Film Room Madness: #4 Back to the Future vs #29 Transformers

[MartyMcFly]

Marty and Doc vs Robots in Disguise.
Zemeckis and Spielberg vs Bay and Spielberg (either way, the beard wins)

Ironically, both movies are about a boy and his car and the crazy shyt said car gets him into.

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Now for those of you voted Transformers into the franchise wars to begin with, were you including the animated movie? Just a thought.

Here's the bracket for anyone who hasn't seen it. I haven't changed anything on it but I'm keeping tabs on my printed one.

For anyone wondering, so far:

• #1 Star Wars cruised in its first round matchup against last seed Child's Play
• Indiana Jones whipped Mad Max into shape, while Alien managed to suck the life out Ethan Hunt and his Impossible Misssion Force, setting up a second rounc matchup between Indy and the Xenomorphs
• James Bond emptied his 7 shots into Neo's forehead at point blank range, something even the One couldn't dodge.

So we've got a week to vote on this one and then its on to the next matchup.

 

[MartyMcFly]

@hex sticky this and unstick the alien v MI thread, if you kindly.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Back to the Future imo. Had more consistent storylines and better character development. with that being said I only liked the first two transformer movies.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Back to the Future imo. Had more consistent storylines and better character development. with that being said I only liked the first two transformer movies.

For me it's not really a contest. Back to the future has the benefit of a succinct story from start to finish and never got the chance to be bloated. The movies are also a different in filmmaking from one era to the next because I guarantee had Back to the Future been created in 2007 instead of 1985, we'd still be getting movies today. At that time, James Bond was the only thing that went on past 3 or 4 movies, at least successfully. Normally, you do your three movies and then you bow out, but obviously shyt has changed since then.

Transformers does have its merits though, at least from an effects standpoint. The shyt Bay pulled off in 07 is still something to applaud and at the time, was the best CG I'd seen since Jurassic Park. That first movie still holds up as just a great summer blockbuster and a crowd pleaser and pure spectacle.

 

[Brozay]

easily Back to the Future

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

It's BTTF easily. Only thing about BTTF is I don't care to watch part 2 and 3 anymore. Part 1 is an all time classic and I do like parts of 2, mainly the beginning and towards the end and very little of 3. Actually I disliked part 3 when it first came out many years ago and still do.

But transformers might have the worst sequels of all time. Hated em!

 

[MartyMcFly]

It's BTTF easily. Only thing about BTTF is I don't care to watch part 2 and 3 anymore. Part 1 is an all time classic and I do like parts of 2, mainly the beginning and towards the end and very little of 3. Actually I disliked part 3 when it first came out many years ago and still do.

But transformers might have the worst sequels of all time. Hated em!

3 holds up better for me than 2 because it’s its own movie and doesn’t suffer from being the second act that seems to exists only to get to the third act. 3 is Doc’s story while also rounding out Marty’s story. The one thing that always sticks out now is how bob gale and Zemeckis clearly had no idea what to do with Jennifer

First they knocked her out then left her in an alley then left her on the bench in a shytty neighborhood for two movies

 

[Devilinurear]

easily Back to the Future

shyt I don't like none of the transformers movies.
I have said many times once they showed me transformers balls I was done with them.
Back to future is a great movie with decent sequels that I can watch over transformers

 

[Deltron]

no questions. BttF is the GOAT

 

[nieman]

For Transformers, I like the 1st, 3rd (very underrated), and tolerate the 5th. I think they forgot that the robots are also characters and not caricatures. Other than Optimus Prime, Megatron, and some extent Bumblebee and Ironhide, you never really like get to know the robots. But BTTF is on another level. They completely recycled a movie and it still turned out great. BTTF has better characters (Doc, Marty, Biff, Goldie Wilson, Principal Strickland "slacker"), Crispin Glover finally ending his beef, Lorraine, Clara - basically every has a story, except Jennifer. I find myself enjoying 3 so much more these days.

 

[MartyMcFly]

For Transformers, I like the 1st, 3rd (very underrated), and tolerate the 5th. I think they forgot that the robots are also characters and not caricatures. Other than Optimus Prime, Megatron, and some extent Bumblebee and Ironhide, you never really like get to know the robots. But BTTF is on another level. They completely recycled a movie and it still turned out great. BTTF has better characters (Doc, Marty, Biff, Goldie Wilson, Principal Strickland "slacker"), Crispin Glover finally ending his beef, Lorraine, Clara - basically every has a story, except Jennifer. I find myself enjoying 3 so much more these days.

3 feels like the movie for an adult. Not to say the first two aren’t but since 3 is really about Doc, it’s probably best to have some age on you and life experience to really enjoy 3. Having been in love and having dreams and some of those dreams dashed and worrying about the future etc etc, 3 just always feels relevant

 

[mrken12]

I really want to hear the arguments for Transformers as the better franchise.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Back to the Future, hands down.

 

[MartyMcFly]

This shyt may be another 21 skunk

 

[FlyRy]

This shyt gonna be more lopsided than the Warriors Pelicans series