484: Transformers: The Last Knight

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: 191 Let's get to the fifth and last Michael Bay Transformers

[00:00:06] [SPEAKER_00]: film which is Transformers The Last Knight came out in 2017.

[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Star is Mark Wahlberg again as well as Isabella Merced, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins and

[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_00]: a few others.

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And the synopsis is Humans are at war with the Transformers and Optimus Prime is gone.

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history

[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_00]: of Transformers on Earth.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw this one in theaters, this was the only one, I guess I saw Bumblebee in theaters but

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_00]: this was the only Michael Bay one that I remember seeing in theaters.

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And what peaked my curiosity was the medieval aspect, I didn't know how much of that

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_00]: was actually in the movie which is very little but that was still at least one incentive

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: to get me in the theater.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And I seem to like this one slightly more than many others do at least on Letterboxed it seems.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's amazing and I think it's definitely a step down from four not to

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: say four is a masterpiece but I still like it a little bit less than four but I like

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: it more probably than two and three.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The biggest thing really by far is Mark Wahlberg instead of Shilabuff.

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I just think Mark Wahlberg not a fascinating guy in this but much less annoying and that's

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_00]: a big thing for me.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're spending two and a half, three hours with someone I'd rather you not be annoying

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: more often than not.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But what I really got intrigued by or I thought about when it first started is there's

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: this huge medieval sequence like this big battle and I would love to see with how he shot

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that and it's so ridiculous.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just it's chaotic.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It is really just transformers but a medieval battle.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think I would love to see Michael Bay do a big epic medieval movie and where it's

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: almost all action.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: It's insane.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that would be whether it's a terrible movie or not.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I would still like to see that as a feature film as opposed to just the opening

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: few minutes because that was actually like really cool.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And then all this stuff with Stanley Tucci as Merlin.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't love that the character is just so goofy.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't really work for me but not a huge part of the film.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Getting into the main heart of the story here, Isabella Merced who really got her

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: big break with this movie and then she was also in Dora and the Lost City of Gold

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_00]: which Michael Bay actually produced as well.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So she's gone on to be in a lot of things.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: She was just in Madame Webb recently.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I really like her a lot and she's very good in this one scene and one bit of

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: writing that I just have to point out especially considering she's meant to

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: be like maybe 14, 15 years old at best.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a scene where she rescues this group of boys like actually they're

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: more like middle school I guess and how they act.

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But when you first meet her she's a super gung-ho strong fighter

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: survivor character and then all the boys who she rescues are very oblivious and

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: not at all capable of fighting.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the boys like the nerdy looking boy is like so what's your workout routine?

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And then she says something snarky to him and the boy goes I love her.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's so cringe especially considering the age of the characters

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and how Michael Bay presents that she might as well be a 30 year old.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But besides that, that whole scene I do like that action sequence where you

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_00]: meet Canopy and then you meet Squeaks, Squeak whatever it is the little

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: bot of Isabella Mercedz.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I think I like that character.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: The run in with Mark Wahlberg and there's that little showdown with

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Bumblebee and he tries to transform but then he gets blown apart.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I love all that stuff.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the look of the junkyard that Mark Wahlberg and the other

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_00]: transformers are staying at.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: We also have a transformer voiced by Steve Buscemi, which is good.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But also the female lead played by Laura Haddock.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, sorry, I have to point it out.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Michael Bay has to make her a bad driver.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: There's that scene that they just had to put in there as a joke where

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: she's pulling into work and she is stopping or putting on the brakes

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and she runs into all the bicycles that are locked up and they all fall over.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, ha ha, such low hanging fruit drives me nuts.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But that character I still like overall.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think she and Mark Wahlberg have an all right chemistry together.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It's nothing amazing, but I appreciate that sort of character in this

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: who is seemingly more educated and sophisticated, whereas Mark Wahlberg is not.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The town attack sequence isn't too bad.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I do feel like there are points where it becomes too incoherent,

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: even for me in terms of the Bayhem and the editing.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Also, one thing I do like not to say that it's groundbreaking or amazing,

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: but I don't mind the look of the villain in this quintessa,

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: like the Medusa sort of character.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the look of that special effects wise,

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: the sound of her voice, that bassy, metallicky voice.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I really like all that.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the look of Cybertron as well.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I do find though it is two and a half hours long,

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: it's a little bit shorter than four, but I feel like when they get to

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the mansion owned by Anthony Hopkins,

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: who is talking complete gibberish this entire movie,

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: but he's still nice to have in it.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like when he gets there,

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the pacing not say there's amazing pacing in this movie anyways,

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: but the pacing even more so really falls off.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like it really becomes pretty inert and they stay there for so long.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's this ridiculous sequence that they somehow end up on a submarine

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and they're able to control the submarine, which is completely nonsensical.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Like how does that even happen?

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I could even tell you why they're on that submarine.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so convoluted.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and before I forget, one small sequence

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: that as I would like to see the medieval Michael Bay movie,

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see as they show in this the World War Two

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: scene where Bumblebee is fighting the Nazis.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see a Transformers film set in World War Two.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that'd be so cool.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll get that one day.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I doubt it, but that was a really intriguing, crazy idea to me

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: that I hadn't really thought of before.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Some other aspects.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the score and really all of these films.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's nothing brilliant, but I still like it.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The cinematography and lighting is good, I think for the most part.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Then probably my favorite action scene in the movie in terms of the direction

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and just the overall visuals of it is the,

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess he turns into quote unquote nemesis prime.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The fight with him and Bumblebee on top of that ship

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: or the submarine, whatever it is, like that cliffside.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that looks awesome and I love the choreography

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and it's really pretty brutal and violent and the camera swirling all around.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I love that sequence a lot.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The final fight goes on as with most goes on a little too long.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind the setting at Stonehenge.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's pretty cool.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And I like a lot of the different little moments within it,

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: but it doesn't really elevate it or save it from being,

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, a fairly subpar movie.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But I really don't think it's as bad as some people say.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't really understand why of all the things this one gets trashed

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and the others don't as much.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So that kind of baffles me still.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So it would be middle of the pack of all the films

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that I'm talking about here, not just Michael Baylands.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Could be better, could be a lot better.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So that one is a heavy three out of five.