The Cliff Notes for X-Men: The Last Stand say only, "Everyone you love gets hurt."
Last night I found myself accidentally watching X-Men: The Last Stand. I was sucked in by Kitty and got all excited when Magneto appears to the mutant town council meeting and was about to settle down to watch when I realized abruptly that I simply could not watch what happens next after Magneto finds the black caravan of mutant prisoners. So much of this movie broke my heart - Scott's death, Magneto's abandonment of Mystique, her betrayal of him (and that they don't explain whether or not it was a ruse and not actually a betrayal), the fact that Rogue takes the cure, the end where Dark Phoenix is just a sulking shadow. There's not just one reason I don't want to watch it again, there are many, and even though it makes me sad, I remember why I had done my best to forget that movie exists, whether or not it's randomly playing on FX on a Sunday night.
On to better movies. I'm saving reading everyone's reviews of Star Trek until after I manage to write my own, but it's possibly all for naught because it's looking like my "review" is going to be an essay about all the ways Star Trek: The Reboot draws specifically from the source text of Wrath of Khan. It's going to be a very loving and flaily essay, accordingly.
And speaking of source text, would any of you pre-reboot fans be interested in getting together and writing a Cliff Notes version of TOS and the movies? I'm sure it would be helpful for new fans reading old fic and for anyone writing new fic. If you're interested, leave me a comment and I could make a community, or at least a master post. I feel qualified to write the Cliff Notes version of Wrath of Khan (no surprises there), and maybe Search for Spock, but not so much TOS or all the other movies, at least, not without some epic re-watching.
On to better movies. I'm saving reading everyone's reviews of Star Trek until after I manage to write my own, but it's possibly all for naught because it's looking like my "review" is going to be an essay about all the ways Star Trek: The Reboot draws specifically from the source text of Wrath of Khan. It's going to be a very loving and flaily essay, accordingly.
And speaking of source text, would any of you pre-reboot fans be interested in getting together and writing a Cliff Notes version of TOS and the movies? I'm sure it would be helpful for new fans reading old fic and for anyone writing new fic. If you're interested, leave me a comment and I could make a community, or at least a master post. I feel qualified to write the Cliff Notes version of Wrath of Khan (no surprises there), and maybe Search for Spock, but not so much TOS or all the other movies, at least, not without some epic re-watching.