Transformers One DVD Commentary Review

Hey everybody, this is Dan Gilbazan, voice of

G1 Bumblebee, and you're listening to All Things

Transformers. Hello and welcome to All Things

Transformers. I'm your host, Steve Megatron,

and joining me for this trek into the world of

the Transformers is TFG1 Mike. Hello. Hello.

So today, tonight, whenever you're listening

to this, it is our final ATTF of 2024, and we

are going to be doing a DVD commentary of Transformers

1. That's right, because it's available on all

digital platforms as of this recording. The DVD

actual aspect of it would not be available until

December 17th, I believe, because that's when

my pre -order is supposed to go through on Amazon.

But commentary, whatever, you know what we're

talking about, folks. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Just

the facts. Transformers 1 for those not in the

know who have been living under a rock. Directed

by Josh Cooley. Screenplay by Eric Pearson, Andrew

Barr, and Gabriel Ferrari. Based on, obviously,

the Hasbro's Transformers. Starring Chris Hemsworth,

Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan

-Michael Keyes, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Fishburne,

John Hamm, and more. Peter Cullen is not in this

film at all folks just to let you know up front

which is fine I don't have a problem with it,

but I just want to let everyone know up front

that he's not here and That's it. The only other

things that I've got is three quick questions

Did we watch this film in theaters? I'm pretty

sure we didn't so prior to that just yeah one

last thing on the cast. We do have a couple that

have been in Transformers previously on the cast

and that would be Steve Blum. Yep. Playing the

announcer bot and some of the guards as well

as John Bailey who plays Soundwave. That's right

I forgot about that one. So yeah we get we get

some veteran Transformers people on this so that's

that's awesome. Absolutely and as we go through

the commentary folks as always we will comment

on the voice acting and things like that and

everything else so we'll save that but did we

watch the film in theaters i'm pretty sure for

the both of us is a hard no. No and. It wasn't

like I didn't want to. I just had weeks. I had

all kinds of crap going on and I was trying something

terrible to make this happen. I was hoping to

get in on some of the press run and sadly, I

don't know whose call that was for the American

side. I know the UK side got really well off

as far as the press materials. The US side didn't

really seem like they cared to get any kind of

coverage. Nope. Which is rather unfortunate because,

and we'll get into this as we watch it, but it's

actually not that bad considering the crap we've

been force -fed since, you know, Revenge of the

Fallen. The thing is, it's on track with the

rest of Transformers films, really, because you've

got... It's got a budget of somewhere between

75 and 147 million dollars and as of this recording

December 9th 2024 It's made a hundred and twenty

nine point four million dollars which Okay, sure.

It didn't make its budget back at all. Neither

did it neither did Transformers the movie they

were both theatrical flops, but And I guarantee

you, 40 years from now, if the brand is still

alive in 40 years, some kids in this generation

are going to say that Transformers 1 was their

version of Transformers the movie, because the

thing about this movie is, it's starting a whole

new thing. And I hope they do more with Transformers

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. However, I don't think

they are, because apparently, according to Brian

Cox, Or Chris not Brian Cox Chris Cox. Yeah,

they are stopping Hasbro is done co -financing

big -budget movies. Oh God Yeah, and to be fair

Hasbro I Wish that they would have just backed

a different pony on that because they They clearly

didn't know what they were doing plus Chris Cox

just honestly doesn't want Fun like he wants

he's a gamer he like I don't know what level

of gamer But he's one where he just really doesn't

care for the rest of the properties. So he's

shedding whatever he can So he's basically taking

Brian Brian Goldner's Achievements and taking

a large massive dump on them as he flushes Hasbro

down the toilet That's that's right. So folks

oh You're gonna hear some sort of clip from the

movie. Hopefully I can get a clip that is not

Has no music in it or anything like that because

heaven forbid you put any music in a podcast

if you don't actually own for fair use and every

other bullshit thing that Podcasting has become

in 2024 You're gonna hear some sort of vocal

clip here and we're gonna come back with a countdown

to start the commentary right after this Let's

give them a head start. Why not? It's not like

you can transform. Oh, yeah Well watch this we

are back folks and we're gonna do a three two

one countdown here in a moment to make sure that

you're counting down with us and You can get

it all synced up to the movie. Hopefully nothing

goes wrong. Hopefully the internet doesn't do

any stupid things I know I'm jinxing it at this

moment, but three two one click Then we get the

stars of paramount That's right This will never

get old like watching the paramount logo, oh

no, it'll never get old also a mountain so it's

cool Then the Hasbro studios with all of their

various properties, yep Hasbro entertainment,

I'm sorry. Yes Hasbro entertainment And we've

got some airplanes and flying over almost looks

like Gotham City Yeah, New Republic pictures

Not familiar with them, but nope neither A lot

of production companies. Uh -huh. Upside down

Cybertron? Yup. One thing I still can't get over

is Orion Pax doing a B &E. He's like, I need

data. Well, he was Orion Pax. This was before

he became the stoic grandfather that is Optimus

Prime. So he is a kid here, technically. True.

Hemsworth does pretty decent at being like a

energetic... Oh, Ryan. Yeah. But still. Now graphically,

this is this has been like really nice. I think

it's funny how he blew on the data chip, though,

almost like a Nintendo cartridge. I love the

visuals. Oh, the visuals are awesome. Oh, they're

so good. He's like trying to soak in the information

about the Matrix here. Yep. And we've got the

drone here. Trying to search him out. And we

got these other robots. Ooh, the Matrix. Shiny.

At least kept it looking the same. Yeah, I would

hope I mean no one wants the matrix to look like

a knife Revenge of the fallen revenge of the

stupid is more like it Oh criminal, I think it's

funny punches it Why are we all yelling? That's

right. And then he just runs away. Get him. Do

you like the idea of them? Turning the transformation

cogs and The sparks kind of thing is like I like

that becoming a whole brand new thing Yeah, and

that's that's something I've really enjoyed is

Them trying to kind of show that they were just

robots and then they had to kind of earn it.

Yep One of the flyers funny enough that when

he jumped out of the building a few moments ago

looked like depth charge in his vehicle form

Yep Some of these guys kind of remind me of like

Transformers Prime. I love it. Some of them do.

Yeah, absolutely All the different colors all

that it like that's all seeker stuff those weren't

seekers just now, but just the colors of them

Reminded me of all the various seekers that we

have What I love about this is they didn't do

the copy -paste thing that Star Trek Picard did

in season one Like everybody is different. Yep

The bot who was behind you? Mhm. I don't remember

the history of why he's called D -16, but what

do you think of the name? I think it's kind of

stupid. Yeah. It's like he's Bumblebee at this

point. Like, he has the stumblings of Bumblebee.

Never trust in Sentinel Prime. This version or

any other version. Nope. Never trust Sentinel.

Megatronus Prime. It's funny the bot directly

behind... Orion looks like Jazz yep oh he gave

him a sticker he gave him a Decepticon sticker

the Megatronus mm -hmm this also adds like the

that end of sadness at the end. There's Wheeljack

and Jazz. Didn't catch that the first time. No,

but it adds the sadness of the whole relationship

between A -16 and Orion all the way through to

Transformers the movie, the 86 film. What did

you think of having the Avengers in this film?

Okay, so since he's not currently on screen and

we're seeing Alita one and her bots fly through

these mines and stuff well, technically he is

on screen but I As soon as I heard the news that

Hemsworth was gonna play Orion Pax. I'm like,

oh fuck not Thor God damn it Not mr. Girly girl

from Secretary from Ghostbusters 2016, please

Look, I know a lot of people love crims Chris

Hemsworth. I was never one of those people But

after watching this do that I've seen this once

already Since it like I said before in the podcast.

It's been out on digital for I don't know about

a month or so maybe less So I'd already seen

the movie once And I was like, okay, it works.

He's not technically turning into Optimus just

yet. I wish they would have had Peter on the

back burner once he actually got the Matrix at

the end of the movie and had the switch happen,

but that's just... They could have also gotten

John Bailey. They did too, yeah. John does a

good Optimus. He's not, I mean he's not Peter,

but... He's not Peter, but... He does a good.

He does a really good Optimus Prime. Mm hmm.

He's probably the closest we have. To Peter.

Yeah, to Peter. Yeah. Yeah. And if with Peter's

age and kind of being retired out of the role,

I would like to see. I would like to see, like,

John take over. But yeah, that would be amazing.

Yeah. Yeah, I didn't catch that the first time

that this is jazz. Yep. I did. Tory's leg off.

That's bright. That's a bright explosion. Yeah,

it was. Oh, that's not good. No, that's not good

at all. Oh, there's side swipe and iron hide.

Yeah, they're all there. They're just not all

like. They're not all first -person present of

like they have specific characters they want

to be in the foreground and everybody else's

background and it's nice to kind of catch and

see them and kind of stuff and I think that's

what Sideswipe and Ironhide and a lot of the

others are there for It's just hey you got this

you see this. This is that person. This is that

person. I do love the design of this Whatever

he is That reminds me of same Dark wing Yes,

dark wing that's what his name is but his body

his whole face reminds me of Daft Punk when they

had their Tron mask. Oh, yeah No, I do. I do

love the designs of the characters in this film.

Yeah, I was even looking at this whole film I'm

like what figure could I reconfigure into? The

one version of, uh, you know, Megatron pre -beast.

And I do like how D16, his helmet is an homage

to the original, original design of Megatron.

Cause originally Megatron wasn't all light gray

or silver. He was, he had that black helmet and

he had other signs of. Of the color black in

him like this is so I'm loving this design. Well,

this is actually the original comic design from

Marvel Right. Yeah But you can see here like

why Megatron kind of ended up the way he did

because he was wronged by all of the different

leaders of the Autobots or the Transformers.

I wonder which Sentinel is more of a dick, this

guy or the one from Animated voiced by Taliesin

Colman? So the one from Animated at least was

a good guy. This one, he's... He's on a whole

other level. Yep. And I love how they changed

the matrix design just a little bit to make it

his colors in that image alone, because it's

supposed to be quote unquote his. These look

like Borg drone alcoves. Yep. And attack him

into the icon 5 ,000 See this is where like Orion

I kind of agree with them. It's like Let's try

to better ourselves. Yep Learn something see

where we fit in. Yep Yeah, yeah, yeah follow

me I Feel like this is the the trash compactor

scene from Star Wars even though it's not it's

this is an actual level in like the war for Cybertron

games. Yep Very cool The nice little subtle touches

in this that aren't just hitting you over the

head but most Transformers fans will get most

of it. And that's what I enjoyed about it is

they purposely put nods all over. You get a little

bit of Star Wars like here with the Icon 5000,

you get a little bit of like Transformers, you

get a little bit of Star Trek, you get a little

bit of various eras of Transformers. Every time

pack smiles, I just like I just want to punch

him in the face I know I cringe every time I

see the smiles out of any of them Like d16 I

kind of get because you don't expect it because

you know what he's gonna become but Optimus without

his I know he's not optimist yet but Orion packs

a lot of faith and I know the Orion packs in

generation one didn't have a faceplate but I

just saw RC Mm -hmm. Yeah, she's here. Yep Cuz

you allowed it Mm -hmm Cuz you made a deal with

the quote. Oh, sorry folks spoilers You made

a deal with the quintessence you evil bastard

Mm -hmm Megatronus. Yep. I Saw vector prime in

there, too Oh, that's where they are. They're

in the traffic light. I didn't recognize that

at first, but I should have. Are you crazy? Sure

feels like it. Those aren't miners and I can't

believe I'm not seeing it. Miners. That's a Ryan

Peck's in day 16. They're like woo woo. Yup.

And I love how the racetrack just keeps going.

Like it isn't a solid, consistent track. It follows

the path of wherever they're going. I like that

a lot. That's cool. Oh, those were some of the

cyberbikes, the laser cycles from G2. Yep. They're

in the top 100! That's right! Outrunner Transformers

Carriages Countdown will never happen again.

Grabs a jet. That's right. You bet it wouldn't

Starscream. That would be fortuitous. It's in

a ride fellas whoo, they're now in third jet

storm. Yeah sandstorm. Yep Magnetics. This is

unbelievable. I hit him right in the butt. And

then they get run over. Yep. Chromia comes in

from behind to take the win. Nope. Not second

place. You didn't cross the finish line. Agent

Dr. Ratchet. That's right. you participated that's

right i'm not talking to you this whole thing

between them reminds me of um dude you've turned

into a monster Doesn't even remember the line.

I can't believe it folks. Oh, I know the line

Yeah, you know you're supposed to say it dumbass.

You made me this way. That's right Yeah, that's

freaky. Oh, yeah, that's arachnid for you. Yep

Transformers Prime. So the thing is I think her

design was better in Transformers Prime. I mean

the design here looks cool but the colors in

Transformers Prime was better. Thank you. We

have best care of my butt. Alright. Best torture

chambers, probably. I am less mad at you. I hate

that guy. And this is where we meet him, folks.

He looks so goofy! His face! Oh my god! Like,

ugh! Hmm... Should've left the mask on. Long

time on time forever Kind of reminds me of an

old an old Autobot tale. It was called forever

is a long time coming in season 3 Sound like

a sound wave. Oh, yeah. Thank God. I can't hear

the audio for this because God I hated that Yeah,

I hated that That was the only gripe I had with

the film was like there was too many like adult

jokes or swearing in it for like a kid film Like

and I get that the original film had it to like

was spiked, but it was a human Yeah It was a

human and this was just kind of stupid Like it

wasn't like a well -placed one Like Yes spike

in the eighty six as everyone knows has said

oh shit what are we going to do now yeah i mean

his was. Yeah but yeah exactly kind of dumb.

And then didn't alter who said damn. Somebody

said damn yeah. I forget i think it was ultra

magnus but i could be it was almost four years

i've seen the movie multiple times in that time

but. I'm getting too old for this shit. Probably

introducing them to his table mates here. Yeah,

his friend Steve. Dude, you never get a break.

No, I don't. They activated a message, and it's

from Alpha Trion or whatever, and Zeta Prime

has fallen. And they now have coordinates to

wherever the Matrix supposedly is or wherever

the ruins are. It's funny. They're just going

down a rabbit hole chasing the Matrix. Or Steve.

And it's definitely working. Easy. I know a way,

but it won't be easy. Only 49 sub levels to go.

Garbage in, garbage out. And they run into Alita.

There's Prowl and Ironhide. Yep, yep He's suspicious

who wouldn't be And they got trapped. Yep. And

the front of the vehicle looks like Prime. Yep.

She's actually moving like Black Widow. Yeah.

I like that. Which is intentional. Yeah, well,

yeah, obviously, because of Scarlett being the

voice actress for her, but yeah. I think that's

cool as hell. They gotta do the Mega Man climb.

Mm -hmm. Whoa, Nelly. Oh boy, don't look down,

folks. Climb faster. Here we go, mm -hmm And

they've never seen the surface nope Look at all

that color Yeah, I know right You're a TV now

in color Mountains are just creating themselves.

Oh, that's so good. That sun looks like a retro

wave 80s effect. Yep. The Polar Express, everybody.

No, don't and stop. It fits. You know it. I know.

I know, but no. Now they're going to have the

hot coffee or hot chocolate song. Mm -hmm. Mm

-hmm. Yep, it's a mountain. Oh, sure. Yeah, he

just runs. Well, I mean, he's got the right idea.

He's like, not going to die, not going to die,

not going to die. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no. Cybertron is terraforming. Makes you

wonder what all that is. Think it's rock formations

obviously, but I know but like how randomly it's

coming up and then it's hitting those on purpose.

Yeah Movie over that was quick the end There

goes. There goes the train. And all the scenery

in this movie is great. Cybertronian deer. Mm

-hmm. Call them go -bots. Mm -hmm. She said,

idiot go -bots. That's right. Badassatron. Like

the guys gave me not to get none I gave myself

Mm -hmm You just keep repeating it yeah Except

had they never gotten involved in all that, we

would never have had Megatron. And it all starts

with the transformation cog. The sensors on her

ears. Yep. They can sense something alright.

Oh look. It's the stampede. Just like in The

Lion King, except there's nobody trying to kill

Mufasa in this movie yet. Yet. Ooh, that was

close. Scanner. Ooh, Beast Wars reference. Yep.

Scanning for life forms. Ian James Corlew, everybody.

That's right, if only that was him saying it.

The quintessons. Anything? That is the weirdest

looking stance ever. Mm -hmm. Oh, God. And it

just evaporates into the sky. Someone to help

me. How should I know? I'm not waiting around

to find out. Feels like we're in the land of

the Beast Wars now. Mm -hmm. Unicron's mouth?

No. I mean... Would be. It's not. But... Eww.

The Sarlacc pit. Uh -huh. There's not supposed

to be any coming back from that, you know. But

yet here we are. Look at all those dead primes.

Yep. Well, isn't that just prime? Oh, what's

left of them? Megatronus. This is where he sees

the symbol. It kind of looks like his sticker.

And it's his face. And he sees his hero dead

on the ground. Zeta Prime. Which is funny because

Zeta Prime is basically the sentinel in the War

for Cybertron games and he's rotten too. Sub

-Zeta Prime in the War for Cybertron games looks

like Sentinel. That's right. There's still one

Prime. Way to go miners. That's right. Almost

like a Senzu being in Dragon Ball Z. It's like

a little bean brings brings them back to full

health Crazy cuz alphas the spawning of Orion

and optimus Yep, even in the other continuity

and they gave him his cape too. Yep Lawrence

Fishburn, yeah Oh Morpheus What happened to your

transformation cogs Thank you. I will show you.

Yep, Morphe is going to show him the way. This

is cool. Vector. That's your vector, Victor.

And that's when he double -crossed you. Arctocons!

Mm -hmm. That looks like Blitzwing. Mm -hmm All

the power of Snibetron. Of course it just vanished.

It went to the core of Primus where it should

be. Look here folks, I already predicted the

end of the movie. Even though I've already seen

this. Well, even if you hadn't, the ending's

pretty predictable. And that's not a bad thing,

and this isn't a bad movie at all, we're not

saying that, I'm just saying, like, watching

this a second time now, I'm like, hmm, saw that

coming a million miles away. I mean, it's still

ultimately designed as a kid's movie. Yeah. That

looks like the Nemesis, almost. Not really. I

mean, like a fleshy version. Eww. I wish you

wanted... Eww. No. Sentinel begging for his life.

Of course he is. And yeah, it does kind of look

like a fleshy version of the nemesis. Look. The

quintessons. Sharktons. Mm -hmm. Except they're

not sharks. No, they're not sharks. They're like

squidatrons. Yep. Michael Wilson would have some

choice words for this There's energon coming

out of his Well, I was gonna say the tentacles.

Oh that too. He loves his tentacles Blackarachnia

can see you! It's an alright design for a quit

-to -sun, but it's... Sorry, I don't think it's

a quinnis on it like we're with the six heads.

I think that's one of the Like the guard dreadnoughts

that kind of yeah interesting This is where these

brain breaks Now he's mad. Didn't say D was very

honorable. Thank you. There we go. Upgrade. Yep.

Gotta love it. Yep. Now they look more... whole.

Yes. More whole. Except dumbass right there needs

his face plate. Yep. He gets that with the Matrix.

Yeah. Now they're all starting to look closer

to their G1 aesthetic. Mm -hmm. But I like that

it's also different too. Because obviously no

one's gonna make mega trying to gun 2024 so he's

gonna be a tank or a jet or something Which is

fine Alpha trans, one last cat fight. What's

funny is there's a version of Alpha Trion that's

actually Cheetor. Too old for her though. Yikes.

Thank God I can't hear Hemsworth's voice. It's

working! My head! My head! Yeah. Thank God your

head is gone now. Megatron who's got a gimp leg.

Yep! Elita 1 is about to turn into a motorcycle

and bumblebee or B -16 or B -E. He has no wheels.

Yay. Where's the wheels? He's a hover car. Yeah

Megatron gets his tank Wow The ground wedgie

and then he gets his wheels Oh, the irony. Look

out! Oh boy, laughing Megatron. Gotta love that.

He wants though he wants to rule the world already

he wants revenge Shut up Son well you dick This

makes you want to hurt Sentinel, something terrible.

Can we drop him in a vat of acid, please? The

smelter? Yes. That too. Oil? They all flow. Yep.

Yep, one of them. Alright, wake them up. Yep.

I thought he was okay, but it's just his voice

because he can only do his voice. Well, that's

what I meant. Like I wish they would have gotten

anybody else. They could have gotten Steve Bloom

to do it instead of having just having him do

background voicing. Like I said, for me, it's

okay with this version. It's fine. It's not that

big a deal, but yeah, it could have been better.

Especially when he was unconscious. Your sound

wave your shockwave you're this you're that So

these guys are a little intense, you think? Starscream

and Megatron arguing as always. Even though he's

not Megatron yet. Soundwave holding shockwave

back. Game is squealy voice. Yup. Dang. A power.

The responsibility. That's right. Now he really

has become a monster. Well, you made him that

way. I'm prime guns on I'm guns used as prime

jets. Yeah. Oh surfboard Batman and Robin or

Transmental Optimist primal that too That's also

much like transformers the movie where prime

jumps into the air a little bit She's an assassin.

Yes, she is. Love the colors in this movie. So

good. The colors of the textures and Megatron.

Yep. Optimism? Well that's just prime. Shockwave

and Soundwave. Yup. You punched me in my eye.

That's right. I don't like Soundwave's design.

Don't either he looks too boxy It's like he's

missing his waist Yeah, he looks too boxy and

he looks too skinny too at the same time like

it's cuz he's missing his waist Yeah, and his

head just kind of sticks out randomly It's like

he's got more of a neck than a head Yeah That's

not cool. He needs a waste. Yeah Transform and

roll out Thank you. You sound ridiculous. Here

we go. Oh, damn. Oh, that's painful. That's horrifying.

And then the rest of the Decepticons take it.

Mm -hmm. Yep. Oof. Little pingen packs. Yep.

It's almost like War for Cybertron, the game

where he's like jumping the roads. Yep, a little

bit. Ironhide. Yep. Prime. Yep. Sunstreaker in

the background and RC Hound. Time for you to

fight for your right to party. That's right,

Prime. Nothing can stop us now. That's why Alpha

Trion leaned on him. Yep. Sound wave sounds awesome,

but he still looks like a doofus. Gets up anyway.

Of course he's gonna get up anyway. wires that's

right and they have their earth modes mm -hmm

or at least it looked that way a little bit some

of them yeah they're gonna end up on earth eventually

anyways so Eww. Trashing the party. Just like

a pride would. What the? Now that's the... That's

the iconic crime jump. Yep. Oh, he's got his

Bumblebee movie transformation. Yeah, it's not

bad. That looks good. Robot mode needs work.

Howard Lee Starscream leaving. Well, I mean,

you know... His face mask. I got a metal mask!

I got knife hands. It's almost like the baby

knife thing with Deadpool 3. Yeah... Again, folks,

I love the colors in this movie, they're so -

Oh, it's very vibrant. Oh, it's so good. I love

the sheen and the shine of everybody. Yep. Thank

God Bay was only a producer credit on this because

if he had any other control on this, this would

all be black. Pitch black. And dark. There's

about what Zeta Prime looked like in the war

for Cybertron games and Bumblebee was just like

that. Yeah Yeah, I'm fine with the bumblebee

design I'm even fine with the Sentinel design

kind of looking like Zeta. It looks cool Are

there after credit scenes in this? I don't remember.

I don't remember either. I don't think so. Well,

we'll find out, folks, because after all, you

have to watch every single credit to make sure

everybody gets credit. And I'm not saying that

is a bad thing. You should stay for the credits,

just because. But still, most people won't. Parasitron.

Bumblebee just stabby stabby. Yep. It was already

like that, right? Yeah, sure. The truth is revealed.

Everybody can revolt against Sentinel as they

should because he's a bad guy. Totally ruined

his reputation. Oh yeah. They're just gonna dump

it all out And here's Megatronus or sort of kind

of not really yet, but still damn damn close

Now using the same boat the other primes were

yep And this is where the best friends become

enemies No more Optimus Prime, no more! Pardon

me, Mercy, I beg of you. Except it isn't Megatron

asking this time. And that was the last shred

of DCC and B -16. Yep. You let him go. He's evil

now. I'm done saving you. Well, the Matrix will

do it for him. Because he was worthy. That's

right. Megatron's eyes turned red. Yep, that

was the best part. Now he is Megatron. Yep. Do

love this scenery this change here as you go

through the center of the planet that is so cool

The eyes like wearing of Megatron, yep, I Mean

the CG definitely has improved drastically since

Beast Wars. I still love the designs But this

is infinitely better than that war for Cybertron

crap. We get on Netflix Yeah. It was a little

much. The best thing about that, at least in

certain parts, was the voice acting. Not all

of the voice acting, but the roles that we know

that we love, like Tadaro as Starscream and stuff

like that. Yeah. I just meant animation and a

lot of the characters. He ripped him in half,

just like Jazz. He sawed a boot in half! What

does he do with the spark? Does he throw it away

or does he put it in... I forget. He puts it

in his own chest. Does he? Yeah, he takes Megatronus'

transformation cog, which makes him bigger. Yeah,

that's right. That's right. Okay. I gotcha. I

remember now. Future of Cybertron and the Matrix

of Leadership. Oh yeah, that's right. They both

get a transformation. That's right. And a rebuilding.

Mm -hmm. Megatron! I love that it's Laurence

Fishburne as the voice of Alpha Trion, but it

would have been so cool. And it would have been

so weird, but so cool to have Peter do off Alpha

Trion and have him do the Arise Optimus Prime

like he did with Rodimus in the 80s. That would

have been a very meta moment, but still, that

would have been cool as hell. Now, Megatron is

big. I love his design. Yeah, I love his design.

I'm glad you put your knife hands away, B. It's

not impossible. Flamethrower Prime. There's the

axe baby He doesn't get the mace does he or does

he know oh that sucks No, they get them the axe

was like a video game thing that he used a lot

Yeah, I know, but I but I'm saying like in Would

be cool in the movie here to see Axe versus mace

in this animation style. We cut the fusion cannon

in half. Dang. Thank you. Hehehehe! They get

to work for the government Everyone can you get

a transformation cog and you get a transformation

you get it. Yep Let the energon flow Primus is

holed again. The Hasbro fireworks. That's right.

Except they're all transformation cogs shooting

into everybody's chests. Pinswipe. RC and Jazz

and I think that was Cliffjumper there too. Yep.

Ironhide. Yep This message thing with the quote

at the end of the movie is so stupid this message

I will be waiting See you know this I hate that

part because that's a staple of the Michael Bay

films yeah, it is but I would have liked it better

if they had done it as After the fact and had

Peter do it like it would have been fine if it

was Peter Collin And I know I'm harping on this

folks, but it is what it is So we're in the credits

now folks if you want to turn the commentary

off you can but if you don't oh wait There is

an after credit scene when you have credit scenes

do we get? Is this just bullshit though? That's

what I don't know This is B coming back to his

friends, Steve, and cutting their heads off.

Oh, God, that's just... That was stupid. That

was dumb. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto,

and Don Murphy. Michael Bay. Yeah. Spielberg.

Old Spielberg. Yeah. I mean, I think that's it

but I think that's it Me either. Oh, no wait.

No, it's Hemsworth Yeah, I think it's credits

yeah, I like Brian Tyree Henry is as D 16 slash

Megatron. I thought it was a good voice for this

design of the character Let's see. Yes, it is

just the credits for the rest. So folks, three,

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See you then. All right, folks, we are back here

on All Things Transformers, episode 440. We only

got 60 to go to 500, folks, and that'll happen

at some point in 2025. Transformers 1. Yes, there

was an alternate credits and an additional credit

scene besides the Bumblebee stupidity. You want

to? Walk us through that really quick. At the

end, it's just talking about how Sentinel, like

how there's a new enemy, a stronger enemy, and

Megatron's giving a rally cry to the new Decepticons

as they're all being branded with the logo of

Megatronus. And he says Decepticons rise up and

then they're all saying rise up and shooting

into the air. But it's like the last 30 seconds

of the film. Yep, yep. So the one thing that

I did not know going into this movie, because

I did not do any research on this movie before,

like, when it first came out and whatever else,

I only did cursory stuff. I'd only seen a brief

trailer and things like that and whatever. I

did not know one of my favorite movie, TV, video

game, cartoon composers was doing the music on

this, just like he did in Transformers Prime.

Brian Tyler did the score for this. and I will

have a separate review of the score at some point

probably a written review on geekcastradio .com

but my favorite track off of the entire score

the score has 27 tracks favorite track so far

from the times I've listened transform the dark

it's one of the coolest dark transformers themes

you'll ever hear I absolutely love that piece

of music overall i dug it i thought it was fun

thought it was interesting i am interested to

see where they go from here given the news of

chris cox not wanting to co -finance any more

big budget films here's hoping we get a transformers

2 um i don't know i the only way i foresee that

happening is if like paramount or somebody else

takes it on and honestly paramount's not doing

all that hot either That's so that's very true.

Yeah, so I don't know like I'm I'm sad that We

may not see a sequel even though like yeah, I

mean some of the the the acting I mean, there's

nothing wrong with the acting but some of the

vocals I guess you could say like as far as like

their recognition. I don't have a problem with

Hemsworth Doing his own rendition of prime. I

really don't Like I said, I still think it should

have been John Bailey, but yeah. But again, I'm

not. It works for this movie and it's fine. I

mean, if they were able to continue it, I would

be fine. Yeah, like perfectly fine with it. I

don't have any issue with it. Like I honestly

didn't mind that they put their own spin on everybody.

Yeah, the only issue with. Having a. Actor. Basically

using their own voice. It's a lot harder to replicate

should they decide not to do it or it becomes

an issue or Heaven forbid they pass away It's

a lot easier to get somebody to do an impression

of somebody else or in some instances where the

actor signs away the rights to their vocals Yep,

and they use an AI engine to do it Yep, and it's

crazy. So When you watch this the first time,

not this time during the commentary, did the

film keep your interest throughout it? Oh yeah,

totally. Same with me, absolutely, 100%. I didn't

get up to go to the bathroom, didn't get up to

do anything, didn't pause it and come back to

it, anything like that. I would love to see another

film like this in the future. Like we said, we

don't know, we don't think, we don't know if

we're gonna get it or not. Would we recommend

this film to people I mean I would Yeah, I would

too. It's a good jumping on point It's a good

jumping on point if you want to get to know Transformers

without needing to know all 40 years Of history

because this is a full complete new start So

that's cool Is there two five with half points?

What are you gonna give it? I'll give it a four

point five. I honestly I really enjoyed it. I

think it's kind of a Nice little refresher into

the franchise. I mean we get the last in Injection

we got into the franchise was maybe animated

and then before that was like the 2007 film and

before that was Beast Wars and so I mean I Think

it's it's a pretty solid contender Yeah, I do

too considering the the kind of mediocre stuff

that's been pumped out over the last ten years

Yeah, pretty much. I'm probably gonna give it

a four out of five. B said badassatron one too

many times, but that's just me nitpicking. I

mean, I agree with that. That's why it's getting

a 4 .5 for me. Absolutely. All right, folks,

that's gonna do it for us. It's the end of 2024.

We need to take a long Cybertronian winter's

nap. We will be back at some point in 2025 with

a news roundup and all that good stuff. But yeah,

we might be trekking through a different universe

in 2025 because we've been itching to do altered

trek and we just haven't had the time. So correct.

Any final thoughts from you before you run through

the closing, sir? I don't think so. me either

very interesting way for the 40th anniversary

to go up and go down but Hey It is what it is.

We did get a whole bunch of news stuff about

age of the primes toy line for 2025 So we'll

talk about that next time So, yeah, all right,

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Autobots, roll out. Sentinel, the betrayer is

dead. But his death has given life to a new enemy.

A stronger enemy. A personal enemy. We will not

be blinded by his deception. We are the ones

who are. The septicons! Rise up! I wish to speak

to my lawyer.