***Spoilers*** During the finale all of the audience noticed that Optimus liked to declare he's name quite a lot during the Final Act of the film and annoyed a lot of audience the audience at my showing. But I don't know why but when I was watching it I felt inspired declaring who is because after seeing the movie I started thinking about why he said it and what he went through during the film in his very brief appearance. *cough* At the say 1/3 of the film Quintessa changes Optimus into Nemesis Prime through a form of what I believe is hypnotic suggestion,with a mix of physical shock torture and psychological mind games, and a sprinkle of magic and you have Nemesis Prime who believes he could save Cybertron by destroying Earth/Unicron and will not let anyone stand in his way. As Nemesis Prime he arrives slaughtering knights and demanding the staff threatening to kill a human if they didn't give it to him. He battles Bumblebee brutally ripping him apart and showing arrogance in his dialogue that resembles Dark of the Moon Sentinel Prime, but more gladiator for example "I am Nemesis Prime, and You are Nothing." as oppossed to a god complex. As Nemesis is about to deal the killing blow. Bumblebee snaps him out if it with the sound of his. Awww. But where did that come from? Optimus snaps out of it and falls to the ground. Doesn't even fight back against Megatron and Nitro Zeus. Then the Knights show beat the crap out of him and he still does nothing just excepts death. Why? Well he did try to kill someone he cared about the and destroy his adoptive home and the people of whom he fight for sure they may be still alive, but he was still going to go through with it. Who is he right now? Is what he's probably asking. Cade's speech he makes about what it means to be hero reminds him of who he is and why he fights. He is Optimus Prime and he fights for the free! Rediscovers who he is by fighting for Earth Cliche I know but I loved it.
He said it like four times. Not for any deeper reason than the writers of this movie were incompetent. He also said "I'll kill you/them" and "they will kill me" a bunch too. Seriously imagine yourself in real life constantly announcing your name and telling everyone out loud what you are going to do next.
Tbh I would probably do that if I was battling the forces of evil. Not in every day life though. Lol. I thought when he declares things it shows his determination.
I can't believe for the first time Optimus barely gave any interesting character writing to sink my teeth into. He's just *sigh* kind of there. Even the whole Nemesis Prime thing barely affected the plot because he was barely in it.
I mentioned this in another post, but i really found most of prime's dialogue cheesy in the last act. Like it literally ruined the mood.. and I'm all for some awesome prime lines, and we got so very few of them in TLK.
I get annoyed to we know he's Optimus Prime i wish they would do something different with the ending speech.
Don't care how cheesy his lines were, his few scenes were some of my favorites and he also survived the movie. I'LL TAKE IT!
I feel like the dialogue is written sometimes so that, in the invent that completely 100% new viewers are watching anything TF for the first official time, they know who's who. LOL "I am Optimus Prime.." "I am Optimus Prime..." "I fight for good and the free- because I am Optimus Prime..." "Freedom is the right of all- I AM OPTIMUS F-ING PRIME..." Like the last several movies and massive amount of multimedia content from the last couple decades wasn't enough, they have to constantly explain who he is in every movie- like the audience has shitty memory, "Remember this guy? The one who turns into a truck all the time and always saves the day- you remember him right?"- it's degrading. lol Like they were writing the script and made sure, "Okay, make sure to put that line at the beginning, middle, and end of the film- so just in case the audience is drunk, high, or stupid: they STILL know WTF they're watching." LOL
Be honest if you had an epic name like that, a deep badass baritone voice, and were famous for lopping apart villians like Megatron, Fallen and Shockwave, wouldn't you want people to know who you are?
He says I am Optimus Prime twice and I am Nemisis Prime twice, and everything in between is "I'll kill you".
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure he only said that once and that was when he was under the Nemesis Prime trance.
He also delivered such emotion, such despair when he said "What have you done to my home! I will kill you." Like wow that was an emotional scene.
Lol I saw it twice already, I'm seeing it again Sunday with my bros. I loved the Transformers parts and such but I have to agree, this one had so much potential but didn't do what it was trying to do. Optimus was evil for literally one scene where it should've took an ENTIRE movie and a half to build on that storyline for it mean something. Believe me man, I was cheesing super hard at the junkyard scene and I gasped at the Decepticon introductions and I got chills at the "I am Optimus Prime" Scene and I loved the freefalling part as well but the transformers felt backgrounded again.