A Transformers: The movie poll

[guyjin]

  The first movie (that I remember) that made me cry. Did it you? 

[td741]

I was just shocked about the amount of characters that died (just in the first few minutes of the movie). 

[SuperDeadite]

I don't remember crying (and yes kittens are quite tasty).  What I do remember though was hearing Ultra Magnus use the line "Open damnit open!" Hearing a cartoon swear was the coolest part of the whole movie to me back then.

[Necromancer]

It made me more pissed than sad, so I didn't cry but rather raged "Why the hell did they kill Optimus?!?  This sucks!"

[Joe Redifer]

I don't think real tears fell, but my eyes definitely watered up.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, but I cry at Kiki's Delivery Service so that doesn't mean much.

[MissaFX]

No, I didn't cry when Optimus died, I was still in a "What the hell Rodamus" state.  For months after I saw the movie the scene would play out in my head almost every night as I layed down to go to bed.

...I was dissapointed when Optimus returned later and he didn't hunt down Rodamus first thing to get his revenge.

[Lord Thag]

Ah yes, TF the movie. That was the first time my young mind comprehended that my beloved Transformers were nothing but a cheap marketing gimmick. I watched all those Transformers get blown away, and I just sat there and thought 'they're doing this so they can make a bunch of new ones to sell'. That was officially, when I got off the TF band wagon.

As to crying, no. Mainly because I was pissed off.

[nectarsis]

I don't think real tears fell, but my eyes definitely watered up.

Yep that was me .

[DJLobo]

Yeah, but not too much.  Seeing a lot of the old Autobots get decimated by Megatron was worse for me at the time.

...I was dissapointed when Optimus returned later and he didn't hunt down Rodamus first thing to get his revenge.

I think there was one episode where Optimus came back, but he was evil or a zombie and went after Rodimus. And then in the next episode, they fixed him and he was good or something.

[ceti alpha]

I remember going to the theatre two times a day for a few days to see that movie. It was like a dream come true.

As for Optimus Prime, I shed a tear or two, but I remember a mother had to take her child out of the theatre because the kid couldn't handle Prime's death.  lol

[Joe Redifer]

No, I didn't cry when Optimus died, I was still in a "What the hell Rodamus" state.

This is absolutely impossible as Rodimus did not exist in the movie by that point in time.

I just sat there and thought 'they're doing this so they can make a bunch of new ones to sell'.

That's what a lot of people thought.  But apparently those people weren't around when they kept bringing in more and more characters during the seasons without killing off the old ones.  No need to kill off old characters to sell new ones, they just did it because in war there are casualties, but in TV land nothing is allowed to die because TV is for precious young children.  I think the word "shit" also helped sell the new toys.

[nectarsis]

No, I didn't cry when Optimus died, I was still in a "What the hell Rodamus" state.

This is absolutely impossible as Rodimus did not exist in the movie by that point in time.

I just sat there and thought 'they're doing this so they can make a bunch of new ones to sell'.

That's what a lot of people thought.  But apparently those people weren't around when they kept bringing in more and more characters during the seasons without killing off the old ones.  No need to kill off old characters to sell new ones, they just did it because in war there are casualties, but in TV land nothing is allowed to die because TV is for precious young children.  I think the word "shit" also helped sell the new toys.

How is Rodimus not existing by this point??  He was in the movie since early on, and actually catches the Matrix during Primes death scene.

[Necromancer]

How is Rodimus not existing by this point??  He was in the movie since early on, and actually catches the Matrix during Primes death scene.

Wrong, that was Hot Rod. 

[Joe Redifer]

Rodimus is barely even in the movie for the final 5 minutes.  He has what, maybe 3 or 4 lines total?  What an ass he is!