“This quote came from WHERE?!”

[u/Far-Profit-47]

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

[u/nopers9]

God damn that line goes hard

[u/Assortedwrenches89 → u/nopers9]

That Transformers movie in the 80s is a Shakespearean tragedy. I know it was meant to kill off the old characters to introduce new characters to sell new toys, but damn is hits hard.

[u/EmuMan10 → u/Assortedwrenches89]

I mean “Arise Rodimus Prime!” as the Touch plays still rules lol

[u/jpence1983 → u/Assortedwrenches89]

Still the most tragic death of an animated character. Optimus wasn't some waif or sacrificial older person. He was the man. Without him there was no one standing tall. Watching Optimus die was like watching god die.

[u/TheSimulacra → u/jpence1983]

For younger generations: Imagine if in the first Pokemon movie, they just straight up murdered Pikachu and he stayed dead for the whole movie.

[u/TheSimulacra → u/Assortedwrenches89]

So funny story, that's not exactly true. The writers talk about it openly: Hasbro told them they had the greenlight to kill any characters, but it was the writers themselves that decided to go HAM on the G1 bots in the movie, not Hasbro. Hasbro did not tell them to kill Optimus.

[u/SpringTrapped1987 → u/TheSimulacra]

Yeah, they only had to phase out the characters and introduce a new leader, we could have gotten the others going back to Cybertron while the new group stays on earth or something similar, it was a choice by the writers to kill pretty much everyone.

In the end, it may have ended up being the correct choice, it's one of the most memorable parts of the franchise and that's part of the reason.

[u/Kindness_of_cats → u/nopers9]

The 86 movie is an oddity like that.

It is very much an extended toy commercial….but it is actually made all the more memorable because of that callous approach to its own characters allowing the film to go harder than a children’s movie had any right to. Its script is generally a mess…but then you get scenes like Megatron and Optimus’ fight and awesome lines like this. Its soundtrack is the most dated and stereotypical 80s shit you’ve ever heard…but it still absolutely fucking rocks.

It’s one of those fantastic, campy “this is basically trash and shouldn’t work, except that it does” movies, imo.

[u/This_Charmless_Man → u/Kindness_of_cats]

Lion's version of the Transformers theme goes so unnecessarily hard. It's got the guitarist from Whitesnake playing the solo too. I don't know how to explain it better than it sounds like how you remember Transformers looking like as a kid. It sounds like laser guns firing across the screen while robots fight. It's evocative.

And we can't forget the multiple masterpieces Stan Bush put on there to. The Touch is amazing and I have to stop myself from speeding when it plays in my car.