by Ice Cream Jonsey » Mon May 29, 2006 3:31 pm
Anonymous wrote:ICJ, I eagerly await your review of this turkey.
In the Internet Age, movies that you otherwise wouldn't think twice about get a host of amateur Roeberts (Ebert + Roeper) just going
off on them because there are no consequences towards making fun of a movie.
Unless you said something like, "Remember the Titans was an okay movie, except for all the nigs and lack of rapeable little white girls." I guess there are consequences for that.
X-Men 3 is the kind of movie that these people will rip far, long and wide. It's basically a war movie, except that the soldiers all have stupid powers. You can't dare to like this movie if you're a comic book fan because characters get killed for no reason. Cyclops dies early -- one of the most resilent characters in Marvel history, taken out just like that. Phoenix dies? BFD. Professor X? He's died and come back to life more times than anyone would like to admit. However, when Phoenix is fighting him, Patrick Stewart does finally get the Namor-style eyebrows they give to the source material, though.
Kelsey Grammer steals the show as the Beast. The movie is full of plotholes, glitches and stupidity (including a Ed Wood-style shift from light to dark for the film's final battle) but it's not worth getting upset about. Hollywood has been making stupid movies for years -- this one, while stupid, is at least not
offensive, if you can imagine an difference.
With the reams of source material available, I am always amazed that a couple of nobody screenwriters will go, "Hmmmm, no, *I* can do better," and then offer up a putrid, stinking story. That is what was done here. The two clowns that wrote this thing are far, FAR inferior to comic book writers. I hope that hits home for them, but I am sure they don't care. Nobody cares.
This isn't a horrible movie, and it suuuure ain't a good one.
** out of five.
[quote="Anonymous"]ICJ, I eagerly await your review of this turkey.[/quote]
In the Internet Age, movies that you otherwise wouldn't think twice about get a host of amateur Roeberts (Ebert + Roeper) just going [i]off[/i] on them because there are no consequences towards making fun of a movie.
Unless you said something like, "Remember the Titans was an okay movie, except for all the nigs and lack of rapeable little white girls." I guess there are consequences for that.
X-Men 3 is the kind of movie that these people will rip far, long and wide. It's basically a war movie, except that the soldiers all have stupid powers. You can't dare to like this movie if you're a comic book fan because characters get killed for no reason. Cyclops dies early -- one of the most resilent characters in Marvel history, taken out just like that. Phoenix dies? BFD. Professor X? He's died and come back to life more times than anyone would like to admit. However, when Phoenix is fighting him, Patrick Stewart does finally get the Namor-style eyebrows they give to the source material, though.
Kelsey Grammer steals the show as the Beast. The movie is full of plotholes, glitches and stupidity (including a Ed Wood-style shift from light to dark for the film's final battle) but it's not worth getting upset about. Hollywood has been making stupid movies for years -- this one, while stupid, is at least not [i]offensive[/i], if you can imagine an difference.
With the reams of source material available, I am always amazed that a couple of nobody screenwriters will go, "Hmmmm, no, *I* can do better," and then offer up a putrid, stinking story. That is what was done here. The two clowns that wrote this thing are far, FAR inferior to comic book writers. I hope that hits home for them, but I am sure they don't care. Nobody cares.
This isn't a horrible movie, and it suuuure ain't a good one.
** out of five.