The Weekly Planet - Trans4mers: Age Of Extinction - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: August 6, 2020

It's a brand new dawn for the Transformers series. Michael Bay has returned for a soft reboot/sequel in Transformers: Age Of Extinction. This movie is full of new characters and locals in a sweeping ...attempt to introduce a new hero in Mark Wahlberg Cade Yeager. An inventor and lunatic on a futile journey to help Optimus Prime and the Autobots whilst protecting his daughters...honesty. It's a big loud dumb nightmare disaster of a movie. But Dinobots ya know? Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review.Help support the show and get early episodes at https://bigsandwich.co/SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/Ve0TFbbUD9UJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownTWP Itunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4T-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies#Transformers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:55 This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Fresh start, everyone. Fresh start for Caravan of Garbage because we're in a new era of Transformers movies. Please leave a like. Clean the slate, start again. Old characters, who cares about them?
Starting point is 00:01:11 Not interested in them. Not really. That's the thing about this movie, when I remember seeing the marketing for this, I'm like, okay, Dinobots, you cast, you setting, I think, maybe. Everything you knew before is still there. Oh, that's a great tagline. I like that.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Everything you knew. Get Peter Cullen to do it. Everything you knew before. Well, it's still there. Except less likable. Yeah. Somehow they've managed it. Somehow they've done that.
Starting point is 00:01:36 The main character is somehow less likable than our previous main character, Sam Witwicky. I have a list of things. Oh, good. I'd love to hear them because from the start I'm like, okay, this is like a normal everyday dude. He's got biceps for America. That's cool. I'm all about this.
Starting point is 00:01:52 He's so American, he'll throw a football indoors. He'll find a football in a location. There would never be a football for any reason, like an old decrepit movie theater, and he'll just torpedo that thing. He finds a football twice somehow. How does he do it? We'll talk about it. Okay well where you're at what's your list all right kd a played by mark walberg i've written here this is this is the the title it says kd ager is terrible he's all the more terrible due to his lack of self-awareness he's all the more terrible because mark walberg
Starting point is 00:02:20 but look he doesn't he doesn't pay his employees. He borrows money for his employee, but tells him he's lucky to have a job. Bad form, bad form. He steals electricity for his farm from the neighbors. He's six months behind on paying his property payments. He threatens the realtor and some potential buyers of the property with a baseball bat.
Starting point is 00:02:39 Again, a property he's not paying for. So technically it's not his anymore. He throws the bat at a car. He's never invented anything that isn't a slight variation on something that already exists. The slight variation being that his doesn't work. That's the difference. I love that painting robot.
Starting point is 00:02:56 Like how much painting is that doing? It's like three feet high and it just goes up and down. They're already painting robots. It makes no sense. In like carp manufacturing plants. They're already painting robots. It makes no sense. In like car manufacturing plants. They do it all day. That dog that he invents, it's just a remote control car
Starting point is 00:03:10 with a robot dog stuck on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's insane. He's also... At least put a gun on it. Yeah, I know, right? But I think what they've done for him, I think they've gone,
Starting point is 00:03:20 let's Tony Stark this guy because he's got a little Tony Stark beard. There's even the bit where he's kind of hammering something out or he's welding something, and it's very The First Iron Man. I think that's what they're going for here. But he's awful. I've got more. Oh, sorry.
Starting point is 00:03:34 He makes his employees sign a contract where anything the employee invents, Jaeger owns. Yep. Horrible. He's overprotective of his daughter, but he also fires a missile into the house while she's in it. His employee take this live missile
Starting point is 00:03:49 to the trash without telling him that it's dangerous. Yep. He gives up the chance to make a hundred grand by selling out Optimus Prime because he needs to know how it works. Quote from him, it could be a game changer for me if I apply that technology to my inventions. Mate, you can't do that.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Look at them and look at you. You're making a remote control car with a dog on the top and this is the most advanced alien technology in the universe. You cannot apply that technology to what you've got. Absolutely not. It's like a monkey looking at the internet. You think the monkey's going to apply the internet to its banana peeling no it's not gonna work it can't order a crate of bananas no those areas of technology there's such a wide expanse between them like if anything he
Starting point is 00:04:34 should just say i'm just going to steal this technology because nothing there you can tack on to what you're doing yeah there's a point where he lights up that blowtorch and i'm like man i mean maybe you could unbend one of his fenders i guess he also wants to take his daughter to prom yep and not weird at all not weird at all and her american very american very very and he's short her shorts are two shorts and yet the camera does linger on them a lot yeah for a very offensive shortness of short the director seems very interested in being like, get a load of this, boys. And she's supposed to be underage in this movie also.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Yeah. The actor herself is not, I should point out. Oh, that's an interesting take, isn't it? We've got more to say about that. Oh, boy, do I. And we'll get to it. I feel like, though, this does start a little bit restrained because it talks about the invasion of Chicago
Starting point is 00:05:24 and how the world has moved on since Transformers. It doesn't start as kind of insane as a lot of the other ones. It doesn't start with a brightly coloured robot running through a shipyard and getting shot with, or does it? I think it does. That is early on. We get five minutes of breathing room and then we get that. Well, because Michael Bay wasn't going to come back for this.
Starting point is 00:05:42 I got some other names that were considered. Oh, yes. Roland Emmerich. Makes sense. Joe Johnston. Okay. John Turtlethub. Right.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Stephen Summers. The Mummy. Oh. Louis Lettier. Okay. David Yates. Oh. Yeah, so names.
Starting point is 00:05:57 But you want to know the experience that changed his mind? I would love to hear it. Is it incredibly Michael Bay-ish? Is it entirely ego-driven? It might be. It might be. It might be. So after Dark of the Moon, he finally got to visit the Transformers ride at Universal Studios.
Starting point is 00:06:11 And upon seeing fans waiting three blocks for the attraction, he realised he was not ready to give up the franchise yet. He wasn't going to give up on it, Mason. Not when there was work to be done. A true American hero. Did he find a football in that line? He threw it right to the front of that line. I think also this movie makes an attempt to work in some interesting Transformers lore that we haven't seen before.
Starting point is 00:06:35 As in other creatures in the universe that aren't just from Cybertron. The Quintessons. The Quintessons. But there's other creatures also aboard that alien bounty hunter ship. I'm like, oh, I see. You're saying and doing things, and that's cool. Sure. But there's no...
Starting point is 00:06:49 There's no follow-up. Why would there be? We've reached the point of just no follow-ups, no real continuity. I mean, I guess there's Quintessons in the next one, I think. But we'll get to that if we... Why are we doing these? We promised that we'd push through. Yes, we did.
Starting point is 00:07:04 It's true, yes. Because if we get them done, they're done, aren't they? The people demanded it and you're absolutely right. They cannot demand them after they're all finished. That's right. There's no more demanding after that. What I also love about this movie is there's a moment where they go into an old theatre and the guy's like, movies are just sequels and remakes.
Starting point is 00:07:20 They're a bunch of crap these days. And that's what I call hanging a lantern on your terrible movie. To be like, you can't criticise this because we know it's a sequel. They're a bunch of crap these days. And that's what I call hanging a lantern on your terrible movie. To be like, you can't criticise this because we know it's a sequel. We know. We get it. We're with you. You don't get it.
Starting point is 00:07:33 You don't get it at all. You can't just say sequels are bad and then make a bad sequel and it's okay. It doesn't work like that. What do you think of Optimus Prime in this though, Mason? Because we get the traditional Optimus Prime. We get it for five minutes. I mean, it's covered in dirt and it's implied that it's a you know piece of crap it's a it's a last ditch attempt at survival and it's yeah sure i mean it i mean looks looks pretty good there's a bit where he transforms into a truck he transforms right into a truck it looks good apparently that's the
Starting point is 00:07:56 second time in this series that we've seen him transform into a truck at this point wow i know the trend look the transformations are getting minimal at this point. Yeah. Really, there's so many that are off screen. Yes. You see two cars chasing one another through some shipping crates or whatever, and then all of a sudden we cut back and they're just climbing up a wall or whatever. They're already robots.
Starting point is 00:08:16 That's cool. I'm not here for climbing robots. I'm here for transforming robots. If you're on a climbing robot, Mark Warburg's probably got one. Yeah, that's right. But it doesn't work, but he's got one. The first thing Optimus Prime says when he's reactivated. His famous catchphrase for this movie, which he says twice.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Yes. I'll kill you. And then the second thing he says is, I'll kill you. And then later he says, I'm going to tear them apart. Nice. Classic Optimus Prime. I mean, I know he was in a pitch battle as he kind of went down, but make him nice.
Starting point is 00:08:47 What are you doing? Why is he so mean? No, no, make him worse. Make him worse. Why make him mean? Because everybody else in this movie is mean. That's true. Why wouldn't you? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:55 And the idea, again, that the Transformers are just children. You mentioned this last week, but Bumblebee is just like this jealous baby of a sentient being. Like he's roughhousing with that fake bumblebee and he's like oh how dare this one this one isn't as cool as me you can change into anything right what do you even care like they're like bumblebee isn't slick just change and the world again the world is at stake the the lives of humanity all the life all of humanity is at stake the lives of all the Transformers are at stake.
Starting point is 00:09:25 And he's like, I'm going to get mad about that. I thought I was the coolest Transformer. But, I mean, in his defense, at one point, he does drive into a showroom that is specifically designed to personally insult him. Do you remember that? There's a point where he drives into the showroom of KSI, the corporate bad guys in this movie,
Starting point is 00:09:44 and there's just video projections and model vehicles and robots, and it's like, this Transformer's based on Bumblebee, but obviously not as lame as Bumblebee. Lame-ble-bleem? Lame-ble-bleem? If you had a lame-ble-bleem, you'd throw that straight in the trash, because he's straight trash. Stinger, he's the better Bumblebee.
Starting point is 00:10:03 That's right. And then it's just assorted video of Bumblebee falling over and landing in dog poop, you know. Yeah, that's what he's all about. So I understand. I understand that would be, if that happened to one of us, if we walked into a showroom and it's just like... You thought you liked Caravan of Garbage?
Starting point is 00:10:19 There's a sexier Caravan of Garbage with even cooler and younger kids. Mm-hmm. And they're all doing TikTok. That's right. Oh, no. I'm mad-hmm. And they're all doing TikTok. That's right. Oh, no. I'm mad about it. You've got to do TikTok. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:29 So they've got the character of Irish Leboeuf, let's call him. Yeah. It's Jack Raynor, who actually I really like. Have you ever seen Sing Street?
Starting point is 00:10:37 Nope. He's a good actor. I won't because of his performance in this. So we're introduced to him where he sees Mark Wahlberg being taken away by the police
Starting point is 00:10:45 or the secret police or whatever, whatever organisation, it doesn't matter. I've written here black ops nerds. Because that's what they are. Look at him,
Starting point is 00:10:50 look at this old dude with his big Oakley sunglasses and his long black trench coat. Get out of here. Embarrassing. And his response is to, maybe Mark Wahlberg has done something wrong.
Starting point is 00:11:05 Maybe he should be arrested, is to drive his car over a man's face. Right into that dude's skull. You see his neck just go in a very unnatural angle. It's no good. He's just like my girlfriend's told me all about this weird inventor dad. Maybe he's built a bioweapon or a nuke or something. No, let's assume that these police are here for nefarious purposes. I'll kill a few.
Starting point is 00:11:25 I mean, maybe he did see them put a gun to the back of his girlfriend's head. But he was sitting like a long way away in a ditch. Doesn't matter, does it? And the Irish have notoriously bad eyesight. That's true. Yeah. Take that, the Irish. Ben, flash an insult.
Starting point is 00:11:39 I can't say it. Nice. Ben's the editor. He's good at editing these, isn't he? Nice. Nice. See, it's interesting because it seems like Cade Yeager's choices become... Cade Yeager.
Starting point is 00:11:49 His choices become validated as the movie goes on. Like, he's right to be protective, and he's right to be a great inventor or think he's a great inventor. Yeah, right. Whereas the other guy, who starts as more reasonable, becomes more of a spineless loser as the movie goes on we're talking about here the irish labar oh yes and it culminates in him not being able to get his seat belt off in a car even though he's a professional driver do you think that uh do you think that
Starting point is 00:12:17 k diega is less an inventor and more like a he's more a competence vampire like the longer you stay in his orbit the more of your own skills you lose. But he doesn't take those on. He just brings you down. No, he just brings you down to his level. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right, because later that kid becomes a coward. He can't fire a gun. He can't, you know, he just has to cower behind things. But early on, I mean, he does some heroic stuff, like the thing you mentioned. He kills those men. And then shortly after that he drives through the front window of a store running a bingo game oh yeah assuming that the you know the most agile
Starting point is 00:12:51 gamers of all bingo game players could just dive out of the way yeah he's a bad dude he's a bad dude but kade yeager's of course his his actions result in well there he does he's shooting gun face at the end oh there's a new villain he's called gun face at the end. Oh, there's a new villain. He's called Gun Face. It's lockdown or lockjaw or locktrap or lockup, whatever his name is. He's from the comics. He's got a gun that comes out of his face. His signature gun face.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Yeah, I like the gun face transformation. But Cade Yeager, his arc is, I know you love a callback in a movie where he does find an American football and he uses that to take out the big Black Ops nerd. Yes. For America in the most American way possible. Oh, yeah.
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Starting point is 00:14:51 Maybe this isn't the worst one. It might be. I don't know. Sure. You know what it is? It's just the chaos and mayhem that we mentioned last week. And then he'll just throw in some award-winning actors. And he'll just throw in some new scenery and some new ideas,
Starting point is 00:15:07 and by the end of it, you're like, I don't know if this is better or worse. I don't... What happens? I mean, Stanley Tucci constantly on the verge of disintegrating mentally. It's hilarious. I love it. I think his character has the best arc in maybe all of the Transformers movies because he starts as this horrible Elon Musk type, like an Elon Musk,
Starting point is 00:15:25 and then he has a bit of a change of heart and he realises what he's doing. He has delicious milk as well. That's exactly right. He pauses for quite a long time. I wonder if you believe that because he does have the strongest redemptive arc or because there's a side character
Starting point is 00:15:39 who constantly points out how his redemptive arc is going. There's this woman who's a geologist. She's got a lot of moxie for a character that I forgot was in this movie until I rewatched it. But she's just there being like, I don't know if you should be doing this. And then later she's like, I'm proud of you, Stanley Tucci.
Starting point is 00:15:55 And now away with me. And then she just leaves. She does. So maybe that's why. Maybe it's because there's an arc narrator. Maybe all the characters should have a narrator, like an additional character. It's just like, you're getting worse Maybe all the characters should have a narrator, like an additional character that's just like, you're getting worse at driving.
Starting point is 00:16:07 You're becoming a coward. You are a hero, Cade Jaeger. This movie is all about pointing things out as they happen. You know the bit where Lockjaw Locktrap's ship is like, they're using a magnet to pick up the things and then drop the things. Yeah, we see that. Well, it's interesting you say that because I didn't know that until somebody said he's using a magnet to lift up all the things and then I did know it.
Starting point is 00:16:29 So, I mean, you know, whoever decided to put that line of dialogue in, thank you. Terrific stuff. Now, I say it might not be the worst, or maybe it is, but it's certainly the weirdest. Oh, yeah. There's one scene in particular that highlights that more than any other. There's one scene in this movie i think i know what you're talking about that i've thought about probably more than i've thought about any scene in the history of cinema yeah like sometimes i'll just wake up in a cold sweat and i'm like why
Starting point is 00:16:53 why did why so k diega's daughter who is very protective of sure uh has a secret boyfriend and it's it's irish mclebuff yes's Irish McLebuff. Yes. Irish McLebuff, the rally driver or whatever he is. And you know he's a legit rally driver because he's been signed with Red Bull. Yeah, he tells us. That's right. But it turns out that while she is 17 years old,
Starting point is 00:17:17 he's 20 years old. And understandably, Mark Wahlberg, not happy about that. And so they all have this argument. They all have this... I mean, this movie is a series of arguments. It's just all arguments all the time. But they have an argument in which they debate whether or not
Starting point is 00:17:32 this is ethical or, in fact, legal, which culminates in Irish McLeboeuf drawing from his wallet a laminated card which contains on it the relevant legal statute that makes it okay for him to sleep with the daughter. Yes. Why is this in the... This is a movie that is largely concerned with cars turning into robots
Starting point is 00:17:55 and punching each other. Yep. And it's already two hours and 45 minutes long. There's no reason for this to be in... This already bloated monster of a movie. It's a mystery to me. It's baffling. It would be too specific for like a public school sex education video
Starting point is 00:18:12 about the age of consent. It's still too specific for that. If somebody put their hand up and asked about that in class, they'd be like, oh, maybe check the website. I don't know. It's an odd thing for you to ask at all. They really go out of their way, which we've talked about this before because we have done an episode on this on our podcast, The Weekly Planet.
Starting point is 00:18:29 That's right. Good plug. Was somebody associated with this? Did you somebody like had a son that was dating somebody in high school and that's how they know this? I think Michael Bay got a producer on board and was like, hey, man, you're a producer here. Do you want to put in some product placements?
Starting point is 00:18:45 Do you want Mark Warburg to product placements? Is there a... Do you want Mark Wahlberg to crack open a warm Bud Light naked in the street? Exactly. It's all foamy and warm. And he's like... Does one of your kids have a favourite Transformer? You want to put that Transformer in?
Starting point is 00:18:55 That's cool. Do you like Galvatron? Exactly. Well, put Galvatron in. Why not? And this guy's like, yeah, I know something that should be put in this movie that transforms people's opinions of underage relationships.
Starting point is 00:19:06 I think that, we'll bloody put that in. I'll tell you what. Awful. Yeah. Also, in the fun trivia facts for this movie. Yeah, the facts. I was reading them and it came up. Fun trivia time.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Trivia, trivia, trivia. The trivia section. It turns out maybe that particular legal card doesn't actually apply. So maybe it still is illegal. Well, if we're talking about trivia, let's do trivia let's do trivia not finished yet but mark walberg uh pulled from his real life experience as a father in order to further develop his character threatening awful biceps yes the three things he's known for uh so let's talk about galvatron okay now hugo weaving famously went out and was like,
Starting point is 00:19:45 I hate these movies. I get paid for them. I don't like them. And Michael Bay was like, well, I'll replace you then. And he was like, all right. It seems to be something
Starting point is 00:19:54 of a pattern that people do these movies and then say, I hate these movies. And then Michael Bay says, well, I'm replacing you in those movies. And those people say,
Starting point is 00:20:01 okay, what did you think I was going to do these for the rest of my life? No. So Frank Welker is the rest of my life? No. So Frank Welker is the original voice of Megatron. That's right. It's nice to have him back.
Starting point is 00:20:10 He does a pretty good job. That being said, the design is awful. Oh my God. It's an awful design. I mean, it's slightly, it's more crisp. It's like, you know, it's certainly shinier than previous iterations of Megatron. By the way, Megatron's head got split down the centre and torn off its body, and we see the head and it's mostly intact.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Like one side of the head was like entirely dissolved in the previous movie, and Optimus Prime puts his axe like right down the middle. Maybe Transformium. Yeah, maybe Transformium. But also in this movie, we get a real sense of like, there's no correlation between how badly damaged a Transformer gets and whether or not it's going to survive.
Starting point is 00:20:45 At one point, Gunface shoots Optimus Prime twice through the chest, like straight through with his high-powered signature Gunface, and he's fine later. So who knows? But I was going to say, the evil corporation KSI, they build Galvatron out of Megatron's brain and head. Yes. And then they're continuously surprised that it keeps looking like Megatron.
Starting point is 00:21:12 They're like, we've done this five times. We're trying to make an Optimus Prime, but this thing we've made out of Megatron keeps looking like Megatron. Should we keep going? Yes. What's the worst that could happen? Look. This movie is the answer.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Yes. But look, though, it happen? This movie is the answer. But look, though, it does have a redemptive characteristic to it, the Galvatron robot. Oh, yes. That being the amazing transforming effect. No good. I don't understand. Was it cheaper?
Starting point is 00:21:38 I wonder. I don't know. Beats, though. Oh, you know, it did turn into Beats headphones. That's good. The pill. The pill. But why?
Starting point is 00:21:46 Yeah, it's not good, is it? It's way worse than... I feel like it's the same kind of evolution of the Iron Man suit when it becomes the nanotech suit. Like, I understand the progression, but I like the clinking and the clanking and the way that they transform. I don't just want... And then it's whatever.
Starting point is 00:22:01 You know what I mean? Yeah, right. Maybe Bay wanted something that was all his own. You know what I mean? It was right. Maybe Bay wanted something that was all his own. You know what I mean? He was like, well, this is old school. Congratulations. Yeah, you did it. He's like, one ditch attempt before I abandon transforming entirely. Yes. Here it is.
Starting point is 00:22:16 Dinobots are in this. Yeah, for five minutes, I forgot. Yeah. I mean, five, twenty, half an hour, I don't know. Yeah. I think it's about fifteen, maybe. Okay, cool. And Optimus Prime gets them on side by saying, defend my family or die. These guys have been strung up for potentially millions of years on that ship. We don't really know.
Starting point is 00:22:35 And then he's just like, help me, a guy you don't know, or I'll kill you. And then at the end he's like, you've earned your freedom. And they're like, all right. God, this guy. You're weird and mean and we don't like you. We're leaving to ruin this planet. What are you going to do?
Starting point is 00:22:50 Optimus Prime, his story culminates in killing Kelsey Grammer. How dare you, quite frankly. I've written here, I've written here, James, let me find it for you. Point Blake shoots Kelsey Grammer.
Starting point is 00:22:59 I've written here, Kelsey Grammer is killed by Optimus just as casual as you like. He's busy fighting Gunface and he's just like, well, I've got a second. Bang. Extremely dead. And then Optimus Prime reveals something about his character
Starting point is 00:23:15 that would have come in handy in every other movie in that he can fly. Yes. Under his own steam somehow. I've written here, Optimus can fly at the end. This may have come in handy at some other points in the film, but I'm not going to go back and check, so I guess the film wins. Yes. I love also all these movies ended Optimus Prime doing a speech,
Starting point is 00:23:37 but at this point they're just whatever, because the line that he says at the end is, whenever you look to the stars, think of one of them as my soul. Okay. Okay, I will. Anyways, as we know from the next movie, he doesn't get very far because he freezes. He freezes almost immediately out of deep space
Starting point is 00:23:54 and just floats to the Quintesson homeworld or whatever. I don't know. Whatever the new Cybertron is. We didn't even talk about the MacGuffin or whatever it is in this. Yeah. It's a space seed. Look, I just wanted to point out there's a there's a moment where optimus is like humans take the space seed and we'll go over here and i'm like hey optimus why don't you take the space
Starting point is 00:24:13 seed because you're a giant robot on like a seemingly indestructible even more giant dinosaur who can shoot fire yeah you hold it and and and we won't risk all cramming inside like a old station wagon we found on the side of the road you know the seatbelts you can flip and spin and fly it turns out so maybe you do it yeah oh look i've just got one little thing sure my favorite frame of this movie and there's so many frames i don't know if you're aware of this because this movie goes for a million years yes i've that's a note i've written actually this movie goes for a million years and i wrote it at the two hour mark but i've been thinking about it since at least the 90 minute mark i'm like this movie goes for a million years but special shout out my favorite
Starting point is 00:24:55 frame of this movie at two hours 19 minutes 12 seconds k diega is seeing the chaos unfold i think maybe like the chaos unfolds i'm so i I'm very sorry. And I think maybe, you know, an auto, an auto bot just takes down a Decepticon in a real dramatic way. And Jaeger drops this knowing look like he has any idea what's happening. And that he has had any idea what's been happening for the last two hours. Mate,
Starting point is 00:25:20 it's amazing you survived to this point. It really is. I think he's more of a fool in the next one even, but we'll talk about it next week, I guess. Look, it may be awful, but at least it's really long and it was the highest grossing movie of 2014. So we've got that consolation, don't we? Good on them.
Starting point is 00:25:35 It goes for two hours and 45 minutes and it made $1.1 billion somehow. Yeah. It's excruciating. The more I talk about it, I'm like, yeah, maybe this is the worst one. I don't know. I feel like I say that every week. I mean, we say about it, I'm like, yeah, maybe this is the worst one. I don't know. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:45 I feel like I say that every week. I mean, we say it every week. We go, oh, this is definitely the worst one, but honestly, it's a matter of degrees.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Yeah. Like they're all the worst one, depending on how you're feeling on the day, how much sleep you've had, how many other things you have to do. Yeah. You know, exactly.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Because the more things you've got to do while these are on, the more you'll probably enjoy it. Yes. Anyways, we'll be back next week for Transformers. Five. Who's Autobot Jesus this time?
Starting point is 00:26:11 It's Kay Diego. Kay Diego is Autobot Jesus. He's even grown his hair out like Autobot Jesus. That's right. If you love Kay Diego, you're going to love next week's episode of the show. And if you want it even earlier, which I know you do, Mason. I don't. You can actually go to bigsandwich.co, sign up.
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Starting point is 00:26:44 You're probably tired from this movie and that's okay. Haven't we promised not to talk about the Transformers on the podcast this week? Deal. Oh, that feels so good, right? But there is a new Transformers show that's out. Oh my God.
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