Movies The Transformers Movie (1986 Cartoon) Will Be Rereleased in Theaters For 2 Days Only

Are you going to see Transformers (86) when it's rereleased?

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Kforcer said:
Mysterious Cities of Gold, that one was another really interesting one. Did you watch the whole run of that? What was really interesting about to me was how they gave the main villain so many positive characteristics. He was almost like a father-figure to the little kid protagonist, if I recall correctly. Did that even have a proper conclusion? It was actually, believe it or not, my college roommates favorite cartoon. It was strange, because it clearly had some sort of following, but I had the idea that it wasn't nationally syndicated but sort of shown on random channels and at odd times.
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Mendoza? does eventually become semi heroic and yeah there was a conclusion based on ancient super tech and those olmec apeman badguys.
 
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The 2 day cinema release by the way is almost certainly because they have done a 4K remaster of it for disk/streaming release, they generally give a short cinema release awhile before that.
 
Bobby Boulders said:
I had a Rodimus Prime...
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So did I LOL. Before I saw the movie I was like "both of these guys look awesome, I need to strike while the iron is hot!" So I asked my mom to get me the bigger one (rodimus prime) and she reluctantly did.

After seeing the movie I was like... meh... maybe this guy isn't that cool. I still played with him but he was like the consolation prize fake leader of the autobots. Kind of like if you were really into UFC, playing with an Aljamain Sterling action figure and having him unironically wearing the championship belt while beating up all the other contenders including Petr Yan.

sleepwalk said:
Hot Rod fucked up so bad that Judd Nelson got hit with karmic back lash in real life.
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I eventually got bored playing with my Transformers and figured I was too old for them (I wasn't) so gave them away to a kid down the street, Jadran, who was about 5 years younger. He decided to recreate Megatron's shuttle attack scene with Rodimus and left him outside in the backyard and ripped his head and legs off. I was so pissed I wrote an angry letter to his mom LOL.

In hindsight, guess I can't really blame him.
 
Kforcer said:
It is pretty interesting.

Both begin en media res, i.e., in the middle of the action. When The Iliad opens up, we're in the middle of the Trojan War. The Acheans, also called Argives, have been laying siege to the Trojans for a number of years but have yet to topple them. Meanwhile,Transformers open up in the middle of a war between the Decepticons and the Autobots, where the Decepticons apparently have the Autobots on the ropes.

Nestor is very similar to Kup and is probably the archetype Kup is based on. Nestor is the grizzled, aged veteran who, though legitimately wise, is constantly telling people of tales of his youthful greatness at every opportunity and continually telling the younger warriors how it is. There is something called an aristeia in the Iliad, which is essentially a moment of glory where individual warriors go on a streak of defeating one enemy after another, such that the entire momentum of the battle might be reversed. There is a clear parallel to this in Transformers, especially between Hector and Optimus Prime, both of whom reverse the tide of battle for their respective sides.

Also, prior to Hector's Aristeia, Agamemnon is going on an Aristeia of his own, wreaking havoc among the Trojans. It is not until Agamemnon leaves the field that Hector goes on the attack; likewise Optimus Prime takes the field after Devastator has been removed from the field by the Dinobots. And again like Agamemnon, Devastator takes out a Dinobot even as he is taken down himself, just as Agamemnon strikes down the Trojan who injures him and forces him to leave the field.

Megatron is upgraded by Unicron, a god, whereas Achilles is given upgraded armor by Hephaestus.

Patroclus, wearing the armor of Achilles, is struck down by Hector, who takes it for himself. Ultra Magnus, wearing the Matrix, is struck down by Galvatron, who takes it for himself.

Ultra Magnus cries out to the Matrix to light their darkest hour, whereas the character most similar to Ultra Magnus, Ajax the Greater, who, like Ultra Magnus, is a powerful, loyal soldier but not "favored" or "chosen" by the gods, has a poignant moment where, in the midst of a blinding fog, he cries out to Zeus for light, so that, if he must die, he can at least die striking back against his enemies. They're both brave, powerful warriors who do their job and actually save their respective sides from total defeat but don't receive the same level of divine favor or glory.

You have the meaningful deaths on both sides and especially, the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers, which you could parallel to the death of Patroclus in The Iliad and later on, the death of Hector. But in both Transformers and The Iliad, the deaths of individual soldiers are given weight and meaning as well.

I think there's also some similarities to the presence of the gods in both; you have Unicron and the power of the Matrix in Transformers and the Olympians in The Iliad.

It isn't that Transformers the Movie is literally the Iliad, but they are inspired a lot by the Homeric Epic structure IMO.
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I will say the most unintentionally hilarious moment of the movie was Ultra Magnus struggling and failing to open the matrix. "Open, dammit, open! Prime, you said this thing was supposed to save us WTF??! This piece o' crap won't even open! Huh... what? Aaaahhhh!!!" Then he's just a bunch of spare parts on the ground like C3PO in ESB.

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Kforcer said:
I lost my mind when my mom bought me the Power Master Optimus Prime. It meant even more because of the death of Prime. Man, oh man, I love me some Optimus Prime. The Masterpiece Optimus Prime toy looks like the greatest toy of all time:
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As incredible as the Masterpiece Optimus toy looks, I think the Masterpiece Megatron looks even cooler:

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In the G1 cartoon these two were the alpha and the omega, kind of like Snake Eyes and Stormshadow in GI Joe. They each could pretty much solo the entire rest of the team if they wanted to.
 
ChickenBrother said:
I will say the most unintentionally hilarious moment of the movie was Ultra Magnus struggling and failing to open the matrix. "Open, dammit, open! Prime, you said this thing was supposed to save us WTF??! This piece o' crap won't even open! Huh... what? Aaaahhhh!!!" Then he's just a bunch of spare parts on the ground like C3PO in ESB.

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My aunt took us to the theater to see the movie upon release when I was eight years old. The "Open, damnit!" and now-adult Spike's "Shit!" threw her for a loop. She was far from a prudish woman but she was not expecting that. I found it completely unexceptional but "Me, Grimlock, kick butt!" had every kid dying. Turns out they intentionally added those language choices because it would bump them from G to PG (as if the war and death wouldn't do it) which meant that they would be played more times per day on more screens.
 
Ahh good memories. Before school tho for me my favourite was technoman .
 
ChickenBrother said:
So did I LOL. Before I saw the movie I was like "both of these guys look awesome, I need to strike while the iron is hot!" So I asked my mom to get me the bigger one (rodimus prime) and she reluctantly did.

After seeing the movie I was like... meh... maybe this guy isn't that cool. I still played with him but he was like the consolation prize fake leader of the autobots. Kind of like if you were really into UFC, playing with an Aljamain Sterling action figure and having him unironically wearing the championship belt while beating up all the other contenders including Petr Yan.
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Fucking lol.

Poor Rodimus Sterling.
 
ChickenBrother said:
As incredible as the Masterpiece Optimus toy looks, I think the Masterpiece Megatron looks even cooler:

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In the G1 cartoon these two were the alpha and the omega, kind of like Snake Eyes and Stormshadow in GI Joe. They each could pretty much solo the entire rest of the team if they wanted to.
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It does look awesome, straight out of the cartoon, basically. I'd honestly buy both of them, except I have a feeling they are like, 100 dollars each or something crazy.
 
Dream Evil said:
Even as a grown ass adult this movie holds up. The battle scene when Optimus Prime cuts through all the other Decepticons to get to Megatron still gives me chills.
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That is one of the most awesome moments in anything, ever.
 
Bobby Boulders said:
Had one of those too.

Had a Metroplex too.
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As far as Transformers and toys in general, Powermaster Optimus was my prized possession. My doggone older brother would try to explain that it wasn't the classic Optimus but nobody could talk me out of the grandeur of having an Optimus Prime toy.

Did you ever have or see Jetfire's toy? That thing looked awesome. I'm sure I would have broken it or something, but man, it looked so cool. As a kid it looked insanely huge.

I can't imagine how I would have reacted if my parents brought home a Rodimus Prime toy, especially if it was before I bought my Powermaster Optimus. I actually knew a lot of kids who would insist that Rodimus was the boss whenever we played Transformers, so I assume those guys had or would have wanted a Rodimus toy. Maybe there was crack in the drinking water or something.
 
ChickenBrother said:
I will say the most unintentionally hilarious moment of the movie was Ultra Magnus struggling and failing to open the matrix. "Open, dammit, open! Prime, you said this thing was supposed to save us WTF??! This piece o' crap won't even open! Huh... what? Aaaahhhh!!!" Then he's just a bunch of spare parts on the ground like C3PO in ESB.

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It would have been sorta funny if he'd actually died, given all the hype they'd given for the toy. Do you remember the short cartoon commercials they made for him? Those extra-pissed me off as a kid because it seemed like he was stealing Optimus's thunder, though in hindsight, there wasn't really anything like that going on.
 
Kforcer said:
As far as Transformers and toys in general, Powermaster Optimus was my prized possession. My doggone older brother would try to explain that it wasn't the classic Optimus but nobody could talk me out of the grandeur of having an Optimus Prime toy.

Did you ever have or see Jetfire's toy? That thing looked awesome. I'm sure I would have broken it or something, but man, it looked so cool. As a kid it looked insanely huge.

I can't imagine how I would have reacted if my parents brought home a Rodimus Prime toy, especially if it was before I bought my Powermaster Optimus. I actually knew a lot of kids who would insist that Rodimus was the boss whenever we played Transformers, so I assume those guys had or would have wanted a Rodimus toy. Maybe there was crack in the drinking water or something.
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Idk anything about Jetfire. But I'm about to go look.
 
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