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[bzarcher]

X3 in a nutshell:

It's a popcorn movie after 2 somewhat more intellectual ones. It has a lot of moments, and it has some horrible "catchphrase" lines.

If you like the franchise (comic or movie), you'll get your $7 out of it, but probably have questions/concerns/scorn.

For my $.02...

Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut = HELL YEAH.

Magneto re: Mystique's fate - yes, he was pretty cold there. But remember he was also surrounded by Brotherhood, and new recruits at that, and he has to project a certain attitude around them if he wants to keep control over many of them. That's one of the problems with leading by demagougery.

Arclight - pretty convinced this was Chris Tucker in bad drag.

Plot hole I just realized: Plastic guns, plastic "cure cartridge"....very obviously metal needles on the tip of each "magneto proof" bullet.

Oops.

Oh, well. Still a good night out, and the evening's reflection/storytelling/alcoholism at Barleys before and the Char Bar after were well worth it.

Wandered through MarCon to see if we could spot people and take them out for a bit - from what I saw, it's increasingly BarCon, with many people going to the "party floors" more than the convention. Most of what we saw in the public areas around 10 seemed to be LARPers and people who hadn't gone to the party floor yet. Sad face.

I remember when the Big Bar on 2 used to be the "hang out" location for everyone, and a great place to reconnect with people. Ah, nostalgia...

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[spoonybardol.livejournal.com]

That's generally the impression I've seen from a number of critics, that it's mostly just lots of 'splosions and not much else. It's too bad, I was hoping for some revelant social commentary regarding the 'cure' for what makes people 'different'. I'll go see it anyway, sometime next week, since it HAS been a while since I've seen even a popcorn flick.

Here's hoping Superman Returns will deliver.

(Speaking of Superheroes, will you be peeking back on CoX when I7 goes live?)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Haven't decided yet? Been doing so much stuff in RL that I'm not playing any MMOs at the moment, really.

[spoonybardol.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can understand that. But I7 has SO many goodies it'd be a shame if you didn't do it all at least once. ;D

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

We'll see what happens. That's all I can say for now. :D

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

t's too bad, I was hoping for some revelant social commentary regarding the 'cure' for what makes people 'different'.

There was. A very, very little bit.

The Cure was made because Worthington discovered his son Warren had grown wings. So he wanted to have his son take the cure first. Warren kept saying "dad, I can't do this," and Dad kept insisting it'd all be all right, and the usual line about "this is what we want". Warren said no, and did the mutant version of walking out in a huff.

And then That Woman in the Storm Costume got to tell Rogue off, because Rogue asked if the cure were real. She got the line [one of the few she delivered properly] "There's no such thing as a cure, because there's nothing wrong with you."

It wasn't a bad movie. It just wasn't a great movie.

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Check out Whedon's run on X-Men. It's the "same" storyline. "Same" in a very loose sense.

And, Matt . . . $7?! Lucky stiff.

[las.livejournal.com]

Ah, nevermind about the comment I made to your comment, then -- you have indeed seen it!

Was considering going by Marcon, but I saw almost nobody I knew on the programming list and if it's even more a party con than before ... I'd rather hang out with you guys tomorrow, if you're up for it.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Lisa's staffing MarCon this year mostly to catch up with Chicago friends, but I really wasn't impressed. We'll be looking forward to seeing you!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Re: Your IM'd question

-2pmish? Just give a call.

[sewa.livejournal.com]

put a spoiler tag around X-men 3 stuff plz :(.

[mithikall.livejournal.com]

rclight - pretty convinced this was Chris Tucker in bad drag.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was really a dude.

2nd plot hole: Magneto moves the bridge, broad daylight. Mutants step off the bridge, full of night.

what did you think of Pheonix as schizophrenia instead of fantastic pan-dimensional being? I personally thought it was weak, and didn't make much sense. Sure, schizo was all passion and impulse and pretty pissed at Charles. But wouldn't she go off and have sex and take over a theme park instetad of killing people? Killing people and attacking Alcatraz doesn't seem like a good time to me.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Weak. But I'll admit that it's a lot easier to get people to swallow "That bitch crazy!" than "Interdimensional power conduit"

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

Plot hole I just realized: Plastic guns, plastic "cure cartridge"....very obviously metal needles on the tip of each "magneto proof" bullet.

I wanked it as ceramic needles.

[arlankels.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they had this distinct urge to "Clean house" and basically kill off who they did, have the ending(after the credits) that they had, etc.

Also: Phoenix is disintegrating everyone utterly. She can't even get past most of Wolverine's muscles.

Stupid? I think so.

And why they didn't "force the cure" on the known homicidal insane mutants(Juggernaut canonically wouldn't count due to actually gaining his powers from some gem thing mystical blah blah)...

Seriously, we kill people for killing others yet instead of simply removing most of their ability to kill as easily as they can, disrupt their chances of escape, etc, they leave them mutant'ish.

Stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. Stupid.

[lordkhyron.livejournal.com]

D00D when did you stop in an MarCon?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Friday evening, mostly.

I live here, remember? :D

[lordkhyron.livejournal.com]

yeah... I forgot that you do live there. I was manning the IFT/Roddenbery Productions table on and off Friday evening till they kicked us out at closing.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Ahh, too bad. You missed drinking and cooking, then. :D

[sillyfox.livejournal.com]

The Big Bar on 2 is now a designated no-smoking zone, along with all other public areas of the hotel/convention center. The party rooms aren't covered under this. This may explain why so many people are heading to room parties now.

That said, I'm personally glad that said bar is smoke-free, because I used to hate having to toxify my lungs just to get to the elevators. Getting a drink there was absolutely out of the question.