Birthdays and Mutants

[sistermagpie]

Happy birthday praetorianguard!! The first person ever on my friends list to have a birthday.

Hurray!!! Good Night, Sweetheart is back on WLIW. I loved this show and we never got all the episodes over here. This makes me happy.

Finally,

Liked it much better than the first one. Ian McKellen is so fabulous. Loved his little gigglefest with Mystique over Rogue's hair. I look forward to Pyro in future movies. He really did seem to belong with the other guys. Alan Cumming was great, although in the beginning his accent kept making me expect him to start singing, "Wilkomen, Bienvenue, Welcome..." since I saw him in Cabaret.

Question, why did the female Wolverine have her knives coming out of her fingernails instead of her knuckles like Wolverine? It seems a lot less practical. He's got some slashing power and she's just, "scratch scratch, I'm a girl." The moments that made me most want to be a mutant: Iceman chilling Wolverine's soda, Pyro catching the fire in his hand, Magneto's escape and Storm's two big, well, storms--in the plane and at the end. That entrance at the White House was pretty excellent. Also, anything Mystique did. I really liked her--which is probably the last time I'll say that about anything played by Rebecca R-S. The "coming out" scene was great, although I was expecting a little sibling who thought Bobby was cool and said he wanted to be a mutant too, horrifying his parents.

I wonder if the mutants classify each other according to power. Because you know in a mutant society you would--as Magneto said to Pyro, "You're a god among insects." What's the good of being a mutant if you just have a blue tongue or something? It's weird but it's hardly useful. What if there's a person who's, like, really heroic and popular and everybody wants him to be in the superhero team but his power is that he's a human stapler? (The office kind--not like a staple gun.) Would it be awkward because everybody's not-so-secretly embarassed by his power? Would they have to discuss letting him in? I guess he'd probably try to find some other skill to make himself useful, like being really good on the computer or making super costumes. All the new people would eventually ask, "You know, OfficeMax is really cool but...what's his mutation, exactly?" Wild rumors would probably grow up around it. Eventually everyone would think his power was so awesome he just couldn't use it else the world crack in two like a china plate etc. Meanwhile, alone at hq, he'd just staple reports together in shame and do secret experiments to try to gain a better power. Poor OfficeMax.

I really hope League of Extrordinary Gentlemen is good. I haven't read the comic.

Since I just saw it, I am very pleased with the results of this quiz:





Which X2 Character Are You?

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X2 night?

[shadowfax8.livejournal.com]

Hey Mags, I saw X2 tonight as well! I also thought it was better than the first one... I am such a fan of Mystique, she's so cool! Just hangin' out, being Ian's sidekick, different person every day of the week, or every other minute! Sounds quite enticing. I don't know about Wolverinette and the fingernails, I suppose it's a girl thing...but wasn't that fight scene incredible? I only have one or two nitpicks with the film...first of all, I thought the ending was a bit weak. Magneto disappears and we drop in on the president? However, before that I thought Jean Grey's death scene was great. Hugh and Cyclops there almost had me choked up. Good acting...

Anywho, other niggles...did you think that there were a few too many plots going at the same time? The Scot and Jean love story, with Hugh thrown in there; Rogue and Iceman; Stryker; Magneto; Iceman's "coming out"; and the one plot I wanted to see developed was Stryker's kid! Where was the backstory on Jason? Now that would have been germane to the movie! Unless I am forgetting something from the first film... All in all, it was a great time, and I thoroughly enjoyed both Ian and Patrick. Hugh was not hard on the eyes, either...

I took the quiz, and I am PROFESSOR X! Mwahahaha!





Which X2 Character Are You?

Re: X2 night?

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Professor X! Sexy and cool!!

I did love the fight scene. I guess it's kind of silly for me to think of those fingernails as being less useful when the girl kicks ass from here to next Tuesday and I'm a big wuss. Probably, too, they wanted to do something different just for the aesthetics.

I was completely confused when we went back to the President (though as I said I thought Professor X's entrance was GREAT!). I expected a little scene with Magneto, Mystique and Pyro definitely. I loved the way Magneto asked Pyro's name and he said John and then he said, "What's your real name?" Magneto's guys rarely if ever have names beyond their mutant ones--Magneto only really has one because Charles insists on using it. It fits the way his group is breaking with the human world completely. They probably see the need to go by names like "Bobby" and "Logan" as pathetic while the X-Men see it as affirmation of their humanity. They are not their mutation. I'm not sure which one's better--seems like exactly the kind of split you'd see in a minority book. Well, I guess the whole thing is very reminiscent of some aspects of Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X.

There were a whole lotta stories in there. The first movie kind of suffered from what so many of these comic movies do--they spend a long time on set up and then it's like, "Oh wait, we forgot to fight crime!" and they stick in a finale. Here there were a lot of things going on but yeah, they could have pulled back some. Stryker's kid in particular was confusing me during the movie. Did he really torture his parents to the point of his mother drilling her head open? Did Charles not see he was insane? Or was he pushed into that defensively because of his father's treatment of him? We just don't know!

Oh, one other bad thing about the movie. You know those obnoxious people that spill drinks and make the floor all sticky? Erm, last night I was one of them. I couldn't believe it. Missed the cupholder completely and sploosh! I was so ashamed.

[foreversended.livejournal.com]

OfficeMax *rolls*

Question, why did the female Wolverine have her knives coming out of her fingernails instead of her knuckles like Wolverine? It seems a lot less practical. He's got some slashing power and she's just, "scratch scratch, I'm a girl."

I suppose the fact that Lady Deathstrike's weapons are her fingernails (if you can even call them that) are more an aesthetic thing more than anything else. It sounds really superficial but eh, she probably wouldn't have as successful a lovely-but-lethal image if her claws came out of her knuckles.

I loved Pyro as well! And I guess we sort of owe it to Ronnie's jealousy (idiocy? retardation?) that we got to see Pyro display his powers. Though I hated the little git.

The tiny smidgen of Nightcrawler/Mystique got me in the mood for "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65, as irritating as it is. :D

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I suppose the fact that Lady Deathstrike's weapons are her fingernails (if you can even call them that) are more an aesthetic thing more than anything else. It sounds really superficial but eh, she probably wouldn't have as successful a lovely-but-lethal image if her claws came out of her knuckles.

Yeah, you're definitely right. Also just for something different. We've seen Wolverine's schtick so they would want to have him fighting somebody slightly different.

That Ronnie was a little weirdo, huh? I really wasn't sure why he did it. Was he jealous? I could definitely believe he was jealous but that was kind of an extreme response! Also later we saw his computer had mutant news reports on it so I assumed he was a kid who probably already believed mutants deserved to die etc. What a weird family. I kept imagining myself in that situation and I'd be like, "Ohmygod that's so cool!"

The tiny smidgen of Nightcrawler/Mystique got me in the mood for "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65, as irritating as it is. :D

Hee! They make a really interesting pair even if they were just friends, you know? He's so timid and she's so...not.

[praetorianguard.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

And I totally agree about the fingernails. It seemed unnecessarily girly to me, but I suppose Stryker would see her as a girl. Silly Stryker.