First of all..
TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN rocked so much BUM!
I watched it twice already...
First during opening night with my brother, on an IMAX screening, where we lined up 3 hours before the movie started, yet we still barely got decent seats... but the movie was worth all that.
The second time was with my friend and her boyfriend + his friends.. and it was still fun!
I went to watch it expecting lots of robot action, lots of robots and the awesomeness of William Lennox... and I got just that, and maybe more!
( the things I liked )Other than the characters? Really it was all the action that made me love this movie. I feel the plot dragged along. I really didn't like the Sam/Mikaela storyline, the dirty humping jokes and all the Megan Fox gratuity shots.
I feel that if they cut on most of the (repeated) "you say I love you first" storyline, Megan Fox and the dirty jokes, this movie would have been at least half an hour shorter. It really didn't do much to drive the plot. It really slowed down the whole movie. It had this very exciting start, but then it just had this... lull. The Sam/Mikaela, Megan Fox parts really just bored me to tears and the only time I really felt disappointed in this movie.
Compared to the first one though, I still can't decide which I like better. Action-wise, I think this one definitely takes the cake. Plot-wise and acting-wise, I think I like the first one better.
The plot in the first film was more ... condensed. No real slow parts. It's snap, snap, snap. Not a lot of gratuitous Megan Fox shots. Only that one scene after the Lake part... there was more flow to it.
Also, I don't think there's a part in the 2nd film that can compete with my favorite parts in the first movie: Scorponok Attack and Soccent Base Attack..... Those two scenes were excellent in terms of just the combination of action, script, plot and score.
Anyway, I got what I came for when watching TF2, so I can't complain.
Other than that, I have been kept busy by watching
Merlin.
I finished all 13 episodes and my gosh! It's amazing! I can't wait for the 13th season.
I love both Arthur and Merlin... and it's kind of shocking.. I think they're the first two male characters that I can willingly ship together in a while! O_O!
I don't normally like slash, but I love the friendship between Arthur and Merlin... how both of them are willing to give up their life for the other.
... That and I feel both the female leads are kind of weak. :P I guess Morgana is okay... she has her moments... but Guinevere... I'm having a hard time believing she will one day be queen. I admit the concept of Guinevere being a servant was intriguing, and I was so excited to see how that would play out in the beginning... with Arthur being arrogant and Gwen not really liking him much, but as episodes go on, Gwen is just so... bland and flat. I can't find a reason to like her.
It's sort of the same with Morgana. The sexual tension between her and Arthur intrigued me at first, but then... that was really it. At least she has that whole "seer" thing going for her character that makes her interesting.
maybe it's their acting or something that I just don't feel? :P
Oh well, Arthur and Merlin keeps me more than satisfied.