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Transformers: The Last Knight

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Fri May 05, 2023 1:30 am

Have you watched Transformers: The Last Knight?
Which are your favourite transformers?
In 484 AD, Merlin finds the Knights of Iacon, a group of Transformers hiding on Earth, seeking their help to aid King Arthur and his knights. They hand him a staff and help Arthur defeat the Saxons, but warn Merlin to hide the staff.

In the present, five years after the Hong Kong incident,[N 1] Optimus Prime arrives on the ruins of Cybertron and meets the mad Cybertronian goddess Quintessa,[N 2] who brainwashes him into Nemesis Prime, and sends him to Earth to retrieve Merlin's staff, to restore the planet by taking Earth's energy core.

On Earth, a new paramilitary task force called the Transformers Reaction Force (TRF) continues to hunt Transformers, while some of its U.S. military personnel, including Colonel William Lennox and General Morshower, are reluctantly against its actions. Cade Yeager, an ally to the Autobots, hides Transformer refugees in his junkyard. In a war-torn Chicago, Cade and Bumblebee meet a scavenger Izabella and her Transformer companion, Sqweeks, before encountering a dying Transformer who gives them a talisman. The TRF confronts Cade to demand the Autobots' location, only to be stopped by Bumblebee, Lennox, and Hound.

Megatron, having abandoned his Galvatron identity[N 1], his remaining Decepticons, and the U.S. government learn of the talisman's value and reluctantly join forces to retrieve it and track Bumblebee to Cade's scrapyard. While the Autobots fend off the Decepticons, Grimlock and the Dinobots ambush a TRF convoy while Cade, his assistant Jimmy, Izabella, and Sqweeks deal with a swarm of TRF drones sent after them. Cogman, a human-sized Transformer, appears and invites Cade to the United Kingdom to meet his employer, Sir Edmund Burton, who is connected to the Transformers. Burton asks another Transformer, Hot Rod, to find Viviane Wembly, a University of Oxford professor.
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Re: Transformers: The Last Knight

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Post by Booyakasha » Fri May 05, 2023 2:41 am

I stopped watching the new Transformers after the third one-----------that moment when Optimus shoots the bad guy right in his face while the bad guy pleads for his life kind of just made me want to go home and...watch something nice instead.

I don't think I can overstate this-----------I don't want to see Optimus shoot defeated enemies in the face while they beg for mercy. I don't want to see Luke Skywalker or Johnny-Five do that, either. It's pretty bad, but also ungentlemanly. Good guys should follow the batman rules----------if you kill bad guys just because they might do something evil some day later on, you're no longer batmanning, you're punishering. Not acceptible outside of a film noir.

(EDIT:...I think I'd enjoy a Transformers film noir. Optimus Prime as a detective in 1930s Brooklyn.

...they'd have to really, really try hard to make it not be stupid. It might be impossible, but it might not be------------I can picture a hard noir Detective Pikachu story, I have plenty of garbagey imagination in my idiot head.
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Re: Transformers: The Last Knight

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Fri May 05, 2023 3:30 am

I don't think so. I saw some but don't remember which, they all blend together. They're very...watchable. There is a Beast Wars one coming though, I'm very interested in that despite knowing they'll screw it up nice and woke, or at least just the traditional Hollywood failure to respect source material.

My favorite is Dinobot, by far. Second would be Silverbolt, a close second.

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