Some of the humor was left in but in all the right spots. This is not a version that attempts to remove ALL humor. Humor has its purpose and Reave made, in my opinion, all the right choices about what to leave in and what to leave out.

Extremely well executed, I give this a 9/10.

Overall, I give it a 9/10. Better than the original and well executed.

- Remove “My ladies” scene and later laptop jamming. Noticeably a setup for a scene that doesn’t finally happen.
- Remove chihuahua bling comment.
- I thought “You’ll call me” was good. Kinda emphasized the boyfriend as an ass.
- “Looking at my piece, 50 cent?” scene. Cut police station scene before that part starts. Pointless.
- Shorten shot of guy standing doing nothing in the aisle before the SWAT break into Glen’s house.
- Cut girl taking tooth from under pillow.
- Cut “Easily 100 times better than Armageddon”
- Remove call center scene, call directly to Pentagon.
- Skip Optimus breaking the fountain. Cut from “Watch the path, please, please!” to “You can’t wait for five minutes. Just stay!!!”. Debris are later shown, but may pass as rubble from them breaking the paths.
- Skip scene with Mojo peeing on Ironhide, which shows Ironhide as an illiterate grunt that can’t even speak properly. I think the scene could be recut to Ironhide just slapping Mojo around, Sam picking him up and getting into the house.
- Remove scene with Bumblebee walking forward and ‘unzipping’ before peeing on Simmons. No point.
- Cut Keller’s “You mean that I can not pick up this telephone and call my fa…” Maybe leave it at “You mean that…”
- Remove Maggie to Glen “Morse code, this through that”. The dude is supposed to be some kind of genius. He wouldn’t need such an idiotic explanation.

entertainment 8/10
fanediting 9/10
video 10/10
audio 10/10
original 6/10
fanedit 7/10
presentation 9/10

8/10

For my two cents…the only thing I would say is that I agree with JCPRuckus in that more of the Sector 7 stuff should be cut. It really is hopelessly terrible stuff…. As much of it as possible should be taken out.

As for other suggested cuts:

Girlfriend’s criminal past,

The autobots being idiotic / clumsy – e.g Optimus saying “Oops, my bad”…

The military worship – e.g. Voight’s line “Losing really isn’t part of these guy’s vocabulary”. Urgh. Also, parts with the little kids and locals in Qatar helping out the troops…just seems like clumsy propaganda…

When Shia’s arrested, It’d be nice if you could get rid of some of the comedy cop stuff – “You lookin’ at my gun? / Are you on drugs”? – Just weird, far too broad comedy.

Maybe a few other cuts around the “comedy” moments – the chihuahua with the bling, Bumblebee being like Herby, etc….oh, and DEFINITELY the kid with the video camera who screams “This is WAY cooler than Armageddon”. Needless Michael Bay self-congratulations.

Everything else is excellent. Are you planning on doing another cut?

Let me start by saying that this cut is definitely an improvement over the original. However, I think more could be done. I see this movie as having 4 distinct parts, the robots (duh), Shia and his family, the military, and the NSA/Sectoin 7. When I first saw this movie in the theater all of these parts worked for me except one… the NSA/Section 7. This part was uniformly horrible. Jon Voight was terrible, John Tuturro was terrible, they British girl’s dialogue was terrible, and Anthony Anderson was mostly just annoying. Also, nothing interesting (read no action) takes place during 95% of these scenes. Therefore, I still have major problems with how much of them you left in. These scenes should all be cut to literally the bare minimum. There should be no throw away lines, because quite frankly every single line that isn’t required for the scene or the plot to make sense should be thrown away. I’m not going to make an exhaustive list (even though I’d like to), but I will point out that you can (and should) completely throw out the girlfriend’s “criminal past”. You cut out almost all of Shia being mad about it anyway, so you may as well cut it and save a few dozen lines of poorly written/delivered dialogue. Beyond that though, you should have cut the little girl taking her tooth out from under her pillow. It’s pointless if you’re not going to have her say the tooth fairy line. Also, if possible you should cut the whole credit card/ Indian customer service rep thing. There’s really no reason to cut away from the battle if you can help it. There’s also a shot when they’re trying to make contact from under the damn where Jon Voight seems to just randomly shoot into the pile of stuff they have blocking the door. For some reason it really jumped out at me as seeming weird.

As far as thing I wished you had kept… the “it’s Japanese” line (probably the funniest line in the movie)… the “cool mom” line (sometimes you need a character in the movie to say exactly what the audience is thinking, and I don’t know how your inner child wasn’t thinking how awesome it would be to actually see giant robots fighting each other)… the advertising bots (if I remember correctly, the “Dew-bot” shot cans like they did in the commercial, which I loved)… “I’ll drive, you shoot” ( Ihonestly don’t care about this line one way or the other, but the way you cut it together just doesn’t make me feel that it makes sense for them to drive back out there, when It did before. Honestly, I don’t see why you bothered).

Overall, I’d have to say that this was really well done and enjoyable to watch. I see that you intend to make a few more cuts of this film, and I imagine that some of my concerns will be addressed in one or the other (though I doubt you’ll be adding any comedy back in). But as of now, all I can do is rate what’s before me… 4 stars. Good Job.

other than that, very good job cutting out the silly parts so far, it’s a great improvement

I look forward to the future edits of the movie, especially the G1 cut. I don’t know what that is but I hope it has something to do with dubbing the original voice actors from the cartoon into the movie if that’s possible. Frank Welker FTW!

What footage was cut was done subtly and was rightly omitted for it’s silliness.