TF07, ROTF, DOTM, AOE.

As Transformers fans, which movie do we feel is the absolute best of the live action film series.

For me, it's gotta be AOE.

It just felt like Transformers to me. The story was cool and Optimus Prime actually had character. Like struggles and development and shit.

So AOE for me.

Thoughts?

 

07

The rest have lacked the character and feeling that that one had, although those feelings might be silghtly nostalgic

AOE would be by #2 though.

 

07

No other TF movie has jogged out that reaction and excitement of seeing live-action Transformers for the first time for me.

 

AOE was ok because it wasn't as bad as ROTF or DOTM. 2007 was still the best simply because someone somehow managed to control the amount of Bay psychosis that seeped onto the screen.

 

86 was better than the 4 of them. And this isn't even nostalgia talking, I wasn't even born when the original came out.

 

'86. Can't beat Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Peter Cullen, and Frank Welker.

 

Yeah, '86 is easily the best. Easily.

In my opinion, AoE was the worst, although it did have a few things I liked. But I didn't see any more actual character work done with Optimus in AoE than in DotM. Which wasn't much, anyway. I think that over time, AoE is the one that's going to stand up least well.

 

I can only base my vote on the human characters since no actual Transformers have even appeared in any of these movies yet, so by default it has to be AOE thanks to the appearance of proper known actors. But that doesn't mean it's good, let alone the "best" - just means it's the least worst of the four... which really isn't saying much given the "caliber" of these things.

As for the best Transformers movie, there is only one, which you don't have as an option to choose: the 1986 animated original.

 

1986 movie, best quotes, best story, best character development, having Ultra Magnus feel the pressure of Autobot Leader, having both Bots and Cons work together to fight off Unicron. Orson Wells and Leonard Nimoy did a wonderful job as Unicron and Galvatron. Also I find that the movie had balls, killing off all those characters we loved in season 1 and 2 leading to the epic battle between Optimus and Megatron that resulted to the death of Optimus Prime (biggest mistake) but at the same time it set a tone to the movie and made the Decepticons more stronger and were more of a threat.

 

07.

 

1986. It's actually about the Transformers.

The bay films are just stories about humans that happen to feature robots as side characters.

 

TF07. I want the movie to be recognizably Transformers, while still being a good movie. This one felt like it had a good balance - not a perfect balance, as we don't get into the mythology or robots that much, and it is really human focused...but I actually REALLY like the human characters. For what little development they have, they are actually pretty memorable, and you do want to see the good guys win. Lennox and Epps have great chemistry, Sam was literally me at that age, Jon Voight (who I really want to come back...PLEASE. This motherfucker did Baby Geniuses and suddenly TF is a no go? Fuck dot) just screams authority... the humans are a good cast. They didn't even skimp on the robots - they had recognizable personalities without being huge stereotypes (excluding Jazz, but he wasn't insultingly stereotypical - he still sounded like a soldier, where as Skids and Mudflap sounded like Bobby Shmurda getting ass raped by a fax machine), they looked absolutely amazing, and you did care for the Autobots.

My second favorite is probably Dark of the Moon, since it did have more of a focus on character and story. You just don't notice it because the action is so over the top insane that it distracts from it.

ROTF was bad, but I've more than gotten over that - it's the kind of movie that's more fun to watch with friends. And make fun of. While you're buttered.

As for AOE...that movie...hurt me.

I'd talk about '86, but 1- I haven't seen it in years, and 2-I only have it on VHS and can't get the one in my dorm hooked up to our TV because my roommates a fuck boy.

 

Dark of the Moon!

The only time the characters have had clear goals and motivations. Sentinel is the best villain in the films, because holy shit he has reasons behind his actions. He's not just a cartoonishly evil designated "bad guy" to get brutally torn apart while the protagonists, whose heroism is being postured, yell about how much they're enjoying it.

... I mean, that still basically happens to him, but it's not the be all end all of his existence.

 

I think Lockdown is a better villian due to preferance, but hey we all have opninions and are entitled to our own. Anyway I like tf1 the most

 

ROTF could've been the best, but my vote sits with AOE.

 

For me the best of the best of all the theatrical releases would be 1986. Sure there are things I didn't like, but Dinobots vs Devastator and all the other goodness makes up for the bad.

If just restricted to the live action films then 2007. Not every thing I could I have wanted and it has it's flaws but it also has the wow factor of a transformation for the first time.

 

DOTM

 

TF1 for me. It kept it's plot simple, rather than the overcrowded, poorly explained plots of AOE. It's Autobots, while lacking screen time, all have personalities, unlike in DOTM, and are likable, unlike the ass holes in AOE. The Decepticons were actually powerful, unlike the unbelievably useless ones in all the other films. All the build up to Megatron accumulated in him being bad ass, unlike the anticlimactic weakling that was the Fallen. The action is all well done, unlike the brain dead fights in DOTM. The score is amazing, unlike the barely noticeable score of ROTF and AOE. Overall, I feel it's an OK movie and my favorite of the TF films.

 

AOE for me. Most of the story arcs are actually all interconnected and not just randomly arranged. It has the best characterization of the Transformers themselves. Other than Shane I like the humans in it better than the other films. Also, it sets up a future film and greatly expands the film universe in scope beyond just the Autobot-Decepticon war.

DOTM is second. TF 07 is third, and ROTF is last.

I like the '86 film as a fun romp, but at the same time I feel like it is trying too hard to sell new toys with the character deaths and new characters that I couldn't get into. I never cared for the '86 Autobots (most of them actually annoy me), although I do like the new reformatted Decepticons in it. The movie just never made me care for the new Autobots other than Rodimus; it was at its best when it focused on the older robots in my opinion.

 

TF07 is the best movie of the four but AoE might be my personal favorite. I've seen it 5 times and still don't think it's as near as bad a movie as most people do.