Hell, just go with them being ...not quite but kinda like bounty hunters chasing say... Shockwave far in the past and have that lead them to Earth. Then they could all be stuck in Antarctica like in the old comics. I think that's a perfectly workable premise in a summer movie.

Hell, just go with them being ...not quite but kinda like bounty hunters chasing say... Shockwave far in the past and have that lead them to Earth. Then they could all be stuck in Antarctica like in the old comics. I think that's a perfectly workable premise in a summer movie.

Only problem with that is that it's very similiar to the first movie, too much like it. So stuff needs to change up a bit more for it to work.

I suppose you have a point there. I actually thought the same thing as I was typing, but at least it does show that there can be workable explanations for dino dinobots. I'd be happy with big awesome earth modes if they were decent homages (which they can do and have done with several of the movie designs. Hell, I'd just be happy with Grimlock. There could even be friction between him and Prime for some story depth.

An earth mover? That poses an even worse problem than trainbots. Hell, even that thing that takes the space shuttles to the launching pad would move faster.

 

 

Regular construction vehicles are very common in any part of the United States, as well as any developed country, so they are the best for movie Constructicons.

*see post below*

 

and just as Devastator is about to deliver this big blow to Prime, five laser blasts hit him, and then the smoke is followed to the smoking barrels of the Dinobots weapons. Battle ensues, Autobots win, movie ends.

Never become a screenwriter, you great big hack. :P

Dork.

 

I'm just following you're typical action flick power moment where the tide turns and the good guys start winning. Like when Aragorn came with those ghost soldiers in Return of the King.

 

And don't call me a hack.

Ah yes, the most hackish part of the whole trilogy where a crummy deus ex machina just turned the story around because they were too lazy to think of something better? Yeah, I remember that.

You hack :P

 

Dude. What is your issue???

 

BTW, what Tramp said about you essentially calling Tolkien a hack. Yeah. I'm going to have to come to your house and give you a lesson in Tolkien's world.

 

Well, then you must be calling J.RR. Tolkien, one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, a "Hack" as well since it was he who came up with the ghost soldiers, not the movie screenwriters. Aragorn seeking out the cursed army and then leading them into battle in Return of the King to turn the tide at the last minute was in the original book, not something added by the movie creators.

 

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*clears throat*

Except the traitors weren't actually present on Pelenor fields, never saw minas Tirith and never broke said siege Damnit >.<

They were used to destroy the corsair fleet, which Aragorn took, met up with his homies (The dunedain and other warriors from the fiefdoms of Gondor -such as Dol Amroth) and sailed to Pellenor with a whole arsing load of HUMANS!

You know, that lot thats been played up as "being alone" cos its "up to them to face this darkness" and that they cant expect to be bailed out by the elves again.

 

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Pet peeve.

(That entire gorramn film)

 

That's beside the point. It was a movie and they obviously couldn't make everything perfect down to the tiniest detail for the fanboys and had to make some compensations here and there. They also did other things within the realm of creative liberties. In the Fellowship of the Ring, it was not Arwen who saved Frodo from the Wraiths, but someone else (it's been a while since I read the book so I forget who), and the whole thing with the horses made of water from the river was yet a second person. Arwen for the few moments like that was a conglomerate character rather than an individual who was originally written that way. They also left out the whole thing with Tom Bombadil before the Hobbits made it to the inn where they were to meet Gandalf.

In the Fellowship of the Ring, it was not Arwen who saved Frodo from the Wraiths, but someone else (it's been a while since I read the book so I forget who)

 

 

Glorfindel. My favorite elf EVER. I was a bit disappointed but realized that they had to give Arwen more screen time at the cost of an elf that would never appear again. Movies aren't books...

I don't think there is anything nerdier than a Lord of the Rings discussion.

Haha. You just have to be proud of your dorkiness. I am.

I don't think there is anything nerdier than a Lord of the Rings discussion.

 

 

*Points at the URL, the thread and basically the entire forum*

 

Say again.

I don't think there is anything nerdier than a Lord of the Rings discussion.

 

 

*Points at the URL, the thread and basically the entire forum*

 

Say again.

 

I stand by what I said. Lord of the Rings is a perfect storm of nerdiness. It is not only a fantasy story, but also treads in the world of stuffy literature. That makes any discussion both generally nerdy and academic at the same time. People who dress up as Lord of the Rings characters, by the nature of the costumes, occupy the realm of nerdy fans, as well as Renaissance festival goers. And that is just stuff that existed prior to the films. Add those to the mix, as well as any and all merchandise, including the super-nerdy weapons replicas, and Lord of the Rings is far nerdier than Transformers. Hell, it might even beat Star Trek in such a category.