AOE had Optimus Riding a giant Grimlock while wielding a sword.
AOE had Optimus Riding a giant Grimlock while wielding a sword.
The Last Knight is a movie that has only one scene that wasn't really truly bad (that being the King Arthur battle scene at the beginning;
That's the thing for me. Bumblebee was easily the best live action movie in the franchise, but RotB was weighed down with a lot of the same problems the Bay movies had.I just want a nice, low key live-action Transformers movie that lets Peter Cullen shine as Dad Optimus Prime while we have him.
Bumblebee felt like a breather and a good chance to recenter, even setting a good tone that future works could emulate. But then we immediately went back to epic scale with a token "emotional core" story or two for the humans and Optimus needing to learn to not be a jerk, and idk if we'll ever get that chance again.
And, sadly, while also screaming "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!!" at the top of his lungs, a line that even Peter Cullen hated having to say.AOE had Optimus Riding a giant Grimlock while wielding a sword.
I don't know.And, sadly, while also screaming "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!!" at the top of his lungs, a line that even Peter Cullen hated having to say.
Exactly. They built him and the other dinos up as these legendary crusaders of old, but in execution they were portrayed as little more than feral beasts.
And if nothing else, The Last Knight had a FAR superior musical score relative to AoE.To me, TLK represented such a colossal failure of caring about not only the IP in general, but even the continuity of the previous films, that it just turns into a bonkers fever dream of a film that actually works as a guilty pleasure for me. I've said it before, but when a movie doesn't seem to give a damn, it makes me not give a damn and actually lets a lot of the terrible decision roll off me like water. Why should I care that Bumblebee fighting in WW2 breaks continuity, the movie sure as hell doesn't!
It's a bad, bad bad bad bad movie; but, for me at least, I have fun watching it and marveling at how broken of a film it is. It's not "so bad it's good" but "so bad I don't care that it's bad anymore"
AoE just feels excruciating, especially that interminable third act that just goes on forever.