X-Men 2

[avram]

After the play, my folks drove us over to my place, and Chris and I hung out for a while then saw the second X-Men movie. I liked this more than the first, mostly because it just felt more like an X-Men story than the first one did. More superhero action, more interaction with the traditional X-Men backstory, more actual characters from the comic. More behind the spoiler warning....

• Damn, that opening Nightcrawler action sequence kicked ass.
• Nice shots of Kitty and Colossus during the raid.
• Every time Jean pushed her powers and we saw flames in her eyes, I could see the plot of the next movie being set up.
• They did a good job of giving all the major characters cool stuff to do.
• The ambiguous sometimes-ally, sometimes-enemy nature of the relationships among the mutant groups was well-handled. (Mark Millar does a good job with this in the Ultimate X-Men comic, too.)
• I didn’t much like how Jean “died”; if she could fix the plane with her mind, why couldn’t she do it while staying on the plane? If she was powerful enough to split the water, shouldn’t she have been able to just levitate the plane with herself on it?
• Did you notice that very faint outline of the Phoenix symbol on the water at the very end?

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Re: "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, but I think Prof.X did know that Phoenix lived. It appears that he sensed that she was still alive.