noctorro wrote:[things I agree with]
Drift, Crosshairs & Hound didn't do a damn thing.
...... movie still makes me mad
I just want to come back to this because it's probably one of the (many) things that makes me the most mad out of the entire movie. RANT INCOMING, in case you couldn't tell, and I apologize in advance. So when Hound stands up to the Decepticons in the junkyard, he more-or-less
explodes. An explosion goes off
on or
in him, and engulfs him entirely.
...And then we cut away. To a totally different scene. And Hound just straight-up doesn't appear in the movie for like 45 minutes. I honestly thought they'd killed him off without so much as a backward glance, and that made me especially mad because Hound was literally the one character I'd found entertaining from the last movie.
And then when he comes back? There's no fanfare, no "Hound oh my god you're alive we're so happy to have you back you fat ballerina". He's just... there. In a random shot, in the middle of a random scene. They're looking up at Cybertron in Earth's atmosphere and excuse me if I paraphrase a bit, but it goes something like: Drift says "hey look at that thing", Hound goes "I think that's Cybertron", Crosshairs is like "yep it is", and then my friend and I watching the thing take nearly five seconds to process that
hey I guess Hound is back now that's cool.
And that's when my anger goes from frustration at the (narratively-somewhat-understandable) death of the only character I liked, to pure rage at the sheer incompetence of the people making this movie. You do not
show a character exploding and then have them not appear for upwards of half an hour before randomly having them show back up without so much as an acknowledgement of their absence. This is not high-level stuff. This is basic storytelling. Ugh I thought I was over this movie but I clearly am not.
...And hopefully that's out of my system. Again. Gawd this movie made me so mad (and apparently still does); at least the toys are good
.
. I am a 
