{"id":1789,"date":"2006-05-26T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2006-05-26T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T01:37:01","slug":"x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/x-men\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>X-Men<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to see the new X-Men movie today. Well, more so than the other two, it was this X-Men Geeks dream. I mean, there were some characters killed off that should not have been(and some I were glad they finally killed off). I&#8217;d like to say who, but it would be a spoiler. But there were some scenes taken from issues I remember from back in the &#8217;81 that were classic scenes. I mean you have to cut them some slack for trying to compact 25 years of issues into two hours.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t like Famke Jensen as Jean Grey\/Phoenix-she was useless playing an Omega-Level mutant who spent most of her time staring into space and crunchy looking. There were a couple of good Storm moments, Kitty Pryde moments, and Wolverine moments. Beast was cool too.<br \/>\nThere was storyline that sort alluded to the misguided conservative attitude towards homosexuality. The &#8220;right&#8221; side develops a cure drug for mutants, and there is a political clash because &#8220;there is nothing wrong with mutants, and they don&#8217;t need to be cured&#8221;. I could be reading into it, but I remember the same speeches in the comic with Polaris standing on the steps of the capitol building saying &#8220;no one should be discrimnated against for being a mutant, homosexual, or different race&#8230;&#8221; Gag. I started to lose interest in X-Men around then because it was kind of boring. Who wants to hear super heroes whine about politics? Get back to fighting Sleazoids!<br \/>\nAnyway, I thought the message of &#8220;it&#8217;s natural, and doesn&#8217;t need a cure&#8221; made me think of contraception. Is fertility something that needs to be cured? Sorry, you will hear me rant about this a lot as I hear more and more comments about number 6.<br \/>\n<b>Update<\/b>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/decentfilms.com\/sections\/reviews\/xmen3.html\"> Decent Films review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to see the new X-Men movie today. Well, more so than the other two, it was this X-Men Geeks dream. I mean, there were some characters killed off that should not have been(and some I were glad they finally killed off). I&#8217;d like to say who, but it would be a spoiler. But&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/x-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><i>X-Men<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talking-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}