Transformers! (Merged)

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'd like the Mission City : Los Angels :: Gotham City : New York City if they hadn't said Mission City is 20 miles from Hoover Dam.

Really? I thought I heard them say 200 and some miles, like "220 miles north of here". I guess I heard it wrong, but I remember thinking "that's about how far Vegas is from LA" when I heard that line (not realizing it wasn't suppose to be LA).

[xharryb]

Originally Posted by Alex

I was also mildly annoyed at them adding a completely unnecessary line of diaglog about how "NASA/JPL lost the Beagle 2 Mars probe." Why go to the trouble of adding that line just to get it wrong. Yes, only 1 in 500 people probably recognized the problem with it, but why not just say "remember that Mars probe we lost?"

That was a nod to the first teaser trailer that came out last year where we only saw a shadow of a robot as it destroyed the Mars probe.

I'll give you Grifith Observatory as a recognizable landmark for the average filmgoer. I'm not sure if the average filmgoer automatically associates it with LA, but they should remember seeing it in other films and TV shows. Of course, the observatory scene was before they went to the Dam, so they could have meant for that to be a different location from the city they go to after the Dam.

Again, I'm not saying they did a good job with the location issues. It's one of the big, sloppy flaws of the movie. It shows lack of focus on the details because they figured you'd be too busy watching the big shiny robots to think about these things. However, as the average filmgoer living on the East coast the observatory and the dam were the ONLY recognizable landmarks to me, and that was only because they've been featured in other films, not because I associate them with their actual locations.