Good morning, life.

I haven't updated this bugger for a long time, so today I'm going to tell you about the two movies I watched within the past month and how terrible they were.

Transformers 2 was bollocks, it rolled down the hillside of awesome, past the rock of plots-that-actually-have-a-point and headlong into the valley of why-the-hell-did-i-just-watch-that. Transformers 1 still remains as one of my favourites, because it was genuinely funny and the plot carried really well. At least they stuck to the same few characters throughout the movie. The sequel is just really draggy with way too much giant-robot-crushing for its own good, while the humour is sort of dry and uninvited.

As for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I haven't actually read the book so I can't really comment on it as an adaptation. Still, it's really obvious that they cut out a shit load of content due to J.K. Rowling being obsessive compulsive and adding so much detail into the books that they doubled in size within 5 volumes. If anything, the movie was just incredibly indecisive. It can't decide whether it wants to be a story about magic, school, terrorism, or romance. The bigger portion of it was actually the last of those few, making it seem like a love story with the main plot doomed to sit and watch from the bench, only called up when the romantic quarterback breaks a leg in the third quarter. Everything else is stretched really thin, with all the slice-of-life bits that I loved about the first 3 movies cut out and each term lasting only slightly more than half an hour.

I think the bit which annoyed me the most was that the movie had nearly nothing to do with the half-blood prince at all. Considering that it's the name of the fucking book, it only got short cameo during the book and potions class scenes before suddenly being brought up oh so briefly again when SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE.
For those who haven't read or watched it yet, awww, I just spoiled it for you. Not my problem, bitch.

But heaven forbid, even after all that complaining about its plot, whatever bits that they didn't cut out from the book the size of my laptop were actually entertaining - the stupid Ron, Lavender and Luna bits never failed to amuse me, along with several other little funny parts of which I can't remember right now. All in all, it was better than I thought it would be.



But Emma Watson Didn't appear enough. Those bastards.