Just got back from seeing X2. Very good movie, though I think they relied too much on the music to push on your emotional buttons in intense scenes. At least it wasn't that annoying electric guitar stuff like in Con Air and half the movies Mark Mancina scored ;-)
Anyway, you get to see a lot of people rip it up in X2, which is pretty entertaining. It was a heavier body count than I was expecting, though, and I got a little disturbed when audience members started laughing at some points where people died..
Still, a good movie, though you probably need to see it with someone who knows a fair bit about the X-Men saga to understand some of the things that happen (especially the little bit at the end).
On a lighter note, I'm very excited to see Finding Nemo when it comes out. Pixar totally rocks. It was also cool to see The Matrix Reloaded trailer on the big screen, but I could tell that the projector was cutting off a bit on the edges of the picture.
I watched the trailer so many times while playing with encoders that I saw some bits were missing. Most of the time it didn't matter, but there were some bits where something important got cropped out. I think this also happened in X2 a bit. In one scene where Mystique is in close quarters with Wolverine and frequently changing form it was impossible to see the hair she had, so you couldn't really tell who she was pretending to be.
Well, at least I only paid the student discount price ;-)
Posted by mike at May 3, 2003 01:36 AM | Movies | TrackBack