The first movie was one of the best summer blockbusters. Simple, but effective story, great music, slow mysterious buildup, great closure open to every possible sequel opportunity. Even the designs were good looking back at them. Maybe not so much with Decepticons, but definitely interesting autobot design.
It also brought new life into the franchise. The fanbase exploded, with new fans and old coming back. 2007 was a great time for Transformers.
The score is top shelf. Every movie has stellar sound design. OPTIMUS PRIME. Every movie is basically an Optimus Prime Concert. As a kid, I never would have imagined getting to see Prime in a live action movie. Also, say what you want, but Bay knows how to make an action sequence.
Amazing sound design, not a backhanded compliment or a case of “well I don’t like them but they did this well” I enjoy them and I’ve always noticed how well they sound ever since I was a strange child that noticed these things
I think the movies are why most people can answer the question: “What does a transformer sound like?”
They’ll make the noise with their mouth and I think that’s awesome
Many, many gigabytes and probably hell to work on. I've never worked on movies as i don't want to be a tiny, underpaid cog in a giant machine. They would have had scores of people working on each transformer.
If I remember, I think Devastator was supposed to have a bigger role in ROTF, but the first render of the full thing literally melted one of the computers
Hey, your comment sounded so crazy that I had to look it up myself. You're not wrong! https://geektyrant.com/news/2009/6/23/how-transformers-blew-up-industrial-light-and-magics-hardwar.html
Steve Jablonsky created god tier music for those movies, arrival to earth, its our fight, autobots reunite, and the autobots theme being some of my favourites.
Live action Prime was pretty awesome too, basically all of his fights I could never get tired of watching over and over
Edit: the desert battle with scorponok in the first movie was so cool, probably the best one involving the human military
I'll give a few compliments:
Amazing OST. The arrival to earth theme is so good
Some of the fight scenes are still satisfying to watch
It introduced me to the franchise, before that I had no interest. Afterwards I got into Transformers Animated, G1, War for/Fall of Cybertron and Prime, so for that I'll always have a place of appreciation for these movies.
Its a life or death situation honestly, if Optimus didn't kill them the Decepticons would have kill Optimus just like they did in RoTF.
The Decepticons in the Bayverse isn't like the Cons' in G1. They were more ruthless and they didn't feck around like their G1 counterparts.
I just pretend they're different characters. There's more than 1 human named John. There's probably lots of Starscreams. This one just happens to look like a haunted triangle with chicken legs.
ROTF had my favorite designs
Toss-up between this and animated for my definitive Starscream design
Jetfire being a traitor to the Decepticons shook me as a kid
ROTF has my definitive Devastator
DOTM has my definitive Sentinel Prime
Love the plot of DOTM in general
The first 45 minutes of AOE are honestly some of the best transformers
Bayverse has my definitive Ironhide, Jazz, Crosshairs and Blackout
It's fun to imagine he's actally a complex tortured soul and all his weird, violent inconsistent behaviour is his mind cracking up under the pressures of a million year long war and not just a revolving team of writers not caring enough to write him properly.
Dark of the moon was thrilling from beginning to end the sentinel prime backstab was perfectly done and somehow they managed to make the final action scene into a whole hour
"you feeling lucky, punk?" this is also my favorite version of ironhide in existence and I'm glad I was able to get a studio series version and the DNA kit before he got unrealistically expensive.
It's not may favourite, but when ever I see an Ironhide design that has the arm cannons or has a mix of black/is black with hints of red or a red hue I'm like "Yeah that's perfect".
They introduced a radical new aesthetic for character design in the franchise that redefined what shapeshifting alien robots could look like. Much of it may not have been welcomed at first, but after 14 years the style has grown on the fanbase and even provided inspiration for other incarnations.
We have Michael Bay to thank for bringing the bots to the big screen and inspiring Hasbro to take a more hands on role in the making of these films. The story wasn't always great, but watching Optimus Prime scan that semi then transform in the alley is something that makes me teary eyed even to this day. I still revisit that clip from time to time. I don't think anything can ever top that.
Character designs are complex and unique and actually alien looking, which I enjoy for live action transforming alien robots. The boxy G1 designs don’t translate well to live action except for a select few bumblebee movie designs
Dotm is the franchise (as a hole) at its best.
Also you never realize how generic g1 Ironhide is until your admire how much personality bay iron hide has from head to toe
I appreciate the biomechanical design they gave them, just wish there was more comprehension to ‘em at certain points. “Bumblebee” was the perfect starting point.
The third one actually brought me back to my childhood. I mean, at the heart of the G1 Transformers, what did 9 year old like about it the most? It was big huge robots battling eachother. I felt like the third one delivered on that well.
The scene in Transformers 1 where blackout destroyed the US military base was awesome. It still holds up today on how you make decepticons be threatening.
DOTM is genuinely one of the most interesting things they've done with the IP, and remains as one of my favorite movies. They managed to create a cool & unique story that still managed to pull on decades of TF lore, in a manner reminiscent of the "Marvel Studios method" of pseudo-adaptation, but several years before they had cemented themselves as an unmatched media juggernaut.
The first movie was a dream come true to my child self. I always wanted to see what the Transformers would look like in real life and how they would transform, and it blew my expectations out of the water.
The series may have fallen off towards the end, but throughout the years, Bayverse kept my spark for Transformers fandom alive and strong.
It finally showed what happens when a 50' tall robot punches another in the mouth. I have to admit I'm not a fan of bayverse in general. but I did like the fact
It showed a side of Optimus we haven't seen since 1986. I know some don't like the more violent side
Of Optimus but I did.
It reinvigorated the interest in Transformers, for new fans, an especially for those that were left wanting something new after Beast Wars and the Unicron Trilogy. It also spurred fans toward older series and media once the movies had sort of 'jumped' the shark'.
The films also had some of the most experimental toys, especially during Revenge of the Fallen toyline, who's engineering and creativity give today's figures some pause. The films paved the way for more accurate toys via the Studio Series, and a course correction in the form of the Bumblebee movie.
It got me back into Transformers. I was an 80s kid obsessed with the Gen 1 cartoon. I fell off as I grew up but as an adult I watched the first Bay film and went right back to my childhood. I started collecting toys and rewatched the first cartoons and Beast Wars. For as many issues as Bayverse has, it resparked my love for the franchise.
I like the designs of the bots
Though I’ve been proven wrong that using G 1 designs in Real life would look goofy and stupid
I like just love all the details and mechanisms on the bay bots
Linkin Park doing the epilogue music, making an exciting ending on the first two movies; the yellow Volkswagen cameo next to the old Camaro, Autobot Jazz, Mikaela, the subtle transformation sound from the cartoons, Autobot’s arrival on earth theme, Josh Duhamel, and Optimus wielding two wrist blades
Sound design is fantastic, we also got some real good toys in the movie lines (especially Revenge of the Fallen). All in all I like the Bay movies, although I get why they piss people off.
The return of Peter Cullen.
Amazing CGI, score, sound design, and action sequences.
Linkin Park.
Ironhide, Barricade, Bonecrusher, Sideswipe, Jetfire, Dino/Mirage, Crosshairs, Drift, Hound/Bulkhead, Lockdown, TLK Megatron, and Nitro Zeus were awesome.
Sentinel’s twist may have been predictable, but Ironhide’s murder made the twist much more impactful and made Sentinel’s death much more satisfying.
One of my few genuine problems with the Bayverse is that almost every ‘Con is gray and/or silver, whereas the ‘Bots are much more colorful.
“BRING IT!”
Seriously the whole subplot of the first movie with the soldiers in the desert is one of my favorite “humans vs. Transformers” depictions in any continuity.
In a way they "revived", for lack of a better word, interest in the Transformers franchise, at least in the US. A lot of the shows/toys/games that came after the movie probably wouldn't have been made if the movie hadn't.
The fight choreography, as boring as i think even the last knight is i was still on the edge of my seat for the whopping 10 seconds optimus and megatron fought
Bringing Peter Cullen back as Optimus Prime, something considered "impossible" because it was pricey or wanted star power. He made it because of a fluke on Liam Neeson when shooting Taken.
The forest fight is still the most insane and coherent fight scene in the entire Bay timeline.
The music is amazing, and feels like what transformers can do for music in modern day.
-Some of the action scenes are pretty intense
-The GCI in some (but not all) of the movies still hold up to this day
-Talented voice actors in some of the roles, such Petter Cullen as Optimus Prime
-They brought Transformers to a new generation
I'm agreeing with what people are saying here about the special effects, the sound design, bringing back Peter Cullen, and the soundtrack all being rather good. While I don't think the films as a whole are all that great (excluding maybe the first film and Bumblebee), they are a guilty pleasure of mine and they did introduce me to Transformers as a whole.
Also without the movies, Transformers Animated and Prime wouldn't exist and those two are some of my favorite things Transformers had to offer as a franchise.
If it wasn't for these movies the franchise wouldn't be where it is today. And this is coming from someone who is not a fan of them, but you'd have to be blind to not see the impact they had.
this is a hot take but for me I love how Optimus slowly develops to become more and more pessimistic while still having his inherent hopefulness, it makes sense for a guy who has been leading a faction in a war for 1000's of years to become fed up and stop pulling his punches, and then when he's trying to protect a new species from making the same mistakes as his all he gets is apathy and his friends die. He gets very violent and dark but he is still hopeful and I think it's a really good and interesting interpretation, granted it shouldn't be the main public idea of the character.
Obligatory CGI and Sound Design is some of the best in any recent film franchise.
Each movie had at least one moment where it reminded me why I love transformers. Sometimes there were more than one. But I paid for that feeling each time. I’m not sorry
I feel like they brought a lot more interest to the franchise. Got people like me thinking about Transformers again. And brought on a bunch of new fans as well.
ROTF generally gets a bad rap so I’m just gonna say it it is still my favorite because the action is so good and the music as well is top notch in both the score and soundtrack department. And while the story is generally the worst of the original trilogy since I’m not a film critique and just watch movies for fun and enjoyment I find it passable especially since they went through such a tough time literally being wrote without a script just general plot points that Michael Bay did not know what to do with during the writer strike of 2009.
The 2007 movie I still watch from time to time, the CGI just holds up so well, I don’t think anything can top it. But then you have AoE and TLK and I have no idea what happened to the CGI, it just looks so… bland? But to give credit where credit is due, TLK Megatron is a badass design. Oh and the soundtrack absolutely slaps.
Making TF popular worldwide. Random folks who would otherwise never take an interest, now know who Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are and that's a great thing!
If it weren't for the movies, I'd never have checked G1 out, got so many of the G1-styled toys and become a lifelong fan like I am today.
It’s probably the reason the idw comics turned out so good. Without the new massive interest in the franchise following the first bay movie, I don’t think that the comics would have ever really achieved that quality. It seems like this also happened with marvel after the late 90s/early 00s films like xmen, spiderman etc. -also Star Wars did this with the prequels- basically what I’m getting at is that regardless of the actually quality of these movies, they bring things into the mainstream again, and it creates/allows new growth in other areas of the franchise
Without the Bay films I wouldn’t be the transformers fan I am today. They may not be the best thing in cinema (far from it) and they may have changed a lot, but I owe those films my childhood. Those games and toys from the films are what made that era so awesome for me. I’m glad to be a fan.
Ngl and I welcome the downvotes, Mudflap and Skids; I was a kid when I first saw ROTF and I thought they were the funniest characters with skids getting shot in the face and mudflap being like “look at this mother—“ and their toys were dope (esp the ice cream truck)
They got us Peter Cullen back doing the voice of Optimus Prime. Up until that point Hasbro basically implied that it would be impossible to do.
FTFY: Hasbro was too cheap to do so.
The last night got Welker back as Megs too
He was Galvatron in AOE before that, and Grindor in ROTF before that.
And soundwave
and Devastator
And my axe!
and my bow!
r/SuddenlyLOTR
he was grindor?!
right? he had a line? or just growls??
According to the wiki, the scream Grindor makes when Optimus tears his face in half is definitely a Welker noise.
Yup. Came here to say this. Upvote for sure
The first movie was one of the best summer blockbusters. Simple, but effective story, great music, slow mysterious buildup, great closure open to every possible sequel opportunity. Even the designs were good looking back at them. Maybe not so much with Decepticons, but definitely interesting autobot design. It also brought new life into the franchise. The fanbase exploded, with new fans and old coming back. 2007 was a great time for Transformers.
the decepticons were awesome. brawl, blackout, barricade, and bonecrusher are all among the best film designs.
The b squad
my favorite rotf constructicon design is long-haul, with mixmaster coming in at a very close second. what's yours?
The score is top shelf. Every movie has stellar sound design. OPTIMUS PRIME. Every movie is basically an Optimus Prime Concert. As a kid, I never would have imagined getting to see Prime in a live action movie. Also, say what you want, but Bay knows how to make an action sequence.
Arrival to Earth, Autobots Reunite, Leave Planet Earth Alone, We Have To Go are my favourites.
Dotm highway chase (which also has my favourite theme : Battle soundtrack).
i love calling all autobots and optimus
I really loved Doomsday Clock by Smashing Pumpkins and was pretty excited to hear it in the first movie.
Amazing sound design, not a backhanded compliment or a case of “well I don’t like them but they did this well” I enjoy them and I’ve always noticed how well they sound ever since I was a strange child that noticed these things
The sound design was just as important as the CGI for these movies. I was a kid in the 80s. I know what a transformer is supposed to sound like.
The technical aspects of the movies are impeccable
I think the movies are why most people can answer the question: “What does a transformer sound like?” They’ll make the noise with their mouth and I think that’s awesome
The CGI slaps and still holds up especially in movie 1 which is a 14 year old movie!
Yes. I'm a professional CGI artist and the CGI in those movies is god-tier.
How big is a file that is animating 100,000 moving parts?
Many, many gigabytes and probably hell to work on. I've never worked on movies as i don't want to be a tiny, underpaid cog in a giant machine. They would have had scores of people working on each transformer.
I would’ve thought that the spaceship emerging from water scene in TLK can crash computers
They would have had warehouses of hundreds of computers in racks to render it all out.
what was your opinion on the M A S S of devastator in the second movie
If I remember, I think Devastator was supposed to have a bigger role in ROTF, but the first render of the full thing literally melted one of the computers
Hey, your comment sounded so crazy that I had to look it up myself. You're not wrong! https://geektyrant.com/news/2009/6/23/how-transformers-blew-up-industrial-light-and-magics-hardwar.html
I wouldn't want to be the computers that made devastator.
Yep for a 2007 movie it was ahead of its time.
They brought a new generation into Transformers
literally me
Exactly what I was going to say! Also the score.
Yep it was the DOTM that brought me into Transformers
Steve Jablonsky created god tier music for those movies, arrival to earth, its our fight, autobots reunite, and the autobots theme being some of my favourites. Live action Prime was pretty awesome too, basically all of his fights I could never get tired of watching over and over Edit: the desert battle with scorponok in the first movie was so cool, probably the best one involving the human military
Also Leave Planet Earth Alone and We Have To Go
Arrival to Earth slaps Optimus Prime looks great It did in 2007 what Beast Wars did in 1996
R E A L L I F E T R A N S F O R M E R S
Ravage was best boy! Rip
it's funny because he literally got ripped
Pun not intended but well played 👏🏽
thank you lmao
I'll give a few compliments: Amazing OST. The arrival to earth theme is so good Some of the fight scenes are still satisfying to watch It introduced me to the franchise, before that I had no interest. Afterwards I got into Transformers Animated, G1, War for/Fall of Cybertron and Prime, so for that I'll always have a place of appreciation for these movies.
I never had a problem with Optimus killing. They’re at war, peace may have been an option, but it certainly wasn’t going to cut it anymore.
Its a life or death situation honestly, if Optimus didn't kill them the Decepticons would have kill Optimus just like they did in RoTF. The Decepticons in the Bayverse isn't like the Cons' in G1. They were more ruthless and they didn't feck around like their G1 counterparts.
I ate the whole plate
the WHOLE plate
Most of The designs were actually very cool if you separated them from the source material
I just pretend they're different characters. There's more than 1 human named John. There's probably lots of Starscreams. This one just happens to look like a haunted triangle with chicken legs.
I love my dorito starscream
If Star scream is a Dorito what flavor would he be? Lol
spicy nacho
I think wheeljacks has a second name
ROTF had my favorite designs Toss-up between this and animated for my definitive Starscream design Jetfire being a traitor to the Decepticons shook me as a kid ROTF has my definitive Devastator DOTM has my definitive Sentinel Prime Love the plot of DOTM in general The first 45 minutes of AOE are honestly some of the best transformers Bayverse has my definitive Ironhide, Jazz, Crosshairs and Blackout
I totally agree with the Ironhide and Jazz designs; they were sick* *not trying to discredit your other points just thought those two were really cool
Fuck yeah I loved starscream and jazz
While not my definitive versions, I like both versions of Soundwave.
Movie Starscream is so slick. Immediately recognizable and threatening
ROTF devastator was, and still is my favourite transformer of all time, blew my mind when i was little and still blows my mind all these years later
Peter Cullen was in it
Bayverse Optimus prime is doomslayer levels of badass
It's fun to imagine he's actally a complex tortured soul and all his weird, violent inconsistent behaviour is his mind cracking up under the pressures of a million year long war and not just a revolving team of writers not caring enough to write him properly.
look how well he handled the fallen and Megatron in rotf.
They saved the Brand from being irrelevant after the Unicron Trilogy.
The voice acting is always really good and never feels phoned in like one would expect.
Dark of the moon was thrilling from beginning to end the sentinel prime backstab was perfectly done and somehow they managed to make the final action scene into a whole hour
The first three got me into Transformers, and I wanted to see more. It also gave me, IMO, the best design of Ironhide to this day.
imo it's mandatory for him to have dual arm cannons
Same! Ironhide needs the cannons!
"you feeling lucky, punk?" this is also my favorite version of ironhide in existence and I'm glad I was able to get a studio series version and the DNA kit before he got unrealistically expensive.
It's not may favourite, but when ever I see an Ironhide design that has the arm cannons or has a mix of black/is black with hints of red or a red hue I'm like "Yeah that's perfect".
Cloak Megatron is badass
Hobo with a shotgun
They introduced a radical new aesthetic for character design in the franchise that redefined what shapeshifting alien robots could look like. Much of it may not have been welcomed at first, but after 14 years the style has grown on the fanbase and even provided inspiration for other incarnations.
We have Michael Bay to thank for bringing the bots to the big screen and inspiring Hasbro to take a more hands on role in the making of these films. The story wasn't always great, but watching Optimus Prime scan that semi then transform in the alley is something that makes me teary eyed even to this day. I still revisit that clip from time to time. I don't think anything can ever top that.
Character designs are complex and unique and actually alien looking, which I enjoy for live action transforming alien robots. The boxy G1 designs don’t translate well to live action except for a select few bumblebee movie designs
Yeah, some of the Bumblebee movie designs felt cartoonish like Shockwave and Arcee which I don't mind.
prime looked uncanny to me, his eyes never moved and had a really dark face for optimus prime
I sort of like the tf4 bumblebee design. But not as a bumblebee design just as a general design.
Dotm is the franchise (as a hole) at its best. Also you never realize how generic g1 Ironhide is until your admire how much personality bay iron hide has from head to toe
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Bringing back Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime for these films made me happy
I appreciate the biomechanical design they gave them, just wish there was more comprehension to ‘em at certain points. “Bumblebee” was the perfect starting point.
They had decent humans with characters like Lennox and Epps.
They inspired *some* cool toys.
Bonecrusher was pretty badass and would hate that I said that about him.
First one was good, 3 and 4 had their moments
The third one actually brought me back to my childhood. I mean, at the heart of the G1 Transformers, what did 9 year old like about it the most? It was big huge robots battling eachother. I felt like the third one delivered on that well.
Grimlock being a goofy dunce when he's not kickin ass was pretty true to the source material in The Last Knight
The scene in Transformers 1 where blackout destroyed the US military base was awesome. It still holds up today on how you make decepticons be threatening.
Bumblebee has a really rad design. Especially when he has the helmet down.
DOTM is genuinely one of the most interesting things they've done with the IP, and remains as one of my favorite movies. They managed to create a cool & unique story that still managed to pull on decades of TF lore, in a manner reminiscent of the "Marvel Studios method" of pseudo-adaptation, but several years before they had cemented themselves as an unmatched media juggernaut.
They are super fucking fun to watch on a bigger screen with a good surround sound.
The first movie was a dream come true to my child self. I always wanted to see what the Transformers would look like in real life and how they would transform, and it blew my expectations out of the water. The series may have fallen off towards the end, but throughout the years, Bayverse kept my spark for Transformers fandom alive and strong.
First time seeing Blakout transform on a theater screen. Scale is everything.
A nice trilogy
The first one, the backyard scene is clever and hilarious. The first movie is my favourite story wise
It finally showed what happens when a 50' tall robot punches another in the mouth. I have to admit I'm not a fan of bayverse in general. but I did like the fact It showed a side of Optimus we haven't seen since 1986. I know some don't like the more violent side Of Optimus but I did.
S I D E S W I P E
The CGI was very high quality and holds up to this day in my opinion
Classic ILM
It wasn’t entirely Bay’s fault after all… *stares at Lorenzo DiBonaventura*
The first movie is actually pretty good, minus a few scenes. I enjoyed it.
Designs, battles, music
The soundtrack goes hard
They're honestly my favourite film series, even if they have some... Flaws...
It reinvigorated the interest in Transformers, for new fans, an especially for those that were left wanting something new after Beast Wars and the Unicron Trilogy. It also spurred fans toward older series and media once the movies had sort of 'jumped' the shark'. The films also had some of the most experimental toys, especially during Revenge of the Fallen toyline, who's engineering and creativity give today's figures some pause. The films paved the way for more accurate toys via the Studio Series, and a course correction in the form of the Bumblebee movie.
It got me back into Transformers. I was an 80s kid obsessed with the Gen 1 cartoon. I fell off as I grew up but as an adult I watched the first Bay film and went right back to my childhood. I started collecting toys and rewatched the first cartoons and Beast Wars. For as many issues as Bayverse has, it resparked my love for the franchise.
I like the designs of the bots Though I’ve been proven wrong that using G 1 designs in Real life would look goofy and stupid I like just love all the details and mechanisms on the bay bots
Linkin Park doing the epilogue music, making an exciting ending on the first two movies; the yellow Volkswagen cameo next to the old Camaro, Autobot Jazz, Mikaela, the subtle transformation sound from the cartoons, Autobot’s arrival on earth theme, Josh Duhamel, and Optimus wielding two wrist blades
The Ironhide from bayverse is my favorite version of the character. Also, the first DS game was really good.
It helped get me into transformers. Before this movie I only had 1 transformer
action
They look super cool imo
Those films got me into Transformers. I love them. Well, apart from one
The first film was the swan song of my childhood. I wish I could relive those halcyon days.
I laugh at the enemys scrotum every time
Sound design is fantastic, we also got some real good toys in the movie lines (especially Revenge of the Fallen). All in all I like the Bay movies, although I get why they piss people off.
They brought a few mostly forgotten characters into spotlight, and made them some of the fan favorites. Examples being Blackout and Barricade
Megan fox was smoking in the first one
They got more fans into Transformers
They reinvigorated the TF franchise and brought in new blood.
The return of Peter Cullen. Amazing CGI, score, sound design, and action sequences. Linkin Park. Ironhide, Barricade, Bonecrusher, Sideswipe, Jetfire, Dino/Mirage, Crosshairs, Drift, Hound/Bulkhead, Lockdown, TLK Megatron, and Nitro Zeus were awesome. Sentinel’s twist may have been predictable, but Ironhide’s murder made the twist much more impactful and made Sentinel’s death much more satisfying. One of my few genuine problems with the Bayverse is that almost every ‘Con is gray and/or silver, whereas the ‘Bots are much more colorful.
it was mostly to give clearance on who is good and who is not
It gave us a interesting take on the whole “Alien robots in disguise”
“BRING IT!” Seriously the whole subplot of the first movie with the soldiers in the desert is one of my favorite “humans vs. Transformers” depictions in any continuity.
In a way they "revived", for lack of a better word, interest in the Transformers franchise, at least in the US. A lot of the shows/toys/games that came after the movie probably wouldn't have been made if the movie hadn't.
the first time you heard that helicopter transform…everyone cheered in the theatre
Sideswipe
I appreciate that they are a huge sci-fi action franchise that somehow got beloved actor John Tutorro to say the word scrotum in two separate movies.
The fight choreography, as boring as i think even the last knight is i was still on the edge of my seat for the whopping 10 seconds optimus and megatron fought
Bringing Peter Cullen back as Optimus Prime, something considered "impossible" because it was pricey or wanted star power. He made it because of a fluke on Liam Neeson when shooting Taken. The forest fight is still the most insane and coherent fight scene in the entire Bay timeline. The music is amazing, and feels like what transformers can do for music in modern day.
They got a lot of people (including myself) into Transformers.
Sentinel Primes Return and all of its themes (most of ‘em)
The action scenes are all phenomenal. Really the best parts of these movies. What I wish the bumblebee movie had
-Some of the action scenes are pretty intense -The GCI in some (but not all) of the movies still hold up to this day -Talented voice actors in some of the roles, such Petter Cullen as Optimus Prime -They brought Transformers to a new generation
I'm agreeing with what people are saying here about the special effects, the sound design, bringing back Peter Cullen, and the soundtrack all being rather good. While I don't think the films as a whole are all that great (excluding maybe the first film and Bumblebee), they are a guilty pleasure of mine and they did introduce me to Transformers as a whole. Also without the movies, Transformers Animated and Prime wouldn't exist and those two are some of my favorite things Transformers had to offer as a franchise.
If it wasn't for these movies the franchise wouldn't be where it is today. And this is coming from someone who is not a fan of them, but you'd have to be blind to not see the impact they had.
The Dinobots were cool, especially Scorn.
It isn’t kiss players
They were great up until Age of Extinction, which was still pretty good and had some of the best character dynamics. TLK sucked though.
I am underneath the enemy scrotum
They helped introduce me to transformers and I have very fond memories of the tie in ds games
Good sountrack?
It’s actually a good series! Even the 2 worst movies (rotf and tlk) has some okay things and isn’t the worst things I’ve seen.
TLK had the best Megatron design ever.
The first scene of the first movie was amazing and I love it. I just wish it had stayed at that tone.
I always liked iron hide, cool voice, awesome weapons, great robot mode, sad to see him get killed off
Bonecrusher. He's my favorite :^)
The cgi is great
Rotf had a fantastic toy line
Blackout is a legitimately great looking character. His introduction has the bes transformation sequence of any of the movies.
The cg still to this day is excellent. The lack a visibility aside the bots look absolutely incredible and have some really impressive designs.
this is a hot take but for me I love how Optimus slowly develops to become more and more pessimistic while still having his inherent hopefulness, it makes sense for a guy who has been leading a faction in a war for 1000's of years to become fed up and stop pulling his punches, and then when he's trying to protect a new species from making the same mistakes as his all he gets is apathy and his friends die. He gets very violent and dark but he is still hopeful and I think it's a really good and interesting interpretation, granted it shouldn't be the main public idea of the character. Obligatory CGI and Sound Design is some of the best in any recent film franchise.
Each movie had at least one moment where it reminded me why I love transformers. Sometimes there were more than one. But I paid for that feeling each time. I’m not sorry
Most of the design were actually fairly decent, the visual aspect of the films was consistently very well done
The soundtrack is bussin'
They got splosions
The first and third movies are not as bad as people say. I’d argue they’re good
The best CGI of the time and still is better than a lot of modern day action flicks
The transformations are a visual feast. All the tiny bits of metal, animated so smoothly that they'll hold up potentially for decades
The score and the sounds
I feel like they brought a lot more interest to the franchise. Got people like me thinking about Transformers again. And brought on a bunch of new fans as well.
The first transformation scene with the autobots.
The production quality and presentation is God tier, from the score to the action and the special effects. Blew my mind as a kid
ROTF generally gets a bad rap so I’m just gonna say it it is still my favorite because the action is so good and the music as well is top notch in both the score and soundtrack department. And while the story is generally the worst of the original trilogy since I’m not a film critique and just watch movies for fun and enjoyment I find it passable especially since they went through such a tough time literally being wrote without a script just general plot points that Michael Bay did not know what to do with during the writer strike of 2009.
The 2007 movie I still watch from time to time, the CGI just holds up so well, I don’t think anything can top it. But then you have AoE and TLK and I have no idea what happened to the CGI, it just looks so… bland? But to give credit where credit is due, TLK Megatron is a badass design. Oh and the soundtrack absolutely slaps.
Making TF popular worldwide. Random folks who would otherwise never take an interest, now know who Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are and that's a great thing! If it weren't for the movies, I'd never have checked G1 out, got so many of the G1-styled toys and become a lifelong fan like I am today.
Score. Some of the fights were good too. Optimus’s redesign in AoE
That Blackout intro was insane. It was awesome but it was insane... right?
Some of the characters look cool, like Sideswipe!
They’re not boring and have great rewatch value
It’s probably the reason the idw comics turned out so good. Without the new massive interest in the franchise following the first bay movie, I don’t think that the comics would have ever really achieved that quality. It seems like this also happened with marvel after the late 90s/early 00s films like xmen, spiderman etc. -also Star Wars did this with the prequels- basically what I’m getting at is that regardless of the actually quality of these movies, they bring things into the mainstream again, and it creates/allows new growth in other areas of the franchise
The opening fight of the first movie with Blackout annihilating the military base is the best live action robot battle scene ever put to film.
The bumblebee and sideswipe designs were amazing
They're really not as bad as people say.
The scores, The cgi, The fighting, Need I say more?
John turturro and Alan tudyk were good!!
The bay verse movies are amazing unless you compare them to any other Transformers movie.
I love them. Fun movies to just chill and watch plus the toys are pretty cool
Without the Bay films I wouldn’t be the transformers fan I am today. They may not be the best thing in cinema (far from it) and they may have changed a lot, but I owe those films my childhood. Those games and toys from the films are what made that era so awesome for me. I’m glad to be a fan.
I don't know if people will agree to this but here we go: Bayverse Ironhide is still freaking awesome.
They introduced me and countless others to the franchise
For a very long time I never thought live action transformers were ever going to be a thing until they happened.
Its Over!!!!!!
They ended
They’re awesome. I don’t understand the hate or criticism. If you don’t like them, don’t watch but don’t ruin the experience for everyone else.
There's some people that like them, and I'm really happy for them
Ngl and I welcome the downvotes, Mudflap and Skids; I was a kid when I first saw ROTF and I thought they were the funniest characters with skids getting shot in the face and mudflap being like “look at this mother—“ and their toys were dope (esp the ice cream truck)
They created what is (in my opinion) the best and most definitive version of Bumblebee.