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So, after much hype and anticipation, the first real trailer for the live action Transformers movies is out and already has enthusiasts and die hard fans kicking and screaming. I for one, am completely geeked about this movie and I cannot stop watching the trailer. I think it’s going to be great. I think about some of the complaints and to me, they just don’t make sense.

The Transformers look too complex and ‘alien’ like. Well, first off, this isn’t the cartoon, and if these things really did exist and really did transform to and from complex machines like automobiles and helicopters, they would probably look pretty damn complication in their ‘person’ modes as well. All that stuff just doesn’t wrap up in a super simple package like, oh, wait, the cartoon. Secondly, the Transformers are aliens and are supposed to be vastly superior in technology to us. Makes it seem appropriate to me that they are pretty complex things.

They don’t transform into the same cars/things! Well, part of this is the business side, and the fact that companies like Volkswagen and Porsche do not license out their nameplates and designs. The other part is again, contribution to the reality of a live action movie. If this were ‘for real’ a huge robot could not conceivably transform into a handgun (Megatron). It’s just not possible and honestly, if I saw that in the movie, it would just seem stupid. Yes, I am disappointed that Jazz will not be a Porsche and that Bumblebee will not be a Volswagen Bug, but that’s life. I’m not thrilled that most of them will be GM cars, but whatever, that’s not what I’m seeing the movie for. People seem so surprised at this, when really, what did you expect? They wouldn’t make the movie if they couldn’t make money off it, and if GM stepped up, kudos to their marketing department for trying something new. I bet no new car has been showcased in such a manner that the new Camaro will be in the movie. I am certainly not going to be shopping GM cars anytime soon, if ever, but I’m not going to let that ruin the movie for me.

The movie is too dark. First, you are judging the entire movie from 2 minutes of footage with almost 0 dialogue. Stupid. Second, ah, the story revolves around a war. Last time I checked, war isn’t exactly a bright and shining happy story line. I sure hope it isn’t as dark as some of the old Batman movies, but I think it’s an intriguing take that will enhance the realism (relatively speaking) I mean, this is still a scifi fantasy thriller, but hey, it’s cool that they’ve gone to such great lengths to maintain some touch with reality).. This also isn’t a movie that seems geared to kids were everything is happy go lucky and sunshine and puppies. To truly portray a war between two ‘races’ there’s going to be destruction, death, and some general darkness over the storyline..

The director sucks (Michael Bay). So you aren’t a fan, who cares. Don’t write it off. People also seem to forget that this movie is being executively produced by Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest movie makers of our time. So even if you aren’t a fan of Mann’s work, why don’t you wait and see. Stop writing it off just because you didn’t like whatever his last movie was.

It pains me to see people rip apart these movies, even after they come out as if it were feasible to take every aspect of the comic books and translate it to the big screen. That would be silly. It holds true for X Men, Spiderman, Transformers, all of the recent comic book movies. I love watching these movies, even if the stories are ‘updated’ and the characters have evolved or changed. I’m excited enough that this movie is made at all, even more so that is appears so far to look pretty cool. It will be fun to go see it and get into that same state of mind as when I was a kid watching Transformers, just thinking ‘this is sooooo cool’. I’ve watching the preview probably 10 times, and it’s still not lost a bit of its entertainment value. I can’t wait until Juily 4.

I’ll preface with this: if you don’t want to read a bitch session, stop now.

This week sucked. Sucked. It dragged. It was frustrating.

I sort of dodged going out tonight because I was just in a shitty mood and didn’t want to drag anyone else down (sorry Matt, I didn’t ignore the calls, I realized my phone was left in my car). It was one of those weeks where everything I touched turned to shit. How fun! Both of my projects at work I constantly ran into dead ends trying to fix things. I’d elaborate but it would bore you to death. Class, was tolerable, but these assignments are tedious, piss poor excuses for ‘work’ at a graduate level. I seriously did not just spend hours formatting servlet output so I don’t get docked because shit isn’t the right font size. Give me a break. The one freelance web project we have been trying to wrap up for weeks, the client is dragging their feet getting us the last trickle of content. Part of me doesn’t care, I already got paid, but I want to project done and over with. There are bigger and better things. Thankfully I don’t deal with said client directly (no, that’s not the problem) because if I did I’d have screamed at them by now. The car, in exchange for having fun in the snow with her last weekend, decided not to start on Thursday morning. Awesome! Actually, it’s probably due to the fact that either my battery is dying or I tried another failed experiment at getting these stupid, overpriced piece of shit lights to work the way they should. Maybe a little bit of both. It’s been over six months now with these lights. Fucking overpriced pieces of shit. I wasn’t going to bother with the car not stating issue Thursday morning because I had another at my disposal, but oh, that one didn’t want to start either. My own fault for not driving Kharissa’s car enough while she’s been gone and thus, the battery was drained. So there I was, with keys to two cars, one two years old, one six months old, less than 35k miles between them, and neither starts. That pretty much summed up the path most things took this week. Yay for getting to work late and thus, falling behind on hours that I’ll have to make up if I don’t want to burn precious vacation hours. And speaking of Kharissa being gone, talk about things that just blow in my world. She doesn’t get much phone time, and I can’t really call her, and she has no internet except apparently she got to an internet cafe this weekend. It sucks when you are used to seeing someone multiple times a week. I could write or send her something, but by the time she gets it she’ll be in the field where I won’t get to hear from her at all. Again, none of which is her fault, :shakes fist in the Army’s general direction: but it still sucks. I love you babe, can’t wait to see you again. When we do get to chat, I don’t want to go on and on about what’s going on here because, as you have read if you got this far, it hasn’t been all taht thrilling and more so, because I know where she is (in training), it sucks even more, there’s nothing going on (it’s the middle of Kentucky, what is there?), and I know she wants to be out of there badly enough already. I guess the point is that I knew I’d miss her a lot, but turns out it’s waaaaay more that I thought. Ten or so days down, eighteen more. As long as they can go by somewhat quicker than this last week.

I feel better having typed that all out at a ridiculous pace. I am looking forward to spring and summer, very much. Going to my first driver school/track event in April, going to Vegas for the first time for Rebecca’s wedding in June, and hopefully come August, the start of a trial run for future things (vague on purpose, don’t ask, won’t tell until it’s for sure). Right now, I’m most looking forward to March 9th, which can’t come soon enough.

Cold, snow, whatever, I think a trip to the batting cage is in order tomorrow. All I did today was work, and I didn’t even finish all of what I was supposed to. Fuggit.