Re: Skids & Mudflap Are Out Of Transformers 3?!
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Comment by
Autobot032
May 11, 2010
They'll be in the third movie.
1.) I'll give the naysayers this much credit, when it comes to Bay: He lies his ass off in these misinformation campaigns. And, if he ever does end up telling the truth, it's simply due to a mistake, or miscommunication between him and his people.
2.) People have already sighted them on set (and considering they've shown us video proof of the Smart car being thrown around, why would they lie about the rest of the scene? I mean, c'mon....)
If anything, they might be killed off, early, in the film. Which would explain why he said they're not in the film, but that's all I can think of.
Otherwise, he's just lying through his teeth. Skids and Mudflap will be in 3, in some capacity. How long, where, when, and how remains to be seen, but they'll be there.
Barricade never returning, and never seeing his demise is just a terrible handling of the material, and yet one more I'll give the fans. I used to excuse it away as "Well, it's obvious that we're to assume that he was killed off camera in between movies and there's no point in going back to it, simply to move forward with his story." Not anymore. That's a really bad way to make a movie/story.
I watched the first one again, in Blu-Ray (amazing, btw), and it was just as bad as I remembered, even a bit more so. ROTF still wins it for me.
TF1 is just such a convoluted mess, the camera work still angers me to this day, and the robots were terribly underused. ROTF gave us plenty of robot screen time, more of a story, and even though not everything was explained, or we were expected to make the leap, we were able to do so in a reasonable manner because the second movie was laid out better and avoided being convoluted like the first one.
Too many loose threads to tie up in the first movie, and they weren't handled well. I think they could've focused on Sam meeting the Autobots better, and I think the military presence could've been far more serious. I think it should've been an E.T. meets boy/alien invasion film. It would've had more depth to it, more of a story, and no need for it to be convoluted.
I do like that humanity is telling the Autobots (and all robots, for that matter) to go home in the 3rd one. It's about time we had actual human interaction in this series. I'm glad they're finally getting to it, but I think THREE movies is not only a perfect example of wasted time and wasted chances, but shows that Hollywood can't write a movie to save their souls. They don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.
If they had take the E.T. story and replaced him with giant B.F.G. wielding robots, they could've done far better with the movie(s) than they have. That being said, I still enjoy ROTF. It's just a lot of fun.
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