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  1. CoryHolmes
    This is true. Those parts I could've done without. But I'm really impressed with Kevin Dunn as Ron Witwicky, I think he's done a great job with an iffy script at best.
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    I nominally agree with this, but I found the Twins' dialog to be rather amusing. Not so much their designs (and definitly NOT Sam's mom or dog, yuck!) but I found their lines quite funny. "Ow, man! That hurt!" "It's an ass-kicking, it's s'posed to hurt!"
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    And just like that, I swing back into the "must buy" camp. *sigh* Why do I even bother trying to keep my paycheque at this time of year? That being said, that review was equal parts narm and hilarity. I didn't care for the reviewer's delivery (I think Peaugh does a better job) but the fourth-wall breaking subtitles more than made up for that. Several times I had to pause the video to laugh
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    Unicron would be nice, but very iffy to do well. How can you make a planet-sized Transformer and still do it justice in the Bayverse? At best, I think Unicron (and Primus, if they go that route) would be best served as an off-screen antagonist, referenced but not seen.
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    That video has made me quite ambivilant about Rodimus Prime. I have issues with his legs/waist area, and a major gripe about the huge gap between the chest and back (especially in Hot Rod mode). I'll admit that the small Matrix was a nice touch, but that gap has me reconsidering my purchase.
  6. CoryHolmes
    B-but-! I need more! Moar, I say! MOAR!! *pant, huff* Okay, now I'm calm. Any bets as to who that is in the last shot?
  7. CoryHolmes
    I've discovered that I'm quite easy to please when I go into a film expecting it to be schlocky entertainment. Thus explaining my defence of the Prequels and of ROTF And I've recently discovered the A-Team and regret not seeing it in the theatres.
  8. CoryHolmes
    And then you get players like me who get to level ~45-50 and think, "Yeah, that's good enough!" and turn the Xbox off until the next game comes out Speaking of, any ideas when ME3 is due out?
  9. CoryHolmes
    Actually, the cold opening of the first episodes is what hooked me. It proved to me that this show was going to be radically different from all the others that had come before it. It also established the precident of not showing the audience anything the characters themselves would never know. Hence why we never find out what happened to the soldier and scientist chick that went through the Stargate in the third episode. It's a wonderfully effective storytelling element that really adds to the isolation and frustration the crew must be feeling.
  10. CoryHolmes
    Part of the problem I had with the Mako was that the designers went to all the trouble of including the various gravity levels on their planets, and yet the Mako always handled exactly the same. Seems like a waste of potential there.
  11. CoryHolmes
    I'm glad they're not going in the mutated direction. It's been done before in Atlantis, and even in SG-1. I much prefer the more subtle way they're doing it in this show, though I do agree that it's taking too long. That being said, her meeting with Greer in last night's episode was awesome. Very tense, very touching, very difficult to watch without empathising for both characters. This is what SGA should have been and is far superior to that show.
  12. CoryHolmes
    Indeed, this episode is a total game-changer. Right from Day 1 of Colonel Young's Flying Entrance he has had it in for Rush, blaming him (correctly) for their predicament. Now it seems like Rush is burying the hatchet and is sincere in his attempt to work with the Colonel for the "greater good". How Young deals with this will really prove what kind of character he has, prove if he's capable of looking past his own opinions and characterisations of someone else. That being said, I'm not totally sold on last night's revelation. It seems far too Contact-y for my taste. Seeing Desinty attempt a three-point turn was hilarious, though
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    Personally, I'm glad Young has finally hit rock bottom and is starting to pick himself up again. I know these are long and drawn-out in real life, but after two or three episodes of this it was getting a little tedeous. I enjoyed how the whole crew seemed to perk up as he came back to the job, like an old knight reclaiming his sword. I gotta wonder about TJ, though. Normally she's the most well-adjusted and considerate person on that ship and she chose right when Young was at the bottom of his pit of dispair, of all times, to drop her bombshell on Young? *dopeslap!* What were you thinking, girl!?
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    I'm realling digging FPs interpretation of the character. Solid and beefy, just like any Autobot leader should be. While the MP version is much more cartoon accurate, he doesn't look quite epic enough to warrant the title of Prime. Plus when you can see that the MP toy switches from Hot Rod to Rodimus by stretching a little bit it becomes even harder to see it other than Hot Rod in a bench vise. That being said, I'm having a helluva time finding Classics Rodimus for purchase and I'm not quite willing to resort to evilBay just yet.
  15. CoryHolmes
    "Ask yourself this question: How am I helping Cortana?" -Halo 2 It's Jen Taylor's delivery that makes Cortana the awesome snark machine that she is
  16. CoryHolmes
    This movie can't come out fast enough...
  17. CoryHolmes
    Truth. The "comedy" in ROTF made me cringe all the way through. Hopefully someone with taste (or at least, restraint) will be involved in the editing process this time around.
  18. CoryHolmes
    Will this film be available in 2D goodness? All these 3D gimmicks do no good for those of us with monocular vision...
  19. CoryHolmes
    Yes, this episode was a welcome return to the awesome. I found 2x01 to be less than I wanted, but x02 and x03 have reaffirmed my love for this show. After spending the first season treating Telford like the utter tool he was, his second season personality is a wonderful breath of fresh air. Also amusing is watching him interact with Young, who for the first time has to deal with a military person of his own rank. Young is tettering on the edge of a total psycological collapse and I'm quite interested in how far the writers take this. Also quite interesting is Rush and his finding of the bridge; how long will he be able to keep this a secret and how will Young react when he finds out? (I suspect fisticuffs will be involved).
  20. CoryHolmes
    ... have they seen Dagger's costume? And air on a family channel?
  21. CoryHolmes
    No, they're rushing production because they have less than nine months to complete the film and ship it for release. That's not a whole lot of time to spend on production as well as all the enormous number of viz-effects this movie will require.
  22. CoryHolmes
    Which is a pleasant change from SG-1/SGA where the main characters go through enough psychological trauma to stun a herd of rampaging elephants, and yet never seem to need councilling or discharging from active duty. I see Colonel Young as a man beginning to crack under the pressure of the job, a job he didn't even want in the first place. To me, Rush is also an interesting conundrum. He is directly responsible for the events and results of the previous episode, a fact that could be mitigated simply by telling people what he's found and asking for help, and yet he didn't do that. His ego mania seems to know no bounds and I wonder how many more people are going to suffer because of it.
  23. CoryHolmes
    I gotta say, that last episode had some frighteningly horrific things to watch and I was white-knuckling my way through it. My hat goes off to this show for sticking with the 'darker and edgier' thing they promised at the start. Two shaking thumbs up!
  24. CoryHolmes
    Part of the reason Dinobot made the Hall of Fame is due to his very real, very enjoyable character arc. His story had a definite beginning, middle, and end and had all sorts of ups and downs in the process. We got to see his relationship with his fellow shipmates grow, evolve, devolve, and become downright hostile as the series progressed. G1 Transformers like Soundwave could only wish to have such treatment. Yes, they are awesome memories of a bygone era and their comic bios suggest some really great things, but how often have we gotten to see or read of those great things to such a degree as Dinobot?
  25. CoryHolmes
    That's what I'm afraid of.
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