X2 *spoilers*

[Bagpuss]

I think he was refering to Toad and Sabertooth dispatching the guards on liberty island. Not their defeats, which definately left room for them to return if need be.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

I think he was refering to Toad and Sabertooth dispatching the guards on liberty island. Not their defeats, which definately left room for them to return if need be.

D'oh!

 

[Dr Midnight]

Man, what a damn movie. Loved it. I'm not even an X-Men fan, and I was giddy. Terrific!

Nightcrawler was freakin' incredible to watch, and I loved Storm's development. I greatly enjoyed seeing Scott vs. Jean and Pyro's darkening.

Magneto and Mystique were just fantastic. Magneto's escape is now one of my favorite on-screen escapes, just behind Shawshank and Silence of the Lambs. Those iron balls smashing back and forth as he walked along was maybe my favorite visual of the whole damn film. A close second would be Nightcrawler's Rogue rescue.

The end scene was very well done. I was very very well-teased. Ahh, I need sentinels and Juggernaut, dammit!

I now rate this movie, as a comic movie, just behind Superman, my number 1. By all rights Otis should push Superman behind X2... X2 really is the better product as a consistent whole, but Reeves' Supes is just too perfect... So I give this a biased 2nd place.

For anyone who will want to post "why bother ranking good movies?", it's a geek habit. We organize our beloved.

Oh, to live in such an age, when comic book movies are being made regularly, and a good number of them are very very good. Long live Avi Arad and Saint Stan. Here's to THE HULK's being in the same ballpark...

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

On another note...did anyone happen to catch Stan Lee? Or was he not in this one?

 

[the Jester]

Fantastic.

I noticed a lot of the little references, but missed enough that I'll definitely have to watch for them next time...

 

[Wormwood]

Quick notes:

1. I loved Nightcrawler's German accent. Perfect.

2. I *really* loved the absence of Halle Berry's ridiculous African accent.

That is all.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Quick notes:

1. I loved Nightcrawler's German accent. Perfect.

Hehe. His German accent was pretty good in Cabaret as well. Any opinions on his Russian accent in Goldeneye?

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Hehe. His German accent was pretty good in Cabaret as well. Any opinions on his Russian accent in Goldeneye?

"I'm invincible!"

Well, I don't know how accurate it was, but at least it was consistant, and his character was a hoot in Goldeneye.

 

[Chun-tzu]

On another note...did anyone happen to catch Stan Lee? Or was he not in this one?

I'm pretty sure he wasn't in it, at all. I read an article about that, a while ago (how X2 would be the first Marvel movie he wasn't in). But he still plans on making cameos in each franchise, e.g. in the Hulk movie but not necessarily the next Spidey.

About the kid with glasses, I don't think he was Cypher. I'm not convinced he's a character from the comics at all. They needed a kid who doesn't sleep, so they made one.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

For the kid with glasses who was changing the channels with blinking... I'm thinking back to X-Factor to either just before or just after the Mutant Masacre. There was a villain that could control various frequencies and such. In theory the kid could be a vague form of this guy. Can't remember much more than that due to it having been many moons since I read it and don't know where it is in massive comics collection.