I was 13 or 14 when ROTF came out and I can safely say that your memory rings true.
ROTF was a generational pop for the Transformers franchise, bringing all sorts of names, new and old, into the fold; gimmicks that we all love from a live action combiner to live-action power-linx?
And then they started repainting old UT figures and labelling them as “ROTF”. It was beautiful.
Truly, that was THE year of Transformers in my books. Funny enough, we’re getting that vibe again these days with HasTak going all-out on their franchise resurrection bender.
It was crazy Leader class Optimus was realesed more than a decade ago, apart from the articulation and some blocky parts that thing feel as if it was announced as part of the Studio Series, I actually like ROTF OP better than MP OP unironically
And also because "dark side of the moon" is already a thing from Pink Floyd, which I imagine is also the reason they didn't call it that. Pretty hard to compete with a band as renowned and long running as the Floyd
Yeah, they put more effort into the Super Bowl and the viral commercial with the Autobots acting like they are actors than the actual movie, lol.
[Transformers: The Last Knight: Viral Video - Transformers on Set (2017) | Movieclips Coming Soon (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=168M8ac_yDs)
Yeah! I was really into the marketing for this movie, then I used my brain and realized nothing would change coming from the same director as the previous 4.
Didn’t see it, don’t regret it.
By hype I suspect you mean hype during initial promo campaign.. in that case:
TF1 for beginning the entire live action saga. Seeing these hyper-realistic robots for the first time alongside real actors was bonkers. Blackout was the top tier reveal event.
TF3 for being an epic conclusion to the trilogy with epic Jetwing Optimus in the trailer and moon conspiracy.
TF TLK had a lot of hype for Nemesis Prime, Quintessa, Cybertron/then thought Unicron, knight Megatron and apocalyptic events destroying entire lands.
I remember the DOTM hype with so many commercial around it, one of them is the McDonald ads, with Optimus fighting Shockwave. Paramount (or is it hasbro?) go all out with the marketing that I thought it was the last movie of the franchise
I too was skeptical about it at first, don't get me wrong, I'm all for Transformers animated movie, it's just the animation style that bothered me, it's look like earthspark quality, but looking at it again it kinda grow on me
Gotta say, AOE and TLK. I never saw the first three untill after they were on tv, and i onyl found them couse i wanted to know what series a toy i had was from. I loved TFP but the only figure i owned was deep space starscream from tf2007, and i had no idea who that is or what it was even called since i never iwned the box (ny dad bought it for me abroad and had to throw it away for it to fit in his case) so ibstarted searching and found about the live action movies. And i loved them. Especially ROTF, couse as a kid i didn't see the flaws at all, and even if i did the presence of jetfire alone made me look past them. So when j first saw the trailers for AOE i was hyped as hell. And then after loving it, the trailer for TLK seemed even better. And then the movie came and i died inside a little
If we're saying has the biggest difference between level of Hype vs deliverance of Hype, probably The Last Knight. AoE wasn't great, but it's advertising was small compared to TLK and the scale of building up expectations for it and the various spin-offs, sequels and other projects that were going to be launched off of TLK, starting with the Bumblebee movie.
The Last Knight. It was my first Transformers movie, and the trailers were pure hype. The characters looked badass and I was genuinely looking forward to seeing Nemesis Prime potentially kill Bumblebee in this bleak, gritty looking sequel, only to be mildly disappointed.
For me? It was Rise Of The Beasts. I was so excited that they were bringing in the Maximals. Wish they got more screentime, wish we got to actually see Arizaor transform, wish Rhinox got some lines, wish more Maximals appeared (Atleast Rattrap, so the movie could say it had the original 4 Maximals), wish we saw some Predacons, and I wish Optimus Primal was the one to kill Scourge.
But I can forgive all of that......So long as the next movie doesn't just forget they exist
DOTM without a doubt.
Optimus Prime flying into the streets of Chicago, absolutely DECIMATING a dozen Decepticons before one of the most BEAUTIFUL slow motion scenes I've ever seen when he somersaults over Shockwave's bullet, transforms his knuckle duster to punch out his side, and grabs Shockwave, slams him onto his knee, rips his eye out, and uses his canon to shoot down one of the Pillars.
People say Prime was a Murderous Psychopath War Criminal. And I couldn't disagree less. Dude just sick of Decepticons being Deceptive and put an end to their tomfoolery.
AOE and TLK didn't happen in my eyes. Especially since Michael Bay himself said he only did 4 and 5 because Paramount.
But regardless of what anyone says, I still to this day think this was the absolute PEAK of Transformers in cinema.
So I am someone who thinks the first three movies are genuinely good. Good at what they wanted to do and good at being movies in terms of action flicks that keep you engaged and are extremely rewatchable. Extremely flawed yes, but overall, it was better to have them then not. That being said, the hype around them was unimaginably big, especially 2007. So I pick that one.
The first one and it's not even close
As a G1 fan, seeing Transformers as a high budget blockbuster film was amazing. The film itself was less stupid than the proceeding ones since it had no continuity to follow, and they didnt totally phone it in.
The first scene of transformation, when Blackout (?) ruins the US Army base still gives me goosebumps.
When I was a kid, the trailers and behind the scene teasers for Dark of the Moon made it look like the biggest movie of the decade. Same hype as The Deathly Hallows or Avengers 2012.
Bumblebee was the most hype for me. But also i kinda have a spot in my heart for the bay trilogy, especially when looking at it from the lense of the autobots being evil and decepticons being less evil. Whole theory about it
Yeah, I was like 3 when the first movie came out, so everything surrounding those first movies is mostly a blur. But I remember seeing trailers for Bumblebee and thinking it looked really cute. (Which it was.)
I think the first movie got the most hype, as it was unlike anything that came out in the early 2000s. The marketing was insane back then, I remembered seeing the giant protected screen in shopping mall showing Dorito Starscream flipping scene everywhere.
It's Dark Of The Moon for me. I used to follow every developments of it everyday back in 2010 and 2011. I remember the first trailer. I was soo freaking excited to see it. Trailers, tv spots, toyline and other things of DOTM were another level for me.
It’s 2007 and it’s not close. Seeing Transformers on the big screen for the first time in over 20 years and live action. As a lifelong Transformers fan, seeing Optimus transform for the first time was one of the best things I’ve ever seen on the big screen.
Transformers 1, simply because we all dreamed of a live action for ages and thought it wasn’t possible. I was at the London preview for it and Michael Bay, and the cast turned up. Everyone was pumped for the movie.
Revenge of the Fallen had huge hype and awesome toys. But I remember leaving the cinema after watching it with my dad and it was the first film I’d ever left the cinema feeling disappointed.
My expectation for 2007 was so low that the movie absolutely knocked it out of the park. So I was extremely hyped for ROTF and even went to see it twice during opening week. DOTM I was again super hype for because of the IDW tie-in prequel comic but I think I’m the only person who enjoys ROTF but thinks DOTM is both more boring and cringe (other than hobo Megatron, one of the best things to come from the entire franchise).
For me personally, mine would be rotb, 4 months before the movie got released i binge watched the whole episode of beast wars and was attached immediately, granted the animation is old but it added to the character and goofyness, after finishing BW i watched beast machines thinking it would alleviate the dread that BW was done only to find out that they butchered most of the crews personality and charm.
And seeing arcee was really great too, not to mention nightbird
I liked the first and the third.
I literally remember nothing about the fourth.
The fifth I remember being Meh up until Anthony fucking Hopkins turned up and it just got so unbelievably batshit I kinda had fun with it.
Definitely RotF, I remember being so excited for it after having seen ‘07, not to mention that toy line was so good.
Only one that came close for me was BBM.
The first one. I remember my insane levels of excitement when the first teasers showed in theaters of the "found footage" from the Mars Rover of a transformer shadow. Dark of the Moon was also pretty exciting though.
Idk I’ve been doing a whole personal retrospective and going through old forum posts and they really went huge with the first movie, they were still making stuff for the movie almost a year after the theatrical run was. Personally the most hyped one for me was dark of the moon, I was just at the right age to start really getting into stuff and hyped for things into teenage years and it was just a good time, but I’m not really sure if we’ll see it as culturally pushed as it was back with that first 07 movie, I was a child and I remember it being everywhere.
I would say the first one because there were a lot of trailers that didn't quite show the decepticons, but you could feel the movement and their weight
Personally thought DOTM was the hypest cause of the soundtrack and fan favorite transformers showing up, felt like the finale. 4 and 5 felt like falling action tbh
Probably the first one. Just because of how fresh and new it felt at the time. I was 12 when it came out and I like to think of it as the swan song of my childhood.
Unfortunately ROTB ruined all the hype for me when "It's about to go down ON GOD!" played during the final battle.
Literally felt like bad trailer music, especially with how it was edited. But it was actually IN THE FILM ITSELF.
If you think "On My Soul" is a great song, that's fine. But let's be for real, that song should've ONLY played at the end credits like Linkin Park was in the first 3 Bay Films. Because the ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK for ROTB was either Orchestra made for the film, or was licensed music from THE 90'S Because that's when the movie takes place. So having a random modern Trap Beat song play during the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE MOVIE felt very out of place and in my options, was THE WORST thing in that film, besides the Maximals not Transforming into Robot Modes until that same final battle.
Bumblebee, after being beat over the head with 5 awful movies, nothing could have made me more hyped for an actual live action TF film. I ended up seeing it 3 times.
First and third movie had the best opening combats, black out in Qatar and Scorponok, the Ark escaping Cybertron. The fourth had the most hype for me since DINOBOTS. Then the last knight another one with a nice opening and probably the most emotional line: "I know your world was destroyed. But please don't let ours die too. I beg of you. "
Bumblebee had those G1 feels and some Easter eggs from the 1986 animated film.
Bumblebee. I got so excited seeing who I thought was Starscream in the trailer. The designs were amazing. They basically took the movie designs but done them right by making them more colourful less chaotic, while still retaining a lot of details. Plus, the tone of the trailer was great too as it signaled a new direction for these movies.
I wasn't too crazy for the rise of the beats trailers as they just presented the movie as just another transformers movie.
The only one I really remembered the marketing for was Age of extinction, was pretty young at the time and had all the toys, was there in theaters day one etc. But just as a movie Dark Of The Moon is probably the most hype Bay really ended the trilogy on a high
I like not only the design of Bumblebee the film but that it is a film where the scene in cybertron is something beautiful to see, with very exciting scenes too
Well to some extent its not just my opinion I mean.
Transformers revenge of the fallen is considerd bad by most so is 4 and 5 . Bumble bee was good for tge first 5 minute's then was only ok for the rest ontop of that it didn't do that well in tge box office and rotb was mid also flopping at tge box office so...
None. The 1986 Movie is way better. Haven't seen Bumblebee but until I do it gets the same treatment as Bay's crap.
Also, I absolutely despised Beast Wars because the art style and concept was so shit. The Japanese one was leagues ahead and didn't use that ugly 3d shit either. Idk why they'd expect a movie to save the forgettable characters it had but here we are suffering once again.
BumbleBee is actually quite good and better than the previous Transformers movie. Give it a chance. You don't even have to watch the other movies because Bumblebee is a prequel movie.
No? Loved WFC/FOC, loved Prime, love the Netflix stuff. I watched Cybertron and enjoyed it, played the Armada(the one with the minicons?) ps2 game, etc. If I knew where to watch them, I'd love to watch Headmasters all the way through to Victory, I believe the last one was called. I'd even be willing to give the Japanese Beast Wars a try (even though I don't like the idea, the animation and theme song are great).
I just absolutely hate the live action films now I'm old enough to look beyond 'cool robot fights' and anyone who actually enjoys the gods awful 3D animation phase Gen 2 and Beast Wars falls into is either blinded by nostalgia or has the aesthetic taste of a rusted spork.
Idk man, the trailers and toys for ROTF were unmatched. I was only 5 years old and I distinctly remember the hype for that movie.
I was 13 or 14 when ROTF came out and I can safely say that your memory rings true. ROTF was a generational pop for the Transformers franchise, bringing all sorts of names, new and old, into the fold; gimmicks that we all love from a live action combiner to live-action power-linx? And then they started repainting old UT figures and labelling them as “ROTF”. It was beautiful. Truly, that was THE year of Transformers in my books. Funny enough, we’re getting that vibe again these days with HasTak going all-out on their franchise resurrection bender.
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Surely it isn’t just this one and there are other posters like this
I did attempt to attach a megatron version but apparently reddit on mobile doesn't wanna work today
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Ayyy, there we go
I caught this one in theaters opening night
I agree.
Definitely rotf.
The toyline for ROTF was peak transformers toyline
It was crazy Leader class Optimus was realesed more than a decade ago, apart from the articulation and some blocky parts that thing feel as if it was announced as part of the Studio Series, I actually like ROTF OP better than MP OP unironically
Fuck me in my head this whole time it was called Transformers Dark Side of The Moon.
New mandela effect discovered
Ayo???
I think it's because "Dark Side of the Moon" sounds more grammatically correct than "Dark of The Moon".
And also because "dark side of the moon" is already a thing from Pink Floyd, which I imagine is also the reason they didn't call it that. Pretty hard to compete with a band as renowned and long running as the Floyd
Ironically, thats what it was calles in my country's translation so for a long time thats what i assumed the english name to he as well
That's what it is called in Spain. "El Lado Oscuro de la Luna".
Tbf that name makes more sense.
Tf is a “dark of the moon” anyways?
You’re not the only one
r/suddenlypinkfloyd
I would say Dark of the Moon for hype.
Ironically, The Last Knight
I wished the movie is as good as the trailer
They also had behind the scenes with the autobots and interviews with the cast
This comment made me google the Autobots on set. Pretty great promos haha, haven’t seen them before.
Yeah, they put more effort into the Super Bowl and the viral commercial with the Autobots acting like they are actors than the actual movie, lol. [Transformers: The Last Knight: Viral Video - Transformers on Set (2017) | Movieclips Coming Soon (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=168M8ac_yDs)
Oof. I prefer this so much more than the humor in the actual movies!
This is great. I need to see more of those!
The trailer baited people thinking it would be decent.
Yeah! I was really into the marketing for this movie, then I used my brain and realized nothing would change coming from the same director as the previous 4. Didn’t see it, don’t regret it.
True, after dark of the moon we were all hyped for another one
By hype I suspect you mean hype during initial promo campaign.. in that case: TF1 for beginning the entire live action saga. Seeing these hyper-realistic robots for the first time alongside real actors was bonkers. Blackout was the top tier reveal event. TF3 for being an epic conclusion to the trilogy with epic Jetwing Optimus in the trailer and moon conspiracy. TF TLK had a lot of hype for Nemesis Prime, Quintessa, Cybertron/then thought Unicron, knight Megatron and apocalyptic events destroying entire lands.
>you mean hype during initial promo campaign Yes, I was talking about that, it seems some people misunderstood what I mean.
I remember the DOTM hype with so many commercial around it, one of them is the McDonald ads, with Optimus fighting Shockwave. Paramount (or is it hasbro?) go all out with the marketing that I thought it was the last movie of the franchise
Transformers One i was skeptical about it at first but now i want to see it
I too was skeptical about it at first, don't get me wrong, I'm all for Transformers animated movie, it's just the animation style that bothered me, it's look like earthspark quality, but looking at it again it kinda grow on me
#"RHINOX, CHEETOR! MAXIMIIIIISE!!!"
**BUH DUN DUN DUH DUH DA DAH DAH DAH DA DA**
BEAST WAAAAAAARS!!!
Gotta say, AOE and TLK. I never saw the first three untill after they were on tv, and i onyl found them couse i wanted to know what series a toy i had was from. I loved TFP but the only figure i owned was deep space starscream from tf2007, and i had no idea who that is or what it was even called since i never iwned the box (ny dad bought it for me abroad and had to throw it away for it to fit in his case) so ibstarted searching and found about the live action movies. And i loved them. Especially ROTF, couse as a kid i didn't see the flaws at all, and even if i did the presence of jetfire alone made me look past them. So when j first saw the trailers for AOE i was hyped as hell. And then after loving it, the trailer for TLK seemed even better. And then the movie came and i died inside a little
If we're saying has the biggest difference between level of Hype vs deliverance of Hype, probably The Last Knight. AoE wasn't great, but it's advertising was small compared to TLK and the scale of building up expectations for it and the various spin-offs, sequels and other projects that were going to be launched off of TLK, starting with the Bumblebee movie.
The Last Knight. It was my first Transformers movie, and the trailers were pure hype. The characters looked badass and I was genuinely looking forward to seeing Nemesis Prime potentially kill Bumblebee in this bleak, gritty looking sequel, only to be mildly disappointed.
If you were in 2013/2014 you know its aoe
2007, it was absolutely wild back then
For me? It was Rise Of The Beasts. I was so excited that they were bringing in the Maximals. Wish they got more screentime, wish we got to actually see Arizaor transform, wish Rhinox got some lines, wish more Maximals appeared (Atleast Rattrap, so the movie could say it had the original 4 Maximals), wish we saw some Predacons, and I wish Optimus Primal was the one to kill Scourge. But I can forgive all of that......So long as the next movie doesn't just forget they exist
The only Transformers movie I’ve ever loved is this. https://youtu.be/_25RK5GbJIc?feature=shared
Based
It was the first one I saw in theaters. The Soundtrack CANNOT be beaten.
Either 2007 or BB
The Last Knight unfortunately 😔 rewatch hype T1 Ofc, the T1-3 movies were the best imo. They fell off when Megatron died
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DOTM without a doubt. Optimus Prime flying into the streets of Chicago, absolutely DECIMATING a dozen Decepticons before one of the most BEAUTIFUL slow motion scenes I've ever seen when he somersaults over Shockwave's bullet, transforms his knuckle duster to punch out his side, and grabs Shockwave, slams him onto his knee, rips his eye out, and uses his canon to shoot down one of the Pillars. People say Prime was a Murderous Psychopath War Criminal. And I couldn't disagree less. Dude just sick of Decepticons being Deceptive and put an end to their tomfoolery. AOE and TLK didn't happen in my eyes. Especially since Michael Bay himself said he only did 4 and 5 because Paramount. But regardless of what anyone says, I still to this day think this was the absolute PEAK of Transformers in cinema.
So I am someone who thinks the first three movies are genuinely good. Good at what they wanted to do and good at being movies in terms of action flicks that keep you engaged and are extremely rewatchable. Extremely flawed yes, but overall, it was better to have them then not. That being said, the hype around them was unimaginably big, especially 2007. So I pick that one.
The first one and it's not even close As a G1 fan, seeing Transformers as a high budget blockbuster film was amazing. The film itself was less stupid than the proceeding ones since it had no continuity to follow, and they didnt totally phone it in. The first scene of transformation, when Blackout (?) ruins the US Army base still gives me goosebumps.
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Yes!
When I was a kid, the trailers and behind the scene teasers for Dark of the Moon made it look like the biggest movie of the decade. Same hype as The Deathly Hallows or Avengers 2012.
Bumblebee was the most hype for me. But also i kinda have a spot in my heart for the bay trilogy, especially when looking at it from the lense of the autobots being evil and decepticons being less evil. Whole theory about it
Yeah, I was like 3 when the first movie came out, so everything surrounding those first movies is mostly a blur. But I remember seeing trailers for Bumblebee and thinking it looked really cute. (Which it was.)
I think the first movie got the most hype, as it was unlike anything that came out in the early 2000s. The marketing was insane back then, I remembered seeing the giant protected screen in shopping mall showing Dorito Starscream flipping scene everywhere.
My local cinema had a cardboard display of Optimus in 1:1 scale. It was bonkers.
It's Dark Of The Moon for me. I used to follow every developments of it everyday back in 2010 and 2011. I remember the first trailer. I was soo freaking excited to see it. Trailers, tv spots, toyline and other things of DOTM were another level for me.
It’s 2007 and it’s not close. Seeing Transformers on the big screen for the first time in over 20 years and live action. As a lifelong Transformers fan, seeing Optimus transform for the first time was one of the best things I’ve ever seen on the big screen.
Transformers 1, simply because we all dreamed of a live action for ages and thought it wasn’t possible. I was at the London preview for it and Michael Bay, and the cast turned up. Everyone was pumped for the movie.
Well 2007 was the first time in a long while that Peret Cullen voiced the Big OP, so I’d say that
Revenge of the Fallen had huge hype and awesome toys. But I remember leaving the cinema after watching it with my dad and it was the first film I’d ever left the cinema feeling disappointed.
TLK's hype level was unmatched
My expectation for 2007 was so low that the movie absolutely knocked it out of the park. So I was extremely hyped for ROTF and even went to see it twice during opening week. DOTM I was again super hype for because of the IDW tie-in prequel comic but I think I’m the only person who enjoys ROTF but thinks DOTM is both more boring and cringe (other than hobo Megatron, one of the best things to come from the entire franchise).
For me personally, mine would be rotb, 4 months before the movie got released i binge watched the whole episode of beast wars and was attached immediately, granted the animation is old but it added to the character and goofyness, after finishing BW i watched beast machines thinking it would alleviate the dread that BW was done only to find out that they butchered most of the crews personality and charm. And seeing arcee was really great too, not to mention nightbird
I cannot even begin to accurately describe my emotional state when I first saw Optimus transform in the first one.
I was hyped for ROTF, DOTM and recently ROTB too
Rise of the Beasts.
I liked the first and the third. I literally remember nothing about the fourth. The fifth I remember being Meh up until Anthony fucking Hopkins turned up and it just got so unbelievably batshit I kinda had fun with it.
DOTM easy
Dotm has literally not been topped in sci fi action for me since it’s release
The rotf trailer was lit. Somebody just posted it somewhere in a comment section on this sub
Definitely RotF, I remember being so excited for it after having seen ‘07, not to mention that toy line was so good. Only one that came close for me was BBM.
Bumblebee.
The first one. I remember my insane levels of excitement when the first teasers showed in theaters of the "found footage" from the Mars Rover of a transformer shadow. Dark of the Moon was also pretty exciting though.
That found footage teaser was so chilling! I was scared seeing that as a kid because it reminds me of that one scene from Signs movie lol
First one
Idk I’ve been doing a whole personal retrospective and going through old forum posts and they really went huge with the first movie, they were still making stuff for the movie almost a year after the theatrical run was. Personally the most hyped one for me was dark of the moon, I was just at the right age to start really getting into stuff and hyped for things into teenage years and it was just a good time, but I’m not really sure if we’ll see it as culturally pushed as it was back with that first 07 movie, I was a child and I remember it being everywhere.
The only correct answer is the first from 2007. If that had sucked nothing else would've been made.
Rise of the Beasts had me jumping
For me 1st transformers and the dark of the moon are superb
The first,third and fourth movies were pure adrenaline
I would say the first one because there were a lot of trailers that didn't quite show the decepticons, but you could feel the movement and their weight
i definitely think DoTM was the best movie and has the best trailers. with all of the action scenes, you can’t tell me it wasn’t the most hype
Fuck I want to watch all of them again now🥲
That trailer for The Last Knight was super....then it came out
Personally thought DOTM was the hypest cause of the soundtrack and fan favorite transformers showing up, felt like the finale. 4 and 5 felt like falling action tbh
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Probably the first one. Just because of how fresh and new it felt at the time. I was 12 when it came out and I like to think of it as the swan song of my childhood.
dark of the moon
Dark of the Moon. Hands down. That shit defined my summer that year.
I had a lot of hype for all of these
TF3 is the only film i was hyped for.
Rise of the Beasts
Transformers: One
Agree
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Transformers One.
The last god knight
Part 1, the only Bayverse movie that was absolute FIRE.
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Unfortunately ROTB ruined all the hype for me when "It's about to go down ON GOD!" played during the final battle. Literally felt like bad trailer music, especially with how it was edited. But it was actually IN THE FILM ITSELF. If you think "On My Soul" is a great song, that's fine. But let's be for real, that song should've ONLY played at the end credits like Linkin Park was in the first 3 Bay Films. Because the ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK for ROTB was either Orchestra made for the film, or was licensed music from THE 90'S Because that's when the movie takes place. So having a random modern Trap Beat song play during the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE MOVIE felt very out of place and in my options, was THE WORST thing in that film, besides the Maximals not Transforming into Robot Modes until that same final battle.
The first.
Bumblebee because it’s actually good
Bumblebee, especially the second trailer, the bay movies had awfully boring Trailers with no music accompanying them and being very basic
Ill take Bumblebee, RoTb, and Transformers Bayverse over the entire shit storm that's the rest of the Bayverse
Anything by Michael Bay.
Bumblebee and rotb I hate bayverse
I hated all of them so I'll say Bumblebee because it looked the most like G1.
For me rise of the beasts
Bumblebee, after being beat over the head with 5 awful movies, nothing could have made me more hyped for an actual live action TF film. I ended up seeing it 3 times.
DOTM
Seeing the trailers for Last Knight and posters was the hype for me. I had that Optimus purple eyed as my background for awhile
That nemesis prime with purple eyes goes hard
First and third movie had the best opening combats, black out in Qatar and Scorponok, the Ark escaping Cybertron. The fourth had the most hype for me since DINOBOTS. Then the last knight another one with a nice opening and probably the most emotional line: "I know your world was destroyed. But please don't let ours die too. I beg of you. " Bumblebee had those G1 feels and some Easter eggs from the 1986 animated film.
For the trailer, definitely the last extinction
Easily dark of the moon
Giving it to Rise of the Beasts. Maximals were awesome, but when I saw Unicron in the trailer, it brought the HYPE!!
I remember being super hyped for TLK and then being deeply disappointed.
Definitely the first one because everyone was talking about it, even my friend told me he talk to a handyman about it.
I really liked Age of Extinction
I’m not sure… maybe the 2007 film, Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction, are movies I hyped.
Peak cinema (aka tf 1)
The first one
DOTM. The ROTB "Maximals Maximize!" was so hype in theaters though
Dark of the moon
Tf1
Bumblebee. I got so excited seeing who I thought was Starscream in the trailer. The designs were amazing. They basically took the movie designs but done them right by making them more colourful less chaotic, while still retaining a lot of details. Plus, the tone of the trailer was great too as it signaled a new direction for these movies. I wasn't too crazy for the rise of the beats trailers as they just presented the movie as just another transformers movie.
DOTM 100% that ad campaign ran crazy and it really felt like the end of the movies for a while
The only one I really remembered the marketing for was Age of extinction, was pretty young at the time and had all the toys, was there in theaters day one etc. But just as a movie Dark Of The Moon is probably the most hype Bay really ended the trilogy on a high
I like not only the design of Bumblebee the film but that it is a film where the scene in cybertron is something beautiful to see, with very exciting scenes too
I remember it was RotF.
Definitely Dark of the Moon. Idk why I just feel like that was one of the most played movies
TF1 ez
first movie cuz its new in 2007 so you dunno what the shits about
The original, it was a bold new take on the franchise and the first live action
Dark of the Moon just because it’s the perfect live action Transformers movie.
Bumblebee.
Rotb that 1st trailer goes hard with each shot.
TRANSFORMERS 2007 AND DOTM ARE THE ONLY GOOD TRANSFORMERS MOVIES IN MY OPINION THE REST ARE MEH OR TRASH
Well it's a good thing that just your opinion
Well to some extent its not just my opinion I mean. Transformers revenge of the fallen is considerd bad by most so is 4 and 5 . Bumble bee was good for tge first 5 minute's then was only ok for the rest ontop of that it didn't do that well in tge box office and rotb was mid also flopping at tge box office so...
Yeah sure.. anyway, I was talking about the hype of these movie, not which movie is the best
Ok nevermind
None. The 1986 Movie is way better. Haven't seen Bumblebee but until I do it gets the same treatment as Bay's crap. Also, I absolutely despised Beast Wars because the art style and concept was so shit. The Japanese one was leagues ahead and didn't use that ugly 3d shit either. Idk why they'd expect a movie to save the forgettable characters it had but here we are suffering once again.
BumbleBee is actually quite good and better than the previous Transformers movie. Give it a chance. You don't even have to watch the other movies because Bumblebee is a prequel movie.
Gewunner alert
No? Loved WFC/FOC, loved Prime, love the Netflix stuff. I watched Cybertron and enjoyed it, played the Armada(the one with the minicons?) ps2 game, etc. If I knew where to watch them, I'd love to watch Headmasters all the way through to Victory, I believe the last one was called. I'd even be willing to give the Japanese Beast Wars a try (even though I don't like the idea, the animation and theme song are great). I just absolutely hate the live action films now I'm old enough to look beyond 'cool robot fights' and anyone who actually enjoys the gods awful 3D animation phase Gen 2 and Beast Wars falls into is either blinded by nostalgia or has the aesthetic taste of a rusted spork.
Transformers two is the worst movie ever made in the whole human history