Excellent Flick

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2003)

jeez, its just a movie, and a good one at that, can we stop with the "they didn't make it just like the comic book"...i read the comic book for 20 years and thats a lot of back story to put in 90 minutes...and appeal to a wide audience...I think they did a great job...yes, the characters were different..but thats normal...that started with the first Superman show in the 50s...(he actually cannot fly, he can only LEAP...since he was just a more powerful human and we cannot fly....)..its called creative license... was i upset that Rogue is such a wuss now? Yes, of course, she rocks in the comics, always has from day one...they lost the Mystique/Nightcrawler/Rogue triangle that was so good and creepy...they made half the mutants teenagers and only give brief glimpses at the new mutants (aka X-force)...but thats all good, this was just a movie version...and man, 90 minutes of getting to see Mystique was worth it... Now, what would be excellent would be the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants coming out and playing...they would be kicking butt and taking names as they did in the books...but thats all good, right? I have to make a reply to a posting... "However I was disappointed, especially the at the end when Iceman could have easily solved the problem by freezing the water in the dam!!!"
actually, he could not have, that was a LOT of water and Bobby in this film is just a kid, so his powers would have been a lot weaker than in the comic books, and freezing all that water, and keeping it frozen would have been tough on him as an adult...rarely did Bobby freeze lakes and rivers and bursting dams...he would often freeze just the top layer as a means of getting across it...this would have been useless with that amount of pressure (although Superman could have done it, I think, or he would have turn the world backwards and so reversed time *grin* j/k) but then again, thats all from the comics...not the movie so they should have said that in the movie, about his powers.... loved the movie...but where was Stan Lee in this one??? Q