There's only one return and it's not of the King, it's of the Jedi~
etc., etc.~
Clerks II ftw!
Recently I saw Star Trek and Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. My opinions on both are as follows...
Star Trek
Speaking as a huge ST fan (I do favor ST DS9 more) I was on the fence about this movie when I first heard about it. Then when more info came out I admit, I turned my back on it, however how the plot was carried out (what with alternate timeline, which lets face it, the timeline/dimensional barriers have been repeatedly torn apart in the ST universe) I have to admit I did start to get interested in it again. I didn't like the actor who played Kirk too much though, but Karl Urban did a brilliant job as Dr Leonard 'Bones' McCoy imo. The starship designs were revamped and did have a grace to them and the battles were very good to. All in all, I'd say Star Trek is a movie anyone can watch, from your average joe to full hardcore Trekkie.
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
... As a hardcore Transformers Generation One fan, I admit I was chomping at the bit for a live action TF movie. First... was ok (I could go into more detail, but I want to focus on the second), but the second... Well... where to begin...
Bringing in the Fallen as well as the Legacy of the Primes, ties in (to a degree) with the Transformers history, that the Transformers were created by the God Primus etc etc. Taken from Wikipedia:
Although the Fallen's origins are only suggested in his comic book appearance, they would be fully explained in Dorling Kindersley's Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. One of the original thirteen Transformers created by Primus, the robot who would become the Fallen betrayed his creator by siding with Primus's dark twin, the malevolent planet-eater Unicron. In the final battle between Primus and Unicron, the Fallen fell victim to the same fate as his master, sucked through a black hole into another dimension. However, while Unicron emerged in another universe, the Fallen was not so fortunate, finding himself trapped in the "underspace" between dimensions.
I can't help but wonder... IF for the third film, Unicron (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicron) appears in it, although I have misgivings about that for multiple reasons. All in all though, bringing the Fallen into the live action movie did add some more to the Decepticon cause. Though... why not bring in more Decepticons? Had Soundwave, what about the rest of his casettes? Rampage was in it, and he was part of the Predacon subgroup who formed the gestalt Predaking, but where are the other Predacons? Sideswipe was in it, but his twin Sunstreaker wasn't. I could go on, but I won't.
WTF is up with Devastator? THAT THING IS NOT DEVASTATOR! A fuckin CAT?!?! Ok, it WAS made up from construction vehicles so I'll give points for that... but making it a fucking CAT?!?! IMO, the first Decepticon gestalt to appear in the live action movies SHOULD'VE been more like how he was in the original 1986 movie/comics/cartoon etc. I suppose I can understand why they had to change him... but it's the same thing regarding Bumblebee... he was a Volkswagen Beetle and was one of, if not, the weakest Autobot. Yet in the movies he's portrayed as a battle hardened warrior...
Sorry... just find a lot of little inaccuracies that irk me. Guess I'm a traditionalist in that regard...