DOTM unanswered and answered questions (lots of spoilers)

[Krittle]

I'd like to think that seeing as though Megatron is missing half of his brain and what is left is clearly invested with cyber-parasites, that he is in a very delusive and detached mental state - very akin to a borderline psychotic vegetable-like state.
Hence, he just sits there in a world of his own as he watches his beloved Cybertron appear before his optics, grinning with a deluded delight... cue Carly.

That makes sense... it explains why Megatron didnt just flick carly. Granted she was right, but Megatron would have flicked that little human anyway!

[tron07]

In the novel it is explained that it is Sentinel's weapon. One shot rusts a robot apart.

why didnt he use his cosmic rust weapon on megatron and prime?

[5FDP]

After reading through the majority of these posts I can't help but feel as though people are wanting to hate the movie or ruin the enjoyment of it for themselves by rationalising something that really can't be rationalised.

If there's one thing I know being a Transformers fan for 27 years, there are going to be continuity errors. I've learned to accept them while enjoying the ride.

I'm not saying anyone is wrong in expressing their opinions (that's what this forum is for), but why not accept the movie for what it is - entertainment.

[Demonac]

After reading through the majority of these posts I can't help but feel as though people are wanting to hate the movie or ruin the enjoyment of it for themselves by rationalising something that really can't be rationalised.

If there's one thing I know being a Transformers fan for 27 years, there are going to be continuity errors. I've learned to accept them while enjoying the ride.

I'm not saying anyone is wrong in expressing their opinions (that's what this forum is for), but why not accept the movie for what it is - entertainment.

I haven't seen the movie yet, so I can't comment on it's quality (or lack of) directly.
But I think what a lot of people are frustrated about is the lack of care that it has seems to have been put together with.
It's one thing to nitpick out plotholes after multiple viewings, but if the major holes are quite evident from one viewing, then where were the people in charge when they were editing this?
When I go to watch a movie, I don't want to switch my brain off. That's a way of saying 'we couldn't be bothered making this thing coherent...Look!! EXPLOSIONS! GIRLS!! GIANT ROBOTS!!!'
I want more than that. Or am I being greedy?

[SkyWarp91]

why didnt he use his cosmic rust weapon on megatron and prime?

Because being dead/inactive for so long makes your logical processes rusty badoomtish!

- skywarp (in the love of janda LOL)

[Sky Shadow]

It's one thing to nitpick out plotholes after multiple viewings, but if the major holes are quite evident from one viewing, then where were the people in charge when they were editing this?

I'm working on the assumption that it went something like this:

EDITOR: This makes no sense - write some exposition, get the actors back in and fill in the gaps.

MICHAEL BAY: Whammo! Can't do that, man - the actors all went on to other work months ago! Anyway I blew up all the sets! And all the vehicles! Bam!

EDITOR: Right. Well... just get sound-alike voice actors and animate the robots filling all the plotholes to the audience.

MICHAEL BAY: Zowie! Can't do that either, bro - I spent the rest of the animation budget on robots flying out of the moon and blowing up buildings and killing Megatron! Blammo!

EDITOR: You know you weren't actually supposed to kill Megatron, right? It was meant to be this big Return Of The Jedi/Spider Man 3 moment... Oh, #*@%, whatever. Just release it as it is. I'm sure no one will notice the weird cuts, unnecessary scenes and impossible movements.

MICHAEL BAY: Whoosh! Impossible bowel movements, you mean! When everyone craps their pants at its extremefulness! Splash!

EDITOR: ... I hate you.

[SkyWarp91]

I'm working on the assumption that it went something like this:

EDITOR: This makes no sense - write some exposition, get the actors back in and fill in the gaps.

MICHAEL BAY: Whammo! Can't do that, man - the actors all went on to other work months ago! Anyway I blew up all the sets! And all the vehicles! Bam!

EDITOR: Right. Well... just get sound-alike voice actors and animate the robots filling all the plotholes to the audience.

MICHAEL BAY: Zowie! Can't do that either, bro - I spent the rest of the animation budget on robots flying out of the moon and blowing up buildings and killing Megatron! Blammo!

EDITOR: You know you weren't actually supposed to kill Megatron, right? It was meant to be this big Return Of The Jedi/Spider Man 3 moment... Oh, #*@%, whatever. Just release it as it is. I'm sure no one will notice the weird cuts, unnecessary scenes and impossible movements.

MICHAEL BAY: Whoosh! Impossible bowel movements, you mean! When everyone craps their pants at its extremefulness! Splash!

EDITOR: ... I hate you.

i think it went more like this...

Editor: Er I don't think these cuts make sense, it's all done so poorly.

Michael Bay: How bout I pay you $500,000 and you keep it the way it is?

Editor: DEAL!

[Krittle]

After reading through the majority of these posts I can't help but feel as though people are wanting to hate the movie or ruin the enjoyment of it for themselves by rationalising something that really can't be rationalised.

If there's one thing I know being a Transformers fan for 27 years, there are going to be continuity errors. I've learned to accept them while enjoying the ride.

I'm not saying anyone is wrong in expressing their opinions (that's what this forum is for), but why not accept the movie for what it is - entertainment.

I agree that people sometimes do go out of their way to hate something... which i am against. However, i love that people make parodies . It's like a continuation but humorous.... if a movie has flaws, rather than complain, make light of it and eventually it's becomes a positive funny part of a film... racist autobot twins! haha!

[Paulbot]

After reading through the majority of these posts I can't help but feel as though people are wanting to hate the movie or ruin the enjoyment of it for themselves by rationalising something that really can't be rationalised.

If there's one thing I know being a Transformers fan for 27 years, there are going to be continuity errors. I've learned to accept them while enjoying the ride.

I'm not saying anyone is wrong in expressing their opinions (that's what this forum is for), but why not accept the movie for what it is - entertainment.

Some "funny" people like the easy targets and repeat the same jokes they did last film, and the haters gotta hate, but that wasn't the intention when I started the thread.

The point was that there are outstanding questions, some of which are answered by a repeat viewing, something others saw that we didn't, or in expanded universe fiction. And for the remainder that are still unanswered part of the fun is trying to answer the questions (and you're right: that has been since the days of "Where does Prime's trailer go?")

[SkyWarp91]

Okay I heard that Skyhammer's alt mode makes an appearance in DOTM somewhere (don't know if this is actually true or a bad tfwiki entry), does he?