Tenzhi

I'm not sure there's any way in which X3 didn't fail. It admittedly may have failed so hard that anything I may have liked about 1 or 2 were blasted out of my mind.

I remember generally liking that, but it's been so long since I watched it that I couldn't specifically recall McAvoy in it.

The only thing I recognized him from on his wikipedia entry was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Mr. Tumnus, the faun). Even then, that doesn't give me to expect much from him in the role of Charles Xavier.

Indeed. Tim Drake is my favourite Robin. Not that I dislike Dick Grayson, but I like him better as Nightwing (preferably with the awesome big collar).

I don't consider character interactions to be aesthetics. I'm speaking of appearances, which are important for a franchise born from a largely visual medium. A single bad aesthetic choice can ruin an otherwise decent comic book movie for me if it's horrible enough - such as in the Spider-man movie. Not that things like the black motocross uniforms are on the same level as Go Go Goblin Ranger - they're merely minor irritations that compound with everything else I dislike about the X-movies.

But I'll say that judging from the trailers it looks like First Class may have done somewhat better in that regard, at least (too bad the story and character interactions in it look very Origins Wolverine-ish).

There wasn't a fun scene to be had with Rogue - some decent character developing moments in the first movie, but hardly "fun". And, as much as I like cameos, the assault on the X-Mansion wasn't really a step up in the fun department. It seemed like the closer the got to the end of the trilogy, the more desperate they were to throw as much in as they could.

Most of the fun that was to be had seemed to largely revolve around Wolverine's character. Which is too bad, given that Bobby and Kurt were both around at various points.

And in so choosing, they sapped all the fun out of the character and left us with the wet "Crying Bibleman" blanket. As I said before. I *know* Kurt is religious - even became a priest IIRC - but emphasizing that at the cost of fun-loving swashbuckler Kurt ruins the character. Cummings? did a good job with it, though - it was just a good performance of bad material.

And, yes, they did the same thing with Rogue - emphasize all her worst qualities. Rogue's saving grace in the comic, other than eye-candy, is that her auxilliary powers make her useful to have around. They took away those auxilliary powers (and the eye-candy, for that matter), and we were left with whiny I-want-to-be-touched-but-can't Rogue who can't do much but stand around being pathetic.

The missing aesthetics and whininess were present through all three of the movies. The more characters they added, the worse it seemed to get, culminating in the atrocity that is X3. Nightcrawler was one of the worst parts of X2. They sapped all the swashbuckling fun out of Kurt and left us with Crying Bibleman.

And on top of all that, I hated the plot with Mutant 143.

Indeed. I loved the Warrior-turned-Nurse's words to the Nurse-turned-Warrior.

Absolutely serious. There was very little to like about the X-Men movies. A few character performances here and there, but overall I'd almost rather watch the 1994 Fantastic Four movie again than rewatch the X-Men movies. They failed to capture any of the fun of the comics, whilst over-representing all the whiny mutant angst and missing much of the aesthetics. The slightly awkward moments with Portman's characer in Thor didn't bother me nearly as much as every moment of Rogue, most of Storm's performance, the horrible Nightcrawler, some of Jean Grey's screentime, Pyro's screentime, etc.

But, Thor was far better than X2.

Well, I haven't seen it to comment quite yet, but if I had I would presumably be foaming at the mouth about Omega.

It seemed pretty apparent that the real Amy was linked to the Flesh Amy. What with the visions of the eyepatch lady, the shared birthing pains, the Doctor tellng her to breathe and "Push, but only when she tells you to", and the Doctor mentioning he had to figure out how to sever the link.

It could even have happened before episode 1.

Creepy and scary are two different sensations. There's a difference between "Ew!" and "Aieeeee!".

I didn't notice that it ever got scary. When did that supposedly happen?

A herd is virtually an individual entity.

Can I choose to like you despite the fact that we often disagree, and because your grumpiness, obstinance, and stubborn-ness is often entertaining?

Indeed. And thus I couldn't just sit by and let those who are non-chalant about spoilers all get lumped into being 'pseudo-hipster dillweeds' without presenting another extreme side of the coin. Of course, I had a little fun at my own expense as well with the whole 'get off my dry and dusty lawn' crack.

Is it? I aways thought it was pronounced GUYman.