Michael Bay – The Reel World

More (And Less!) Than Meets The Eye – Episode 9: Transformers: The Last Knight

It took 9 weeks, but Ben & Matt finally disagree about the quality of a movie. For Matt, The Last Knight is one of the worst things he has ever seen in his entire life and potentially permanently altered his brain chemistry. Ben contends that while it’s bad, it’s not only not the worst Transformers movie, but not even the second worst!

They discuss Cogman, ‘Hot Rod’ (it ain’t right what they done to our boy), sozzled Merlin, poor Gemma Chan, awkwardly smushing two ideas together (again!) and generally become delirious.

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 7: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Time to dust off one of our favourite debates on this podcast network: Is it worse to be Boring or Bad?

Michael Bay submits his evidence to the latest hearing, Age of Extinction, which literally has another movie tacked onto the back of it. Hard to believe a movie could be Bad OR Boring when it features Dinobots, Bounty Hunters and Stanley Tucci, but here we are!

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 5: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

In which we discuss Shockwave’s cool pet drill, the height of 3D filmmaking, the courting of major name supporting actors, gay panic with Dr Ken, juggling villains, and the ups and downs of The Battle of Chicago

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 3: Revenge of the Fallen

In which we discuss embarrassing reviews from our younger selves, the 2008 writers strike’s impact on one of the worst major movies ever released, Michael Bay Unchained, giant robot balls and of course a Magic Sock Full of Matrix Dust.

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 1: Transformers (2007)

In which we discuss the seeming improbability of Michael Bay agreeing to helm this franchise, everything revolving around a horny teenager, characters arriving in pairs, deploying Megatron so late and Matt’s potentially controversial take on the best handling of a Transformer in a Michael Bay movie.

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 0: Introductions

In this introductory mini-episode, Ben & Matt talk through their mission statement for the podcast as well as their history with the Transformers franchise.

If you’d like to watch and read along with us then you need to watch Transformers (2007) before the next episode, and read More Than Meets the Eye Issues 1-8 before Episode 2.

The Superhero Pantheon: Volume 2, Episode 36: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

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Clearly, this movie should have gone back into the shadows, am I right? Find out why pizza falling onto the ground of Madison Square Garden would only be the second biggest disaster to happen in that building and how Laura Linney spent the money she made from this film. Mercifully, our run with this franchise is over. Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: Volume 2, Episode 36: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

The Superhero Pantheon: Volume 2, Episode 35: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

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This time it’s a full reboot as Michael Bay and his producing team dream up a world where the turtles are roided up monsters and April O’Neil is a sex object being gaslit by everyone around here. Oh, and there’s white washing and cultural appropriation happening too. Listen to Jerome and Brian get broken by this franchise. Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: Volume 2, Episode 35: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)