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Today is going to be awesome. Wolverine hits the box office, and I already have my tickets. Oddly enough, I am actually going watch everyone in the film but the title character. Personally, as a complete and utter dork, I have loved the X-Men since I first started watching the show as a little kid. Then, as I got into comics, X-Men became a huge favorite of mine. How could you not love normal people who get super powers? Its the same reason I love heroes, you put yourself in the universe you are watching.
One of my favorite X-Men has always been Gambit. I loved the style, I loved the mannerisms, and I LOVED his powers. Despite wearing pink and purple, he was just a suave son of a bitch with a badass way to beat the living hell out of you. Obviously, since I could never live up to that, he was my guy. I liked Wolverine, but didnt love him the way my friends did. To them Wolvie was the man, to me he was just an overhyped fan favorite, the Derek Jeter of the X-Men.
As my love for the X-Men grew, people like Deadpool (another personal fave), Blob, Maverick (Agent Zero in the film), and Emma Frost became very familiar to me, and Sabretooth was a villian we all hated from the cartoon. Because of this, I am very excited to see how they are portrayed on screen, especially because I am a big fan of Liev Schrieber and Ryan Reynolds. Too bad Deadpool is getting the hack treatment, hopefully it wont be too bad. What's funny is that I have the entire Wolverine Origin story from when they did it a few years ago in the comics, and I really didnt like it all that much. Hopefully this movie will be much better. It looks that way.
Based on the Movie, Rittenhouse has put out their typical set of movie cards with autos. I am really digging the set, especially this ridiculous Gambit card signed by Taylor Kitsch. If you get it, I will pay you for it.
H/T Trader's cracks
Friday, May 1, 2009
Today, My Childhood Comes To Life - Version 4.0
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Saw it about two weeks ago. It's alright.... better than X:3 but that's about it.
ReplyDeleteI didnt think X3 was all that bad. From the people who have saw it, they said it was pretty good.
ReplyDeleteHow did you get lucky enough to get a ticket to the advanced screening?
Yeah right... I'm not that special. I just downloaded a Bit Torrent copy.
ReplyDeleteHaving seen all X-Men films, I'd say 3 was the weakest.
I dont think anyone would disagree with you on that.
ReplyDeleteYou might appreciate this. I haven't collected comic books in over a decade, but this was always the crown jewel of my collection. And the story behind how I acquired for free is even better.
ReplyDeletehttp://i39.tinypic.com/2rgnr0n.jpg
Quite impressive, I would be very interested in hearing that story.
ReplyDeleteMy crown jewels are ASM #14 - first green goblin from 1964, ASM 300 - first venom full (perfect condition), and of course X-men 266 - first gambit (perfect condition). I have ASM 121 and 122 as well, but those have gone down in value recently. I had a perfect copy of ASM 129, but I hate the punisher so much that I traded it for some of the other spideys I needed. Got like 600-700 bucks worth of stuff for it.
If the innarnets had been around when I collected comic books, I probably never would have stopped. These days, I can't even remember what I have, much less where it all actually is. I even lost my XMen #1 for several years. I thought I had accidentally thrown it away (I used to keep it in a stack of old Becketts) and then I was convinced it was stolen. I asked my mom about it a few weeks ago, and she said she just saw it when she was cleaning her house, and she had it in a stack of sewing magazines at her place. How it got there, I have no idea.
ReplyDeleteDebating as to whether or not I want to go see XMen today. Are there going to be a bunch of comic book weirdos and cosplay dipshits there?
Short answer yes, long answer, sort of.
ReplyDeleteDid your wife find a job yet?
ReplyDeleteI saw an afternoon matinee, wasnt bad, prolly tomorrow afternoon will be better to avoid the cosplay crew
ReplyDeleteSome times the cosplay crew can be quite entertaining. Their attention to detail usually outweighs their, well, physical traits.
ReplyDeleteDeadpool was neat.
ReplyDeleteI'm not massively into X-men so I had no problem watching the unfinished version, and I'd highly recommend you watch it after you go and check the real movie out.
Basically, there's large chunks of incomplete rendering. It's actually pretty freakin neat.
and it DEFINATLEY doesnt out weigh them......
ReplyDeleteGambit was always my favorite in the show as well. Didn't read the books too much, Batman comics were far and above my favorite. Still are, really.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous clearly is unemployed himself, or he wouldn't have nearly this much time to harass you. Really quite sad.
ReplyDeleteThis is like the Topps Letterman of comic movies.
ReplyDeleteOk, so the movie wasnt exactly at that level. I think it was good, but lacked two things, Gambit screen time, and Deadpool screen time. The rest was just filler to me, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous has a great job, a great house, a great car and a wife with a job!
ReplyDeleteGambit is a beast
ReplyDeleteHowever, Anonymous lacks any attention to detail. Anonymous has posted his incognito rants to both Gellman's and Holy Hitter's posts. His inability to muster even a basic understanding of nuance is baffling.
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