movie review

[2eclipse]

ross and i just got back from watching the x-men movie. yes, i know, we're light years behind all of you hard-core fans.
there were some pretty obvious flaws, but i enjoyed the movie a lot. i think this has to do with 2 things 1) i've never read the comics 2) i was prepared for it to suck by all of you people who hated it.
much like fifth element which was touted by the media to be another star wars (i totally missed this), expectations were everything. i was surprised by the deviations from what i had "heard" happened in the comic, but i wasn't married to the comic because i hadn't read it. there is one last thing though that is PRETTY IMPORTANT. i ususally leave after movies are over and don't watch the credits. that is my preference. i like to watch ALL the trailers at the beginning and leave before the credits. however, my negotiations with ross are often in my favor. HE likes to watch all the credits. so we compromise and watch both. there is extra footage at the end of the credits that reveals information that...while not filling in the character of beast any better, or dealing with the fact that moral decisions by the government would not simply go away because the action was over.....do ellude to some very important changes in the circumstances under which the movie ends.
in other words, WATCH THE BLEEDIN' CREDITS FOR THIS MOVIE!!!
also, i can guarantee after seeing that end-clip that there will be another x-men movie.

Comments

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

I like the movies.

That being said I am EXTREMELY irritated by how badly they've dealt with the timeline for the comics vs the timeline for the movies. Rogue, especially, is just... erg... not right.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

because the art style of traditional superhero comics doesn't appeal to me much (i have always preferred the more cartooney drawings or very dark artwork like sandman), i to this day remain ignorant of most superhero plot. i love comicbook movies though(with the exception of superman)...so i know the xmen and spiderman and many others only from the movies. it makes me less bothered than people who have an idea of the story going a different way.

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

I did discover later on that I preferred a differing style, but the storylines woven in for some of the characters kept me magnetized to some of the more normal superhero lines.

I can say that they've dealt with it decently well, just due to the weird vagaries and strangenesses of the actual timelines in the comic books. Stan Lee and co were never quite as... strict with such things as Lucas. (Problem is they took one of my favorite single character storylines and turned it inside out, so it makes me more grumbley than it should.)

If I didn't know the written, I'd probably think the actual movies were fair spectacular, for the genre.... Similar to Starship Troopers, actually. As long as I don't think about the actual book, the movie was decentish, but as soon as I start trying to compare it to the book...

Why not Superman, just out of curiosity?

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

hmmm...most people i know hated starship troopers even if they didn't read the book.
i boycott that movie. i don't want to know how bad it is. i love that book.

superman? he's boring to me pure and simple. he's completely 1-dimensional. he is un-relievedly good in a way that allows for no inner turmoil and no interesting character development. everything that changes is stuff that happens TO him, rather than inner changes he exacts of himself. you might say "jesus was just as good". i might. but even jesus had his moment of pain on the cross, crying out to god to understand why he was forsaken.. jesus got mad at the temple. and you can always admire his brilliance. superman is all brawn and goodness and that is fundamentally boring to me. give me swamp thing or spiderman or batman any day.

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

I thought it was good, for what it was intended to be. There were some gimmicks/techniques used that I thought were interesting, too. (Some of the ways in which the newsfeeds were threaded through, and the fact that it still managed to put forth bits and pieces of Heinlein's voice and philosophy.) I won't rant on any of it, though.

I love that book, too. I always found it amusing that I was allowed to read it.

*cheers* Yeah. Superman never appealed to me much, either, for some strange reason or other. (Well, actually, I know exactly why, and thus the cheer.)