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hey Allan let's talk about Transformers
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one which I'll say this um I I uh the
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last Transformers movie I watched that I
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like was Bumblebee and I did like the
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2007 Transformers was shab buff the
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first movie I thought was a good boy in
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his dog boy in his car story that one I
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liked and everything Transformers since
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has been
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muddled crap if you have me we've gotten
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very mixed to negative reviews I mean
0:33
they've gotten bad and when the trailer
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for Transformers one came out I Gran
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they're going full
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animation is this for little kids like
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what is
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this shock and surprise how good
0:51
Transformers one is I will even say
0:55
we'll we'll get to the story in a minute
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I got emotional during part of it
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because I mean this is a movie also that
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I think kids will
1:05
enjoy but it's it's also adults that are
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fans of Transformers will get into it I
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know this movie breaks lore for hardcore
1:15
fans right but there are no humans in it
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you start out you meet these two
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miners you
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know uh like working in a cave minor
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working in a cave minor yeah not miners
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like kids but um you meet like uh
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characters that will become Optimus
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Prime and Megatron who are Orion PX and
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D16 they're like best friends they goof
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around they get in trouble together they
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have dreams and aspirations but they're
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lowly you know workers in a mind that
1:53
can't even transform this is the Batman
1:58
Begins of Optimus Prime
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you see the origin of Optimus Prime you
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see the origin of Megatron voiced by
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Brian Tyreek Henry Chris Hemsworth does
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Optimus Prime you see other characters
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too like
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starcream um uh bumblebee played by
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Keegan Michael Key
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and I loved it I was first I was like
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what is this and then I'm shocked I'm
2:25
really enjoying it and you see them on
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this journey they go through through the
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heroes journey to become the heroes that
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they will be in the future this is
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literally An Origin story set on you
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know the Transformers home world and you
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you the world building is
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amazing the animation is very
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different it I thought the music was
2:51
fantastic and Hemsworth as Optimus Prime
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towards the end he starts to get that
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voice that we that is familiar this is
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I'm told this is part of a new Trilogy
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of a story set on the home world
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and I don't know you can you can talk
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about the story a bit but uh it's
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there's so many good surprises Scarlett
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Johansson plays Elita
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one she's very good uh Lawrence Fishburn
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is Alpha Trion the older kind of Mentor
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uh I just I was I've seen it twice I was
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s Ur rised I'm like come on this can't
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be that and look I'm not telling you
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it's the greatest thing ever ever but
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it's the best Transformers I've seen
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since the first movie in my opinion
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Allan what did you think yeah
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uh I uh I actually liked it I know I
3:51
liked it as much as you did uh by the
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way do you know who uh do you did you
3:54
recognize
3:55
Soundwave no who was it uh it was award
3:59
this announced John Bailey yes oh we
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love John Bailey that's awesome all
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right uh I I'll say this um I'm not a
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big transformers fan uh I'm too old to
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have really watched the TV series so
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I've never really got into it um half of
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this the first half of the movie was you
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know okay it's not too bad uh but it's
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not something that's really uh not
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really connecting with it in the
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beginning um and then we get to the
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middle and it was like oh you know
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there's in this movie that I'm kind of
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digging and uh I really like this
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message and and now the movie is just
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kind of playing off of this message um
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and and I'll dare I say this message is
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somewhat timely uh it's the idea that
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the World As We Know It uh who's who's
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the main uh who's the main uh okay so at
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at the world as we know it um uh s the
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the Planet I don't know the terms uh is
5:02
running out of energy that's why they're
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mining they're mining for energy uh
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everyone lives to to basically mine for
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this energy and uh and um Orion Pax I'm
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sorry I'm just gotta get these names
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down Oran Pax uh he's all about Freedom
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he's about choosing uh your own path and
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um and then uh D16 uh there there's this
5:26
turn of uh of betrayal he he has been
5:29
lied to all his life yeah and when he
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realizes he's been lied he wants to
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exact Vengeance and and I'm I'm I'm
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looking at this I'm going this is kind
5:39
of a modern-day Parable and it's weird
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that it's coming out today just a few
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months before this election because I
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was getting a lot of a lot of these
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Vibes of uh of how fascism begins how
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how how we lull ourselves into uh just
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accepting uh the norm you know and uh
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how desent
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the idea of descent and wanting to
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better yourself or or or dream a little
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bit in life uh is is
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forbidden and uh and I'm like wow this
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is like a an oddly good message for kids
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and uh you know they're like they're
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like subverting some really positive
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ideas into this and that's when for for
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me this entire movie kind of kicked in
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um this is this is one of those movies
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where you take your kids to see it and
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and then I would say talk about it talk
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about what happens in this movie and at
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the end and why people do what they do
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uh and the best thing is um you know we
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we've seen movies like this where you
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know in the future these two people are
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bitter enemies and then we see the movie
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uh that take place long ago where they
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were once friends uh this obviously is
6:50
that movie but the way in
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which to set Optimus Prime and Megatron
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against each other uh I thought was
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great uh I I really bought into the
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reason why these two are bitter enemies
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and and it played out so well in the
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story I kudos to the writer um and uh I
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I can't uh for a kids movie I can't
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recommend this higher yeah it's it gets
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into look and to be clear it's not like
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the message is super pushed it's not
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there's nothing about it that's woke at
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all like it's not it's not like there's
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some they're push pushing anything you
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know like a big message there are things
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there there are things that are there if
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you look for it but the guy who did it
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the director worked on Toy Story 4
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inside out like he's got a good Josh
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[ __ ] is the director and wow so he did
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and mean there is one of the I mean so
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it is all also about like going your own
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way it's about Freedom it's about maybe
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not Towing the of what the government
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says it's about a healthy mistrust of
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leaders there's even a joke at the end
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of the movie I won't ruin you know what
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I'm talking about right yeah about it
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that gets the biggest laugh in the whole
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film it really is like and it's not like
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it's like I say it's not forced it's
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there if you're looking for it but it's
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also something everyone can get behind
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was super impressed by it it's got um uh
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I it's 86% on Rotten Tomatoes critic
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score I mean this is one of those uh
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films it satisfies adults and kids I
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think will be into it don't be fooled
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the trailers for these this movie was
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were terrible I thought they really
8:50
misrepresented the film but the the
8:53
result is I mean eight out of 10 for me
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recommended and like I say best
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Transformers movie since 2007 although I
9:03
like Bumblebee as well so yeah I I'll
9:07
just clarify yeah the PO politics it's
9:10
it's about freedom and it's about the
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things that it's it's about the slow uh
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degrading of our freedom the slow
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erosion of our freedom and and how we
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can get lulled in by by Voices by
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messages uh this yeah I I really like
9:25
this movie Just I mean again once that
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message kicks in it's like okay I'm in
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what would you rate it rate it Alan uh
9:32
eight yeah like you it eight out of 10
9:35
eight out of 10 and look I have not
9:37
liked a Transformers liveaction movie
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since
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like like I say since bumblebee even
9:45
before that I like the first one first
9:48
Transformers I like Bumblebee and that's
9:50
about it the rest have been insufferable
9:54
in my opinion this I really love I do
9:56
know hardcore fans will be
10:00
um irked at the lore being changed I
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feel like this here's my here's my final
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thought on that I don't mind changes
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with story lore if the characters are
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true to like who we know they are and
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the
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evolution of you know uh the evolution
10:25
of seeing Optimus Prime come into his
10:28
own from he's named Orion Pax he becomes
10:32
Optimus Prime in the movie and D16
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becomes Megatron you see that Evolution
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it's the character development there's
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more character development of
10:43
Transformers in this movie and all the
10:46
other Transformers movies combined
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because it's about Transformers the
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other movies are the the human
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characters are at the
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Forefront this is really the first movie
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like since
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in a while that the the Transformers
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themselves are featured so yeah it's
11:06
just transformers it's only Transformers
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yeah and look I am a casual fan I'm I
11:11
don't know the all the lore and the this
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and I know some people are kind of upset
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that um the the original voice cast
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wasn't used but they're trying to start
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something new so this is a new Trilogy
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and I highly recommend out of 10
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surprised surprised by how much I love
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it
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