[TV] V Trailer

V was a classic series from the 80's involving alien invaders called "The Visitors" that gathered a bit of a cult following in its time. It's interesting to note that they networks are finally trying to revive the series and hopefully present it with a fresh look similar to what had been done for the Battlestar Galactica franchise.

Cross your fingers. At least the trailer looks pretty good.


#2 - V - Upfront Trailer

[Movies] Sherlock Holmes Trailer

When I saw this, the trailer did make me want to watch the movie. However my brain was a tad confused about how this was supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes movie - somehow the scenes and snippets just don't give you that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle feel for some reason.

Then again, it's Robert Downey, Jr. AND Jude Law in a single movie. That's probably reason enough for me to go see this film, haha. You be the judge:


SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) trailer

[Google] The May 14 Outage

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I was busy finishing a blog entry a little before midnight when it happened - I had run a routine Google search on "madeline pastry" since I wanted to verify how it was spelled when my search window timed out. How odd. I almost noticed my Gmail when into "offline" mode, so I figured something was wrong with our internet connection. I checked with my friend and he said he was still connected, but we tried rebooting the router just in case.

No dice. I was still disconnected from Gmail, my Google searches weren't running and Google Reader was not refreshing either. Oh, and Pidgin could no longer connect to Google Talk.

Cue mild panic now.

A Google outage is pretty rare, but of course it's bound to happen sooner or later. Unfortunately, it does act as a startling reminder of just how dependent many of us are on Google for many services. Isolated outages of individual products aren't so bad since that's only a subset of the total population of Google users, but when pretty much the entire Google network goes down, a large chuck of the web goes down with it.

During major web "events" like this, it's always amusing to jump over to Twitter to see how people are reacting. A casual search of the #gmail, #google or #googlefail hash tags got me hundreds upon hundreds of reports about the outage, but not much else in terms of actually useful information. Heck, the worse are those classic Twitter messages along the lines of "if you can't access #google, retweet this post" and it's never ending echoes around the web. It's no surprise some folks have actually written about the silly, non-essential role Twitter plays in times like this.

I have a lot of my life invested in Google's portion of the "cloud", I have to admit. I route all my email through Gmail and I collate all my RSS feeds via Google Reader. I schedule events and reminders on Google Calendar and I maintain a decent number of friends on Google Talk. This blog is on the Blogger platform, my domain is supported by Google Apps and my RSS feed is run by FeedBurner (now a Google product). I run AdSense programs, AdWords advertising campaigns and I study all this through Google Analytics. I manage two wikis via Google Sites, I get updated via Google News and I even have a few Google Alerts set to notify of key updates. I maintain a number of documents and spreadsheets on Google Docs, manage a few email lists via Google Groups and I still have some leftover stuff on Google Notebook. Don't forget watching videos on YouTube and even maintaining links on Google Bookmarks! The list goes on and on...

So yeah, a Google outage is a near catastrophe for me. I'm like Google's primary demographic and it just kills me when any of these services go down, what more all of them.

I almost wasn't able to finish that blog entry - it seemed odd not to be able to search for terms to be used in the entry or to get interest web comics to share from Google Reader. Despite the loss of a major part of my internet life, I pushed on, finished the entry and waited for Google to come back. Yes, I was going through Google withdrawal.

In about an hour it did, and the world was restored to equilibrium. I could finally sleep easy knowing things were more or less back to normal. Google's official statement was as vague as always but CNET's WebWare came up with a pretty comprehensive post-mortem report on precisely what happened.

While I doubt this outage is going to make me abdandon Google for the likes of (gasps) Yahoo anytime soon, it is a bit disturbing how dependent I, and perhaps may others, have become on Google's many web services. While it was funny to read some of the Twitter messages about the Google outage meaning the end of the internet a as a whole, it was also somewhat scary since it almost felt true.

[Comics] The Surrogates

The worlds of comic books and science fiction have often crossed paths many, many times over the years. After all, some of the earliest tales of fantasy were rooted in our desires to look to the stars, to the depths of the seas or through the veil of time, to name a few examples. These are the very same tales that were first illustrated and eventually re-told in comic book form.

Of course comic books turned to the worlds of super heroes or supernatural beings more and more and while science fiction concepts still played a key part, it was no longer the star player.

Thus beyond the marketing driven movie tie-ins, it's not that often that you really get your hands on a "true" science fiction comic book these days, and thus the few that pop up are truly meant to be treasured.

The Surrogates is one of those rare comic books (or graphic novels if you prefer) that truly is a science fiction story. Set in the world of 2054, mankind has evolved (?) into a society that interacts with the rest of the world through life-size humanoid robots called surrogates. These units are their avatars in the real world and are advanced enough to not just let them see the world through the surrogates eyes but to experience it.

The concept alone is staggering - creating humanoid robots so realistic in appearance and function that their controllers are able to experience life through their surrogates. They can taste the food the surrogate "eats" and they can smell the things their surrogate can. Homosexuals desiring to become women can realize their dreams through a female surrogate unit. Even the most health conscious person can now experiment with smoking, drugs and other such vices without actual harm to themselves. How real is a world that you only interact with from the confines of your home?

Of course nothing is ever perfect and a series of crimes starts against surrogates. Now the police have to get involved to determine who's been destroying these surrogates, why this is being done all before it's too late.

The tale had that slight taste of cyberpunk to me, mainly because of the need for humans to use highly advanced virtual reality headsets to control their surrogates. Instead of connecting into a virtual cyber world where you get to be whoever you want, these people get to connect to the real world with the same absolute control over self-image.

What further contributed to this notion was the perspective adapted for the comic book - that of the detective assigned to the case, doing his best to try and piece together exactly what was going on despite the risks. The serial "killer" remains on the loose, targeting surrogates left and right, thus how does an all-surrogate police force handle such a crime wave?

I know it feels like I've already said too much in terms of spoilers, but believe me, there's a whole lot more to this story than just those facts, which is definitely part of the appeal of the book. The writing involved as the same level of complexity and intricacy that I've come to associate with some of the better crafted science books in recent times. It's absolutely brilliant how that story got translated into images so readily in way that look as little as possible from the core story behind it yet at the same time enhancing the story in the way that only comic books can.

I count myself lucky that a very good friend of mine was generous enough to let me read this title - more importantly, he called my attention to its existence. To be able to enjoy a good comic book like this, before it gets turned (or bastardized?) into a movie later this year. I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical about what will be done with the source material, but then like any other geek I've come to live with the interference of Hollywood.

This is a definite must-read to all you science fiction loving comic book geeks out there! You're missing part of your life by not reading this book. Seriously.

[Geek Holidays] Happy Odd Day!

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Well what did you know - a geek holiday almost got by me! My thanks to my friend Tobie for pointing out that today - May 7, 2009 or 05-07-09 is one of 6 days this century when the date consists of three odd numbers in sequence.

So Happy Odd Day fellow math geeks! It's yet another day to embrace our love of numbers!

[Movies] Star Trek (2009)

In case you didn't know, my geekdom extends to my being a Trekkie. Don't mistake that for me not liking Star Wars - I'm into many geeky fandoms across the science fiction and fantasy spectrum, but Star Trek will always hold a special place in my heart. Like many geeks before me, I blame my father for this.

Star Trek remains to be one of the most amazing TV series of all time spanning the generations and all its multiple incarnations. It always manages to bring something new to the table and it certainly continues to inspire others to reach for the stars of their dreams, whether this is in terms of their jobs or maybe their desire to break into science fiction writing. It's all about boldly going where no man has gone before.

It was inevitable for Star Trek to break into movies and that has always been met with mixed reactions. There are all these theories around which movies are the best of if there's even a pattern around the potential success of a Star Trek movie - it's just the sort of thing that geeks get into. The generally accepted rule is that odd-numbered Trek movies tend to worse than the even-numbered films. There's a new one the claims that movies that are multiples of five are the worst of them all - think about it a little and you'll understand what they're talking about.

Thus when a new Star Trek movie was announced, I was worried to some extent. It was being positioned as a prequel, and given recent Star Wars history we know how bad prequels can get. Plus by Trek movie count, this is actually the eleventh Star Trek movie , which makes it an odd-numbered film. Oh yes, this definitely did not bode well. And yet like any other fan, I tried to remain optimistic and just put on my uniform and hoped for the best.

My fears turned out to be pointless though.

The premise of the film was straightforward enough - the movie is set in the time before the original series, and thus Kirk is not yet captain of the Enterprise and the Federation is still in its early years. A Romulan by the name of Nero has traveled through time to this period in search of one man and he's willing to destroy anything that gets in the way of his quest. And thus ultimately it's up to the crew of the Enterprise to stop him from achieving his dark designs.

At a spoiler-free synopsis level, it doesn't sound like much. Throw in the element of time travel, and I'm sure you might be just a wee bit worried given how the Trek franchise has really stretched the limits of time travel stories and it's resulted in an extreme range of stories, both good and bad. Don't fret though, the movie is a lot more than that and we have J.J. Abrams to thank for that. The story would sound a lot more enticing if I added more to that summary, but seriously, that would inevitable hit so many spoiler moments that will just blow you away.

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First, let's talk casting. At first I was skeptical about their choice of actors - many sort of captured like look of the original characters, take for example Zachary Quinto as Spock, but appearances are hardly enough to base a movie on. Star Trek has always been a drama series at its heart and it has always required very strong ensemble acting on the part of the primary crew. Surprisingly enough though, not only did the actors manage to fulfill the visual aspects of these characters,, but they also did great in terms of capturing the essence of what made these characters work. Chris Pine was just how you'd imagine a very young Kirk, all headstrong and willing to hit on anything female. Karl Urban was AMAZING as Doctor Leonard McCoy given how well he delivered his lines and really embraced the crabby nature of the doctor. Major kudos has to go to the young Anton Yelchin for really getting Chekov down to a tee and even Simon Pegg made sure to get Scotty right without going too over the top with the comedy side of things. And yes, I still acknowledge the performances of Zoe Saldana as Uhura and John Cho as Sulu, too. Heck, even Winona Ryder was surprisingly good as Amanda Grayson, Spock's mother. Yeah, definitely no complaints from me from a casting perspective.

Then comes execution, and here one really has to sing praises to J.J. Abrams. I mean seriously, I'm never been very big on Lost as a series nor did I think Cloverfield was that great as a film but after watching this movie, it really makes me re-think my entire opinion of the man and his productions. Abrams just did a stellar job of capturing the look and feel of Star Trek while still updating it for newer audiences without sacrificing the core fan base. His use of light flares to accent key scenes was just brilliant and his reinterpretation of many fundamental Star Trek elements like transporters and phasers was really interesting.

The true key to the success of this movie is that age-old question that every reboot movie faces - will it please the fans more or will it just cater to new audiences. Normally I'd always concede that it has to be one or the other, but with Star Trek, Abrams threw that book out the window and showed us it's possible to please both.

A large part of the movie is an homage to the original series that started it all. The actors were truly "in-character" and did their best to capture the spirits of the original actors who started the franchise. Key lines from the original TV show had been scattered across the film tastefully and artfully such that it didn't seem too campy or out of place to have these characters reciting classic lines to please the older fans. The music was very well selected and it certainly touched on the same themes and music used to drive the original series into our collective social memory. There just so many little things that were inserted that made the film that much more enjoyable for the Trekkies in the theater.

But at the same time it was not the same Trek as before - it's a new Star Trek that anyone can get involved in, with or without a background in forensic science education or anything technical like that. It's definitely a reboot of the series but not the kind of reboot that offends the fans or disregards the decades of history that has come before it. It's an acceptable reinterpretation or re-imagining of the series that still remains logically acceptable to the core fan base given the effective use of time travel to re-shape the Star Trek universe.

In a nutshell, this movie reminds me of the Kobayashi Maru, touted as the "no-win scenario" in the Star Trek universe. Based on the books, Kirk was the only man to defeat the simulation and he did this by re-writing the code of the program so that the artificial Klingons would acknowledge Kirk as an amazing warrior and thus they would choose not to fight him. Essentially, it was cheating the test but it was the kind of cheating that was actually rewarded as creative thinking on Kirk's part and definitely a solution that fit well with who Kirk was.

That's how I see this movie - it's J.J. Abrams' Kobayashi Maru. He was presented with the challenge of creating a new Star Trek movie despite all the bad history around such endeavors of the franchise. He had to create a film that would not anger the thousands of Trekkies around the world and yet still somehow get new audiences involved in a show that is often thought to be "too geeky" given it tends to be hard core science fiction. In order to accomplish this, Abrams decided to change the rules of the game. He didn't try to create a movie within the confines of the preexisting Star Trek universe - he choose to forge a new path and create a new version of things. And he did this without totally giving up on all that had come before - he found a solution that, while far-fetched, was still plausible enough for fans to accept.

This is how reboots should be done. This deserves to become a film school case study of how to masterfully execute the series reboot while pleasing new and old fans of the series. This is how you give an aging franchise new life and ultimately get everyone excited about revisiting this universe and seeing how they too can let loose their creative energies into expanding and exploring the new universe Abrams has created.

This may be the best Star Trek movie of them all because it does what Gene Roddenberry aimed to do - to make science fiction universally acceptable across audience clusters and social types. It's a movie that presents a vision of a future that is both amazingly interesting because of its differences and yet comfortably familiar because of those common themes that survive across the years. This may not be your father's Star Trek, but it doesn't mean he can't involved or that he won't like it.

This is a must-see movie for anyone who loves a good story, who has been craving for a really good movie to see and is tired of the market researched derived fluff that Hollywood has been trying to pass off as entertainment. Go see it in the theaters at full price! Get in line for tickets right away! Catch on one of those break-taking IMAX screens! See the movie for the first time and feel like you've already seen it all before. I cannot stress this enough - you cannot let this one pass you by.

[Movies] X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

I don't claim to be an X-Men purist - I think I mentioned that in a prior review this weekend. However like any other comic book geek, I have read my fair share of X-Titles and dug into the background of various characters, so I think I know enough to have a decent basis for making an informed decision.

Now when it comes to the movies released by Marvel Comics, you have to admit it's been largely hit or miss. Some of their more recent releases like last year's Iron Man were amazing and definitely worthy of the original comics it was based upon. At the same time you get really scary endeavors like Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Or we can go all the way back to that horrible Captain America movie. *shudders*

You never really know what'll happen when the next Marvel Comics inspired film is set to come out. Just like this one.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the latest attempt by Fox Studios to milk every last cent out of the X-Men franchise without pulling the "reboot" button just yet, hehe. As if X-Men United wasn't bad enough, they decided to venture into the scary realm of prequels in order to somehow expand their horizons.

The classic elements of Wolverine's origin story were certainly here. Things like (1) he's Canadian, (2) he worked with the US government alongisde Sabertooth, (3) he eventually gained his adamantium claws and skeleton due to the Weapon X experiment. That all seemed well and good and given these key elements were present, you'd think things would be okay.

Now we enter the realms of Hollywood and market research derived plots and you get an amazing collection of characters alongside our little Wolverine. The movie featured the likes of Deadpool, Blob, Gambit and even a young Cyclops to name a few. You'd think having all these characters involved might make the movie "cooler" - if you do then you're precisely part of the demographic Fox Studio's marketing group hoped to reach. The only consequence is that they chose to ignore the back stories of these characters and even how their core powers should work and we ended up with a horrible distorted view of the X-Men universe where everyone is not quite who they should be.

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When it comes to superhero movies, movie studios always play around with the balance between tailoring the movie to the original fans or "tweaking" things such that it becomes more appealing to a wider audience. And thus you get a movie like this where Deadpool, better know as "The Merc with a Mouth" ends up to be a not so funny Ryan Reynolds (which was weird to me), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has a near infinite collection of wifebeaters and has an odd tendency to get naked and Sabertooth (Liev Schreiber) is hardly the huge, hulking arch enemy of our Candian friend. It was just weird.

Beyond the horrible rape of the origninal comic book characters (please don't claim that was supposed to be the White Queen!!!), there was the whole unimaginative nature of the plot with it's many leaps in logic. Agent Zero is a one-dimensional and strange reject from the Matrix series sans leather outfits. Characters are introduced for no other reason than to die - or given this is a Marvel film, to be brought back to life as needed. Fight scenes are large, kickass but have no valuable contribution to the furthering of the plot. Need I continue?

Many will probably argue that I didn't like the movie since I'm being a comic book purist, and maybe I am. But I'm also a guy who likes for his movies to have a logical plot - maybe it's the writer in me. Plus I also look for more in a film than just a parade of eye candy (and yes, I acknowledge we can add Taylor Kitsch to the eye candy list even though he ws the strangest Gambit I've ever seen).

I probably can't stop you from watching the film (hell, I watched 17 Again only for Zac Efron, so sue me), but I can try to get you to save theater ticket money. Wait for it on DVD. Or better yet on cable TV. Or even better still for some local network channel to air it dubbed in Filipino. Yeah, that just might work better.

Or you can get drunk, leave your brain at the door and just enjoy the movie for the pretty colors. Ooh, diamonds are sparkly!

[Viral Video Chart] iSnort

Apple iPhone Applications are a pretty diverse group. You have an amazing set of highly useful apps like those that interface with sites like Gmail or Facebook or that perform essential functions. Yet of course the larger variety of iPhone Apps out there tend to be of the stupid and inane variety like those that pretend to be mood rings or those that summon hordes of Daleks to occupy your iPhone. I kid you not.

Then you get apps like the iSnort, which really make good use of the accelerometer and the various gadget tweaks available to the iPhone, although for pretty questionable purposes...

It's still pretty funny though.


#9 - The iSnort Demo

[Comics] X-Men: X-tinction Agenda

I was never a big X-men fan in my younger years. It's not because I was against them or anything like that - my development just led me to liking Spider-Man a lot more and that became the focus of my comic book budget at the time.

It seems more and more I'm getting exposed to the X-Men because of various friends, most recently by the guy I'm currently seeing. He's been a big help in my X-education of sorts, mainly because he was a big New Mutants fan. It's certainly been an enjoyable experience thus far and I don't mind further explorations of this side of the Marvel Comics universe.

X-Men: X-tinction Agenda has always been one of those muti-title crossovers that I had always heard or read about but never seemed to get around to reading. My previous knowledge of this particular crossover story had been limited mostly to the blurbs on the backs of Marvel trading cards, hehe.

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The story behind this one remains to be rather intriguing. Genosha now seems to be run by the now mad cyborg Cameron Hodge and with this power he sends a team of Genoshan Magistrates to kidnap several mutants from the Xavier Institute in order to bring them to trial for crimes against the nation of Genosha. Hodge has found a mutant who can disable the powers of others and he uses this skill well in order to neutralize all that can be brought against him. This ultimately results in the X-Men, X-Factor and the New Mutants to all get involved in the rescue of their friends and ultimately the defeat of Cameron Hodge.

Keeping track of who's who in the X-universe can be pretty nutty and this is really brought home in this particular story arc. I mean seriously, there are three different teams with some members who had been on multiple rosters over the years. Still, this little complication takes little from the plot and things are handled well enough in order to keep the story going.

The series in indeed daring considering there are actual causalities in this tale involving some of the major characters from the various X-titles. Plus there's Cameron Hodge himself who has become this highly disturbed antagonist who somehow manages to fend off all three teams for most of the series whether through sheer power on his part or with the support of the nation of Genosha.

Instead of just using brute force to challenge him, the mutants come up with interesting counter-strategies of their own and it really makes for good reading in terms of how they ultimately defeat the maniac. It's no wonder why Chris Clairemont is the genius that he is and why his involvement in the X-Men universe will never be forgotten.

This title is widely available in trade paperback format by now or you can look for an X-Men geek amongst your friends who might have a copies of the original issues lying around.

[Movies] City of Ember (2008)

With the success of the Harry Potter franchise, Hollywood has been looking high and low for the next big cash cow. Thus this has triggered a review of all existing young adult fiction, thus resulting in movies like The Golden Compass and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and even The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, which really could have been a lot better. Oh, throw in The Spiderwick Chronicles and Bridge to Terbithia. Sorry, I'll stop listing now.

It has certainly helped spark interest in reading, which I suppose is a good thing, but it has also resulted in some authors getting into the young adult genre just to create a series that has a high potential of becoming the next Hollywood masterpiece. Seriously, the same thing happened during the height of the John Grisham movies and even Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park phase.

So yeah, I tend to approach future book or movie ventures of this nature with a certain degree of caution.

City of Ember is yet another such venture of a young adult book turned into a movie. It came out with little fanfare since it was a pretty direct story without the complications of religious protests against it or stuff of that nature. Despite trepidations, I watched the movie and was definitely surprised with how things turned out.

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The plot alone was pretty interesting. For some reason, mankind had to escape a global catastrophe by creating an underground city to shelter those that would become the seed population of man's future. In order to ensure they could eventually return to the surface world, instructions on how to return were locked in a special box that would remain sealed for about 200 years - long enough for things on the surface to return to normal and thus safe for human habitation.

Fast forward to the present day in the City of Ember and things aren't looking good. The food stores have begun to run low on supplies and power blackouts are increasingly common. Much knowledge and technology has been lost over the years and it does not seem like the residents of Ember will be able to survive much longer given how everything in the city has begun to fall apart. Two children by the name of Doon and Lina discover the lost box and go on to try and figure out what it means.

The movie certainly fulfilled that quasi-steampunk part of my consciousness in terms of look and feel. While they hadn't been sent all the way back to the steam age, the inconsistency of their electric generators has certainly limited their dependence on electrical devices and thus a renewed focus on more mechanical solutions instead.

The story feels like a good-natured adventure / mystery story. You have a very straightforward quest for the two protagonists to follow and yet it's not an immediately obvious solution that leaves both the kids and the audience guessing to a limited degree. You have a conspiracy of sorts trying to work against their efforts but not of the overly sophisticated nature such that it's too difficult to overcome (or unrealistic for kids to do so).

Sure, the story has some plot problems that really are forgivable and as with any book-to-film translation, some elements were changed or altered to make it more "marketable" or something. I can't really speak on that last subject with any authority since I never read the original book. However, the movie was good enough for me to want to read the books, and that says a lot about the quality of the film making involved here.

It may be a children's movie by definition, but science fiction enthusiasts both young and old may find this as enjoyable as I did. One has to admit that it's a rather good story and the film itself was excuted pretty well. I just wish I had seen it in the theater in order to better appreciate what the director wanted to accomplish as you watch the movie huddled in the dark with other movie-goers like it was meant to be seen.

By now it should be widely available on video or perhaps even on TV. It's worth putting aside time for it, most definitely.

[TV] G.I. Joe: Resolute (2009)

As a child of the 80's, I was never really a big fan of G.I. Joe. I mean seriously, it was generally cool and all but my line of interests was always drawn more towards robots and all things mechanical. Thus the only attraction for the series for me personally was the vehicles, but only to a limited degree. Heck, I think I liked the vehicles in Inhumanoids more than G.I. Joe.

This is not to say I didn't find many a boring afternoon stuck with nothing else on TV. So I learned that Cobra Commander sounded a lot like Starscream and despite being in the military, G.I. Joe did not wear standard uniforms. Oh, and wrestlers like Sgt. Slaughter get to be in the show too.

The movie was pretty interesting too, especially that "Cobra La" battle cry, but beyond that I never really got it. There were all these big battles, an insanely large roster of heroes and villains and despite the prolific use of laser weapons, no one ever died. Yeah, that's Saturday morning television for you right there.

Fast forward to 2009 and Cartoon Network comes out with G.I. Joe: Resolute under their Adult Swim brand of cartoons targeted at older audiences. Written by that mad genius Warren Ellis and with a really cool sneak peak trailer at a prior Comic Con and you end up with some major buzz for an update of an 80's animated classic.

The premise is pretty simple - imagine a world with G.I. without the insane lasers that turn their battles into laser tag. Tone down the garish colors of their costumes. Try to make things a little more realistic in terms of current military technology. Take the original characters but have someone who has never seen the original cartoon have fun with them. There you go.

The series has some amazing stuff for die-hard fans. You'll see familiar characters updated to be a lot more bad ass. You have a Cobra Commander who isn't a total idiot. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow getting all ninja wicked on each other. You even get classic tie-ups like The Baroness and Destro still in each others arms. Awww, yeah, we can all get sentimental about stuff like that. Plus despite the loss of laser guns, they still had their share of insane super weapons. It makes you almost miss Destro's Weather Dominator.

But there are things core fans are going to miss. Whatever happened to the twins Tomax and Xomat and Dr. Mindbender? Since we had Duke, where was Lady Jaye and why wasn't she getting it on with Scarlett? And why didn't they EVER shout "YO JOE!!!"

Still, it's a great "re-imagining" of the series, even if you are getting sick of that term for "retcon" or "reboot", but it's the signs of the times. It could have been much worse. Still, it was a pretty daring initiative and some characters actually...*gasps*...DIE, although not as many as I was hoping for.

You should definitely get out there and try to catch the series if you get the US edition of Adult Swim. If not, there are webisodes. If not even that, well, this is the internet. Go figure.

[Movies] Official Transformers: ROTF Trailer 2

I'm wet all over in all the wrong places. Seriously, this trailer has me speechless.

Darn, I'm such a fan boy.


Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen (trailer 2 2009)