I saw the Oxford Murders last night. Don't think it's been released in the US yet. I enjoyed it, though I didn't think Elijah Wood was the best choice for the lead role.
I lost the little respect I had for him when he voiced Spyro in the relatively recent and most mediocre Spyro games. Just like how I lost all respect for Alexander Armstrong when he did a game show.
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Man, X-men 3 is a strange movie. It feels like "Cyclops dies, Professor dies, then Bridge battle for two hours".
I dunno.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
Man, X-men 3 is a strange movie. It feels like "Cyclops dies, Professor dies, then Bridge battle for two hours".
I dunno.
Professor X didn't actually die. The look of extreme concentration on his face during his 'death' was due to him transferring his consciousness into his brain-dead twin brother, who he showed to the class/had a moral discussion about earlier in the film. It shows the end result after the credits roll. Duh.
Also, fuck cyclops.
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Man, X-men 3 is a strange movie. It feels like "Cyclops dies, Professor dies, then Bridge battle for two hours".
I dunno.
That's because before Brett Ratner came on board, the bridge battle was meant to be in the middle of the movie and the climax was meant to be the mutant army marching on Washington. Ratner's response was "Oh but Magneto moving the bridge is the most spectactular special effect in the whole film; that has to be the climax! He essentially cut out the second half of the film and padded what was left to make it a 104 minute movie.
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
That's because before Brett Ratner came on board, the bridge battle was meant to be in the middle of the movie and the climax was meant to be the mutant army marching on Washington. Ratner's response was "Oh but Magneto moving the bridge is the most spectactular special effect in the whole film; that has to be the climax! He essentially cut out the second half of the film and padded what was left to make it a 104 minute movie.
Wait, seriously? That explains a lot.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
I remember seeing a special for X-men 3 on the Space Channel, once. They showcased the entire 'magneto moving the bridge' scene and I was like 'WOW! If that's all they show in the trailers I can just imagine what they're saving for the movie!'
Yes, I was very naive.
It just didn't flow, a good movie is supposed to steadily rise in awesomeness, but going straight to that then just petering out into "I love you but I must kill you" was ugh.
I still liked the Juggernaut.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
Pffft. Nightcrawler would kick Storm's lightning-burned arse. (Another Anglo-American spelling thing - 'Kiss my ass' or 'Kick your ass' looks better than 'Kiss my arse' or 'Kick your arse', but 'Can't be arsed' looks better than 'Can't be assed'. Probably 'cause the latter's a mainly British saying) I always thought Wolverine's 'Nooo' at the end was stupid, since when you go 'No' at someone's death, your'e implying that you can't belive it happened. But Wolverine just killed her with his own claws.
I saw the original Bill and Ted last night all the way through for the first time ever, it was fucking awesome and just what I needed to untense me after weeks of coursework and suchlike. Also...
Why is that so magical? It's gotta be one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a movie. It adds nothing to the plot or the characters but for no apparent reason it still affected me somehow D:.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
I don't recall any substance in that movie in the slightest.
Though in fairness I was about ten when I watched it.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
