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***WARNING: The following may contain information people waiting to see X-Men 3 might want to avoid***

Well I was finally able to appease my desire to see X-Men: The Last Stand. If Brett Ratner is ever allowed near enough to this franchise to influence it in even the remotest way, I will hunt him down and deliver unto him a beating perhaps only George Bush deserves more.  Let me be blunt, the movie wasn’t garbage, but it also wasn’t on par with the first two.  It wasn’t quite so bad as when Joel Shumacher took the reigns of Batman, that practically measured as a violation of the Geneva Convention as a crime against humanity; but Ratner’s reckless treatment, and lack of compassion or appreciation for the subject is apparent almost from the word go.  The Last Stand was to X-Men as Terminator 3 was to that trilogy.

Here are the main problems.  New characters were shallower than a kiddie pool in winter.  For bad guys, I suppose that’s fine given their disposable nature (did anyone besides Magneto even make it through the final scene?).  But Kitty Pryde, Angel, and Beast were simply inexcusable.  Call it bad writing, bad editting, or bad directing, had those characters not been there, you wouldn’t have missed them.  And oh my god….a can of beans could have played Storm better.  And not those good Bush’s baked beans, the cheap ones, from Aldi’s.  Letting Magneto rip out her vocal box for no reason would have been better than making me listen to Berry deliver the lines.  I guess that’s not new news though…You know why Famke Janssen was such a good Phoenix?  They knew when to have her shut up.  I can see it now: “Okay Miss Janssen, stand right there by the green screen, now look…left….more…Perfect!  Thanks, you can go home, we’ll CG the rest around you.”  Every now and again you find yourself thinking “Oh yeah, Phoenix is just sorta….standing…over there.”

Anyway, all told, an average movie.  Glad I saw it, and I’ll probably buy it I have no doubt, but there was a lot of room for improvement.  I can only hope the Wolverine movies are handled better.

On the subject of movies, Ghost Rider, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Clerks 2, and Nacho Libre should help fill in the gaps nicely.

I took Isis to the vet to get her allergies taken care of Thursday.  She was pissed.  Mostly it was good though, because now she’ll stop scratching, and I get to laugh as she walks around with all her paws wrapped up so that she can’t use her claws until everything takes effect.  It’s even better when she tries to jump up on the chair, but completely falls since she can’t latch on, heh.

I was full of good ideas lately.  I found this slick piece of software called KPlaylist.  Got it running on the server which is finally healthy again.  Let’s me stream my music off the server wherever I am to listen to it.  If you want access to it and think you deserve it, beg.  Yeah, you heard me, beg.  Like a bitch.