Have the Twins Been Edited Out of DOTM?

I'm gonna be honest - I really wished the twins weren't in ROTM that was my only gripe about the film...that and Devastators balls.

I'm probably one of the few who don't actually hate the twins, so it doesn't bother me one way the another. I'm more bothered by the fact that Leo and his bad acting is back.

The toys don't really give any hints at all, because tons of ROTF fig that made it as toys were never seen in the film. Then again, those characters like Breakaway never went beyond the character design concept stage, whereas the twins' alt modes were seen quite a few times on set.

But if I have to make a guess, I'd say the twins likely to be in the film. I can't really say why, but Bay's a particularly mischievous person [read: over-aged fratboy] who likes to pull one over your eyes as a prank, and he openly admits to this in the DVD commentary of the 2007 movie.

Besides, they'd probably just hover around in the background much like Jolt did in ROTF, as many have already proposed.

Oh no, the twins won't be in the movie... I'm devastated, they had such a great plot to them, and great character development, not to mention they were the most intelligent autobots and were clearly the stars of Revenge of the Fallen.

If you havn't guessed yet, I'm being totally sarcastic XD and the only reason why i actually care if they are in the movie or not is just to prevent those "racist" "stereotypical" characters they were most likely intentionally portrayed as by the director himself.

And besides......... The whole reason they were probably in the movie was because they were Bay's Frankenstein-creation of comedic-relief.

MQ-9 Reaper wrote:I'm tired of it. I won't know what to believe until I see footage of the twins in a new trailer or I DON'T. I personally didn't want them back; I hated all of the humour in the second movie as it was very juvenile and made me uncomfortable when I was watching it with my family. I've never seen a more blatant stereotype than the Twins (especially aesthetically), and I just wish someone would run Wheelie over. Obviously the humour was supposed to appeal to a certain demographic - I'm 16, and I just felt offended, as if I was supposed to laugh at it just because I'm a 'young person'. ALL directors do this: once they realize that people are going to see the movie pretty much no matter what, they'll put whatever they want in there. I was greatly hoping that the Twins and Wheelie would be absent from this movie, but hey, its not about what WE want.

I agree. While I'm way past my teenage years, I'm not adverse to crass jokes when they're funny; the ones in ROTF were NOT funny [to me, at least], just distasteful.

Wheelie's leg-humping did make me laugh a little, but it did make me wonder about the logic of a bot with no discernible genitalia being sexually attracted to a human female. Sure Megan's hot, but that's kinda pushing it.

I am apprehensive. Blackout died in the first movie but a virtual clone came back for the second and many other decepticons were reused for multiple nameless characters. Even if the twins are not in the movie by name or have no speaking roles I have a feeling we will see them -or lookalikes- in the background as a cost saving measure for filling autobot ranks.

And not one person will be sad to seem them go.

But I still think they'll maybe make the final cut as canon fodder for Shockwave or another of the main Decepticons in a single scene or something. Like George Lucas did in Episode II with Jar Jar Binks - just had him in one scene for a minute, only this time maybe we'll be lucky and see the twins get smoked.

In a perfect world they'd bump into Devastator again and get eaten like should have happened in ROTF.

doh well... who really knows? they may be in and they may be out. we saw pix of megan fox on the set too, and we know how that turned out.

Aww, well that's just bummer.

If Bay wants to live, he will have the twins in the movie.

I remember being so excited about the first movie. Even though, I hated the designs, I still went to see it. I was very disappointed, but hopeful that the second one would make things better. After all, Jetfire was going to be in it and so would Sideswipe. And Devastator too. Then, the unimaginable happened. The worst characters since Jar-Jar Binks appeared on screen. Yeah! I'm talking about the darn twins. And now, they're saying that they won't be in the final cut, and yet we see the vehicles and toys. I don't care if they're in the movie or not, I'm waiting for this one to come out in DVD!

They said Megatron would not be in the RotF then changed and said only in flashbacks and we all knew how that turned out.

I could see it going either way. Personally, I hope they are in it briefly for continuity's sake--having them get brutally slagged by a 'con early on would probably help the 'cons get some "heat" back too, to borrow a pro wrestling term.

I'm indifferent. I don't really see much point in speculating one way or the other because the bottom line is there's no way to know for sure until we see the final cut. Even if a decision has been made, it could just as easily be reversed.

Anyway ROTF was so bad that a few attempts to distance DOTM from it might be in order, though I'm not really convinced there will be any significant improvement. The DOTM trailer with the big fly-in Optimus battle scene sure smacks of the ROTF desert finale, with tons of bots and things exploding but nothing worthwhile happening. (You know, like "plot"--facts, details, condense, tell it! Too bad they didn't take their own advice.)

And I really did hate the twins' faces, even more than I still hate Bumblebee's face when he's not wearing his mask (and why does his mask have eyelash-like eye covers when they could just be full black glass?) and about the same as almost all the Decepticon faces. I keep HA Mudflap's face turned around to the Battle Mask side so it's less appalling. The only thing the Twins had going for them was they actually got (comparatively) a lot of dialogue and screentime in the movie, which was mainly a weak attempt at comic relief, but gave them far more personality than almost any other bot in the movies had. Oddly they're also the only two bots that also showed something of a personal robot relationship.

I realize a majority of people didn't care for the twins but to me they were not horrid characters in ROTF. There's no shame in having them in DOTM. Not sure why they would have the vehicles on filming sites and say they're not the in the final cut of the film. It would be better to say they are in the film and hide other characters.

Mindmaster wrote:If Bay wants to live, he will have the twins in the movie.

Well, then Johnny'd better get his gun.

If Bay wants to live those two cars had better have the Twins' colors by coincidence.

prowl123 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:If Bay wants to live, he will have the twins in the movie.

Well, then Johnny'd better get his gun.

If Bay wants to live those two cars had better have the Twins' colors by coincidence.

-As Bay at the premiere- Now, if you happen to see a pair of cars who happen to look like Skids and Mudflap, they're not. They're actually Spongebob and Patrick in disguise.

its possible that they have toys but arn't in the movie. loomk at ROTF baricade and jazz. hell jazz was in the friggin game

Who cares if they make it in or not? I'd just as soon not. If I never see another Skids or Mudflap figure on the shelf in stores, it'll be too soon for me. Thing is, with a cooler head sculpt, these figures would have been OK. But no, they had to make them look like Looney Toon characters with bug eyes are buck teeth. Great call, Bay. /sarc

I'm not really sure what to believe right now. I'm just gonna wait for the movie to come out and then we'll know for sure.

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

MQ-9 Reaper wrote:I'm tired of it. I won't know what to believe until I see footage of the twins in a new trailer or I DON'T. I personally didn't want them back; I hated all of the humour in the second movie as it was very juvenile and made me uncomfortable when I was watching it with my family. I've never seen a more blatant stereotype than the Twins (especially aesthetically), and I just wish someone would run Wheelie over. Obviously the humour was supposed to appeal to a certain demographic - I'm 16, and I just felt offended, as if I was supposed to laugh at it just because I'm a 'young person'. ALL directors do this: once they realize that people are going to see the movie pretty much no matter what, they'll put whatever they want in there. I was greatly hoping that the Twins and Wheelie would be absent from this movie, but hey, its not about what WE want.

Well, it seems we have something in common here. We're both 16 and hate toilet humour. But I actually liked the Twins. I think they're stereotyped, but not racist. I thought of them as "gangsta". To be honest, I know white guys that talk and act like them and black guys that don't- so I can't personally find racism. The Wheelie humping and all the sexual references could've been done away with, but hey, it is what it is. It doesn't effect the film the slightest bit for me. And yes, directors will do whatever they want. It's THEIR movie. THEY'RE the director of it. It's not about what we want. It's what they think will sell. Unfortunately, these moviemakers have an impression that this toilet humor sells to young people. And, with the people that surround me every day, I see where they get that impression. We must also understand that Michael Bay isn't some dictator that specifies exactly how absolutely everything will go. He has writers, too, along with a myriad of other roles that come up with their own ideas.

Agreed. Directors in general, not just Michael Bay (although he doesn't help himself), use stuff that they think will sell. Bay doesn't think that teenagers and adults are going to go and see a film about transforming aliens based on toys, so he tries to make it appealing, with cars, "hot" girls and, in the second film, excessive toilet humour. I guess he assumes that that's what will sell to present day teenagers. Heck, it's like that with the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies - I saw the first one and it was terrible, ruined all of the saturday mornings of the original cartoon when I was a kid. But teenagers around me liked it (I wont go into name-calling and generalisations), because it was stupid, heartless "humour" that other teenagers seem to find funny. So I think that's the logic behind the testicle-bearing, leg-humping ROTF mess. He appears to have learnt from it though, so perhaps DOTM will be a bit better.


Anyway! I don't mind if the twins are in or out of this movie - so long as they don't get such a big role. The toys may be being made because their toys were relatively popular first time round (although Mudflap was a shelfwarmer, but we haven't seen any Deluxe toy yet). And as for the replacement buddies, maybe the Wreckers? I hate to admit it but remember that Bill Fagerbake is voicing one of them.

Well, we were also told Wheelie WAS returning for the film and haven't had any sightings of either a toy OR an alt-mode on set to confirm that. Personally, I don't care one way or the other if they're in the movie, the only thing that will annoy me is if they're still as juvenile as before. Or if their toys are the same shelfwarmers Tuner Mudflap is