Dreams.

Happy Birthday to Spencah~! Sorrie I didnt get to write it on the actual day, blogger was being mean to me =P

Anyways!
The party turned out alright, after all that intense planning...
Special thanks goes to Keith for distractions, Felix for parental consent, Ruby for getting some people.
A job well done team! Though I will say this, I will NEVER again plan anything again, this is my last big event until something really important comes up, but I'm going to keep the numbers to a minimum. Sorrie for the turn out Spencah, there shoulda been a lot more people, but at least you got an idea of who cares enough about you to come =) I hope you were surprised, and happy that we got to do this for ya. Though I spent MUCH time with the organization, and biting off the ears of several people, I'm glad everything pulled through alright =) Damn last minute plannin' =P

Alright, onto the X-Men 2 Review!!!

Alright, my opinion of the movie, was the following:
It was a huge disapppointment.

~~~ WARNING ~~~

SPOILER!!!
IF YOU WISH TO KEEP THE PLOT TO X-MEN 2 A SECRET, DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION

~~~ SPOILER ~~~

So anyway, things I have to say that are good about the movie:

- Nightcrawler was relatively authentic, good job to the team for making him that.
- Nightcrawler's special effects were amazing! I was blown away everytime I saw him teleport!! I mean..WOAH!!
- Interesting idea putting 'too much iron' in the guard to Magneto's cell's blood Mystic! I'm proud of you with the clever thinking!
- Storm's costume was pretty
- Iceman was pretty 'cool', hahahah, no pun intented =P
- Pyro's display of power rung true, it was a nice way of showing it too. Also good job Rogue with the draining of his powers, smart move.
- SOME clever ideas with powers (listed above), you'll see what I mean in the bad section
- Magneto with the morphing of the metal ball into a tiny platter to float on was niceee.
- Magneto = Atom, lol
- Effects of the movie were outstanding. Nice job Jean with the blocking of all that stuff, though your powers do not permit you to do it generally. (I'm spilling over onto the bad section sorta)
- The line...Nightcrawler to Mystic: "I hear you can turn into people? And imitate their voices?" Mystic: "And imitate their voices" *in Nightcrawlers voice* heheheh
- Kelly Hu....o baby =P

Alright, enough talk about this bad section, here the monster is.

- NOT KEPT TRUE TO STORY LINE
This is a major piss off to those of us who know the TRUE story...and how they altered it...Main changes in characters really REALLY irritated me! I'll start with Storm, because my favourite character was BUTCHERED!!!

~Storm~
Changed her WHOLE attitude, made her seem like she was in a desperate fight for survival, when that is SO not true to her character. There was a line that she said something along the lines of "Sometimes anger helps you survive" and Nightcrawler is all like "All you need is faith" blah blah lbha god god god. Byt the thing is...Storm only has faith, faith in humans, faith in mutants. She is such a brave and honorable person, and here they make her look like an opportunist! One that does what she needs to survive. Though she did become a pick-pocket to survive when she was young, thats different. She does NOT become angry like that, she becomes CALMLY angry, so its SCARY when she's mad, but nooooooo...I learned soooo much from Storm from the TV show, and they completely ruined it. They also somehow toned down her powers, and control. When she is supposed to be one of the most powerful in the school, up there with Cyclops (who was cut out of the movie a lot). She flies EVERYWHERE, and can make other things fly, and can shoot lightning from her HANDS, opposed to from the air. They make her seem like SUCH a weakling, and make Jean out to be the complete hero with super powers! What the hell is that?! Onto my next character...Jean...

~Jean~
Though I believed that Jean's powers could be amazing, and she doesnt apply herself, here she does. Which is a complete change of her character, much like Storm. Jean develops a spine somewhere in this movie, where in the series, she had none. Julie may think she comes out with big saving things in the end, but I only see that when she is the Phoenix. Another thing, WHY IS SHE THE PHOENIX WITHOUT MEETING THE ALIENS?! Gawd!!!! She's cool, i'll admit, but COMMON!! Also, she got uglier with her short hair, I say grow it again for phoenix. Also...why is she so much more powerful and Storm sooooooo much less powerful? Storm could have saved them from the water. For gawd's sake, Storm controls the elements wind, water, and lightning, weather essentially! but fucking BLOW the water back, or make a wall to stop water with the wind! or blow the ship up in the skin and away. Sure it'd take a shiet load of her energy, but its better than Jean sacraficing herself! Grrrrrrr...They made Storm look STUPID, when she's a leader of the team.

~Wolverine~
Its always about Wolverine, thats just a piss off for me cause I enjoy the other characters more, or the TEAM unit, opposed to just Wolverine. Otherwise Hugh Jackman played a good role as him, just I dont like seeing too much of his character, I've never been one to like Wolverine. O ya, and Wolverine did NOT volunteer for the operation and wasnt a complete bad-ass before, though he was bad-ass, he wasnt BAD as Striker eluded to. He was captured by Canadians and then experimented on cause he was a mutant. He was just lucky that he could heal, and that's why he survived the experiment.

~Lady Deathstrike~
Alright, WHO MESSED WITH THIS STORY LINE?!?!?! There was absolutely NO reason to have her in the movie. They didnt even give her name!! They changed her claws, and gave her healing!? FIRST OF ALL, Lady Deathstrike, NOT A MUTANT. What is she you may ask? She is a human, bent on revenge for her father's death, as Wolverine killed her father (the scientist who gave him the adamantium skeleton), so she went and got HUGE claws (giant hands about 4 times the size of normal hands) made of adamantium to fight Wolverine. She was in love with Wolverine before, and they were supposed to be married before Wolverine moved away and got the claws. She NEVER could heal...where they got this from...I havent the foggiest.

Problems with Mystic, Rogue and Nightcrawler
Okay...storyline, Mystic is Rogue's foster mother, and Mystic is Nightcrawlers biological mother. This is the real story. YET...in the movie, Rogue doesnt know her, and therefore will never get to be evil, and therefore never gain the ability to fly and be super strong from Ms. Marvel. Also, Nightcrawler seemed ATTRACTED to his own mother...Though they may not go on with the right story line...this is FAIRLY disturbing...

So ya, this is my problem with the movie.
I give it 5 stars...out of 10, only because I like the actors, and the special effects...and didnt wana be too mean. I am saaddly disappointed...there were VERY few fight scenes, very little power-usage and a huge lacking in the proper character development. *sigh* My hopes were all high for no apparent reason...BUT, at least Matrix 2 looks AMAZING...I mean AMAZING...but previews are mis-leading...

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So ya, the movie wasnt that great...I'll still watch X-Men 3, for hopes of improvement, but...I'm sure my hope will be horribly shattered when the time comes.

So anyway, happy birthday to Spencah.

I advise you watch X2, though it may not be the greatest..Its X-Men, how can you not watch it? =)

Neways, time to sleep so I dont get killed at Wonderland, gotta show off the 'goods' for the many hot people there =)

Peace out~

posted by Bradimon @ 2:52 a.m.