Featuring rants unworthy of due consideration. Spell checked, but not proofread
If I wasn’t so tired, this would have been a real post. 
See vanberge’s post for more insight.
If you are seeing this post, it means that the DNS information for my domain updated correctly. And, after read the prior statement, you should already know that means that I have changed servers.
Rather than keeping my icdsoft account open for misled.us, I have decided to consolidate it on my grid account at media temple. Already I am seeing speed improvements.
While moving things, I updated several plugins, and reinstitued some features. Such as:
More changes are on the way in the not to distant future. But, I put a good dent in what I have been meaning to do.
I know that this post will draw a lot of hate mail. Furthermore, I know most of the people writing hate mail will not have even read this far in the post.
So, I decided to stop in over at Barnes and Noble after work. Unfortunately, there was a massive line built up around the building full of Harry Potter fans (children, the functionally retarded, and a pair of overly affectionate fat lesbians). Regardless, I figured I would be able to breeze right in, but the mass creatures wouldn’t hold still. The closer I got the the door the more they swayed like a pack of drunken sailors. As I tried to get through the doors into the store people “bumped” into me four times.
Some of the people were let loose in the store with “wrist bands.” It was slightly amusing listening to one of them try to explain to another customer that they had a wristband, so they did not need to stand in line. Of course it took them fifteen minutes, and they used the words “wristband” and “line” roughly 476 times.
“One shall stand, one shall fall.”
– Optimus Prime (Transformers: The Movie [1986], Transformers [2007])
Before I even get into this, everyone should know that I have decided to break my own rating scale, and give this movie an extra star on top of my maximum: ******. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, let the rant begin.
Throughout the past few years I have done everything I could to ignore the fact that a new Transformers movie was coming out. Yes, I still hold that the original cartoon movie is the best movie of all time. However, this new additional definitely ranks well up there. I’ve seen it twice in the theater, and it was significantly better the second time around (probably just five stars the first time), but I digress.
As soon as I heard about the new film, I was afraid that it was going to be a miserable mess. Hollywood just usually does not do a good job translating fan favorites, and considering that Transformers was created with the intent to sell toys, it admittedly doesn’t have that rich depth that are necessary to make a good movie. So, I was quite pleased when my fears were ungrounded.
If you are being fair, there really is no way that the film could have been better. Yes, there are a couple of goofy scenes in the film that I will probably remove to make myself a personal cut. But, honestly, after you see the film, ask yourself how you think you could have made it better without subverting the subject matter.
The first time I saw the film, the scenes focusing on Sam, and his lusting after Mikaela were excruciating, because it felt like they were wasting valuable time on these insignificant characters. But, the second time around it wasn’t so bad, because I knew that the scenes were fairly short in the whole scheme of things, also, as indicated by the image on the side there, Megan Fox is fairly attractive. Most of the humans in the film were utterly undeveloped, and it worked out perfectly, because they weren’t supposed to be the focus of the film.
I think the writers did a good job of pulling from the original source material to satiate the thirst of fans like myself, while maintaining a balance of mainstream elements to give it public appeal. The reprisal of Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime was critical to the success of this film. It just wouldn’t have been the same if some random dork did the voice. Furthermore, they even integrated classic quotes from the series and movie. Honestly, it would have been odd to have had the movie without Optimus saying, “Autobots, [transform and] roll out!”
Alright, I won’t go into further specifics about the film, since I think that everyone on the face of the planet should see it a few times, and I don’t want to completely ruin it for everyone. I’ll probably do a more comprehensive review with spoilers when it is finally released on DVD in the near future.
Yeah.
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