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Starring: | Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, James Marsden, Famke Janssen |
| Directed By: | Bryan Singer | |
| Produced By: | Richard Donner, Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter | |
| Written By: | Christopher McQuarrie, Ed Solomon, Laeta Kalogridis, Blanche McDermaid, Josh Whedon and David Hayt (damn, that's a lot of writers!) | |
| Distributed By: | 20th Century Fox | |
| Running Time: | 1hr, 33 min. (should've been about an hour longer) | |
| PG-13 | ||
Ah, where do I begin. I have been a fan of the X-Men since I could read. I remember my first X-Men comic book, my first toy, and trying to draw Wolverine. Then the cartoon on the Fox television network came on Saturday mornings and I watched it all the time and pointed out inconsistencies between the cartoon and the comic. Boy, that pissed off my brother and sister.
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Now, it has all culminated into the apex of today's multimedia dollar Mecca.. the big budget summer blockbuster. I was afraid, very afraid. How could they possibly take the pinnacle of comic book super hero action and put it into a movie? I didn't think it could be done, but I approached with an open mind.
I walked in, not knowing what to expect, I stayed away from the commercials and television specials just so I could get a fresh view of the movie, and I'll tell you the truth, I don't know how I feel. I had to sit next to a bunch of loud mouthed teenybopper girly girls who obviously had no clue that they were in a movie theater with other people. They were talking the whole time, screaming at stuff on the screen (not in a good way either, they were being silly), and just generally being stupid. For instance, when Wolverine whips out his claw for the first time, these girls started laughing, and then asking what the hell that was. Umm... claws, you idiot. Maybe I was just oversensitive about it, because I wanted to so enjoy this movie, and they were wrecking it.
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If you don't know, the movie is about the X-Men, who are a group of mutants in the "not too distant future) who are fighting against both bad people and bad mutants who want to either a) kill or in some other way harm mutants or b) wipe out or in some other way harm mankind. You connect who does what here.
Well, the actual movie pretty much centers around a guy named Logan, or Wolverine, and a girl called Rogue. I can't believe it, but I forget her real name. Anyway, Rogue just turned into a mutant and Logan sort of finds her when she flees her home. See, Rogue can absorb people's energy when she touches them, so she had a little accident and freaked out.
If you don't know the whole mutant thing, I'm not going to explain it here, go ask a guy at the comic store near you, and I'm sure he'll be able to tell you, but you really should know this already. I mean, who doesn't know about the X-Men universe?
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Anyway, the movie wasn't as action packed as I thought. I thought it would be more like Mortal Kombat or something, but it was good anyway. Though, I first walked out of the theater and I thought I didn't like it, but as I got to thinking about it, I realized that I liked the movie, it was the environment that sucked (see above). So I'm probably going to go see it again. Hopefully this weekend. Who knows?
Will you like this movie? Probably. Most people like it that I've talked to. Some reviewers say that the acting in it was sup-par, but they suck arses. I mean, it's gotta be hard to act like you have energy beams shooting out your eyes or claws coming out your hand. Think about it. And how can you disrespect Patrick Stewart like that? Patrick Stewart is the focking MAN! He is also the best matchup in the movie. The only thing that bothered me was that he didn't have his floating chair. He had a semi normal wheelchair. Oh well. I'm not going to get into the debate about the rest of the comic to actor matchups, because I've had this argument too many times with Krispy Deamon already and I'm not going to get myself stuck with a bunch of idiot mail from people who disagree with how I feel.
I do have one complaint regarding the comic/movie matchups. Rogue was the hottest member of X-Men (next to Psylock, who wasn't around in this, but whatever) but in this she is like 12. Now, it's obvious that she'll grow into a hottie, but it just bothered me that my favorite comic book babe (again, next to Psylock) made me feel like a pedophile. Also, I want Gambit to be in the sequel (not to mention Psylock). Gambit rules, but that might just be because he was the closest guy to getting Rogue. One more thing, the sequel should have Apocalypse as the bad guy, played by non other than Arnold "I'll be back" Swartenegger.
Rating - 9 times monkey spanking while looking at Mystique (yeah, what can I say, I'm sick. I also think that Chiana is hot.)
Websites-
http://www.x-men-the-movie.com - Official
site. Krispy Deamon is part of the Xavier School for gifted children. I
couldn't get in. Bastards.
Know a good site about this movie, or one of the actors/actresses/directors/key grips/etc involved in it. Send me an e-mail at jarjarschmoke@hotmail.com
