Sunday, January 29, 2012

*spoiler alert* Sherlock (BBC) Season 2

Still loving this version way better than the Hollywood movie. But for season 2, I am not loving the Adler story. The chemistry between Sherlock with Moriarty is way way HOTTER than with Ms. Adler.

Seriously the end of the first episode was kinda ruin Sherlock for me a bit and definitely ruin Irene Adler. The actress playing Irene is not young and pretty enough (compare to Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock who is really on the young and cute side instead of mature and sexy). For this one I root for the Rachel McAdams version.

It is interesting however the adaptation of Irene Adler as dominatrix. Kinda remind me of Gill Grissom with Lady Heather.

But the weepy lovey dovey ending... God! really? It's almost like the writer cannot decide on letting Sherlock stays asexual or not (the Hollywood version decides to let go of this idea) and decided to sort of stay in the middle but downgrade Ms. Adler entirely. Making HER fall in LOVE with Sherlock, that is just low! You should be ashame.

Well, it was kinda awkward because she is a mature lady while Sherlock is like a cute boy in the series. So except if you cast her as young woman....

FINE, call me judgemental, I don't like cougars.

WAIT NO, cougars doesn't fall in love and get all weak like that.

Anyway, enough about that, I'm gonna start with Moriarty, third episode.

*sigh

Two gorgeous genious fashionable guys, 'flirting' with each other. The chemistry is HOT HOT HOT.

And that's all I gotta say about them. I wonder why both Hollywood and BBC chose this ending at the same time.

Oh, right the second episode. I liked that they cast the werewolf from Being Human to play in The Hounds of Baskerville. It's just approriate 


Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Muppets

Rating:★★★
Category:Movies
Genre: Comedy
It's a great Muppet Show but not overall a great movie.

We laughed every 2 seconds (we here, is a bunch of people age 27-38 who grew and are still growing with American pop culture), the funny part was absolutely fine, although you need to be pop culture savvy to understand it. Well, most of it is because you're just happy to see the many cameos in the movie. In my case, I turn to be a 13 year old girl watching 'Never Say Never' when JIM PARSONS appeared (HUGE Sheldon fan). And who doesn't LOVE Neil Patrick Harris? (and John Krasinski, Selena Gomez, Dave Grohl, Emily Blunt, Sarah Silverman and Jack Black for that matter).

My favorite song/funny part is the "Man or Muppet" song (no, the song is funny, it has little to do with the fact that this is where Jim Parsons appear)

But overall the story was not well executed, it was not well-rounded. And Jason Segel's (and other actors') act was horrible.

Also even though the muppet show and songs was perfectly okay, it was not meeting my expectation as I was expecting something like Jason Segel made in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshal'. It was not close as special as that vampire muppet song :(

The good thing is, the movie really picked up towards the end, so I still end up feeling great coming out of theater. We in fact, got out singing and dancing the "Mahna Mahna" song.