marbleglove | Entries tagged with review

Okay, I just recently saw Transformers 2. It was fun. Bad like whoa, but fun none the less. I pretty much went into it figuring character development was a lost cause, and plot was probably something best left alone, but pretty people, pretty cars, and action sequences were a go. And yes they were. I was only really thrown out of suspended disbelief a few times when the physics of the situation was just a bit too far off.

While I enjoyed the complete schlockiness that was Transformers 2, the best part of the movie was seeing the previews. Some of them not only looked fun, but looked good, too. So here are a couple of movies that are coming up and look awesome!

Sherlock Holmes (25 December 2009)

Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes. Let us pause just to appreciate that bit of type casting... he's brilliant at what he does, he's a complete loose canon, a drug-addict, and a bit of an ass. It's perfect.

M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (2 July 2010)

This just looks awesome! One caveat: Avatar isn't an anime that I follow. And thinking of the anime that I do like, I'm not sure that I would appreciate them being made live action. However, I don't watch the anime, and I do trust Shyamalan, and, as I said, this preview is awesome!

It had been a while since I read any Mercedes Lackey so I've been going back to read and/or re-read some of her books. Particularly since Methos as a Herald of Valdemar continues to pester me. Anyway, her books are a lot of fun even if they don't have particularly sophisticated plot or character development. However, the one thing that suddenly struck me was that here is a mainstream writer who has canonical slash. Is that not cool? I can't, off the top of my head, think of any other book or series that has it so casually in place, where the book is still plot driven and, oh yes, the love interest happens to be same-sex as the main character. Lackey has written a lot of books and sometimes they're slash, sometimes they're het, sometimes they're gen, but they're always no more than PG-13. I just thought that was very cool. If you can think of any other author who writes like this, let me know.