Synopsis:

While maintaining it’s cohesiveness and not having anything seem out of place, this edit removes as much material as possible from the film that didn’t work or detracted from the important aspects. Every plot point that was needed for the story remained intact.

Intentions:

My intention was to cut out as much material from the film that I thought didn’t work or detracted from the important aspects. I also wanted to remove what I considered were some loose ends and/or plot holes within the movie. I did my best to make sure that every plot point that was needed for the story remained intact.

Change List:

Opening/Base Attack Scene: - Trimmed conversation on helicopter - Removed conversation between Lennox and his wife - Removed threat to kill Blackout’s crew if they didn’t step out and his utterance of “My God” - Trimmed Epps looking up at Blackout some - Rearranged footage so that Blackout is shot with grenade PRIOR to Epps escaping. - Trimmed Blackout turning arround some before ejecting Scorponok School Scene: - Removed intro by teacher & Sam emptying his bag - Removed spitball bit - Removed lines during flashback, “The ice is freezing faster than it’s metling,” and, “Don’t worry lads, we’ll get there.” - Removed “Sexton” line and class’ reaction - Removed shot of Sam’s Dad in his car Dealership Scene: - Removed clown’s line about his makeup melting - Removed line from Bolivia wanting to show Sam his favorite car away from BB Pentagon Scene: - Removed SecDef looking at those in attendance and all comments made there Witwicky House: - Removed Sam going to his room, checking the mirror, ebay, etc. - Removed bit about Mojo and his bling. Desert Scene: - Completely removed scene with Lennox and company talking about what happened, the binoculars and Skorponok spying. Park Scene & Drive Home: - Removed a few of Brent’s lines to his friends and his worrying about his wheels being grinded. - Removed 2nd half of Sam and Mikaela’s talk in the car where she comes off as a total ditz not knowing who he is. Analyst Scene: - Completely remove scene of analysts theorizing about Iran and China. Air Force One Scene: - Cut President’s Ding Dong lines. - Remove a lot of analysts lines (i.e. “Are you running a diagnostic?” “Should I be?”, etc. Only what was needed remains) - Remove several repetetive lines from military personal after signal is detected. - Trim Frenzy’s escape to the car Bumblebee signal scene: - Cut Sam’s call to police and his talk about the neighborhood watch - Cut Bumblebee driving circles around Sam and Sam throwing his keys Pentagon Scene: - Completely cut scene where Maggie talks about DNA based computers etc. with SecDef and military Desert Attack: - Completely removed Indian telemarketer and credit card gag. - Removed Epps lines “Man, If you could see this - - - - .” and “Bring It” - Removed “Bring the Rain” line. - Rearranged and trimmed much of the footage so that the action flows better. Maggie Stealing Signal/Glenn Scene: - Cut other analyts lines. - Trimmed Maggie removing memory card - Cut Maggie getting out of 2nd taxi - Cut Glenn playing games with his cousin - Cut Maggie asking if Glenn wants to see something classified and Glenn wanting to “work his magic” - Cut Glenn’s grandmother’s interruption. Bumblebee Chases Sam/Barricade Scene: - Trim footage of news - Cut out audio of Sam saying “Good Morning Mojo,” and “It’s too early..” to allow for it to be later in the day. - Trim some frames from Sam flipping on his bike. - Cut Sam telling Barricade that he’s had the worst day – removes uneccessary delay by Barricade - Trim Sam’s delay in running away - Cut Sam’s line about dreaming - Cut line in car about ditching the Monster – Sam hits the steering wheel and the car starts (Note: Unfortunately I wasn’t able to fix the continuity error with the tire spinning, but that’s is Bay’s error, not mine.) - Mirrored the scene of Bumblebee flipping Barricade into a building and them fighting on the ground to make the action flow in the same direction (pretty amateur mistake by Bay & co. here). Later shot of Barricade is mirrored as well. - Trimmed some frames after Sam kicks Frenzy’s head. Autobot Arrival: - Removed girl’s tooth fairy line. - Removed Jazz’s first line, “What’s crackin’ little bitches?” - Removed Sam’s echo of Prime’s “ebay.” - Removed line during flashback sequence, “The ice is cracking.” (DUH!!) Interrogation Room: - Cut entire scene with Donuts and Glenn freaking out. Military Airplane: - Cut a few lines at beginning of discussion of Skorponok Sam’s House: - Cut first news report Sam’s parents are watching - Cut entire backyard scene (Sam’s talk with his dad, “my bad,” and the bit with Mojo.) - Cut Mikaela’s efforts to help Sam search his room. - Cut S7 escorting everyone to the vehicles Sector 7 vehicle sequence: - Cut Sam’s martians line - Cut Mikeala going on about Sam never sacraficing anything in his perfect little life. - Trimmed the chase of Optimus to remove continuity error of Prime’s footprints magically vanishing. Pentagon: - Cut conference call and comment about the defining the Presidency. Hoover Dam/Sectory 7: - Cut most of Frenzy’s fall. Spliced a small piece of footage in during Prime’s speech at the Observatory. - Cut SecDef talking to Lennox - Cut SecDef having a hissy fit about the military not knowing about Sectory 7 etc. - Cut shot of Barricade after Starscream calls the Decepticons to mobilize - Cut Maggie asking what kind of energy the cube had - Cut Wolvering/Freddy Joke and Simmons asking for a phone, etc. - Cut Maggie correcting Simmons.

Additional Notes:

Be very strict about what is needed and what worked (IMO). If something sucked, but is needed, it stayed.

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