Transformers

[cignus_pfaccari]

Actually, I'm still trying to figure out where that dam was. The geography was certainly suggestive of plenty of bolt holes, as plot-inconvenient as that might have been.

That's pretty obviously Hoover Dam.

My best guess is that the battle at the end took place in Las Vegas, or possibly another urban area around Hoover Dam that was large enough to have some skyscrapers. (edit) Certainly, the terrain between the dam and the city doesn't appear to be in Michigan. I'd expect there to be more trees.

As much as I hate to say it, going to ground in a city was probably about as good an idea as they could come up with. All they knew they had at the time was a few squads of human infantry, and a built-up urban area gives the infantry more of an advantage against heavy armor and aircraft than would, say, holing up in a canyon somewhere. Adding the Autobots doesn't necessarily invalidate that, either.

Brad

 

[drothgery]

Actually, I'm still trying to figure out where that dam was. The geography was certainly suggestive of plenty of bolt holes, as plot-inconvenient as that might have been.

Hoover Dam is a real place; it's on the Nevada/Arizona border.

That's pretty obviously Hoover Dam.

My best guess is that the battle at the end took place in Las Vegas, or possibly another urban area around Hoover Dam that was large enough to have some skyscrapers.

There isn't one. The only large city within 200 miles of Hoover Dam is Las Vegas (Phoenix, LA, and San Diego are all 250-300 miles away). Though Henderson (a Las Vegas exurb) might be big enough to have skyscrapers now; it's one of the fastest-growing cities in the US.

 

[Vocenoctum]

They had already decided to call in air support, and knew they didn't have a prayer without that support anyway. They could just as easily dropped a tactical nuke right on top of that cube.... provided they took it somewhere besides the middle of Detroit.

They needed airsupport, but they didn't know they had it.

I liked the movie, the plotholes were nothing major, but heck, if we're going to get nitpicky, Bumblebee shoulda just merged the All Spark as Optimus wanted to do and ended the movie then.

 

[Seonaid]

The geek gets the girl, not the jock.

Why would the geek want the jock?

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Spoiler

Actually, I think that Bumblebee's voicebox was restored by contact with the Allspark (although why he waited until the end of the movie to reveal that he could speak is a mystery to me), but presumably once it had been shrunk, it didn't have the same potentcy from merely being touched (evidently it had to be jostled roughly to activate at that size).

Maybe he was given a choice and that was more important to him than new legs....

 

[Vocenoctum]

The geek gets the girl, not the jock.

It was probably the most amusing part, when the geek looks at her like she's somehow "wrong" when her criminal past is mentioned.

Sure she's a hottie, but a criminal hottie? Best leave that alone and go back to your magazines!

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Maybe he was given a choice and that was more important to him than new legs....

The time that he touched the Allspark, his legs were fine.

I suspect it's not quite so powerful in its convenient pocket-size form.

Brad

 

[Arkhandus]

Yeah, I would assume that when the All-Spark was compacted, much of its mass or something was probably shunted into another dimension, or otherwise unuseable while it was just in an easily-transportable miniaturized form. So it was probably more or less inactive while in mini-cube form (getting energy-zapped and jostled during the fight was all that caused it to transform nearby machines into savage proto-cybertronians).

 

[Banshee16]

The geek gets the girl, not the jock.

Jocks don't always get the girl My wife had a choice between me (the "geek"), and one of my best friends (the "jock")....needless to say....she's my wife now

Banshee

 

[Gog]

Hoover Dam is a real place; it's on the Nevada/Arizona border.



There isn't one. The only large city within 200 miles of Hoover Dam is Las Vegas (Phoenix, LA, and San Diego are all 250-300 miles away). Though Henderson (a Las Vegas exurb) might be big enough to have skyscrapers now; it's one of the fastest-growing cities in the US.

Just saw this today.

The last fight isn't in Vegas or Henderson (which dosen't have skyscrappers) it is in a place called "Mission CIty" by the Captain. While there may be such a city there isn't one anywhere near Hoover Dam which unless I missed it they never call Hoover Dam in the movie.

So I figure they weren't trying for a real city in the movie.