Magneto

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Magneto

As you may have begun to notice, I get my entertainment news in two forms, my copy of Entertainment Weekly and an E! Online portlet/gadget/widget on my Google page.

Anyway, E! Online is providing me with news of a Magneto solo flick spin-off from the X-Men movies. Set to be an origin piece, this is the way to go for sure. Heck, McKellen might pass on by the time they make it… (that’s not very nice). The Magneto origin is a good one to appeal to a wide audience and exploring his early relationship with Xavier is something that I have always found interesting in the books.

I’m more interested in seeing this spin-off than the Wolverine one.

X-Men: The Last Stand

There’s a lenghty conversation slash commentation going on over at Scooby Speak about the third film in the X-Men series. I dropped a comment there, but I wanted to expound more over here for a few reasons: I haven’t posted something in a few days, I want to drop spoilers and I’m going to try my hand at this review thing.

Of course, I can’t write a review for crap because I’m not ed-u-ma-cated enough to do that kind of thing. Nah, I think I’ll leave that to the experts like Ed and Jason (even though he still claims he’s not writing reviews and is no expert… feh). So, I’m just going to leave some thoughts on the flick and I am probably going to do the same for other flix I see this Summer. If anything, I’ll just capture my thoughts here and see how they change over time because unlike most of my music consumption, my taste and opinion does change a lot about flix.

I mentioned this was the third installment in the series and I believe that. The hype has been this is the last X-Men flick or that this was to be a trilogy and now it is over. Bollocks on that. This film has been way too successful already to not ... Continue reading »