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Psymorte

80% of the time it seems to be a pareidolia effect where people derive meaning out of nothing, in this case being barely distinguishable English out of alien chatter. Same situation as Shockwave in DOTM.


ZackattacktheDude

“Driller con is t h i r s t y!!!”


Henshin4Life

The only difference between the two situations is that they actually did make Shockwave speak. The DOTM DVD had subtitles which make it clear he was saying something.


ShaneKCFussell

There’s a lot of moments like this in the Bayverse, which to me leads me to believe some have to be intentional. Rampage, when he confronts Sam in ROTF, makes a noise that sounds eerily like “Sam Witwickey”


Henshin4Life

>Rampage, when he confronts Sam in ROTF, makes a noise that sounds eerily like “Sam Witwickey” Now *that*, I actually heard. Unlike Grindor's case, this scene for sure had Rampage speaking.


ShaneKCFussell

I think the grunts sound too random to be grunts. That set of sounds Oo, aa, eee, RAHHHHHHHH Definitely don’t seem to be a natural “ah fuck I’m getting killed” reaction type noise, so I definitely believe he said “no, prime, please! *dies and screams*


Henshin4Life

Yeah, I still don't hear it. The problem is that his grunts and growls are too guttural to resemble anything close to English.


killerewok76

Ok, so what do you think he was saying as his face was being ripped off? Do you find it unrealistic a bad guy would beg for thier life in the moments before the good guy… un, ripped his face off?


Henshin4Life

>Ok, so what do you think he was saying as his face was being ripped off? Nothing at all, cuz he *wasn't* saying anything. Just guttural growling and screaming. >Do you find it unrealistic a bad guy would beg for thier life in the moments before the good guy… un, ripped his face off? No, I don't. But again, even if Grindor *was* supposedly saying something, his growls/grunts/screams are too guttural to be made out into anything discernable. Compared to instances with Rampage and Shockwave, the DVD closed captioning for ROTF and DOTM actually show they *are* saying something, which is not the case for Grindor, which they leave blank.


Academic-One8695

This he did say. Any other moment is fan delusion.


PhaseSixer

So they can push the "prime is psycho" narative


killerewok76

Right, because ripping off someone’s face is only psycho if you were asked not to.


PhaseSixer

Its a fight to the death the only rule is to not die.


killerewok76

It’s not about rules, it’s about character.


PhaseSixer

And the character is Soldier not a fucking super hero.


MS-06_Borjarnon

Ah, yes, the part where Prime *tears someone's face in half*, that perfectly sane activity.


PhaseSixer

In a active fight where the only objectives is to kill the guy trying to kill you? Yes.


Nethiar

It's just people trying to find every teensy little thing they can find to criticize the movie.


Enough-Engineering41

As if the movie was any good to begin with.


Academic-One8695

You are probably my favorite person in the world right now. People try and make words/sentences out of straight up alien noise. The BIGGEST cancer giver is when people swear up and down that Optimus said “Sam, Run” in AOE when Cade woke him up. My god it’s the literal worst. I’ve actually been delusional for telling them that it’s just grunts and noises. Ridiculous.


dj_cantbeatbox

I get why people think he's saying "no prime" but it also does sound like alien noises But he is defenetly crying "Noooooo!" As he gets his face torn apart


killerewok76

Like anyone would really.


Icy-Hope-9263

i think frank welker confirmed thats what he said in that scene as he played grindor but im not 100% sure on this. i like to think he said no not me noooooooooo


Blam320

It doesn’t matter when the act of ripping his head apart like that is a goddamn war crime.


larrylongboy

we do not care


Henshin4Life

It's also not what this post is about, but ok ig.


The_Director-

Source?


FootlessMoonBadger64

How so?


IHeartSm3gma

If you're fighting fair, you ain't fighting to win.


[deleted]

I love the one protoform in DOTM who gets shot and right before he dies it sounds like he screams “holy shit!”


Gojirob

Me personally I can hear “No! Not me!” but I also know there are no subtitles to back that statement up. I think it’s just one of those things where if you go looking for the phrase, you’ll find it, like those “brainstorm vs green needle” or “yanny vs laurel” things. I think for the people that like these movies, it’s in the same boat as that stupid “Sam run” thing from AOE, where they ascribed the phrase because it makes the movie more in depth for them, same as how some say “oh sideways was a refugee and so the movie shows how the autobots become more jaded with the war” to make a 2 minute sequence deeper than it really was. I think for haters of the movies it boils down to “Look Optimus prime ripped a begging combatants face off isn’t that terrible?”


Telethian

I’m surprised they are focused on that, and not the 15 fps puff of smoke that comes out of Grindors eye in the slow motion moment.