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My grandfather cut down a tree today. It was growing on the side of his house in a narrow patch of dirt between his house and the fence separating his yard from the neighbor's. He said he didn't like how the tree's berries would stain his neighbor's driveway. I have no idea if the neighbor has ever complained about the berries.
He cuts it down in sections and I haul them away then he pesters me to clean out the gutters. I was not in the mood to do so, but he kept nagging, so i caved in so he would shut up. I don't often write about living with my grandfather, but I am sure you can guess how I feel.
I am a 33 year old man who lives with his 95 year old grandfather because I have no other place to go due to poor choices early in my adult life. How would you feel in such a situation?
Saw X-Men 4 Saturday night and will try to write a review soon. Overall, I enjoyed it much more than I expected. There were many questions left unanswered about the First Class team, and there could have been a much better job done to connect First Class to the other movies, but the story was decent and worth seeing unfold. My main complaint is the story was not much of one in its own merit. Days of Future Past only exists to bridge a gap between Bryan Singer's first two X-Men movies and his next one, "Apocalypse".
The story deserved more care than Singer gave it and that's pretty much his MO. He only cares about his own agenda and beliefs and has no true affinity for telling compelling and comprehensive narratives that stand on their own feet without crutches or tie-ins. And that's disappointing to me.
But again, it's a mostly enjoyable movie, if you liked the previous X-Men movies. if you did not, you will hate this one, too. if you have never seen the other movies, you can still watch this one and not be confused. Some scenes won't have any impact, but the story will make sense and you should still be able to relate to the characters.
The actors did a great job and there is some fun in the film despite it's overly dark tone, another qualm I have with Singer. He goes out of his way to make the X-Men movies brooding and depressing and it really sucks.
Anyway, the special effects are great, Michael Fassbender is super sexy and wears the fuck out of a real fedora, the Sentinels were super cool, and the ending was heartwarming. Quicksilver was probably the best part of the movie. The actor did a near perfect job of translating Pietro's smugness to the screen.
Bad=overly dark tone, no introduction of Future Past team, poor explanation of missing First Class team, Jennifer Lawrence just isn't believable as Mystique, and Magneto's costume. Seriously, Singer fucked it up again. The costume Matthew Vaughn gave Magneto at the end of First Class was PERFECT. it looked amazing and not corny at all. But in this movie, Singer just had to use his own brand of "realism" and combined the First Class costume with his own from the first X-Men movie and it looked silly.
But anyway.
I just read of "House of M" and it was pretty good. A much better story than Civil War. It had substance and heart and made me care about the characters. The dialogue was interesting and not too melodramatic. That's all I really ask from superhero comics and rarely get it.
I bought one month of the Marvel Unlimited app and have been loving it. It gives you access to the majority of Marvel's back catalog and recent issues within the past six months. I originally only bought it to read Age of Ultron and Infinity, and to catch up on 90's comics since I stopped reading in 1995, but I have decided to go back to 2000 and read the major event story arcs from then forward.
I am having so much fun that I am also going to give some of the tie-in comics a chance, too. Don't know if I will buy an annual subscription, $70, but it's possible. I am going to read a few issues of the X-Men family of comics written after House of M and see how I like the writing. If it keeps me intrigued, is not gag worthy, I will keep reading, if not, I will skip ahead to Civil War.
He cuts it down in sections and I haul them away then he pesters me to clean out the gutters. I was not in the mood to do so, but he kept nagging, so i caved in so he would shut up. I don't often write about living with my grandfather, but I am sure you can guess how I feel.
I am a 33 year old man who lives with his 95 year old grandfather because I have no other place to go due to poor choices early in my adult life. How would you feel in such a situation?
Saw X-Men 4 Saturday night and will try to write a review soon. Overall, I enjoyed it much more than I expected. There were many questions left unanswered about the First Class team, and there could have been a much better job done to connect First Class to the other movies, but the story was decent and worth seeing unfold. My main complaint is the story was not much of one in its own merit. Days of Future Past only exists to bridge a gap between Bryan Singer's first two X-Men movies and his next one, "Apocalypse".
The story deserved more care than Singer gave it and that's pretty much his MO. He only cares about his own agenda and beliefs and has no true affinity for telling compelling and comprehensive narratives that stand on their own feet without crutches or tie-ins. And that's disappointing to me.
But again, it's a mostly enjoyable movie, if you liked the previous X-Men movies. if you did not, you will hate this one, too. if you have never seen the other movies, you can still watch this one and not be confused. Some scenes won't have any impact, but the story will make sense and you should still be able to relate to the characters.
The actors did a great job and there is some fun in the film despite it's overly dark tone, another qualm I have with Singer. He goes out of his way to make the X-Men movies brooding and depressing and it really sucks.
Anyway, the special effects are great, Michael Fassbender is super sexy and wears the fuck out of a real fedora, the Sentinels were super cool, and the ending was heartwarming. Quicksilver was probably the best part of the movie. The actor did a near perfect job of translating Pietro's smugness to the screen.
Bad=overly dark tone, no introduction of Future Past team, poor explanation of missing First Class team, Jennifer Lawrence just isn't believable as Mystique, and Magneto's costume. Seriously, Singer fucked it up again. The costume Matthew Vaughn gave Magneto at the end of First Class was PERFECT. it looked amazing and not corny at all. But in this movie, Singer just had to use his own brand of "realism" and combined the First Class costume with his own from the first X-Men movie and it looked silly.
But anyway.
I just read of "House of M" and it was pretty good. A much better story than Civil War. It had substance and heart and made me care about the characters. The dialogue was interesting and not too melodramatic. That's all I really ask from superhero comics and rarely get it.
I bought one month of the Marvel Unlimited app and have been loving it. It gives you access to the majority of Marvel's back catalog and recent issues within the past six months. I originally only bought it to read Age of Ultron and Infinity, and to catch up on 90's comics since I stopped reading in 1995, but I have decided to go back to 2000 and read the major event story arcs from then forward.
I am having so much fun that I am also going to give some of the tie-in comics a chance, too. Don't know if I will buy an annual subscription, $70, but it's possible. I am going to read a few issues of the X-Men family of comics written after House of M and see how I like the writing. If it keeps me intrigued, is not gag worthy, I will keep reading, if not, I will skip ahead to Civil War.