That new X-Men movie is IMHO a dull, dry, and crusty turd. It's the kind of turd that everyone knows is there, but works hard to avert their eyes as not to be caught looking at it.
You know you see it! Do something about that TURD.
I don't know what to do, other than never ever let Brett Ratner near another X-Title flick...EVER! Let me now preface these statements so you may have a greater understand of from whence they came.
There were a lot of things I didn't get to do as a child because they were "boy" things; tinker toys, transformers, hell I had to BEG for those little Voltron lions! [And I only got them because I convinced my mom that it was a girl toy because there was a girl member on the team who just happened to be a princess.] But one of the few "boy" things I was allowed to do was read comics. My mother believed all forms of reading were good things and let this one slide through the Tomboy-Radar. So I stared my comic journey with X-Force and Avengers, but it ended when I came across X-Men. Regular, Ultimate, or Uncanny, between 1988 and 1997 I read all of the ones I could get in my hands.
To say that I am well versed in the X-World would be an understatement as would saying I'm a fan of the Phoenix Saga. Which if you know about that saga in the Uncanny X-Men series and have seen the "Last Stand" movie, you already know why I'm pissed.
********** Spoiler Alert ***************
If you hope to enjoy this movie at all and don't want to know what is going to happen, now is the time to leave the room and or stop reading this article.
********** End Spoiler Alert ***********
As many of the other people in the theater with me during the last X-Men movie [X-2], I jumped up and flailed around like a rally monkey when I realized that Jean Grey would indeed be the Phoenix in the surly upcoming third X-Men movie. While Phoenix does make an appearance things take place during this X-Movie that NEVER happen in the X-Men universe. Nowhere in the x-verse does Wolverine kill Jean Grey. Nor does Phoenix kill Cyclops OR the Professor. But she does in this piece of ka-ka de poo-poo. Rogue takes the "cure" and becomes human, Mystique and Magneto end up getting "cured" as well. Yeah, nearly all the bad asses in this series either become human or die.
Their were is no exposition of why some mutants may want to become human nor is there any insight into any negative reasons humans may have for wanting a mutant cure. The progression of the movie is cure announced, action sequence with explosions and death, pithy convo between good-guys cross-faded with same convo type with bad-guys, action sequence with explosions and death, explosions, fight fight, die die, pithy, die, reflection on the dead, credits, and super secret guess who's not dead video bit at the end of the credits. Viewers who know anything about the x-verse will spew expletives like lava bursting forth from a volcano. Just ask the people who were sitting in the back row with me last Saturday night.
I mean we all know that in the real x-verse Phoenix saves the galaxy, the professor falls for that Lilandra chick, all kinds of things. And DO NOT get me started on the Phalanx Covenant...Just don't.
But this installment of the X-Trilogy made me glad that I wasn't going to have to sit trough another one. Which hurt my soul, because I love Patrick Stewart as Professor Xaiver, Halle Berry's Storm FINALLY shows some balls, Sir Ian McKellen is the only actor I can think of to do Magneto justice, and Kelsey Grammer is the wonderful pearl found in this ass clam of a movie. [I know that doesn't make sense, just roll with me]
I pray that a fourth X-Men movie is done in order to recoup from this one. I would hate for this series to end on this note. The fact that Professor X's mind is in a different body because Phoenix blew him apart needs to be addressed at the very least. While Halle Berry has said she would not want to be in another movie should they choose to do it, she needs to. But they need to allow Storm to be the assertive, strong leader from the comic books and animated series...Not the tentative, meek Storm we got in X's 1 & 2. If Halle really doesn't want to be involved maybe they should get an actress that would have the right gravitas and be the appropriate age for Storm [Since storm is actually older than Cyclops and Jean in the comics]..Maybe someone like Angela Basset? [We know she can pull of action sequences i.e. Strange Days and take a punch i.e. What's Love Got To Do With It, and since she held her own up against DeNiro in The Score she's the tri-fecta]
In the end, I just hope on all that is good in the universe that Brett Ratner is not attached to the Wolverine movie. And if a fourth X-Men movie ends up in the works, that they keep Mr. Ratner far, far away from it.
Stay away from this piece of X-Crement. Your senses will thank you for it.
/me ends rant
NinJaSistah out--
You know you see it! Do something about that TURD.
I don't know what to do, other than never ever let Brett Ratner near another X-Title flick...EVER! Let me now preface these statements so you may have a greater understand of from whence they came.
There were a lot of things I didn't get to do as a child because they were "boy" things; tinker toys, transformers, hell I had to BEG for those little Voltron lions! [And I only got them because I convinced my mom that it was a girl toy because there was a girl member on the team who just happened to be a princess.] But one of the few "boy" things I was allowed to do was read comics. My mother believed all forms of reading were good things and let this one slide through the Tomboy-Radar. So I stared my comic journey with X-Force and Avengers, but it ended when I came across X-Men. Regular, Ultimate, or Uncanny, between 1988 and 1997 I read all of the ones I could get in my hands.
To say that I am well versed in the X-World would be an understatement as would saying I'm a fan of the Phoenix Saga. Which if you know about that saga in the Uncanny X-Men series and have seen the "Last Stand" movie, you already know why I'm pissed.
********** Spoiler Alert ***************
If you hope to enjoy this movie at all and don't want to know what is going to happen, now is the time to leave the room and or stop reading this article.
********** End Spoiler Alert ***********
As many of the other people in the theater with me during the last X-Men movie [X-2], I jumped up and flailed around like a rally monkey when I realized that Jean Grey would indeed be the Phoenix in the surly upcoming third X-Men movie. While Phoenix does make an appearance things take place during this X-Movie that NEVER happen in the X-Men universe. Nowhere in the x-verse does Wolverine kill Jean Grey. Nor does Phoenix kill Cyclops OR the Professor. But she does in this piece of ka-ka de poo-poo. Rogue takes the "cure" and becomes human, Mystique and Magneto end up getting "cured" as well. Yeah, nearly all the bad asses in this series either become human or die.
Their were is no exposition of why some mutants may want to become human nor is there any insight into any negative reasons humans may have for wanting a mutant cure. The progression of the movie is cure announced, action sequence with explosions and death, pithy convo between good-guys cross-faded with same convo type with bad-guys, action sequence with explosions and death, explosions, fight fight, die die, pithy, die, reflection on the dead, credits, and super secret guess who's not dead video bit at the end of the credits. Viewers who know anything about the x-verse will spew expletives like lava bursting forth from a volcano. Just ask the people who were sitting in the back row with me last Saturday night.
I mean we all know that in the real x-verse Phoenix saves the galaxy, the professor falls for that Lilandra chick, all kinds of things. And DO NOT get me started on the Phalanx Covenant...Just don't.
But this installment of the X-Trilogy made me glad that I wasn't going to have to sit trough another one. Which hurt my soul, because I love Patrick Stewart as Professor Xaiver, Halle Berry's Storm FINALLY shows some balls, Sir Ian McKellen is the only actor I can think of to do Magneto justice, and Kelsey Grammer is the wonderful pearl found in this ass clam of a movie. [I know that doesn't make sense, just roll with me]
I pray that a fourth X-Men movie is done in order to recoup from this one. I would hate for this series to end on this note. The fact that Professor X's mind is in a different body because Phoenix blew him apart needs to be addressed at the very least. While Halle Berry has said she would not want to be in another movie should they choose to do it, she needs to. But they need to allow Storm to be the assertive, strong leader from the comic books and animated series...Not the tentative, meek Storm we got in X's 1 & 2. If Halle really doesn't want to be involved maybe they should get an actress that would have the right gravitas and be the appropriate age for Storm [Since storm is actually older than Cyclops and Jean in the comics]..Maybe someone like Angela Basset? [We know she can pull of action sequences i.e. Strange Days and take a punch i.e. What's Love Got To Do With It, and since she held her own up against DeNiro in The Score she's the tri-fecta]
In the end, I just hope on all that is good in the universe that Brett Ratner is not attached to the Wolverine movie. And if a fourth X-Men movie ends up in the works, that they keep Mr. Ratner far, far away from it.
Stay away from this piece of X-Crement. Your senses will thank you for it.
/me ends rant
NinJaSistah out--
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