When I look at my photo album style 007 collection, it had spots for the next three films all earmarked and ready for when those would be released. My only complaint with the physical box set is the same one I frequently have – lack of forethought. The sooner those two end up in the car crusher the better, preferably while alive. It’s my childhood come to life…well, minus Mudflaps and Skids. That said, in the end, I’ll pop my popcorn and enjoy them as the special effects of giant robots clanging into each other like pots and pans stuffed in a dryer and set on high.
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In fact, there isn’t a person in this movie that you wouldn’t gleefully unplug their life support to charge your phone. What Michael Bay has pulled off is nothing short of magnificent, and Peter Cullen’s buttery smooth and gruff voice as Optimus Prime makes me able to withstand the gratingly bad performances stammered out by Shia “ Nononononononononononononono” LaBeuf, or the “please stop trying to convince me you’re smart” version of Marky Mark Walberg that cluelessly wanders around the latter films. Not the storylines, mind you – they are painfully bad at best, and complete nonsense at worst, but the CGI. All that said, I’m still the first in line to defend these films. Bumblebee represented the first film that wasn’t directed by Michael Bay, and with Director Travis Knight and writer Christina Hodson delivering a fun reset of the franchise, it certainly put a smile on Hasbro and Paramount’s face with a 91% score! Hailee Steinfeld delivered the first human character that wasn’t eye-rollingly bad, and Bumblee’s storyline delivered in a way the previous five movies couldn’t.
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If you look purely at Rotten Tomatoes, they are a tutorial on how to slide from decent to zero, with the first film scoring 57%, and The Last Knight limping across the finish line at 16%. I’ve gotta level with you – these movies are a guilty pleasure. The film’s names are also printed on the spine, making it possible to store them with their titles facing out. On each is, of course, the name of the film, as well as the primary protagonist or antagonist. It’s appreciated more than I express, and with or without the box, these steelcases are a showpiece. Opening that magnetized flap reveals an awesome surprise – six beautiful full-sized steelcases, one for each film! It’d have been very easy for Paramount to drop these onto an extended spindle, stacking the discs on top of eachother, but thankfully they are showing a great deal of care here. The films come in a box with foldout flap, emblazoned with the Autobot logo on one side and the Decepticon on the opposite. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover, Autobots, so let’s transform and roll out! That was 2007 – you feel old yet? Now in 2023, and on the verge of the release of the seventh film, Rise of the Beasts, we’ve finally gotten a remaster of all of these films in 4K. At least, until Michael Bay picked up the Mantle of Leadership and directed the first blockbuster Transformers live film. Hasbro dabbled with various animated versions of the epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons for years, but they never tried their hand at the big screen again. We also saw the Matrix of Leadership pass to a new generation as my poor 10 year old heart broke at the death of Optimus. We saw Unicron devastate and transform the Decepticons into something more sci-fi than their Earth-based Autobot counterparts. I’m watching on the big screen as my childhood inspiration, Optimus Prime (and let’s be honest, that’s endured well into my adulthood) battles Megatron, declaring “One shall stand, one shall fall”.
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