Nope. He was supposed to be named Brawl, and that's what he's listed as on the packaging for the toys. In the movie, when all the Decepticons check in on their radios, he checks in as Devastator and it's a huge kick in the teeth.
Let's get this out of the way to begin with: You're an idiot. That you started off your comment by assuming people who dislike this pile of shit are film snobs outs you as such. I'm a long time Transformers fan who has no problem with a big-budget action flick provided it's not treating me like an idiot while I watch it. My "suspension of disbelief" covers insane stunts, not a shitty script.
Now that that's out of the way, the dialogue wasn't masked by the humour, because the humour was shit. It was bottom of the barrel and full of the worst cliches. The Autobots in the backyard? LOL THERE CLUMSY GIENTS!!! The masturbation joke? COMEDY GOLD!!!11 The love story was also full of all the worst cliches. The government's reaction? Cliche. They even had "the world's greatest hacker", who was a fat loser who lived with his grandmother playing video games all day, and his "hacking" consisted of similar effects to the original computer shitfest, Hackers. Anything that wasn't robot combat was shit. In fact, if they would have edited out all the story parts and just turned it into "Michael Bay Presents: Transforming Robot Deathmatch", it would have been worth my money and then some. They could have had Megatron calling the audience dumb rednecks and then Optimus marches out with a 40 foot American flag over his shoulder and kicks Megatron's ass and I would have checked my brain at the door and enjoyed every minute of it. But they didn't. They shat this giant turd out and everyone took a bite and asked for more. For a Transformers fan like myself, I was hoping for the equivalent of Spider-Man or Batman Begins, but instead I got Daredevil or Batman & Robin. And the nods to the older fans were all negligible. They didn't even follow through on the "One shall stand, one shall fall" line.
You're right to point out that this isn't re-watchable, though, and I'm betting more people will see things this way when they pick it up on DVD. The "HOLY SHIT!" feeling only lasts so long, and then you have to put up with the plot, the bad jokes, and the shit acting. And that's when most Transformers fans will break out the 1986 movie and think about how cool it could have been with those new special effects.
The fact that they made Devastator a generic tank instead of the kick ass Constructicon gestalt was enough to make this unforgivable. They should have just brought in Grimlock as a talking dog and finished shitting on my head in one go.
It can be fun/cool without treating the audience like fucking retards. Even the new Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson comedy looked like it was going to have a better script than this piece of shit.
I hated this movie because of all the parts that weren't "transforming robots fighting with each other". The concept doesn't have to be so shitty like some here would say. The Dreamwave and IDW Transformers (and the old Marvel US series from about issue 40 onward) series feature excellent writing and turned the TF universe into a legitimately good space opera. Those comics aren't without their flaws, but they show that it's possible to write something based on a toy line, take it seriously, and churn out something that's worth reading, something that's entertaining without talking down to you or treating you like an idiot. Unfortunately, Michael Bay and his writers are not similarly capable. The plot for this movie was garbage, the acting/voice-acting was shit, and the script isn't even worth using as toilet paper. Even the humour was shit. I mean maybe for a Rob Schneider fan it was clever and edgy but really it was garbage.
Like you said, though, any time the Transformers were on screen (and not talking), it was fucking awesome. It was the purest form of eye candy. It wasn't even eye candy, it was eye cocaine, you could get high on it. But then someone would open their mouth, or there would be a scene where it was just humans, and I'd realise what a shit movie I'd walked into. I guess the action was enough for some people. Other people are getting by on sheer nostalgia. (It's live action Transformers, how could it be bad?) Me? I expect my eye candy to have a little more substance to it. I mean, I wasn't expecting Shakespeare, but maybe something on par with Star Wars, or even the 1986 movie for fuck's sake.
Michael Bay should just start directing pornography. People don't care about the plot in that, either.
PS: You asked why they couldn't have Rumble in this movie, but the small Decepticon is close. It's actually Frenzy, who didn't show up very often in the cartoon but he was in the old movie. The red-and-black Rumble lookalike.
You forgot one:
Michael Bay said he didn't want Megatron to turn into a gun because "it didn't make sense" that a giant robot could shrink down to that size, or something to that effect. But we had to put up with that cube bullshit, where a gigantic cube as big as the Hoover Dam shrinks down to the size of a football? As soon as that happened, I let out an audible "fuck off". This movie was dog shit, the 1986 movie had better dialogue, a better plot, and better acting. I watched it when I got home just to make sure I wasn't looking at it through rose coloured glasses. If they had redone that movie with the new one's action scenes, this could have kicked serious ass. Instead we got Armageddon with robots taking the place of the meteor.
Oh, and if you thought that script was shit, I've got some bad news for you. The writers are apparently working on the next Star Trek movie. So now Trekkies can have their fond memories assraped, too.
Care to explain the relevance of this comment? There's no Windows/Microsoft-copyrighted code in Wine, and as far as I know the project hasn't infringed on any copyrights. Unless I'm misreading your comment, your accusation is unfounded.
I might be reading a little too much into the summary, but can you run 360 games from the hard drive now? I haven't really been following the XBox 360 mod "scene", but that was one of my favourite things about my modded XBox. It's incredibly convenient.
That, in my mind, would be a compelling reason not to ever buy an Apple. If the company is so ready to remove features that would be useful to users and advance the state of the art just to get back at someone for leaking word of that feature, they clearly don't have the customer's best interests at heart.
What's more likely is that there were technical troubles getting it to work with the rest of the OS that couldn't be fixed or worked around before the release date. As others have noted, the support for ZFS is there (read-only at the moment), but even Sun has had some issues with it in the current version of Solaris. I don't doubt that Schwartz jumped the gun on the announcement, but I think he's got egg on his face for different reasons than you do.
A church in a video game is a model. In this case it's a 3D model of a real place, but it's not quite in the same league as, say, someone shooting a violent scene for a movie in the actual church.
I would assume that the existence of a native Mac version allows for a better performance comparison. "How well does it run compared to native Windows? How about compared to native Mac?"
Konqueror and Safari share the same roots (Webkit being derived from KHTML) but they're different animals. I've had a site that looked the same in Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror show up differently under Safari. They're close, but they're just different enough to fuck you up.
In another thread, someone pointed out that with EVE, you can unsubscribe and your character's assets, skills, etc. will be frozen for 6 months, so it's easy to come back to the game after quitting for a while. I don't know if that's true, I don't play the game, but if it is, you could cancel your account to "send a message" and then come back to it if they've cleaned up their act.
Just for the record, the "Ubuntu looks like poo!" arguments stem from earlier releases for which the theme was very brown. I thought it looked ok, but it wouldn't have been my first choice.
Because that implementation isn't covered by copyright or anything. Not when we're talking about software, anyway. That would just be crazy. And even if it were, copyright provides no legal protection. I mean, nobody's ever been sued for copyright infringement before. I bet "infringement" isn't even a real word to begin with.
You have patents confused with trademarks. Patents don't need to be defended unless their validity (in other words, is it unique and unobvious?) is challenged in the first place. Trademarks lapse if trademark violations aren't pursued, but patents are valid until they expire regardless of whether or not you pursue violators.
It's kind of ridiculous seeing people claim that the forger has copyright. A previous poster pointed out that the lack of copyright on government documents only applies to the feds, and while derived works can be covered by copyright, that would only apply if it's either derived from something in the public domain or they received permission to create the derived work. This is more like those "mashup" songs all over the Internet in that it's a derived work that violates copyright. The difference here is that those mashups are, at worst, harmless to the copyright holders while this fake ID was being used to further violate the law.
In Canada, it's the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) and the CMPDA (Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association). Basically the same bunch of assholes, though.
Legally, there is a difference because Haiku does not use any BeOS code. It is a binary-compatible reimplementation, not a derivative work. The relationship between Haiku and BeOS is similar to the relationship between Linux and Unix. On the surface they look similar and work similar, but under the hood they are very different animals.
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Nope. He was supposed to be named Brawl, and that's what he's listed as on the packaging for the toys. In the movie, when all the Decepticons check in on their radios, he checks in as Devastator and it's a huge kick in the teeth.
Let's get this out of the way to begin with: You're an idiot. That you started off your comment by assuming people who dislike this pile of shit are film snobs outs you as such. I'm a long time Transformers fan who has no problem with a big-budget action flick provided it's not treating me like an idiot while I watch it. My "suspension of disbelief" covers insane stunts, not a shitty script.
Now that that's out of the way, the dialogue wasn't masked by the humour, because the humour was shit. It was bottom of the barrel and full of the worst cliches. The Autobots in the backyard? LOL THERE CLUMSY GIENTS!!! The masturbation joke? COMEDY GOLD!!!11 The love story was also full of all the worst cliches. The government's reaction? Cliche. They even had "the world's greatest hacker", who was a fat loser who lived with his grandmother playing video games all day, and his "hacking" consisted of similar effects to the original computer shitfest, Hackers. Anything that wasn't robot combat was shit. In fact, if they would have edited out all the story parts and just turned it into "Michael Bay Presents: Transforming Robot Deathmatch", it would have been worth my money and then some. They could have had Megatron calling the audience dumb rednecks and then Optimus marches out with a 40 foot American flag over his shoulder and kicks Megatron's ass and I would have checked my brain at the door and enjoyed every minute of it. But they didn't. They shat this giant turd out and everyone took a bite and asked for more. For a Transformers fan like myself, I was hoping for the equivalent of Spider-Man or Batman Begins, but instead I got Daredevil or Batman & Robin. And the nods to the older fans were all negligible. They didn't even follow through on the "One shall stand, one shall fall" line.
You're right to point out that this isn't re-watchable, though, and I'm betting more people will see things this way when they pick it up on DVD. The "HOLY SHIT!" feeling only lasts so long, and then you have to put up with the plot, the bad jokes, and the shit acting. And that's when most Transformers fans will break out the 1986 movie and think about how cool it could have been with those new special effects.
The fact that they made Devastator a generic tank instead of the kick ass Constructicon gestalt was enough to make this unforgivable. They should have just brought in Grimlock as a talking dog and finished shitting on my head in one go.
It can be fun/cool without treating the audience like fucking retards. Even the new Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson comedy looked like it was going to have a better script than this piece of shit.
I hated this movie because of all the parts that weren't "transforming robots fighting with each other". The concept doesn't have to be so shitty like some here would say. The Dreamwave and IDW Transformers (and the old Marvel US series from about issue 40 onward) series feature excellent writing and turned the TF universe into a legitimately good space opera. Those comics aren't without their flaws, but they show that it's possible to write something based on a toy line, take it seriously, and churn out something that's worth reading, something that's entertaining without talking down to you or treating you like an idiot. Unfortunately, Michael Bay and his writers are not similarly capable. The plot for this movie was garbage, the acting/voice-acting was shit, and the script isn't even worth using as toilet paper. Even the humour was shit. I mean maybe for a Rob Schneider fan it was clever and edgy but really it was garbage.
Like you said, though, any time the Transformers were on screen (and not talking), it was fucking awesome. It was the purest form of eye candy. It wasn't even eye candy, it was eye cocaine, you could get high on it. But then someone would open their mouth, or there would be a scene where it was just humans, and I'd realise what a shit movie I'd walked into. I guess the action was enough for some people. Other people are getting by on sheer nostalgia. (It's live action Transformers, how could it be bad?) Me? I expect my eye candy to have a little more substance to it. I mean, I wasn't expecting Shakespeare, but maybe something on par with Star Wars, or even the 1986 movie for fuck's sake.
Michael Bay should just start directing pornography. People don't care about the plot in that, either.
PS: You asked why they couldn't have Rumble in this movie, but the small Decepticon is close. It's actually Frenzy, who didn't show up very often in the cartoon but he was in the old movie. The red-and-black Rumble lookalike.
You forgot one: Michael Bay said he didn't want Megatron to turn into a gun because "it didn't make sense" that a giant robot could shrink down to that size, or something to that effect. But we had to put up with that cube bullshit, where a gigantic cube as big as the Hoover Dam shrinks down to the size of a football? As soon as that happened, I let out an audible "fuck off". This movie was dog shit, the 1986 movie had better dialogue, a better plot, and better acting. I watched it when I got home just to make sure I wasn't looking at it through rose coloured glasses. If they had redone that movie with the new one's action scenes, this could have kicked serious ass. Instead we got Armageddon with robots taking the place of the meteor.
Oh, and if you thought that script was shit, I've got some bad news for you. The writers are apparently working on the next Star Trek movie. So now Trekkies can have their fond memories assraped, too.
Sorry, I misread it as a comment that Wine shouldn't expect people to respect the LGPL because they're copyright infringers. My apologies.
Care to explain the relevance of this comment? There's no Windows/Microsoft-copyrighted code in Wine, and as far as I know the project hasn't infringed on any copyrights. Unless I'm misreading your comment, your accusation is unfounded.
I was actually aware of all that, but the wording of the summary had me wondering if it had moved past that point yet.
I might be reading a little too much into the summary, but can you run 360 games from the hard drive now? I haven't really been following the XBox 360 mod "scene", but that was one of my favourite things about my modded XBox. It's incredibly convenient.
You have the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) mixed up with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
That, in my mind, would be a compelling reason not to ever buy an Apple. If the company is so ready to remove features that would be useful to users and advance the state of the art just to get back at someone for leaking word of that feature, they clearly don't have the customer's best interests at heart.
What's more likely is that there were technical troubles getting it to work with the rest of the OS that couldn't be fixed or worked around before the release date. As others have noted, the support for ZFS is there (read-only at the moment), but even Sun has had some issues with it in the current version of Solaris. I don't doubt that Schwartz jumped the gun on the announcement, but I think he's got egg on his face for different reasons than you do.
I'm not entirely clear on why this was modded funny. What do Catholics have to do with this story?
A church in a video game is a model. In this case it's a 3D model of a real place, but it's not quite in the same league as, say, someone shooting a violent scene for a movie in the actual church.
I would assume that the existence of a native Mac version allows for a better performance comparison. "How well does it run compared to native Windows? How about compared to native Mac?"
Konqueror and Safari share the same roots (Webkit being derived from KHTML) but they're different animals. I've had a site that looked the same in Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror show up differently under Safari. They're close, but they're just different enough to fuck you up.
In another thread, someone pointed out that with EVE, you can unsubscribe and your character's assets, skills, etc. will be frozen for 6 months, so it's easy to come back to the game after quitting for a while. I don't know if that's true, I don't play the game, but if it is, you could cancel your account to "send a message" and then come back to it if they've cleaned up their act.
Why the fuck was this modded as a troll? It's hilarious and obviously meant as a joke.
Just for the record, the "Ubuntu looks like poo!" arguments stem from earlier releases for which the theme was very brown. I thought it looked ok, but it wouldn't have been my first choice.
Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware of that. It doesn't technically invalidate the patents but it is a nice ace-in-the-hole.
Netcraft confirms it: BSD has prior art on being a dying operating system.
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Because that implementation isn't covered by copyright or anything. Not when we're talking about software, anyway. That would just be crazy. And even if it were, copyright provides no legal protection. I mean, nobody's ever been sued for copyright infringement before. I bet "infringement" isn't even a real word to begin with.
You have patents confused with trademarks. Patents don't need to be defended unless their validity (in other words, is it unique and unobvious?) is challenged in the first place. Trademarks lapse if trademark violations aren't pursued, but patents are valid until they expire regardless of whether or not you pursue violators.
It's kind of ridiculous seeing people claim that the forger has copyright. A previous poster pointed out that the lack of copyright on government documents only applies to the feds, and while derived works can be covered by copyright, that would only apply if it's either derived from something in the public domain or they received permission to create the derived work. This is more like those "mashup" songs all over the Internet in that it's a derived work that violates copyright. The difference here is that those mashups are, at worst, harmless to the copyright holders while this fake ID was being used to further violate the law.
In Canada, it's the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) and the CMPDA (Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association). Basically the same bunch of assholes, though.
Legally, there is a difference because Haiku does not use any BeOS code. It is a binary-compatible reimplementation, not a derivative work. The relationship between Haiku and BeOS is similar to the relationship between Linux and Unix. On the surface they look similar and work similar, but under the hood they are very different animals.