My Transformers Midlife Crisis

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Published 2019-04-01

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  • Fun fact about the universal greeting: in like the comics or something (I forget where exactly, I only know random trivia about this franchise) is explained that it is a phrase that is universally regarded as so silly and so absurd, no matter what language you speak, that only good people will say it because evil people are too egotistical to debase themselves that much.
  • My 5 year old son said to me yesterday "I love Optimus and bumblebee, they're my favourite" and I was like "yeah, Optimus is my fave, his voice is like a really comforting dad" then I remembered the movie and how I never had a dad growing up. I remember crying for about a day straight after I saw the movie and not knowing why I was still so upset, just getting teased by my brother the entire time. Dads, go hug your sons.
  • Dare to be stupid is punkrock because believing in the good in people is radical as hell even when you're proven wrong repeatedly
  • "we didn't realize that killing every character in our children's show with no death in it would emotionally effect our child audience" they just let anyone make kid's tv in the 80s huh
  • @preciat816
    POV: you are a 6 year old who just finished watching transformers with his dad and he starts going on a rant
  • My friend once said to me, about Transformers, 'what if your Hot Wheels had Greek mythology?'
  • @candyh4284
    looking back on this video again, the concept of "introducing children to Nietzschean morality by killing their idols" makes me fucking belly laugh for some reason
  • @OsirisMalkovich
    The hardest part of the movie to watch is the scene where the Decepticons keep pretending Unicron isn't coming so they can keep making money from fossil fuels.
  • My husband walked in on me watching this, having never seen an Hbomberguy video, and said, "He looks like if Jesse from Breaking Bad cried for like four days." I'm dying.
  • Holy cow that “holy shit what do we do now?!” Is honestly really horrifying to hear in a kid’s movie
  • fun fact! the reason the universal greeting is as silly as "bah weep granah weep nini bong" is because no one in the universe can find it threatening.
  • @ramywiles
    Also, "I felt like I was 19 until I was 26, and now I feel like an old person" is ALARMINGLY accurate to my experience of life
  • @weary4731
    I feel like the message of “always trying to do the right thing on the off chance it works out” is something we need more of in media.
  • @Paradukes
    HB: "A lot of things have happened over the last few years" * Checks the date of the video: 2019 * Me: "Oh, you poor sod..."
  • @WitchyThyme
    So the rhyming Autobot is Wheelie and their Transformers-wiki page is even more infuriating because IT IS ALSO ENTIRELY IN RHYME.
  • @modernenaree
    "be realistic: demand the impossible" - communist graffitti, in france 1968. also optimus prime
  • @mkgriffeth
    I'm pretty deeply ensconced in the transformers fandom and I've consumed a lot of content involving some iteration of rodimus prime. I'm thankful that this video has gently reminded me that rodimus's name is fucking stupid because after seeing it played straight for so long, it almost started sounding reasonable.
  • This movie was one of my fixations as a kid, so hearing you break it apart, and concluding "Dare to be stupid" is an anthem of hope and good leadership. I really needed it.