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Ketchuplover
| Wednesday, April 09, 2003 - 6:50 pm
BAMF!!
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Neko
| Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 1:27 pm
How did I knoew it was you who started this thread?? I'm looking forward to this movie.. If not for the special effects, then for the cute guys..
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Crazydog
| Friday, April 11, 2003 - 7:33 am
I know they increased the role of Iceman - I think the plot involves the Mutant Registration Act and something happens to Iceman's parents. I've always liked this character in the comic books - he has cool powers. I also hope they enlarged the role of the lovely Halle Berry after her Oscar win. She had maybe 10 lines in the first movie and one of them was the very unfortunate "do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning". If there are future movies, I really would like to see Dazzler, Psylocke, Havok and Polaris.
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Squaredsc
| Friday, April 11, 2003 - 6:04 pm
i could do without halle as storm. storm is a fav and halle is messing up the character. i can't wait for the movie. i loved the cartoon. i wonder if they will eventually include spiderman in a movie. esp since spiderman, firestar, and iceman were in a toon together. wolverine also is a fav.
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Hermione69
| Friday, April 11, 2003 - 7:03 pm
one of my students has been counting down the days for this movie since the fall. he has shown me all the internet trailers and publicity pictures and has told me a good deal about the plot. sounds like a pretty cool movie. i liked the first one. wolverine is awesome.
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Ketchuplover
| Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 8:09 pm
Anybody else the special on Fox tonight? It was SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET They showed a lot of Nightcrawler. Awesome. Totally awesome. 5-2-03 cant get here soon enough
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Ketchuplover
| Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 2:59 pm
Tomorrow's the day YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Neko
| Friday, May 02, 2003 - 6:53 pm
Did anyone go see it today?? If I had had the money I would have, seeing I had the day off today and could have gone during the day with little chance of a crowd....
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Squaredsc
| Friday, May 02, 2003 - 7:12 pm
im watching the making of x2 on hbo, totally cool. btw, the screen is awfully wide here. im hoping to see the movie this weekend.
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Yankee_In_Ca
| Friday, May 02, 2003 - 7:47 pm
I'm going to see this tonight -- 9PM showing (PT). Bought tickets this morning and am leaving to line up for seats in a few minutes...
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Ketchuplover
| Friday, May 02, 2003 - 9:06 pm
I thought it was alright. Too many characters.
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Mssilhouette
| Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 9:42 am
I saw XMEN on thursday at a midnight show and it the seats were packed. First off if you know nothing about the comic book then most of the characters they show won't mean diddlysquat to you. This movie is for the comic book fans, who will recongize the quick gilmpses of their favorite characters and cheer. (At the midnight show most everyone did) On the news during a debate you'll see the name "Hank McCoy". This is to be BEAST later on. The guy who's skin turns to metal is COLOSSUS. The girl who, when the military guys invade the house and she sinks through the pillow is SHADOW CAT. Near the end of movie (like in the first one) we get to see a glimse of JUBLIEE. Now there are a lot of characters but some are just onscreen for a few minutes. The ones who are on longer than that are only about 5 or 6 more han last time. But some don't show their abilities until mid way through the movie. So it's never a free for all where everyone is using their abilities at the same time. In fact that never happens. It's always one person does their thing then maybe a 2nd. But each ability showing scene (unless they're fighting another mutant) is usally for one character only. Personally i thought the storyline this time was much better than the first one. And they FINALLY got hally berry a better white wig to wear and her role was bigger. In fact everyone's role was better for this movie. I think they are setting things up for the 3rd installment which should really top this one because. They have to...let me restaet HAVE TO bring in GAMBIT! That's the only main character that would add something to the franchise. Okay back to the movie itself, there are some very nice fight scenes with wolverine this time, they expand this character more. As well as the others. Well there's not much expansion done with CYCLOPS because he's really kinda just cardboardish like the first time. MYSTIQUE has some nice action moments as well as a funny ones. NIGHTCRAWLER character is true to form with a little extra thing about the tattoos. (And they really went to the extremes with the blue paint..his underarm hair was blue. LOL) There's a reason why JEAN GRAY eyes change and what happens at the end (I'm not gonna spoil it) But it does set up things for a GREAT 3rd movie if they at least use the comic book storylines as a guide. All that being said, I think it's a good movie well done, story was MUCH better than the first one! Enjoy! Now on to MATRIX RELOADED Woohoo!! another midnight showing for that one 
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Squaredsc
| Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 7:20 pm
well mssil im gonna spoil it, lol, my son spoiled it to me in the movies, so he thought. but im an avid xmen cartoon buff, except for the new xmen series, didn't like that. or maybe instead of spoiling it here, cause folks don't like that, just ask me in my folder and i shall tell. i have to say this is one of the best comic book movies ive ever seen. the theatre was packed and we had to sit in the 2nd row. i loved everyone. and there was also lady deathstrike, i think that's her name, pyro, and iceman. oh i also didn't like how in the 1st x they have rogue being a teenager. does this mean remy/gambit is gonna be a teenager too? seeing movies like these makes me wish i had special powers too. <sigh>
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Weenerlobo
| Monday, May 05, 2003 - 11:03 am
We saw this movie on Friday nite and I really loved it. I'm more of a newbie to X-men (used to watch the cartoon, didn't read the comic books). I can't wait to see it again. Some things move so fast, that I want to see them a couple more times. I wish Gambit was already in these movies. I love him. Beast is also one of my favorites and I really wish that he was already in these movies too. I was surprised that they paved the way for Jean Gray so early. I thought it took a lot longer in the storyline for that whole thing to happen. In any event, Hugh Jackman should always wear them Wolverine Mutton Chops!
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Calamity
| Monday, May 05, 2003 - 1:46 pm
We saw this Saturday night and I really enjoyed it even though I don't know much about X-Men. It's one of the rare sequels that improves on the original, imho. I thought the first film was too slow and ponderous. 'X2' had a better mixture of action, humor, and suspense, plus the movie's "message" wasn't so heavy-handed this time around - which actually made it all the more effective (it's also helped out by the current political climate in the US). Don't want to slip any spoilers in here accidently - um, the movie is a little long but hard to say what they could cut out. My favorites were Nightcrawler, Storm, and Mystique. Oh, and it was showing on four screens where we went and our 7:15pm show wasn't quite half full. I know someone who saw it at the same time Friday and they said there was maybe fifty people there. I was happy not to packed in with a huge crowd (there were many more at 'Holes' when I saw it) but sometimes I think the cinemas & movie studios go for overkill and show these blockbusters on too many screens.
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Gail
| Monday, May 05, 2003 - 10:05 pm
I saw X2 last night and loved it!! I loved all the characters and I thought the special effects were great. I have actually never read the comics but I did see the first X Men movie so I had some idea what was going on. Hugh Jackman . . . he just gets finer looking all the time.
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Mssilhouette
| Friday, May 09, 2003 - 12:50 pm
Weenerlobo, Beast was in X2..for a quick second but not in his mutant form ..See my previous post for details
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Squaredsc
| Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 11:26 am
dr hank mccoy is the beats real name i think. yep he was in human form.
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Weenerlobo
| Monday, May 12, 2003 - 6:41 am
MsSilhouette and Square, yep I noticed Dr. McCoy being interviewed, but that's not enough for me. I wanna see Beast in all his Blue Be-Spectacled Glory! lol
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Crazydog
| Monday, May 12, 2003 - 10:01 am
Finally saw it last Saturday, and I really enjoyed it. Of course things will be a little different from the comic book, but overall it was a great adaptation. I could have done without the character of Pyro, though. I thought he was a brat. WARNING - SPOILERS SORT OF Love what happened to Jean at the end. Although it really doesn't make all that much sense. I know they want to set the stage for her transformation, but I don't understand why she couldn't do what she did from the safety of the plane. Or better yet, why not use her telekinetic abilities to levitate above all the water? In the comic book, she becomes the Phoenix because there was no other choice - she was the only one who could pilot the spacecraft through the cosmic radiation.
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Squaredsc
| Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 7:30 pm
and possibly she was the only one to stop the water. either way it took great strength of will which brings about the change. the question is will she be evil or good?
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Fabnsab
| Friday, May 16, 2003 - 6:49 am
My question was...why didn't the kid who freezes things just freeze the water?
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Crazydog
| Friday, May 16, 2003 - 8:10 am
WARNING SPOILERS Fabnsab, I've thought about that. The Iceman of the movies is nowhere near as powerful as the Iceman of today's comic books. He's still a kid, and there's no way he would have been able to freeze all that water. Certainly, Storm could have done something (wind, extreme cold) as well. I also think that Jean, or the Phoenix Force, was preventing others from helping out. I thought Nightcrawler or somebody tried to do something and said "she's not letting me". I've done some more thinking about that scene. At first I thought, why couldn't Jean have just stayed in the plane, but I think her energies were affecting all electronics. There was a scene where she was near some computer monitors and they were all wigging out. But I still don't see why she couldn't have telekinetically lifted the plane to safety. I am surprised that X3 is going to focus on the Phoenix, I had thought that it was going to explore Wolverine's origins. Actually, I thought X2 was supposed to be about Wolverine. A Phoenix story would be great, I think we are going to see the whole arc as adapted for the movies. She is going to start out as good, then she is going to lose control, go crazy, and turn evil. She will probably join up with Magneto, Mystique, Pyro and whatever new villain they introduce. Then she might die, again. Depends on how long they think this franchise can be continued successfully. I'd love for them to make many many more.
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Wargod
| Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 1:14 pm
We saw this one last night. For those who don't know, I rarely see movies when they first come out and wait til they hit the discount theater because I'm cheap, LOL. I loved it. Hubby loved it. The 2 year old sitting across the row from us hated it and wouldn't be quiet.
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Crazydog
| Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 4:25 pm
Someone brought a two year old to see the X-Men? The kid probably wouldn't shut up because he had no idea what was going on. It's also a bit violent. Sometimes I am amazed at what some parents will do to save babysitting money. Children under the age of three have no business being in theaters except for animated movies.
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Jagger
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 11:05 am
I just watched this movie on DVD over the weekend, I never saw any of the comic books so I may have missed things, but I thought the movie was great. It was full of action, there were a lot of characters, but you could follow most of their story lines with out getting confused. I thought the 2nd movie was much better than the first. Can't wait for more x-men movies.
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