Re: So if Hot Rod became "Rodimus Prime"


Smart Ape with Dr. Acula writed:
> "FunkyM, the rated PG-13 poster" <funkym@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1137693385.175307.67930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Setzer writed:
> >> >>>> Setzer -- I know, I know...but I LOVED the Transformers as a kid
> >> >>> And, you have yet to see the movie IIRC!
> >> >> I never have, but I told you that story already.
> >> >
> >> > WTF????????????????????
> >>
> >> Okay:
> >>
> >> When Transformers: The Movie came out on video, video stores were still
> >> in
> >> their infancy. We lived in the absolute middle of nowhere (literally in
> >> the
> >> woods) and the nearest video store was 25 miles away. One day my mother
> >> came home with "Transformers: The Movie" and "The Untouchables" from this
> >> place. In my 10 year old ecstatic glee I chunked TF in the VCR
> >> immediately.
> >> Next thing I know, Megatron's being turned into Galvatron and my mom
> >> comes
> >> in and stops the movie. She tells me that friends of my family have
> >> rented
> >> this nice condominium and I'm going to spend the weekend there with my
> >> aunt,
> >> uncle and cousins. I beg her not to make me go but she won't hear of it.
> >> I
> >> beg her not to take the tape back and she agrees.
> >>
> >> I go on the trip and it's one of the worst vacations I've ever had. But
> >> it
> >> was all worth it because, as soon as I got home, I'd be able to finish
> >> watching the movie! Except when I get home the tape is nowhere to be
> >> found.
> >> I ask my mom about it and she tells me she took it back. For months I
> >> demand she take me to the video store so I can get the tape, but she
> >> refuses, "It's too far, Jim." FINALLY six months or so later she
> >> relents.
> >> We go to the store...and the tape is gone. A few months later we moved
> >> to a
> >> small town, and their video store didn't have it. Then two years later
> >> we
> >> moved here, and this video store didn't have it.
> >>
> >> When the DVD came out, I made a conscious decision not to watch it. I've
> >> stood by that. After 19 years there is just no way the movie can EVER be
> >> as
> >> great as it is in my mind. It's a piece of my childhood I just don't
> >> want
> >> to see ruined, like Thundercats (which I loved as a kid, saw as an adult,
> >> and now wish I never had).
> >
> > FunkyM just saw TF: the Movie for the first time a couple months ago
> > and he marked out from beginning to end!
>
> And you cal yourself a 6 year old child, Funky!!

In his defense, FunkyM was only 5 at the time!

peep peep!

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