honestly i think age of extinction might be the best transformers film now just because it doesn’t have shia labeouf in it

like i actually really like revenge of the fallen because megatron is trying to blow up the fucking sun and when optimus literally dies fighting all the decepticons at once, that has real stakes, like it’s not the empire strikes back but it has the actual hero being actually {mostly} //dead// for half the film.

also not for nothing but mikaela black widows the fuck out of that movie and nobody likes to admit it bc everyone hates megan fox

like i said when she was cast as april o’neil that my first instinct was to laugh and then i realized that if april as tv reporter nobody takes seriously is what they’re going for, and per will arnett in trailer two that is exactly what they’re going for, then megan fox, who got fired from transformers and then the ad campaign //and the third movie// were about how she was fired for being a bitch, is actually perfect for that

not even kidding, if you watch tf1 and rotf, mikaela’s choices affect the actual plot waaaay more than sam’s accidental destiny

like mikaela finds a tiny decepticon trying to steal the allspark shard and throws him in a foot locker and jumps right on a plane to go save her ridiculous babby boyfriend, five minutes //after// sam whines to optimus prime that he can’t petition the us govt to stop trying to deport the autobots because //he has to get to class//

like sam is tony stark without the dead parents, the infinite resources, or the mad skillz - sam is just an a-hole for no good reason, and the third movie is literally about how the economic downturn has failed to live up to his entitlement complex, and the second movie is about how he just wants to live a normal life when literally everyone would literally kill him to have his

the best parts of the first two movies are mikaela yelling at sam, and tf4 is full of mark wahlberg claiming to be a concerned dad and his daughter laughing in his face. nobody yelled at sam’s whiny bullshit in dotm, and it turns out i missed that.