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WARNING!!!! THE FOLLOWING BLOG IS FULL OF SPOILERS!! SO KEEP READING SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY FROM WATCHING TRANSFORMERS 4: AGE OF EXTINCTION!!
Lets start with a couple of positives of the movie. It has truly funny and entertaining moments. The Dino-Bots were really cool. Imagine Dragons Theme song “BATTLE CRY” was awesome. And… The Transformers battles and the Transformers themselves were much better then they have ever been! And Stanley Tuccie and his character should have been involved in this franchise since “REVENGE OF THE FALLEN” and that about does it for the positives.
The Negatives! Micheal Bay directed it!… That should just about sum it up!
I’m a few days removed from watching the movie, So forgive me if I get my chronology mixed up. We first meet our human hero of the film, played by Mark Wahlberg, who doesn’t even try to do a half decent Texan accent and decides to talk with an even thicker Boston accent. (If that is even possible!) (I also don’t remember his name in the movie, cause I just didn’t fucking care enough to do so.) He apparently is a junk collector who hopes to come across a find that would score him that big payoff to. He and his assistant/partner (Insert the comedy relief character here!) Go to an old movie theater and come across an old fucked up truck. Then we meet his hot daughter played by the girl who played Kitara in that god awful “Last Airbender” movie (Bet those of you who did see the movie, didn’t place her face at first either. ME: Damn where do I know this girl from!? Oh yeah!! Wow she’s HOT!) and we get a quick back story of their family life. Over due bills, dead mom, hot daughter with secret boyfriend and a hapless inventor dad trying to make that big payday and send his daughter to college. (Jeez! I’m bored just rehashing that wait a minute!!! Mark is playing an inventor?!?… And we are supposed to buy that he’s an inventor from Texas?!… Fuck you Micheal Bay!)
Then we take a nice look at the main plot of the film. A shadowy figure, played by Kelsey Grammer. Explains the state of American affairs post Chicago alien invasion (“DARK OF THE MOON”) A covert ops group is hunting any Remaining Transformers, whilst our hero Autobots have been Native Americanized and pushed on to a “reservation” in the middle of the American desert! When in fact, they are hunting and killing any and all Transformers that they find, AutoBots and Decepticons. We join such a group as they hunt a subject. As a shadowy Decepticon looking figure watches from a distance. The Black ops team goes in for the kill and we quickly realize that it’s RATCHET!! Motherfuckers are going after RATCHET!? The shadowy Transformer, Whose face changes in to a Cannon, takes down Ratchet. Revealing his association with the humans and his desire to hunt down and find Optimus Prime. (We learn that he is neither AutoBot or Decepticon.. Not sure if its mentioned in the movie at all. But my guess is, He’s the movie version of a Predicon! For you Beast Wars fans out there!)
Meanwhile: Mark is cleaning up the bullet riddled truck and discovers that it’s a transformer. Upon informing his partner and daughter they debate on whether to do what all the government signs say, “See a Transformer, Say something!” Desperate for money, the partner is all for turning it in and collecting a reward. The daughter just wants it gone. But Mark, for plot sakes decides that before he turns it in, he want to dissect it “It could really help my inventions, if I learn how this thing works!” (SHAKE MY FUCKING HEAD! Fuck you Micheal bay!)
Upon removing a Live Missile that was lodged in the engine, Optimus springs to life ready to start blowing some holes in these people. (Kinda wish he did at this point! Would have made things much more interesting) Poor Optimus is a physical wreck and falling apart. He reveals he was attacked by Humans and he must inform the other AutoBots of this betrayal and get them the fuck off Earth! Mark convinces him to at least let him help rebuild him. He sends his partner out for some supplies and surprise surprise, He calls the fucking government. The Dumb fuck! We would have been saved from so much shit if he had just kept his fucking mouth shut. But again, it’s all for the sake of the stupid ass plot! (FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY!) Low and behold Kelsey Grammers team gets the message and hopes that it’s Optimus. Somehow it takes them only 24 hrs to get from wherever the hell they were to Texas. Anyway, they hide Optimus in a secret bunker under the barn. Shit hits the fan. The Soldiers threaten to blow his daughters brains all over the front lawn. Optimus hears enough and bursts out guns a blazing. Suddenly the daughters boyfriend shows up and a whole “IMPOSSIBLE” car chase ensues! And when I say IMPOSSIBLE, I mean IMPOSSIBLE!! This piece of shit car they were escaping in would have killed them several times over if they attempted half the stuff they did in real life! The car gives out and Optimus shows up to get them out of their! As they hall ass, The “Predicon” Throws some kind of Volcano effect proximity grenade of sorts! And kablamo! There goes our comedy relief! (Didn’t effect me much cause, 1. The dumb ass endangered Optimus and 2. I really wasn’t attached at all!) of course our main heroes were also in blast range but they made it to safety! (That’s heroes 10 Death zero! Surprisingly! Not to worry Death, they will give you so many more chances before the end of this movie.)
As they escape, Optimus scans another truck and gets a brand spanking new look! They ron da vu with the other AutoBots and we are introduced to a brand new set of Transformers, and BumbleBee! Who for some fucking reason still can’t talk without the fucking radio! (Seriously Bay!? Four fucking movies and BUMBLEBEE still can’t talk!? FUCK YOU!) (On another side note.. Where the hell did Half these AutoBots come from!? That’s gotta be the BIGGEST FUCKING PLOT HOLE IN ALL THE MOVIES! Where did these other AutoBots come from?)
We got some kind of Fat Army truck character, an Australian race car, a Japanese Fighter Helicopter, that, no lie. Is a fucking Samurai!(that was.. Interesting.)
I’m sorry but just trying to keep track of all the boring bull shit that happens in between is putting me to sleep. So I’m gonna try to rapid fire through this.
Then we get a subplot that should have been introduced in this way to long film as it is. Stanley Tuccie! The almost savior of the film is introduced as a Steve Jobs type of character that has been secretly developing a new “Product”/”Weapon” with the US government. It’s made of, get this… “TRANSFORMIUM” (FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY! Just stop! Stop already!) It can become whatever you want it to be! A BEATS PILL, or A Gun! (Seriously. He had it transform from a beats pill, in to a handgun… That’s something we need in the market… Fucking Bay..) This character was so poorly written, that its like they changed it during filming. At first he seems like a lowlife piece of shit that would sell his grandmother to put his name on a product and say he developed it! But towards the end he suddenly becomes a hero!? I mean, even the motivation for him to make that change was SOO half ass it’s ridiculous to even comprehend! But, Stanley Tuccie was a breath of fresh air! The other part of his government deal was (which reveals he has a partnership with Kelsey Grammers character) that the government provides him with all the “TRANSFORMIUM” that he needs, and he creates new home grown Transformers! One of them turns out to be.. Get ready for this… GALVATRON! (FUCK YOUUUUUU!!!! MICHAEL BAY!!!) That’s right folks! Stanley Tuccie. Using MEGATRONS severed head, was able to crack the genetic code of the transformers and use TRANSFORMIUM to create TRANSFORMERS! This new breed of Transformers will be lead by his pride and joy GALVATRON! There’s only one slight problem.. Instead of looking like Optimus, like he programmed it to do, it keeps coming out resembling Megatron. (Can you guess where that plot point ends up..)
Whalberg and co wind up infiltrating Stanley’s company and he finds the scientist melting down Ratchets head for Transformium. This sends Optimus and the crew apeshit and they attack the building in hopes of retrieving what was left of Ratchet. Labeling it as a terrorist attack, Kelsey has Stanley send GALVATRON after them. Surprise! GALVATRON goes against programming and endangers innocence to get at Optimus. Eventually they are able to call off GALVATRON as The Predicon and his ship arrives to take Optimus away. In the process, takes The Daughter as well. (Oh yeah! There’s also stupid humans in this movie and we have to give them a reason to get on that ship to do some unnecessary shit!) Mark and crew get on board and go on their rescue missions. At the same time The Daughter escapes from being thrown in an incinerator and spies on the government baddies getting a special “Egg” from the Predicon. (Goodness gracious there really is so much crap going on in this fucking movie!)
Dad and Boyfriend find and rescue Daughter. AutoBots get Optimus and everyone escapes on an conveniently enough extra ship that’s attached to the much larger one. Some scout ships go after them and there’s a pretty cool chase scene. But by the end of that, Mark and Co’s part of their ship crash land so violently it’s hard to believe they could have survived. But it lead in to a very funny moment. The ship lands on a car, and the driver jumps out and says “You had better have Insurance!” Marks look is hilarious! “It’s a fucking space ship! Where the hell am I gonna get Inssurance from!?” Then he picks up one of re hundreds of BudLights that are scattered around, (Product placement!) cracks it open on the guys window and drinks from the bottle, then tosses the guy the bottle. The two groups gather together and review what they have learned.
1. The Humans have discovered how to make Transformers.
2. This “Egg” the Predicon gave the Mercenaries has the capacity to destroy an entire city and the residue that it will leave behind will be the Transformium they need. But, the outcome would not be worth it!
3. One of those little Transformers from the last movie, they rescued from Stanley’s lab. Was used to help decode their DNA! And while he was doing so. He noticed deep inside the Megatron head, was a little of his subconscious that was transferring itself in to the GALVATRON program. He may be called GALVATRON, but deep inside, Megatron is clawing his way back! When asked why he didn’t say anything? The little Bot said (in my words) “Fuck ya Humans! You think your so smart. You deal with Pandora’s box!”
Realizing the danger of these humans possessing such a “Weapon” and Megatron/Galvatron coming back and possibly getting his hands on it.. It can’t be ignored. Optimus agreed to help the humans but said, after this fuck ya we gonna be out! (In my words!) Mark then calls Stanley and warns him of the potential danger of the “Egg” and that deep down he knows that he is not in control of Galvatron, and that Megatron is inside there.
This is where Stanley’s character suddenly changes heart and flips the character switch. He goes back on his deal with Kelsey Grammer and snatches the “Egg” just as Galvatron begins his sudden takeover! Infecting the other New Transformers made of Transformium and turning them evil.
Optimus and the Gang jump on their functioning ship that the hijacked from the Predicon. And head off to some unfortunate Chinese city to catch up with Stanley and get the “Egg” from him and rocket off to space before GALVATRON gets his claws in it. The resulting Climax of this convoluted and unneccesarily long film, does however prove to be the most entertaining and best part of the whole movie! Stanley Tuccie truly shines in these scenes!
The Predicons return for Optimus in the heat of this crazy Battle. Attacking the AutoBots ship and crashing them in the middle of nowhere. It’s at this moment Optimus realizes they can not win this battle alone. It just so happens, their ship they had escaped on also housed other Predicon prisoners! (It’s about FUCKING TIME!!) Enter the DinoBots!! Transformers who for some reason share a connection with Optimus in some way( I think they trying to place them as his ancestors of some kind!) Optimus must fight a very badass looking Grimlock in order to gain leadership over the rest of the DinoBots! It was over very quickly. And that’s when Optimus hops on Grimlocks back, sword in hand, and goes charging in to the battle against the Tranformium Transformers and The Predicons. I will admit I was very stocked by this point, watching Optimus charing in on Grimlocks back really got my blood pumping!
With this unstoppable force, The Transformiums! Went down like dominos. But GALVATRON escaped leaving room for him to return in Part 5. (Please Lord! Don’t let Bay direct that one. PLEASE!! Give him BAD BOYS 3 and make him go away from Transformers 5!)
Then came the slightly anti-climatic battle between Optimus and The Predicon. Mark and Co helped. And when Kelsey Grammer had Mark at gun point. Optimus blew his ass away (I was shocked at this point too. But then I understood.. It was his fault that all this was happening. The Predicons being there, Ratchets death and so on.. So yeah! Kelsey had that coming to him. Even by Optimus’s hand.)
When all was said and done, the DinoBots went off on their own in to the Chinese jungles. The world was saved. But the “Egg” needed to be taken Away. Needing to solve the mystery of why The Predicon was after him in the first place. Optimus chose to be the one to take the “Egg” off earth. And go hunting go these mysterious “Creators”
Then there’s also GALVATRON, who also previously vowed vengeance upon Optimus and the AutoBots… So, yeah he’s still out there..
Listen.. Dispite all the shit that should not be! Transformers 4, was a far more supirior sequal! It should have gone like this! Transformers, transformers Dark of The moon, then T4:Extinction! “FALLEN” should not have even happened! At all!
I’m sick and tired of Michael Bays over dependence on stupid unnecessary shots and camera angles, slow motions and dear god! I’m SICK of all these damn explosions!! SICK OF THEM! My gosh they are not crucial to every damn scene asshole! I know, no one goes to a transformers movie looking for a good plot and interesting dialogs. But do fucks sake we deserve better then this! Micheal Bay did not make me care about not a single actor. This movies script was a total waist if talent! Stanley Tuccie was the best. (If you are gonna go see this movie.. Just watch it for the Transformers and Stanley Tuccie and the visual effects! That’s it!
I am seriously praying the studio decides to get a different director for the next installment. SERIOUSLY! BAY is just trying to kill this franchise. If anything I would hope they do what Sony did afyer Spiderman 3 and completely reboot the whole damn thing.. And quickly. Noose are we fans going to sit back and take this crap they hand us! We want an action packed movie, that at least enthralls us with a good and meaningful plot!
Well, I think I’ve blown enough steam over this movie.. I was just really hoping this was going to be good.. I mean awesome! Then the last….. Just one more time.. FUCK YOU MICHEAL BAY! FUCK YOU IN THE ASS WITH A TRUCK LOAD OF “TRANSFROMIUM”!! Asshole!
SO!! Until next time folks… Peace out!