More Menacing Decepticons?

[Jetfire]

In Transformers & ROTF...shouldn't the Decepticons have been more menacing? In the movies they are kinda a joke really...shouldn't they just be EVIL! And darker. I know that isn't how they are portrayed in the cartoons really...but for live action don't you think they should have kicked it up a notch???

 

[FreezeC77]

Picking up humans and ripping off their limbs and then flinging them at other fleeing humans. Seeing a dismembered leg bone spear someone through the gut?

 

[Bishbot]

In Transformers & ROTF...shouldn't the Decepticons have been more menacing? In the movies they are kinda a joke really...shouldn't they just be EVIL! And darker. I know that isn't how they are portrayed in the cartoons really...but for live action don't you think they should have kicked it up a notch???

The Decepticons in the movies LOOK pretty menacing but are just kind of anonymous really. I wouldn't even call them a joke. They're just ugly looking cannon fodder. In ROTF they actually have completely personality free soldier Decepticons that all look the same. I understand they are probably saving CGI budget, but one of the BEST things about Transformers is that each robot has it's own personality and abilities.

(Also, no uber-fans try to correct me by talking about Seeker clones, or Terrorcons or Insecticons or whatnot. I know all that stuff, but I meant IN GENERAL that was part of the appeal)

 

[Kibbin]

That was a problem even as far as the first movie imo, can anybody name the decepticons in the first movie? I mean sure there's Megatron aaaaaaaaaaand we'll call the jet Starscream I guess cos we like that name but the rest of them?

 

[Mr. Sin]

Most of them named themselves when Frenzy found the allspark.

They are:

Barracade-The police car
Bonecrusher-The construction vehichle that Optimus destroys
Brawl (Although in the movie he was accidentally called Devestator)-The Tank
Frenzy-The small Decepticon
Scorponox-The scorpion

 

[DonIago]

I don't know whether they should have been more menacing per se, but it "amuses" me that they leave such an obvious target as Hoover Dam essentially untouched after freeing Megatron.

 

[captcalhoun]

Most of them named themselves when Frenzy found the allspark.

They are:

Barracade-The police car
Bonecrusher-The construction vehichle that Optimus destroys
Brawl (Although in the movie he was accidentally called Devestator)-The Tank
Frenzy-The small Decepticon
Scorponox-The scorpion

you forgot Blackout the MH-53 Pave Low III helicopter

 

[Trekker4747]

In Transformers & ROTF...shouldn't the Decepticons have been more menacing? In the movies they are kinda a joke really...shouldn't they just be EVIL! And darker. I know that isn't how they are portrayed in the cartoons really...but for live action don't you think they should have kicked it up a notch???

The movie was directed by Michael Bay.

 

[T'Baio]

In Transformers & ROTF...shouldn't the Decepticons have been more menacing? In the movies they are kinda a joke really...shouldn't they just be EVIL! And darker. I know that isn't how they are portrayed in the cartoons really...but for live action don't you think they should have kicked it up a notch???

The movie was directed by Michael Bay.

This.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Blackout was pretty menacing in the first film, but by the second film we have a tiny radio controlled truck Decepticon who humps your leg.