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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) - 26 corrections

Directed by Michael Bay, starring Josh Duhamel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi

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During the time when Ironhide and Sideswipe battle the dreads(the black aliens) the dreads throw a club into Ironhide's shoulder blade. After the battle Ironhide is seen without the club or with no sign of injury. [Watch the scene carefully. Ironhide pulls the club out of his shoulder and thrusts it into one of the dreads chest. Then Ironhide, while still holding onto the club, flips the dread into a red car, then kicks him into a building.]
Edit Corrected by envisaged0ne
After the Ark crashes into the moon, the NASA bureaucrat who receives the news in his office is sitting in front of models of several rockets that would not yet have been designed in 1961, most notably the Saturn V (the big one on the far right), development of which didn't even start until 1962. [Many things, including rockets, are designed years (maybe decades) before they are developed. Not surprising that a NASA staff member had models of rockets well before they were developed.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
The American flag at the Apollo 11 landing site is shown as upright when the Autobots arrive. In actuality the flag fell over when Apollo 11 took off from the moon, according to Buzz Aldrin's autobiography. [We don't see a flag on a pole, only the one painted on the side of the lunar module.]
Edit Corrected by Friso94
When Starscream and Megatron are at the Lincoln Memorial, Megatron drops his head covering on the stairs, but the next shot after that he drops it at the threshold. [Re-watch the scene carefully. You see Megatron start to take off the cloak as he's walking up the stairs, but he doesn't drop it. Then when they cut back to him, you see he's dragging it along the ground, then finally drops it near the statue.]
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At the end of the fight between Optimus prime and Sentinel (when Optimus is on the floor and Sentinel is about to kill him) Megatron comes along and shoots Sentinel several times and it is noticeable that the right of the two large wheels that are located on his chest is blown away and falls to the ground and even rolls around a bit. BUT when Sentinel is about to be shot by Optimus the wheel is very visible under his arm still attached to his chest! just after the first time he is shot and before the second shot. [Megatron only blows off one wheel, and grabs the other, but the latter one is still attached to Sentinel. If you look closely, you can see it right after Cybertron collapses, but before Megatron throws him away.]
Edit Corrected by Friso94
When Sam and Mearing are on the plane, he tells her that the Autobots have no way of leaving the planet, although he knew that Optimus went to the moon to retrieve Sentinel. [It was never made clear in the film that Sam was aware of this. He wasn't even around when the idea of the Autobots going to the moon was discussed.]
Edit Corrected by Brad
Cybertron is placed between Earth and the Sun, as you can see in the shots from outer space. But it doesn't see to block the sunlight, despite being notably bigger then the Earth. [It doesn't block the sun because Cybertron is a framework construct, not a solid mass.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When Mearing asks Sentinel about the Space Bridge, he says that only he can control it. Yet in the battle of Chicago, he orders other Decepticons to restart the link after Optimus broke it and it's not even a Transformer who restarts it. [Only Sentinel can control the bridge, as in determine where the two ends open. This does not mean it can't simply be switched on by another.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius Time
On the moon, Optimus and Ratchet are talking normally and the little cars they brought with them are also making all kinds of sound. Odd seeing how there is no atmosphere on the moon, therefore no sound. [They are communicating via radio frequency, or some similarly functioning if much more advanced technology. We, the audience, hear them for the same reason we hear both sides of a telephone conversation in any other film: It's just how movies work.]
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When we see Sentinel Prime being extracted from the Ark by Optimus, we can see that Sentinel Prime already looks the same way as he does throughout the rest of the movie. The Ark crash landed in the 1960's, the Rosenbauer Panther Fire Truck didn't exist in the form we see Sentinel Prime transform into. All of the other Autobots came to Earth in their proto forms and adopted a disguise when they arrived [we see them scanning alternate modes - one Decepticon is shown doing likewise in this movie]. Sentinel Prime already has his disguise when on the ark, which isn't possible. [Looking at Sentinel on the moon/in the NEST Base before he comes back on line, one can see that there are no markings on him, he is a duller red and has large discs in place of the wheels. He is still in his Cybertronian form; the only constant between the two modes were the windows on his chest.]
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When Sam has his last job interview there's a globe next to the boss. There are some binoculars on top of the globe and throughout the scene they keep disappearing and reappearing. [The binoculars are behind the globe on their own stand that's why when the scene goes back and forth they aren't in some of the shots - depends entirely on the angle.]
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When Optimus and Ratchet are exploring the Ark, they only take Sentinel back to Earth. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to take as many of the other Autobots in stasis lock as possible back? The Xantium could easily carry some more, since it can take the nine Autobots when they are being exiled, and they can use all the help that they can get. [They don't take the Xantium to go see the Ark. Listen to Optimus' speech, he says he can get to the moon on his own propulsion (or something similar). They only take the Xantium at the end because they need to take more Autobots over a greater distance.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
The arrival of Cybertron orbiting so close to Earth would have massive ramifications for our planet. Bearing in mind the effects our moon has on our planet and Cybertron is considerably larger, it would cause massive tsunamis, floods and affect Earth's orbit around the sun. No explanation is given onscreen as to how the Space Bridge technology works, therefore any correction that speculatively tries to guess is against site rules. [You're assuming Cybertron is a solid mass, like other celestial bodies in our solar system. It's not. It's shown, repeatedly, to be a framework structure, the frames themselves being more or less hollow for to allow for internal habitation and traversal. There is considerably less mass to this planet than there appears to be from a distance, therefore the gravitational effect on the Earth is nominal.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
The soldiers with parachutes travel to Chicago in two-rotor Osprey aircraft, but they jump out of four-rotor aircraft. [There is only one quad-rotor Osprey in the formation and no NEST soldiers are actually shown to have been able to properly jump-out after Starscream attacks it as it attempted to ascend to its planned altitude by Willis Tower. Col. Lennox's team is not shown to be in that aircraft since the quad-rotor was shown in right echelon Rear formation during the flight to Chicago, while he and his team are shown being able to see stricken Ospreys *behind* them. This would be consistent with the idea of the Commanding Officer and his team being in the Lead Aircraft. Starscream attacked the quad-rotor Osprey first, then Col. Lennox's two-rotor Osprey. His pilot gives the order to jump after seeing the quad-rotor get hit and after being hit themselves. The Colonel's team is shown being barely able to jump-out as the stricken quad-rotor fell perilously close-by behind their aircraft's open ramp.]
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In the scene where Sentinel Prime resurrects and attacks Optimus,Optimus comforts him in English. From what I remember from the first part, the Autobots say "We've learned Earth's languages through the World Wide Web". But how come Sentinel responds to and speaks in English immediately after he's waken from NDE? [Already submitted and corrected. Sentinel Prime speaks English because he was headed to Earth when he crashed on the moon. Naturally, he learned the native languages before departing.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius Time
During the Apollo 11 moonwalk, footage is shown of Walter Cronkite reporting a loss of signal from Apollo 11, saying it is on the dark side of the moon. Since the same side of the moon always faces Earth, the moon would not rotate so that the Apollo 11 craft would be on the dark side. A loss of signal such as the one Cronkite reported would occur when the craft is in lunar orbit and passes around the dark side, which takes about a half-hour. [Cronkite is a news anchor not an astronomer or an astro-physicist. There's no reason he'd know this. He's just relaying the information he's given, which was obviously false to cover up the real reason for the signal being cut.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When Sentinel Prime is revived he is immediately speaking English. I know that the Transformers can learn a language quickly via the Internet, but he was just revived and in under a second is practically fluent. [Sentinal Prime was headed to Earth when he crashed on the moon. He certainly learned the languages before he disembarked. Most likely via intercepted radio transmissions.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
So let me get this straight: Optimus Prime has Energon Swords hidden in both of his arms, with which he can slice through an entire Decepticon in one chop, yet when he is hanging from a few wires, despite having one arm entirely free, he can't cut himself loose? [Optimus has shown that he cannot use BOTH his swords and his cannons at the same time. He had his cannons on his arms and couldn't deploy his swords without losing the cannons, which he must've thought were still necessary. When Optimus goes on his bomb run in Wacker Drive, he ditches his cannons before using his swords.]
Edit Corrected by Brad
After Sentinel Prime is revived, even though no one has had time to tell him what's going on, much less what humans are, he does recognize humans. [That's easy. He had prior knowledge of humans. Maybe from the 50,000 odd years that the Transformers have been visiting Earth.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
When Sam Witwicky has his last job interview a woman starts looking at the camera crew. [She could be looking at anything that's offscreen. There's no indication that it's the camera crew.]
Edit Corrected by THGhost

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