And now the last in this wave of X-Men-related posts - a ranking of the X-Men films ( Read more... )

Spoilers throughoutWith Dark Phoenix I find myself torn because I am not sure how much of my dislike of the film was it being bad, and how much of my dislike is how close it came to being better ( Read more... )

(which, it turns out, is not called X-Men: Age of Apocalypse)

Some spoilers below

Case for the prosecution: Am I part of the problem? Probably. That wonderful clip of the ancient Four Horsemen chanting En Sabat Nur's name at the end of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" got me over-excited. Nothing could have lived up to it ... except "X-Men: Days ( Read more... )

So some of the train companies still do the thing of naming their trains. Sometimes they have really cool names, like one of the West Coast travelling to the South West trains was named for Jason Leonard ( Read more... )

There's are many reasons why your friends would suggest you not watch a film ( Read more... )

Once again breaking with the format because, while there are three particular scenes I will focus on, mostly it's just going on about how good Beast is in X-Men 3 and how he's the only highlight of the film.

The case for the prosecution:

angstbunny was right when she said it was made by the Despair Squid. Sadly the best description of the multiple faults ( Read more... )

The case for the prosecution:Wolverine: Origins's main flaw is that it did not get its main character. They kept making him generic action hero, when he isn't. He's loner with a heart of gold (something which "Wolverine in Japan" understood, that and Wolverine + teenage girl in a non-romantic way = good story). He doesn't do big speeches, or big ( Read more... )

Well that didn't quite work.

And I'm not sure why. I'm also not sure why a film with an alleged running time of 2 1/2 hours feels like it's missing half its story. I think it could have done with 6 months extra work on the story and the script. It all feels a bit bland.

( Spoilers from here on in. )

This is the review that has used all of the exclamation marks ( Read more... )

I know a whole (actually quite long) post is a bit much for a 1 minute 33 clip, but there are reasons.

( First about the actual clip itself )