re: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — I saw this POS tonight so you won’t have to

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Is it explained why they now are giant jungle animals?

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To increase toy sales.

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I don’t know why, but I was excited about seeing a Transformers

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I am gonna go the opposite way. I was not excited about the movie but I wanted to be out of the house and while baby sitting my two nephew figure it was a better choice since they enjoyed bumblebee. I did not it was okay at best for me, the bumblebee movie.

So I came into this movie with very low expectation and was planning on tolerating it for the sake of the children.

I ended up enjoying it massively. Sure there was no hot women but more importantly then that, there was no incoherent yelling either. You know the borderline schzoco yelling and screaming like Bay films are known for.

Instead you had adult and people while stressed, still use adult vocabulary to express themselves. You had...coherency in a robot plot. Even the battle made sense and it does build off the backs of Bumblebee making me appreciate the movie more in hindsight.

There was some camp of course since this is now geared towards family films and not horny teenagers. So yes you have the whole brothers dynamic that can be commonly found in like airbud movies.

The CGI is not egregious either, it was uncanny valley for me. At no point was I really pulled out of it. Also the Maximal DO transform. I dont get the idea where they don't.

What surprise me the most was how much the robots had screen time in general. It more of a transformer plot with human side stories then a human story with transformer plot like in bay stories.

Overall if you like OG transfromer you will enjoy this. If you grew up with bay, the lack of hot women, military involvement, and dumb one liner is very noticeable.

I will say that as much as I like old school Optimus, I preferred his bay truck from more. His current form makes him feel weak.

Oh and the SJW? Yeah not not noticeable at all, that white people love that shite line is a thing said in minority family all the time in the 90s. Its not a big deal at all and the only real racial joke. There is no BLM, there is no, Antifa, no anti-gov message or the commonly seen LBGTQRSTUV character. Which was also surprising. I thought for sure the black girl lbgtq but nope, she straight.

As for her smarts, it no different then Mark Walberg (I'm an inventor!) where he knows how to hack advance drones and shite. This girl study in archeology, no shite she would know some. You turn her character white, it makes no changes. Races was not a part of her ability.

They also use Peter Cullen a lot better here than in later Transformer movies. He doesn't have weird lines anymore like "Give me your face." Everything he say make sense and syncs up with the scene.


All in all a solid film but the ending scene, was a bit of a "huh?" moment.

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Michael Bay

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Bay needs to make a film called "explosive" with just random scenes of shite getting blown up one after another. The plot is dude steals the JFK documents and the deep state just tries to kill him for the next 2 hours straight.

The Cybertron scenes in Bumblebee were great. This one looks like another Bayverse. I thought it was supposed to be a sequel to Bumblebee. Was it not made by the same studio?

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The OP went into this movie looking for reasons to hate it

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Why would i go see a movie on opening night looking to hate it? I’ve been a Transformers fan since 1985. between tickets food and drinks, I spent enough money and wanted to be entertained.

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The Maximals DO transform. Maximus Prime literally tells them to going in to the final battle.

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I guess so, but I don’t remember it at all. They were extraordinarily bland forgetful robots with zero personality.

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I'd rate this one third behind the OG(2007) movie

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The OG:

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“make sure to laugh at all their jokes—white people love that shite.”

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jesus christ

replace the word 'white' with any other race.

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that white people love that shite line is a thing said in minority family all the time in the 90s.

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shite man maybe i was sheltered af but my nonwhite dad never said anything like this in my life. his job interview advice was to be polite and professional, sit/stand up straight and refer the people interviewing as 'sir' and 'ma'am'

Knowing how pop culture is it feels like they're just overt with their despicable shite now. in a fricking kids movie.


i'd rather not perpetuate this BS. Could be the best movie ever but even innocuous references bother me now because i know its just a mean spirit behind them.


thanks for the scoops from all posters. I'll have to find the scene on youtube and make a final judgment.

Just got out of it in Dolby. I enjoyed it. The OP was definitely looking for any remote woke trigger. I personally didn’t notice any at all. Also, the beasts did transform, so I don’t know what he was looking at. I will agree the female lead was not good at all and just an overall bad choice. I rank this one third also behind the 07 OG and bumblebee.

Being a nurse, the sickle cell anemia in a Hispanic threw me off. While it is possible, most people associate this disease with African descent. So it def was an odd choice for a disease. Lazy writing on that part.

The new transformer “mirage” voiced by Pete Davidson was a good addition.

The leopard and rhino said a couple words. The gorilla and eagle spoke more. The gorilla was just another Optimus.

They were lame.

Wasn't bad,wasn't great. Few things I didn't like such as NOah getting Mirages tech. I mean even for a robot movie that was over the top.

Love seeing the G1 versions of everyone I grew up with. Not sure why the changes Wheeljack though.

The last scene got my 8 yeah old self really excited! My son look at me and said I dont get it. Time to break out some GI Joe for him.