Optimus Prime vs Megatron - "Transformers The Movie" (1986)

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I watch this movie once or twice a year, for 30 something years.

  I can recite every line, song, and sound effect.

  This scene is amazing, but without the assault on autobot city and seeing everyone losing it doesn’t hit as hard when Optimus shows up to save the day.

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  • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are not alone. This movie has been a constant point in my 38 years. The soundtrack was the first CD I owned. I’ve got a Deception tattoo. I just watched it last week. Always hits.

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  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. I recited the whole thing to a kid who didn’t have access to a VCR!

    ‘Arblus, look! It’s Unicron!’…

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I catch myself saying unchrasamatic more often than I should.

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The whole movie is fucking incredible. One of my favorite lines from it is, “I’ve got better things to do tonight than die.” There is a whole other scene where they are getting slaughtered in a space battle and one of the Autobots, Arcee, says, “Cup and Hotrod just bought it,” and Ultra Magnus just dead eyes, “I can’t deal with that now.” The movie is fucking hardcore. It was my own version of Saving Private Ryan as a kid.

  Fun fact, Stan Bush’s “You’ve Got The Touch” was originally going to be the Rocky theme instead of Eye Of The Tiger. If you look up the lyrics, you can see that it was specifically written for the Rocky character.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You got the touch! You got the power! Yeah!

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That movie has many more disturbing scenes than I expected from a toy commercial. (This isn’t one of them, unless you count the talk of ripping out “optics”.)

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    Nah man it’s a little kids movie.

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    • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wheeljack here fucked me up as a kid. He was my favorite from the show.

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People being shot with bullets -> inappropriate.
      
      Robots being shot with lasers  -> appropriate.
      

      There are no other relevant factors.

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    • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the Futurama Nixon Dubbing a bit.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One will stand, one will fall!

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, also this movie was Orson Welles’ last acting role (as Unicron) before his death. As he put it,

  You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

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