Hate Watching Transformers The Last Knight: Less Than Meets the Eye

About this episode

The hosts analyze the film Transformers: The Last Knight, discussing its visual effects, storytelling flaws, and character development compared to earlier films in the franchise.

Send us Fan Mail Knights, Nazis, submarines, and a three-headed robo-dragon walk into a Transformers sequel… and somehow the wildest ingredients still feel weightless. We dig into Transformers: The Last Knight to figure out why the VFX slap while the story slips, how the Arthurian hook gets buried under MacGuffins, and where the franchise lost the character charm that made the first film sing. We compare Shia’s live-wire energy to Mark Wahlberg’s steady center, debate Cogman’s C-3PO-adjacent ...

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Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• Transformers
• film review
• visual effects
• storytelling
• character analysis

Keywords

• Transformers
• The Last Knight
• VFX
• story
• Arthurian
• Shia LaBeouf
• Mark Wahlberg
• Cogman

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Books & works: Transformers: The Last Knight

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