movie History!!
2:32 comment.-Ernie Moore Jr.
300k congrats
There are unfortunately no other g1 films, you could always watch the G1 show, the highs are higher, but the lows are much much lower, a lot of episodes are also out of order due to some issues behind the scenes lol.