tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post2717499641807312837..comments2024-03-27T00:27:04.726-04:00Comments on Net-flixation: "X-Men," an average movie about special peopleThaddeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-63203227583801145182021-09-27T07:37:47.345-04:002021-09-27T07:37:47.345-04:00Have you ever thought of owning your own business?...Have you ever thought of owning your own business? 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It's become a safe bet that reboots and franchise films will be mediocre at best, so I'm really glad to hear that XFC is actually good! Wait, that sounds like a food chain...<br /><br />Rebecca, I wish I could've saved you from watching X-Men the first time; at least I picked up the spare.Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-57484027768339741902011-05-25T23:52:05.792-04:002011-05-25T23:52:05.792-04:00so i won't give the first xmen the time of day...so i won't give the first xmen the time of day cause i thought it was awful. i agree with all your criticisms of the movie and more. it was hollywood garbage, although jackman was sure hot ;)<br />however. i just came from a screening of the new xmen and i have to say that i loved it! so much that i came home and started reading to find out more of the story, leading me here. so i was originally thinking that i had to go back and watch the first xmen movie again to figure out how the entire story ends in detail but you did that for me. so.. thanks.Rebeccanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-64101253694725633652011-05-03T22:25:00.040-04:002011-05-03T22:25:00.040-04:00DJ, Park's martial arts skills make a little m...DJ, Park's martial arts skills make a little more sense now, although Ballistic is probably the worst movie to judge actors by. I only have your word for it, but you made it sound torturous.<br /><br />Yes, Singer did a nifty job of deciding what was important and what wasn't. The coming comic book team movies sound nice and all, but I won't make any effort to catch them unless I'm out with friends. <br /><br />You're right that these sorts of movies sound incredibly ambitious, though, and I'm glad I'm not being asked to write a screenplay that has to tell a solid story about a crime-fighting super-powered task force comprising [let me see if I got this right]: a billionaire industrialist who fights crime in a metal suit, the earth-bound son of the actual god, Odin, a scientist who figured out how to control and manipulate ant abilities, a former carnival performer/reformed criminal who's a dead shot with an arrow, and a scientist who becomes a mindless green juggernaut when he's angry. I know I could take a good shot at writing an Avengers movie, but I think I could take a good shot at writing a lot of movies; I know I'd love the paycheck. But I understand that it's a pretty big job to get all that into an entertaining and well-told 2-hour story.Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-2524266825042558552011-05-03T22:08:35.919-04:002011-05-03T22:08:35.919-04:00Jack, I can absolutely understand how this and the...Jack, I can absolutely understand how this and the 2nd were favorites. The 3rd film was so poorly reviewed (Brett Ratner?), I caught it for free off cable. <br /><br />Yet DJ reminded that this was the first big comic feature since the Donner's and Burton's comic series and this movie was doing <i>a lot</i> more than those were. No matter what, X-Men still gave us X-2, Iron Man, and probably Nolan's Batman, so it deserves credit.<br /><br />I did notice the above flaws when I saw this in the theater with my big bro, but I still had a good time. It was just less of a good time than if the film-makers had picked the right tone or direction, and it seems like they could've done that without too much trouble. <br /><br />The fairest thing to say is that X-Men isn't a "must see," and has a weird feel to it, especially if you're a bit older or are using your critical eye a lot...Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-46237847752826797122011-04-29T02:29:31.470-04:002011-04-29T02:29:31.470-04:00In Ballistic, Park is the bad guy's enforcer. ...In Ballistic, Park is the bad guy's enforcer. And, as we remember from him being Darth Maul, he's a badass martial artist, so that should fit, right? But the second he opens his mouth, he's got this really soft, delicate voice. I see he's had speaking parts since, but in my opinion, when I see "mute American ninja for GI Joe movie" I think "Hey! That'd be a great job for Ray Park!"<br /><br />If you think of those superhero movies with big casts, think how much time they spend setting up those characters? Usually, every hero and villain gets their own origin story. In the original Spider-Man, you have just two guys with powers, and it must take 30-40 minutes to establish who they are, what their motivations are, why they have powers, costumes, etc. Fantastic Four had five main characters (the four plus Doom) getting their powers from a single incident, and I'm pretty sure it takes more than half the film's run time before any sort of protagonist/antagonist conflict really starts. X-Men had twice as many superpowered characters (five X-Men, Prof. X, and four members of the Brotherhood). Potentially, you could be in for ten individual origin stories, plus two "how the team got together" stories to explain everything. Instead, Singer and his writers really streamlined it to just Magneto's backstory, sketched out origins for Rogue and Wolverine, and then the story spends the most of its remaining exposition time establishing the school and the team relationships (Jean Grey love triangle, Cyclops/Wolvie rivalry, Rogue/Wolvie father/daughter relationship, Storm standing in a corner with nothing to do), while letting a bunch of details (like the extended backstory between Wolverine and Sabretooth, Storm's origins, Toad's motivation for doing anything at all) slide.<br /><br />Now, both FF and X-Men are simpler team concepts than Avengers and Justice League. Both movies are sandboxed--the only people in the world with powers are the characters in the film, and there's only one mechanism for getting powers in each case. That's a lot easier to explain than a world where mythical/magical creatures (Wonder Woman/Thor) coexist with adventurer billionaires (Iron Man/Batman) and guys who got their powers by scientific accident (Hulk/Flash) and assorted others, including godlike aliens (Superman) and people from the distant past (Capt. America). That's a lot of freight before introducing new characters, or any villains.DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901649394069002585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-57126167631190563202011-04-28T20:16:34.887-04:002011-04-28T20:16:34.887-04:00Very good review!
The first two X Men films were ...Very good review!<br /><br />The first two X Men films were big childhood favourites of mine for some reason, I must of watched them about a dozen times, but I don't know how they would hold up today. <br />probably quite well considering how many other (considerably worse) comic book movies I've seen since then. <br />I remember liking the second film a bit more though, and the third was an enormous disappointment, the large cast of this film is nothing compared to the mess of the third one!<br /><br />I'm still not sure what to think about the upcoming X Men film though, I suppose it's got a cool cast but it just doesn't intrigue me much...Jack Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14558083317361098572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-62518698220067200362011-04-28T14:16:08.170-04:002011-04-28T14:16:08.170-04:00Thanks! I didn't know that about Ray - he uses...Thanks! I didn't know that about Ray - he uses his expressions well enough, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt.<br /><br />Very good point, too - it's clear that the guy can't control his eye-lasers, but it's never actually said. I suppose the head-gear (and Oakleys?) help suggest that he has a "special condition."<br /><br />You're right that it really could have been a mess. Also, that it was more of an accomplishment than I wrote - I simply put it down to an fx showcase. <br /><br />For me, there were already many movies with several powerful people - Batman 2 (I know, I know), Spiderman, Blade>. I never saw much difference between a movie with lots of super-powered people and a movie with a superhero team. When you assemble a cast like that, it should be easy to stick the landing. Then again, Uma and Connery in "The Avengers," right?Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776031415427663302.post-85334155626593831512011-04-28T12:42:58.973-04:002011-04-28T12:42:58.973-04:00I might have thought "Ray Park is underused&q...I might have thought "Ray Park is underused" right up until I saw him in a real speaking part, in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. Let me assure you: Ray Park is best seen, not heard.<br /><br />This movie also has a weird exposition gap, where the nature of Cyclops's ability ("can't control laser beam unless closes his eyes or wears a special visor") is never explained, although it's a plot point a number of times during the movie--including the climax. I could never figure out whether to credit Singer for believing the audience would just figure it out, or be annoyed that knowledge of the comic book was taken for granted (or, more likely, that a scene where Stewart gets to enunciate "his special vi-SOR" wound up on the cutting room floor). <br /><br />Still, at the time I don't think anyone had even attempted a team superhero movie--something which I think is leagues more difficult than doing a solo superhero film (with Avengers and Justice League films apparently on studio slates, we may get an illustration of just how easy this is to screw up very soon). Even though I agree with your criticisms, X-Men had such a potential for disaster I'd give it a solid B considering the degree of difficulty.DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901649394069002585noreply@blogger.com