X2, etc.

[mamajoan]

I enjoyed X2 a lot. As a total non-reader of the comic book, I don't know any of the mythology so I wasn't encumbered by any of the "nooooo, that's not how it happened!" stuff that some of my friends are going through. ;) I thought it was certainly as good as the first one, possibly better -- I might need a bit more time to digest it before I say for sure.

Hugh Jackman, of course, continues to be completely yummy. *pause, wipe up drool* Alan Cumming was also great, as were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, not that that's any surprise from the three of them! They rule! :) The only one I really didn't like was the guy who plays Bobby/Iceman. Aside from the fact that to me he's "that evil kid who stole Clark's powers" (on Smallville), he just has that Dawson's Creek look to him -- like he doesn't belong in a scifi movie, just in a teen drama on the WB. ;) But, whatever. He was okay.

The only parts of the plot that didn't make sense to me were a) what really happened to the little girl who could walk through walls -- how did Prof. X and the psychic Stryker son know about her to put her in the vision, and was she really still in the school after everyone else left? And b) why did they just leave Stryker Jr. to die in the underground cavern -- okay, he was mostly brain-dead and doing evil, but he was an innocent victim! Ehh. I dunno, maybe Prof X had already written him off as a failure. It just didn't seem in character.

You know how sometimes a concept or theme seems to follow you around in life? Like, for example, say you have never gone rock climbing or thought about it or cared about it or anything, and then suddenly a friend of yours decides to take up rock climbing, and you read a novel whose plot is all about rock climbing, and your favorite TV show does an episode about a rock climber, and you hear a song on the radio about rock climbing -- randomly, all within a short space of time. Coincidence? Fate? The universe trying to tell you something? Does that happen to you?

Anyway, that's been happening to me lately and unfortunately the theme is the Holocaust. First I saw a movie about it ("Nowhere in Africa"), then earlier this week I participated in a Holocaust commemoration ceremony (which I keep meaning to post about, I'll get to it eventually), and then I picked up a book at the library, the latest mystery by one of my favorite authors, and it turns out to be Holocaust-themed too.

And then, perhaps most frightening, I got a Smallville plot bunny along similar lines. *shiver* I don't want to write it, but maybe the universe is trying to tell me that I should.

Comments

[munoz.livejournal.com]

The girl who could walk through walls was Kitty Pryde and she wasn't the same actress as the one who played Little Girl. (Check IMDB.) Kitty Pryde was about 18 (the character also appeared in the first film, different actress) and the little girl was about 12. So both story-wise and actor-wise they weren't the same character. As for leaving Jason behind, yeah, that made only a little bit of sense. Xavier was dazed, so maybe he wasn't paying attention, but Kurt would not have left him behind unless he thought it was impossible to get back. Which may have been the case, and perhaps the scene got trimmed.

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking maybe by the time Kurt jumped Professor X out the place had collapsed, crushing Jason.