Xander ,'First Date'
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see? that's what I'm talking about.
BTW, something from the movie I really didn't like. There is a particular character's death that is just such a cliché. I had to sit there and try to remember if the character was wearing a red shirt or not. That character did not have to go out like that.
I don't think every movie has a responsibility to bear the balance of race relations, but I do think that the X:Men First Class people should have given their movie a once over at the prematurely dead black guy (he can't seriously be dead, though--isn't his point that he can't die???) and the black chick from the wrong side of the tracks that goes bad. If that's the net effect of your movie, look at the landscape as a whole and think...do I *need* to do this, or can I tell a good story without that slant?
I liked the movie, so bear in mind my nit pickings are pickings in the face of liking it even more than Thor so far this season. Magneto and Professor X were absolutely amazing. When did everything get so gay? Everything is so gay.
Anyway, onto the nitpicking...some of it is about divergence from the comics, some of it apparently happens in the comics too.
Why do the XMen need a separate dissimilar Angel who isn't particularly angelic, nor anti-angelic? It's just confusing. Why use Alec Summers? Especially if you're going to flash past Scott Summers in the mutant census. Mystique and Professor X going way back? Why? I'm guessing all four preceding movies are out the window, then. There's no way to work any of them in with this.
January Jones was a weak-assed Emma Frost. She was as naked as Emma needed to be, but not as sexy. She's supposed to be aggressively on all the time--vamp vamp vamp. She just looked second tier. Disappointing.
I usually think of Sebastian Shaw as a bigger guy. But Kevin Bacon is looking really good.
They also switched the nationality of two characters to American, and I don't know why. One was even played by a British actress.
I just watched The Green Hornet and really liked it. What the hell, everyone else. It's a fun movie! And Kato is TOTALLY AWESOME!
When did everything get so gay? Everything is so gay.
About the time that movie studios realized how popular slashfic is? Or when A Billion Wicked Thoughts came out, and provided massive data points for it?
A Billion Wicked Thoughts
...The fastest growing genre of erotic stories for women are stories about two heterosexual men having sex...
Hey wow
If that's the net effect of your movie, look at the landscape as a whole and think...do I *need* to do this, or can I tell a good story without that slant?
yep. I could not believe the movie went there.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts, oh, it's that fandom kerfuffle book. I wouldn't be happy anyone's paying attention to that.
I could not believe the movie went there.
And both moments at the same time, so you couldn't even ignore it! Jeez.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts, oh, it's that fandom kerfuffle book. I wouldn't be happy anyone's paying attention to that.
Yeah, those guys are giant fuckheads.
I've heard of the book, but not anything about it. Is it a giant load of crap?
Yes. They basically introduced themselves to fandom by comparing woman's interest in m/m slash to men's interest in "shemales."