March 12, 2005
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Entertainment Weekly has an
additional magazine they release called “Look.” It gears directly
towards movies, TV, and DVDs. Well, in the Spring 2005 issue,
they had a section for “Best + Worst Comic book Movies.”
Ignoring their worst list, these are their 5 best…
1) Superman II
2) American Splendor
3) Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2
4) X2: X-Men United
5) From HellFor the most part, I don’t entirely agree or disagree with their
choices (although choosing Superman II is a pleasant surprise for number one), but one thing that
I take an issue with is… X2: X-Men United
in the top five? I know that movie is hella popular, and it’s enjoyable
in it’s own right, but it simply does NOT deserve to be one of the top
five best comic book movies. By now, if you think I’m out of my mind, then you are
either…
A – a person who hardly ever read the X-Men comic books
B – someone who read the comic books, but actually adored X2
C – someone who read the comic books, but recognizes that X2 isn’t the best of the best
If you are person “A” then I can totally understand why you liked
it. It’s a blockbuster movie with lots of pow zooms and wows. If
you are person “B” then you should be ashamed of yourself, as you should be person “C.”The X-Men has
always been
about characters and how they relate to each others first and
foremost. There’s really a stronger sense of drama than there is
on action. The X-Men has always at the forefront been about
Professor Xavier, Scott Summers & Jean Grey, Wolverine, and
ofcourse Magneto. To a degree, Storm plays a HUGE role as well.
So what did this movie do? They practically put Wolverine as the
only X-Men character that matters! The only other character that has
any real good representation is Magneto. Okay fine, so it’s not that
faithful to the books, but for some reason people think so! The first
X-Men movie was more faithful and had the best feel of the comic books,
but nobody seems to recognize that. Constantine gets slammed by comic book geeks that it isn’t faithful to the Hellblazer books, but they didn’t seem to mind so much with X2 did they? Hypocrites!Is it because of the action? ooohhh, look at it blow up! Are people so
easily amused by the mutant powers going all special effects that they
can’t tell that this movie is nothing but an average action special
effects extravanganza?
People are making it sound like… oh yeah… One Of The Best Comic
Book Movies EVER! But wait, people say that this movie has lots
of humanity and a deep story line, it’s not just all about the action.
WHERE? There’s as much humanity and
a deep story in this moive like there is in a movie like Independence Day!
Atleast ID4 is recognized as nothing but fluff as a movie, so I don’t
get why X2 is put in such a high pedestal. A movie like X2 is the reason people think that comic book movies are just for kids.
*sigh* what can I do ey? I’m always in the minority opinion of things anyways.
