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Megatron and Mixmaster aren't exactly the same. And not because of the mixer/tanker. Megatron's alt. mode is also for a military use, not sure what. Mixmaster was just a regular commercial cement truck.

The biggest disapointment for the DotM movie, for me, was the lack of a truck duel between Megatron and Optimus Prime.

Picture this: For some reason, both of them must remain in truck mode to catch a McGuffin of some kind that is speeding away. Both trucks would have tried to outrun each others, or ram themselves off the road. Then, "stealth" mode is engaged and some high speed firepower is unleashed.

Sigh... Insead of this awesome scene, we get Sam trying to get a job and being jealous over his girlfriend's boss.

a longer ending fight between Prime & megs would've been cool -although Optimus was missing an arm & probably couldn't have made truck mode work

vectorA3 wrote:a longer ending fight between Prime & megs would've been cool -although Optimus was missing an arm & probably couldn't have made truck mode work

Obviously, the road duel would have been in the middle of the movie, not at the end.
But instead of that, we get Sam hogging all the screen time.

Now imagine this with explosions and crazy camera angles and the trailers not looking like they're clueless as to what to do.

The lack of anything done with the truck mode is definitely my biggest beef with these movies. Every square inch of it tells a story, yet we only see it for a few seconds doing noting in particular. What were those kill markings about, or the cow skull, or the bubble wrap, or muddy bootprints near the pedals?

BeastProwl wrote:Well, as cool as that scene sounds, it never happened. I wish they would give the movie to us seibertronians to direct, with the animators, and let US make the movie. I'm sure with enough time, we could make it make more money then Avatar ever did.

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NO... No we couldn't. Sorry, but their alot more to making a movie than just more screen time with the robots.
people need to understand that one of the reasons these movies have been as sucsesfull as they have been is because the apeal to such a large demographic of people. I too would have preffered a kick ass truck mode batle scene instead of Sam running around town loking for a job, but Like it or not, the love story and over zelous shots of Carly's Butt help sell the movie to people whom other wise would never go see it.
"screw them. We don't need them. The movies not made for them anyhow. I can deal with the movie making less money if it means we get the story we want."
While this may be the aurgument most would counter with, i'm sure the hundreds of people who worked on the set, who's lives depended on the finacial success of the movie would beg to differ with the aurgument.
A happy medieum has to be found. And i think there very close to finding that. But unfortunutly, a movie with less human and more robot focus isn't going to mean instant success like many here seem to think.

I think it was a pretty cool decision to make him a truck. Besides, it's not just a normal truck, he's got spikes and rust and all that bad-assery!

If written and directed extremely well, I think a TF film with 75% focus on TF and 25% (or less) on humans could make a lot of $. It's Transformers - not Sam goes to look for a job and j*cks off

Megatron became a truck because Michael Bay had stopped giving a damn.