reave said:
I'm already in the planning stages of a fanedit of ROTF, as are a few other people.
I'd be one of those who plan to edit ROTF. Not really one to plan it out ahead of time, though I do have ideas running around in my head. I was just recently (yesterday) able to finish my edit of the first movie now that I have a computer with a Blu-ray burner. It wasn't worth editing the DVD since I wouldn't watch the lower quality medium.
I commented on fanedit, but wanted to share here as well. My initial edit was mainly of just scenes or large sections of scenes I wanted cut out, so I only had about 17 or so cuts originally. I was looking for ideas for extra material to cut without having to watch the movie over and over and someone mentioned your edit. Your edit list gave me a lot of ideas, and made me look a lot closer at things. I ended up using some of the same edits you had, and some I already had. But in going through the movie closer I found a lot of other small bits I removed. I also kept some stuff you cut, but that's all a matter of taste I guess. I don't have a problem with Linkin Park for example, so the ending is unchanged.
One thing you mentioned though was the Advertisement bots and that it was impossible to keep only the dew bot. I have to say that's simply not true. It only took about 10 minutes for me to remove the other bots and leave only the Dew bot, and most of that time was my software screwing up. It just takes a rearrangement of the 5 seconds or so of when Sam gets back up off the ground and removal of the unneccessary footage. Works perfectly.
Other things I did that you didn't mention was the removal of Barricade in all scenes after his fight with Bumblebee.
The rearranging of bonecrusher and optimus transformations on the highway so that the scene flows better.
The rearranging of the Epps/Blackout/binocular scene so that Blackout is shot with the grenade before Epps gets up, making it appear that the grenade is the reason he was able to run, not because of Blackout's hesitation.
I cut a few of the lines in the flashback to Sam's great grandfather ("The ice is freezing faster than it's melting" worst line in the movie IMO, and "Don't worry lads, we'll get there")
Removed 2nd taxi arriving at Glen's.
And other small things.
I think I have about 80 cuts now instead of my original 17 or so.