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High Moon'd :pQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
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Originally Posted by Skullcruncher
High Moon'd :pQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Attack of the G1 Transformers!
Wasn't it called dark of the moon on account of the video stream being purposely disconnected so no one could see what they were really there for, if I recall someone on the other end said to the ship "you are now dark" or something along that lines? Correct me if I'm wrong, probably am. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
No, you're not wrong at all dude as you're dead right :cool:; I don't know how Goki could've missed that? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by GL-Sideswipe
They said, "Neil, you are dark on the rock" <--- note the explicit use of the word on, and not "of". If one were to use the preposition "of" in this sentence, it would indicate derivation, source or origin. However, as they have clearly used "on" as a preposition, it indicates physical attachment (i.e. they are on the moon).Quote:
Originally Posted by GL-Sideswipe
If what you're saying is true, and the film title is meant to reflect the brief moment where Armstrong's crew are cut off from media news broadcast, then the movie should be called "Transformers: Dark ON the Moon", not Dark of the Moon.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...darkonrock.jpg
Also seems a tad odd to name the entire film after a brief plot device in the story rather than something more significant, like say, the location of the Ark. It'd be as if they named the second movie "Transformers: Shanghai Showdown" or Star Wars Episode VI "Star Wars: Attack on Jabba's Palace" -- all significant plot points, but hard the main or significant part of the overall story that would warrant placing them into the story title <---JMHO anyway :)
Goki, it's a Bay film - naming it after a brief moment hardly seems odd in the grander scheme of the franchise wouldn't you think? :p
Besides, there really isn't any other explanation beyond the word 'Dark' being a cryptic description of the secret the Moon held - i.e. a crap load of Decepticons, confusing the hell out of a lot of Movieverse plot. ;):D
I still love these films though. ;):cool:
I never knew "dark" was a synonym for "secret." :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
There's a plot?!? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
I quite like the first film. It was sweet and simple - capturing the spirit of the G1 cartoon pretty well. The other two movies... well... there is a story, but the story is a lot like the kind of stories you make when you play with toys as a kid (or adult) - i.e. excuses to have fights!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
Seriously... think back to your childhood to when you and your friends would collaboratively play with toys like Transformers. It'd be like;
"Okay, the Transformers are fighting on Cybertron - PEW! PEW! PEW! The Autobots are flying away on the Ark - zoooooomm! Hahaha, we're gonna escape with the Space Bridge parts!"
"Oh no you don't! Here comes a nasty Decepticon missile!"
"Nuh-uh, this ship's too fast for your stupid missile!"
"Oh yeah, well this missile shoots more missiles at you!"
"What?! How can a missile shoot more missiles?"
"Cos it's secret Decepticon technology, a hundred missiles come out, shwwooooooooosshh!"
"Oh yeah, well the Autobots spin the Ark to dodge the missiles!"
"These babies are heat-seeking missiles - the form a spiral around your ship, there's no way to escape! KA-BOOOOM! Your ship is blown to a million parts!"
"Nuh-uh! You only took out the back engine section! The ship now spins out of control into space where you can't get it and it's precious cargo!"
"What?!? You're cheating!"
"You cheated first with your missiles-shooting-missile!"
"Fine whatever."
"The Ark flies to Earth to provide reinforcements for Optimus Prime and his Autobots there."
"What? You said my missiles destroyed the engines, how can Sentinel Prime fly that thing to Earth and land it safely??"
"Fine, it crashes in the ocean, then Optimus Prime comes and rescues them and the space bridge."
"Don't be slack, let's say it crashes on the moon, okay?"
"Ocean."
"Sentinel Prime can't fly it to the moon with no engines you dummy! Let's say it crashes on the moon."
"Oh alright, it crashes on the moon. Then humans detect it and send a rescue team to the moon."
"How can humans rescue a giant alien ship??"
"*massive.groan* Alright, alright!! Hey, so they send some astronauts to check it out, is that okay?"
"Yeah."
"Crrk, any sign of life?"
"Negative, nothing's alive."
"What?!"
"They crashed on the moon, dude... they're all dead... except Sentinel Prime, we'll say he's not functional."
"*sigh* Okay."
...I could do this for the entire film. ;)
Honestly, the stories in RotF and DotM play like the opening scene in Kung Fu Panda.
"And then he spoke, "Enough talk. LET'S FIGHT!""
The TF movies are fantastic spectacles... but as stories (and remember that cinema is a story-telling medium) I find they're rather lacklustre. If I wanna see the kind of stories I make up as I play with my toys... well then, I'll go play with my toys. Considering the amount of money that was pumped into this franchise, I find the stories a tad disappointing.
They also say that apollo 11 is on the far side of the moon, the side no one can see, is that also sometimes known as the dark side of the moon, and that would explain the name dark of the moon.
Although I don't know what they consider far side of the moon, since if they were on the dark side they would freeze..
Quick astronomy lesson...
There is no 'dark' side to the moon.
The moon is tidally locked with Earth (which explains why we see the same face), but sunlight still hits that far side (otherwise we wouldn't get any phases of the moon).
Apollo 11, like all moon missions was on the near side so we could keep in radio contact.