Transformers: Dark of the Moon

In the opening scenes, a flashback to 1961 is shown in which an office appears with several spacecraft and rocket models in the background.

One is the Saturn V rocket, which was yet to be designed and made in 1961, in the early days of American manned spaceflight.

When the Autobots visit the moon, the original Apollo 11 moon lander is shown with the ascent stage (the upper part) still attached.

The ascent stage was used to return the crew into lunar orbit, so only the descent stage (lower part) should be still there.

In the start of the movie when Sam is holding Brains, the small robot, looking for a box to put him in, a shot of Carly shows Sam in the background holding his arm out with nothing in it.

In the next shot the robot reappears and Sam puts it in the box he has found.

In the major battle scenes Carly's shoes keep changing from heels to ballet flats to heels again, most noticeable when she talks to Megatron.

In the flashback scene of the Apollo launch, the American Flag and NASA logo can be seen on the Vehicle Assembly Building.

The flag was not painted till 1976 in celebration of the United States Bicentennial celebrations.

The NASA logo was added in 1998 in celebration of their 40th anniversary, replacing the bicentennial emblem.

For most of the scenes set in Washington DC, the main characters are seen in a city of skyscrapers well over 30 floors high.

However, in the real Washington DC, only two structures are taller than the US Capitol Builing, and there are no skyscrapers in the city.

The large slanted building in the background is actually the Smurfit-Stone Building in Chicago.

In Carly's first scene, her hair goes from curly to straight to curly again.

On the bridge, when Sam and Carly kiss, her right hand is positioned on Sam's face and is dirty, particularly the thumb.

The next scene her right hand is behind his head and is clean.

It alternates throughout the entire scene.

When Simmons is sitting in his chair, a man walks by and drops a hammer, In the next shot, the hammer has moved.

Shia LaBeouf's character is seen living in an apartment in Washington D.

In various scenes where he is outside in the back alley, you can tell there are skyscrapers.

However, there are no skyscrapers near Washington D.

The character Dutch, despite his name suggesting otherwise, appears to be German, as he has a few lines in this language.

However, in the stand-off scene in the Russian bar Simmons shouts at Dutch in a different language, that appears to be part German and part gibberish.

Also, the nickname "Dutch" has long been used for people of German background, mainly being a mispronunciation of what Germans call themselves - Deutsch.

During several shots of the Autobots driving down LaSalle St in Chicago, the Porsche camera car - the "Bay Buster" - and a smaller camera unit on a black kart-rig can be seen.

When Sam and Dylan are fighting on top of some rubble, the clock on the building behind them changes time from scene to scene.

In the first shot it's 10:40h, in the next 1:00h and in the last shot 11:05h.

During the freeway attack outside Washington, D.

, one of the signs that is destroyed reads "West Interstate 88, Aurora".

That portion of Interstate 88 runs from the western suburbs of Chicago to the Iowa border, and is nowhere near D.

In a city invasion scene, when inside an apartment, Dylan has dark stubble on his face, then later in the scene where he is forced onto the apartment's balcony, he is clean shaven.

When Wang meets Sam for the first time and they run into the toilet Sam has no jacket on.

When they come out of the toilet he has a black jacket on, then when Sam gets to his desk, no jacket again.

After the sign 'Chernobyl' is seen Polissya hotel which is in abandoned Pripyat city (as the big wheel), not in Chernobyl town.

The damaged reactor is approximately 3 km away from the city and the other side.

During the plot Megatron explains that his original intent of arriving to Earth was to meet up with Sentinel Prime rather then to claim the Allspark, however this is hard to believe considering Megatron crashed landed several hundred years before Sentinel's arrival in the 1960s.

It's not unreasonable to assume that the massive damage to Sentinel's ship slowed him a lot and allowed Megatron to overtake him.

In the opening scene set in 1961, when government officials race to the White House in two black Lincoln Continentals, one Lincoln is period correct, but the other is clearly a 1965 or later model as noted by the squared-off front grille.

When showing Nixon giving his address, the image shown on the monitor was very similar to the view the audience gets.

However, there is a lamp shade on the monitor that was nowhere visible in the room.

At the beginning of the Chernobyl scene, one of the Russians clearly states that Chernobyl will not be inhabitable for 20,000 years.

Chernobyl, Prypriat, and surrounding areas will in fact be uninhabitable for about 200 to 300 years.

This area is contaminated primarily with Strontium 90 and Caesium 137, both of which have half lives of about 30 years.

Most scientists agree that it will take about 10 half life iterations for radiation to return to the background levels before the accident, which would be a time frame of around 300 years.

Some people still live in Chernobyl and short term tours are offered in Prypriat.

In most places within the city, the level of radiation does not exceed an equivalent dose of one microsievert per hour.

When the Autobots are forced to leave Earth, there are said to be nine of them.

However, at this point in the movie there are elevenOptimus, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Dino, Que, the three Wreckers, Wheelie and Brains.

However, Wheelie and Brains had been hiding on Earth in Sam's apartment and were not part of NEST's "inventory".

When Sam is interviewed by Bruce Brazos there is a glass sphere on the desk, showing the reflection of the cameraman in the bottom left hand corner of the shot.

The cameraman is visible throughout this scene.

When Sentinel reveals his deal with Megatron and kills Ironhide, his rusting gun changes sides back and forth.

When he shoots Ironhide for the first time it's on his right hand, the second time it's on his left.

When he starts shooting randomly to the NEST team and the headquarters, it is on his right hand, and while he transforms into his alternate mode he is shooting with his left hand.

When Simmons encrypts the phone call, no decryption system is set up on the other end of the phone call.

Due to the way encryption works, the other end of the call must be able to decrypt the message, otherwise all they would hear is gibberish.

During the "Mexican Standoff" one of the Decepticons had robot blood come out of them.

Yet there is no blood on the street.

This happens twice.

When the Ark lands on the moon in the beginning, the impact causes fire.

Fire needs oxygen.

There is no oxygen on the moon, therefore there can't be fire.

Most spacecraft (of earth design) require an oxidizer component to the fuel mixture, it is not out of the question for an Autobot designed spacecraft to also need an oxidizer.

Therefore it is possible that an oxidizer tank could have ruptured when crashing and thus allowed fire on the moon, but just till the oxidizer was used up.

When Sam and Carly are talking in the conference room, Sam stops setting out the folders to look up something on the computer.

In the rest of the scene, the folders to Sam's right change from not being passed out, to placed in front of chairs, and back again.

Lennox says there are aircraft leaving from Grissom Air Force Base, heading to Chicago.

Grissom hasn't been an Air Force Base for almost 15 years.

He should have said Grissom Air Reserve Base.

The side of Megatron's head which has been damaged switches during shots in the fight scenes, suggesting mirror imagery.

When Optimus Prime merges the spark in Sentinel's chest, he immediately starts to speak after he is told he is safe.

In the first film, the Transformers learned Earth language through the world wide web.

Sentinel could not have been aware of this as he was in sleep mode since he crashed onto the moon, and, given he didn't know where he was, it was impossible to know how to speak English.

However, an undetermined amount of time had passed between the moment Sentinel was retrieved and the moment he appears in the NEST base, and as Ratchet states, he was in low-power mode, so it's not entirely unreasonable to think that the Autobots might have uploaded language data to him while he was sleeping before reactivating him.

Sam is heard to say that lunar farside is the same as lunar darkside.

As the moon is tidally locked with the earth, it shows the same face to earth at all times.

As the moon revolves around the earth, lunar farside revolves into sun light and back into shadow, this is said to be the phases of the moon.

The only time that all of lunar farside can said to be lunar darkside is during the full moon.

At all other times part or all (during the new moon) of lunar farside gets some degree of sun light.

When Simmons is searching the Chernobyl site for alien technology, he comes across a box with an "Intercosmos" logo printed on it, which he then says "dates back to Sputnik.

" Intercosmos was a Russian organization that included cosmonauts from other countries on Soviet space flights.

However, Intercosmos existed between 1978 and 1988; Sputnik was launched in 1957, twenty-one years earlier.

When Sam forces his way into NEST after the Decepticon attack and Wang's death, Carly changes from black cage heels to sandy colored boots from the outside to the inside of NEST.

When Carly is talking to Sam by the car before Dylan's party, there is a shot, when Sideswipe and Dino pull up behind the Mercedes.

In the next shot, Dino is on the other side of the street, then, in the next shot, neither Sideswipe nor Dino are in the street.

During the freeway attack outside Washington, D.

, one of the overhead freeway signs that is destroyed reads "Business Route 20, State Street".

That sign corresponds to an Interstate's 39 & 90 exit at Rockford Illinois.

Route 20 runs across the northern United States, nowhere near Washington, D.

When Megatron destroys the Lincoln statue and sits down on it the wheel on his left feet appears to be seen going through the steps.

However, on the actual memorial, Lincoln's feet are sitting on top of an elevated platform above the base.

Megatron's feet are straddling that elevated platform making it appear like his CGI model is going through the base, when it really is not.

In the Apollo 11 scene, the Flight Director says "EGIL, get that signal back.

" There was NO EGIL flight controller position back then.

It was all under EECOM.

If he wanted communications back he would have yelled at INCO (Integrated Communications Officer).

During the Russian bar scene, Dutch "pumps" the fore-grip of the breech-loading shotgun to chamber a new shell and eject the spent one.

There's even the sound of the shell being ejected and hitting the floor, despite this being impossible for the type of gun he is using.

The loss of signal depicted in the movie caused by the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft being on the "dark side of the moon" is incorrect.

The moon rotates and orbits the earth at the same rate so the same side of the moon always faces the earth and the dark side is never visible.

The loss of signal depicted, with Walter Cronkite commenting, is actually from when the command module orbiting the moon would pass behind the moon from the earth making radio communication impossible.

The landing site for Apollo 11 is located just to the right of center when looking at the moon and just north of the lunar equator, which means that it is nowhere near the far side.

However, this is intended to be a NASA Black Op, and since it's shown in the movie that NASA can still communicate with the astronauts after the "signal loss" is announced, it's clear that the loss is intended to give them time to investigate without all of the U.

listening in, and the general public (of the time) would be none the wiser.

In one shot during the opening Apollo 11 montage, the Command/Service Module zooms past the camera, by itself, en route to the Moon.

The Lunar Module should have been docked to its nose.

When Sam has to go to the interview, his car doesn't start, so his parents give him a ride to the interview in their car.

When after the interview, Sam and Carly leave the building, Sam's old car is parked outside.

In that scene, the building seen is Carly's place of employment.

It is entirely possible that after Sam's interview (at a different location) that he went home and got his car to meet with Carly at her place of employment.

When the NEST operatives are seen jumping out of the VTOL-aircrafts and gliding down to the decepticon-controlled city, their weapons seem to disappear once they jump out of the craft.

When the Autobots leave the earth to avoid war with Decepticons.

Dylan Gould calls Sam Witwicky but when he places the phone near his ear, no call is actually made as you can clearly see the phone dialer is still visible in his phone screen.

When Sentinel first summons the forces from the Moon to Earth, the clip with one Decepticon jumping from the portal and another landing on his back and rolling, is shown twice.

When the Decepticon scans the Waste Management truck in Washington, DC, it is apparent that he is not in his protoform like all the other troops.

He is already in his bipedal Earth form before he has successfully scanned an Earth vehicle.

When Carly is trapped in Soundwave's car form while Dylan talks to Sam, she moves from the driver's seat to between the seats and back to the driver's seat throughout the scene.

In his first scene Soundwave appears as though he is now Carly's car (Mercedes SLS AMG) but the Mercedes star on the front grill doesn't appear on his chest until he reveals himself to Sam and Carly.

When Sam and Carly are held by Dylan Gould and Soundwave, Laserbeak suddenly disappears from his position on the fountain behind Sam.

When Carly is first brought to Chicago, she has straight hair, light shirt, and white jacket.

When Sam rescues her, her outfit has changed and her hair is now wavy.

Her clothes continuously change throughout the movie during long scenes when she would have no way to switch outfits.

When Sentinel Prime gives the order to release the pillars, the bridges across the river are down.

However, they should be raised because of Megatron and Sentinel's earlier orders.

When Carly walks up the stairs to wake Sam, she is wearing a white baseball cap.

When the camera pans to her face, the baseball cap is gone and her hair is wavy.

In the slow-motion wing-suit scene in Chicago when the men are seen jumping out of the aircraft, the backdrop image shows a reversed/flipped image of Chicago, with notable landmarks such as the Aon Center being located north of the Hancock building, rather than south.

When Sam's Parents arrive at the beginning of the movie, their car is being towed behind the RV without a trailer, but when they take Sam to his interview, they take the car off of a trailer.

At the end of the battle on the bridge, Ratchet and Bumblebee are shown to be identical in height as Ratchet commends Bumblebee for his bravery, but seconds before as Ratchet, Bumblebee and Sideswipe approach from a wider angle, Ratchet is clearly 5-6 foot taller then Bumblebee and Sideswipe.

When the wreckers appear in Chicago you can clearly see them ripping a decepticon pilot apart.

But once Optimus begins to explain to Sam and Epps how they survived you can see the wreckers are no longer behind them.

Then after the other autobots appear all 3 wreckers are clearly visible again When the Apollo spacecraft with LEM enters the moon's orbit, the scene was clearly "borrowed" from the movie Apollo 13.

The Apollo spacecraft clearly has the panel missing, antenna array damage, and debris trailing behind it.

When Ironhide and Sideswipe confront the Dreads all four drop their guns on the ground, yet minutes later when Iornhide is hit by a spear it immediately shows his guns back on his back.

Then when Ironhide catches Sideswipe's gun, his rifles are no longer on his back.

After Starscream stops banging his head on the ground trying to get the boom stick out he clearly looks up at the camera and you can see for a brief second that his eye (which is supposed to have the hook in it) is clearly fine and intact.

When Sam gets thrown out of the balcony, you can see the whole balcony has a metal rail running along the top.

Just as he hits it the balcony shatters, including the metal rail.

During the highway chase scene, the running Decepticons flip a silver Saturn Outlook, a silver Nissan Altima and then a black Chevy Trailblazer in that order.

During the next shot, from a different angle, the footage is reused and the same cars flip over again in the same order.

Towards the end of the movie, when the Autobots return to assist Sam and his fellows in taking back Chicago, one of the robots mentions that the Autobots were in the first booster rocket to separate.

During the launch of the Autobot spacecraft, however, the booster rockets never separated before being blown up.

As the ship was hit primarily in the main part and not in the boosters, it's entirely plausible that, even if they didn't "separate" at the time, their hiding place remained viable and splashed down as expected.

Optimus Prime's mouthshield goes from flat to vented during some shots whilst fighting.

The flat mouthshield is the most current version, whilst the vented mouthshield was used in the previous two films.

Nothing says that his mouthshield needs to stay exactly the same as the previous two films.

When Soundwave prepares to execute Bumblebee, his gun charges up and reveals an orange interior but when he begins firing after the ships drop the projectile is a dark blue indicating that his weapon is a sonic cannon and not a plasma cannon.

There is no rule that states he cannot switch between the two types of cannons.

When Sentinel Prime is shown in low power mode while in the Ark and prior to that in the opening sequence - he is shown to have red colouring and windscreen parts on his chest, parts that would be required for his alternate mode of a Rosenbauer Panther fire truck.

Sentinel Prime never made it to Earth and would not have been able to scan a truck to give him this alternate mode therefore he should have appeared as a cybertronian protoform.

It is entirely likely that he received the coloring as he was left for so long and that he was, in fact, given a vehicle to disguise as during his trip back to earth as he laid in low power.

It was stated by Que that the boom-sticks would arm in 30 seconds.

While the one Sam used to kill Starscream no doubt took 30 seconds the ones the military used on Barricade and a protoform took even less time, about 3 seconds.

This could very well be that Que left them easy to adjust the timer although Sam would never have known it given that he wasn't an official part of NEST.

When Sam is being interviewed by Bruce Brazos, the man says Accuretta contracts for DARPA, NASA, and JPL.

JPL is part of NASA, not its own entity.

This is a common misconception as they are listed as two separate entities although one does work almost exclusively for the the other.

When Sam is speaking to the UAV drone he says that the Decepticons are transporting Cybertron to Earth.

But Carly was the only one at that point to have known about this from Dylan, so how did Sam know this, when he was on top of the cruiser fighting Laserbeak when Carly was in the cockpit with Bumblebee? That question is easily answered.

How long does it take to say "Sentinel's bringing Cybertron here!" After Sam and Carly exit Bumblebee in the streets of Chicago, as they run towards the bus stop there is a quick shot of a green hummer h2.

This is Ratchet's alternate mode, despite Ratchet having already transformed.

Despite this, there's no reason there can't be another truck like that nearby.

During Sam's flashback of receiving his medal from the President, Sam's hair is parted on the RIGHT Side of his head yet when he meets Carly, a very short time later, his hair is parted on the LEFT Side of his head.

As the Ark is on the far side of the moon, Earth shouldn't be visible from there, but while the astronauts approach it to investigate a "cresent Earth", it is clearly visible on the top-right hand side of the frame.

Apollo 11 is seen traveling to the moon as just the CSM (Command/Service Module) without the LM attached.

Later, the paired craft are seen in lunar orbit.

When Mearing asks for her Hermes BIRKIN, green, ostrich bag her secretary hands her a green KELLY instead.

When Sam and his allies survive a slide down a dwindling building that is almost split in half, they appear near the bottom of the separating top half.

Once Shockwave's driller is sent to destroy the building in an attempt to eliminate the survivors, the building falls against a nearby apartment complex.

The survivors are seen moving across to this new structure.

However, to move to the next building, they are again seen at the highest part of the building, regardless of the slide that placed them near the bottom.

While the opening scenes of the listening post are captioned as occurring in 1961, the urgent teletype message that is sent reporting the lunar impact that they have detected that day is datestamped July 10, 1962.

("7-10-62") In addition, an entire third line of text is seen being printed in closeup ("CONTACT AT 2250 GMT") prior to the END line, but is missing from the paper when it's torn off the printer in the very next shot.

While the END line is still visible, the entire CONTACT line above it has disappeared.

The film depicts Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon as the moment when he hops from the ladder.

During the actual Apollo 11 moon landing, Neil Armstrong jumped onto the bottom of the ladder and then slowly placed his left foot (the film depicts his right) onto the lunar surface.

In the aerial shot of Optimus Prime flying into the battle in Chicago, we see Ratchet, Bumblebee and Sideswipe advance firing.

From behind Prime we can see Brawl is quite a distance from the fire truck which Sideswipe is taking cover behind.

However, as Prime lands, Brawl is the first Decepticon slaughtered by him as he knocks him over.

When the skyscraper falls over and onto the building next door Carly falls onto the other building.

In earlier shots you can see the other building is of modern concrete and glass construction but when she falls across she stands against a bricks and mortar wall with older design tenement windows.

Go see it, they said. It's the best of the trilogy, they said...

Okay when I saw the trailer I thought this looks awesome damn! I even read some reviews stating that this is the best transformers movie so far..

The first two films were so much better. I know Megan Fox was fired for a reason but she was better at acting than the new cast member.

I'm a huge sucker for seeing a full movie. I almost walked out of hobo with a shotgun (because my moral fibers disagreed with it) and I nearly walked out of this one cause I lost complete track of the story and all I could remember was a bunch of CGI robots destroying Chicago in 3-D.

Rosie Whitley is gorgeous and I'm happy they switched that but without a doubt the #1 movie in this series is the classic transformers no car chases which u need to have in all these robot movies and also be more creative with your robots because all they had fighting in this film was Optimus please get more creative but i wasn't too disappointed in there work they switched up camera views and made it interesting. I recommend this movie because it has many feelings and emotions that coexist with the audience such as love fear suspense and danger good movie but not as good as the first and yet still Rosie Whiteley is a babe!

I think the dialogue was written really poorly, and bay spent too much time making things look realistic and too little time creating the film itself as if the whole movie was shot in a week and the rest of the time was spent making special effects...One thing I laugh at a bit is how physics don't apply in movies.

I personally think that this movie should have never happened because first of all where was meghan fox i know she had a fall out with the director but the movie didn't even make sense between carly and sam because if meghan fox would have been in it it would have made sense but no.

In this case hiring a good author (for a decent storyline) and hiring good scriptwriters (for original quotes) was far less important than special effects. Also decent actors and realistic characters were subordinate to making robotic machines move and act like humans.

I don't know why the world seems to hate me. Before I saw this movie, I saw tons of reviews saying that this film was a fun, action packed movie, with great visuals, and a plot that actually wasn't that bad.