Well said.
1. Too much time spent on whinging Sam. I mean, Dark of the Moon made us wait over an hour before there was a battle between the Autobots & Decepticons. WTF? Why do I want to watch him whinge around about his job and prospects blah blah blah, and see stupid scenes in the toilet cubicle with that Chow guy from The Hangover? And Sam's whining reminded me a bit about one of (the many) things wrong with the Star Wars prequels, too much time focussed on a whiny teenager. But that's a whole nother discussion.
2. I did like what Hugo Weaving did with Megatron's voice, but Frank Welker's absence was felt particularly when Optimus and Megatron are going at it. But thankfully Welker is back for the latest one, voicing Galvatron. Now that will be nostalgic, even though there's every chance Bay will f**k up Galvatron like he did with Shockwave. And Soundwave. And many others.
3. Bizarre. But I guess that was to give him more a of badass/battle type look. It worked when he beheaded Bonecrusher in the first, but after that I didn't really notice it too much.
4. He was my favourite Transformer of all time, what an opportunity missed. I mean, a sattelite? WTF? I even bought this MP3 player for no reason whatsover (the music playback is sh*t and needs an SD card, but who cares)
5. This is probably the biggest f**k up (out of many). Why the hell have so many random, mindless characters on screen? Revenge of the Fallen was a joke, there were dozens of them in that desert battle at the end. But who is who?? To the casual observer, you don't know WTF is going on and who is a good guy and who isn't, you don't give a toss when one of them gets injured or dies. Its just like "meh, there's plenty more where that came from".
There's no better example of this than Shockwave in Dark of the Moon. Talk about ruining a character. What an absolute balls up. One of the most badass Decepticons relegated to a bit part riding a stupid ridiculous drilling machine. F**k off.
6. Looks like we'll be getting this with Galvatron at least.
7. Stupidity. Just another example of mindless CGI trying to impress the audience. When really, it pretty useless and boring.
8. And by the time this scene happened, an hour and a half had already passed. Again, way too much time distracted by needless plotlines involving Sam, and then having a rushed explanation jammed in your face to try and justify the time wasted.
9. Watching Megatron grovel to the Fallen was a bit embarrassing. Talk about de-valuing a character's standing. I didn't mind the Fallen being involved but would've preferred if there was a bit of animosity/tension with Megatron, who always wants to be number 1.
Another couple of random points whilst I'm ranting:
- Shockwave being given a sh*t death mostly at the hands of humans
- Starscream also going out like a punk. That was pathetic. Being killed by a detonation device from Sam? Please. He should've died at the hands of Optimus.
- The ending of Dark of the Moon. The battle just finishes, millions of people (potentially) have been killed, a city destroyed and the credits just roll.
- Megatron again being relegated further, and having to be taunted by that chick to get back into the action. Pathetic. The real Megatron would've crushed her where she stood and would never have needed the goading to begin with.
I could go on but I'll leave it there. For now.