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X3<3, or something perhaps akin to that effect.
I took an X-Men personality test and it said I was most like Jean Grey. I'm still not returning its phone calls.
And it's not that I'm back. This LJ's liable to go into long hibernation again after this post, or at least until X4 comes out. The Laster Stand. Maybe it will go straight to video. I do find myself missing it. I miss the giant subtexts stoked by a fiery passion, dripping pre-slash all over the place, but mostly I miss the act of writing everyday. I didn't write a lot of originals, it was mostly fic, and this LJ was my preferred medium. And I wrote a lot. I invested a lot of energy into being Lassiter, Writer of Fics , Or Something.
Fandom, you were charming and exciting and talented -- and you still are -- and yes, you had your neurotic episodes sometimes -- and you still you still do -- but I loved you and look back fondly upon the days during which we used to sit on the banks of the Danube and feed each other grapes and mangosteens from baskets made of burnished gold. It would've made sense to stay together, but it also made sense to break up. Y'know what I mean? But we should go out for coffee sometime.
Anyway, I came here to talk about X3.
After the initial high of watching it has faded, I realized I was pretty disappointed. Beefs include:
- John's hair. WTF. All he was missing was a popped collar or two and possibly a lacrosse stick.
- Same deal with Angel's hair, but he was an insignificant character in this movie, so it didn't bother me as much. I mean, as a character and for the sake of a more cohesive plot, he should have had more screen time and character development, but then I would have had to see more of his hair.
- The Brotherhood mutants, despite dressing badly, are COOL. I wanted character development for them, and of course was left high and dry. In my head, though, I was thinking, "Someone's gotta be writing Pyro/Porcupine Asian Guy somewhere..."
- Except the girl who could move super fast. Or I dunno. Explain to me Callisto, comic readers. Her 'mutant radar' power rubs me the wrong way in that it was an obvious plot device. I know she has super-senses, but can she really detect what power other mutants have in the comics? Anyway, I enjoyed her beating the crap out of Storm.
- John's character in general. Development? Only in hairstyle, and there he went down a rocky path. And the Fire & Ice duel? It was like, "If the zippo fuel runs out, he's fucked." (Or am I missing some technicality? Did he actually have a flamethrower strapped on under his jacket or something similar? Was it that thing on his arm?)
- I didn't know whether Scott had died, disappeared, or was pushed off-screen by the bevy of new mutants and red jackets (red coats? what's the appropriate trekkie terminology here?), and by the time it was ascertained, everyone had stopped caring.
Okay, general thoughts.
- I like that it's implied that Xavier is as much a controlling asshole as Magneto is.
- Rogue is such the angsty teenage girl who just wants to be loved. And I love her for it. I know it's not comicverse!Rogue, but I'm a movieverse whore so I can't say I give two craps. My beef with Bobby/Kitty is only because I like Rogue so much and wanted to placate her with brownie fudge ice cream and The OC DVDs.
- Then there were four syringes in Erik's chest, and I knew it was coming, and I started getting the hate on at Storm and Wolverine and was sorely disappointed in Beast as soon as they began eyeing the gun, I EXPECTED BETTER FROM YOU, BEAST, and then all those syringes, and Magneto, and he fell, and the look on his face, oh the magnificent acting skills of a Royal Shakespeare Company veteran... I cried.
- OMG JOHN'S HAIR KILL IT KILL IT
Also, I didn't stay for the scene after the credits. Can you tell me what it's about?
And it's not that I'm back. This LJ's liable to go into long hibernation again after this post, or at least until X4 comes out. The Laster Stand. Maybe it will go straight to video. I do find myself missing it. I miss the giant subtexts stoked by a fiery passion, dripping pre-slash all over the place, but mostly I miss the act of writing everyday. I didn't write a lot of originals, it was mostly fic, and this LJ was my preferred medium. And I wrote a lot. I invested a lot of energy into being Lassiter, Writer of Fics , Or Something.
Fandom, you were charming and exciting and talented -- and you still are -- and yes, you had your neurotic episodes sometimes -- and you still you still do -- but I loved you and look back fondly upon the days during which we used to sit on the banks of the Danube and feed each other grapes and mangosteens from baskets made of burnished gold. It would've made sense to stay together, but it also made sense to break up. Y'know what I mean? But we should go out for coffee sometime.
Anyway, I came here to talk about X3.
After the initial high of watching it has faded, I realized I was pretty disappointed. Beefs include:
- John's hair. WTF. All he was missing was a popped collar or two and possibly a lacrosse stick.
- Same deal with Angel's hair, but he was an insignificant character in this movie, so it didn't bother me as much. I mean, as a character and for the sake of a more cohesive plot, he should have had more screen time and character development, but then I would have had to see more of his hair.
- The Brotherhood mutants, despite dressing badly, are COOL. I wanted character development for them, and of course was left high and dry. In my head, though, I was thinking, "Someone's gotta be writing Pyro/Porcupine Asian Guy somewhere..."
- Except the girl who could move super fast. Or I dunno. Explain to me Callisto, comic readers. Her 'mutant radar' power rubs me the wrong way in that it was an obvious plot device. I know she has super-senses, but can she really detect what power other mutants have in the comics? Anyway, I enjoyed her beating the crap out of Storm.
- John's character in general. Development? Only in hairstyle, and there he went down a rocky path. And the Fire & Ice duel? It was like, "If the zippo fuel runs out, he's fucked." (Or am I missing some technicality? Did he actually have a flamethrower strapped on under his jacket or something similar? Was it that thing on his arm?)
- I didn't know whether Scott had died, disappeared, or was pushed off-screen by the bevy of new mutants and red jackets (red coats? what's the appropriate trekkie terminology here?), and by the time it was ascertained, everyone had stopped caring.
Okay, general thoughts.
- I like that it's implied that Xavier is as much a controlling asshole as Magneto is.
- Rogue is such the angsty teenage girl who just wants to be loved. And I love her for it. I know it's not comicverse!Rogue, but I'm a movieverse whore so I can't say I give two craps. My beef with Bobby/Kitty is only because I like Rogue so much and wanted to placate her with brownie fudge ice cream and The OC DVDs.
- Then there were four syringes in Erik's chest, and I knew it was coming, and I started getting the hate on at Storm and Wolverine and was sorely disappointed in Beast as soon as they began eyeing the gun, I EXPECTED BETTER FROM YOU, BEAST, and then all those syringes, and Magneto, and he fell, and the look on his face, oh the magnificent acting skills of a Royal Shakespeare Company veteran... I cried.
- OMG JOHN'S HAIR KILL IT KILL IT
Also, I didn't stay for the scene after the credits. Can you tell me what it's about?
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