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Transformers
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Released back in 2007, Transformers took the big screen by storm. 15 years after this movies release how does this hold up today? Click the play button and find out.
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Transcript
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Thank you.
Introduction & Upcoming Transformers Release
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What's going on, listeners?
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Welcome back to Matt Goes to the Movies.
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You're here for another episode, and this time it's very specific what we're doing.
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Not that it's random, but coming up this week, we have the release of Transformers Rise of the Beast.
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Now, I am incredibly excited for this movie.
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I have tickets for actually this coming Thursday, the 7th,
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for a 4DX 3D showing.
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If for any reason listeners don't know what 4DX is, it's an interactive one where the seats move and there's mist and there's smoke.
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Really looking forward to it.
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I've gone to a couple of those for animated movies, movies,
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So really looking forward to going seeing Transformers Rise of the Beast in that format.
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I am super pumped for this movie, especially because I was a huge fan of Bumblebee.
Review Setup: Revisiting Transformers 2007
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I've done some reviews on the Transformers movies with my friend Harrison from The Basement Binge, the podcast that he hosts.
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But today I'm specifically going to be talking about the first Transformers movie that was released July 3rd in 2007 by Paramount Pictures.
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Now, before I talk about Transformers...
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I want to talk about another release from Paramount Pictures.
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Now, here's the awesome thing.
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You can stream this from Redbox, but like I just said,
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Matt goes to the movies.
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Listeners have an opportunity to get a free copy of this movie digitally.
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So what you're going to do is when you're done listening to this review of transformers, you are going to check out the show notes.
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You're going to find out how you can enter and we will draw winners very, very soon.
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If you're a winner, we're going to send it to your social media profile and you will get that digital copy.
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So once again, thank you to Map360 for allowing us this opportunity for a giveaway.
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And thank you, all the listeners, for sticking with this show.
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All
Exploring the Impact of Transformers 2007
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right.
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So getting back into, and I say getting back into, I say starting Transformers.
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You know, this movie, like I said, was released July 3rd, 2007.
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And if you were around then, when this first released, you know what a big deal this was.
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Like, this was huge for fans that we were getting a live-action Transformers movie directed by Michael Bay.
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Now...
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What I will say about this movie, and the reason I chose to review this movie, is it is such a far departure from the other things that we got from him in Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, Age of Extinction, and The Last Night.
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Now, admittedly so, I actually like Age of Extinction.
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I understand that it is a train wreck, it's really, really bad, but for whatever reason...
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I just have fun with that movie.
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The other ones, Revenge of the Fallen, I like because it's so dumb that it just makes me chuckle.
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Dark of the Moon, I'm not really a fan of.
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And then The Last Knight, I think, is absolute trash.
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So not the biggest fan of this series and where they came from, but watching the original Transformers, and I watched this again last night, actually...
Movie Night & Film Analysis
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pretty cool.
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I set up my movie projector and screen outside, just, you know, sat outside with, you know, the citronella torches lit and just enjoyed the night and enjoyed an outdoor movie in my backyard.
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But
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What I like about this Transformers movie and rewatching it is a simple fact that it feels put together.
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It doesn't feel disjointed.
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It's funny.
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It has heart.
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The human characters are not annoying in this one.
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I, a lot of times last night was just laughing.
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The score in this movie is great.
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And it really makes me wonder what happens to Michael Bay.
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I know he gets a lot of hate, but he's done movies like Armageddon, Pain and Gain.
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I like the bad boy franchise one and two.
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You know.
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The Island, I like that movie a lot.
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But it just, I don't know why he gets so, the only way I guess to say it is Michael Bay-ish, in his subsequent movies.
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Because again, this movie here is two hours and 24 minutes long.
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Now with every Transformers movie except for this one, I can confidently say that 30 to 45 minutes of those other movies can be cut and it would improve it.
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That
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Dark of the Moon movie where they just keep flipping back and forth from day to night in Chicago being attacked is so unnecessary.
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It just drags the movie on.
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The last night feels like one big drag on.
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But each of those movies could be reduced by 30 to 40 minutes, not the original Transformers.
Character and Music Appreciation
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I feel it has really, really good, solid pacing.
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Again, an engaging story with good characters.
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This is where we're first introduced to Sam Witwicky, played by Shia LaBeouf, who I think, again, much like Michael Bay, is reserved in this movie.
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He's still funny and zany and quirky and a little over the top,
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but he's not a character of himself like he is in the subsequent movies.
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You have his relationship with Michaela played by Megan Fox, which I actually think develops really well.
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Your introduction to the Transformers, to the Decepticons, that first scene of Optimus transforming in front of Sam and the score playing.
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I love the score for this movie.
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The theme for the Transformers is so good.
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I get goosebumps.
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I got him last night watching this.
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It's just so well done.
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And again, the military, the focus on them, it feels paced and even where the subsequent movies, it's just there's too much human characters.
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I enjoy the designs of the robots.
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I feel for the most part, you can understand what's going on in the fights between them.
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That's what I really enjoy about this movie.
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And every movie after just loses the original charm of what this first movie brought to the screen.
Critique of Sequels & Closing Review
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And it's a shame because this was an absolute great starting point, regardless of what those movies brought in two, three, four, and five, uh, not specifically five, cause it was tanked at the box office.
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they just don't capture the same magic as the first one.
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Now they have some moments.
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Do not get me wrong.
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The forest fight and revenge of the fallen is really good.
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When optimist comes swooping in at the end and dark of the moon, um, and is just kind of like slicing through everybody.
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That seems really good.
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They have a really great emotional scene in revenge of the fallen where Sam tells his dad that he's got to go.
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And his dad saying, no, we'll all go together.
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That's actually really good acting.
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But those parts in those other movies are so few and far in between to just absolute nonsense in terms of comedy, in terms of shots, in terms of gratuitous shots of women.
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Not that this first movie doesn't have them, but it's just so much worse in these other movies.
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And again, like I said, it's a real shame because this first Transformers movie with the cast, obviously Peter Cullen is Optimus Prime.
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Hugo Weaving is the voice of Megatron is really good.
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The simple story of the AllSpark being on Earth before every single MacGuffin was somehow freaking on Earth, which is ridiculous.
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This just the runtime is very tight.
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Doesn't feel like anything is wasted.
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Great performances, great comedy, an amazing score.
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So if for any reason it's been a long time since you've watched the original Transformers movie,
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Man, I feel like now's the time to go back with this new release of Transformers Rise of the Beast coming up because it really might, to me, surprise a lot of people at how well put together this movie is, especially if it's been a while since you've seen it.
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So that's going to do it.
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This is just a quick recap of that movie.
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And I am going to do a popcorn time review here where I rate it out of five buckets.
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And for me, the first Transformers, it is not perfect, but it is highly enjoyable.
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I do give this four and a half buckets for the first movie.
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I actually really, really enjoy this.
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There's a few things that I don't like about it, but just a half a bucket off.
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So once again, check this movie out.
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I do not think listeners will be disappointed.
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So thank you so much for checking out this
Episode Conclusion & Giveaway Reminder
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review.
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Again, after you're done listening, click the show notes, find out how you can be entered to get a free digital copy of the movie Snag that is now streaming on Redbox On Demand.
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Thank you, listeners, and we will see you very soon at Matt Goes to the Movies.