Transformers! (Merged)

[xharryb]

I'd like to make a comment on the geography issues...

First of all, i completely agree that they should have made a greater attempt at making the locations nonspecific if that is what they wanted. However, for those of us that don't live in that part of the country and have never even visited those places, where they were never even crossed my mind. Since I don't live there, i don't autimatically see buildings and say "hey! That's LA!" I don't find that skyline to be nearly as recognizable as say NYC. What it comes down to really is that I don;t think they intended for it to be LA in the movie, they were just overly lazy at disguising the details. A flaw? Sure. Does it take me, a non Californian out of the picture? not really.

I did find, however, that my biggest complaint was the fact that they went to any city. It just seems to go against the nature of the Autobots. They're mission is to protect the humans, so they willingly choose to take the bait from a less populated environment into a center of population. Even in the cartoon they would surely have taken the fight further away from people, into the desert or something.