May 26, 2006

Hollow Men

Posted by pete at May 26, 2006 7:58 AM

Back in the saddle again, after a somewhat self-imposed hiatus from reviewing. So here's my write-up of X-Men: The Last Stand.

Original blog content is so overrated.

Oh, Man! KP is the high point? I dislike her almost as much as Tom Hanks. AFAICT, she exists to make Dazzler feel good about herself.

--Posted by Michael on May 26, 2006 8:57 AM

You got through the whole review without once mentioning Sideshow Beast.

Was Grammer's performance that forgettable, or so painful you had to excise it from your mind?

--Posted by The Thing That Walks Like A Man on May 26, 2006 12:48 PM

Oh, Man! KP is the high point?

Of the new characters, yeah.

You got through the whole review without once mentioning Sideshow Beast.

I realized after sending it in I hadn't mentioned him, and it was mostly because I couldn't include Beast without making a Frasier/Sideshow Bob joke, so I just let it slide.

--Posted by Pete on May 26, 2006 1:53 PM

Oh no... he does something from the HMS Pinafore! I can't believe that the creative mind behind Money Talks let us down like this.

--Posted by norbizness on May 26, 2006 2:57 PM

There is a scene with a Sentinel? Sold.

--Posted by Grotesqueticle on May 27, 2006 7:02 AM

There is a scene with a Sentinel?

A sentinel's head, yes.

--Posted by Pete on May 27, 2006 3:30 PM

Meh. What a wholly unremarkable film. More than anything I'm just pissed off about the potential the last one set up for this one squandered so horribly.

--Posted by MikeD on May 27, 2006 5:21 PM

Boy, it sure was a busy film. Who needs story or characterization when there's so many explosions?

At least the Beast was a pleasant surprise.

(And love him or hate him, no one can deny that Cyke got jobbed--and off-panel, no less. Unforgivable.)

--Posted by The Thing That Walks Like A Man on May 27, 2006 7:42 PM

TTWLAM - Agreed! (The funny thing about the Cyclops situation is that I didn't get the feeling they spent a lot of time looking for him. During the movie, I kept having this recurring image of Cyclops stumbling around the lake not being able to see where he was going because his eyes were shut, and unable to open them because he didn't have his special glasses.) I also thought the situation with Rogue was BS.

--Posted by Seadogsinc on May 29, 2006 9:41 PM

Well, Rogue giving up her mojo wasn't too much out of character, given that she was one of those angsty mutants who always bemoaned her unsnuggly fate.

But there was so much else that was wrong--Angel's unseen transition from self-mutilation to wanting his feathers, Wolverine getting all weepy, Halle Berry being allowed to speak, etc.

--Posted by The Thing That Walks Like A Man on May 29, 2006 10:25 PM



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