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Burning Questions: The 10 Most Confusing Things in 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
by Matt McDaniel.June 30, 2009
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made over $200 million last week. What it didn't make, however, was one lick of sense.

Now, suspension of disbelief is usually not a problem for me. Tell me that a billionaire could put on a bat suit and swoop around fighting crime and I'll buy it. Or that a different billionaire could build flying armor in his basement. Or that in the future people will beam onto spaceships with their pointy-eared best friend. I'll accept all of it. I'll even take your word for it that a mechanized alien race can come to our planet, scan some cars, and turn themselves into vehicles.

That being said, there were moments in this new "Transformers" movie that were so confusing, so contradictory, or so corny that they completely took me out of the movie. Even days after watching it, some new inconsistency or plot hole would pop into my mind.

I can hear it already: "It's a popcorn movie. It's based on a bunch of toys. It's just supposed to be fun." And yes, all of those things are true. But that doesn't mean I can't ask questions about what in the world was going on. Here are the ten that I most want answered. (WARNING: contains spoilers).




1. In "Transformers," there was this giant battle in the middle of downtown Los Angeles -- excuse me, Mission City -- that was witnessed by thousands of people at the very least. But somehow the government was able to cover up the whole thing, and now the existence of alien robots is just an internet rumor? How did they do it? Pay off everyone who was there and quickly fix millions of dollars in damage? Also, didn't Keller (Jon Voight) go on TV and tell everyone we were being attacked by "a technological civilization far superior to our own"? How did they spin that?

2. There are two pieces of the Allspark cube left: the military has one under lock and key, and Sam discovers another. The Decepticons steal one and bring Megatron back to life. But when Sam (Shia LaBeouf) wants to bring back Optimus, he has to find the Matrix of Leadership on the other side of the globe. Why not use the other piece? Mikaela (Megan Fox) has it in her backpack the whole time. It brought his kitchen appliances to life, why can't it do the same for Optimus?

3. Speaking of Megatron's rebirth, when the Decepticons venture deep into the ocean to revive him, the Navy crew tracking them reads five contacts. When they get down there, they tear apart one of the robots for parts to rebuild Megatron. Then as they rise to the surface, the same Navy guys say they spot six contacts. The little "Doctor" robot popped out down there, but he's about a third of the size of a person. Would he have shown up on sonar?


4. That reminds me: even if I were to forgive the Doctor's German accent -- and director Michael Bay is asking me to forgive a lot of ridiculous accents -- why would a robot need glasses? He has little lenses that flip in front of his mechanical eyes. Couldn't he just get his eyes adjusted? You'd think with all the laser guns, someone could perform a Lasik procedure.

5. Apparently, Transformers can look like people now. How? And how is it that even though the robo-girl (Isabel Lucas) is made of metal, she can still straddle Sam without crushing him. And if Bumblebee knows something's wrong with her, why does he spit antifreeze at her instead of telling Sam? Yes, his voicebox is broken, but wasn't it fixed at the end of the last movie?


6. The Fallen is the last of the Primes, since they all sacrificed themselves to stop him from destroying the sun. But then he says that Optimus is a descendant of the Primes. First, Transformers have kids? And second, how could he descend from them if they were all dead? And if the Fallen could only be destroyed by a Prime, why didn't the originals just gang up on him back in the day? And what makes Optimus so special, anyway? Megatron beat him earlier, but all it takes is a few spare parts from creaky old Jetfire for him to take out the Fallen?

7. Sam, Mikaela, and Simmons (John Turturro) go to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. to find Jetfire. Then they walk out the back onto a wide open field with old planes and mountains in the distance. When did the National Mall start to look so much like to Tucson, AZ (where they really filmed that scene)?


8. The geography is just as bad when they go to Egypt. The stone city of Petra in Jordan is over 250 miles away, over mountainous terrain, with few paved roads and the Israeli border between them, so how can they drive from one to the other in a couple of hours. And the Pyramids are said to be shooting distance from the Mediterranean, but they are actually well over 80 miles inland. Even if the Navy ship had a secret rail gun, and even if the captain would take an order to fire from a former agent of a government branch that no longer exists (over a walkie-talkie that inexplicably starts working again), how could it hit a moving target from that distance?

9. Sam briefly dies and goes to Robot Heaven. Robot Heaven?!?!



10. Where does Sam's bandage come from? What about his extra sock? Why does Sam's roommate not contribute anything at all? What was the Fallen doing for those thousands of years Megatron was frozen in ice? How does one satellite receive transmissions from everywhere on the planet? Why does Wheelie hump Mikaela's leg? Why do we have to see John Turturro's thong? Why are robots who join together to become Devastator also seen fighting the Army at the same time? Why does the government want only our military fighting Decepticons when our weapons seem unable to make so much as a dent on any of them? Why did the ancient Egyptians build a pyramid around the sun-destroying machines instead of just breaking it? Why is the Matrix of Leadership bigger in the Fallen's hand than in Sam's? And how do Mikaela's pants stay so clean?




OK, so I went overboard at the end, but the questions remain. And I'm sure more will pop up next time I think about the movie. But the movie did make a ton of money, and it's earned a solid B+ rating from our users. Maybe I should go see it again. My questions probably won't get answered in a second viewing, but if I can just clear them from my mind I can be in Robot Heaven, too.

Posted by Goldenwolf
on Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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somebody1 -
Sunday, July 5, 2009
What's sad is as lame as the novel of the movie was the movie's even worse. I actually would rather have seen the Prequel novel be the 2nd movie, at least it doesn't have Sam being pathetic in it.
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flawpunk -
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Also they planned for the 3 arcees to form into one bigger version, never happened. When does optimus shoot a decepticon in the face and call them a punk ass? How does mudflap not die when sucked up by devastator? Why foes ravage seem bigger when fighting bumblebee? Sideways lasts all of 2 seconds before sideswipe cuts him in half. Meh
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HeartBreakKid -
Sunday, July 5, 2009
and many more questions I have

Why in the world was blackout still alive (he died in the first)I seen him twice and the first time he gets his head ripped in two and Im like okay maybe its someone else but than he back in the dessert heck what as with all the bot clones any way I definitely seen Bonecrusher too(who also died in the first).

how did scorpinok get his tail back ,okay that semi understandable

and back on the subject of people coming back to life where on earth is Barricade he wasn't in this one and in the first movie he just up an disappears after the freeway seen if we can bring back dead people why doesn't the guy who just left get to come back .

that movie was so sporadic I couldn't tell if the following lived or died the triplets(arcee,chromia,and moon racer)
,and Iron Hide

and this one goes for both films why does a robot vomit,urinate,pass gas ,and last but not least have balls
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SUZE -
Sunday, July 5, 2009
OMG, yes! I'm not the only one. I was so confuse and all kind of Cr** keep happening tranformations and spontenous explosions all over the place. After the movie I actually felt car sick like I just took a ride with my dad in his car(I swear the man drives like a racer on crack).

I felt dumb watching it since all this stuff is happeing and I vaguely get it and just run with it thinking the pople were too obessed with appleasing excitable add kids to give a inkling of and explaination on some of things there.

I did enjoy it as a "popcorn movie" and didn't get so hung up on the plot holes and random incon. there but the whole experience made me really dizzy, didn't help that I watched it on a imax and was up close.

Optimus sounds so corny in here.
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somebody1 -
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Michael bay's known for fudging bits in his movies. He's still getting hell over his mess ups in Pearl Harbor. Heck the TF cartoon movie had less plot/consistency errors than this thing. It's not the mega blockbuster that the first one was that's for sure. I think a lot of us more die hard TF fans are sick of what happened to the franchise. MY G1 collecting buddy says the stock for hasbro isn't doing so well since they released the new toys (which are peg warmners around here). I don't think this will kill the TF franchise but it might put people off anymore live action TF toys. Yeah Shiah or whatever his name is flipped his vehicle when he was drunk and busted up his hand before shooting started so that's probably the bandage.
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Top-notch comix -
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Sam's bandage was there because of that car wreck or whatever it was that the actor got in... here's another question... the little RC blue robot guy... after they teleport to egypt, he disappears... what's up with that?!
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Shinobitron -
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Lol yeah I read that. Cracked me up cause its 100% true.
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