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There are certain childhood wounds that time simply cannot heal. You can grow up. You can get a mortgage. You can develop opinions about interest rates, cholesterol, lawn care and whether $19 for a hamburger should qualify as organized crime. You can become a fully functioning adult capable of handling responsibilities, disappointment and the occasional email that begins with “per my last message.” But apparently none of that prepares you to forgive Hasbro for killing Optimus Prime. Forty years later, The Transformers: The Movie has returned to theaters for its anniversary rerelease, and instead of quietly slipping into a few auditoriums for a nostalgia-fueled weekend, the thing has turned into a legitimate theatrical success. The rerelease, which began September 17, was initially promoted as a limited engagement. Instead, audiences showed up in numbers large enough that hundreds of theaters around the world are continuing to screen the movie, with some locations reportedly scheduling...