Tuesday, May 30, 2006
X-Men - threat or menace?
Well, I went to see the new X-Men movie yesterday. Overall, it was a reasonable addition to the franchise, though by movie's end it had diverged significantly from any of the various comics continuities I remember from years back.
Warning: Spoilers may follow. Move along if you don't want to see them.
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Alas...I carried a torch for Jean Grey for years when I was younger.
I think the movie suffered from too many subplots in some ways. Also, there were so many different mutants that it was hard to keep track of them all. And I felt a bit cheated that the only Sentinels in the movie were in the opening Danger Room sequence.
OTOH, the least believable scene in the movie was at the end, when they showed the Golden Gate Bridge being rebuilt in some semi-reasonable timeframe after the events of the movie. That could never happen in San Francisco. We're still repairing and rebuilding things that broke in the 1989 earthquake.
I think it may be a while before I pick this one up on DVD. Parts of it hurt too much to watch again for a while.
Warning: Spoilers may follow. Move along if you don't want to see them.
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Alas...I carried a torch for Jean Grey for years when I was younger.
I think the movie suffered from too many subplots in some ways. Also, there were so many different mutants that it was hard to keep track of them all. And I felt a bit cheated that the only Sentinels in the movie were in the opening Danger Room sequence.
OTOH, the least believable scene in the movie was at the end, when they showed the Golden Gate Bridge being rebuilt in some semi-reasonable timeframe after the events of the movie. That could never happen in San Francisco. We're still repairing and rebuilding things that broke in the 1989 earthquake.
I think it may be a while before I pick this one up on DVD. Parts of it hurt too much to watch again for a while.
# posted by Loren Davidson @ 10:41 AM 
