although the story isnt exactly the main highlight on this film, the action and voice acting by giving life to the characters are the main highlights, especially the cinematic japanese animation style and soundtrack, makes sense?
This is far beyond anything that overated hack did in those other movies. The Bumblebee movie is probably the best transformers movie,after this one. We actually got transformers that looked like transformers. On another note,everytime he called Unicron Unicorn,it really pissed me off.
@@MarkDemeowhy don’t you aks him why he do that? 😉 Just kidding, I just laughed along with it buddy, nobody can take away from how amazing this film was back when it was released… and even today 👌
I cried when Ironhide went, then was very quiet when Prime dies. But Galvatron was the coolest character ever and seeing Starscream turn to ash was amazing
For people my age, the arrival of Optimus Prime on the battlefield, with 'The Touch' blaring in the theater, was the first time we understood the concept (if not the phrase) "Badass".
You're pulling off a small miracle on this one. This movie is NOTORIOUS for getting copy write struck with even the smallest scenes and music. The fact that you have this uploaded to this extent is pretty impressive.
Imagine watching this when you were 6 or 8yrs old, and all those characters that died had been your favourites for two years. This movie made kids cry and if you ever wonder why Gen Xrs are so disillusioned and unfeeling, it's because we grew up watching our heroes die.
I was 12 and thought it was awesome because even though characters I liked died, it made me feel like the movie wasn't talking down to me like I felt other cartoon movies did. Basically why I also loved the cartoon series Robotech* so much. *(obligatory - yes I know now the history behind Macross and the other anime series they used to make Robotech, I just didn't back then...)
Yeah the people who decided to kill of some of the original cast in this movie was because the new toys they made for the new characters won't selling enough, their smart idea was to kill of those original characters and discontinue their toys, just so kids back in the day had no choice but to buy the new toys, but all it achieved was making those killed of characters and their toys more popular and the new toys sell less, that's why they slowly brought all those killed of characters and their toys back
I was 10 or 11. It still was sad watching this in the movies. But I remember Prowl's death more than Optimus' (Probably because he was the first (well 2nd) to go. Brawn's was more ambiguous, but Prowl's mouth belching smoke was shocking!
I was 10 and trust me I agree. We grew up KNOWING nothing last forever, and heroes did die. We lived like it as well, tomorrow wasn't promised, so love what your doing today...just make damn sure your home by the street lights turning on!!
Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles. Who was in damn near everything for a while in the 20th Century. But most people know him from 'Citizen Kane'. Galvatron was voiced by Leonard Nimoy. Who was the Vulcan, Spock, on the original 'Star Trek'. His first day of recording, he showed up an hour early to warm up by doing vocal scales in the men's room.
@@SJHFoto Some of Unicron's lines needed re-recording after Wells had passed, so they asked Leonard Nimoy to fill in. Nimoy would later return to the franchise in the live-action movies as Sentinel Prime.
Cool reaction. To answer your questions, this movie was made as a 20 year time jump from the original cartoon's first 65 episodes which was followed up with a third season taking place after the movie. Spike was renamed Sam in the live action films and the alt modes were changed quite a bit.
The matrix is not only for the Autobots. It is the Cybertronian matrix. It only opens when all Cybertronian life works together. Hence the "till all are one" quote. It opens one other time in the series when a plague infected all humans and nearly all Transformers.
This movie served as a bridge between seasons 2 and 3 of the show. The first two battles wipe out nearly every transformer from the first 2 seasons and introduced the new characters/toys from season 3. Imagine being a kid watching this in the theater and having all your heroes die. It was pretty devastating.
@@Nashalbeth There's a perfect explanation for why they're killed in this one. It's because YOU didn't buy enough of their toys, so they had to be... removed, permanently... for a new line of toys to be sold.
@@alexanderstavroulakis335,For one there toy's were limited releases in region's. Two in the toy's that made us on Netflix tell part of the story that some of those executives were fired way too late. Some right after the death of Prime.
80s cartoons where the best! GI Joe, Thundercats, Robotech, Galaxy Rangers, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Voltron, and of course, The Transformers...rocked the scene back in the day! Couldn't wait to get home from school to see this awesome animation!
It's hard to appreciate this if you weren't a fan of the 80's cartoon and toys (as I was), but the death of Optimus Prime particularly, and of so many other original characters, was shocking to me as a 10 year old! I now see it as a vehicle to clear out the old characters so they could introduce new ones and sell more toys (80's cartoons were almost universally commercials for toys), but they at least made a hell of a story out of it! I still love this movie, all these years later - they got legit voice actors for the new roles (this was actually film legend Orson Welles's last role) and put some banger songs in to pump the audience up (Stan Bush's "You Got the Touch" and "Dare", as well as Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" are the highlights for me)!
I felt the same way about the other Transformer Movies making humans too much a part of the story. The humans are support characters at best, it's all about the Transformers themselves.
Yeah. Why are we supposed to care about some moron trying to get laid, when there are a bunch of giant, sentient, alien, robots, FIGHTING over there?! I don't care about the side characters, show me the robot STARS!
Hell that’s WHY they pitched the story of the transformers. The toys weren’t just a product, but characters, like they could really exist with their own hopes and ideas. They were the main characters, not some human.
This movie is goated. The music, action, dialogue. Megatron and Optimus have such good lines. That one scene gets me every time Edit: also anyone else love the old GI Joe animated movie ?? So good
Yeah. GI Joe, this one and Master of the Universe live action. Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and Frank Langella's Skeletor. I remember the Transformers story line got weird with the Quintesson. GI Joe got weird seeing where Cobra Commander came from. I don't remember if He-Man got weird but live action was weird enough. I guess ya couldn't call it good but it was there.
Spike, the guy with Bumblebee, was the 80's show's equivalent of Sam Witwicky. He is Spike Witwicky, and they do have his dad in the original show too. The film was 20 years after the original show so teenage Spike was fully grown up and we got to see his kid Daniel. I loved this movie as a kid and it (mostly) holds up well today. I don't think any of the live action films have quite captured the feel of this. It had heart, action, a great soundtrack, shock and awe, deaths, etc... Even all the random autobot/decepticon corpses you see throughout the battle at Autobot city were the main characters for the original 2 seasons of the show so as an 80s kid, it was wild to see all the heros and villains die, badly, in the first 20-30 minutes.
@@c.glazercrush3994 i'd argue it was hotrod because he was pure of heart in a way that Magnus wasn't. Ultra Magnus was a soldier, and we saw it time and time again. at one point in the film, he thinks cup, hot rod and the dino bots die in an explosion and he's like "I cant deal with that now". Imagine HotRod saying that about Magnus and the others, we just can't because it's not in his character. He was more of a childlike optimus prime, than ultra magnus was, but the movie uses very clever misdirection with Ultra Magnus to make us think Hot Rod isn't all that special until he is
It was gut wrenching. I had already decided to stop buying any new Transformers before I saw the movie. My cousin got me Scourge and my mother got me Hot Rod. So after the movie I was happy for Hot Rod. The numbers for Hot Rod were extremely high. Even better than Megatron. The only Transformer with higher technical specification numbers than "Roddy" was Optimus Prime. Although I didn't have Ultra Magnus so I don't know if he was higher. Same with Galvatron and Cyclonus. Anyway I can totally understand that it was Hod Rod's destiny.
Best soundtrack ever! I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out. I was 11. The whole audience cheered throughout the film and it was an awesome experience. I'll never forget it
This movie takes place between seasons of the original cartoon. After this Megatron was refitted into galvatron and Rodimus Prime leads the Autobots. However Optimus does return from the dead and it is scary AF. He was gray with red eyes and attacked his own autobots when he awakened. Sort of like Superman in the Justice League movie.
That's not true about Optimus. You're mixing the episode up. He was the only one not infected with hate from cosmic dust. He once again had to save everyone from themselves. Sorry to be that nerd, but the cartoons were my shit.
@@Dyrtbag68 when they find him in his tomb he's grayed out and his eyes are red when he awakens. I know that happened. The resurrection of Optimus was part of the powermasters toy marketing.
This movie was a major part of my childhood. It's so good seeing younger generations discovering it. And it's soooo much better than the live action Transformers stuff.
"PRIME gote shot 9 times. He is 50 cent now". Killed me! This cartoon is my life. I'm almost 40. Watched it +30 times during whole life. Some scenes giving me same goosebumps as when i was watching it being 6-7 years old!
This IS the best Transformers, My brother and I both loved this movie as children. One my top favorites, I still have the original VHS tape too. As a child, I wanted to be Starscream because I loved fighter jets😂
I saw this in the theaters and I cried when Optimus Prime died. Many of us 80’s kids did. Because of that they brought him back to life in season 3 of the cartoon.
Prime's death caused a backlash to the point where Dukes death from saving Falcon’s life atvthe hands of Seperpentor in the animated G.I. Joe was changed into a coma. He later was mentioned that he "woke up" at the end of the movie of the movie.
I tried to explain this to my wife and her sisters. Imagine taking the kids to watch Pokemon at the movies and Pikachu dies a horrible death in the first 10 mins of the movie.
For kids of the 80's, like me, this was HUGE! Just about everyone had a Transformer toy. When Optimus Prime Died...all kids cried! We all Cried! Transformers was one of the top Cartoons on tv, along with GI: Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Real ghostbusters! This was OUR Saturday morning tv programming, and when they announced a Transformers Movie back in 85...we all got Pumped cause we knew it would be SPECIAL!
wow! much respect for watching old content like this. they dont get alot of love nowadays with all this amazing CGI but people forget everything starts somewhere.
I was 11 years old when this came out. I was their EXACT demographic. Saw this in theater the week it came out , and cried when Optimus died. This movie was EVERYTHING!
Same here. Born in 1975. I was 11 and we were all upset about the killing off of the majority of the Transformers so that we won't want to play with our old toys and buy the new ones. But over the years I have grown to love this movie. Thanks to Madman's DVD. 📀
Plus one more from 1975, I clearly remember being absolutely devastated at the theatre 😢 I can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie. I still watch it multiple times a year, my son and my middle daughter absolutely love Transformers, my wife and my other daughter's not so much 😂😂 maybe they've not seen it enough yet 😂
I used to rent this movie every single weekend from the Video-Ezy in my town back in the late 80s and my mum almost stopped me watching it every time because that Optimus death-bed scene made me bawl hysterically for the rest of the night LOL I will always love this movie. It is the epitome of my childhood and gave me a lifelong love for the characters! Thank you for reacting to this! It's like seeing my good mate watching one of my beloved classics with me! 🥰
Every time I hear Peter Cullen voicing Optimus, my brain reverts to the glory and fun of 1980s Transformers and I want to fight over them. It is not something that watching Transformers for the first time nowadays can understand. I teared up fifteen years ago hearing Optimus in theaters. Thirty five years ago, Optimus was pretty much my second dad.
You hit the nail right in the head. A lot if long time fans of transformers don’t like that the Michael Bay live actions are all about the humans. The transformers has a dope story on their own.
This movie slaps on EVERY level. I just watched it with my fiancee for her first time seeing it last week and it brought back so many good memories. What a godly movie. Edit: Leo, you ask early on in the video if there is a Witwicky in this movie like Sam in the first Michael Bay, and the answer is yes. It's never spoken in the movie but Daniel and Spike's last name is Witwicky
I took my Brother to his first movie and it was this one.... he passed away just over a year ago and he wanted to make sure I got his copy of this movie. Every now and again he would send me music for my workout routines, and they came from this movie and Rocky 4
My goodness. Transformers and He-Man were such a big part of my childhood. Amazing animations. Kudos to you to check this out man. Edit: my favorite was Starscream.
As far as I know, with 40 years of experience on my side, Bumblebee could ALWAYS talk. I can't say 100% for certain, but I think it was the Bay movies that started him not talking.
Bumblebee could talk until the bay verse movies though he wasn’t in a lot of them due to trademark issues (for example hotshot from the armada trilogy was supposed to be bumblebee and they only got those back by the tube of animated that started his proper journey of becoming hot rod After the movies bee had a tendency to lose his voice but it’s overdone Also fun fact about that the second movie retcons the first because at the end he gets his voice back (a really bad voice that doesn’t fit him) but they just ditched that immediately
I was born in 1998 and use to watch the TV show when I was a kid, my dad got me this movie when I was 10 and the scene with Optimus Prime brought me to tears. I also recently recorded the entire soundtrack to my phone, it's in my 80s music playlist and I listen to it all the time when I walk my dog.
Awesome you are watching this!! This is the Transformers I grew up on and this movie went pretty hard for it's time. Early on you knew it wasn't your average Saturday morning episode but later the dark tone did settle down quite a bit. Had an amazing soundtrack as well.
Your totally right - this was less about the humans & more about the robots - which is the way it should be. That's why a lot of us old school fans still prefer this much more over the live action CGI movies.
i feel old, i saw this in the theater as a kid, and watched the tv series. i still have the vhs copy on my shelf. my fav as a kid! i saw they are introducing the dinobots in the next live action film, good thing you saw this version! another great reaction! 👍
Yup, same here. Saw it by myself as a kid when it came out and remember hearing another kid with with his mom sitting behind us ask "mom, did he just say damnit?"
The sound track is one of the best parts of this movie. The deaths hurt so many kids which was a huge risk for the writers. Good comedy just great overall. glad we got you to watch it!
I was 10 when this came out, and that theater was absolutely going NUTS during this entire movie. The beginning song, Optimus's song, the fighting man....and when he died OMG....that movie theater turned into a POOL!!! Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles...and Leanard Nimoy voiced Galvatron...it was an amazing movie. God I loved the Transformers!!
Orson Wells' most legendary performance in my opinion. The music is the best part for me though. I love the music in this movie. I love the scene where the Deceptions kill Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet and Ironhide. I hate what happens, but that music is so cool. This is a rock 'n roll adventure.
The autobots dying was a way for the creator to get rid of them all including optimus to make way for the newer characters. Keep in mind that children had never seen any of the autbots dying before so when they began dying by megatron it completely shocked them as it was the very first time that an actual transformer had been killed on the screen and trust me when optimus died it completely upset children and the parents which caused so much backlash on the film. It also changed the ending for gi joe which instead of killing duke they put him in a coma. Transformers 1986 shocked the generation so much
oh wow. Never expected to see one of the reactors I watch watching this... this was my favorite movie when I was a kid. Watched the VHS so many damn times the tape broke. Still have the whole movie memorized verbatim and can recite it on command. Way way better than any of the Michael Bay movies, IMO. One of the first animated movies with an all-star cast... Orson Welles, Hollywood legend, did the voice for Unicron for most of the movie but actually passed away during production and Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Spock) filled in for him for the remainder of his lines and also did the voice of Galvatron. Lionel Stander (Kup) was another long-time Hollywood star. John Moschita (known as the Micro Machine man and world record holder for fastest talker) voice Blurr. Judd Nelson of the Breakfast Club and Hollywood's "Brat Pack" did Hot Rod. Legendary voice actor Peter Cullen was always the voice of Optimus Prime... he reprises his role in the Bayformers movies. I think Optimus Prime dying in this was the first time I saw my mom cry watching a movie. They killed off damn near all of the old Transformers characters to make room for new toys... pretty brutal for a kids' movie.
Watching the cartoons growing up seeing my favorites from the show just dieing was to much to handle as a kid. Fighting under water and deserts and near death battles was amazing over the years. Seeing them die in the movie in theaters you new it was the end of a era.
I saw this in theaters when it came out. Kids were BAWLING during the slaughter on the ship and then the death of Optimus... lot of therapists had new clients thanks to this movie.
HELL TO THE FUCK YEAH! Mad respect to reacting to the OG movie. Crazy thing about this film was that when it was a tv show nobody ever died and lived to the next day, its a kids show so of course. Then this comes out and they start killing of characters left and right! Kids who went to the movies were devestated it was messed up man lol.
The Best Transformer Movie of all time. As a kid, I would wake up at about 05:00 and go downstairs put the VHS in, and put on my headphones. I must have watched this movie close to 100 times.
I had the original Megatron toy that transformed into a very realistic looking Walther P38 pistol... got stopped by a cop once walking through my neighborhood with it... they would never allow a toy like that to be made today, that's why they changed Megatron into a tank (and in the Michael Bay Fakeformers movies... he's like a space jet or something, I dunno..)
Blurr was voiced by John Moschitta Jr, the Guiness world record holder for World's Fastest Talker. You might recognize him if you've ever seen commercials for Micro Machines. In 2007, Mr Moschitta reprised his role in Transformers Animated for that show's depiction of Blurr. He's not sped up artificially, the dude just talks that fast, and it's incredible every time.
In season 3 of the cartoon, his head was orbiting Cybertron, acting as an artificial moon. The episode Call of the Primitives details Unicron’s origins and as to why he was made and the possible origin of The Matrix of Leadership
After they killed Optimus in an attempt to market new toys, the toy line died and kids were super sad. So sad that they brought Optimus back to life in the show.
This is the definitive Transformers film to me, from the soundtrack to the animation. For many of us 80s kids, this was our first time seeing not only cartoon characters die for the first time ever, but many of our favorite characters. It was a traumatic experience, lol.
Thanks for reacting to this 🙏 So many people on youtube are following trends and watching what's "safe". But safe is often the most dangerous plan, and we don't get to see classics like this one. Keep setting the trends
I have to remember my age and not be shocked that people still have never seen this movie. I was lucky enough to see this opening satin theaters! So yea-this is the BEST TF Movie ever. Timeless 80’s metal rock/Synth classic that was ahead of its time for 86’
Casey Kasem voiced Cliffjumper and it's funny he did the countdown when Kasem was famous for his top 40 countdowns. I love the All Star cast this movie had.
Casey Kasem counting down the hits. I love that he, Cliffjumper did the countdown. I recently found out that he did many other cartoon voices including Mark from Battle of the Planets.
I have seen this movie literally over 100 times since I was a kid and saw it in theaters. I was a huge original transformers cartoon fan and still am. This movie blew my 8 year old mind when it came out.
The Matrix opened up for Hot Rod because the Matrix chose him, not Ultra Magnus. You have to know (and the series only really explains it and not the movie) that the Matrix is filled with the concious memories of ALL previous Autobot leaders going back to the first and it has somewhat of a will of its own.
Love watching these reaction videos to the first time viewings of the 86 Movie! You had me laughing hysterically when you realized his name was actually Unicron!
And Sam Witwicky is the movie version of Spike Witwicky, who was a teenager/young adult in the first 2 seasons of the Transformers Cartoon (1984). This movie took place 20-21 years later in 2005
This movie is iconic, and such an amazing piece of my childhood. I've got this on DVD, and I've got the soundtrack somewhere. Also, the list of voice actors is amazing. When my husband and I went to see Transformers in theaters and the voice-over started, I legit grabbed him by the shoulder and started shaking him. "It's Optimus Prime!" He hadn't watched the cartoon, so wanted to know how I knew. "Because it's HIM!" 😂 Peter Cullen is a legend.
Now you gotta do Tron (1982). Transformers hit big back in the day, and this was the peak. Best music, best animation, actual big name stars. To answer your question, yes... they are Witwicky... witwi... Sam was originally Spike Witwicky, and his dad Sparkplug. Needless to say those names didn't stand up in the films because they sound odd outside a cartoon.
The legend is that the Matrix of Leadership would light their darkest hour. Ultra Magnus’ good intentions to open it on Junkion we’re misplaced because it really wasn’t their darkest hour. And later there would be yet another darkest hour that wasn’t purely the Autobots’ but the entire universe’s when the red rage plague spread across the galaxy. The Matrix would be used one last time in that even to save them all.
Yes, these are the Witwicky's. This takes place in 2005. The show starts in 1984, with Spike (Sam) Witwicky and his dad. Spike marries Carly, and in 2005 Daniel Witwicky is their son. The EDC (Earth Defense Command) is kind of like NEST, but with Marissa Fairborne
SWEET! I really wanted you to see this once you started watching the Bay films (I think I mentioned this in one of those) 4:08 - Okay, so here's a brief history lesson. In 1984, Hasbro released the Transformers toy line. As He-Man had done before, they co-launched it with a cartoon to help promote the toys. The series (and toys) became MEGA popular and the series continued. In 1986, Transformers: The Movie was released in theaters. It was created to bridge the gap between the first series of characters (referred to now as 'Gen 1') and the new characters (Gen 2). 4:14 - So Unicron is the devourer of worlds: a transformer who eats planets to fuel it's own continued existence. Although in the original continuity he is a lone evil, in later Transformers continuities he is the Transformers version of the Devil, and his good counterpart is the entity Primus. (Spoilers: Primus is the robot form of Cybertron.) 4:43 - This is the hard rock version of the original transformers theme song. th-cam.com/video/nLS2N9mHWaw/w-d-xo.html 5:50 - Spike and Sparkplug were the son/father team that were the allies of the Autobots in the first generation. They were Witwickys. Sam from the Bay films was an original character created as a reference to Spike, but toy lines of the later films apparently introduced Spike and Sparkplug as Sam's cousin and uncle. 6:08 - Megatron is actually an assault rifle, as I believe we'll see shortly (he was a tank in the toy line). The boombox is Soundwave, who was a communications satellite in Revenge of the Fallen. 6:33 - As I said, this movie was intended to be a bridge between Gen 1 and Gen 2. As such, Hasbro had no qualms about killing off Gen 1 characters. Even major ones... 12:59 - The soundtrack is one of the most memorable things about this movie, and it came about in a pretty interesting way. The movie's composer had an unusual approach to scoring a movie: he would watch the movie without sound and then put in songs that he felt matched the tone of the scene. This lead to many epic and absurd moments in the movie that have resonated through time. 15:50 - Although the early concepts that would eventually evolve into the All Spark were first introduced in Gen 1/2 (The Matrix of Leadership is a big early influence), the concept as it is currently understood originated in the Michael Bay movies. Before that, the concept of 'Sparks' had come into being. In order for Transformers to be something more than just robots, they needed a soul. The concept was first obliquely explored in Gen 2, where we saw that the creation of truly 'living' Transformers required contact with the supercomputer at the core of Cybertron, Vector Sigma. (The Transformers: Animated continuity would combine the All Spark with the 'Key to Vector Sigma' concept from Gen 2, in fact.) The finalized idea of a 'Spark' being a Transformer's soul would first appear in the CG Transformers series Beast Wars (the main influence for the upcoming Rise of the Beasts movie (which incidentally includes a major reference to THIS movie)). 31:53 - So the dude with the mustache is Wreck-Gar, the leader of the Junkions of planet Junk. You might have noticed the song in the background: Weird Al Yankovic's Devo pastiche Dare To Be Stupid. Wreck-Gar appears several times in the aforementioned Transformers: Animated. In that show, as a reference to the original character, Wreck-Gar is voiced by none other than Weird Al himself. 34:35 - Wanna see something really crazy? th-cam.com/video/X8S3y_xxcqc/w-d-xo.html
Just a couple of corrections: 1. Megatron's gun transformation was actually a WW2 German handgun called the Walther P38. In fact, nearly all of the Gen 1 Decepticon vehicle transformations are based on WW2 vehicles. 2. Blaster turns into a boombox; Soundwave turns into a Walkman. Thanks for the history lesson. 🙂👍🏿
@@Termite30nice, you also need to add another set of corrections. 1. It's a gap between the first two seasons of Transformers with the Optimus Prime, Megatron and the rest of the original cast based on the toy line, and the Season 3-4 tried to focus on the new characters like Rodimus Prime and Galvatron along with the new cast, but due to the death of Optimus Prime and the backlash it got from the fans of killing him off, Hasbro relented and resurrected him at the end of Season 3. 2. G2 was the next attempt to release a new batch of Transformers but sticking to the roots of the original Characters in new forms nearly happened in the 90s, but it was canceled and Beast Wars became the new G2 in the same Transformers line with some connections to G1 then and there and despite the backlash of the whole "Truck Not Monkey" idea in the toy line, but the Cartoon would change all of that.
Man I liked it when Jet Fire came flying down and it was bad ass how he said "Let me show you how we brought the pain in my days" I don't know why but that gave me goosebumps
Amusing fact: The song "The Touch" was later used in the movie Boogie Nights as one of the songs Dirk tries to record. I about lost my shit in the theater during Boogie Nights.
I respect the fact that you at least you took the time and watched this beloved masterpiece and gave it a fair opinion. And for that you have a new subscriber my friend.
Yes, Spike is "Sam Witwicky." In the G1 cartoon, he's a teenager. He's an adult in the movie, and Daniel is his son. In the series, it's Spike/Sam and his dad, "Sparkplug," and he's the audience expy, who hangs out with Bumblebee. Orson Welles, who voiced Unicron, performed his lines, and passed away five days, later. His voice was so weak that they had to run it through a lot of synths and stuff to make it sound like that, but after reading the script, he was really down to play it. Fun fact, they threw the "Oh shit" part in there, to get a PG rating, to force parents to watch it with their kids. Which was a bad idea, because there were LOTS of kids crying over Optimus Prime dying, and parents demanding their money back. This caused them to make the GI Joe movie Direct-to-Video, as well as changing Duke's death, to a "coma." It also caused talks of a Jem and the Holograms movie to be canceled. Oh, and I'd be a Decepticon... straight up. I wanted to be Megatron's human pet that helped him with his schemes, when I was little... I had a crush on him, and Soundwave (the Boom Box)... tho Perceptor (the microscope) could possibly talk me into the Autobot side.😅
Kids crying over Prime makes ya wonder about Bambi and how they shot his mom. I guess it's not the hero's parents dying it's more like if batman or superman died.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 Yeah. MC's parent dying is to further the plot. To the toy company, they thought of it as just "cancelling toy builds," when they killed all those characters. They didn't think that kids had formed emotional attachments to those characters.
This IS Transformers! The movies are alright but these are my favorite versions of them! 🙂. It's too bad that this movie was made to kill off all the old Transformers so they could have new ones and new toys.
Dude, you fuckin' GOT IT! That's why most of the old school fans prefer the old cartoon versions. It's mostly about the transformers, not the humans. They all have different personalities and you actually get to see them. And since it was a little sonfusing, Sam is Spike. Daniel's Spike's son. This flick takes place 20 years after the second season of the show.
This movie was actually *really* controversial when it came out. The main reason is because it straight up killed off multiple fan favorite characters and replaced them with new ones. Optimus himself being the most famous example as there was genuine pushback at his death in particular. Add on top of that the fact that not everyone saw this in theatres at the time, so when the show came back and people saw that half the cast was different, there was a lot of confusion.
I love the filmmakers reaction to the whole thing, because they were completely caught off-guard. They saw it as just clearing up space for the new toy lines that would be featured in the upcoming season of the cartoon and hadn't realized just how big of an impact the show had made culturally. The death of Optimus Prime is why we have the most hilarious line in all of G.I. Joe.
Best motion picture soundtrack EVER!!! Leo, I saw this movie in theaters back in 1986.... I was 19 at the time. I won't lie, or even exaggerate.... it's better (IMHO) than all of the Bay live action movies combined. With that said, the newer movie "Bumblebee" was really, really good! If you watch the two close enough together, you'll see a lot of references to the original in Bumblebee... especially the song "The Touch". Which, I'd love to see you do a reaction to the official music video to. While technically it WAS a 90+ minute advertisement for mew toys....it still had a really good story, and like I said, an incredibly BANGING soundtrack. I was a fan back then, and remain a fan of the animated series (Generation 1) to this very day. Oh, Leo.... have you ever watched the HBO series called "OZ"? If not, you should do that one. Great series! As is "Orphan Black", which would blow your mind. 4:45 - OH! While I'm thinking of it..... there's a band called "Cybertronic Spree", who originally started out performing the soundtrack for this movie but have also branched out into doing their own original music. They wear Transformers (Generation 1) costumes, and rocking out on stage. I saw them live this past January, and they are fantastic! Do yourself a favor and look them up on TH-cam. You wont regret it. 5:55 - "Whitwhicky" was the last name used in pretty much every version of the story. Comics, Cartoon, and Live Action. In the cartoon, it was "Spark-Plug" (the father), Spike (the son), and Daniel (the grandson). I forget what the first name was in the comic books, but in the Bay movies, it was "Sam". 6:10 - No, that's Soundwave. Megatron is a "Walter P-38 pistol". Funny thing about that, is that I have the "Movie Edition" of Megatron's action figure. However, because it's older than the "orange tip" law, I can't sell it without modifying it to have the orange tip, which would distinguish it from an actual firearm of the same size. 10:00 - That's Blaster. He turned into a "Boom Box", or "Ghetto Blaster" (which is where the name came from). 10:10 - Leo, both Soundwave and Blaster had "cassette" Transformers inside of them. This is why you should have watched the actual cartoon series before watching this movie, to know all of these minor details. Also, to familiarize yourself with some of the characters who were "killed off" early in the movie. 13:00 - As I said above.... this soundtrack is the best one EVER. I've purchased it in at 4 different formats: Album, Cassette tape, Compact Disc, and Digital (iTunes). The last of which had extra tracks not included in previous versions. I've bought the movie itself in the following formats: VHS (twice... both "full screen" and "Wide screen"), DVD (the 20th and 25th anniversary editions), Blu-Ray. and Digital (iTunes). THAT is how much I loved that movie and its soundtrack. 15:00 - Oh, and I remember being 19 years old watching this in theaters..... and I will never forget the kids whose parents brought them to see it..... and their reactions to the scene of Optimus Prime, dying. The kids literally wailed as if they had just lost one of their parents. Don't get me wrong..... I was sad that Prime died, too.... but I didn't lose my shit crying about it. Then again, these ARE children we're talking about here. 15:45 - Also, THIS is the real reason we celebrate "Prime Day" on Amazon..... Optimus gave his life, and this is how we celebrate it. 16:00 - The "All Spark" was created for the Bay movies. But, if you want to know what it's based on, look up "Vector Sigma" from the original series. 16:48 - No, not Barry White..... but Orson Wells, in his final movie role ever. Look it up. 38:10 - Hot Rod was "The Chosen One" (to use a Star Wars vernacular). If you remember, Optimus chose Ultra Magnus to be his successor, but the Matrix knew Hot Rod was the next in line for leadership. That's why it glowed when he caught it. Hot Rod was able to "open" the Matrix, and save them all... because HE was the one "next in line". There is an episode of the Original Series titled "The Key to Vector Cigma" that helps to explain all this. I think it's a 2 part episode, but it might be 3 parts. Look it up, and see if you can find it. 38:20 - Galvatron couldn't open the Matrix, because he is a Decepticon. Ultra Magnus couldn't open the Matrix, because he wasn't the "Next Prime in Line". 39:40 - How appropriate, that Unicron destroyed Cybertron's moons, then his head became the only remaining moon of Cybertron.
Favourite scene in the movie, that closeup of megatrons face as he is gloating over Optimus, just broken, chipped, leaking and generally beaten the hell out of.
I love THIS Transformers movie; the legendary Frank Welker as Megatron (as well as my favourite Decepticon Soundwave, Rumble etc) and of course Peter Cullen as the great Optimus Prime, featuring an all-star cast including Orson Welles as the deadly planet Unicron and the legend Leonard Nimoy (R.I.P.) as Galvatron! Not forgetting the AWESOME soundtrack with songs including 'The Touch' 'Dare', 'Instruments of Destruction', 'Dare to be Stupid' and 'Hunger'
This movie, as well as the G.I. Joe movie were created to convince the executives and the r&d department to make them into toys. One man said: Let's make cartoons to sell and hold on to these promos. This is why the first half is so different than the other! And now we know! Also...JetFire had a problem with it's model looking too much like a Veritech!
Man, seeing this movie again just creates a huge soft spot in me for Ultra Magnus. A truly good, humble being with a ginormous burden placed on him, all the while unknowingly not even bearing that burden in the first place. Ultra Magnus was truly a real one and was dealt the foulest of hands by destiny
Watching THIS movie BEFORE Dark of the Moon was a good decision Mr. Video. There are a couple of reasons. 1) You get to see what the OG generation 1 Transformers looked like before Micheal Bay done fucked them all up. 2) You get to hear the original voice actors, like Megatron and Starscream 3) Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron is LIT AF. AND he's also the voice of Sentinal Prime in Dark of the Moon
Auto bot every damned day Optimus prime is the goat he’s like the one guy who pulls the faction made up of good guys into being the universally chosen one, since many in other series go for the evil faction because it sounds fun
I was fortunate enough to find a CD of the soundtrack of this movie back in the late 90s. I still love every song on it to this day. I cannot help but become inspired every time The Touch comes up on my iPod.
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It's not about CGI. It's about story and character and being true to the original everyone fell in love with. This is the one.
although the story isnt exactly the main highlight on this film, the action and voice acting by giving life to the characters are the main highlights, especially the cinematic japanese animation style and soundtrack, makes sense?
Preach Brother
This is far beyond anything that overated hack did in those other movies. The Bumblebee movie is probably the best transformers movie,after this one. We actually got transformers that looked like transformers. On another note,everytime he called Unicron Unicorn,it really pissed me off.
@@MarkDemeowhy don’t you aks him why he do that? 😉
Just kidding, I just laughed along with it buddy, nobody can take away from how amazing this film was back when it was released… and even today 👌
@@scoutart1508 I think the story is great
And yes, this is still the best Transformers movie. Yes, I cried when our boy died.
So did a lot of kids in the theater, some even left the theater because it was too much for them to handle 😢
Both bumblebee and rise of the beast clears no cap
Agree & yes me too!
You and many of us in 86 ✊🏿😂
I cried when Ironhide went, then was very quiet when Prime dies. But Galvatron was the coolest character ever and seeing Starscream turn to ash was amazing
For people my age, the arrival of Optimus Prime on the battlefield, with 'The Touch' blaring in the theater, was the first time we understood the concept (if not the phrase) "Badass".
If Prime has to put boot to ass, you knew things were really bad.
It was first film I saw at cinema as a kid, loved it so much
True
Not to mention da pain with da battle with da song was so epic
"Goodass" don't know if this a thing but it is goodass!!
You're pulling off a small miracle on this one. This movie is NOTORIOUS for getting copy write struck with even the smallest scenes and music. The fact that you have this uploaded to this extent is pretty impressive.
Won't be the first time we watched Leo's reactions in the first few hours, only to see it disappear, won't be the last.
Doesn't seem to be the issue anymore. the full movie is up on TH-cam and like 30 reacts have popped up in the last couple weeks - few months.
Now if he can stop saying 'unicorn"
@@danielbirdhead1239glad I'm not the only one who found that so annoying
Don't jinx it lol
Imagine watching this when you were 6 or 8yrs old, and all those characters that died had been your favourites for two years. This movie made kids cry and if you ever wonder why Gen Xrs are so disillusioned and unfeeling, it's because we grew up watching our heroes die.
I was confused as a kid...🔴Sideswipe and 🟡 Sunstreaker (my faves) didn't die, but they weren't in this either ... OR in anything else G1 after... 😢
I was 12 and thought it was awesome because even though characters I liked died, it made me feel like the movie wasn't talking down to me like I felt other cartoon movies did. Basically why I also loved the cartoon series Robotech* so much.
*(obligatory - yes I know now the history behind Macross and the other anime series they used to make Robotech, I just didn't back then...)
Yeah the people who decided to kill of some of the original cast in this movie was because the new toys they made for the new characters won't selling enough, their smart idea was to kill of those original characters and discontinue their toys, just so kids back in the day had no choice but to buy the new toys, but all it achieved was making those killed of characters and their toys more popular and the new toys sell less, that's why they slowly brought all those killed of characters and their toys back
I was 10 or 11. It still was sad watching this in the movies. But I remember Prowl's death more than Optimus' (Probably because he was the first (well 2nd) to go. Brawn's was more ambiguous, but Prowl's mouth belching smoke was shocking!
I was 10 and trust me I agree. We grew up KNOWING nothing last forever, and heroes did die. We lived like it as well, tomorrow wasn't promised, so love what your doing today...just make damn sure your home by the street lights turning on!!
Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles. Who was in damn near everything for a while in the 20th Century. But most people know him from 'Citizen Kane'. Galvatron was voiced by Leonard Nimoy. Who was the Vulcan, Spock, on the original 'Star Trek'. His first day of recording, he showed up an hour early to warm up by doing vocal scales in the men's room.
And that junk collector Leo can't understand was voiced by Eric Idle, one of the Monty Python.
It really pained me when Mr Video thought Orson Wells sounds like Barry White! Hehe!
Orson Welles last role ever
@@jeremyryan770 Yes. He died 3 days after recording
@@SJHFoto Some of Unicron's lines needed re-recording after Wells had passed, so they asked Leonard Nimoy to fill in. Nimoy would later return to the franchise in the live-action movies as Sentinel Prime.
Cool reaction. To answer your questions, this movie was made as a 20 year time jump from the original cartoon's first 65 episodes which was followed up with a third season taking place after the movie. Spike was renamed Sam in the live action films and the alt modes were changed quite a bit.
The matrix is not only for the Autobots. It is the Cybertronian matrix. It only opens when all Cybertronian life works together. Hence the "till all are one" quote. It opens one other time in the series when a plague infected all humans and nearly all Transformers.
This movie served as a bridge between seasons 2 and 3 of the show. The first two battles wipe out nearly every transformer from the first 2 seasons and introduced the new characters/toys from season 3.
Imagine being a kid watching this in the theater and having all your heroes die. It was pretty devastating.
Transformers is one of my top 10 favorite cartoons of all time. And this animated film is pure gold. Great reaction bro! 👍🏿
@@Nashalbeth There's a perfect explanation for why they're killed in this one. It's because YOU didn't buy enough of their toys, so they had to be... removed, permanently... for a new line of toys to be sold.
@@alexanderstavroulakis335,For one there toy's were limited releases in region's. Two in the toy's that made us on Netflix tell part of the story that some of those executives were fired way too late. Some right after the death of Prime.
@@johnwdunawayjr901 r/whoosh
80s cartoons where the best! GI Joe, Thundercats, Robotech, Galaxy Rangers, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Voltron, and of course, The Transformers...rocked the scene back in the day! Couldn't wait to get home from school to see this awesome animation!
Visionaries, and TMNT.
It's hard to appreciate this if you weren't a fan of the 80's cartoon and toys (as I was), but the death of Optimus Prime particularly, and of so many other original characters, was shocking to me as a 10 year old! I now see it as a vehicle to clear out the old characters so they could introduce new ones and sell more toys (80's cartoons were almost universally commercials for toys), but they at least made a hell of a story out of it! I still love this movie, all these years later - they got legit voice actors for the new roles (this was actually film legend Orson Welles's last role) and put some banger songs in to pump the audience up (Stan Bush's "You Got the Touch" and "Dare", as well as Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" are the highlights for me)!
I felt the same way about the other Transformer Movies making humans too much a part of the story. The humans are support characters at best, it's all about the Transformers themselves.
Yes!🎉
Yeah. Why are we supposed to care about some moron trying to get laid, when there are a bunch of giant, sentient, alien, robots, FIGHTING over there?! I don't care about the side characters, show me the robot STARS!
Hell that’s WHY they pitched the story of the transformers. The toys weren’t just a product, but characters, like they could really exist with their own hopes and ideas. They were the main characters, not some human.
This movie is goated. The music, action, dialogue. Megatron and Optimus have such good lines.
That one scene gets me every time
Edit: also anyone else love the old GI Joe animated movie ?? So good
Yeah. GI Joe, this one and Master of the Universe live action. Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and Frank Langella's Skeletor.
I remember the Transformers story line got weird with the Quintesson. GI Joe got weird seeing where Cobra Commander came from.
I don't remember if He-Man got weird but live action was weird enough. I guess ya couldn't call it good but it was there.
G.I. Joe awesome movie
Transformers and GI Joe the movies have the best dialogues. These cartoons teaching us cool lines at an early age.
In the GIJOE movie Duke ended up living because of the backlash to the death of Optimus Prime.
Spike, the guy with Bumblebee, was the 80's show's equivalent of Sam Witwicky. He is Spike Witwicky, and they do have his dad in the original show too. The film was 20 years after the original show so teenage Spike was fully grown up and we got to see his kid Daniel.
I loved this movie as a kid and it (mostly) holds up well today. I don't think any of the live action films have quite captured the feel of this. It had heart, action, a great soundtrack, shock and awe, deaths, etc...
Even all the random autobot/decepticon corpses you see throughout the battle at Autobot city were the main characters for the original 2 seasons of the show so as an 80s kid, it was wild to see all the heros and villains die, badly, in the first 20-30 minutes.
P.s our host asked why hotrod,he was the chosen one.see the seasons after the movie event.
@@c.glazercrush3994 i'd argue it was hotrod because he was pure of heart in a way that Magnus wasn't. Ultra Magnus was a soldier, and we saw it time and time again.
at one point in the film, he thinks cup, hot rod and the dino bots die in an explosion and he's like "I cant deal with that now". Imagine HotRod saying that about Magnus and the others, we just can't because it's not in his character. He was more of a childlike optimus prime, than ultra magnus was, but the movie uses very clever misdirection with Ultra Magnus to make us think Hot Rod isn't all that special until he is
It was gut wrenching. I had already decided to stop buying any new Transformers before I saw the movie. My cousin got me Scourge and my mother got me Hot Rod. So after the movie I was happy for Hot Rod.
The numbers for Hot Rod were extremely high. Even better than Megatron. The only Transformer with higher technical specification numbers than "Roddy" was Optimus Prime.
Although I didn't have Ultra Magnus so I don't know if he was higher. Same with Galvatron and Cyclonus.
Anyway I can totally understand that it was Hod Rod's destiny.
Best soundtrack ever! I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out. I was 11. The whole audience cheered throughout the film and it was an awesome experience. I'll never forget it
This movie takes place between seasons of the original cartoon. After this Megatron was refitted into galvatron and Rodimus Prime leads the Autobots. However Optimus does return from the dead and it is scary AF. He was gray with red eyes and attacked his own autobots when he awakened. Sort of like Superman in the Justice League movie.
That's not true about Optimus. You're mixing the episode up. He was the only one not infected with hate from cosmic dust. He once again had to save everyone from themselves. Sorry to be that nerd, but the cartoons were my shit.
@@Dyrtbag68 when they find him in his tomb he's grayed out and his eyes are red when he awakens. I know that happened. The resurrection of Optimus was part of the powermasters toy marketing.
@@Dyrtbag68 Optimus returned twice: once in the episode Kiosk mentioned and then at the end of Gen 2 with the Hate Plague.
Yeah, the episode w the scary Prime is called Dark Awakening. It's a little before the Return of Optimus Prime
@@The_Kioskhe wasn't grey in that epsoide he is his normal red juat looks bit battered but by end he is in right state. He is only grey in the movie.
This movie was a major part of my childhood. It's so good seeing younger generations discovering it. And it's soooo much better than the live action Transformers stuff.
"PRIME gote shot 9 times. He is 50 cent now". Killed me! This cartoon is my life. I'm almost 40. Watched it +30 times during whole life. Some scenes giving me same goosebumps as when i was watching it being 6-7 years old!
Transformers is just magic like that. Nothing else comes close. Till All Are One!!!
This IS the best Transformers, My brother and I both loved this movie as children. One my top favorites, I still have the original VHS tape too. As a child, I wanted to be Starscream because I loved fighter jets😂
Nostalgia levels are over 9,000!!! Bringing back so much. Thank you Mr. Video 😅
I saw this in the theaters and I cried when Optimus Prime died. Many of us 80’s kids did. Because of that they brought him back to life in season 3 of the cartoon.
Prime's death caused a backlash to the point where Dukes death from saving Falcon’s life atvthe hands of Seperpentor in the animated G.I. Joe was changed into a coma. He later was mentioned that he "woke up" at the end of the movie of the movie.
This movie traumatized a generation! We watched the cartoon after school and seeing Prime die broke our little kid hearts.
And that trauma is why they changed the GI Joe movie to not kill Duke. Instead they put him in a coma.
I tried to explain this to my wife and her sisters. Imagine taking the kids to watch Pokemon at the movies and Pikachu dies a horrible death in the first 10 mins of the movie.
For kids of the 80's, like me, this was HUGE! Just about everyone had a Transformer toy. When Optimus Prime Died...all kids cried! We all Cried! Transformers was one of the top Cartoons on tv, along with GI: Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Real ghostbusters! This was OUR Saturday morning tv programming, and when they announced a Transformers Movie back in 85...we all got Pumped cause we knew it would be SPECIAL!
wow! much respect for watching old content like this. they dont get alot of love nowadays with all this amazing CGI but people forget everything starts somewhere.
I was 11 years old when this came out. I was their EXACT demographic.
Saw this in theater the week it came out , and cried when Optimus died.
This movie was EVERYTHING!
Same here. Born in 1975. I was 11 and we were all upset about the killing off of the majority of the Transformers so that we won't want to play with our old toys and buy the new ones.
But over the years I have grown to love this movie.
Thanks to Madman's DVD. 📀
Plus one more from 1975, I clearly remember being absolutely devastated at the theatre 😢 I can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie. I still watch it multiple times a year, my son and my middle daughter absolutely love Transformers, my wife and my other daughter's not so much 😂😂 maybe they've not seen it enough yet 😂
They were quick to put Duke in a coma after his fight with Serpentor. Parents complained.
I used to rent this movie every single weekend from the Video-Ezy in my town back in the late 80s and my mum almost stopped me watching it every time because that Optimus death-bed scene made me bawl hysterically for the rest of the night LOL
I will always love this movie. It is the epitome of my childhood and gave me a lifelong love for the characters! Thank you for reacting to this! It's like seeing my good mate watching one of my beloved classics with me! 🥰
Every time I hear Peter Cullen voicing Optimus, my brain reverts to the glory and fun of 1980s Transformers and I want to fight over them. It is not something that watching Transformers for the first time nowadays can understand. I teared up fifteen years ago hearing Optimus in theaters. Thirty five years ago, Optimus was pretty much my second dad.
You hit the nail right in the head. A lot if long time fans of transformers don’t like that the Michael Bay live actions are all about the humans. The transformers has a dope story on their own.
Exactly
This movie slaps on EVERY level. I just watched it with my fiancee for her first time seeing it last week and it brought back so many good memories. What a godly movie.
Edit: Leo, you ask early on in the video if there is a Witwicky in this movie like Sam in the first Michael Bay, and the answer is yes. It's never spoken in the movie but Daniel and Spike's last name is Witwicky
I took my Brother to his first movie and it was this one.... he passed away just over a year ago and he wanted to make sure I got his copy of this movie.
Every now and again he would send me music for my workout routines, and they came from this movie and Rocky 4
My goodness. Transformers and He-Man were such a big part of my childhood. Amazing animations.
Kudos to you to check this out man.
Edit: my favorite was Starscream.
Don't forget Thundercats, Ho!!!!!!!
@@RossWrock Thundercats were awesome yes.
Ah, a fellow Starscream fan. Always loved that treacherous s.o.b.
Give some love for G I.Joe, yall! That cartoon movie was some next level dramatic for my grade school brain!
@@greenpeasuit tru GI Joe was soap operas for kids.
As far as I know, with 40 years of experience on my side, Bumblebee could ALWAYS talk. I can't say 100% for certain, but I think it was the Bay movies that started him not talking.
This is correct.
Yep, Bumblebee/Goldbug always spoke
Bumblebee could talk until the bay verse movies though he wasn’t in a lot of them due to trademark issues (for example hotshot from the armada trilogy was supposed to be bumblebee and they only got those back by the tube of animated that started his proper journey of becoming hot rod
After the movies bee had a tendency to lose his voice but it’s overdone
Also fun fact about that the second movie retcons the first because at the end he gets his voice back (a really bad voice that doesn’t fit him) but they just ditched that immediately
I was born in 1998 and use to watch the TV show when I was a kid, my dad got me this movie when I was 10 and the scene with Optimus Prime brought me to tears. I also recently recorded the entire soundtrack to my phone, it's in my 80s music playlist and I listen to it all the time when I walk my dog.
WOW! This movie was my childhood. I watched it so many times! Never thought I would come across this movie again, thanks LEO!!
Awesome you are watching this!! This is the Transformers I grew up on and this movie went pretty hard for it's time. Early on you knew it wasn't your average Saturday morning episode but later the dark tone did settle down quite a bit. Had an amazing soundtrack as well.
Your totally right - this was less about the humans & more about the robots - which is the way it should be. That's why a lot of us old school fans still prefer this much more over the live action CGI movies.
If you grew up in the 80's like I did, this movie was EVERYTHING! The theaters were packed and when OP died, we all cried....
This movie crushed us kids because of what they did to prime. They even apologized for killing prime.
My bad man I almost skipped this reaction cuz I thought it was the live-action movie, this is a classic movie that I grew up on ❤❤❤ thank you!! 🍿
i feel old, i saw this in the theater as a kid, and watched the tv series. i still have the vhs copy on my shelf. my fav as a kid! i saw they are introducing the dinobots in the next live action film, good thing you saw this version! another great reaction! 👍
The Dinobots were in Age of Extinction 9 years ago. The Maximals are in Rise of the Beasts.
In the theaters when Spike used a curse word. The Moonbase was just eaten and the bombs didn't work.
Yup, same here. Saw it by myself as a kid when it came out and remember hearing another kid with with his mom sitting behind us ask "mom, did he just say damnit?"
The sound track is one of the best parts of this movie. The deaths hurt so many kids which was a huge risk for the writers. Good comedy just great overall. glad we got you to watch it!
I was 10 when this came out, and that theater was absolutely going NUTS during this entire movie. The beginning song, Optimus's song, the fighting man....and when he died OMG....that movie theater turned into a POOL!!! Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles...and Leanard Nimoy voiced Galvatron...it was an amazing movie. God I loved the Transformers!!
Orson Wells, Mr Spock, Eric Idle, Weird Al... the cameos are the best part
Don't forget Robert Stack.
"I can't deal with that now!" 😂
I think the guy who voiced Blurr was in an ad for American Express or something. He was the world's fastest talker.
Leonard Nimoy was excellent.
And Casey Kasem was already in the cast.
Love them both. ❤
Orson Wells' most legendary performance in my opinion.
The music is the best part for me though.
I love the music in this movie. I love the scene where the Deceptions kill Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet and Ironhide. I hate what happens, but that music is so cool. This is a rock 'n roll adventure.
“ Unicorn is swallowing the whole planet” killed me 🤣
Unicron, he kept on triggering me off each time he said it wrong
@@bdel80 Same! 🙄
The autobots dying was a way for the creator to get rid of them all including optimus to make way for the newer characters. Keep in mind that children had never seen any of the autbots dying before so when they began dying by megatron it completely shocked them as it was the very first time that an actual transformer had been killed on the screen and trust me when optimus died it completely upset children and the parents which caused so much backlash on the film. It also changed the ending for gi joe which instead of killing duke they put him in a coma. Transformers 1986 shocked the generation so much
oh wow. Never expected to see one of the reactors I watch watching this... this was my favorite movie when I was a kid. Watched the VHS so many damn times the tape broke. Still have the whole movie memorized verbatim and can recite it on command. Way way better than any of the Michael Bay movies, IMO. One of the first animated movies with an all-star cast... Orson Welles, Hollywood legend, did the voice for Unicron for most of the movie but actually passed away during production and Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Spock) filled in for him for the remainder of his lines and also did the voice of Galvatron. Lionel Stander (Kup) was another long-time Hollywood star. John Moschita (known as the Micro Machine man and world record holder for fastest talker) voice Blurr. Judd Nelson of the Breakfast Club and Hollywood's "Brat Pack" did Hot Rod. Legendary voice actor Peter Cullen was always the voice of Optimus Prime... he reprises his role in the Bayformers movies. I think Optimus Prime dying in this was the first time I saw my mom cry watching a movie. They killed off damn near all of the old Transformers characters to make room for new toys... pretty brutal for a kids' movie.
Saw this in the theater when I was a kid. It’s still one of my favorites.
This is it! The ultimate transformer movie! I was born in 96 and I had this movie memorize to the bone. We want that, but live action.
I said the same thing....THIS IS IT!😂😂
Watching the cartoons growing up seeing my favorites from the show just dieing was to much to handle as a kid. Fighting under water and deserts and near death battles was amazing over the years. Seeing them die in the movie in theaters you new it was the end of a era.
I saw this in theaters when it came out. Kids were BAWLING during the slaughter on the ship and then the death of Optimus... lot of therapists had new clients thanks to this movie.
HELL TO THE FUCK YEAH! Mad respect to reacting to the OG movie. Crazy thing about this film was that when it was a tv show nobody ever died and lived to the next day, its a kids show so of course. Then this comes out and they start killing of characters left and right! Kids who went to the movies were devestated it was messed up man lol.
I was 6. Fucked me up.
I was 9 & i fucking loved it! Changed my life forever!
The Best Transformer Movie of all time.
As a kid, I would wake up at about 05:00 and go downstairs put the VHS in, and put on my headphones. I must have watched this movie close to 100 times.
I had the original Megatron toy that transformed into a very realistic looking Walther P38 pistol... got stopped by a cop once walking through my neighborhood with it... they would never allow a toy like that to be made today, that's why they changed Megatron into a tank (and in the Michael Bay Fakeformers movies... he's like a space jet or something, I dunno..)
I had heard stories of liquor stores getting robbed with Megatron.
Blurr was voiced by John Moschitta Jr, the Guiness world record holder for World's Fastest Talker. You might recognize him if you've ever seen commercials for Micro Machines. In 2007, Mr Moschitta reprised his role in Transformers Animated for that show's depiction of Blurr.
He's not sped up artificially, the dude just talks that fast, and it's incredible every time.
In season 3 of the cartoon, his head was orbiting Cybertron, acting as an artificial moon. The episode Call of the Primitives details Unicron’s origins and as to why he was made and the possible origin of The Matrix of Leadership
46 year old man here still teary eyed when we lost Prime. Ain't that a Bitch? Still one of the best soundtracks of the 80's.
After they killed Optimus in an attempt to market new toys, the toy line died and kids were super sad. So sad that they brought Optimus back to life in the show.
This is the definitive Transformers film to me, from the soundtrack to the animation. For many of us 80s kids, this was our first time seeing not only cartoon characters die for the first time ever, but many of our favorite characters. It was a traumatic experience, lol.
Thanks for reacting to this 🙏 So many people on youtube are following trends and watching what's "safe". But safe is often the most dangerous plan, and we don't get to see classics like this one. Keep setting the trends
Here, here. Yes I am so happy that someone is discovering such a great piece of Earth history.
This movie changed our lives.
I have to remember my age and not be shocked that people still have never seen this movie. I was lucky enough to see this opening satin theaters! So yea-this is the BEST TF Movie ever. Timeless 80’s metal rock/Synth classic that was ahead of its time for 86’
Casey Kasem voiced Cliffjumper and it's funny he did the countdown when Kasem was famous for his top 40 countdowns. I love the All Star cast this movie had.
Casey Kasem counting down the hits.
I love that he, Cliffjumper did the countdown.
I recently found out that he did many other cartoon voices including Mark from Battle of the Planets.
I have seen this movie literally over 100 times since I was a kid and saw it in theaters. I was a huge original transformers cartoon fan and still am. This movie blew my 8 year old mind when it came out.
The Matrix opened up for Hot Rod because the Matrix chose him, not Ultra Magnus. You have to know (and the series only really explains it and not the movie) that the Matrix is filled with the concious memories of ALL previous Autobot leaders going back to the first and it has somewhat of a will of its own.
Love watching these reaction videos to the first time viewings of the 86 Movie! You had me laughing hysterically when you realized his name was actually Unicron!
And Sam Witwicky is the movie version of Spike Witwicky, who was a teenager/young adult in the first 2 seasons of the Transformers Cartoon (1984). This movie took place 20-21 years later in 2005
I wish more transformers movies were like this.
This movie is iconic, and such an amazing piece of my childhood. I've got this on DVD, and I've got the soundtrack somewhere. Also, the list of voice actors is amazing.
When my husband and I went to see Transformers in theaters and the voice-over started, I legit grabbed him by the shoulder and started shaking him. "It's Optimus Prime!"
He hadn't watched the cartoon, so wanted to know how I knew.
"Because it's HIM!" 😂 Peter Cullen is a legend.
Now you gotta do Tron (1982). Transformers hit big back in the day, and this was the peak. Best music, best animation, actual big name stars. To answer your question, yes... they are Witwicky... witwi... Sam was originally Spike Witwicky, and his dad Sparkplug. Needless to say those names didn't stand up in the films because they sound odd outside a cartoon.
I LOVED Tron. After I saw it in the movies, I used to pretend that the programs were in the Galaga game I played at my local arcade
This was when it was about story and feeling. I still got this on vhs
and DVD.
This movie was great I remember kids crying in the theater after prime died. Hasbro had to bring him back due to the massive backlash
The legend is that the Matrix of Leadership would light their darkest hour. Ultra Magnus’ good intentions to open it on Junkion we’re misplaced because it really wasn’t their darkest hour. And later there would be yet another darkest hour that wasn’t purely the Autobots’ but the entire universe’s when the red rage plague spread across the galaxy. The Matrix would be used one last time in that even to save them all.
Yes, these are the Witwicky's. This takes place in 2005.
The show starts in 1984, with Spike (Sam) Witwicky and his dad. Spike marries Carly, and in 2005 Daniel Witwicky is their son.
The EDC (Earth Defense Command) is kind of like NEST, but with Marissa Fairborne
Always bothered me how we know Sam is dead from "The last witwicky" comment, but we have NO IDEA how the family line ended.
SWEET! I really wanted you to see this once you started watching the Bay films (I think I mentioned this in one of those)
4:08 - Okay, so here's a brief history lesson. In 1984, Hasbro released the Transformers toy line. As He-Man had done before, they co-launched it with a cartoon to help promote the toys. The series (and toys) became MEGA popular and the series continued. In 1986, Transformers: The Movie was released in theaters. It was created to bridge the gap between the first series of characters (referred to now as 'Gen 1') and the new characters (Gen 2).
4:14 - So Unicron is the devourer of worlds: a transformer who eats planets to fuel it's own continued existence. Although in the original continuity he is a lone evil, in later Transformers continuities he is the Transformers version of the Devil, and his good counterpart is the entity Primus. (Spoilers: Primus is the robot form of Cybertron.)
4:43 - This is the hard rock version of the original transformers theme song. th-cam.com/video/nLS2N9mHWaw/w-d-xo.html
5:50 - Spike and Sparkplug were the son/father team that were the allies of the Autobots in the first generation. They were Witwickys. Sam from the Bay films was an original character created as a reference to Spike, but toy lines of the later films apparently introduced Spike and Sparkplug as Sam's cousin and uncle.
6:08 - Megatron is actually an assault rifle, as I believe we'll see shortly (he was a tank in the toy line). The boombox is Soundwave, who was a communications satellite in Revenge of the Fallen.
6:33 - As I said, this movie was intended to be a bridge between Gen 1 and Gen 2. As such, Hasbro had no qualms about killing off Gen 1 characters. Even major ones...
12:59 - The soundtrack is one of the most memorable things about this movie, and it came about in a pretty interesting way. The movie's composer had an unusual approach to scoring a movie: he would watch the movie without sound and then put in songs that he felt matched the tone of the scene. This lead to many epic and absurd moments in the movie that have resonated through time.
15:50 - Although the early concepts that would eventually evolve into the All Spark were first introduced in Gen 1/2 (The Matrix of Leadership is a big early influence), the concept as it is currently understood originated in the Michael Bay movies. Before that, the concept of 'Sparks' had come into being. In order for Transformers to be something more than just robots, they needed a soul. The concept was first obliquely explored in Gen 2, where we saw that the creation of truly 'living' Transformers required contact with the supercomputer at the core of Cybertron, Vector Sigma. (The Transformers: Animated continuity would combine the All Spark with the 'Key to Vector Sigma' concept from Gen 2, in fact.) The finalized idea of a 'Spark' being a Transformer's soul would first appear in the CG Transformers series Beast Wars (the main influence for the upcoming Rise of the Beasts movie (which incidentally includes a major reference to THIS movie)).
31:53 - So the dude with the mustache is Wreck-Gar, the leader of the Junkions of planet Junk. You might have noticed the song in the background: Weird Al Yankovic's Devo pastiche Dare To Be Stupid. Wreck-Gar appears several times in the aforementioned Transformers: Animated. In that show, as a reference to the original character, Wreck-Gar is voiced by none other than Weird Al himself.
34:35 - Wanna see something really crazy? th-cam.com/video/X8S3y_xxcqc/w-d-xo.html
Just a couple of corrections:
1. Megatron's gun transformation was actually a WW2 German handgun called the Walther P38. In fact, nearly all of the Gen 1 Decepticon vehicle transformations are based on WW2 vehicles.
2. Blaster turns into a boombox; Soundwave turns into a Walkman.
Thanks for the history lesson. 🙂👍🏿
@@Termite30 Not a gun guy, so I didn't know the details. Also, good catch on the walkman.
@@legionaireb Thanks. You did the heavy lifting, but I was happy to contribute a little something.
@@Termite30nice, you also need to add another set of corrections.
1. It's a gap between the first two seasons of Transformers with the Optimus Prime, Megatron and the rest of the original cast based on the toy line, and the Season 3-4 tried to focus on the new characters like Rodimus Prime and Galvatron along with the new cast, but due to the death of Optimus Prime and the backlash it got from the fans of killing him off, Hasbro relented and resurrected him at the end of Season 3.
2. G2 was the next attempt to release a new batch of Transformers but sticking to the roots of the original Characters in new forms nearly happened in the 90s, but it was canceled and Beast Wars became the new G2 in the same Transformers line with some connections to G1 then and there and despite the backlash of the whole "Truck Not Monkey" idea in the toy line, but the Cartoon would change all of that.
This was my Red Wedding. Saturday morning 1986....I was traumatized seeing all my boys go down.
Ironhide was a rough one for me
They did Wheeljack dirty. Major character early in the cartoon, they just casually show us his dead carcass after killing him offscreen. Oof.
At least Wheeljack was shown, Hound was in like two frames of the movie
The original Transformers cartoon aired each weekday afternoons. It was the bomb. ✌️
Man I liked it when Jet Fire came flying down and it was bad ass how he said "Let me show you how we brought the pain in my days" I don't know why but that gave me goosebumps
Amusing fact: The song "The Touch" was later used in the movie Boogie Nights as one of the songs Dirk tries to record. I about lost my shit in the theater during Boogie Nights.
I respect the fact that you at least you took the time and watched this beloved masterpiece and gave it a fair opinion. And for that you have a new subscriber my friend.
this is what the new movies lack. Its not a human and transformers franchise, its a transformers one. This is the core of what the series should be.
The animated transformer's story lines were so much better than the CGI transformers
Yes, Spike is "Sam Witwicky." In the G1 cartoon, he's a teenager. He's an adult in the movie, and Daniel is his son. In the series, it's Spike/Sam and his dad, "Sparkplug," and he's the audience expy, who hangs out with Bumblebee.
Orson Welles, who voiced Unicron, performed his lines, and passed away five days, later. His voice was so weak that they had to run it through a lot of synths and stuff to make it sound like that, but after reading the script, he was really down to play it.
Fun fact, they threw the "Oh shit" part in there, to get a PG rating, to force parents to watch it with their kids. Which was a bad idea, because there were LOTS of kids crying over Optimus Prime dying, and parents demanding their money back. This caused them to make the GI Joe movie Direct-to-Video, as well as changing Duke's death, to a "coma." It also caused talks of a Jem and the Holograms movie to be canceled.
Oh, and I'd be a Decepticon... straight up. I wanted to be Megatron's human pet that helped him with his schemes, when I was little... I had a crush on him, and Soundwave (the Boom Box)... tho Perceptor (the microscope) could possibly talk me into the Autobot side.😅
Kids crying over Prime makes ya wonder about Bambi and how they shot his mom. I guess it's not the hero's parents dying it's more like if batman or superman died.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 Yeah. MC's parent dying is to further the plot. To the toy company, they thought of it as just "cancelling toy builds," when they killed all those characters. They didn't think that kids had formed emotional attachments to those characters.
This IS Transformers! The movies are alright but these are my favorite versions of them! 🙂. It's too bad that this movie was made to kill off all the old Transformers so they could have new ones and new toys.
Dude, you fuckin' GOT IT! That's why most of the old school fans prefer the old cartoon versions. It's mostly about the transformers, not the humans. They all have different personalities and you actually get to see them. And since it was a little sonfusing, Sam is Spike. Daniel's Spike's son. This flick takes place 20 years after the second season of the show.
This movie was actually *really* controversial when it came out.
The main reason is because it straight up killed off multiple fan favorite characters and replaced them with new ones. Optimus himself being the most famous example as there was genuine pushback at his death in particular.
Add on top of that the fact that not everyone saw this in theatres at the time, so when the show came back and people saw that half the cast was different, there was a lot of confusion.
I love the filmmakers reaction to the whole thing, because they were completely caught off-guard. They saw it as just clearing up space for the new toy lines that would be featured in the upcoming season of the cartoon and hadn't realized just how big of an impact the show had made culturally.
The death of Optimus Prime is why we have the most hilarious line in all of G.I. Joe.
Because ultra Magnus tried opening it when it wasn't their darkest hour, rodimus prime opened it when it was the darkest hour
Best motion picture soundtrack EVER!!!
Leo, I saw this movie in theaters back in 1986.... I was 19 at the time. I won't lie, or even exaggerate.... it's better (IMHO) than all of the Bay live action movies combined. With that said, the newer movie "Bumblebee" was really, really good! If you watch the two close enough together, you'll see a lot of references to the original in Bumblebee... especially the song "The Touch". Which, I'd love to see you do a reaction to the official music video to.
While technically it WAS a 90+ minute advertisement for mew toys....it still had a really good story, and like I said, an incredibly BANGING soundtrack. I was a fan back then, and remain a fan of the animated series (Generation 1) to this very day.
Oh, Leo.... have you ever watched the HBO series called "OZ"? If not, you should do that one. Great series! As is "Orphan Black", which would blow your mind.
4:45 - OH! While I'm thinking of it..... there's a band called "Cybertronic Spree", who originally started out performing the soundtrack for this movie but have also branched out into doing their own original music. They wear Transformers (Generation 1) costumes, and rocking out on stage. I saw them live this past January, and they are fantastic! Do yourself a favor and look them up on TH-cam. You wont regret it.
5:55 - "Whitwhicky" was the last name used in pretty much every version of the story. Comics, Cartoon, and Live Action. In the cartoon, it was "Spark-Plug" (the father), Spike (the son), and Daniel (the grandson). I forget what the first name was in the comic books, but in the Bay movies, it was "Sam".
6:10 - No, that's Soundwave. Megatron is a "Walter P-38 pistol". Funny thing about that, is that I have the "Movie Edition" of Megatron's action figure. However, because it's older than the "orange tip" law, I can't sell it without modifying it to have the orange tip, which would distinguish it from an actual firearm of the same size.
10:00 - That's Blaster. He turned into a "Boom Box", or "Ghetto Blaster" (which is where the name came from).
10:10 - Leo, both Soundwave and Blaster had "cassette" Transformers inside of them. This is why you should have watched the actual cartoon series before watching this movie, to know all of these minor details. Also, to familiarize yourself with some of the characters who were "killed off" early in the movie.
13:00 - As I said above.... this soundtrack is the best one EVER. I've purchased it in at 4 different formats: Album, Cassette tape, Compact Disc, and Digital (iTunes). The last of which had extra tracks not included in previous versions. I've bought the movie itself in the following formats: VHS (twice... both "full screen" and "Wide screen"), DVD (the 20th and 25th anniversary editions), Blu-Ray. and Digital (iTunes). THAT is how much I loved that movie and its soundtrack.
15:00 - Oh, and I remember being 19 years old watching this in theaters..... and I will never forget the kids whose parents brought them to see it..... and their reactions to the scene of Optimus Prime, dying. The kids literally wailed as if they had just lost one of their parents. Don't get me wrong..... I was sad that Prime died, too.... but I didn't lose my shit crying about it. Then again, these ARE children we're talking about here.
15:45 - Also, THIS is the real reason we celebrate "Prime Day" on Amazon..... Optimus gave his life, and this is how we celebrate it.
16:00 - The "All Spark" was created for the Bay movies. But, if you want to know what it's based on, look up "Vector Sigma" from the original series.
16:48 - No, not Barry White..... but Orson Wells, in his final movie role ever. Look it up.
38:10 - Hot Rod was "The Chosen One" (to use a Star Wars vernacular). If you remember, Optimus chose Ultra Magnus to be his successor, but the Matrix knew Hot Rod was the next in line for leadership. That's why it glowed when he caught it. Hot Rod was able to "open" the Matrix, and save them all... because HE was the one "next in line". There is an episode of the Original Series titled "The Key to Vector Cigma" that helps to explain all this. I think it's a 2 part episode, but it might be 3 parts. Look it up, and see if you can find it.
38:20 - Galvatron couldn't open the Matrix, because he is a Decepticon. Ultra Magnus couldn't open the Matrix, because he wasn't the "Next Prime in Line".
39:40 - How appropriate, that Unicron destroyed Cybertron's moons, then his head became the only remaining moon of Cybertron.
Favourite scene in the movie, that closeup of megatrons face as he is gloating over Optimus, just broken, chipped, leaking and generally beaten the hell out of.
I love THIS Transformers movie; the legendary Frank Welker as Megatron (as well as my favourite Decepticon Soundwave, Rumble etc) and of course Peter Cullen as the great Optimus Prime, featuring an all-star cast including Orson Welles as the deadly planet Unicron and the legend Leonard Nimoy (R.I.P.) as Galvatron!
Not forgetting the AWESOME soundtrack with songs including 'The Touch' 'Dare', 'Instruments of Destruction', 'Dare to be Stupid' and 'Hunger'
Rumble was always the best for talking crap he cracks me up every time
@@jayconant3816 Rumble was basically the street thug with a quick gob on him 🤣
He said "Optimus pulllin up I feel safer already" LOVE THIS GUY GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL!!😅
This movie, as well as the G.I. Joe movie were created to convince the executives and the r&d department to make them into toys. One man said: Let's make cartoons to sell and hold on to these promos. This is why the first half is so different than the other! And now we know!
Also...JetFire had a problem with it's model looking too much like a Veritech!
Man, seeing this movie again just creates a huge soft spot in me for Ultra Magnus. A truly good, humble being with a ginormous burden placed on him, all the while unknowingly not even bearing that burden in the first place. Ultra Magnus was truly a real one and was dealt the foulest of hands by destiny
"They got nothing on Optimus. Optimus is top dog."
us: [sitting quietly, looking sheepishly side to side]
The shuttle attack at the begining of the movie was basically the Transformers equivalent of the "Red Wedding" for kids.
Watching THIS movie BEFORE Dark of the Moon was a good decision Mr. Video. There are a couple of reasons.
1) You get to see what the OG generation 1 Transformers looked like before Micheal Bay done fucked them all up.
2) You get to hear the original voice actors, like Megatron and Starscream
3) Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron is LIT AF. AND he's also the voice of Sentinal Prime in Dark of the Moon
Everyone can say what they want about the Michael Bay movies, but the voice casting was superb IMHO.
Auto bot every damned day Optimus prime is the goat he’s like the one guy who pulls the faction made up of good guys into being the universally chosen one, since many in other series go for the evil faction because it sounds fun
This movie does a pretty good job as a stand alone, but it is better if you had seen the series up to this point
22:21 I always loved how the training bot cheapshots Rodimus from behind then tries to weasel out of it when he gets angry.
"Time out, time out, time out!"
THIS!!! THIS IS THE GREATEST CARTOON EVER..... !!! THIS IS WHAT TRANSFORMERS IS SUPPOSED TO BE...
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@@markplott4820 good movie too!
I was fortunate enough to find a CD of the soundtrack of this movie back in the late 90s. I still love every song on it to this day. I cannot help but become inspired every time The Touch comes up on my iPod.