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well damn, you're more of a fan that I am. i grew up in Europe, and hated american sports for the longest time. i.e. I played rugby...needing the endurance of soccer, and take hits...so thought all the 2 min breaks and pads were for pussies. But what can I say...it grows on you, the social aspect of things!

i guess we'll see this year if he's finally lost a step lol

I think probably most people are, which is why chris farley made it big making retarded movies (oh boy, i'll catch hell for that one! lol)

yeah i have the 60, too, but I need one for the living room for movies and stuff. So I was thinking about getting the cheaper version for that. But....if the slim has a larger HD and uses less power (I'm a psuedo tree hugger), then I'll use that as my primary

hmm. I do need another blu ray player

haha everyone needs a soapbox about something, right? I guess its just a matter of taste, some people like wit, others lowbrow

ok phew...its not just me! Rellik's response: "I"m pulling the card on this one" and here is a well written op-ed / review on it Transformers’ Little Black Sambots? by Devim Faraci I am not a PC person. Those who know me in real life will attest that if an off-color, offensive or wildly juvenile joke needs to be made it’ll likely be me making it. I think people are too sensitive in the modern world, and I don’t think any topic is off-limits when it comes to laughs. That said, even I was stupefied by what I saw in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s Twins. These new robots, who begin the film conjoined as a shitty old ice cream truck but who soon get upgraded into Chevy concept cars, seem to be the most extreme racial caricatures seen in a movie in decades. The Twins have a simian appearance, with wide faces and huge ears. One of them (full disclosure: I am not sure which is which, namewise. This isn’t a problem limited to just these robots in Transformers 2 as I couldn’t tell most robots apart, except for Optimus Prime and Bumblebee) has a gold bucktooth. They have a ‘playful’ back and forth relationship, which includes them talking in some sort of modern day rap-age jive, calling each other ‘bitch-ass’ or ‘punk,’ talking with racism_transformers_movie_twins2an exaggerated, crunked-up ’street’ accent. They appear to be stoned all the time. And they can’t read; when asked to translate some ancient Cybertronian language they sheepishly admit they ‘don’t do much readin’.’ To be fair, only Primes can read this language, but even the completely idiotic mini-bot (and Italian stereotype) Wheelie can at least recognize what the writing is. The Twins are completely illiterate, it seems. I was actually surprised that the film didn’t find a way to make them wear a Transformers version of baggy pants. To be completely shocked by this is admittedly kind of foolish. Quite a bit was made of Jazz, the black Autobot in the first film, who did a breakdance move and got killed. But The Twins make Jazz look like a paragon of taste, and they make Jar Jar Binks look like he belongs in a production of A Raisin in the Sun. Simply put they are offensive beyond measure, and if their names were Stepin and Fetchit I could maybe argue that they were a joke or a bit of meta-commentary or anything except horrible, horrible racial stereotypes. At the press conference for the film I asked writer Alex Kurtzman about the characters. ‘I think a lot of what we did was following Michael’s lead,’ he said. ‘Those characters, more than any other, he had the strongest instinct for. Our job was to keep up with him.’ Buck passed! So then it was all Michael Bay’s idea to have these shucking and jiving bots, right? Not so fast. Bay was eager to give all the credit for the Twins to Tom Kenny, the (white) voice actor. ‘When you work with voice actors, especially with the twins, they did a lot of improv for their parts. We liked their improv and, from there, we would animate to their stuff. When you’re doing character animation and you’re building the character, it’s not like an actor where you shoot the scene and you’ve got it and you move on. With animation, you get the dialogue and then some animation and then a bit more of the dialogue and you keep going back and forth and it just builds until you have the shot you want.’ (For the record, Bay mentions a second voice actor while IMDB lists Kenny as the voice of both bots) Bay went on to say that his vision of the Twins is that he wanted bots with whom the younger audience could really identify, and the funny thing is that I actually believe him. I don’t think he set out to make two grotesque caricatures; I think he honestly believes these characters reflect some aspect of youth culture and not just a cartoony, broad vision of black youth. Bay’s films have never been all that racially sensitive (and blacks aren’t the only group to take a hit in this film; as mentioned above, Wheelie is a flat-out dago, even going so far as to refer to ancient Transformer Jetfire as ‘da Chairman of da Board,’ and there’s some choice Arabic humor in the film as well), but the Twins surely represent an all-time low. Would they have been as offensive if Bay had gotten a black actor for the voices? There certainly would be less of a feeling of weirdness if Katt Williams had come in for some shucking and jiving, although it would still have been… off. Bay’s defense seems to be that Tom Kenny came in and just Sambo’d it up, as if he had no way of knowing what sort of racially insensitive schtick the actor would bring. That’s hugely unlikely; Bay isn’t prisoner to the whims of his actors, especially not a voice actor. What the whole Twins debacle really reveals, though, is the sheer lack of adult supervision on this film. Transformers 2 is hugely bloated, incoherent, stupid and boring, seemingly all because Bay was free to indulge in his most Bayish impulses. The first film is rescued by the restraining hand of Spielberg; that hand is noticeably gone here. It’s stunning to think that anyone in the 21st century looked at the character designs of the Twins or listened to the voice tracks and thought that this was ‘okay.’

stuff goes boom, sure lol but when you can totally tell the army guys are firing off at god knows what on a blue screen, that is bad directing. Pay attention...rarely are they firing at something truly going on....they just fire straight or in random places (specially in the last battle scene) and it pans to the transformers....hardly any shots of them interracting as in you see them fighting each other. It was like if you take a tennis match, hold a piece of cardboard to the middle of the court, and flash back and forth. You see one guy hit the ball, don't know where it goes, but then you see the other guy hitting a ball...same ball? Who knows, you didnt see the ball's path...there was no fluidity. I do need to hit up sho's resident black power authority, rellikpoc (copkiller), about those two robots. I was offended, and I'm not even black. But, black people were laughing in the theater. So I dont know if I'm oversensitive or they were just retarded and didnt realize they were being mocked

did you SEE the movie? lol the only parts that were enjoyable were the ones with Agent Simmons or Fitzsimmons or whatever. John Turturro rules.

I boycott Quentin and his pretentious, self indulgent ass.

Do not, I repeat, do not waste theater money on this movie! I heard all the bad reviews, but as it is an action blockbuster I figured at least for the effects and battle scenes...worth going to the theater. Boy was I wrong. The acting was horrible, there was no character development whatsoever, and whoever the writer is...he's just not funny! The transformers almost take a backseat in this one....none of them are personal in any way. The longest scenes with transformers interacting other than fighting is with these two comic relief twin robots that truly are race archetypes. Come on...a robot with a gold tooth? These two characters are worse than jar jar binks and make a bad movie HORRIBLE. Not only that, but the design of the robots and the fact that they don't care about each robot's character, really effect liking the battle scenes and the action. hell, half the time I can't tell which robot is fighting who, who is a decepticon, and what the hell they change into. What a clusterfuck of a movie. That is just me venting on the surface level w/out going into more details.

any other reviews?

blazer from TEAM was typing to me on the crapper. he wanted to take a picture and send it to me. I was like hell no.

make that 4

yeah, all the other awards came pretty easily for me, but I'm not one that rushes and extracts....i'm the guy that protects that guy lol So it will be a while before I care enough to get those

dude...you tell nightly stories about your diarrhea and other horrible gastro issues

oh yeah! I totally forgot about Cluck U man, i haven't hit them up since i lived near towson U

its true. 1 year 1.6 mil with the option of going for more with over 5 mil extension, or something like that. we shall see.

i can't stand papa's or dominos. Their stuff is so cheap. Every time i get wings from there, i feel like they're mushy/soggy. Pizza-wise, i love me some Pizza Hut deep dish Another place for wings, if you're a marylander, is Bill Bateman's. They have a shit-ton of flavors

that DOES sound good. i love hot, but no where around her makes 'em hot enough. I'm used to middle eastern food, so american spicing is usually bland for me

i tried their honey mustard today..yumm! they obviously mix their own, as you could tell and taste that it had real honey in it, and they put in some dijon spicing...pretty damn good

w/out watching this, does it have to do with the Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy?

I'm not really down with big chains, buffalo wild wings are pretty good for a chain tho. there is a place near me called C.R. Wings that is awesome (get it? See Our WIngs) (oh and no lie..their manager is Phil McCracken...i shit you not)

dude lemon pepper is the shit. So are old bay wings

where were you last night in pre-war? i was talking about them while I was munching