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...and #9 on the comic book movies list.
Historical stuff always interests me and this is an extremely well-done site. Check out FirstWorldWar.com. It features a lot of fascinating bios as well as propaganda posters and articles about the lives of soldiers during the war. On to the list:
#9--X-Men (2000)
To paraphrase Jim and Casey, it didn't suck. Actually, it was a fairly good adaptation of what many thought would be an extremely difficult subject to get right. The strong point was in the casting. Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Rebecca Romjin as Mystique, and the guy who tore the roof off (literally and figuratively) Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto. Great actors, pretty good story, and Jackman smart-assing his way through the story combine to make this worthy of inclusion in the top ten.
Memorable Quote:
Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it and come for you? And your children?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: It does indeed.
Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor fool who comes to that school... looking for trouble.
Today's musical selection:
Aerosmith--Walk This Way
Historical stuff always interests me and this is an extremely well-done site. Check out FirstWorldWar.com. It features a lot of fascinating bios as well as propaganda posters and articles about the lives of soldiers during the war. On to the list:
#9--X-Men (2000)
To paraphrase Jim and Casey, it didn't suck. Actually, it was a fairly good adaptation of what many thought would be an extremely difficult subject to get right. The strong point was in the casting. Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Rebecca Romjin as Mystique, and the guy who tore the roof off (literally and figuratively) Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto. Great actors, pretty good story, and Jackman smart-assing his way through the story combine to make this worthy of inclusion in the top ten.
Memorable Quote:
Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it and come for you? And your children?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: It does indeed.
Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor fool who comes to that school... looking for trouble.
Today's musical selection:
Aerosmith--Walk This Way
posted by Jedi Master at
11:03 AM
1 Comments:
I approve of your choices, although I may have to bump Blade up higher. It really benefited from having such a low profile source comic, as opposed to X-Men, where everyone was ready to pick it apart.
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