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Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

As I was reading this review with great delight (I also hate T2-- the other T2) I started thinking about movies from a subjective point of view. The perfect movie is one that has a good, thoughtful story, and yet doesn't feel like a movie. Instead, it feels like real people being thrown into a real situation and coming up with real solutions.
Now, obviously this isn't revelation to anyone, but it got me thinking about Transformers. Particularly while reading your bit about having interchangeable Decepticons. I got this flash of inspiration about an entire team of Decepticons that have their own identities and often their own motives/agendas. This would present endless story opportunities, as much of a story could focus on one or two characters reacting to a situation, say Megatron's orders and how they walked through that situation. The only issue here would be to make it believable in that their still evil badass robots that basically want to do what their leader says, but they might have their own agendas.
I suppose I'm just reiterating Jammer's bit about Starscream and Megatron constantly undermining each other, but I really think he hit the nail on the head of what makes (or could make) Transformers so infinitely awesome.