Transformers Movies and Cartoons on Free-TV

[UltraMarginal]

I saw it in the program guide this morning, if for some reason you prefer watching it with ads and not on DVD/Blu-Ray it's on telly tonight, channel 10 I think.

[5FDP]

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad on TV. My life has been bliss ever since.

[griffin]

With each of the networks now having 3 or 4 channels, they repeat a lot of movies within short spaces of time (it's like repeat screenings on PayTV, but less predictable). Network 7 was playing the Pirates movies a couple times over, while 9 played the newer Batman movies a couple times within a few weeks. (not to mention replaying their most costly shows up to 3 times in the week, and the odd new movie within two weeks on a different channel of theirs)

It wouldn't surprise me if we get the full run of three again, as it was just a couple months ago when Ten last played them a week apart.

[Paulbot]

Channel Nine has Revenge of the Fallen on tonight, from 9pm

[griffin]

That's interesting. Channel 10 has been sitting on the rights for Transformers since the first Movie aired back in 2009 and were playing one every few months... and now Channel 9 has it.

[griffin]

I just saw the ad tonight, and they refer to it being from Steven Spielberg, but not Michael Bay.
As a fan I thought it was funny, but wonder why they did that. Only a portion of the fans see him as a negative element, so to the rest of the world that spent a billion dollars on most of the Transformers movies, Bay is the reason for that.
And it's not like he's unknown, as Channel 9 have been using him to promote their show "The Last Ship", which was done by his Production company Platinum Dunes.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I just saw the ad tonight, and they refer to it being from Steven Spielberg, but not Michael Bay.
As a fan I thought it was funny, but wonder why they did that. Only a portion of the fans see him as a negative element, so to the rest of the world that spent a billion dollars on most of the Transformers movies, Bay is the reason for that.
And it's not like he's unknown, as Channel 9 have been using him to promote their show "The Last Ship", which was done by his Production company Platinum Dunes.

I'm actually rather enjoying watching ROTF tonight - I just go to the kitchen for another beer during the truly cringe-worthy bits ;)

You tend to forget all the cool stuff from that flick (Alice, Ravage, the forest fight etc)

[UltimateGalvatron]

I'm actually rather enjoying watching ROTF tonight - I just go to the kitchen for another beer during the truly cringe-worthy bits ;)

You tend to forget all the cool stuff from that flick (Alice, Ravage, the forest fight etc)

"You'll never stop at one! ... I'll take YOU ALL ON!"
"Decepticons...mobilize, it is time"
"You picked the wrong planet! Now give me your face!"

Just some awesome lines of the movie. I actually like RoTF more then the first one and AoE, it's plot isn't very good but it has some great one-liners and action scenes.

Rather then Stanely Tucci "OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!"

[GoktimusPrime]

The forest battle is even more epic in the extended IMAX version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA-D_Ctfq0M). ;)

[griffin]

Tonight (Tuesday) on channel 99 is TF2 again.... which was what they played last month, so maybe they only bought the rights to that one.

[UltraMarginal]

Tonight (Tuesday) on channel 99 is TF2 again.... which was what they played last month, so maybe they only bought the rights to that one.

it probably was the cheapest.:D

[BigTransformerTrev]

Tonight (Tuesday) on channel 99 is TF2 again.... which was what they played last month, so maybe they only bought the rights to that one.

I'm too sober to sit up and watch it again within such a small timeframe :p

[jazzcomp]

She's a superfreak, superfreak :) She's superfreaky....

[GoktimusPrime]

It's over!

[griffin]

Saturday night on Channel 10 at 8.55 is TF3 - Dark of the Moon.

So Channel 10 must have wanted to keep the rights to the third movie, and gave up the second one to Channel 9.

[griffin]

The 2007 movie is on tonight on Channel 10 at 9.44pm.

[DELTAprime]

With each of the networks now having 3 or 4 channels, they repeat a lot of movies within short spaces of time (it's like repeat screenings on PayTV, but less predictable). Network 7 was playing the Pirates movies a couple times over, while 9 played the newer Batman movies a couple times within a few weeks. (not to mention replaying their most costly shows up to 3 times in the week, and the odd new movie within two weeks on a different channel of theirs)

It wouldn't surprise me if we get the full run of three again, as it was just a couple months ago when Ten last played them a week apart.

I remember back in the early days of Pay TV when Showtime was included in the standard package they repeated movies so often you would be be sick of the movie long before the movie was finished its run.

[GoktimusPrime]

Channel 7 used to repeat TFTM every New Year's Day for years. I think they stopped somewhere around the mid 90s, but that used to be an annual ritual for me. Pretty sweet way to welcome in the new year. :)

[griffin]

The 2007 movie is back on again tonight - 9.30pm on channel 12/One.

[griffin]

The 2007 movie is back on again tonight - 9.30pm on channel 12/One.

I only ended up seeing a single commercial for it, a couple hours before it started (which was why I didn't even know it was on until that day)... and it is funny to see the different angles the TV stations use to promote the same movie.
On a recent screening there was heavy promoting of it being a Michael Bay film, and on this one, the TV advertisement was all about Megan Fox... more than the actual robots... as if people would watch a movie just because she is in it. :rolleyes:

[griffin]

TF2 ROTF is on Channel 99 (Go) on Saturday at 8.30pm.

[DaptoDog]

TF2 ROTF is on Channel 99 (Go) on Saturday at 8.30pm.

Tough slot, it's up against the Return of the Jedi which I will watch with my son.

[griffin]

I thought it was funny last week, seeing a commercial for ESB but still promoting the entire series on Seven... with only 2 left.

[Paulbot]

TF2 ROTF is on Channel 99 (Go) on Saturday at 8.30pm.

Did it air? Because ROTF is on GO again tonight (Sunday 22 Nov) at 8:30.

Some programmer at Nine must really love that film.

[griffin]

I saw that on the program guide today.
Maybe it didn't screen the other week.

[griffin]

And Channel One has TF3 DOTM on Wednesday at 8.30pm.

With Transformers movies currently licensed to different channels it means we won't see a run of them in a row like the recent Star Wars movies (which are going through a repeat on 73 but promoted as a premiere)... during the lead up to the next one.

[griffin]

The 2007 movie is on Channel 9 on Saturday at 8.45pm.

[Megatran]

The 2007 movie is on Channel 9 on Saturday at 8.45pm.
Why can't that be an April Fools.

[MayzaPrime]

The 2007 movie is on Channel 9 on Saturday at 8.45pm.

Cool, should be on the HD channel as well :D

[DaptoDog]

Cool, should be on the HD channel as well :D

I head off to bed tired but still find myself watching the end of it on FTA, despite owning it on Blu-ray lol.

[MayzaPrime]

I head off to bed tired but still find myself watching the end of it on FTA, despite owning it on Blu-ray lol.

I kinda did the same thing... the Misses was out

[griffin]

The 2007 movie is on Channel 9 on Saturday at 8.45pm.

The second movie is on tonight, a week after the first one... at 8.55pm.

[MayzaPrime]

The second movie is on tonight, a week after the first one... at 8.55pm.

Watching it now... while at my parents place :p

[Megatran]

Watching it now... while at my parents place :p
That leg humping scene. >_<

[Seraphim Prime]

I got to my Grandma's place on Saturday to fix her main TV (the one she connects Foxtel to) to find she was watching Transformers 2!

I don't think she was watching it for the plot. :) More for the mindless distraction.
And she was very happy to get back to her Foxtel.


BTW, all my grandma had done was accidentally hit the TV/AV button and didn't know which button to press to get back to it.

[griffin]

Transformers 3 DOTM is on channel 11 tonight at 8.30pm.

[griffin]

Transformers 4 is having its first screening on free-to-air TV on Saturday, at 7pm on Channel 9.
Only 2 years and 2 months after it started in theatres...

(I didn't realise it had been so long)

[UltraMarginal]

I've been thinking lately it's time to sit down and watch it again since I have the bluray and I haven't seen it since the cinema.

[griffin]

Not sure why they started the movie early at 7pm, because it isn't for young kiddies... and they cut out a fair bit, to get it down to PG for that timeslot.

[Bartrim]

Not sure why they started the movie early at 7pm, because it isn't for young kiddies... and they cut out a fair bit, to get it down to PG for that timeslot.

I haven't watched Age of Extinction since it was in the movies and I thought they had cut a bit out.

[Civic Bossman]

So far its been cut to shreds

[tinyJazz]

Not sure why they started the movie early at 7pm, because it isn't for young kiddies... and they cut out a fair bit, to get it down to PG for that timeslot.


So far its been cut to shreds

What did they cut out? I can't remember anything significant that happened in the film in the first place. Apart from Ratchet dying.

[Bartrim]

What did they cut out? I can't remember anything significant that happened in the film in the first place. Apart from Ratchet dying.

I could just tell that the third act was cut up real bad. I couldn't tell you specifically what was missing but it was obviously missing bits... Or really badly edited.:p

[griffin]

For some reason a lot of the robot deaths were cut but not the human deaths. I guess they didn't want a repeat of 1986. ;)
And I was really hoping they would cut the totally unnecessary Romeo and Juliet law scene... but I suppose they wanted to educate the kids who seemed to be the target audience of this particular screening.

[griffin]

One odd thing they cut was the slo-mo car tyre hitting the face of the special ops guy at the farmhouse... a scene that Bay was really proud of in one of the dvd extras, and less violent than the soldiers being blown up by Optimus just 20 seconds earlier.

[griffin]

The 2007 Transformers movie is on tonight on channel 99 (Go). It starts at 8.30pm... which is right now for those in the daylight saving eastern states.

[Raider]

The 2007 Transformers movie is on tonight on channel 99 (Go). It starts at 8.30pm... which is right now for those in the daylight saving eastern states.

Watched most of this tonight. Haven't seen it again in years. Whilst people may criticise the movie for numerous reasons, I still really enjoy it as an action packed, no need to think hard, kind of movie.

[Megatran]

Forgotten the movie plot to TF2 Revenge of the Fallen? Well, it's screening tomorrorw night on channel 99 (9Go!) at 8:30pm. Check your local TV guide.

[griffin]

They must be screening them every wednesday... but without the fanfare of last October, when it was being heavily promoted that all four were being shown.

[Omega Metro]

Forgotten the movie plot to TF2 Revenge of the Fallen? Well, it's screening tomorrorw night on channel 99 (9Go!) at 8:30pm. Check your local TV guide.

Call me weird but ROTF has always been my favourite of the TF movies. I don't get the hate.:confused::D

[BigTransformerTrev]

Call me weird but ROTF has always been my favourite of the TF movies. I don't get the hate.:confused::D

It's my least fav (like most folk) of the flicks but I thought that Ravage and Long Haul looked awesome! I also thought a communications satellite was a clever alt-mode for Soundwave. Nice forest fight scene of Optimus vs Megs, Screamer and Grindor too and Alice was a great introduction of the Pretenders concept into that universe.

Might be a helluva lot of negatives in that flick but some great positives too :D

[griffin]

I flicked over when the aircraft carrier was sinking... and ended up watching until Starscream attacks with an EMP.

As predicted, DOTM is on next Wednesday.

[griffin]

And the fourth movie is on tonight, as guessed it would... but I didn't notice it until just now, after it was already 90 minutes in.

[GoktimusPrime]

Call me weird but ROTF has always been my favourite of the TF movies. I don't get the hate.:confused::D
Watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ik2ikgOyNU) ;)

[Megatran]

The first Transformers live action movie is screening yet again tonight on channel 9 @ 9pm-ish.

[griffin]

The first Transformers live action movie is screening yet again tonight on channel 9 @ 9pm-ish.

They might be screening all four again, one each Saturday, in the lead up to the fifth movie.

Usually they heavily promote these sorts of screenings to cash in on the new movie, like with the Pirates movies and FastnFurious movies in the last month - telling us to see them before we see the latest one in theatres.

[griffin]

The promo during the end credits of the Pixels movie (before Transformers started) notes that the four movies are playing over four Saturdays, which will see TF4 on Saturday June 24th, the opening weekend of TF5.

[griffin]

That intro to the 2007 movie... "leading us to an unknown world called Earth"... definitely contradicted now if the trailers for the fifth movie are anything to go by.

Despite all its errors and plot holes, I still have trouble not watching the 2007 movie when it starts playing on TV.

I will be a little distracted for the next couple of hours... :p

EDIT - the first ad-break had a TV trailer for the fifth movie, and tonight's screening is brought to us by The Last Knight movie, so more TV spots are likely tonight and the next 3 Saturdays.

['07Camaro]

That intro to the 2007 movie... "leading us to an unknown world called Earth"... definitely contradicted now if the trailers for the fifth movie are anything to go by.

Despite all its errors and plot holes, I still have trouble not watching the 2007 movie when it starts playing on TV.

I will be a little distracted for the next couple of hours... :p

So will I. Time to visit my childhood, again :)

[Megatran]

The first Transformers live action movie is screening yet again tonight on channel 9 @ 9pm-ish.
Optimus: We've learned Earth's languages through the World Wide Web.
:p

[griffin]

I started watching the second movie tonight on channel 9 while putting stickers on some Generations toys, and had to turn it off after the Decepticons destroyed the aircraft carrier because channel 9 had totally butchered it. It must be because it started earlier than normal, at 8.17pm, so the entire movie had to be censored of extreme violence... which for Transformers movies, are the best bits (for the expensive special effects). The scene where Optimus "dies" had removed him killing Grindor, cutting off Starscream's arm, and the actual thrusting of the sword through Prime's chest (all they show is Megatron appearing behind him, and then him hitting the ground).
And for some reason, they removed the Decepticons crashing into the Aircraft carrier... but kept in the blood-splattering death of the soldier in the Shard vault near the start of the movie, and the execution of Demolishor by shooting him in the head.

[spiderken17]

I know! I was washing up and said to the wife "here comes the best bit, Prime goes nuts" only for it to cut to him dying. I was like "Wtf?!" The wife went" whats so good about that bit? Boo channel 9, boo.

[Caffinetron]

Haha, you know what the worst part is. The more movies they make Prime goes even more psycho which means there's going to be even more bits cut out of the movies.

[griffin]

The third movie on tonight starts really early at 7pm... so its going to be heavily cut.

['07Camaro]

The third movie on tonight starts really early at 7pm... so its going to be heavily cut.

Bad. I love it how they don't cut the part where a bird was being splattered by Laserbeak...I mean, you could see chucks flying off!

[MayzaPrime]

Soooo much cut out... but not the swearing :confused:

[griffin]

From tonight for four nights, channel 99 will be playing the first four Transformers movies. TF1 will be on tonight at about 9.20pm, while the other three on the next three nights are on from 8.30pm... so there shouldn't be anything cut this time around.

[Paulbot]

Flicking through the guide I noticed the first four movies are on again next week

Transformers, Sunday 25 March 830 on Go!
ROTF, Monday 26 March 830 on Go!
DOTM, Tuesday 27 March 830 on Nine
AOE, Wednesday 28 March on Nine

[UltraMarginal]

That's a pretty heavy saturation, all four movies in a week, only 4 months apart.
I wonder how much 9 paid for them

[griffin]

Flicking through the guide I noticed the first four movies are on again next week

Transformers, Sunday 25 March 830 on Go!
ROTF, Monday 26 March 830 on Go!
DOTM, Tuesday 27 March 830 on Nine
AOE, Wednesday 28 March on Nine

Don't know how I missed this post, as I only just posted on our facebook page, missing the first one. :o

Not that too many here will care... :p

[Paulbot]

Don't know how I missed this post, as I only just posted on our facebook page, missing the first one. :o

Not that too many here will care... :p

I wonder if you'd never seen any of the films and started with ROTF would it make sense? I think that view would be okay.

[griffin]

The 2007 Movie is on tonight (already started in the Daylight saving states) on channel 99 at 9.10pm... cashing in on the Bumblebee Movie later this month.
It looks like they will be playing the first four Movies during December, as it would still be too early for free-to-air to play the fifth movie (The Last Knight from 17 months ago).

[Galvatran]

It should be made mandatory to show re-runs of the TF live action movies a maximum of only once a year.

[griffin]

And the 2009 movie is on tonight, on channel 99 at 9.10pm.

[GoktimusPrime]

Just finished watching ROTF. How is it even worse than I remember it? :eek:

[Omega Metro]

Just finished watching ROTF. How is it even worse than I remember it? :eek:

Call me weird but I think it’s the best one of the lot.:D

[griffin]

Channel 99 just played the 4th movie last weekend, and tonight they are starting over again with the 2007 movie.

[griffin]

Channel Nine have been including the TF5 The Last Knight movie in its latest package of "upcoming new movies" TV commercial that started playing about 2 weeks ago, so it could be on in the next month.

I didn't realise it was now 2 years and 6 months since the TF5 movie was out in cinemas... and yet free-to-air hadn't played it yet. The Marvel Universe Movies, they seem to be able to play within two years of them being at cinemas (like Black Panther - it came out in cinemas mid-February 2018, and was on free-to-air at the beginning of January 2020... and it is having it's fourth screening this week on a Nine Network channel... talk about overkill in just three weeks).


Transformers 4 is having its first screening on free-to-air TV on Saturday, at 7pm on Channel 9.
Only 2 years and 2 months after it started in theatres...

(I didn't realise it had been so long)

I think my earlier posting was meant to be sarcastic, as it seemed like a long time for it to show up on free-to-air, and now the 5th movie has an even longer wait. Usually movies that didn't do so well, are rushed out to DVD and TV to reduce their losses quicker.

When Channel 9 finally showed TF4 on TV here, it was heavily censored due to its early start... but the repeat screening about a week later started later, and was left un-edited.
It will be interesting to see what they do this time - if they start it early and edit it for a PG rating (because TV execs think "Transformers" is meant to be for kids).

[spiderken17]

I still haven't seen the Last Knight and have been waiting for it to come on TV. They keep playing all the other ones and i am expecting to see it coming on as well but it hasn't yet. Hopefully you are right amd it comes on soon.

[griffin]

Well, it's on tonight on channel 9 at 8.30pm I think... with little fanfare as the first commercial I saw for it was last night..
It's like channel 9 don't expect much from it by sticking it on a Thursday and not promote it.

[Sinnertwin]

Watched it last night again as a bit of background noise. Don't really have anything more to add.

[CyberiusPrime]

What really bothers me with the movie franchise is things are chopped and changed at a whim with little to no explanation as to why.

E.g. why would Galvatron give up a more superior body to go back to his Megatron form?

[Sinnertwin]

To hazard a guess re: Megatron, I'd say it's more to do with toy variety, rather than offer another version of an established design like Optimus.

[CyberiusPrime]

I am all for new models and changes, but for the love of Cybertron, explain it, make it a logical change!!

[Paulbot]

Transformers (2007) on later tonight on 9Go at 9pm

[griffin]

I only just saw it on the TV guide on my TV... either I don't watch much 9 Network programming, or they really have given up on promoting Transformers movies now.

[griffin]

The second one is on this Sunday, at 8.45 on 9Go... so it looks like they are playing each one every Sunday, which should include the 5th one at the end, now that they have screened it once.

[griffin]

During TF2 last night, there was a commercial for TF3 for next Sunday.

[griffin]

As expected, TF4 is on tonight... so TF5 should be on next Sunday.

The commercial bumper says that this is a Family Premiere.... since it started at 7pm, it has had some of the violence edited out.

[griffin]

I didn't see any advertising for this one, and only just saw it on the TV guide - the 2007 Transformers Movie is on tonight on channel Go (99 in some places), at 8.30pm.

[griffin]

Monday had the first commercial that I saw to tell us that the first five TFs movies are on fridays... a few days after the first one had screened.
Must be getting close to having the Bumblebee movie on free to air, as it came out 2 years ago.

[griffin]

Just saw on tonights TV guide that the 2007 Movie is on channel 9go at 8.30pm.
Again a surprise to not see any commercials for it, and i only have free TV.

The free to air networks just don't seem to have room to advertise their other programs anymore, because every ad break is filled with the same commercials of their next/current reality show.

[griffin]

The 2009 Movie is/was on tonight.... so if they are showing them all every thursday, that used to be something they advertise (particularly when it is a set of movies each week like Star Wars, Harry Potter, MIB, etc).

I flicked over and it was Sam arriving at his dorm room and meeting Leo, and his mum getting stoned... that was so embarrassing.
And the twins... cringe-worthy racial stereotyping.

[griffin]

DOTM is/was on tonight... so we will probably see AOE and TLK in the next two weeks.
The last time they showed all of the movies each week I thought it was going to be leading into the premiere screening of the Bumblebee movie, as it was almost 2 years old, but this time it has to be showing after the fifth movie, being 2 years and 3 months old.

[griffin]

As expected, Age of Exctinction is on this Thursday.
Same bat time, same bat channel...

[griffin]

The Last Knight is on tonight.

Let's see if the new Bumblebee Movie is on next week.

[griffin]

No Bumblebee Movie this week... ah well.

[Paulbot]

Bumblebee premiers on channel 9 this Saturday at 830. Just saw a commercial for it.

[griffin]

About damn time... over two and half years after its cinema release.
Even though I have it on DVD, I still like to see it on the regular TV for others to get to see it for the first time, or for some of us fans to have it on just because it is on.
The details on the Nine network website (https://www.yourtv.com.au/program/bumblebee/362097/).

I wonder why it takes so long for movies to be allowed to be shown on free-to-air, especially since video/dvd rentals no longer exist, so they don't have to wait for a minimum rental period. The Bumblebee Movie was released on DVD/BR/Digital late April 2019, over two years ago... after a few weeks or even a couple months for those people who were keen to buy a copy, can't it start playing on TV?
They get money from TV screenings, so why wait all that time when they could have been getting this screening fee two years ago when DVD/BR/digital sales dropped off.

[Paulbot]

Maybe Netflix had an exclusive rights deal on it? Those streaming rights and the DVD/Bluray purchase period would replace the older rental periods.

It could have gone straight to Paramount Plus and skipped free-to-air altogether!

[spiderken17]

i have been waiting for this. took its time.

[Jaxius._]

Tv guide has crocodile dundee instead of Bumblebee
Might be because of John Cornell’s passing they put dundee on

[griffin]

Tv guide has crocodile dundee instead of Bumblebee
Might be because of John Cornell’s passing they put dundee on

Yep, a last minute change due to someone (I haven't heard of before) dying this week.

Hopefully they put it on next week.

[spiderken17]

That was bloody annoying. Wife was having a Zoom catchup with her friends, so i sat down to watch it and it wasnt on. Boo.

[griffin]

After just playing the first five movies in March and April, the 2007 movie is on tomorrow night (Sunday) at 8.45pm... so maybe they are playing them all over again to lead into the 6th movie (Bumblebee), as they haven't played it yet after cancelling it in July.

[Autocon]

After this the tf movies will be exclusive on paramount streaming or ch 10, once the licence has run out.

[griffin]

This Sunday they are jumping ahead to the 3rd movie... so maybe the Bumblebee movie is coming sooner than expected.

[Paulbot]

This Sunday they are jumping ahead to the 3rd movie... so maybe the Bumblebee movie is coming sooner than expected.

How are people to going to understand Dark of the Moon if they haven't seen Revenge of the Fallen?

Megatron's now a truck in Africa? Sam is living with a new girlfriend in another city? Where did Dino, Que and Brains come from?

Kidding, none of that is explained in Revenge of the Fallen!

[griffin]

Dark of the Moon is probably the better one to skip, as it did the most retconning (a whole Decepticon army sitting on the moon for years while Megatron and the Allspark were just on the planet below... AND... a solar harvestor with a Prime Crypt... what a coincidence), plus the contradiction of Megatron needing Optimus to bring back Sentinel, but also needing him to die to bring back The Fallen.
And it also introduced a different look to Cybertron to the 2007 Movie... while also having a quarter of it sheered off at the end of the movie, and yet doesn't fall into the earth which would have destroyed all life.

[Paulbot]

Who needs continuity!?

[mikeyc7m]

How are people to going to understand Dark of the Moon if they haven't seen Revenge of the Fallen?

Megatron's now a truck in Africa? Sam is living with a new girlfriend in another city? Where did Dino, Que and Brains come from?

Kidding, none of that is explained in Revenge of the Fallen!

LOL

[griffin]

Looks like they are skipping the rest as the Bumblebee movie is on this Saturday.

[griffin]

Looks like they only skipped the second movie, as tonight they have the fourth movie (Age of Extinction) on channel 9go, which continues their Sunday night Transformers movies.
My guess is that they will play the fifth movie next Sunday, and then do the repeat screening of Bumblebee the following Sunday, as they often replay most of their bigger free-to-air movies within a couple weeks.

[griffin]

And as guessed, tonight has The Last Knight.
So they played them all except the second one.

[Jaxius._]

Bumblebee is playing again on sunday

Good to see Transformers has become one of the yearly replays like harry potter and the x men movies

[griffin]

Looks like I guessed correctly about the Bumblebee movie being replayed after the first ones were done.

I was watching the 5th movie (Last Knight) while doing some things, and as visually mesmerising as it is to watch the special effects and bots, it just got so frustrating to see all of the errors, plot holes and poorly written dialogue, that ruined a story that had potential, just for a director to film a 3 hour patchwork of 30 second sizzle scenes (each scene would be amazing in a commercial or trailer, but all of them together is just confusing and hard to watch).

[griffin]

Looks like they only skipped the second movie, as tonight they have the fourth movie (Age of Extinction) on channel 9go, which continues their Sunday night Transformers movies.
My guess is that they will play the fifth movie next Sunday, and then do the repeat screening of Bumblebee the following Sunday, as they often replay most of their bigger free-to-air movies within a couple weeks.

I wonder what is wrong with Revenge of the Fallen, as channel 9go is playing the Transformers movies again, and they skipped the second one... again.
Each movie is good and bad to different people, and the second one was one of the more profitable/successful ones by Michael Bay, so it is strange that Channel 9 don't want to play it any more (or aren't allowed to?).

[Paulbot]

Drug use, sexual references and bad language.... what's the timeslot they are showing the movies in?

[griffin]

Drug use, sexual references and bad language.... what's the timeslot they are showing the movies in?

DOTM is on at 7.30 on saturday, but I don't remember if they were all being played from 7.30... but I think I remember having some bits cut on the ones that did start that early.
It's hard for me to think, but was ROTF any more "adult" with its content than the others? I can think of some unnecessary cringe-worthy elements on each of them.

Come to think of it, I think DOTM would be worse for actually showing humans being shot and blown up (vapourised)... which would be more gruesome for the 7.30 timeslot than any robot deaths (no matter how graphic it is with gore and fluids making them look more organic than humans).

[GoktimusPrime]

It's hard for me to think, but was ROTF any more "adult" with its content than the others? I can think of some unnecessary cringe-worthy elements on each of them.
ROTF had drug and sexual references. Because of course it does, that's absolutely what fans want to see in a Transformers movie. :rolleyes:
Yep. Come for the robots, stay for the close-up shot of John Turturro's backside. I wouldn't mind seeing a TF movie set outside of Earth without any human characters TBH. That Cybertron battle scene in Bumblebee remains one of my favourite TF fight scenes in any TF movie. :)

[griffin]

The first three had sexual references (Sam's Happy time, and in DOTM his parents talking about how well endowed he must be to land another hottie), so if it is because of content that prevents ROTF from being shown, it must be the drug references... but it seems a rather minor thing considering all of the violence.

[griffin]

The Bumblebee Movie is on tomorrow night (Sunday) on channel 9go at 7.30.
The first I saw an advertisement for it was tonight during the Hobbit movie... so they don't seem to do much advance warning these days with their movies.

[Defcon]

I watched Desolation of Smaug already this week? Watched Bumblebee last night I don’t plan to watch anything in advance I just switch on the TV just for the hell of it, and just for the surprise. Brings back fond memories of when TV movies was a thing, I just zone out and relax.

[griffin]

Latest Channel 10 commercials of their TV content for the Summer break have been including the first few live Transformers Movies... so maybe they have finally shifted over from the Nine network, since Paramount and Channel 10 have the same owners and share content. (the movies would already be on Paramount+ so it was only a matter of time until Channel 10 was allowed to started screening them for free)

The one problem that the Nine network had with the Transformers movies was the habit of starting them before 8.30pm thinking that they were just kids movies, and as such would cut out some parts of the more violent bits.
Let's see if Channel 10 plays them later and in full... but the downside will be having to watch/hear commercials for the next reality show (currently the Bachelor) at the start of EVERY commercial break. It makes me avoid watching the 10 network channels, and just record their programs so that I can skip those annoying commercials.

[griffin]

Friday 30th has a double-feature, of the first two Movies, from 7pm on Channel 10.
The early start could mean some edits from the first movie... as I think Channel 9 cut some of the more gruesome robot killing.

[griffin]

Channel 10 continues playing the Transformer movies for the first time, with the third movie (DOTM) on tonight at 10pm, and the 4th movie (AofE) on tomorrow night at 10pm.

[griffin]

I can't believe how bad DOTM was, story-wise... I tried watching some of it last night, and it was just so confusing and cringe-worthy (I turned onto it just before the "Deep Wang" scene), I just couldn't watch it after about 30 minutes (I probably haven't seen it in full since 2011).
And tonight has AOE, which is almost as bad in terms of a poorly structured plot and inconsistent momentum.

[KELPIE]

I tried and tried to appreciate the Bay films but they are just so bad. The first one holds a special place even though it isn't great but the rest are practically unwatchable.

I couldn't imagine what it would be like watching them on free to air stretched out with ads.

[griffin]

Channel 10 continues playing the Transformer movies for the first time, with the third movie (DOTM) on tonight at 10pm, and the 4th movie (AofE) on tomorrow night at 10pm.

I'm now a bit confused, as the 5th movie (Last Knight) was on channel 9go last weekend, and the 6th movie (Bumblebee) is on channel 9go this saturday. So maybe the Nine network had the rights to the Transformers movies for a number of years, and the first four had expired, but the next two (from 2017 and 2018) haven't yet lapsed to allow Channel 10 to start playing them.


I can't believe how bad DOTM was, story-wise... I tried watching some of it last night, and it was just so confusing and cringe-worthy (I turned onto it just before the "Deep Wang" scene), I just couldn't watch it after about 30 minutes (I probably haven't seen it in full since 2011).
And tonight has AOE, which is almost as bad in terms of a poorly structured plot and inconsistent momentum.

I did actually start watching AofE the other week, but gave up by the time Cade had Optimus in his barn... it was just so, meh. The first two movies I can easily watch with only a couple of cringe-worthy moments (for me), but from the third movie on, I just find it really difficult to sit through the whole movie... which I really hate, because I want to be a loyal die-hard fan, but how much of a fan am I if I can't be excited about multiple major productions for the Brand.
Like, I flicked over to the Last Knight during the last half hour last weekend, and it just made no sense. None of it. They are all on Lockdown's ship to get to the ignition chamber, but decide that it is better to hop in "helicopter" transports that don't work that high up (because the air is too thin), and end up being shot down or crash, rather than use Lockdown's ship to land safely. But then within minutes of being there, the humans give up and leave, after all that effort to get there, and decide to parachute back to earth, when again, Lockdown's ship was still around somewhere doing nothing. And after all that, when the good guys save the day, we are still left with a planet (Cybertron) attached to the side of the Earth like a leech, going nowhere... which you would think, would completely destroy the Earth as the gravity of both pull them together, upsetting the rotation of the planet (affecting day/night and the tides).
How can you sit and enjoy a movie, that has such significant and obvious plot holes and significant loose ends.

Hopefully ROTB is interesting and well executed, so that we are able to watch it and enjoy it, without being distracted by really absurd elements (movies 2-5) or lots of boring bits (movie 6).

[griffin]

Just a correction, the Bumblebee movie is on tonight (Friday), not Saturday.

[griffin]

The 2007 movie was on Channel 10shake on Monday... just a few weeks after they played it for the first time since Nine lost the rights to it. (or the rights expired)

[griffin]

The second movie was on last monday, while the third movie is on this monday... on 10shake... and I would expect the 4th movie on the following monday.

[griffin]

The second movie was on last monday, while the third movie is on this monday... on 10shake... and I would expect the 4th movie on the following monday.

And it is... Age of Extinction is on tomorrow night.

[griffin]

It gets even more confusing.... The Last Knight was on channel 9go in the first week of February, and tonight, it is on channel 10shake.
Looks like Nine squeezed out one last screening last month before losing it to Ten.
Now to see if the Bumblebee movie shows up on 10shake soon too.
Whoever has the rights to it will definitely be playing it a few times around June....

[griffin]

Channel 10 are playing the movies again... the third time in less than a year.
Last week was the first one, while tonight has ROTF.

Also, last weekend I saw on the tvguide, channel 9go was playing Transformers Prime in the morning, a couple of hours before an episode of Cyberverse... which is interesting, because it looks like 9 and 10 have swapped cartoons and movies (10 used to have the cartoons and 9 used to have the movies, but now it is the other way around).
9now streaming site also has the Transformers Prime episodes on it, for anyone who hasn't seen that series yet and wants to see it for free.

[valkyrie_76]

Channel 10 are playing the movies again... the third time in less than a year.
Last week was the first one, while tonight has ROTF.

Also, last weekend I saw on the tvguide, channel 9go was playing Transformers Prime in the morning, a couple of hours before an episode of Cyberverse... which is interesting, because it looks like 9 and 10 have swapped cartoons and movies (10 used to have the cartoons and 9 used to have the movies, but now it is the other way around).
9now streaming site also has the Transformers Prime episodes on it, for anyone who hasn't seen that series yet and wants to see it for free.

Doesnt Paramount do the TF movies? If so Paramount owns Ch10 hence why the movies are probably there now.

[griffin]

Doesnt Paramount do the TF movies? If so Paramount owns Ch10 hence why the movies are probably there now.

Yes, which I mentioned when Channel 10 started playing the movies after so many years on channel 9 (at the time I was wondering if there was licensing agreement that had just expired).... but I was commenting on the unusual appearance of two cartoons (so far) now showing up on channel 9 after so many years on channel 10.
So I wasn't surprised about the movies showing up on channel 10, I was puzzled as to why the cartoons had just suddenly shifted to channel 9.

[griffin]

I don't know why I do it to myself, but I cant help to flick over during a Transformers movie on TV.... just in case it is showing a good bit.
Last week I flicked over during DOTM during a couple of scenes that made me cringe, and then this week (last night) during Age of Extinction I managed to cross over during the very uncomfortable scene that had the father confronting his daughter's boyfriend about their age difference, and then going into a lot of detail about how it is a legal loophole in Texas (with a close up of that legal statute), as if Michael Bay wanted to educate movie-goers on how to be allowed to have sex with a minor. It was not something that a Transformers movie should be focussing on, or even mention... considering how simple it would have been to change one of their ages, without it even changing the story.

Next Tuesday has the Last Knight on 10shake (channel 13 in most places).
Considering how long Network 9 had the rights to TLK, I would be surprised if Network 10 play the Bumblebee movie the following week.

[griffin]

No Bumblebee movie next tuesday... so Network 9 must still have the rights to it. I'm just surprised that they haven't played it in the last month to cash in on the new movie.

[griffin]

The Earthspark cartoon is coming to commercial TV soon, as Network 10 is changing their 10-Shake channel into the Nickelodeon channel on August 1st, which has noted the Transformers cartoon as one of its expected programs.
https://www.paramountanz.com.au/news-and-insights/nickelodeon-makes-a-splat-with-dedicated-premium-free-to-air-channel-on-network-10/

This is great news for us in Australia who don't pay for TV or streaming, as Hasbro likes to have their content on Nickelodeon in America as much as possible, so future Transformers cartoons could end up being on free TV soon after its release in America. (hopefully)

[Tha_Phantom]

The Earthspark cartoon is coming to commercial TV soon, as Network 10 is changing their 10-Shake channel into the Nickelodeon channel on August 1st, which has noted the Transformers cartoon as one of its expected programs.
https://www.paramountanz.com.au/news-and-insights/nickelodeon-makes-a-splat-with-dedicated-premium-free-to-air-channel-on-network-10/

This is great news for us in Australia who don't pay for TV or streaming, as Hasbro likes to have their content on Nickelodeon in America as much as possible, so future Transformers cartoons could end up being on free TV soon after its release in America. (hopefully)

This is great news for the brand!
Earthspark does not interest me personally, but it's good to know more kids and fellow fans will be able to watch it.

[KELPIE]

Pretty sure kids don't watch TV anymore.

All the kids I know watch Youtube.

[griffin]

Last Saturday, I was surprised to see on channel 9Go in the afternoon, the Beast Hunters (TFPrime) Rise of the Predacons mini-movie.
I have noticed that they had started playing TFPrime about a month ago on weekdays, but they weren't up to the final season yet, so this was surprising and out of place. (and I can't remember if its original screening was as a combined mini-movie, or as the individual episodes)

I only caught the last 20 minutes of it because I didn't realise it was on, but it was a bit of a flashback, as that originally came out 10 years ago now. Kinda like seeing an episode of the original cartoon on TV while the Beast Wars cartoon was first airing in the mid-90s.


Channel 9Go is also slowly making their way through their repeat run of Cyberverse, with the Invasion of Cybertron episodes currently being shown.

[mikeyc7m]

I could never track down Earthspark on TV, but it's now available on Netflix!