X2 *spoilers*

[Methinkus]

Project Wideawake? Tell me about this please, sounds interesting for some reason.

 

[Wormwood]

Project Wideawake? Tell me about this please, sounds interesting for some reason.

This is as good a place to start as any

 

[DerianCypher]

GREAT MOVIE!! I'd give it a 5/5. Overall I was thoroughly pleased. The special effects were fantastic, the characters were solid as well as the plot.

Most of all, they emphasized my favorite character (nightcrawler)

I remember hearing jubilee's name but I don't think I saw her.

She was in X1? Where?

DC

 

[EarthsShadow]

The whole Pheonix tie in was a complete surprise to me, I did not expect that at all. I loved Nightcrawler also, he was fun to watch. Also, I lost count after ten for the people Wolverine killed in the movie. It was awesome.

4/5 is what I would rate the movie. As cool as it was, its not as good as Spiderman.

X3...Pheonix Saga...I am surprised they are not going with Sentinels...but who knows, maybe they will, or maybe they will go with Apocalypse. He is somebody I would love to see in a X-Men movie.

 

[RangerWickett]

Hey, the guy who played Methos on Highlander was Stryker's lead bodyguard. Kind of a shame he was wasted on a flunky, since he's handled thousands-year-old characters before, even if he doesn't quite have the build for an Apocalypse.

I know there was one "gasp, I recognize that!" moment, but for the life of me, I can't recall what it was. I'm pretty sure it was one of one or two things that almost no one else in the audience reacted to, but it was something subtle and cool.

Oh, and c'mon, Kurt Wagner teleporting out of the jet to catch Rogue?! I mean, I saw it coming as soon as Rogue's seatbelt didn't buckle, but still, it was cool to watch.

My only real complaints revolve around the Professor X stuff.

a) We should've seen a bit more resistance on his part to Jason's illusions.

b) Does anyone else feel that "Professor X nearly kills the world" would be a hard act to follow? I mean, if they'd said he could kill individuals by concentrating, I could see it as being feasible, but it raised the stakes a bit too much as it was.

Everything else I loved. EEE, I squeal like a schoolgirl!

 

[Chun-tzu]

Could someone fill me in on what happened between (1) Bobby makes an iced latté for his mom, and (2) Jean, Storm, and Nightcrawler are on the Jet. About 5 minutes we missed, I think.

I don't think you missed that much.

Iceman's brother storms off to his room and calls 911 to report intruders in their house. His mom blames herself for Bobby's mutation, and Pyro says that the mutant gene is passed on through the males, so actually it's all her husband's fault. Later, his mom asks Bobby if he's ever tried NOT being a mutant.

On the Blackbird, Nightcrawler tells Storm about how humans feared him, but he didn't hate them. He pitied them, because they only knew what they could see with their eyes. Storm says that she gave up on pity a long time ago. Nightcrawler laments that one so beautiful shouldn't be so angry. Storm repies anger can help you survive, and Nightcrawler replies that so does faith.

Jean contacts Wolverine through the X-cell phone he found in Cyclops' car. Wolverine updates them on the attack on the mansion. The police arrive, and when Wolverine doesn't (can't) drop his claws, he gets shot. Pyro goes psycho, and starts throwing fireballs at the police (probably killing several), until Rogue touches him and knocks him out. She extinguished the flames, and Wolverine recovers from the gun shot. Then the X-Jet arrives.

 

[John Crichton]

I don't think you missed that much.

I thought that was one of the best scenes in the movie - Pyro going all Anakin on the cops...

Anyway, matter of opinion.

I have not read many (read: less than 10) Xmen comics and came in pretty blind to both movies as to the story arcs. That said, I enjoyed every second of this movie. I liked but had some cheese issues with the first movie. X2 blows it out of the water in every sense. Even though I was never a reader of the comics I thoroughly enjoyed all the little things (cameos, hints at other characters, etc) they added in there. I was so entertained that I now want to see the film again and then run a superhero rpg game. Xmen didn't do that for me neither did Spiderman or Daredevil.

X2 has quickly placed itself at number 2 all-time on my favorite comic book movies (right behind the original Superman). While the movie requires viewing of the first Xmen flick to really understand what is going on, I don't view that as a negative. That first one was just an appetizer to the meal that was X2, which I hope is just the first course of a feast.

 

[Silver Moon]

I thought that Jean's sacrifice to save the rest of the team was truly noble and a very original way to end the second movie. Why, if she hadn't quietly walked away from her teammates to go fix the problem at the cost of her own life the craft would never have been able to fly away in time before the Genesis device exploded. Now we can all look forward to "X:Men 3: The Search for Jean".

 

[Crothian]

Hey, the guy who played Methos on Highlander was Stryker's lead bodyguard. Kind of a shame he was wasted on a flunky, since he's handled thousands-year-old characters before, even if he doesn't quite have the build for an Apocalypse.

His name is Peter Wingfield. He's done small stuff here and there since Highlander the series ended. He was the bad guy a few weeeks back on John Doe for instance.

 

[Chun-tzu]

I thought that was one of the best scenes in the movie - Pyro going all Anakin on the cops...

Anyway, matter of opinion.

Oh, that scene definitely rocked. Orbital said the movie picked back up where Storm, Nightcrawler, and Jean were on the jet, so I couldn't tell if he'd seen Pyro freak out or not. But I included it because it was so cool.