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mothwing*snortles* It was sooo much fun to watch this movie with Crocky and Julez, it nearly did noy matter at all how horrendous the movie was.
And it began promisingly enough, with us missing the bus, being late, that Card-Collection thingy not taking our Switch card, me walking into the glass wall of a revolving door at full steam... *cringes* Thankfully, Julez pretended not to have seen it and nobody laughed, so possibly really nobody saw it at all, us being nearly late for the beginning of the movie... Yeah.
So, it was a completely fun experience, watching the movie, although the actual getting to the cinema and into the seats was already a lot more exiting than the actual film.
What bugged me about both this film and The Da Vinci Code, which is also featuring one of the most predictable stories I have ever seen, was the rating.
12A??? Excuse me??
"Well now, children. You are twelve, so today, Mum and Dad are going to take you to watch a nice film.
Oh, that guy? Yeah, he is chastising himself. You know, the whip which you can see there, in all it's closed-up glory, is a cat o' nine tails. Yup, there's something at the end of each individual whip which makes it more painful. As you can see there. Yup, his back's bleeding now. But don't worry, he is only the bad guy.
Oh, that on his leg? Yes, that is also painful. Note how the blood starts to drip down as he fastens it around it."
And x-men?
"Oh, she? Well, you know how a microwave works? She just pulled his particles apart. No harm done. It does not hurt like it did Wolverine when those strange things the punk thug shot at him were sticking in his stomach. But he's fine now, see? The professor has just been blasted apart, sorry."
And movies like Closer?
Nooooo. Can't have children watch that, sorry. Not until they're 18. They cannot be confronted with bad language and OMG!! sex before they are at least 15. They do say the "f-word" a lot. And that one guy says the c-word for female thingies. Tut, tut.
Homicide and ritual self-mutilation are much nicer and child-safe.
I mean, I know the ratings are crappy, but it is becoming completely ridiculous, especially US American and Irish ratings. I know that there is a trend which condones violence in TV and forbids sexuality, but why does this have to go further and further? It has become so absolutely ridiculous.
And it began promisingly enough, with us missing the bus, being late, that Card-Collection thingy not taking our Switch card, me walking into the glass wall of a revolving door at full steam... *cringes* Thankfully, Julez pretended not to have seen it and nobody laughed, so possibly really nobody saw it at all, us being nearly late for the beginning of the movie... Yeah.
The movie... Were to begin. Someone had told Julez there was going to be an interesting story and somehow, we all waited for it to happen until the last moment.
It simply was not there. We had decided before seing it that that story would ultimately boil down to "We blow lots of things up!" and that turned out to be right.
And when did movies become so darn obvious? Ten minutes into the movie, it was OBVIOUS what was going to happen, obvious who was going to die, who how that was going to come about, obvious how it was going to end - with lots of unexplained stuff in the middle. Oh, and lots of explosions. Also, the characters were lamer than in the last movie, even Wolverine who seriously rocks and who is utterly gorgeous. Even his lines tended to be rather lame.
Why on earth did Wolverine visit Jean and Magneto in the woods? "Oh, hi, I'm here to check if Jean's still evil. She is? Oh, right. Back to Storm."
Jean - I do not even know where to begin. She reminds me scarily of the main antagonist in a fanfic called something like "A Sue's Story". She was just... too much. Her back story, even if it was presented byCpt. Picard Prof. X, and I trust the man implicitly, was just too good to be true. What's with the random split personality? And... Phoenix? Sigh. Then, there were so many possibilities of getting rid of her towards the end, letting her be embraced by Leech and then killing her, letting her be attacked by the others and shooting her with the cure, letting her be attacked by all of the remaining x-men together and then either curing her or killing her - but nooo, Wolverine needs a last stand and they go for what was obviously going to happen. Why did they shoot Magneto with all FOUR of those arrows instead of saving a few for Jean? One for each mutant level and one for luck?
The whole "WE DON'T NEED THE CURE!!" business had me in stitches. I mean, me neither, but I still like a lot of their music.
Angel. Half man, half seagull. What exactly was his role? Was he the vision of a future in which mutants and humans can get on well due to family ties or was he the special effects-team showing off? And what exactly did we need that Cat-girl for? To make Rogue angsty? Well, I guess she was part of the original comic series, so maybe she has a right to be there.
Why do punks and goths always rally behind the dark evil over lords? Well, alright, because their outfits are just so much better. Outfits in general - Oh, and, as always, the question - what on earth does Storm need her most unpractical cape for?
Ah, well. What did I expect?
Well, now I am not only expecting that people will slash Angel and Nightcrawler into oblivion but also, thanks to the surreptitiously introduced last scene with Magneto and his game of chess, that there will be X-Men IV.
It simply was not there. We had decided before seing it that that story would ultimately boil down to "We blow lots of things up!" and that turned out to be right.
And when did movies become so darn obvious? Ten minutes into the movie, it was OBVIOUS what was going to happen, obvious who was going to die, who how that was going to come about, obvious how it was going to end - with lots of unexplained stuff in the middle. Oh, and lots of explosions. Also, the characters were lamer than in the last movie, even Wolverine who seriously rocks and who is utterly gorgeous. Even his lines tended to be rather lame.
Why on earth did Wolverine visit Jean and Magneto in the woods? "Oh, hi, I'm here to check if Jean's still evil. She is? Oh, right. Back to Storm."
Jean - I do not even know where to begin. She reminds me scarily of the main antagonist in a fanfic called something like "A Sue's Story". She was just... too much. Her back story, even if it was presented by
The whole "WE DON'T NEED THE CURE!!" business had me in stitches. I mean, me neither, but I still like a lot of their music.
Angel. Half man, half seagull. What exactly was his role? Was he the vision of a future in which mutants and humans can get on well due to family ties or was he the special effects-team showing off? And what exactly did we need that Cat-girl for? To make Rogue angsty? Well, I guess she was part of the original comic series, so maybe she has a right to be there.
Why do punks and goths always rally behind the dark evil over lords? Well, alright, because their outfits are just so much better. Outfits in general - Oh, and, as always, the question - what on earth does Storm need her most unpractical cape for?
Ah, well. What did I expect?
Well, now I am not only expecting that people will slash Angel and Nightcrawler into oblivion but also, thanks to the surreptitiously introduced last scene with Magneto and his game of chess, that there will be X-Men IV.
So, it was a completely fun experience, watching the movie, although the actual getting to the cinema and into the seats was already a lot more exiting than the actual film.
What bugged me about both this film and The Da Vinci Code, which is also featuring one of the most predictable stories I have ever seen, was the rating.
12A??? Excuse me??
"Well now, children. You are twelve, so today, Mum and Dad are going to take you to watch a nice film.
Oh, that guy? Yeah, he is chastising himself. You know, the whip which you can see there, in all it's closed-up glory, is a cat o' nine tails. Yup, there's something at the end of each individual whip which makes it more painful. As you can see there. Yup, his back's bleeding now. But don't worry, he is only the bad guy.
Oh, that on his leg? Yes, that is also painful. Note how the blood starts to drip down as he fastens it around it."
And x-men?
"Oh, she? Well, you know how a microwave works? She just pulled his particles apart. No harm done. It does not hurt like it did Wolverine when those strange things the punk thug shot at him were sticking in his stomach. But he's fine now, see? The professor has just been blasted apart, sorry."
And movies like Closer?
Nooooo. Can't have children watch that, sorry. Not until they're 18. They cannot be confronted with bad language and OMG!! sex before they are at least 15. They do say the "f-word" a lot. And that one guy says the c-word for female thingies. Tut, tut.
Homicide and ritual self-mutilation are much nicer and child-safe.
I mean, I know the ratings are crappy, but it is becoming completely ridiculous, especially US American and Irish ratings. I know that there is a trend which condones violence in TV and forbids sexuality, but why does this have to go further and further? It has become so absolutely ridiculous.
