Transformers: The Movie (TEASER)

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[0:06] This episode is about Transformers The Movie from 1986.

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[0:17] I, you know guys, we've been doing this show for a long time, and I was always waiting, wondering,

[0:22] when we were going to do a classic Orson Welles movie, and we finally did it.

[0:26] But it's one of the good ones!

[0:29] Yeah, take that, Mr. Arkadin.

[0:32] Is that how you say it?

[0:34] Yeah, also known as Confidential Report.

[0:35] Yeah, Mr. Arkadin.

[0:37] Take that F for fake.

[0:41] Yeah, other side of the wind, the posthumous release.

[0:45] Anyway, so what were we talking about?

[0:48] The Transformers.

[0:48] Transformers, yeah, we're doing Transformers.

[0:50] We're starting out at the beginning.

[0:53] We should say, actually, we're starting out not at the beginning,

[0:56] but Orson Welles, I was reading about it,

[0:59] how he described this movie to somebody,

[1:00] what his role is, and he goes,

[1:02] I play a toy that breaks some other toys.

[1:05] Like, I think he had little understanding

[1:08] of what was going on, and he cared very little about it.

[1:09] And you know what?

[1:10] He fucking crushes it.

[1:12] And yet he does great.

[1:13] To be honest, they messed with his performance a little bit

[1:16] because he was on the verge of death

[1:17] when he made this movie,

[1:19] but I feel like he does a great vocal performance there,

[1:21] to be honest.

[1:22] And in a way, he might have had the most clear understanding

[1:25] because I had not realized until, like,

[1:28] reading up on this movie the degree to which you know so many uh traumatic to a generation

[1:33] character deaths in it were just motivated by hasbro being like we need new toys get rid of

[1:39] those old characters bring in some new characters like they just did not realize that kids might

[1:45] have grown attached to guide you through the what the wilds of cybertron today uh dan and help you

[1:52] help you understand what we're about to see well yeah i mean i watched uh you know the series i

[1:57] watched transformers when i was a kid but i have i had never seen the original animated movie from

[2:03] the 80s until yeah doing it for this show oh i saw i have memories it doesn't make sense it came out

[2:10] in 1986 i would have been five years old four and a half years old and this came out there makes no

[2:16] sense that i would have seen this in the theater and yet i have memories of seeing it in the

[2:19] theater i definitely saw in the theater so i must have seen it probably on tape but i definitely

[2:23] watched this when i was a kid and i gotta tell you i don't know if it made any more sense to me

[2:28] as a kid than it did now watching it as an adult i presume that as a child i would have known who

[2:35] these characters are that these would be beloved friends to me i mean at least one of them is

[2:40] optimist you know who optimist prime is he's a truck everyone knows optimist you know the basic

[2:46] characters optimist prime you know spike wit wiki you know all the big characters yeah here's the

[2:51] the one i remember optus prime i remember megatron i remember starscream guys and i remember grimlock

[2:59] yeah grimlock i can't i can't talk enough about how much i love the relationship between megatron

[3:06] and starscream it's two old people fighting constantly it is it is the exact energy this

[3:13] is a little digression so you guys be patient with me sure sure and then i'll get into the

[3:17] summary of Transformers the movie. This is the exact thing

[3:19] that the Warhammer

[3:21] 40,000 writers realized that the Necrons

[3:23] were missing, so they injected

[3:25] it into this race of unthinking

[3:27] robots. They instead made them basically the

[3:29] Golden Girls slash Megatron and

[3:31] Starscream when they created

[3:33] the relationship between Traz and the Infinite

[3:35] and Oricon the Diviner, which is

[3:37] so much funnier and cooler.

[3:39] It's so great. I love these two

[3:41] very bitchy characters. It's the classic

[3:43] two villains, one who works for

[3:45] the other one, but they both hate each

[3:47] other and the and the subservient one is always looking for his opportunity i love it the top

[3:51] dog and the big one turns into a smaller gun that the lesser one has to shoot which is fucking sick

[3:59] it's like why i turn them into a tank a big gun there's already a guy who does that there's

[4:04] something so much fucking cooler that he turns into a little because it's a cooler toy it's a

[4:08] cooler toy because he turns into a gun that a kid can carry you know yeah i know okay sure as a toy

[4:14] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[4:14] Then he gets killed by the cop from Die Hard.

[4:17] Cool.

[4:20] Reginald Bell Johnson killed him.

[4:21] The toy gun he was holding was Megatron.

[4:25] That was it?

[4:25] That kid?

[4:26] Starscream.

[4:27] Wow.

[4:28] Yeah.

[4:28] Ah, Reginald Bell Johnson, why are you shooting me?

[4:32] Yeah.

[4:33] So anyway, let's talk about this.

[4:34] I'm going to take us through the summary.

[4:36] Surit, you're going to help me.

[4:37] You're going to help me as my Sherpa through this world,

[4:39] because I don't remember all these characters.

[4:41] And, Dan, you are just the victim who is along for the ride.

[4:45] I'm like Carl Pilkington of this episode.

[4:47] And, by the way, I dropped some deep Warhammer 40,000 lore.

[4:51] If you guys have any more questions,

[4:52] I know I probably raised more questions than I answered.

[4:54] Feel free to just pause the podcast and just bounce them off me.

[4:58] Okay.

[4:58] Yeah.

[4:59] We won't do that.

[5:00] Bounce them.

[5:01] So this is, we're talking about Transformers, the movie,

[5:03] or the Transformers movie.

[5:04] This is from 1986.

[5:05] This is the animated movie that is not just based on the show,

[5:09] but it effectively is part of the show continuity like it happens like within the show universe but

[5:15] it's set after it's between seasons of the show while the show is going on and one of the things

[5:20] that i just always love about this is the screenplay is written by ron friedman who his his

[5:24] career was half animated saturday morning cartoons and half all the sitcoms of the 60s and 70s so

[5:32] this is a guy who wrote for both gilligan's island and transformers he wrote for both gi joe and

[5:38] bewitched. Like, it's amazing.

[5:40] This guy's a career.

Transformers: The Movie (TEASER)

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