Finally, I get in.
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
Or do I? Sigh. I'm not even good at being bad. Bummer.
No wonder my ex left me. ;)
Well, I got that job five months ago, and that's why it's taken so long to follow up.
Movie reviews since that day:
Two Towers: A
Two Towers (2d time): A
Catch Me if You Can: A +
Daredevil: B
Gods and Generals (as a movie): D -
Gods and Generals (as a history lesson): B+
X 2: A.
Let me opine briefly on X 2. It's a phenomenal movie. Wolverine is spectacularly violent (he kills a LARGE number of people with his claws). The characters from the first movie are more evolved and complex, although Magneto (Mags from here on out) is still a one-trick pony. Wolverine is taking center stage, and the end of the movie sets up X 3 in a very good way for true X Fans everywhere. Most of the reviewers (including Ebert) missed the boat on it.
The movie is indeed slick and fast-paced, but the plot is, I think, quite tight and evocative. It starts with a slick tie-in to the end of X-Men with Wolverine's search for his origin. There is some spicy Bavarian Catholicism thrown in with the appearance of Nightcrawler, as well as some kabbalism that I'm not sure is entirely canonical. Hell, a lot of the movie violates X-Men canon. Mags is a very serviceable Shakespearian villain; Xavier makes a very good Maguffin. All in all, the movie was sharp, the dialogue sufficient (but not as uneven as the first movie, where you could plainly detect the dialogue hacked into the script over Chris McQuarrie's objections). No gem quotes, unfortunately, but a few very necessary gags that cut the tension nicely.
Reviewers, review thineselves. You don't have to know all about pre-1990s X-Men to enjoy the movies, but X 2 would have been more enjoyable for you if you'd watched X-Men again first.
