20 Reasons Why Growing Up in the 80s and Early 90s Was Best Time For Cinema

1. We Got a GOOD Transformers Movie!

To paraphrase Cameron€™s otherwise excellent article, Michael Bay added absolutely NO kinds of awesome to Transformers. None. Whatsoever. Not exactly a critics darling and labelled by cynics as an extended toy commercial, Transformers was still the VHS I went back to over and over again, and still do (albeit on DVD). I rented it from the video shop (remember them?) so many times I could have owned fifty copies. Released in 1986, Transformers: THE Movie has so much going for it (notice the caps and underline). It has a great voice cast featuring Leonard Nimoy, Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Scatman Crothers, Casey Kasem as well as Peter Cullen and Frank Welker AND Orson Welles in his last role. It has an awesome soundtrack featuring the one and only Stan Bush (remember the scene in Boogie Nights with Mark Wahlberg singing? €Not a made up song - maybe he can do it again in Transformers 4?) and €œWeird Al€ Jankovic. It€™s endlessly quotable. It SPOILER ALERT, isn€™t afraid to kill-off major characters (and this is definitely not part of the whole €˜toy commercial€™ argument, ok?!). It€™s 90 minutes of action, excitement AND the transformers making the proper transforming noise, that no one can vocally replicate, no matter how hard they try! This might, for the first time in this article, be the nostalgia talking, but give me and any other kid of the €˜80s, Transformers: The Movie over any of the drek Michael Bay has churned out of his high-performance childhood-killing machine (with Phasers currently set to Turtles) anytime. €˜Till all are one.