I don't think so, kat. As for stealth, if that's what they wanted--put everyone on a sheet of metal and fly them over. I guess they needed time for the X-Men to actually get there, and to disperse some of the effect of the decoy. Because otherwise it'd be too easy.
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
§ ita § - May 27, 2006 8:01:22 pm PDT #1896 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
kat perez - May 27, 2006 8:12:21 pm PDT #1897 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I fear I shouldn't think too hard about this movie, or I shall lose some of my post-popcorn flick glow. Despite the nit-picking, I must say I had a good time while watching it.
DebetEsse - May 27, 2006 8:14:57 pm PDT #1898 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I will say that I want Pirates 2 to come out tomorrow.
§ ita § - May 27, 2006 8:19:04 pm PDT #1899 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah. Sorry about that, kat. I had no love. But I didn't go in expecting a glow. Glad I saw it, because I'm like that. But I don't think it's a good addition to the X-Men multimedia franchise.
POTC2, OTOH--I don't really care what it's about (although I like the idea). I just want to see it. And I'm getting absurdly excited by Miami Vice, although I expect it to get lousy reviews.
kat perez - May 27, 2006 8:21:04 pm PDT #1900 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Oh, and I saw the trailer for SoaP, and all I can say is Samuel -Motherfuckin'- Jackson. Looks hilarious. Also saw trailers for My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Ghost Rider and Nacho Libre (which caused much hilarity in the theater but had me squirming in my seat).
ETA: No need to apologize. I suspect that were I more invested in the X Men, I'd probably have been disappointed as well. As it was, I was just happy to be inside a cool theater on a hot, muggy afternoon. Enjoying the movie was just a bonus.
§ ita § - May 27, 2006 8:30:36 pm PDT #1901 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wish we'd had a SoaP preview. But I'm glad we didn't have one for Nacho Libre. God, that looks like the anti-ita movie. I'm curious about Ghost Rider and might go searching the web for that one.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend... well, one of the Wilson brothers hasn't been working out. It looks way too neurotic for me to watch.
kat perez - May 27, 2006 8:40:08 pm PDT #1902 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
That trailer for Nacho Libre has to be one of the single most offensive things I've seen in a while. And Penelope Cruz, what was she thinking? It's no Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco, I'll tell you what.
Ghost Rider could be good. Yet another superhero about whom I know less than nothing. At least in the trailer, it didn't come off super-cheesy, like Evil Kneivel in flames. And Nicholas Cage didn't appear to be either phoning it in or going so far over the top that he circles back round to the bottom again. So, there's that.
Super Ex-Girlfriend seemed like a he-man, woman-haters club movie. I wasn't feeling it. And I love me some hermanos Wilson.
Gris - May 27, 2006 9:06:28 pm PDT #1903 of 10001
Hey. New board.
How sad does it make me that the primary conversation spawned by X3 is the prettiness of the actors? Very sad.
That movie should inspire political and philosophical discussions! We should be talking about what it means to be a persecuted minority, and the tendency of the majority to kill or "fix" the minority. We should be discussing the power of jealousy and fear, the difference between necessary force and vigilantism, the brainwashing capabilities of political environs. I never cared about the X-Men until the second movie, but I've read about 20 trade paperbacks of X-Men material since then, because I find the material both fun and fascinating - they've joined Batman in my list of Big Superheroes that have enough serious meat beyond Bang! Flash! to be worth paying attention to.
And it hurts me that this movie isn't going to live up to that. Though I will see it, eventually, obviously.
Nacho Libre will be bad, and POTC2 will be fun, whether it's good, bad, or otherwise.
Kalshane - May 27, 2006 9:30:49 pm PDT #1904 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Who all did the X-Men kill? I mean, yeah Wolverine killed people by the dozens, but that's what he does. Storm killed Callisto, which I will say was out of character and was probably entirely for the sake of the piercing gag. Which is a really poor reason. But beyond that, who besides Phoenix and the bad guys killed anyone?
§ ita § - May 27, 2006 9:38:10 pm PDT #1905 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no reason to think that none of the people that Beast plowed through died. I am not sure, but I was thinking that Storm killed other people with her shenanigans, but the focus on Callisto's death makes me think that she was the only one.
See, I was impressed when Pyro killed. I thought. Damn. He's serious. He's bad. But then, Wolverine's killing was so blasé. And Storm's was monumentally, 180°, wrong.