Rank The Transformers Films

[The Deadman]

After watching the Transformers films a few weeks back I figured I'd give my ranking for them. Does anyone else enjoy these movies? Or are you with the majority that they're some of the worst movies ever made.

4. Revenge of the Fallen
3. Dark of the Moon
2. Transformers
1. Age of Extinction

If you're wondering why the 4th movie is my #1, it's because there was no Shia yelling and screaming like a high school girl when something went wrong.

[Candy Kappa]

1. Transformers 1986.


Aaand, that's it.

[CyberCubed]

I haven't seen any of them.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

ARE there any people who enjoy the TF movies? I'm not a TF fan in general, so I don't have anything to add to this thread. Except that Bay movies suck, but that's a smashed dead horse.

[TurtleTitan97]

The 1986 movie was alright, the first Bay film was decent at best.

Everything else that came after it sucks. Haven't even bothered watching Age of Extinction.

[TigerClaw]

I'm not a fan of the 1986 movie, they killed off many of the main characters, the movie was merely just to sell the new toys at the time, there was even backlash behind it, that they had to bring Optimus Prime back to life during the 3rd season of the animated series.

The 2007 movie should be on top, I liked all the TF films in general, I just don't pick which one is the favorite, that's like choosing which is your favorite child, Just be happy they are making Transformers movies, you either like them or you don't.

And this aint even over, they are gonna make more Trasnformers movie, one will be fully animated and set in Cybertron.

[ToTheNines]

The one with Ninja Turtles in it.

[TurtleTitan97]

The 2007 movie should be on top, I liked all the TF films in general, I just don't pick which one is the favorite, that's like choosing which is your favorite child, Just be happy they are making Transformers movies, you either like them or you don't.



That is terrible logic. Why should anyone be happy that we're getting garbage when we could be getting a much better product instead?

Seriously, ponder on that thought.

[CyberCubed]

What was the 1986 movie about? I wasn't even aware that existed.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

And this aint even over, they are gonna make more Trasnformers movie, one will be fully animated and set in Cybertron.

Not as long as Bay is making them; the man has no interest in a fully non-human cast.

[TurtleTitan97]

What was the 1986 movie about? I wasn't even aware that existed.

Google and Wikipedia are your friends.

[TigerClaw]

That is terrible logic. Why should anyone be happy that we're getting garbage when we could be getting a much better product instead?

Seriously, ponder on that thought.
You may think its garbage and that's just your own opinion, but others find joy and entertainment in these films.

I think most of the hate are just people who are just cynical, if you become cynical over something, your not enjoying life very much.

[TurtleTitan97]

I think most of the hate are just people who are just cynical, if you become cynical over something, your not enjoying life very much.

Riiiight, cynical. :roll:

Or it could just be they plain suck when it comes to adapting the Transformers mythos and you and anyone who thinks these are good films have some questionably taste in cinema...

https://media4.giphy.com/media/ToMjGpKRpvezPEjVyAo/200_s.gif

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Riiiight, cynical. :roll:

Or it could just be they plain suck when it comes to adapting the Transformers mythos and you and anyone who thinks these are good films have some questionably taste in cinema...

https://media4.giphy.com/media/ToMjGpKRpvezPEjVyAo/200_s.gif

Sadly, the questionable taste in cinema possessed by some individuals has been long ago proven in the sacred halls of this hallowed forum.

Father Bry continues to try to exorcise the Lower Demons of Questionable Taste, but alas, to no avail. These wretched beasts of shadow and spirit continue to possess many a soul and haunt many a thread.

[TigerClaw]

Riiiight, cynical. :roll:

Or it could just be they plain suck when it comes to adapting the Transformers mythos and you and anyone who thinks these are good films have some questionably taste in cinema...

https://media4.giphy.com/media/ToMjGpKRpvezPEjVyAo/200_s.gif
You of all people should never question people's taste in movies or anything, those like that don't belong here, just respect what they like and not come off as an A-hole by saying they have questionable taste.

I don't criticize anyone about there taste

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

You of all people should never question people's taste in movies or anything, those like that don't belong here, just respect what they like and not come off as an A-hole by saying they have questionable taste.

I don't criticize anyone about there taste

He of all people? My brother in arms and fellow devotee of the Scarlet Speedster Saint? :teek:

YOU DARE!? :flaming:

Seriously, though, "he of all people?" Why the higher standard for Titan97?

[TigerClaw]

He of all people? My brother in arms and fellow devotee of the Scarlet Speedster Saint? :teek:

YOU DARE!? :flaming:

Seriously, though, "he of all people?" Why the higher standard for Titan97?
I'm talking in general, I see this in these boards all the time, people criticizing others about there taste, and acting like they know better then them, that's just plain wrong and doesn't belong anywhere.

[TurtleTitan97]

You of all people should never question people's taste in movies or anything, those like that don't belong here, just respect what they like and not come off as an A-hole by saying they have questionable taste.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you not notice the "But that's none of my business" picture I had in my previous post? Here, let me put here for you again just to make sure you get the message.

https://media4.giphy.com/media/ToMjGpKRpvezPEjVyAo/200_s.gif

But on a serious note, are you really telling me that you can look at a film like Revenge of Fallen and honestly call it a GOOD movie on par with say, The Dark Knight or Winter Soldier?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

I'm talking in general, I see this in these boards all the time, people criticizing others about there taste, and acting like they know better then them, that's just plain wrong and doesn't belong anywhere.

Well, FYI, "he of all people" is not at all a correct choice of words for your intent.

For example, this is how the phrase should be used:

"Leo656, you of all people should NOT be dissing wrestling!"

[CyberCubed]

what's going on in this thread

[TigerClaw]

what's going on in this thread
What's going on is, any mention of Transformers just gets people riled up. :lol:

[Bry]

You may think its garbage and that's just your own opinion, but others find joy and entertainment in these films.

I think most of the hate are just people who are just cynical, if you become cynical over something, your not enjoying life very much.

See, that's the thing, I don't think that's joy. I think that's complacency.

Life is all about highs and lows. Being critical doesn't mean you're cynical, it just means you're able to see the bad and the good clearly. Criticizing the bad also means you can recognize and appreciate what's truly good. It means you enjoy it more. You appreciate better writing, better stories, you connect with good characters, you feel the emotions of the story so much more that way.

People who give a thumbs-up to literally anything projected on a screen? I think they're missing that. There's no real joy if everything is "great".

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

See, that's the thing, I don't think that's joy. I think that's complacency.

Life is all about highs and lows. Being critical doesn't mean you're cynical, it just means you're able to see the bad and the good clearly. Criticizing the bad also means you can recognize and appreciate what's truly good. It means you enjoy it more. You appreciate better writing, better stories, you connect with good characters, you feel the emotions of the story so much more that way.

People who give a thumbs-up to literally anything projected in a screen? I think they're missing that. There's no real joy if everything is "great".

May I hug you, Father Bry? Truly you are a wise man.

[Etsyturtle2]

I'm talking in general, I see this in these boards all the time, people criticizing others about there taste, and acting like they know better then them, that's just plain wrong and doesn't belong anywhere.

Preach.:nod:

[Bry]

If I can't criticize peoples' tastes, can I at least criticize their grammar? :tgrin:

May I hug you, Father Bry? Truly you are a wise man.

Of course, my child! Let the warmth of this embrace bring you closer to the word of Liking Actual Good Movies. Also, my holy vestments are a soft and comfy poly-fleece blend!

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

If I can't criticize peoples' tastes, can I at least criticize their grammar? :tgrin:



Of course, my child! Let the warmth of this embrace bring you closer to the word of Liking Actual Good Movies. Also, my holy vestments are a soft and comfy poly-fleece blend!

I'm going into seminary, so that I may spread the True Fan Gospel and unveil the LIES that are this WOLF IN TURTLE'S CLOTHING, that old DEVIL MICHAEL BAY!!!

[The Deadman]

I think all the hate stems from people having high expectations for the first Bay movie and being sadly disappointed. It had promise but of course you had Shia and Megan Fox who are terrible actors.

[TigerClaw]

I think all the hate stems from people having high expectations for the first Bay movie and being sadly disappointed. It had promise but of course you had Shia and Megan Fox who are terrible actors.
I had high expectations for the TF movie and I was satisfied with it, I wanted to see giant robots kicking ass and taking names.

[Etsyturtle2]

I love bay movies. These rock!

[Autbot_Benz]

4. Revenge of The Fallen this movie was ass
3. Dark Of The Moon It was a good 3rd movie cause we got to see Mcdreamy from Grey's Anatomy get wasted and Wheeljack was in it.
2. Transformers. The First one It was good a big deal at the time it came out
1. Age Of Extinction I loved the Dinobots and John Goodman Hound was hilarious. it was just his character from the Big Lebowski as an Autobot

[TigerClaw]

These Transformers movies are very violent if you think about it, one of the movies shows Optimus Prime decapitating the head of a Decepticon, and in and in another, he rips a Decepticon's face in half, Lot's of robot on robot violence, lots of robot gore too.

[Powder]

what's going on in this thread

Idiocracy.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

These Transformers movies are very violent if you think about it, one of the movies shows Optimus Prime decapitating the head of a Decepticon, and in and in another, he rips a Decepticon's face in half, Lot's of robot on robot violence, lots of robot gore too.

Robot... gore?

Just...

You guys are the reason aliens took one look at us and said "First Contact? Hell no!"

[NinjaPug]

Wow. Did someone really say picking their favorite TF movie is like picking your favorite child?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Wow. Did someone really say picking their favorite TF movie is like picking your favorite child?

Yes. Yes they did.

Apparently someone only has special needs children.

[Etsyturtle2]

4th one was my least fave. Third is dark of the moon. Second- revenge of the falling n. First is 2007. And Megan fox was soooo hot by the way. They're great movies too. Loved em so much. I can't wait for 5.

[TurtleTitan97]

These Transformers movies are very violent if you think about it, one of the movies shows Optimus Prime decapitating the head of a Decepticon, and in and in another, he rips a Decepticon's face in half, Lot's of robot on robot violence, lots of robot gore too.

And once again, Captain Obvious strikes with the speed of lightning and fades away into the night....

[TigerClaw]

Most of the complains I hear about these TF movie, Is that it focuses too much on the humans then the robots, and I have no problem with that since, the movies are told from the human's point of view when they see these giant robots on there planet.

with the Transformers cinematic universe that Paramount is working on, There will be spinoff movies, one of them being set on Cybertron, at the end of Age of Extinction, Optimus Prime flew to space and heading torwards the creators, most likely the Quintessons, so there's an animated feature that focuses completely on the robots themselves. :)

[shuriken]

Only saw the 1st, 2nd and 4th one. I thought they were all over-blown and kinda dragged on. I saw the first one about 6 months after it came out on theater. Saw the second one on FX a lazy afternoon, and saw the 4th with my roommates.
Now the CGI was fantastic, but the character designs seemed too busy for me and I found it a chore to watch. I heard good things about the 1st one, so I was expecting something awesome and was sorely dissapointed. And for me personally it's hard to rank something I dislike as a collection. I will say I enjoyed PD turtles more than any of these TF movies, because they don't drag on for 2-3 hours. Although I did marginally like them more than the IMO atrocious 2k7 movie. But that isn't that hard to do.

[Cure]

Age of Extinction is best, even though it's so long.
Dark of the Moon is next for me. I like Sentinel Prime a lot.
The first one is really good, even though I like the ones above more.
Revenge of the Fallen is the weakest. It has some nice set pieces, though.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

1. That one movie where Spike says "Oh sh*t"!
2. 2007
3. Age of Execution
4. Drag on the Movie
5. Revenge of the Fetish

Most of the complains I hear about these TF movie, Is that it focuses too much on the humans then the robots, and I have no problem with that since, the movies are told from the human's point of view when they see these giant robots on there planet.

Some people don't want this, though. They want to see big giant robots fight. This isn't Pokemon where everything centers on Ash.

[Wildcat]

Transformers
Age of Extinction
Revenge of the Fallen
Dark of the Moon

[Bry]

To actually answer the question, Transformers '86 is clearly the best, because it set a chase scene to Weird Al:

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That alone is more entertaining than anything in the BayFormers movies that I'm aware of.

(And killing off the franchise's main character was a pretty ballsy move, so hey, bonus points for that.)

The first BayFormers movie was an incredibly stupid CGI 'splode-fest with irritating human "characters" hogging the camera time while the title "characters" were paper-thin props that existed solely for vehicular/robot carnage. It was impossible to care about any of them or anything that happened in the movie. The "plot" was treated like nonsense background noise, and thus there were no emotional stakes in the movie whatsoever. It was aimed firmly at that lowest common denominator that doesn't want to actually think or feel genuine emotion at any point ever, so yeah, it was pretty terrible movie and I'd rather have unnecessary dental surgery than ever watch it again.

I've only actually seen the first one, and it was bad enough that I decided to never watch the sequels. I hear they're equally awful! I'm sure that's true.

[Leo656]

Being critical doesn't mean you're cynical, it just means you're able to see the bad and the good clearly. Criticizing the bad also means you can recognize and appreciate what's truly good. It means you enjoy it more. You appreciate better writing, better stories, you connect with good characters, you feel the emotions of the story so much more that way.

People who give a thumbs-up to literally anything projected in a screen? I think they're missing that. There's no real joy if everything is "great".

You win. A-Number-One, Bubba. For me, it's pretty simple: I have a grand love of things that are good and a burning hatred for things that are not good.

I think the first one is the most watchable, and you can throw the other three in a fire. I'm gonna try and find my post from last year when I watched the fourth one. That movie was f*cking torture, one of the most painful things I've ever sat through, mostly because it just kept going ON and ON. And I really did give it an honest chance.

Ah, here we go:
There's nothing on, so the wife insisted on watching the Transformers one with Marky Mark. I never seen it. It's up to the chase scene after the black ops guys ambush Marky Mark's barn looking for Optimus Prime.

It's actually better than I thought it'd be so far, but holy sh*t is it predictable. And the CGI in some spots is just awful. Like when the car goes off the ramp conveniently leading out the window of that skyscraper; like suddenly the f*cking car looks like a helium balloon. And then they kill off the pudgy long-haired guy and swap in the Irish pretty boy. "This is the part of the movie where we swap out the 'unattractive' male second lead with the younger, prettier, cover boy second male lead. You're welcome, teenage girls who were dragged here by your boyfriends!" :lol:

And WHY is everyone so STUPID?! This sh*t with Marky Mark and his bimbo daughter is KILLING me! "All you had to do was report it (finding Optimus Prime) and now Lucas is dead!" Ummm... LUCAS was the one who DID report it, AND NOW HE'S F*CKING DEAD! What's "Cause-And-Effect", you little airhead? Jeeeeeeezus.

All's I gotta say so far, is when MARKY MARK is the guy in the story you root for the most, you BETTER be watching goddamn "Boogie Nights". :lol: This definitely sucks, but it's not AS sh*tty as I thought, so far. It's better than the second one, at least. I haven't seen the first one in a while, but that one's probably still the "best".

I feel like each of the movies had some good and intriguing ideas that were ruined by just the most god-awful execution imaginable. I get that Hollywood has to dumb everything down for China nowadays, but c'mon. C'mon. This would have to be the FIRST movie you ever watched in your life, not to be able to predict the entire plot A to Z in the first ten minutes. Not every person in the audience just woke up from a coma. I *hate* that sh*t.

Ah well. There's nothing on. :lol:

EDIT: Oh my GOD this is taking FOREVER! I *like* long movies and this is far from the worst thing I've ever seen, seriously, but holy sh*t, this movie does not justify its running time AT ALL. If you cut out half the extraneous characters like "Chinese Scientist Lady Who's Suddenly A Convenient Plot Ninja", cut a few pointless lingering shots like "Bald Mad Scientist/Horrible Over-Actor Sucking On A Juice Box", and forget about having the entire third act be set in China because that's where these stupid f***ing movies make 60% of their money, you might have a nice tight little two hour action movie.

I love how they're cracking jokes and doing shtick WHILE the dramatic "Take This Scene Seriously" music is playing. God, if only this series had someone up top with focus, who actually knew what kind of movie they wanted to make, except "flashy". Things could be so completely different without changing a whole ton. But these pacing and tone issues are abysmal.

Better than the second one, at least.

[Walkabout]

1. Transformers 1986.


Aaand, that's it.

I'm with CK all the way here.
I feel the same way about Bay Transformers as I do about Bay TMNT.

[TigerClaw]

I don't like how the 1986 movie deals with characters like Optimus Prime, killing him off was a huge mistake on there part, which resulted in him being brought back on the series.

From the Wiki article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transformers:_The_Movie

The film was produced by Sunbow/Marvel simultaneously with G.I. Joe: The Movie. The writers of G.I. Joe: The Movie film asked for permission from Hasbro to kill the Duke character. Hasbro not only approved the request but insisted that the writers of The Transformers: The Movie adopt the same fate for Optimus Prime. However, Optimus' death sparked much controversy and incurred so much backlash that it caused the writers of G.I. Joe to make changes so that Duke simply ended up in a coma from which he eventually awoke.

Optimus Prime's death in the Transformers universe would be relatively short lived. Due to the negative reaction concerning Optimus Prime's death, the staff of the television series went back into production to create the two part episode "The Return of Optimus Prime", which aired on February 24 and 25, 1987, and replaced The Face of the Nijika as the final episode of the third season of the series which aired nearly four months before. The story, which concerns Optimus Prime being brought back to life to help combat a hate virus that threatens the entire universe, was promoted every day on the series in the two week period before the episodes premiered.

All of this was Hasbro's doing, and they learned the hard way.