How much do you like the original movie?

Optimus Prime · Post by **Optimus Prime** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:26 am

I give it 5/5, even though my fav. TF went down in battle. But atleast he went down fighting...

Post by **Best First** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:27 am

i think its not that great really, if it was another toy franchise i would dislike it, but i like it cos its TFs and its the best g1 official animation out there

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:41 am

first 20/30 mins is ok, but i kinda wane a bit after starscream's coronation.... by this point we're only exposed to the newer characters (and the Dinos) which, imho, isn't enough to keep me interested really. The older characters at the beginning are who keep me interested... once they're swept aside and the movie chars take center stage, i kinda switch off.

if it'd just been movie chars from the beginning or just older chars primarily thoughout then it would be better i reckon.

Pretender Bumblebee · Post by **Pretender Bumblebee** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:46 am

Ive said it before and Ill say it again.. it was anything but steller. Could have been much better and I hated that they took it away from the fun path that season 2 was in.. I thought the matrix , unicron and quintessons were just thrusted into things too quickly ruining what happend prior and I just never liked it. Its still a must have and very important part of TF history.. I watch it and will do so often.. but I never loved it even when I saw it as a wee lad. Could have been so much better and it just seemed like a good season 3 episode to me more then the grand movie they tried to make it here.

Thats just my opinion.. I know many love it and I think its great as more TF stuff is more gooder.. I just never liked it for some reason. At least Bumblebee survived.. thats all I care about

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:38 pm

It's rather like Flash Gordon in that, objectively, they're both insanely bad movies, but I still love'em to bits.

Post by **Denyer** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:56 am

Unconditional love. Particularly the soundtrack...

Not to be confused with the notion I might think it's a good film. The number of characters it switches through is probably confusing even to an existing fan on first watch through (it's been so long, the only thing that sticks in my head about first reactions is Prime's death.) On the other hand, it introduced the concept of genuine war to the cartoon, and the production values still look decent enough today.

Backscatter · Post by **Backscatter** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:22 pm

I give the Movie 5/5. Why? It's a 1986 movie and it's still be discussed in 2005 and beyond. While I didn't like all the events of the Movie, over the years it's been fun learning interesting things about it such as scenes that were cut, and the numerous animation errors. It has a soundtrack that still sounds good to me. I like 80's music. It's been fun collecting the Movie on VHS, DVD and even 2 versions of it on Laserdisc. (There are some noticeable differences in the different versions) Finally in 2005, Galvatron gets released in his movie colors, and there are still numerous fans to appreciate it. Maybe Unicron is now overused, but the Movie began the long path to Armada and Energon Unicron along with a terrific G1 Unicron statue. After all these years, the Movie is still watchable and enjoyable, even that bad parts of it. That can't be said of that many movies. What other movies from 1986 are we still discussing, dissing, taking apart, admiring etc. ? If only Hot Rod had listened to Kup. Finally, the Movie didn't kill off Optimus Prime. In a round about way,instead of being forgotten with childhod, it made Optimus Prime immortal. Who in 1986 really thought that Transformers would be this popular in the real 2005? The story is still far from over.

Post by **Denyer** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:40 am

Backscatter wrote:It's a 1986 movie and it's still be discussed in 2005 and beyond

Yeah, but so is Police Academy 3, despite years of therapy...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:07 am

Its talked about in a good non condesending way tho, of course.

Birdman · Post by **Birdman** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:45 pm

Well, it was a bit of a mixed bag, to be honest. The opening scenes are good, setting up Unicron as a force to be reckoned with, establishing the tone by having the Decepticon boarding party kill the shuttle crew (i.e. this is real war, with casualties), the whole attack on Autobot City, the big Prime/ Megs face-off (with both coming off worse for wear, and I'd say that both would have died without outside interference), the pathos of Prime's 'death' (ANOTHER one?), Starscream showing his true colours, the way in which a dying Megatron, having been left to his fate, faces up to Unicron, the reformatting of the dead/dying 'cons, Starscream's come-uppance...and then things take a turn for the worse, due to (as others have said) the absence of familiar faces from here on in.
They SHOULD have shown a few old characters kicking the bucket, and probably even a few old favourites, but just not as many. After all, some old characters whose toys were also out of production by then were just not featured in the Movie, and others could similarly have been left out of Season 3 without being killed off.
It should also have been made clearer that Skywarp and Thundercracker became Cyclonus and Scourge (even the colour schemes matched), with the Insecticons becoming the Deluxe Insecticons (yeah, as if THAT would happen due to the toy moulds belonging to Bandai).
I also hated the whole idea that a new character like Hot Rod could be the 'chosen one', as it seemed (to my 11 year old self, at least) to lessen the memory of Optimus Prime, as he WASN'T the chosen one!
Daniel, Wheelie and, to a lesser extent, Wreck-Gar were annoying, as was the dancing. Also, I don't like 80's soft metal, so the soundtrack isn't my cup of tea (though some of the incidental music is alright).

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:10 am

Even as a kid, I felt it quite an outrage that Hot Rod, the very same people who caused Prime's death gets to be the new Prime. Maybe he was planning it all along?

khyron · Post by **khyron** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:44 am

It's a classic, decades later I still watch this a couple times a year. Sure the soundtrack is pretty hard to listen to with a straight face - but dude how many cartoons can you watch where war seems real and characters actually get injured and die? I love this flick.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:14 am

khyron wrote:but dude how many cartoons can you watch where war seems real and characters actually get injured and die?

Majority of the anime?

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:18 am

khyron wrote:Sure the soundtrack is pretty hard to listen to with a straight face

heh, now i don't have much of a problem with the soundtrack, it's the plot i can't keep a straight face with!

*starting humming Instruments of Destruction*

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:20 pm

Dare! Better believe you can survive!

You hold the future in your hands! (yeayeayeayeayeayeayea)

Dare! There is a place where dreams survive!

Um... movie. Fairly cool and epic, though I was pissed off as a kid by the intro of all new characters. At least Bumblebee survived. It gave some great material to the comic though, allowing the Fur-Man to give Unicron a cool backstory. Actually, why didn't the movie give Uni's backstory?

They also didn't kill the Dinobots, thank goodness. For epic explosion splash-bang fun, it gets 4/5. But it ain't a patch on G2.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:34 pm

sprunkner wrote:Actually, why didn't the movie give Uni's backstory?

That would involve plot, which the movie just skimped on in general really.
Best not to confuse the little kiddies with such complicated and irrelevent things such as backstory for characters and their motivations for their actions...

man-with-the-dogs · Post by **man-with-the-dogs** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:21 am

of course it's a two-hour toy ad. of course the plot is full of more holes than a hooker infected with the flesh-eating virus caught in a drive-by. it's transformers! that being said, they should of featured more season two and one characters along with the new guys. particularly jazz and the other survivors.

Car Wash of Doom · Post by **Car Wash of Doom** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:54 pm

5/5

Transformers The Movie Rocks!

Sure, i could pick holes in it but everytime i try i remember GI Joe The Movie and realise how lucky we were compared to all those poor GI Joe fans.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:24 am

I think its so sweet and loyal that no one gave it the lowest mark.

I wonder how the new film will fare.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:10 am

spiderfrommars wrote:I think its so sweet and loyal that no one gave it the lowest mark.

*whistles innocently*

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