Hello there. I just saw the movie about an hour ago and I was thinking just about the same thing the whole way through. Fan edit fan edit fan edit! I too am by no means a longtime fan, heck, I didn't even really know what transformers were five hours ago. But, for the most part I liked the movie too. There were really only a few things that bothered me as well. The first thing that bothered me was that our hero and main character seemed like a bit of a shallow asshole (to me). I mean come on, selling family heirlooms to get some wheels, so that he then can wrangle himself a nice f%$*ing sexy lady and never have to resort to piles porn for his entertainment, at least when he's got a real living breathing sex toy!? It's kinda developing him as a bad character with almost no redeeming qualities except maybe innocence and inexperience with women (that a young viewer could relate too?) and a potential for doing future good deeds. The way they make him appear is probably my biggest annoyance. That, and the thing with his parents "were you masturbating", please get rid of as much of that scene as possible (I really do think it was terrible, they tried for a bit too much comic relief if you ask me). Other things that I feel need changing have mostly been mentioned. Things like the soldier having a wife and a child, please take it out, it really goes nowhere and I feel that the dialogue with him speaking over the web cam was very bad and slowed down the pacing of the film.

The one girl, Mikeala or something and her dad and their criminal past. Why even bring it up? It seemed as if Sam didn't really seem to care and didn't brood about it and forgot about it right away. I dunno, seemed half-baked.
I really agree with this, it doesn't belong.

The whole entire girl programmer thing really bugged me. They introduce these two characters, and they don't do much, except eat a plate of donuts. They just solve the code, and that's it. Wow. Yippie ki-yay motherf*&%$#. Big deal. They almost seemed like dead weight to the movie.

I also really agree with this, anything with little miss "I need eyeshadow and a sexy hairdo to work for the government" that can go should go. Especially her little line about "think quantum mechanics", the way she says it you just want to tell her "bitch, you don't even know what that means!"

About the score, some of it I thought was pretty good, but I could do with almost no electric guitar, but thats only what I think. If it's the sort of thing that was part of previous Transformers incarnations I'd keep it (for nostalgia's sake?), but if not I'd let it go.

Also the bit with the soldiers being non-accepting douche bags when they make an issue about the Spanish soldier speaking his native language, the scene very early in the film. I feel it could go.

One last thing (and without it I think the movie would be just great). The bit with the cell phone charge and finding the credit card in the desert fight. I know it got a few laughs in the theater (even a giggle out of me), but it was so not fitting for the scene, it slowed down the pacing so much in a place that could have been near perfect action-wise.

Anyway, I hope some of my thoughts are helpful. I'm definitely interested in seeing how this turns out. Until the next post, I hope your move goes well.