so i saw x3 tongiht. it was pretty good--i didn't like it as much as the second one, but i didn't dislike it or anything. ok, i was annoyed that they had colossus but then didn't give him his romantic subplot (i don't want to give anything away, so i am being deliberately oblique), which is my all-time favorite x-men romance. on the other hand, i was quite pleased to see kitty pryde--one of the subjects of my master's paper!--in a featured role.
the plot was pretty heavily lifted from whedon's astonishing x-men (but he didn't get any writing credit), with lots of wacky effects and explosions for good measure.
the casting was well-done, although after spending the past few weeks watching the entire series of "six feet under" on dvd, it was a little weird to see the kid who was russell playing angel. i kept waiting for him to do something totally psychotic--he still seemed to have that deranged look in his eyes.
i did really like the ending--stay through the credits or you'll miss something awesome!!
ps. there totally was a trailer for snakes on a plane before the movie!! hahahaha!!!!
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so i guess bratt ratner can say, with credibility, "i've got kitty pryde." *groan*
joss whedon wrote the script for the original x-men movie, but it was so heavily edited that only two bits of dialogue remained. here's what he said in an interview with the av club a few years back:
W: And then, in X-Men, not only did they throw out my script and never tell me about it; they actually invited me to the read-through, having thrown out my entire draft without telling me. I was like, "Oh, that's right! This is the movies! The writer is shit in the movies!" I'll never understand that. I have one line left in that movie. Actually, there are a couple of lines left in that are out of context and make no sense, or are delivered so badly, so terribly... There's one line that's left the way I wrote it.
O: Which is?
JW: "'It's me.' 'Prove it.' 'You're a dick.'" Hey, it got a laugh.
O: It's funny that the only lines I really remember from that movie are that one and Storm's toad comment.
JW: Okay, which was also mine, and that's the interesting thing. Everybody remembers that as the worst line ever written, but the thing about that is, it was supposed to be delivered as completely offhand. [Adopts casual, bored tone.] "You know what happens when a toad gets hit by lightning?" Then, after he gets electrocuted, "Ahhh, pretty much the same thing that happens to anything else."
it jsut seemed weird to me that they could lift his storyline without crediting him . . . i wonder if marvel owns the right to all their series' plots.
1. Hi, this is Kate (from SILS). I'm not quite sure how I got to your blog, but it was through a chain of surfing through people's blog rolls. Anyway, hi!
2. Throughout the whole movie, I thought that Warren looked familiar, but I couldn't figure out why. I totally didn't make the connection that he was Russell from "Six Feet Under."
hi kate! thanks for reading (and commentings)!
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