'The Killer In Me'
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.
Kalshane -- Thanks. I have no patience to sit through credits these days -- they're almost as long as the movie.
Saw X-Men III a second time. Liked it better. **
I would have like Rogue coming back to school before the big battle and not being able to go. Or going and getting knocked out and sidelined right away. Something that would underscore what she gave up as well as what she got by taking the Cure. **
You're welcome.
I personally can totally see movie!Rogue getting the cure. Comic!Rogue still has flight, strength, invulnerability (and another personality stuck in her head because of it, which isn't so much fun, granted) in addition to the life/power-draining. She has multiple ways to contribute to the team. Movie!Rogue only has a power that could accidently kill anyone she uses it on, gives her some of their memories (I personally wouldn't want the memories of a badguy in my head) and prevents her from physical contact with anyone because it could kill them as well. So I was completely willing to buy it. In the scene with Leech we see a brief glimpse of how tempting the idea of the cure is even for Beast and he has a relatively normal life, outside of being blue and furry.
I do agree that we should have seen her deal with the consequences of her choice, though.
Unlrelated, I didn't mention it before, but I do completely agree with Sean and Matt on the stupidness of the Storm top thing.
Just watched the trailer for The Lake House. I really want to find out how it ends. I could see myself watching it, except Keanu Reeves seems to get to talk a lot in it. So it'll have to be word of mouth.
Re: X3, I don't think there was much about Storm that wasn't stupid. Hair, expression of powers, tone of voice--ick.
I finally got my brother hyped for Snakes on a Plane. I'm so pleased that I now have someone to see it with.
I want to understand how the premise of The Lake House works. . . I mean -- she's in an alternate reality that's just two months apart from him? Is that it?
My feeling is that maybe he found a datebook or something of hers?
2 years, but yeah, that seems to be it, at least according to the trailers. He's in her house, 2 years earlier than her reality.
I'll see it, because the premise seems at least to guarantee an interesting train wreck, and because I am Hopeless Keanu Fangirl. He had me at "I bought a house...by the lake." (Also because there's a good chance I can see it for free. It's really amazing how low one's standards can get when you don't have to plunk down $10 for it.)
I've seen 3 movies this weekend and still managed to not see X-men 3. I'm skipping the white font till I do.
I saw Da Vinci, Thank you for smoking and Kinky Boots. I enjoyed them all. I think KB was the most satisfiying.
Finally saw X-Men - have nothing to add. Except I was stuck waiting for the Worlds Slowest Concessions persion, so I missed the preview for SOAP!!!!
I think an angry letter to management is in order....
X3 opened in Greece the same day it opened in the States, which is always a bad sign. When you can't afford to let word of mouth run before your international release....
I am concerned about the new Blade Runner. Specifically, the fact that I can't think of a Ridley Scott film in recent memory that I thought was good makes me wonder if the director Scott is now should be allowed to fuck with the work of the director Scott was then.
Wow. That's some sentence construction. I blame jet lag.