Kung Foo - X2: X-Men United

Not signed in (Log In)

Random Photo

(changes every 15 minutes)

I wonder if that's where I dropped my pen?

Photo by burn2shine. Caption by dr-funk.

read and rate other captions »
post your own caption »
submit a photo to caption »

Site Supported By Ads

Recent Comments

Digg This Post

Save This Page

X2: X-Men United

Posted by spide143 on Jun 21, 2003 at 08:12 AM

Better bring a cheat sheet

Ok, unless you REALLY liked the first film and remembered verbatim every line from it, this was a disappointment to say the least. This script would have made a great comic book (at least a seven issue mini-series!) To their credit they were extremely faithful in character development (at least the principal characters) Too many subplots and too little attention paid to each one. At least with a comic you can flip back a page and refer, this movie almost requires a cheat sheet to recall the various details that actually make it intresting.

In the area of character development, alot of attention was paid to wolverine (again) yet in a scattered way that left you wondering why bring it up if you are not going to focus on it for any duration. The theme was a broad one, I wont reveal it but in my view they lose the concept in all the jumpcuts and meanwhiles. I am a comics fan, and knew everything that was going on and I was still bored out of my mind. I feel the importance and relevance for that matter of what was going on was mired in all the details. I could go on and on about it but let's just run the numbers...

action...7 lots of cool stuff...too spread out and unimportant
direction...5 great effects, good use of character, but poor execution
acting...8 the cast really is believable its a shame they were put in a blender and served cold in this one!
dialogue...6 comic fans will appreciate the accuracy but the story is so thin!

overall...6.5 on a ten scale, it could have been worse

bottom line: If they had narrowed the focus somewhat, it could have been better than the original.

till next time...

sentinels rule!

go to link

Comments

IndigoShaper spoke on Jun 21, 2003 at 09:04 AM

Although not a comics fan, I thoroughly enjoyed both films, and I felt that X2 was a really good sequel considering most sequels of films are not that good compared to the first.

I thought this film was really but I would understand why you don't like it.... Spiderman... ;) jk

Anonymous Coward spoke on Jun 21, 2003 at 12:13 PM

I did like it. Saw it six times. Because I like comics and happy that they made it to the big screen i feel like they should make the most of the opportunity. Spiderman only got made because of the success of x-men, which only got made due to the success of blade. I am hoping that they can survive on their own steam. Taking the film on it's own, not as a sequel, it was kind of disjointed. that's my only concern.

thanks for the comment!

spide143 spoke on Jun 21, 2003 at 12:51 PM

I posted above, I forgot to login with my reply

spide143 spoke on Jun 21, 2003 at 12:51 PM

I mean below...sorry

Tekiran spoke on Jun 24, 2003 at 11:27 AM

... save the fact that lady deathstrike was all wrong. nightcrawler was excellent though. they did a good job with him.

Green spoke on Jun 27, 2003 at 10:15 AM

I'm not one to go to the movies all that often, due to the fact i don't have a car, but i saw the first flick in the theaters, and liked it (especially cuz wolverine was done right, instead of like in that cartoon they made like a year or more ago, where he is a super lumberjack Canadian bum, that no on likes, not even me! his greatest fan since like birth lol) So all i wanna know is, overall, did everyone like it or not like it, or does everyone agree with the 6.5 rating?

IndigoShaper spoke on Jun 27, 2003 at 10:29 AM

I like it a lot. GO SEE IT!

spide143 spoke on Jun 27, 2003 at 04:16 PM

If you are die hard wolvie then you get some intresting weapon x stuff, only a taste though.

Comments

Post A Comment