Last Weekend's Entertainment Roundup: Architecture, AIDS, Cars, Mutants, and Vampires

[rsadelle]

The Lake House
I loved The Lake House. It's romantic and magical and beautifully filmed.

Parting Glances
Many years ago, I watched and read my way through an awful lot of Mona Ramsey's recs. And many of them were not so good. But I liked Parting Glances, and I wanted to see it again. It's still pretty good, although the actual picture quality is

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[bubosquared]

Option 1: Reboot. Seriously. Just start all over. Pretend the first three movies never happened and make a new X-Men movie. You can keep Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, but everyone else has to go, especially Halle Berry.

Haven't seen X3 (or, that I remember, X2), but yes, totally. And stop making Bobby a stupdent, for god's sake, he's barely a few years younger than Scott! (I hate that in every single AU universe (movies, Ultimates), they make him a student. Give me mature!AU!Bobby, dammit!)

[allegram]

Uh-oh, if Ruth don't like Fast and Furious and X-men, those guys are doing something wrong! Hold out hope! Pirates 2 is a-coomin!

[dedalvs]

You wrote:

Unlike the rest of you, I knew this was bad from the start.

I got news for you: everyone knew this was going to be bad. Months before it came out, in fact. I remember when I saw the first commercial for it (or maybe it was a preview), I said, "Oh, a new X-Men!" My friend replied, "Not worth it; it's going to be terrible." I thought this was odd, and then I heard from another friend that it was going to be terrible. And then another. And another. Many of these people don't talk. The essential buzz about X-Men 3 for the past I don't know how many months has been that it's going to be bad. So those who say they knew X-Men 3 was going to be bad no longer get any street cred points in my Grand Street Cred Points Standings ledger.

So, why say this? Because I still want to see X-Men 3--especially now that I've heard about the Golden Gate Bridge moving. That should become Magneto's flying mount, like a pegasus. Just flies around the world on the Golden Gate Bridge. That would be "dope".

[rsadelle]

One of my friends said of the movie:Maybe an hour into X3, I thought "this isn't as lame as everyone was saying". And then about twenty minutes later I thought, "wait, yes it is!".