04-07-2016, 09:09 AM
So I've been on this Maul binge that I've been justifying because I'm working on a Maul story and it brought me back to the original X-Men, the DVD of which was lent to me by our comic fiend graphic artist, who enables any possible inclination I might have towards anything comic book like a crack dealer giving out that first free one.
None of my platforms have X-Men available, not Netflix, not Hulu+, not Showtime (which we just let go of because no more Homeland and Billions just didn't justify the fee), and not iTunes. I started watching X-Men 3 last week because it was available on my mom's xfinity. I got almost an hour into it until I decided sleep would be better. It was really, really, really dumb.
But back to the original X-Men, I was surprised how well I remembered the film while watching it. If you asked me before last night, I would have said I only remembered a few scenes, but as it was playing out, I remembered the bulk of the film. A scene would emerge and barfing out of some dark crag in my brain would come the whole scene before it was done. It was a little weird but it validated my overall disdain for comic book movies. They are such candy. It's like if you haven't had a Butterfinger in years, and then you have one, and your brain goes, 'I so remember this'. At my age and damAGE, I'm happy when I remember things I thought I forgot. That being said, X-Men 1 has aged poorly. The CGI looks so simplistic now, so fake. The pacing of the story is mediocre, especially knowing where the franchise went later. And there wasn't enough Toad for me to even extract a fragment of a sentence. I've over-written the piece anyway and now need to go into trimming mode, so that's just as well.
This is the official end of the Maul Binge.
None of my platforms have X-Men available, not Netflix, not Hulu+, not Showtime (which we just let go of because no more Homeland and Billions just didn't justify the fee), and not iTunes. I started watching X-Men 3 last week because it was available on my mom's xfinity. I got almost an hour into it until I decided sleep would be better. It was really, really, really dumb.
But back to the original X-Men, I was surprised how well I remembered the film while watching it. If you asked me before last night, I would have said I only remembered a few scenes, but as it was playing out, I remembered the bulk of the film. A scene would emerge and barfing out of some dark crag in my brain would come the whole scene before it was done. It was a little weird but it validated my overall disdain for comic book movies. They are such candy. It's like if you haven't had a Butterfinger in years, and then you have one, and your brain goes, 'I so remember this'. At my age and damAGE, I'm happy when I remember things I thought I forgot. That being said, X-Men 1 has aged poorly. The CGI looks so simplistic now, so fake. The pacing of the story is mediocre, especially knowing where the franchise went later. And there wasn't enough Toad for me to even extract a fragment of a sentence. I've over-written the piece anyway and now need to go into trimming mode, so that's just as well.
This is the official end of the Maul Binge.
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