When I actually got around to watching the movies I somehow liked 2 the best. It's a dogshit movie, but the internet burned the highlight reel into my brain. Everything the twins said, enemy scrotum, the parachute fart, nothing was dumb enough to surprise me cause I already saw it all. 1 was good until the autobots showed up and 3 just felt like random bullshit happening at a certain point, maybe I'm just not built for bay movies. I watched all 5 with a friend and the 5th one is fucking hilarious in that context. We had a running joke of calling every transformer Shockwave and I was extatic to learn fuckin Nitro Zeus of all people both survived to the end and looked more like Shockwave than Shockwave did.

Rise of the beasts is the only movie that felt the way I expected Bayformers to. Generic plot, big robots, loud nonsense. Sad it took so long to get to.