X-Men?

[standuponit]

Kind of awesome, actually, and filled with more than enough moments of nerd love that my nerd rage mostly got left behind. Although, really, WTF Banshee? I mean, WTF Banshee?!

Quoth my friend commonly known as Wonder Woman after the movie: "No, my first name ain't Cassidy. It's Sean. Mister Cassidy if you're nasty

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[trollcatz]

So the part where they had Tony Curran in a walk-on?

Why wasn't he playing Banshee?

I have a dream...

[standuponit]

...or I had one last night, rather. That we were geographically profiling the Batman to determine his comfort zone and his base of operations, and this culminated in a program of watchers with stopwatches all over Gotham reporting bat-sightings in real time through a distributed network.

We were just about to get the SOB when I was awakened by the eye pressure of the Angry Kitteh staring at me through the bedroom window.

Her food bowl was not full.

Re: I have a dream...

[trollcatz]

That explains why you're up. (Also, it's a brilliant idea. If anybody could bring him in, it'd be us.)

I'm up because my alarm clock started burrowing into the bed at 7 am. I would be burrowing back in myself soon, because T. is still in there, but the climbing gear is already in the car. Pick you up in forty?

Re: I have a dream...

[standuponit]

Just enough time to run down to the bakery and grab something enormous and whole-grain and a couple of gallons of decaf. And for you, a cheese thingy.

There's a chance of precip, but I saw we risk it.

[trollcatz]

Also, Hank is adorable because *he* knows how to treat a spinal injury. Charles might still be walking if Moira and Erik hadn't been mauling him around!

And that would be my nerd rage.

And before you yell at me, I'm in the drive through.

[standuponit]

I noticed you muttering "That is not how you treat a spinal injury!" and clenching your fists.

I'm still thinking about why the Brotherhood looks like an Ikea ad and the X-Men are so incredibly white, and given Xavier's obvious and repeatedly pointed-out privilege (and the patent institutional sexism, racism, and speciesism), I have to think that Singer's making a point about there not being any room in this society for the people who are not wealthy white guys.

I'm still sad about Darwin, though. Although really, given his power set, I like to think he just adapted by becoming an energy being.

[_eljefe_]

Yes, yes to all of this. I think Singer was spending more time making points than making a movie.

[bunny_m]

I'm still sad about Darwin, though. Although really, given his power set, I like to think he just adapted by becoming an energy being.

I agree with this entirely, although being both a shameless X-fan and life-long huge LSH fan both I choose to think of Darwin as evolving into Wildfire, so that he can both have a reason for not being noticed for the rest of the movie, and go on to bet Even More Awesome™ after his 'death'.

The movie did indeed do a vastly better job of arguing Erik's side of the 'debate', not only due to the rather pitiful attempt at promoting Charles' side.

Other than the small faults listed here (Moira, Banshee and the bias towards the Brotherhood,) it was a damn fine movie indeed.

[Edited to add, 'cause I'm a doofus]: I got to see it in a cinema with ~40 or so other nerds, we had the entire screen to ourselves due to a small miscalculation by the staff of said cinema, and then we all stood around outside geeking about it for at least 40 minutes afterwards.

A fine Friday night indeed, and well worth the money

[standuponit]

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[batwrangler]

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