The Weekly Planet - Transformers: The Last Knight - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: August 13, 2020

We're at the end of the Michael Bay Transformers series. The Last Knight being the fifth installment in the series means our patience is running...very thin. But in lieu of a full on mental breakdown... we power on through following the adventures of Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Merlin or whatever. Thank god it''s over is all I'm saying. And thank you America for Cade Yeager.Help support the show and get early episodes at https://bigsandwich.co/SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/yxcDWiOwXrcJames' 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 00:00:47 We did it, James. Not yet. I was going to say, yeah. This is the start of the episode. We might still crack by the end of this. If this never comes out, people will know. But you know what would get us through? Yes.
Starting point is 00:00:57 A like, obviously. That gives us that little bit of oomph. That gives us the strength to push through. We're just imagining those likes coming at us. Yeah. Just like shrapnel. That's right. Just like stray bullets. Which might be the name of some of the decepticons shrapnel and stray bullets oh
Starting point is 00:01:10 who's your favorite who's of this movie who's your favorite new transformer mine's nitro zeus mine's the one who goes oh yeah yeah yeah but that might be the same guy no you're thinking of lady okay right so it's been 147 hours of these movies. It really has, hasn't it? Where are you at this point? Shattered. Shattered as a human being. This one gives us a little variety for a very specific reason.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Now, James, I don't have a lot of faith in the world, James, but here's one thing that i believe wholeheartedly with my entire body and soul i could start a cult based on this okay it's that the original script for this movie was a fantasy movie like the finished script was a fantasy movie it had nothing to do with transformers at all and then they were added after the fact like an arthurian legend yes turn modern day i know this because if you take all the transformers and all the transforming out of this movie and there's not a lot of transforming to take out it's still a full movie not only that it's specifically it's a movie about a young woman who doesn't believe in the mythical history of england who discovers that she is the descendant of merlin and is therefore the only person who
Starting point is 00:02:22 is capable of finding and wielding a magical staff that summons a dragon that saves the earth from monsters from another world like it's a shorter movie and it's a better movie I mean it's a shorter movie I'll go with you on that but and you might say James you might say but this movie was produced in an era where Michael Bay had put together that kind of genius script writer, whiz kid think tank specifically for putting together Transformers movies. But I think what happened is one day, like one Friday afternoon, Michael Bay was like, good hustle, everybody.
Starting point is 00:02:57 All right, I'll see you back here on Monday with your completed Transformers 5 scripts. And one dude's like, oh, no, I've just been sitting up the back not doing anything. What do I do do and he goes home and he just gets out his laptop and he's just got
Starting point is 00:03:08 like a script his passion project and it's this fantasy movie about it's a sequel to Guy Ritchie's King Arthur exactly that's right back in the habit
Starting point is 00:03:16 and he just goes through it and he just starts adding Transformers stuff he's like okay we're in a car chase let's just say some of them are Transformers put them in a submarine
Starting point is 00:03:24 let's say the submarine's a Transformer Let's say the submarine's a Transformer. Let's say the dragon's a Transformer. Who cares at this point? Just put it in. What's going on with that dragon? Can you explain that to me? Because the dragons can make their own decisions, right? But they're controlled by the staff.
Starting point is 00:03:36 But they're controlled by the staff. But they have to give you the staff. I'm saying that in the original version, then it's not. It's just like a monster. Yeah, right. And the staff controls it. But if you add Transformers to it, who are sentient beings, who don't need to be controlled,
Starting point is 00:03:51 you could just ask them to be nice and save the world. Yes. But they didn't take it out. See, that's the thing. What happened is this guy, midway through, like it's Sunday afternoon and he's going through, and he's like, I can't take anything out now because this movie would then make less sense than it already does.
Starting point is 00:04:06 And so he's just like, I'll just power on through. And then Monday morning, 9am, he rocks up at the offices and he gives it to Michael Bay, this bloated, overstuffed, overlong monstrosity, hands it to Michael Bay, and Michael Bay flicks through it and he goes, perfect. This is what Transformers movies are all about. Too much of everything, all the time. Look, I think there's definitely some validity to that thinking.
Starting point is 00:04:27 I think so. And this was the biggest budget one at this point in time. It was $217 million, but it also made the lowest amount of money at $605 million. People were tiring of these movies. That's right. It was considered a box office failure because it lost like $100 million. But the thing is, like you mentioned, they're spending money on the wrong things there's amazing giant sets and structures and underwater traversal and they recreate stonehenge so they
Starting point is 00:04:51 can so they can explode stuff around it there's a medieval battle sequence but it's like you're looking at the wrong thing yeah what are you doing yeah why doesn't optimus prime transform in this movie at least once well he maybe he does behind some dust and dirt and smoke, but we don't see it, do we? Yeah, and it starts again with that thing of like, you know history, you thought history. You know how you know history and you thought history, but Transformers maybe.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Yeah, right, exactly, yeah. Yeah, we know. They've been here, they're in things. They're in everything, apparently. They killed Hitler. Maybe they were Hitler. I mean, again, there've been here. They're in things. They're in everything, apparently. They killed Hitler. Maybe they were Hitler. I mean, again, there's interesting sequences. The battle sequence at the start, the medieval battle sequence, looks great.
Starting point is 00:05:32 Yeah. The bit where Bumblebee is in World War II, that looks great. Yep. But, I mean, they belong in maybe a TV series of this. Yeah. To cram it all into one movie. What's funny you should mention that because I do have a bit of trivia, which I was going to save for later for our famous trivia section
Starting point is 00:05:46 trivia all the time we won't stop trivia forever we'll die first before we stop doing trivia so after the release of age of extinction a writer's room was set up to plan a possible cinematic universe for the mainline films two of the ideas pitched involved an arthurian myth which is probably a separate thing And one set in World War 2 Executive producer And director Michael Bay Liked them so much That he decided to
Starting point is 00:06:09 Incorporate them into The script for this movie Just smash them again Just put them on Just take ideas That could be good ideas On their own And just jam them
Starting point is 00:06:16 Into this one I mean we had some Characters that people Didn't like in the Previous movie But Michael Bay's Friends with Mark Wahlberg So just put him
Starting point is 00:06:23 In the starting You can take the Whole sequence At the start out Like Mark warburg doesn't need to be in this there are a couple of new supporting characters he's new couple of best friends because he melted the last one or whatever absolutely and he nearly melts this one but i mean you could just take that out because mark warburg's character k diega the great k diega he's not necessary for this story at all the only reason he's in this is that he gets a medallion talisman thing and it gets stuck on him yes and then he goes through this movie grousing and
Starting point is 00:06:52 complaining and yelling at people and fighting robots until the end when the talisman turns into a sword and he blocks an attack with it yeah that's it that's right that's all he does yes it's again that thing of she's got a destiny because she's Merlin's ancestor or descendant and he's got a destiny because he's a knight. It's like, do you need both of them to have a different medieval destiny? You don't. You absolutely don't. Because when that knight meets him on the ship and the knight's like,
Starting point is 00:07:18 you're a good man, Cade Yeager, and gives him the medallion, and they run through later the things that a knight needs to have, how they're brave and they're beautiful and they've got wonderful biceps and one of them is that they're chased and he's like i haven't had sex in a long time or whatever you know you know that mark yeah yeah but does that mean that that particular transformer can tell when a person has had sex last is that how that works yep. What if some horrible incel stumbled across it? He turns into some sort of strange gynecological device. That's his alt mode.
Starting point is 00:07:51 You don't see it and you do not want to see it. The other thing about this movie is it's just like Unicron. Unicron? I mean, I know also in Transformers Prime, the animated series, the Earth is Unicron. But if you're going to put Unicron in it, I feel, it has to turn into a giant man. Right, exactly.
Starting point is 00:08:08 A giant golden demon man. Why not? Ridiculous. Oh, a couple of horns. Who cares? Nobody. Nobody cares. And then they're like,
Starting point is 00:08:14 Cybertron's coming to worth the drain, the Earth of Cybertron. And Optimus Prime's like, what have you done to my world? Your world? You shoved it through a portal like two movies ago, remember? Yeah. It already came to Earth. a portal like two movies ago, remember? Yeah. It already came to earth. This literally happened two movies ago. I mean, I know it was 140 hours ago.
Starting point is 00:08:31 Jesus. They don't even remember the things that they're recycling. There's a moment where Steve Buscemi, the robot's like, this is Starscream's head. That head exploded. I saw that happen two movies ago. They don't remember anything. There's no continuity in this.
Starting point is 00:08:45 How can you establish this cinematic universe? By the way, you can't because this bombed horribly and potentially killed this franchise in movies for a while, even though Bumblebee did do a little bit better. But none of this clicks together. No, absolutely not, no. I thank God for Cade Jaeger. I agree.
Starting point is 00:09:02 And thank God for Vivian Wembley. But what an awful pairing, quite frankly. The worst pairing, absolutely. So she's the descendant of Merlin. Yes. And so they've got to go on a fun, sexually charged journey across England. Yeah, I guess they do. I've written here, Laura Haddock, who's actually Peter Quill's mum in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Starting point is 00:09:21 That's right. She has more chemistry with Kurt Russell, a man double her age with a CGI face whose character intentionally put a tumour in her head. I believe that those two, that relationship is beyond horrible. It's a better relationship than what we're getting here. Yeah, you can see how they got together. Like, you go, okay, well, they've got charisma
Starting point is 00:09:40 and Ego's a freewheeling, travelling man, I guess. You see him just driving along in that convertible being like, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. But there's moments where she's like, oh, who are you, American man? Where are you from? And he's like, I'm an inventor. And she's like, what did you invent? And he's like, things that you've heard of.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Why would you say something so obvious and easily disproved? Because all she has to obviously say next is, name a thing. Did you invent the iPad? Yeah, that's right. His ego is soant yes that he can't even just go oh actually i repair and find transformers that's pretty good it's good actually look what i did invent is i invented in the last movie i invented a robot that sort of fetches you beer but in this i don't need it because there's little transformers that get beer for me so i've kind of given up you You know what I liked about this movie is that we discover that, again, speaking of recurring characters, well, look, Bumblebee's back,
Starting point is 00:10:31 and he can break up into pieces and still fight, I guess, because that happened in Iron Man 3. That did happen in Iron Man 3. So I guess Bay was like, put that in. Why not? I've got a list of things that I think this movie's going to be about. Oh, okay. Well, we'll talk about that.
Starting point is 00:10:43 What I also enjoyed is that in the last movie, obviously, we got the Dinobots. Yeah. We're the legendary warriors of Cybertron, of Yor. And the greatest, of course, is Grimlock, the most fearsome warrior in the galaxy. And in this one, he's just a big, dumb dog that eats cars. Because that's funny, I guess. That is funny, I guess. Pretty good.
Starting point is 00:11:04 Speaking of establishing continuity, I mean, that's funny i guess that is funny speaking of establishing continuity i mean that's perfect right yeah so as far as my list goes the scavenger character who lives on her own in the junkyard that's clearly ray from star wars she's even got a little bb8 you know that's true yeah it didn't even occur to me to this movie's credit it's less lecherous with young women than the previous ones have been i mean just right sure it doesn't overt. It doesn't overtly sexualize as much as the other ones. There's still some weird references, though. Oh, yeah. At one point, Wahlberg's like, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:11:29 You're wearing a stripper dress? She's just wearing a dress. But the difference in this one is why I say it's slightly less is she's like 32, and that's the difference. It's not much better, but that's the difference. So there's a gladiator-esque opening battle sequence, which, by the way, you could just take all that out. That's what I'm saying, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:48 It's obviously Suicide Squad with the introduction of Nitro Zeus and Teeth Chatter McGee or whatever we talked about. There's also Good Guy v. Good Guy, which Fast and Furious were doing at the time, and Captain America Civil War and Batman v. Superman. And I know films obviously borrow from other films all the time. Film and entertainment, pop culture in general, everything is built off the back of something else.
Starting point is 00:12:07 It's a real melting pot out there. It is, but it's so blatant in this and not done well that it feels really egregious, you know? I agree. Anyway, Megatron's back, I guess. Is he the main bad guy? Maybe. No, no, it's the lady robot who's in it, you know, once every hour.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Yes, that's right. She's in it. Yeah, once every hour, the lady robot who's in it, you know, once every hour. Yes, that's right. She's in it. Yeah, once every hour, the same as Optimus Prime. Why isn't he in these movies? I know, I feel like I've said this every video. Yep. How much is he in this? Look, here's the thing I wonder.
Starting point is 00:12:37 I wonder if Peter Cullen's voice of Optimus Prime was like, I refuse to say most of the- FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.
Starting point is 00:13:06 The lines you've given me, and so they just reduced his role. Like, again, in previous movies, when various actors have objected to what the movies are, they've just been written out completely. And you can't entirely write out Optimus Prime, but they've given their best shot at it. They certainly have. I also wonder, once again in this movie, Optimus Prime repeatedly busts out his famous catchphrase, I'll kill you.
Starting point is 00:13:30 And I'm starting to wonder if he was asked to do that many movies ago and they were like, not quite good enough, can you give us another take? And he ran it through like 10, 20, 30 times and they're just putting in alternate takes constantly. You might be right. Because why else would he be always saying that?, 20, 30 times. And they're just putting in alternate takes constantly. You might be right. Because why else would he be always saying that? It's mean and rude. Quite frankly, it is.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Also, the evil version of him. At one point, he calls a Decepticon an ugly mess. That's very rude. I mean, he does decapitate like seven at once or something. That's true. And that's rude in a way, isn't it? Yeah. This movie was kind of sold on Bumblebee versus Optimus,
Starting point is 00:14:05 like you've never seen or whatever. You know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know how movies are. They've also used all the tricks at this point, so I think that's why this one also didn't do as well. And also it didn't pander to the Chinese market like the previous one did, which probably accounts for box office,
Starting point is 00:14:18 which we didn't really talk about last week. And then, of course, this is the bit that annoys me most about in terms of continuity, when Bumblebee, you know, finishes fighting Optimus Prime and they're like, we've had enough of a fight. Yes. That's enough fighting for the trailer.
Starting point is 00:14:30 We can stop now. Yeah, that's right. Pretty much, yeah. He's like, Optimus, I'm your best friend. And Optimus is like, I haven't heard your voice
Starting point is 00:14:36 since we were back on Cybertron. First movie! Remember the first movie? You were in the first movie. Is it the same guy? Is that what's going on here? I wish to stay with the boy, is what he said. Yeah. Is it a different Optimus Prime every movie? You were in the first movie. Is it the same guy? Is that what's going on here? I wish to stay with the boy,
Starting point is 00:14:46 is what he said. Yeah. Is it a different Optimus Prime every movie? Is that why he doesn't remember anything?
Starting point is 00:14:52 Is he getting his mind wiped like the Winter Soldier so he's insane? Oh, maybe he has like a loose battery pack wire or something like
Starting point is 00:14:58 that. It comes loose and then he's like and he, yeah, maybe, maybe. And then when he comes to, he's like I'll kill you.
Starting point is 00:15:05 That's right. You know what else I'm sick of in these movies? What's that? Human characters, the main human characters, I should say, not getting smashed by robots by pure happenstance. Just wherever they're rolling, like a big fist or a foot just lands near them. They're in a transformer.
Starting point is 00:15:21 The transformer transforms into a robot. They're flung into the air and like go over an overpass or under an underpass. And then they're caught by giant steel hands at the speed of a car. And they're just not smashed into paste. You're right. I'm sick of it. But to be fair, in this movie, when Tad Hamilton showed up, part of me was like, oh, an adult. Part of me was like, thank God Josh Duhamel's here.
Starting point is 00:15:44 He's got some great temples. He's got to pray at the temples. He's got wisdom. This is a fucking shit show, this whole thing. Thank God. Somebody who remembers the first movie is here. Everybody shut up
Starting point is 00:15:54 and I'll deal with this. Just cool out. So how do you feel about Bumblebee's speech patterns in these movies now? Well, at this point, we didn't mention it last week, but I mean,
Starting point is 00:16:01 at least one movie ago, he stopped speaking in meaningful songs from the radio. And he just started speaking in movie quotes and like Def Jam comedy recordings and stuff like that. He's the jerky boys. I guess he's the jerky boys. Has he found a satellite radio station that's just like offensive audio clips or something? At one point, he says to a character, quite early on, he says to a human character, he doesn't say, but he plays a clip, which I assume is from an old Western
Starting point is 00:16:30 or something like that, and the line is, I'll burn you so bad you'll wish you died as a child. Which, when you watch it in the movies, like this sort of stuff, a lot of his dialogue is kind of hard to pass when you're in a movie theater or something like that. But when you watch it at home on TV, I'm like, what did he say? And I went back and I'm like, that's a horrible thing to say.
Starting point is 00:16:55 To your friends also. Awful. I also think this movie is the one that Michael Bay realized in a PG movie you could say shit as many times as you want. It's a shitapalooza, mate. Oh, yeah? Ben's going to put in a compilation. The man who edits these videos,
Starting point is 00:17:12 which, by the way, he has to watch these more times than we do. I've apologised to him via Twitter message a number of times, and he's like, no, I quite like re-watching these. And I'm like, do you? If that's what you want to believe.
Starting point is 00:17:24 He's actually got a video coming up on these very movies about a thing that he particularly enjoys. Oh, terrific. I'm excited. Look forward to that. One of my notes here just says, that submarine is a trampoline, I guess. And because I think my computer auto-corrected to trampoline.
Starting point is 00:17:38 But it may as well be a trampoline. Sure, yeah. Because they're just like, did you know this is a transformer? Is it? Yep. Is it? Yeah. Is it? Yeah. Is it?
Starting point is 00:17:47 There's a lot of vehicles and characters and objects in this movie that, are they Transformers? Apparently Sir Anthony Hopkins' walking stick, like it transforms into a gun. So is it a Transformer that hasn't spoken for decades? Or is it just a transforming, is it made of Transformium? It's hard to, like, his companion is Cogman. Yes. Who?
Starting point is 00:18:09 I quite like Cogman. You, of course, because he's a weird metal psychopath. Yes. Again, I think in the original script he was probably like a medieval suit of armor. Yeah, right. He was possessed by the spirit of Galahad or something. Let's say Galahad. Let's say Galahad.
Starting point is 00:18:22 Yeah, why not? But now they're just like, what if C-3PO was a psychopath? Right. Which, by the way, they've already done in comics. And allegedly in this movie, he's a headmaster, which means in the context of Transformers, he would transform into the head of a larger Transformer, which would then transform into a vehicle.
Starting point is 00:18:37 A toy was released. Yeah, but we never saw it actually happen in the movie. He's just driving a regular car. There's a lot of driving a regular car in this, isn't there? Again, he's just driving a regular car there's a lot of driving a regular car again it's just it's just a car it's just regular car chase and they were like let's say that one's an autobot hey let's say let's say that why not you know yeah at one point cogman and anthony hopkins they jump from their normal car to a decoy car and and anthony hopkins says oh cogman you've parked the decoy car a long way away and it's like in the middle of the street
Starting point is 00:19:06 with both its doors open. And I'm like... That's the Cogman I know though. So what did you do, Cogman? Did you drive a car out to the middle of London in the middle of the night so no one could see you're a robot man and then park it in a city square with the doors open
Starting point is 00:19:23 and then just left it there till daytime? How did nobody steal it? I don't know. Did he park it there? Is it a Transformer? Maybe it's a Transformer. You might have called it. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I like the way you told off Cogman like he worked for you then. You're like, what did you do, Cogman? What have you done? What are you up to this time, Cogman? I can't stay mad at you, Cogman. I really like the design of Cogman, like that clockwork man thing. He would be better in a non-Transformers movie. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:50 Cogman Begins, maybe. Yes. I'd watch Cogman Begins. Well, here's some stuff that I enjoyed in this movie. I really enjoyed the scene in which Kay Diego and what's the lady's name? Vivian Wembley. I really enjoyed the scene in which Kay Diego and Vivian Wembley go to her palatial castle estate and have to look for the clue
Starting point is 00:20:13 that her father left her in order to find the last knight and the Merlin and the staff and the blah-biddy-blah. One, because again, Kay Diego, entirely unnecessary. Just say her father left her a necklace or something like that. It's fine. No, it's in a book or something. Two, look, I enjoyed the fact
Starting point is 00:20:30 that they're up in the room and they're smashing stuff to bits and it sounds very Randy, baby. It's very British. It's very British farce slash Austin Powers. But I also like the idea that that's how Michael Bay thinks academic research is performed.
Starting point is 00:20:45 Like when he imagined, it's like, you know, when Homer thinks the operas are like a bear driving a little car. Michael Bay thinks that academic research is you just open drawers and empty them on the ground and smash things until an answer is presented to you. Yeah, it's the Indiana Jones School of Archaeology. Yeah, it's the Indiana Jones School of Archaeology. Speaking of, I also enjoyed the part where they end up at the secret underground underwater spaceship where Merlin has been entombed, and they open up his tomb and they're like, oh, we were looking for a Transformers staff
Starting point is 00:21:16 and he's just a regular staff. We're so mad. He flips out, he's like, how can this be? What are we even doing? Like, he loses it. Calm down, Mark Wahlberg, for a second. Mark Wahlberg, calm down for a sec. Take a breath.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Remember, you're in a world of Transformers. You're in a Transformers spaceship. You're looking for a Transformers artifact. Consider for a moment, you might have transformed into something else, like a stick. Or something else. We okay, buddy?
Starting point is 00:21:40 All right, all right. Yeah, I mean, he's a moron. He's a moron, yeah, right. Yeah. Look, I've got a note here. It says Megatron refers to Starscream as his old treacherous friend. He's treacherous in the cartoons. He's very loyal in the movies.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Yes, that's true, yeah. Loyal to a fault. You know, his head exploded in that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another great quote from the greatest hero of them all, Optimus Prime, at one point after, like, laying a beat down on a lot of the other characters, he says, my brothers, I will never betray you again cool that's great great good stuff thanks thanks pal we believe you I mean I don't I don't take much solace at that if I mean you've said a
Starting point is 00:22:15 lot of stuff in these movies and really haven't backed it up with with much action but all right yeah so it's trivia time Mason I'm ready trivia uh actually one trivia because we've said other trivias already okay well one trivia time one trivia time well I. I'm ready. Hot trivia. Actually, one trivia, because we've said other trivias already. Okay. One trivia time. One trivia time. Well, I also have maybe one more trivia. Two trivia time, everyone.
Starting point is 00:22:29 No, no. It's one trivia time. We're going to do it separately. Okay, good. We're going to have the graphic twice. Okay. One trivia time. Here we go, James.
Starting point is 00:22:36 Off you go. Okay. Hot Rod, who's in this movie, by the way. Yep. Hot Rod's French accent was executive producer and director Michael Bay's idea, as he thought it would give Hot Rod a unique character. Or, you know, give him like a personality or a motivation or like a face that you can recognise.
Starting point is 00:22:50 He does have a personality. French is not a personality. No, James. He has a gun that slows down time. That's his personality. Where's that technology been? Right? Why is he the only one that has it?
Starting point is 00:23:03 Again, it's like Optimus prime being able to fly for no reason yeah all right uh and also second trivia different section though one trivia time here's one trivia time uh throughout the course of the movie bumblebee's doors sometimes open like a regular car door and sometimes they open up like upwards like a fancy lamborghini or something like that and some might say well that's probably a production error you know they've got a couple of different versions of the car and they've just they've just mucked it up in editing. Yeah. But I say that's Bumblebee just trying to squeeze
Starting point is 00:23:31 some enjoyment out of his life by annoying all of his passengers. Because every time you'd get in and when you'd be like, okay, time to get out of this car. Get your, get your, Bumblebee, God damn it. Oh, I can't stay mad at you. Oh wait, yes I can. Because that died as a child line from earlier. Really offensive, man. I'm still mad about it. Sometimes, I can't stay mad at you. Oh, wait, yes, I can, because that died as a child line from earlier.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Really offensive, man. I'm still mad about it. Sometimes the windscreen flips up, you have to climb in over the bonnet to get in. He's a lunatic. Also, you don't get this effect as much watching it at home, but the aspect ratio on this is a nightmare. I don't know what version you watched, but it jumps shot to shot between IMAX and Regulo,
Starting point is 00:24:05 and it's headache-inducing. Oh, no. It'sulo. Uh-huh. And it's headache inducing. Oh, no. It's way worse in the cinema, but it's like, pick one. Like, you know when Christopher Nolan does it, he will do like this section is in IMAX. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like, it's not between shots, just interiors in an office.
Starting point is 00:24:19 Do you know what I mean? Yeah, sure. Right. Uh-huh. Good stuff. Yeah. This one more than the others, even though they've done it a little bit, it feels so much like it's setting up for a sequel.
Starting point is 00:24:27 And I know the first one had Starscream's gone into space. What's going to happen next? Devastator, whatever. That's what happens. But it really feels like don't even worry about it because you thought you were going to get Unicron and you're an idiot for thinking that. That's right.
Starting point is 00:24:41 But next movie, you won't be an idiot for buying a ticket that time probably that's right you thought you thought quintessa was gone for good but she's back and she's a babe am i right you are yeah jimmy chan she's good i like her yeah i forgot she was in this hate it it's not as weird as some of the previous ones in particular number four but i i hate it i hate it it's It's bad. It's one of the worst. Yeah. I mean, again, it's tough to gauge these. They're all one of the worst, aren't they? And a lot of people have asked also,
Starting point is 00:25:13 are you going to come back and do Bumblebee? Not next week. It's a different continuity. We will do it at some point. We'll probably pair that with the original animated movie and maybe some Beast Wars stuff. And the reason is because it's good. Yeah. Some it's good at least it's way better than this it's what the first one should have been yeah definitely and again uh look if you really want to know my
Starting point is 00:25:33 thoughts on it we did an episode of our podcast the weekly planet about it some time ago when it came out it's nice to know which transformers are which in it it certainly is pretty cool and next week though we will be coming back because leading up to Tenet or Tenant, Tenets, Tenetes, we're going to do some Christopher Nolan classics, aren't we?
Starting point is 00:25:50 That's right, we are. Which ones? What are we going to start with? Are we going to start with the Prestige? Probably, I guess. Yeah, maybe. Oh, God, are we?
Starting point is 00:25:57 Great. Yeah, probably. Subscribe if you do want to see that. These come out every Tuesday and these videos are here all the time, isn't there? Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:26:45 Because we'd be doing this anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With nobody listening. That's exactly right. And you know what? At the end of the day, they may not be the most intelligently written movies. They may not be the cleverest movies.
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