40 years later, and it still hits like a truck...

So are they adding some new scenes to this movie? After seeing all the comments online about how this movie traumatized a lot of kids when it was first shown, am I the weird one who actually loved this when it first came out? I've always thought that the movie is about Hotrod and his journey to become Rodimus Prime. Similar to the GI Joe movie where the premise is pushing Falcon as the main protagonist.