40 Minutes of TLK were cut, including the Megatron and Prime backstory

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  1. Mr.Deflok

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    I suspect the writers room made a good bridging story and platform for sequels.

    Then Bay said "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME" and filtered out what the franchise needed in favour of poorly executed sounds-like-they're-having-sex-joke and the like. Nothing more. Nothing significant on the cutting room floor. Bay doesn't give a shit about the lore, just the spectacle. I've enjoyed all of the movies but TLK had me going "enough is enough". Still, was fun kinda.
     
  2. Starscream Gaga

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    Correct, both the novelisation and the comic adaption of the first movie include Optimus killing Barricade after fighting Bonecrusher, which was likely cut from the film during production. This is totally normal though, famously Skids and Mudflap were supposed to be included in DOTM, being killed by Sentinel Prime after he shot Ironhide. Like with Barricade, the novelisation and comic included the scene and Skids and Mudflap were seen on set (and even seen in the film in alt-mode during the scene in NEST) quite frequently. The novelisation of DOTM also had Ratchet and Mirage/Dino being killed.
     
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    It's actually Que and Dino in the novelization... just saying :) 
     
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    I don't think the writers cared either. The whole "I haven't your voice since Cybertron" shouldn't ever have been written in if they paid attention to the first movie.

    Bay will listen if he has to. I feel like it was Paramount pushing to keep the same exact formula so they could replicate the success of the prior sequels.
     
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    Ah, that's good stuff! Thanks!

    Yeah, with Skids and Mudflap I kind of pretend Devastator killed them both. It sure felt like that was how we were supposed to view it and that Bay had them "survive" for the kids or something. It would have been a lot cooler if Sentinel Prime had killed them. I am not trying to be some hater (though, yeah their characters bothered me, but it's worse to just drop them from the cast in between movies without an explanation. I feel the same way about Arcee.
     
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    in the sequel comic it shows barricade on the highway damaged but still alive
     
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    Sorry, my bad. I used the wrong name.

    In AOE, Arcee's card says she died in Egypt, so I guess we're supposed to assume that the shots the red and purple bikes received in ROTF were fatal and that the blue one was killed off-screen as well (unless of course, it was just talking about the red bike... but that's a whole other mess)?
     
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    Lines are cut all the time.

    I'm not holding my breath for any deleted scenes besides "Viviane's aunts suggest Viviane become a BBW to attract men" or "Boy flirts with Izzy expanded edition".

    Fanart. Excellent work, but it's fanart.

    At my screening I got "you blew your chance to kill Unicron" from Nitro Zeus, and "Quintessa is the great deceiver". I also got "I kicked more ass in prison!" Whereas I've heard an alternate version where Nitro says "Unfortunate. I was wanting to bust some heads" with a much more dignified delivery.

    Cool that you got through to them but I doubt we'll get more than some lame deleted scenes that we certainly won't miss once we get them.

    To this day, I still don't get why Bay didn't edit the Twins out of that one NEST scene. That was the scene that got the fans up in arms and also got Bay up in arms and all.
     
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    The scene where Bumblebee shoots is altered. In the other version, Optimus has his faceplate on while he tells Quintessa "Say hello to my friend, Bumblebee". She also says "Nemesis, you traitor" instead of just "You traitor! after Prime strikes her with his sword.

    EDIT: Saw the movie again, but this time only this scene was altered again. The one I just saw only had Optimus tell Quintessa "Say hello to my friend" with his faceplate on, while all the other times Ive seen it at the same theater he didnt have his face plate on.
    So now theres three versions. The one I just saw, the one where Optimus doesnt keep his faceplate in this scene, and then theres the one where Optimus keeps his faceplate and Quintessa refers to Optimus as "Nemesis" before shocking him.
    This movie's production is weird.
     
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  10. SkyfiRe71

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    How/Where did you see this??
     
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    It sucks ff there was going to be a Optimus and Megatron backstory scene and it ended up being cut.
     
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    lol. must be 16% of Transformers story and 84% Human story
     
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