the simpsons in 2D!

i saw The Simpsons Movie last wednesday, 10:30am, at SM North, the Block. well, its not as mind-blowing as Transformers but it never claimed to be such a movie, so i guess there wasnt that much of an expectation. is it good? well, yes in a sense that its a very funny movie and still sticks to its classic simpsons humor with homer packing the best laughs. but its not very different from what we see on the tv series. like i said to my blockmates who've asked me about it, its like a longer simpsons episode (a one hour and a half episode). nothing out of the ordinary. it never claimed (i think) that the movie's got something that's never been seen on tv. its in 2D after all and it was a good move because having The Simpsons in 3D just isnt the same or having a live-action one. So as a movie adaptation of a cartoon tv series, The Simpsons isnt bad. come to think of it, i dont think there's been such a movie recently (cartoon tv series into a cartoon movie. usually these are animes like DragonBall Z or Ghost Fighter). Besides, people would want to watch this movie to get a good laugh and well, this movie managed to do that. though some people might feel that the simpsons humor has gone stale over the years, some people still find the silliness of homer and the crazy town of springfield as a laugh out loud type of comedy. so if you are one of those people who never get tired of seeing homer and his expression of his amusing level of intellect and comprehension, with his ever loyal wife (marge) and diverse set of children (bart, lisa and maggie) and watch them confront different sets of interesting situations, this movie is worth watching. but its still no Transformers. that movie is just awesome.

book seven spoiler...not!

just remembered the silly joke lessons from"Borat". this shirt is black...not! anyway just felt like posting an email excerpt i sent last night to the tomadores egroup regarding book seven:

here's the ending: megatron joined forces with voldemort because it was revealed that the source of the magical powers of the wizards and witches was the all-spark of cybertron. with the autobots destroyed, megatron knew these wizards and witches were a threat. it was also revealed that ron and hermione were actually harry potter's parents, james and lily. they were taking polyjuice potion all these years to guard harry. this angered harry so he killed everyone then committed suicide because he realized everything he knew was a lie (how did he kill everyone? well, i wont spoil that one, just read it yourself, you can buy it for P1305 on some bookstores, some sell it for P1450). but what harry didnt know was that voldemort watched dragonball while he was awaiting full recovery and learned how to produce a child by way of an egg and did so before harry killed everyone. so, the magic continues. this is why there wont be a book eight because all of them died. as for the egg, rowling might make a new series out of it. it wasnt revealed what the egg contains or whether voldemort was successful in this alien method of reproduction (since voldemort isnt an alien he used one of his nuts as an egg to bear his child. gross i know, but hey, rowling wanted to be bold on this last book. she's really vulgar this time. here, harry called bellatrix lestrange you-know-who's whore that sucks a lot of you-know-whats and get its in her you-know-where). it was also revealed that something was up Snape's ass thats why he's always grumpy and for some reason, harry's scar made him aware of it, hence Snape's mean attitude toward potter. i think snape had a lightning bolt scar in his ass that causes him great pain whenever he's near harry.

i wonder if potter fans would be offended with what i wrote? i mean, it is possible there are those fans who worship the books and the characters to the point anything written that's defamatory or slanderous would want to kill me on sight. im a fan too, obviously, based from the entries below but cmon, lighten up.

another one of them harry potter entries

ive finally completed the seven Harry Potter books! completed them last saturday but finished reading book seven this afternoon, sunday, 1:43pm. still having a bit of some kind of "withdrawal syndrome" since finishing book seven meant no more harry potter books to look forward to. that harry potter's story has come to an end. anyway, the past two weeks had been a bit interesting because i finished 3 potter books in this 2 weeks and watched the fifth movie twice. and thats not because of being some "potterhead". it just so happened that i had to read book 5 first before seeing the movie, so i finished it around 3am of july 11, hours before the movie was released (started reading it around july 9, but ive read the first half already months earlier so, technically, its 2 potter books and a half, since i was halfway through and i dont know why i stopped reading months before). and after seeing the movie last july 11 around 2:30pm, having an unread book 6 (a gift from college blockmates), i decided to read it just because my liking for the series was restored. it took me a couple of days to read it and finished it on july 15, 12:47am. after a week, went to see the fifth movie again with my siblings, which coincided with the day the seventh book was released. i was tempted to buy it, which i did and read it that night. finished the book the following day at 1:43pm. i usually read the books in one sitting (books 5 and 6 were exceptions and a bit of book 7 since i had to sleep a little...read until 4am, continued around 9am). if i was in my old and real "harry potter fan" mode, i would have indulged more (looked for potter merchandise and goodies in malls, spent hours on the net for harry potter stuff, probably rented DVDs of the earlier movies). but i cant do that now im in law school, there's really no time to waste. and i thought that i might have outgrown it. well, i have but only a little bit.

focusing on book seven, The Deathly Hallows is really brilliant. its a good final installment. its really filled with what most readers probably hoped for. though there are questions that remain unanswered, they're really minor stuff (really minor) and another book would never be needed to fill these things in (i dont even think the questions are enough to make a book out of it). i was hoping that the book could have been longer but its length is good enough that it doesnt appear to be something condensed. i would have wanted 300 pages more and a longer (because i didnt want it to end) and a more encompassing epilogue but thats asking too much and might ruin the fact that its the last book. i mean, JK Rowling cant answer everything for the readers or fill everything in. somehow, i think, that a sense of longing should remain to intensify the impact of the final installment but at the same time wont disappoint the readers for leaving out too much stuff that could make it insufficient to bring things to a close. book seven is much different from the first 6 because it really doesnt take place in Hogwarts and i think this is the most action-filled, also character-filled (in terms of significant roles), of all the books. the book doesnt also fail to take into consideration the necessary details. though there was a portion that got a bit monotonous, the book remained to be an enjoyable read all through out.

after finishing it, i sort of experienced some sort of "withdrawal syndrome" right after (still experiencing a bit of it now). after all these years, ive finally completed it. now what? its always been a problem when collecting stuff that are...well, easy to collect or something thats limited. it took years to finally get to book seven and now that im done reading it, and once the thought that the story has ended has sunk in and no more stories of potter and his friends to eagerly look forward to, its just a bit hard to really think that you finally need to say goodbye to the characters and their magical world. ive never been much of a "fanstasy" reader, always had been someone to go for "sci-fi" books, harry potter was one of the exceptions (i like Studio Ghibli films..but then again, thats not a book). back then, i didnt expect i was going to like such a book, and ive never really heard about it until i got book 2 of the series as a gift years ago, most likely christmas of 2000, if not the year earlier. and from there i got hooked and after all these years, its has come to an end. well, there's always reading all seven books again, but thats not the same as reading a new installment. there's two more movies but after the fifth one, i just hope David Yates makes a film close to the 3rd or 4th for The Half-Blood Prince (i know people liked what Yates did but unfortunately, im not a fan of the fifth movie or maybe i had high expectations after the 4th movie). and whoever is going to direct the seventh and final Harry Potter film, he or she better make it as the best of all the Potter films. demanding git aint i?

potter-filled saturday

it was saturday and i was planning to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix...again. though i didnt really like it (compared to the other harry potter movies), i watched it again because ive always seen the harry potter movies with my siblings. and since i always accompany them to watch movies, i watched the fifth potter movie again. anyway, i woke up around 8am and told my siblings we were going to leave around 9am, thinking that there might still be long lines for movie tickets for such film so we had to be there early (also, recently, ive always watched movies on its early screenings for the day, if not the first). i know its been more than a week since the movie was released so there might be no lines but i based my assumption for the possibility of long lines after seeing the IMAX cinema on MoA has already sold out tickets for the second weekend. anyway, while waiting for my siblings to get ready, i picked up the Inquirer and read that the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was going to come out that same day, 7:01am. i was a bit surprised. i knew it was end of july but i didnt know the exact date and time. i realized i havent been much of a fan of the book lately. anyway, we reached Trinoma a little past 9:30am and since book seven was released hours earlier, Power Books was already open and there i had my first glimpse of the last installment of the Harry Potter series. at that time, i had no plans of buying one since i wasnt expecting it to be available already nor had i the money to buy it. the plan for the day was watch the movie.

10am came, and there wasnt much a line on the ticket booth (though the long line started after lunch, so my assumption is a bit correct and being early wasnt much of a waste). after watching it, my siblings had the same sentiment, it wasnt as good as the previous ones and probably their least favorite of the five harry potter films. they never read the books and they said they never really understood what was going on. this confirmed what i thought previously, that non-readers wont be able to digest what's happening. the scene transitions are a bit disjointed and its really hard to follow where the movie is going (like ive said before, its like a 2 hour extended trailer). but i did enjoy it more the second time i saw the movie. this is probably because of lowered expectations. so now, i could say, the movie wasnt that bad but its still my least favorite harry potter film. but book 5 is much better than book 1 and 2 (havent decided yet which i liked most among books 3, 4 and 5). after seeing the movie, we went to National Bookstore and saw more of them Harry Potter books. i just felt i had to buy it. i was thinking if not now, when? i didnt buy book 5 immediately and at that moment i still didnt have book 5 and there's book 7 right in front me which completes the Harry Potter series. i wont be able to stand hearing other people telling that they've read book 7. and i hate hearing and reading spoilers (though i am someone who writes and tells spoilers, but i do warn people). anyway, after minutes of contemplation, i decided im going to buy the book and since i didnt have money for it (because i didnt really plan on buying the book for i didnt know its exact release date so i wasnt able to save up for it), i borrowed some money from my sister. we bought the one being sold in National Bookstore Trinoma (because we found out that the prices werent the same: NBS Trinoma and Fully Booked: P1305; Power Books and NBS SM North: P1450...i think). Then when we got to NBS SM North, we found that Book 5 (Order of the Phoenix) was available, and there, again, i started to do some thinking whether to buy it too or not (its been very hard to buy one since whenever i had the money to buy it, it was always out of stock, and has always been, most of the time out of stock, so at the moment i was thinking its like a "now or never" situation). Eventually, i decided i had to buy it to complete my collection of the seven Harry Potter books. again, borrowed money from my sister and also my brother, because it was really an unplanned thing to buy the books. Book5 was only available in NBS SM North and Fully Booked and NBS was much cheaper (NBS SM North:P849, Fully Booked: P1300 plus). so thats my harry potter filled saturday.

what is beautiful?

what is beautiful? well, beautiful is defined as having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight. if that's the definition, then its something that is visually wonderful.

what then is gorgeous? Gorgeous is defined as "dazzlingly beautiful or magnificent".

so, why the crap am i defining these words? well, obviously because i want to post some pics which are good examples of such words. who then could be an example of these two words? well, im thinking of the "world's most beautiful news reporter" (as voted in 2006 in the Daily Express), Melissa Theuriau as the perfect example...at this moment. just look at her pic below to see an example of what is beautiful and gorgeous.

so, is this also good example of res ipsa loquitur as a literal translation, without referring to the doctrine to which its legal term connotes? i mean, the latin maxim is used in Tort law and obviously there is no negligence involved here, but only a picture of a very wonderful looking female of the human species. point is, the latin phrase means "the thing speaks for itself". why the hell did i resort to using the latin maxim when i could have just said the literal english translation? well, not because it has something to do with being a law student. its far from that. the reason is not even law related. its more of a "subliminal message" for future purposes. so if ever i read this entry again after lets say...ummm...3 years or 5 years, remember, res ipse loquitur.

anyway, the people in France (meaning those who get to watch her) are very goddamn lucky to have such a reporter that has the word "beautiful" as her perfect description. Watching the news must be a wonderful experience for them. unfortunately, there isnt much pics of her that's available for people who couldnt watch her on tv (like me!). well, there are vid caps of her while she's doing the news. and also there's YouTube. but that's not the same as seeing her on your own TV and knowing that she's the one reporting your news ( i mean, there's YouTube but you cant understand what she's saying. but French is a nice sounding language). from the word beautiful, lets move to the word "hot"? why? obviously, im not done yet with posting pics of beautiful girls. or pics of hot celebs. i mean, the words "beautiful" and "hot" are two separate and distinct words. the word "sexy" also has a different meaning. anyway, what is "hot"? do i still need to define it? lets just go directly to the pics that serve as good examples. at this moment, a good example of a sizzling hot celeb is Transformers movie hottie, Megan Fox. ive noticed her in the movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" and its nice to see she's hotter now than she was back then. and its nice that she didnt end up like lindsay lohan.

height is might. yeah right

being tall isnt always good. the stuff and environment we have isnt really "height friendly" or at least "tall friendly" (if there could be such a thing). i remembered this thought because i boarded a tricycle two days ago where i hit my left knee on the tricycles cd player (which is a cd-rom drive). and ive mentioned this in this blog before, its really uncomfortable to ride in a tricycle because i always hit my head while its running on bumpy roads. thats understandable because tricycles arent usually designed to accomodate 6 foot tall people. the same thing is true for jeepneys where ive learned to bow my head whenever there's a road hump. its become an automatic thing, a reflex of sorts. its also hard to ride in front because most of the time, my legs would fit perfectly, with no more room to really move my legs. sometimes, my legs wont even fit, so i have to lean a little to the side. and as for riding "sabit" on the jeepney's estribo, thats also hard because i have to bend more. its a "back-achin" experience. but even if that's the case i still like to commute. i enjoy it, and regard it as something like a science, where i calculate and approximate the time needed to reach the point of destination.

going back to a non-height friendly environment, back then, when i wasnt used to the height ive reached, i always hit my head. be it a sign post, a pipe, a doorway, etc. also, i felt a bit paranoid because whenever i go to malls or crowded places, people always look at me. why? because i stand out. not that they were amazed or watching me or something. its just that, its easy to see a tall guy among people of average heights. its like the "sticking out like a sore thumb" thing. good thing that through the years, the number of tall people have increased compared to the late 90s. i mean, people from lower batches in school are taller than the older batches. this isnt fact of couse but just mere observation where i noticed in school that more tall people come from the younger generations. so is this like an evolutionary thing? like, in the next few years the average height has increased? well, i dont care that much. im not one of those who really think tallness matters a lot. or tallness is some sort of superiority. to a certain and limited extent it is, but it does not follow its better to be tall. there are some perks and advantages but there are disadvantages as well, like what i said in this entry. the environment we have is not "height friendly". also, they say tall people have lower life spans. ok, add that to the fact that im left-handed which also lowers the life span and also is a problem because the environment is also not lefty friendly. going back to the height thing, sometimes i forget that im tall and what makes me realize it is the adjusting i have to do to the environment we live in. but some would probably say, the disadvantages are minor things, as opposed to the advantages. what exactly are the advantages? well, if that's true, maybe i just complain a lot.

alcohol...nuff said

To alcohol...the CAUSE...and SOLUTION...to all of life's problems
--- Homer Jay Simpson

Alcohol only causes problems if you dont know how to drink. anyway, a friend once said to me, what's the point of drinking if you wont get intoxicated. it runs against the purpose of drinking alcohol when you will not drink to the point of intoxication. another friend also said that one bottle of beer is bad for your health, implying that a person should drink at least two. others say that a person should not drink alone, unless one is watching tv or to quench a thirst while eating something. point is, alcohol is not meant to be drank alone or its meant to be enjoyed. if one drinks just to drown one's sorrows or problems, then at least have some company to enjoy it with.

why do i drink? well, because i enjoy it. and i only drink when im not worried or bothered by something. but if i am burdened by something, i make sure i drink not because of such. why? because i might get used to the idea that i should drink whenever i have problems, and knowing myself, i have the tendency to abuse or indulge in stuff, like alcohol. so, i always make sure that whenever i drink, its because i want to enjoy its intoxicating effect, and most of the time, i enjoy it in the company of good friends.

focusing on the intoxication part, aside from the fact that it loosens up a person, it has this "mind clearing" effect on me. usually, my mind is cluttered with stuff and thats why i easily get confused. im always thinking of a lot of a things, including non-sensical ones (or maybe usually non-sensical ones). but once i get intoxicated, i start to think only of what's right in front of me and nothing else. i dont worry or think about anything else except what im doing at the moment. i more focused on the conversations and interactions i have during drinking sessions. my mind isnt elsewhere as it usually is, its right where it should be, attention focused on the people im drinking with. so, some people might say im a "better" person when drinking. i worry less, my mind doesnt fly to some other place and well, i talk. actually, thats why i talk, my mind isnt occupied.

wallpaper addict

one thing i like to do on my spare time is collect desktop wallpapers. why? i dont know, i just like to collect them. i even remember my very first desktop wallpaper. the moment we had our very own PC (which was back in 1998), i knew what my desktop background would be. it was the skull picture i saw on my cousin's PC. it was just a small skull image probably not more than 25kb. so i grabbed a diskette, copied it, and loaded it on my PC. then i tiled it as my desktop background. anyway, that's not the reason why i started collecting desktop wallpapers. i dont recall when i exactly started but it was sometime during college. and the wallpaper software i use is webshots. i think this has been the wallpaper software ive used way back in highschool (cant recall exactly). i think it was because of webshots i started collecting desktop wallpapers because its website offers a lot of good nature and scenic wallpapers. these were the wallpapers i started collecting. over time, i started to look for other wallpapers, based on my varying interest. and over time, i focused less on nature and scenic wallpapers (ive lost the early ones because my PC crashed) and moved to movie wallpapers, and then moved to hot celebrities (females of course). and at this moment, i have 7286 wallpapers and counting! ok. what the crap am i going to do with thousands of wallpapers? nothing except look at it (the desktop wallpaper automatically changes every 15 mins and could be used as a screensaver). i mean, its a wallpaper after all. maybe start a wallpaper site or something? i dont know. maybe i just have this thing for collecting stuff. when i was a kid, i used to collect cards and comic books. why did i stop collecting comic books? tragic thing actually. lost the entire collection, sometime during my sophomore year in highschool. its really something that pisses me off until now. from comic books, i started collecting skull figurines and other merchandise. it wasnt much of a collection compared to my comic books but its still a form of collecting. from there, i tried collecting pins, but that didnt kick off. so i settled with collecting wallpapers. aside from its free and easy, i really like to look at desktop wallpapers sometimes. its like appreciating a nice picture, especially when its a picture of a sizzling hot and uber sexy celebrity.

7286 wallpapers:

5209 sexy celeb wallpapers (giselle bundchen - 99, jennifer lamiraqui - 110, jessica alba - 105, kelly brook - 105, liv tyler - 108, monica belluci - 95)
1117 movie wallpapers (ghost rider - 30, xmen - 35, LOTR - 38, underworld - 37, spiderman - 32
255 3D wallpapers
249 anime wallpapers (Full Metal Alchemist - 51, Samurai X - 65)
176 music wallpapers (beatles - 16, metallica - 17
97 nature wallpapers
36 automobile wallpapers
32 tv show wallpapers

the future of movies/film?

now that they can make a transformers movie that's so realistic with such amazing special effects and sound effects, what's next for the movie/film industry? i mean, it started with silent films, then moved to films with sound, then from black and white, then came films in color.

animation now comes in 3D format. and with the recent transformers movie, the level of special effects was astonishing. but that made me think, what could be the next best thing? i mean, what more do cinemas have to offer aside from what it has accomplished right now. not that im not happy with it, im actually excited what kind of movies they could do under the same level of entertainment the transformers movie was able to bring. of course a good plot/story will never go out of fashion or something like that, but a movie shown in cinemas must have something so people would prefer to watch them on cinemas and not in the comfort of their homes with their big screen LCD TVs or HDTVs (not that we have one, but it seems eventually, these television screen types will replace the CRT ones. point is, if you have a home theater, a movie should be able to have something aside from release date so people would rather watch them in cinemas). over time, a transformers type of movie would eventually become a norm like 3D animation (that's why its amusing The Simpsons movie proudly states its shown in 2D, and its like an acknowledgement that 3D animation has become the standard or at least the next step in animated movies and going for 2D is like reverting back or taking one step backward in the progression of movies/films). so, what's next for the movie/film industry? not that the special effects cant go any further or that we have seen everything film has to offer but im just wondering if IMAX 3D would be the next step. im not sure about it if film is heading that way but as of now, having movie in 3D is very appealing. the quality of IMAX film is better but having it on IMAX 3D is a step further. let me clarify, im not saying IMAX 3D is the next best thing, what im trying to say is having a movie in 3D is a probable step and only IMAX, as far as i know, offers that. maybe 3D could be taken a step further than what IMAX 3D currently offers. i dont know. i watch movies often, sometimes as often as every week. and sometimes the only reason i watch them is because they're not available on video. that's why i started to ask what could be the film industry's next step so people would still watch movies in movie theatres or cinemas.

Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet

june 28 was a good day. i was supposed to have three classes that day but the two were cancelled. so it left me with one class. not bad. but that's not the best part. the best part is, i was able to watch Transformers on its release date! i thought i had to wait til friday before i could watch the supposed Best Summer Movie You Havent' Seen Yet. good thing mam avena didnt have class that day because if she did, i would have stayed in school until around 630pm. i could still watch the last full show but since i had no idea if the movie was good or not, i would rather watch it the following day. but that wasnt the case, i was free to go to the mall by 430pm! but i was still unsure if i should watch it since i always watch movies on its first screening for the day. but jump was already ready to watch it and somehow he infected me with his anticipation and excitement for the movie. so, i tagged along and watched it. and after seeing it, holy shit, its fucking good. no, its fucking awesome! there's really more than meets the eye. they did a good job in promoting the movie, because not only did they arouse the interest of the would-be watchers (they made sure we dont get a good look on how the autobots and decepticons look like), they didnt show the best parts in the trailers. the trailer wont even give you an idea how good the movie is. after stepping out of the cinema, i mentioned to jump, "kaya na nila gumawa ng ganitong transformers movie?". i never thought they could pull-off a transformers movie this good. i cant imagine at this moment what they can do with this level of special effects.

when i got home, i just felt i needed to replace the background picture on my multiply site. my former picture was composed of wolverine, ghost rider and venom and i did that after watching spiderman 3 which reminded me of my love for marvel comics and its characters. but after seeing Transformers, shit, i wished marvel movies were this good. also, i just had to make a Transformers background picture. so i started looking for pics the autobots and decepticons of the live-action film.

then came the day after. i had a 9am class. i found it hard to concentrate because i was singing the transformers tv theme in my head and my mind kept thinking of the nice scenes in the movie. i just have to watch it again. so i did, this time with my brother. its not as awesome as the first time but still its nice to watch the eye-popping scenes again.

like i said in my reply on sheryl's multiply site, its hard not to love a movie this good. but i know some people who wouldnt like it. so what would make a person not like this movie? well, if he or she is someone who hates cars and robots and cars transforming into robots and vice versa and do not appreciate special effects and sound effects, and not interested in kick-ass fight scenes, then this movie would be a very big bore. some people find it idiotic to watch a movie that's not realistic or not grounded on reality. they prefer to watch something that happens in real life. well, that's his or her opinion and its hard for me to understand that (but i tried to understand it nonetheless) because ive always thought the reason people watch movies was because they wanted to take a break from reality. if i wanted to watch something real or something that happens in the real world, i would watch a documentary. anyway, going back to transformers, its great, its awesome, its (ive said this so many times) mind blowing! but its not perfect, almost, but not quite.

first, the megatron live-action film look is ok, but i would have loved it if they used the G1 Megatron look. also, i was expecting the old starscream voice but, like i said, what they did in the movie is ok.

second, they didnt introduce the decepticons that well. its fine they had "surprise" decepticons like brawl and bonecrusher but it could, probably, have been better if they gave more information on starscream's and another decepticon's personalities (barricade perhaps?). starscream didnt seem like megatron's second in command or showed his ambitious side (maybe they intend to show this on the sequel). correct me if im wrong but i think scorponok didnt report when frenzy alerted the decepticons. he wasnt in the final battle. i thought he was with blackout, but blackout came and well, scorponok was not in sight. also, when bumblee had his legs crushed, i think jazz remained in his car form and didnt even react or do something to help bumblebee.

third, its hard to tell who's who on the fight scenes. or at least try to see what's happening. sometimes its just looks like two big heaps of metal rolling around. the slow motions were helpful but of course they cant use it in every fight scene.

fourth, it would have been better if they started with a face-off type of battle where all of them arriving on the battle scene on their alternate forms then transforming into their robot forms. i mean, by the final battle, it was already five on five. optimus prime, jazz, ratchett, ironhide, and bumblebee vs. megatron, brawl, barricade, blackout and starscream. bonecrusher was out of the equation since optimus prime decapitated him even before they reached the "battlezone". frenzy remained in the hoover dam headquarters and scorponok didnt go with the other decepticons. ok, maybe this was what i was expecting, the autobots squaring off with the decepticons, before they do the fight scenes they did in the movie. but what they did wasnt that bad.

dont get me wrong, i love this movie. its more than what i expected. it had a good balance of staying true to the 80s cartoon and adapting it to modern times. the special effects were amazing, the sound effects, and the soundtrack as well (but i think the 50 First Dates soundtrack is better). from time to time there were scenes in the movie where i cant stop myself from reacting and saying "shit! that's nice!" (referring to starscream's mid-air fight scenes), "whoa" (when bumblebee switched from the 1974 or 1975 camaro into the 2008 model; when barricade transformed back into a police car in mid-air to follow bumblebee), "nice!" (first look on how they transform, this is when blackout transformed at the beginning of the movie. actually, it was more of because of the sound effects; when i first heard optimus prime's voice; when optimus prime used his energy axe).