Saw X-Men 3 This Afternoon
With inches of rain falling the last few days, and travel somewhat limited, I went to the movies this afternoon. I am not "comic book guy" I have never read an installment of the X-Men, Spiderman, Superman, etc., so my comments will not wander into the movies vs the comic book debate.
The movies was OK. It had its high and low points. Even for a comic book movie, the dialogue was cliche (after a female ex-mutant betrays the other mutants, the actor playing the President actually says "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"). The special effects were pretty good. I am also not a special effects guy, but if I am going to see a special effects movie, I would rather see it on a big screen than on HBO. But there was one special effects royal screw-up that I can't believe no one noticed. At one point, some of the mutants attack a laboratory on Alcatraz. To do this, in broad daylight, Magneto moves the Golden Gate Bridge so it extends to Alcatraz. Once the bridge is moved, the sky inexplicably becomes as dark as it would at midnight, and stays that way throughout the fight. I can't believe no one editing the movie noticed this. For the most part the movie moved along, and it didn't get bogged down in that "I love you, but I can't love you and be a superhero" crap that bogged down the Spiderman movies. Who gives a shit about how Spiderman feels?
They ran a few movie promos, her are the instant reactions.
"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" Luke Wilson (of the perpetually unfunny Wilson family) dates and dumps psycho superhero Uma Thurman. So she stalks him and does a lot of shit to make his life miserable. Oh, yeah, this is a comedy. Why are movies about girls stalking guys supposed to be funny, but no one would laugh at a movie where a guy stalked a girl?
The new "Superman" movie: Before the preview, I had no interest in seeing the movie. But the promo looked pretty good, so now I am mildly interested. The director seemed to reign in Kevin Spacey (he is Lex Luthor), so that is a major plus. Spacey has turned into a Pacino, if the director doesn't sit on him, he will chew the scenery to the point where he ruins the movie. The guy that directed "Superman" also directed X-Men 2, which is easily the best superhero movie ever.
"Ghost Rider" This looked really cool. But the whole promo consisted of skulls, and skeleton motorcycle riders with wheels on fire and their skulls on fire riding bikes through the sky while using a huge chain as a whip. How could that movie not be cool, Beavis? Easy. Make Nicholas Cage the lead.
"Pulse" The girl from "Veronica Mars" stars in some J-horror (or K-horror) remake. Dead people live on the Internet. Sometimes they are being tortured, sometimes they are watching you.
There were a total of 6 people at this movie. A guy with his two sons were sitting in front of me, and he felt the need to put the "Ozzie Guillen" seat between himself and his kids.
The movies was OK. It had its high and low points. Even for a comic book movie, the dialogue was cliche (after a female ex-mutant betrays the other mutants, the actor playing the President actually says "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"). The special effects were pretty good. I am also not a special effects guy, but if I am going to see a special effects movie, I would rather see it on a big screen than on HBO. But there was one special effects royal screw-up that I can't believe no one noticed. At one point, some of the mutants attack a laboratory on Alcatraz. To do this, in broad daylight, Magneto moves the Golden Gate Bridge so it extends to Alcatraz. Once the bridge is moved, the sky inexplicably becomes as dark as it would at midnight, and stays that way throughout the fight. I can't believe no one editing the movie noticed this. For the most part the movie moved along, and it didn't get bogged down in that "I love you, but I can't love you and be a superhero" crap that bogged down the Spiderman movies. Who gives a shit about how Spiderman feels?
They ran a few movie promos, her are the instant reactions.
"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" Luke Wilson (of the perpetually unfunny Wilson family) dates and dumps psycho superhero Uma Thurman. So she stalks him and does a lot of shit to make his life miserable. Oh, yeah, this is a comedy. Why are movies about girls stalking guys supposed to be funny, but no one would laugh at a movie where a guy stalked a girl?
The new "Superman" movie: Before the preview, I had no interest in seeing the movie. But the promo looked pretty good, so now I am mildly interested. The director seemed to reign in Kevin Spacey (he is Lex Luthor), so that is a major plus. Spacey has turned into a Pacino, if the director doesn't sit on him, he will chew the scenery to the point where he ruins the movie. The guy that directed "Superman" also directed X-Men 2, which is easily the best superhero movie ever.
"Ghost Rider" This looked really cool. But the whole promo consisted of skulls, and skeleton motorcycle riders with wheels on fire and their skulls on fire riding bikes through the sky while using a huge chain as a whip. How could that movie not be cool, Beavis? Easy. Make Nicholas Cage the lead.
"Pulse" The girl from "Veronica Mars" stars in some J-horror (or K-horror) remake. Dead people live on the Internet. Sometimes they are being tortured, sometimes they are watching you.
There were a total of 6 people at this movie. A guy with his two sons were sitting in front of me, and he felt the need to put the "Ozzie Guillen" seat between himself and his kids.
posted by Beukey @ 4:49 PM
3 Comments:
At 7:34 AM,
David said…
The Luke Wilson movie sounds terrible, but how could you forget "There's Something About Mary", the ultimate guy-stalks-girl comedy.
At 8:02 AM,
Bluey said…
The Ozzie Guillen seat, that's funny! Speaking of Ozzy Guillen, I thought it was hilarious when he tried to explain away calling the reporter a "fag" by stating that there was a loss in translation and that in his native languague calling a man a "fag' simply meant that you were implying that he was somehow "less of a man". Duh....
And I thought that because he was Hispanic, that he was going to actually get away with that bullshit response! And then they slammed him.
At 2:48 PM,
Beukey said…
I did overlook "There's Something About Mary", but the humor in that movie is based on something different than the humor in "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (if the preview is accurate).
In TSAM, most of the humor is at the guys expense. They come of as being shallow and immature, and because of this and their stalking issues, they are unworthy of Mary, except Ben who proves what a great guy he is because Warren lets him touch his earphones (sarcasm). So the stalkers (guys) get what's coming.
In MSE-G, the alleged humor comes from E-G getting payback for being dumped. In one humorous(?) scene, Luke is in bed with another chick in a high-rise, and E-G flies up to the room carrying a great white shark, and throws the great white shark through a window, where is seems to eat the girl in bed. So E-G gets a hand-up with her psycho behavior, and Luke would naturally be intimidated by her aggression.
And in a separate scene, E-G utters a line you would never hear a man use to get a laugh. After Luke is sort of reconciling with E-G, she says "I always knew you would come to your senses...that's why I didn't kill you."
Yeah, that sure is funny.
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