Topic: X-Men 2
Hooray! A movie!
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Hooray! A movie!
It only downloads as about a minute and ten seconds in length for me. It also says a minute eighteen on the download page. Anyone else having this problem?
Yeah, thats what popped out of Itunes as well
It's 2h 21m 41s for me (I guess now it's fixed).
Holy hell, it's THREE DAYS, 7 hours and 42 minutes for me. IT WON'T STOP GROWING! WE MUST STOP IT! IT'S HERE! OH MY AAAARRRGGGHH......
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Prof. X isn't a telekinetic.
That is all.
(I still have 20 minutes to go on this, so if you do eventually correct this, I apologize.)
Holy hell, it's THREE DAYS, 7 hours and 42 minutes for me. IT WON'T STOP GROWING! WE MUST STOP IT! IT'S HERE! OH MY AAAARRRGGGHH......
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Oh! So when Dorkman said that Nightcrawler's power was 'Bamf' in the first commentary, he wasn't just saying that Nightcrawler was a Bad-Ass Mother Fucker
For my money, the white house attack opening of X2 is the best thing in any of the x-men movies, and probably the best sequence Bryan Singer has ever directed. The rest of X2 just isn't quite as strong for me (Singer just isn't a very good action director, so a lot of the climax feels kinda small), but it's still the best in the series overall.
Nazi Donald:
Re: the climactic Alkali Lake sequence... I told you so
IMHO the high point of the movie is the "coming out" scene.
The guy that Brian recognized (Stryker's soldier) was a Goa'uld spy on Stargate SG-1. I noticed a few other SG-1 people there (it seems like Vancouver has only five actors).
Things devolved into random conversation threads near the end, which is fine Regarding legal action about Calvin and Hobbes related things, the creator Bill Watterson has a legitimate gripe about such things that unfortunately ruins it for the rest of you. You know those car window decals of Calvin peeing? Unauthorized. Not only haven't they been able to get rid of the damned things, but everyone thinks they ARE authorized, and it's the only thing with the character they're seeing. For someone like Watterson who refused to do any licensing for his characters, as he thought the strips should stand by themselves, it makes him want to come down harder on any attempt to use them.
It's actually a pretty well-known fact -- at least among folks like us -- that Watterson refused to license C&H, and that the Calvin decals are effectively bootlegs.
Incidentally, I just saw this today. Something else Watterson, sadly, wouldn't be happy about:
Quick, Disney! Offer Sam Watterson four billion dollars!
I believe it was Eddie who stated that the problem with SUPERMAN RETURNS was that Singer was too invested in the character and the legacy, whereas what he brought to X-MEN was a respect but not a suffocating one and that's why X-MEN worked.
It would appear that Singer is of the same opinion.
It makes me sad about the whole Calvin and Hobbes thing...especially the decals that now form the base opinion of Calvin and Hobbes publicity.
The animation was well done, but I think Dorkman is right- Watterson would probably not like it.
You know, I'm pretty sure everyone who's played Assassin's Creed 3 accidentally assassinated George Washington. All my friends did, and I was like "How the fuck do you accidentally kill George Washington?" Then, later, I was at a friends house and got the opportunity to play the game for a bit, and, in that short time frame, managed to accidentally kill George Washington.
Well, he DID accidentally start a world war, so I can see someone justifying it
I was like "How the fuck do you accidentally kill George Washington?"
It's okay - everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
Great episode (as usual). Cudos on the Professor Xavier is a telekinetic comments. I once did the math and in the first 300 issues only about 5 years go by. So, he was long overdue for a psychotic break. The funniest part was his alter ego using telekinesis.
As for Jean Grey, her power in the movie is a departure from the comic. In the comic, she is possessed by the Phoenix Force while presumed dead at the bottom of the ocean. Prior to that, her powers are like in the first movie: levitating someone is very hard for her.
The more interesting trivia is Mr Sinister's plan, introduced in the 90's. Jean Grey is a very rare, unlimited telepath/telekinetic. She's weak as hell but has no limitations (Mystique, for example, can't mimic people while in shadows; Marvel comics considers mutant flight a limited telekinesis power). Scott Summers has a very, very specific power but it is nearly unlimited in strength. And recharges in sunlight. Mr Sinister supposedly was behind the scenes trying to make a pair like this so their kid would be hugely powerful and able to do nearly anything (see X-Man comic).
But, Mr Sinister does not exist in the movies. And Jean Grey is powerful all on her own so we won't see any starjammers.
But we CAN look forward to more Down in Front.
Thank you.
Last edited by Jp12x (2013-03-24 05:38:00)
ShadowDuelist wrote:I was like "How the fuck do you accidentally kill George Washington?"
It's okay - everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
From another commentary on a time travel story:
When you're muckin' with time, a lot of times...that's going to be like horseshoes and hand grenades, really. You know when Professor Chrono Von Temperus Maximus built that time death ray of his to assassinate Hitler? Yeah, he missed a couple of times, accidentally killed FDR and Patton. But, we hopped back in time, double tapped Hitler, left a suicide note, history marched on-no harm, no foul.
Mystique, for example, can't mimic people while in shadows
Mystique should have stayed away from aztec gold.
It's okay - everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
You do have to wonder what it looks like on the receiving end:
Just make sure you don't kill Harlter instead.
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