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So, I bought the X3 DVD today with a store credit I had at K-Mart. I mean.. Dude. It's K-Mart, what else am I going to buy?
I never really re-watch DVDs all that often. The best dramas devastate me to the point that I can't watch them again unless I want to be lying around contemplating suicide for four or five days, and the comedies I re-watch, but rarely buy.
So, I mainly got X3 for the commentaries. First of, let me say, that Bret Ratner is a pretty big douchebag. Maybe it's a mix of not understanding his sense of humor mixed with his guest appearance on Entourage, but he pretty much spent the entire film patting himself on the back, except for that deleted scene where they made fun of Pyro's pants. Or that could've been one of those other guys. And those pants were pretty fugalicious, so whatever. That's not anyone's fault but Ratner's, since, as the director of the film, he can tell the costume designer that they're disgusting. Though, they weren't that disgusting. They sort of fit the character. I still have no idea how Stanford looked so wee in those boots, though. I guess everyone else had boots on, too. Except Rebecca Romjin, who is just.. Well. She's a supermodel, so. Yeah.
Oh, and apparently, according to the producers, Stanford didn't like it when people booed his death. It's okay, we didn't like it either. Though, you know in the books, Bobby carried him off the battlefield. I guess he took it seriously when John said, "Make a move." The "into my pants" must've been implied.
I'm not joking. That was one of the accidentally gayest scenes I've ever seen. Which doesn't bother me a bit so much as make me point and giggle.
Also, wasn't Pyro good-looking in the previous film? Not so much with the blond hair shot full of so much hair spray you can actually see the crystals formed.
But anyway, I hate how in commentaries, they never, ever, ever talk about what I want to hear. I want some Iceman and Pyro meta! I am interested in that relationship above all others. Because the cycle of parallel is so thick. X and Magneto, Scott and Logan, and Bobby and John. There's so much that could've been done with those characters. They could've actually shown empathy on both sides and sort of had some sort of third generation resolution, in a way. Actually, they could've used all the of characters more.
I guess that's sort of the complaint of everyone.. That the film wasn't as character-driven a the first two.. I don't know.. I just get sad thinking about what the film could've been. It's not even that the third one was bad so much as different, and it wasn't what anyone expected, but not in a way that was good.
All of the performances were good, and the special effects were awesome, but after all of the internal struggle in X2, you get this.. Where pretty much all of the internal struggle is off screen.
Except for that big struggle John had before blowing a bunch of innocent people up.. Oh! Wait a minute! There was no struggle! The mother fucker is a sociopath! Well, really.. Probably not. It can be written down to emphatic belief and daddy issues, probably, but the point remains, kids: John Allerdyce is not a nice guy. He would not think you were 'neat'. He would burn your hair for even thinking about him like that with your filthy human brain. Not to say he's you know, evil, or whatever, just.. Misguided. I'm sure Bobby can talk him round....
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I never really re-watch DVDs all that often. The best dramas devastate me to the point that I can't watch them again unless I want to be lying around contemplating suicide for four or five days, and the comedies I re-watch, but rarely buy.
So, I mainly got X3 for the commentaries. First of, let me say, that Bret Ratner is a pretty big douchebag. Maybe it's a mix of not understanding his sense of humor mixed with his guest appearance on Entourage, but he pretty much spent the entire film patting himself on the back, except for that deleted scene where they made fun of Pyro's pants. Or that could've been one of those other guys. And those pants were pretty fugalicious, so whatever. That's not anyone's fault but Ratner's, since, as the director of the film, he can tell the costume designer that they're disgusting. Though, they weren't that disgusting. They sort of fit the character. I still have no idea how Stanford looked so wee in those boots, though. I guess everyone else had boots on, too. Except Rebecca Romjin, who is just.. Well. She's a supermodel, so. Yeah.
Oh, and apparently, according to the producers, Stanford didn't like it when people booed his death. It's okay, we didn't like it either. Though, you know in the books, Bobby carried him off the battlefield. I guess he took it seriously when John said, "Make a move." The "into my pants" must've been implied.
I'm not joking. That was one of the accidentally gayest scenes I've ever seen. Which doesn't bother me a bit so much as make me point and giggle.
Also, wasn't Pyro good-looking in the previous film? Not so much with the blond hair shot full of so much hair spray you can actually see the crystals formed.
But anyway, I hate how in commentaries, they never, ever, ever talk about what I want to hear. I want some Iceman and Pyro meta! I am interested in that relationship above all others. Because the cycle of parallel is so thick. X and Magneto, Scott and Logan, and Bobby and John. There's so much that could've been done with those characters. They could've actually shown empathy on both sides and sort of had some sort of third generation resolution, in a way. Actually, they could've used all the of characters more.
I guess that's sort of the complaint of everyone.. That the film wasn't as character-driven a the first two.. I don't know.. I just get sad thinking about what the film could've been. It's not even that the third one was bad so much as different, and it wasn't what anyone expected, but not in a way that was good.
All of the performances were good, and the special effects were awesome, but after all of the internal struggle in X2, you get this.. Where pretty much all of the internal struggle is off screen.
Except for that big struggle John had before blowing a bunch of innocent people up.. Oh! Wait a minute! There was no struggle! The mother fucker is a sociopath! Well, really.. Probably not. It can be written down to emphatic belief and daddy issues, probably, but the point remains, kids: John Allerdyce is not a nice guy. He would not think you were 'neat'. He would burn your hair for even thinking about him like that with your filthy human brain. Not to say he's you know, evil, or whatever, just.. Misguided. I'm sure Bobby can talk him round....
XO
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