X2, for the fans
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elfsSomehow, I thought it was a good idea to go see X-Men 2: X-Men United at the 1:20am showing. Given the popularity of the franchise last time, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fallenpegasus and I decided to show up at 11:00pm to stand in line. It was a good decision; it gave us just enough time to hit the deli and be fourth and fifth in line before quite a huge line showed up and starting heading down the street and around the corner. In front of us, a circle of handsome young men performed a curious ritual of passing a gesture about a circle to an ever-increasing beat., a game reminicent of the computer game "Simon."
While we were waiting in the theatre for the movie to begin, a man stood up in the front and shouted, "Hey! Hey! Hey!" The entire quieted down to listen and he said, "This is my brother, Tate! Everybody sing him happy birthday, okay? One, two, three!"
And everybody did. Who says Americans aren't friendly?
The movie-- ah, the movie. They did Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner just right, although in two hours they had no time to develop him as a character. In fact, that's my main complaint-- characters who have so much, um, character, just didn't get the screen time needed. We saw Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde, again. Sean "Banshee" Cassidy and Moira McTaggert's daughter, Theresa "Siryn", is there. A brief shot of Piotr "Colossus" Nikolievitch. Even Henry "Beast" McCoy makes a brief appearance (on TV, as a talking head no less). But the people we'd been asked to care about in the last flick, like Rogue, barely get a chance to say their lines before the action starts up again. There's something between Rogue and Logan that needed at least a few lines, but no. The "romance" quotient of the film is held up by the triangle between Jean Grey, Scott "Cyclops" Summers, and Logan "Wolverine"-- a triangle that Chris Claremont (the original writer of the X-Men) couldn't write convincingly and which the actors involved really don't seem to feel. Only Hugh Jackman is really trying there.
Scarily enough, the villian in this film is William Stryker, who was one of the best villians from the comic. Ian McKellin does fabulous as Erik "Magneto" Lehnsherr. One bad-guy mutant is Proteus... now that's obscure!
And the IMDB Entry was obviously put together by someone who loves the Claremont-era X-Men as much as I did... He lists everybody, even by names never used in the film, just so that fans will know who was who. According to IMBD, "Dr. Sebastian Shaw" (The head of the Hellfire Club, and anti-human mutant organization) also made an appearance... but I don't remember where. Opposite Hank, maybe, on the "Crossfire" parody, maybe?
On the whole, X2 was very satisifying for X-Men fans. I want to see it again!
fallenpegasus and I decided to show up at 11:00pm to stand in line. It was a good decision; it gave us just enough time to hit the deli and be fourth and fifth in line before quite a huge line showed up and starting heading down the street and around the corner. In front of us, a circle of handsome young men performed a curious ritual of passing a gesture about a circle to an ever-increasing beat., a game reminicent of the computer game "Simon."While we were waiting in the theatre for the movie to begin, a man stood up in the front and shouted, "Hey! Hey! Hey!" The entire quieted down to listen and he said, "This is my brother, Tate! Everybody sing him happy birthday, okay? One, two, three!"
And everybody did. Who says Americans aren't friendly?
The movie-- ah, the movie. They did Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner just right, although in two hours they had no time to develop him as a character. In fact, that's my main complaint-- characters who have so much, um, character, just didn't get the screen time needed. We saw Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde, again. Sean "Banshee" Cassidy and Moira McTaggert's daughter, Theresa "Siryn", is there. A brief shot of Piotr "Colossus" Nikolievitch. Even Henry "Beast" McCoy makes a brief appearance (on TV, as a talking head no less). But the people we'd been asked to care about in the last flick, like Rogue, barely get a chance to say their lines before the action starts up again. There's something between Rogue and Logan that needed at least a few lines, but no. The "romance" quotient of the film is held up by the triangle between Jean Grey, Scott "Cyclops" Summers, and Logan "Wolverine"-- a triangle that Chris Claremont (the original writer of the X-Men) couldn't write convincingly and which the actors involved really don't seem to feel. Only Hugh Jackman is really trying there.
Scarily enough, the villian in this film is William Stryker, who was one of the best villians from the comic. Ian McKellin does fabulous as Erik "Magneto" Lehnsherr. One bad-guy mutant is Proteus... now that's obscure!
And the IMDB Entry was obviously put together by someone who loves the Claremont-era X-Men as much as I did... He lists everybody, even by names never used in the film, just so that fans will know who was who. According to IMBD, "Dr. Sebastian Shaw" (The head of the Hellfire Club, and anti-human mutant organization) also made an appearance... but I don't remember where. Opposite Hank, maybe, on the "Crossfire" parody, maybe?
On the whole, X2 was very satisifying for X-Men fans. I want to see it again!
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Date: 2003-05-03 04:02 pm (UTC)Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-03 05:47 pm (UTC)Re: Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-03 07:08 pm (UTC)Re: Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-03 08:10 pm (UTC)Re: Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-03 10:27 pm (UTC)Re: Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-03 10:49 pm (UTC)I think in the Ultimate X-Men universe, though, they did make Proteus Xavier's son (and Moira's son, too), but I don't count that title as "canon," even if it is currently a helluva lot better than the mainstream titles, lol
Re: Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-03 11:56 pm (UTC)Re: Proteus?
Date: 2003-05-05 06:29 pm (UTC)Ha ha ha ha ha! "X-pertise," get it? It's funny, 'cause there's an "X"...
Ahhh, I'm gonna stop being a dork now, sorry :)
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Date: 2003-05-03 11:02 pm (UTC)Hrm. The cast list lists Remy LeBeau, but I don't recall seeing Gambit anywhere in the film. I do recall seeing his name on the list that Mystique (and, pardon me, if Logan doesn't want her, I'll take his share) pulled up. I want a free frame of that list, too, I want to look at all the names on it. Grayson Creed? ^_^
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Date: 2003-05-04 03:34 pm (UTC)I have to agree on your other points, but overall I was very happy with the movie. I liked that they actually had Wolverine kill people (true to his character) and Stryker just scared me. Characters like that give me nightmares. I once did an XMen fanfic, though I never show anyone my stories, and it featured him as the villain. *shudder* Magneto is always delightfully shades of grey. Mmmmm.