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I have seen it. I wished I had waited longer hadn’t. No seriously, I didn’t like it at all. Where were the X-Men? When growing up 20 minute cartoons kept me glued to the home screen and made me plan the next episode carefully. I even skipped football training for The X-Men. I was breathless week after week. I wanted the good ones to win… all the time, week after week. I was a lot more fanatical than Americans supporting their national soccer team. I loved them … they were the epicenter of my week.
We discussed them at school, yeah they were HAWT!
The comics. If you had some you gained respect at school. Bart Simpson’s love for Nuclear Man was nothing compared to our X-Men fanatism. I grew up and the X-Men stayed.
That’s what everyone would have thought.
But today, one movie and two sequels later, I can only think back of that youthly innocense. And be moody about having lost it.
Simple comics, easy hand-drawn pictures, cartoons without any special effects but totally drawn, occupied us and generations before us. Week after week, month after month, years long.
Simple systems like the Commodore 64 made us addicted to modern technolgy.
Today millions are spent in the development and marketing of a movie. Computer games have enormous budgets and sometimes look almost real, real as in movies. Movies look like computer games, speciaql effect games loaded with human bodies. X-Men 3, The Last Stand.
Storylines of movies are like game adaptations. Storylines of games get beter all the time. RPGs capture people years long. Diablo II, anyone?
X-Men 3.
I think I have seen them all today. I had the feeling being at a LAN-party. A LAN-party which took only two hours. Everyone who could think of a character was allowed to join and play. Not two hours later we had beaten the evil ones. x-men fought.
But what about the X-Men? Did anyone see them? The Last Stand surely weren’t the X-Men. I have already forgotten the plot and story. It can’t have been the X-Men.
Time to dig out Blade. Again. Once more.
On another note, are movie studios really surprized people download their stuff? Honestly I even can’t imagine wasting a disc with this. Anyone can mention a movie from the last three years that people will still remember in 10 years?
OK, Return of The King was epic.
Btw, Beast was… well yeah.
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1 luis // Jun 19, 2006 at 6:29 am// View all comments by luis//
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hey, great review. you should post this on FilmCrowd.com :) your blog url is displayed at the bottom of each review you submit so it might even send a little traffic your way. we have a page up for x3 right here:
http://www.filmcrowd.com/content/world/all/5143/X-men_The_Last_Stand/8/0
2 Rik // Jun 20, 2006 at 5:41 am// View all comments by Rik//
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The Lord of the Rings is the best movie trilogy I have ever seen in my life. It’s what the Star Wars franchise would be if George Lucas could write.
3 Franky // Jun 20, 2006 at 6:38 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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Rik, I couldn’t agree more with you. LotR is phenomenal and no matter what people say it was one of the best filmed books I can think of not to say the best one.
luis, thank you. I don’t really consider it being a review, more an expression of disappointment tho. If I had written this post as a review I’ld have written it differently ;)
4 Teenage Bamm-Bamm // Jun 23, 2006 at 4:51 pm// View all comments by Teenage Bamm-Bamm//
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Yeah, but it’s not a comic, it’s a movie.
5 liam // Jul 4, 2006 at 9:23 am// View all comments by liam//
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I got no website and no wisdom to impart either