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It sure doesn’t happen very often: both the East and West Coast branches of Binary System actually saw a movie before it left the theaters. But it was a Transformers movie, and the reviews were great, so how could they NOT go see it?
Spoilers ahoy! Listen in as they break down everything they loved (and a couple teeny tiny things they didn’t) about Bumblebee. After that they segued into…more Transformers stuff, including the Transformers The Movie mini-documentary that Kathryn recommends, IDW’s Transformers: Historia, and, you know, all the other IDW Transformers books that they loved.
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This week’s outro music is a clip from the Bumblebee score by Dario Marianelli which, seriously, if it’s one thing we loved about the Michael Bay movies it was the score by Steve Jablonsky, but Marianelli did a hell of a job with the music in Bumblebee.
The mini-documentary Kathryn mentioned is called Really That Good – Transformers: The Movie (1986), and it takes a very in-depth look at how something that was basically a series of toy commercials leading to a ninety-minute toy commercial ended up being so meaningful to an entire generation of children.
The Youtuber who talks about The Male Gaze and how it applies to the Michael Bay Transformers movie franchise is Lindsay Ellis, and her whole Transformers Film Studies series is really, really good.
Correction: We referred to the main character in Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie as Spike. His name was actually Sam. We got it wrong because we don’t actually care.
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