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I wrote a thoughtful, if unpopular, review of X-Men 2 years ago. I'm still getting hate mail from narrow-minded idiots. Here's some more.
Note: X-Men image taken from here.
From: XvxSweetsxvX
Subject: Subject matter reguarding X-men 2 is X- Stupid article
Dear Adamo el Guapo,
You are a stupid moron! You obviously have not read nor watched X-Men. Here is a list of things that you fucked up on:
1. You are not smart enough to spell any of the characters or actors names right, such as Mystique, Pyro which is from X-Men not Fantastic Four (That character is The Human Torch), Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine and not Hugh Jackson, Kelly Hu plays Lady Deathstrike not Lacy Lui, and Lady Deathstrike was an arch nemesis of Wolverine, oh and Pierce Brosnan does not play the president, he is not even in this movie!!!!
2. Night Crawler is not French, he is GERMAN! He speaks German throughout the movie. Gambit, is also not French, he is Creole, which means he comes from New Orleans in case you didn't remember because you are retarded!
3. Jean Grey does not ever evolve into Firestar! She is The Phoenix! If you ever read the comics then you would know all about the Phoenix Force!!!
4. Wolverine or any of the other X-Men do not wind up in Alaska!!!! They are in Canada at Alkali Lake where Stryker not Stryder created Wolverine's adamantium skeleton. Just in case you thought it was steel in his bones.
5. The guard in Magneto's cell never once had a gun. He was injected with iron in his ass by Mystique after getting him drunk and slipping him a roofie. Magneto can control metals so he absobed the iron from the guards blood. Magneto then turned the iron from his blood into three iron balls and broke out of the plastic cell he was in.
6. Professor Charles Xavier can not control time! He is a psychic mutant who also has telekinetic powers.
7. The Game Room you were talking about is called Cerebro, that's where Professor Xavier can channel other mutants and humans. If you meant the danger room, that is a training facility for the X-Men.
There are so many more things that I could correct in your article but I believe that I have wasted enough time on your pathetic sack of human waste.
Respectfully Submitted,
Ashley
From: mthecarpenter
Subject: your X2 review
Okay I know you've probably been flamed over and over again by xmen fans for this review, and I don't flame (don't see the point really) But I would as a strong xmen fan for years like to correct your review.
X-Men 2 is X-STUPID!
by Adamo el Guapo
There are so many things wrong with this movie, it's almost impossible to know where to start. Likewise, this misguided sequel also doesn't know where to start. It begins with Wolverine inexplicably hanging out in Alaska or something, and for no reason as he's suddenly back at X-Men Mansion.
First off he's in Canada (any Wolverine fan knows he's from canada and that’s where they took him to do the weapon x experiments)
It goes downhill from there.
The thin plot soon reveals that mutants will soon be attacking the President (Pierce Brosnan), and his aide Colonel Stryder wants to protect him by killing all the mutants. Stryder comes up with a plan to kidnap and brainwash Dr. Xavier, and to use his powers of stopping time and finding mutants to kill the mutant race. Got it so far? Cuz there's more.
.Okay I've watched both the x-men movies and in neither of them does it have a cameo by Pierce Brosnan! (unless you were being sarcastic in which case you should be more clear) And DR?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Xavier? Would you believe professor Xavier? But okay I can let that one slide a little even though it's said I don't know how many times in the movies by others calling him "The Professor"
Meanwhile, Magneto (who is Mag-Neat-O!) escapes from his plastic prison by moving around these bullets that he steals from a guard. (Dude, why did the guard have bullets to begin with? He didn't have anything to shoot them with...). Magneto, along with his blue sidekick babe Mystyke, trick the X-Men into think they're on THEIR side and they all go to that Alaskan place to kick some ass.
. 1) The guard was Mystique, 2) those "plastic bullets" were ball bearings that she smugled in so he could use them. and 3) It's CANADA not Alaska
There's more. (Yes, this movie has no direction, but is scattered all over the place). Some of the X-Men meet a new blue mutant named Nightcrawler who can travel through dimensions (which is VERY cool - excellent special effects!). Nightcrawler is probably my favorite character and almost redeemed the film, but they screwed up and made him French. (It was GAMBIT who was French, idiots!). Nightcrawler was extremely cool in the movie, though his character ends up not
doing much. Very underused.
. Actually he can teleport but meh close enough. Nightcrawler is not French in the comics nor in the movie, he's Sweedish. And yes I agree VERY unused character, wish they had done more with him.
Back to the story. Many more unnecessary tangents happen, like Jean Gray cheating on Cyclops with Wolverine, Ice Man trying to figure out how to pump Rogue with an icicle without killing her, Pyro Man figuring out how to tell his parents he's a mutant, and Wolverine discovering that he was created in some lab by Stryder.
Besides way too many cluttered and unresolved themes in the movie, it was also EXTREMELY disloyal to the comics. Here are just SOME of the things I noticed, that made me realize the director cared more about his stylistic storytelling than about the integrity of the original comic books.
1) Sabertooth. I'm sorry, but I don't remember Sabertooth being a hot, busty Asian chick. In the movie, they have Wolvy's arch-nemesis be Lucy Lui with boob implants. What, they couldn't afford to put Vin Diesel in a fur coat?
. Not once in the movie do they make reference to "Lady Deathstrike" as Sabertooth so I'm lost on where you got this from! But there was something about the Lady Deathstrike character that I thought sucked........what happend to the whole connection between her and Logan? In the comics she was Wolverine's true love Yuriko (sorry bad spelling I know...she name always was hard to spell)
2) No Beast. The Beast was an original X-Men, who was also in just about every single issue of the comic. Why was he not in the movie? Too many blue characters or something?
. Well when you wrote this the third movie wasn't even close to being out yet but now I got good news.........Beast aka Hank Mccoy is in the third and final movie! YAY! I can't wait to see him!
3) Jean Gray. They hinted throughout the movie that Jean Gray is really Firestar (you would know what I mean if you read the comics), but at the end she dies without evolving! (Sorry for the spoiler.) What gives? The whole theater was like, "Oh shit, she's going to turn into Firestar now!" and you could hear the collective groan of disappointment when it didn't happen.
. yeah but the xmen need to she's dead cause in the comics she dies in space and then the Phoenix resurects her and she becomes Phoenix (not
Firestar....thats a different character in the X Force)
4) Nightcrawler. Like I said, he's not French in the comics, and he doesn't have all those weird tattoos on him. I also don't remember him being all religious (though it has been awhile since I read the comics). Wasn't it Archangel who's religious? I mean, it's not a big deal, but I'm sure it irritated many hardcore X-Man fans like myself.
. No they had it right Nightcrawler was very religious.
5) Ice Man. Okay, this was just a cheap way to get out of paying for more effects. Ice Man has to first TURN INTO ICE MAN before he can create ice! They have some Gap kid shooting frost everywhere and he's not even all ice, or riding his ice slide. Why they didn't put in the ice slide, Ice Man's mode of transportation, was obviously about money. Or maybe they just wanted to destroy the integrity of the comic even more.
. Yeah I gotta agree with you there I'm not crazy about some kid from a gap add playing IceMan but I'm pretty sure in the comics he didn't need to cover his body in ice to use his powers.
6) Pyro Man. Now, I also remember that Pyro Man has to be totally flame in order to use his flame powers, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized -- PYRO MAN WASN'T EVEN IN THE X-MEN! He's from the Fantastic Four! WHAT THE FUCK! That is SO LAME. To make matters worse, they hint at the end that he's evil. Stan Lee, creator of the Fantastic Four, is rolling in his grave.
. Your thinking of the human torch, Pyro was in the xmen comics but he's not some punk with a bad case of the "hey mom watch this's" And he is evil and WTF do you mean Stan Lee rolling in his grave????? Stan Lee is still alive and he's even made cameo's in every one of the marvel movies so far to prove that!
7) Game Room. They turned the Game Room into this really cheesy
observatory-type room where Dr. X puts on a helmet and can contact other mutants. Again, this is a fabricated thing by the director, used solely to move the film along. Weak, man.
. *feels sick* ooooooh easy stomach! game........room GAME ROOM? The great computer program cerebro has been reduced to a game room? what is the world coming too? Okay I'll give it to you that in the comics cerebro wasn't some giant room. It was a super computer built by Xavier and Magneto before they started playing leader to their own sides! I think you mean the "WAR room" and yes I hope they have that in the third movie!
8) Toad. Everyone's favorite villain from the first movie doesn't even make a cameo here. It's as if he never even existed. BAD continuity in storytelling. There are other sloppy mistakes, but I don't want to sound like too much of a comic dork.
. Toad sucked in the comics and even worse in the movie.......and I'm glad they killed him off! But that my own opinion lol. To each is own!
But I wanted to get across that this movie was not only boring and confusing, but factually incorrect. There were some good things, however. As I said, Nightcrawler (even with his silly accent) was very cool, and Mystyke is HOT! And Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackson) is exactly how you'd picture him, and he (deservedly) carries the picture. Dr. X (Patrick Stewart) is also convincing as the handicapped old man who can stop time, and the guy who plays Cyclops does a great Tom Cruise impression. I probably will see the third in the series, and hopefully it'll be a bit more loyal to the original storylines. I would also love to see some new faces in there, like Juggernut, the Sentiniels, and Bishop. And if Halle Berry is going to come back as Storm, she better get buck naked this time!
. I agree totaly with that last statement, how many times in the comics does storm get naked and halle berry is covered up all the time? comon man thats just unfair out right INJUSTICE I SAY! Maybe we should patition out front of the studio lot for her to get naked in the movie! lol I'm sure that would go over well!
Thanks for reading this, I know you didn't have to but it shows you care what people think!
Anyway thanks again and can't wait for X3.
Matt
From: so.it.goes
Subject: Xmen 2 review
You've become somewhat famous these days. The X Men 3 boards on imdb have a link to a review you wrote of x men 2.
I'll put it simply - you're an idiot. More than that... you're a terrible writer and critic. You've got characters' names wrong, actors' names wrong... plot points missed... you're just basically a worthless moron.
I just thought you should know that.
Take care.
From: andy
Subject: X-Men 2 Review
I feel I must call you on this review as it is completely inaccurate and full of mistakes, making it useless.
Pierce Brosnan does not play the president
It's Stryker not Strider
Professor X cannot stop time
Nightcrawler was not French in the film, he was German. Just like in the comic books
Gabit is not French, he's a Cajun
It's Pyro, not Pyro Man
Jean Grey has NEVER become a character called Firestar. She becomes the Pheonix
and that is planned for X3
Nightcrawler IS religious. In fact, he's an ordained Catholic priest
You are getting Pyro Man confused with the Human Torch
the 'Game Room' was in fact Cerebro. A Major part of the comics.
These are glaring errors that almost anyone who knows anything about can pick up on. I must point out that your review is currently being linked to on several movie and comics sites and basically being ridiculed.
All in all, it seems as though you did not even watch the movie but wrote the review on a second had account from someone else, getting everything wrong in the process
From: woodroffe1225
Subject: Hey
i dont no u but i no one thing about u u dont no anything about X-men ur reveiw was horrible u should really learn about the stuff u review (pyro man) thats not his name its "pyro" and pyro is not from fantastic four u are thinkin about the human torch.and that azian person that wolverine fought wasnt saber tooth saber tooth i guess died in the first one. : ) u should see go to www.ibm.com/title/tt0376994 thats stuff u might find out about the next x-men movie so u dont mess ur review up
From: bicoolioo
Subject: X-Men review
your review about x-men 2 is so wrong, this movie makes total sense if u were actualy paying attetion
magneto wasn't stealing bulelts from the guard, it was the metal that mistique injected into the guard blood earlier
and night-crawler isnt french in the movie it's german
it's ice man who was telling his parents he was a mutant
it's wasnt sabertooth who fought wolverine, it's Deathstrike
and pyro is a x-men character
if you dont know shit about x-men at all, don't fucken review this movie!
From: Eaton7.
Subject: None
hi you obviously know nothing about Marvel Comics whatsoever based on your review of x-men 2. just thought i'd let you know.
From: bj_arni
Subject: X-Men 2 Review
My name is Bjarni and I am apart of an X-Men Fan group in Iceland and we read one of your reviews.
http://www.readmag.com/Reviews/xmen2.htm
Wich is by far the worst review of any movie we have ever read. Even though we are not big fans of the X-Men Movies, they are nothing as they are described in this review. The reviewer says how much of a comic fan he is, but he prounounces all the names wrong, says stuff that never happened in the original comics and has no idea what he's talking about. While reading it looks like he has never opened an Marvel comic or seen any show or the first movie, or even the second and justs basing this of a trailer or that someone told him about the film.
According to IMDb, people have said that they would be e-mailing you too to tell you that even if this is somekind of a joke, it's still not funny but just annoying.
Everyone at the X-Men Fan group in Iceland want to ask you to fire the man who wrote this and delete it of your website as this "critic" has clearly not even seen the movie and he was a bad choice in reviewing this film.
We don't care if a "critic" from your magazine/website says how "gay" or bad the film is, just as long as he dosen't pretend he knows what X-Men is and say how much it bothered him how this had nothing to do with the comics or the first movie (wich it followed pretty well).
Sincerly
-Bjarni
and Stan Lee is still alive and breathing.
From: Boudjie8.
Subject: Holy Crap
Man I just read your X-2 review. If you watched X-1 you would know what going on. Also if you paid attention to X-2 when you watched it you would not be wrong about 95% of what you wrote. You should get a job writing for Republican political talk shows spitting bullshit in the name of factual analysis.
Peace
From: xo.twilight.elliot.xo
Subject: adam el guapo
You're review of X-men 2 is a steaming pile of shit.
Here is a list of all the things you got completely wrong among other things
1. Firstly Jean Grey is not hinted at as being Firestar, she is turning into the Dark Phoenix which is in the comics
2. Magneto takes iron from the guards blood, he doesn't steal bullets you moron
3. Nightcrawler is german in the movie and is religious just as he is in the comics
4. Pyro is called Pyro not Pyro man you moron and in the comics joins the brotherhood of mutants just like in the movie, also it doesn't even mention his parents in the movie.
5. Instead of Sabretooth they put Lady Deathstryke in the movie, you know Lucy Lu with boob implants? Although they downplayed her importance it was still her
6. The game room thing?! It's fucking called Cerebro and is in several hundred issues of X-Men you fucking moron.
7. The president isn't Pierce Brosnan you fucking halfwhit
8. Pyro never flames on, that's the fucking Human Torch...You know from Fantastic Four? Idiot. Pyro is an aussie who joins magneto and later gets flame throwers attatched to his suit so he can control the flames that come from it.
Don't write review anymore. You're a complete fucking moron and you've obviously never read any X-Men comics as you clearly don't know a god damn thing about them. By the way I don't know anyone who chooses Toad as their favorite villain.
From: statiksiren
Subject: I read your review
http://www.readmag.com/Reviews/xmen2.htm
Though everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I had to strongly disagree with your review. I'm a huge fan of X-Men. I've watched all of the movies, and I think that you need to watch them both over again, so you can better understand them. You had wrote and I quote"escapes from his plastic prison by moving around these bullets that he steals from a guard. (Dude, why did the guard have bullets to begin with? He didn't have anything to shoot them with..". If you had paid attention to the movie, you would have seen that Mystique had shapeshifted into a hot girl and seduced one of the guards, took him into the bathroom and injected iron into his blood stream. When he returned to "Mag-Neat-O", Magneto had noticed this, and pulled all of it out of his system, and formed bullets/Metal Balls with them. Also Sabertooth wasn't in the second movie. In the first he was the long haired blonde guy. And Jean Gray never cheated on Cyclops, with Wolverine. Wolverine wanted her to choose between him and Cyclops, and she choose the later.
From: cbirkinbine
Subject: I read some of your reviews... Have You?
I recently read a review of X-men 2 on your site. I can not for the life of me figure out how it got on there. It is very obvious taht the person doing the review maybe watched 15 minutes of the entire movie, and aparently did not watch the 1st one at all.
I am not writing becuase I dissagree with his opinions, I am writing becuase 90% of the things said are complete non factual BS, and in actuality just plain wrong. Haveing this particular review on your site can only bring your reputation down. Now I realise that you are not currently accepting writing submissions, but I implore you to make this one exception, and allow me to post a correction to that review. so here it is:
I recently came across the review of X-men 2 titled "X-Men 2 is X-Stupid", and could not believe how inaccurate it was. Now I am the type of person to let other have there opinions. But when it comes to miss representing plain and obvious facts. That just annoys me.
Let me start off by saying, I've seen the first two movies a few times. Ive probly seen most of the cartoon, and iI have maybe read a grand total of 50 various x-men comic books. My point is I am by far, not even close to an expert on the subject. So the fact that even I can point out all the flaws in this review, means that Mr Adamo el Guapo, most only pick up on 1 or 2 words of every comic he has ever read. Aparently he slept through both movies too. So here is my corrections, because I know that just reading his review are causing people to have fits of rage and frustration that they can not strangle this guy in person, before beating them to death with the VHS version of the movie he obviously didn't watch. So here goes.
X-Men 2 is X-STUPID!
by Adamo el Guapo
Corected by Skyler Gray:
"There are so many things wrong with this movie, it's almost impossible to know where to start. Likewise, this misguided sequel also doesn't know where to start. It begins with Wolverine inexplicably hanging out in Alaska or something, and for no reason as he's suddenly back at X-Men Mansion."
Anybody who has seen the first X-men , and had there eyes open, would kow that at the end, Wolverine left in search for answers to his past. Obviously his search took him to this place. After he could not find anything of importance he returned to the mansion to confront Professor X and seek more aid.
"It goes downhill from there."
I can only assume he is referring to his review.
"The thin plot soon reveals that mutants will soon be attacking the President (Pierce
Actualy One mutant attacks the presedent in the beginning to issue a warning. This has nothing to do with the main plot, simply a coold scene to start at and show off the newest mutant to enter the movie.
"Brosnan)," and his aide Colonel Stryder wants to protect him by killing all the mutants. Stryder comes up with a plan to kidnap and brainwash Dr. Xavier, and to use his powers of stopping time and finding mutants to kill the mutant race. Got it so far? Cuz there's more. "
Not entirely accurate, but ill let it go, and call it his personal opionon.
"Meanwhile, Magneto (who is Mag-Neat-O!) escapes from his plastic prison by moving around these bullets that he steals from a guard. (Dude, why did the guard have bullets to begin with? He didn't have anything to shoot them with...). "
I can only assume that he had to use th pisser at this point, as if you were even half paying attention, you would have seen that Mystique injected the guard with liqid metal earlier (forgive me if I can't remember what type of metal it was). Magneto having a relationship with metal, was able to sence its presence in the guards body, and pulled it out using his magnetic powers.
"Magneto, along with his blue sidekick babe Mystyke, trick the X-Men into think they're on THEIR side and they all go to that Alaskan place to kick some ass. "
This was not a trick, it was more of a join together for a common cause, type deal. IE stoping the irradication of the mutant race.
"There's more. (Yes, this movie has no direction, but is scattered all over the place). Some of the X-Men meet a new blue mutant named Nightcrawler who can travel through dimensions (which is VERY cool - excellent special effects!). Nightcrawler is probably my favorite character and almost redeemed the film, but they screwed up and made him French. (It was GAMBIT who was French, idiots!)."
Not a whole lot wrong with this.. except for about where it starts….and then all the way to the end of the statement.. Aparently his movie watching is limited to animated shorts on MTV as hes not aware of Sub-plots. Also I can't say I remember Nightcrawlers nationality off the tope of my head. But Gambit was Cajun. Not French. There is a difference.
" Nightcrawler was extremely cool in the movie, though his character ends up not doing much. Very underused."
Back to the story. Many more unnecessary tangents happen, like Jean Gray cheating on Cyclops with Wolverine, Ice Man trying to figure out how to pump Rogue with an icicle without killing her, Pyro Man figuring out how to tell his parents he's a mutant, and Wolverine discovering that he was created in some lab by Stryder"
How can this guy call himself a fan? Ok all subplots, and also a key tool used in the telling of any story called character building. It tends to give you more of a connection with a character. Also jean kissed logan once, she ntos cheating, like they are getting it on.
"Besides way too many cluttered and unresolved themes in the movie, it was also EXTREMELY disloyal to the comics. Here are just SOME of the things I noticed, that made me realize the director cared more about his stylistic storytelling than about the integrity of the original comic books.
1) Sabertooth. I'm sorry, but I don't remember Sabertooth being a hot, busty Asian chick. In the movie, they have Wolvy's arch-nemesis be Lucy Lui with boob implants. What, they couldn't afford to put Vin Diesel in a fur coat?"
Correct. Sabertooth was not a hot busty asian. Sabertotth was that guy in the first move that beat the crap out of logan after he first met rouge. But then he would not have known that, since he obviously did not watch the first movie. Also this Lucy Lu with boob implants is another mutant known in the comic books. Which he would have known if he did anything but look at the covers of the x-men comic books through the window of the comic book store.
"2) No Beast. The Beast was an original X-Men, who was also in just about every single issue of the comic. Why was he not in the movie? Too many blue characters or something?"
This would be the first almost logical thing said in the entire review. I believe there was a combined issue of budgeting and timeline involved. If I remember correctly Beast was originally in it but was cut before casting.
"3) Jean Gray. They hinted throughout the movie that Jean Gray is really Firestar (you would know what I mean if you read the comics), but at the end she dies without evolving! (Sorry for the spoiler.) What gives? The whole theater was like, "Oh shit, she's going to turn into Firestar now!" and you could hear the collective groan of disappointment when it didn't happen."
I guess by Firestar he is referring to Phoenix. Dude. This is at the end of the movie. KNOWING that theres going to be a third (or at least he would have known if he was half the fan he thinks he is…im not sure if he knoew there was a 1st movie.) do you really think they are going to bust in to the whole Phoenix saga in the last 15 minutes of the movie????
"4) Nightcrawler. Like I said, he's not French in the comics, and he doesn't have all those weird tattoos on him. I also don't remember him being all religious (though it has been awhile since I read the comics). Wasn't it Archangel who's religious? I mean, it's not a big deal, but I'm sure it irritated many hardcore X-Man fans like myself."
Again, im not to sure on nightcrawler either, but im pretty sure that Archangel, was previously known as Angel, or Warren Worthington who was a rich pretty boy, his nickname angel came from the feather wings, not any sort of devotion to god. I may be wrong there though.
"5) Ice Man. Okay, this was just a cheap way to get out of paying for more effects. Ice Man has to first TURN INTO ICE MAN before he can create ice! They have some Gap kid shooting frost everywhere and he's not even all ice, or riding his ice slide. Why they didn't put in the ice slide, Ice Man's mode of transportation, was obviously about money. Or maybe they just wanted to destroy the integrity of the comic even more."
Okay, just from reading charator information a few months ago when I was trying to learn about casting for the 3rd movie, I found out that Iceman in the early years was pretty much as he is in the movies. Later on he develops the ability to turn into ice, and create an ice slide..at some point I believe he was even stuck in the form of ice for awhile.
"6) Pyro Man. Now, I also remember that Pyro Man has to be totally flame in order to use his flame powers, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized -- PYRO MAN WASN'T EVEN IN THE X-MEN! He's from the Fantastic Four! WHAT THE FUCK! That is SO LAME. To make matters worse, they hint at the end that he's evil. Stan Lee, creator of the Fantastic Four, is rolling in his grave."
Yes, Pyro (he calls Pyroman) is in the comic books, and hes even in the cartoon. No he was not all fire. He can only manipulate fire, not create it. This is why, if I remember correctly, he had some sort of tank on his back that triggered two flame throwers on his arms so that he could create the fire, then manipulate it. The Person he is referring to in Fantastic 4 is called the human torch, and yes HE was able to turn himself into pure fire.
"7) Game Room. They turned the Game Room into this really cheesy observatory-type room where Dr. X puts on a helmet and can contact other mutants. Again, this is a fabricated thing by the director, used solely to move the film along. Weak, man."
This Cheesey Observation type room, is knoen as Cyeribro (spelling?) NOT the game room. Did you read any comic book or see any cartoon?
"8) Toad. Everyone's favorite villain from the first movie doesn't even make a cameo here. It's as if he never even existed. BAD continuity in storytelling."
Wow I think this is the first sentence that is not full of flawed facts… maybe ebcuase its only 2 sentances long. By the way, Toad was a lacky. Lackies are often not carried over to sequals. Especialy with the amount of mutant lackeys in the marvel world. I believe they were playing to fans wishes by offereing new mutants.
"There are other sloppy mistakes, but I don't want to sound like too much of a comic dork. But I wanted to get across that this movie was not only boring and confusing, but factually incorrect. There were some good things, however. As I said, Nightcrawler (even with his silly accent) was very cool, and Mystyke is HOT! And Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackson) is exactly how you'd picture him, and he (deservedly) carries the picture. Dr. X (Patrick Stewart) is also convincing as the handicapped old man who can stop time, and the guy who plays Cyclops does a great Tom Cruise impression. "
Don't worry guy, anyone who knows anything at all about Marvel would not confuse you for anything related to a comic dork. And the minor factually inconsistencies were done in order to meld into a two hour long movie. I do agee on the Tom Cruise bit though… Guess theres a first for everything.
I probably will see the third in the series, and hopefully it'll be a bit more loyal to the original storylines. I would also love to see some new faces in there, like Juggernut, the Sentiniels, and Bishop. And if Halle Berry is going to come back as Storm, she better get buck naked this time!
For our sakes, I hope you actually watch the movie…maybe you better go see the first one this time, and then when your about to write a review…don't.
From: ciotjj5
Subject: your X-Men 2 Review
To Whom it May Concern:
Without going into too much detail, I would like to point out that you should check your facts before bashing the movie for it's inconsistincies until you learn a lot of the truths about the Marvel Universe first. This being said, yes the filmmakers did take some liberties in making their film, but nothing too large. The only one you said that I can remember that is valid is Beast as an original, but they apparently decided to have him (and Angel for that matter) to come around later in the film series because of the depth these characters bring. But then I don't know why I'm wiriting this, when you end the review with a comment about how Halle Berry should be nude in the next one. I think that would ruin the film more than any of the things you claim you spotted.
From: cliftonjrbettie
Subject: None
I thought you very stupid to even write such a thing. If you didn't like the movie then get over it. I thought it was a great movie. It was way better than half of the marvel movies that so happen to come out. And nightcrawler in X-men 2 sucked. He did not redeem the movie. He made it worse. And jean grey turns into the pheonix not firstar. Get your facts straight, BUB!
From: cody
Subject: X-Men 2
Please take down your X-Men 2 review from your web page. The author, Adamo el Guapo, fabricated many untruths about the X-Men continuation, and this could lead to many people being misguided by the movie. The people here at Marvel would not be pleased to find so many factual mistakes ruining a great movie. Thank you.
From: Dagimp45637.
Subject: hi
i just read the X2 review, and im sure you have gotten this alot, but that is the silliest damned thing i have ever read and nopt only does it see like you have never seen the first movie, but also never read any of the comics that you claimed you are a big fan of.
From: muzicman8806
Subject: I really liked your article...
Dude, you are the stupidest person I've ever heard of...your article about X2 is completely retarded. Have you even watched the movie? Or even the first one? Take my advise, go get a knife and fall on it. Thanks!
P.S. Have a nice day.
From: dlhj66
Subject: reviews
if you are going to review a movie next time try make sure you actually know what you are talking about. here the major mistakes in your worthless and innacurate "review".
Have a great day!
.1) Sabertooth. I'm sorry, but I don't remember Sabertooth being a hot, busty Asian chick. In the movie, they have Wolvy's arch-nemesis be Lucy Lui with boob implants. What, they couldn't afford to put Vin Diesel in a fur coat?.
Sabertooth was in the first movie not the 2nd, the asian lady was "lady
deathstrike"
.3) Jean Gray. They hinted throughout the movie that Jean Gray is really Firestar (you would know what I mean if you read the comics), but at the end she dies without evolving! (Sorry for the spoiler.) What gives? The whole theater was like, "Oh shit, she's going to turn into Firestar now!" and you could hear the collective groan of disappointment when it didn't happen..
Jean Gray transformed into phoenix, firestar is teen titans
.) Nightcrawler. Like I said, he's not French in the comics, and he doesn't have all those weird tattoos on him. I also don't remember him being all religious (though it has been awhile since I read the comics). Wasn't it Archangel who's religious? I mean, it's not a big deal, but I'm sure it irritated many hardcore X-Man fans like myself..
Nightcrawler is an exrtemely devout catholic and german just like in the movie
.6) Pyro Man. Now, I also remember that Pyro Man has to be totally flame in order to use his flame powers, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized -- PYRO MAN WASN'T EVEN IN THE X-MEN! He's from the Fantastic Four! WHAT THE FUCK! That is SO LAME. To make matters worse, they hint at the end that he's evil. Stan Lee, creator of the Fantastic Four, is rolling in his grave.
Pyro is x-men he bocomes part of brotherhood, you are thinking of the torch not pyro
.7) Game Room. They turned the Game Room into this really cheesy
observatory-type room where Dr. X puts on a helmet and can contact other mutants. Again, this is a fabricated thing by the director, used solely to move the film along. Weak, man.
that's cerebro professor x created it and it has been in the comics since near the beginning
From: Daniel
Subject: X-men 2 is X-stupid
I will agree with you that the x-men movie was well under par compared to the comics, A few things with your arcticle
1) Sabertooth ......... he was in the film ......... and Wolvy's got more than one nemesis and lady deathstalker I believe
2) the gaurd wasnt carring bullets he had extra iron in his blood, thanks to mystique
3) Jean is going to assened in the next movie thats obv
4)Pyro was in the comics and did turn evil and all he could do is manipulate fire not turn in to flames thats the human torch (FF4)
5)stan lees not dead
6) your getting confused Pro X puts the helmet on while using cerebo not the game room which I also think you mean danager room
just thought you had better know of your mistakes as you like to point out holes in the film I thought I would do the same
thanks dan
From: Davey
About: "X-men is x-stupid" your review
also if this isnt adamo el guapo please send it to him here is your review and below it i pointed out all your mistakes e-mail me back on your thoughts
I probably will see the third in the series, and hopefully it'll be a bit more loyal to the original storylines. I would also love to see some new faces in there, like Juggernut, the Sentiniels, and Bishop. And if Halle Berry is going to come back as Storm, she better get buck naked this time!this is about your review of x-2. While i do agree with your stand that the movie was stupid youve got some of the facts wrong.
1. The President was not pierce brosman "pierce brosman" is the guy from the james bond movies
2.Magneto doesn't pull bullets out of the guard he pulls out the metal that mystique inserted while she seduced him
3.They didnt make nightcrawler french in the movie he said like 10 words in german and he even had a german accent but they didnt put in that nightcrawler turns invisible we hes in shadows and mystique is also his mother if you read the comics youd know that
4.Jean Grey never cheated on cyclops. If your refferring to when mystique comes in to wolverines tent disguised as jean grey
FYI rouge and Iceman never had a relationship and rouge was adopted by
mystique and stole marvel girls powers giving her super strength and flying ability thats when she sought professer x who was her enemy to help her thats when she met gambit
5.it wasnt pyro telling his parents he was a mutant it was ice man
FYI wolverine was in the weapon x project with sabertooth because they have similar powers they both broke out of these tubes and wolverine happened to kill the director of weapon x also wolverine had bone claws before weapon x and they just coated them with adamantium
6.The lady that wolverine fought was named lady death strike and in the
comics wolverine was in love with her but wolverine accidentally killed her father and she never forgave him so she had her finger tips turned into blades and her arms were able to stretch but she had no relvance to william striker
7.THEY DID NOT HINT THAT JEAN GREY WAS FIRESTAR they hinted that she was going to become phoenix wich doesnt make since because the phoenix was the protecter of the shi'ar emerald and thats a long story
8.Night crawler was extremely religious in the comic books he was brought up by catholic monks in germany
9.your mixing 2 characters when you talk about pyro and johnny storm from the fantastic 4 in x-men they stuck fairly close to pyros story except pyro joined magnetos brotherhood and pyro usually had a flame thrower if you will that didnt shoot very far but he can manipulate fire
10. When you talk about the game room i think your a little messed up that was cerebro and it was cerebro in the comics and it did the exact same thing i think your getting it confused with the danger room |
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