Comments on: X-Men: the Last Rant http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/ Five veteran gamers, plus special guests, share their insights, rants, and raves about all things gaming, especially board games and RPGs. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jack Andersen http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-95 Jack Andersen Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:18:56 +0000 http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-95 I think I wrote of any hope of the X-Men movies bearing any sort of resemblance to the actual comics when the first movie came out. I mean you look at the starting lineup of the movie versus the comic book and that's a big tipoff right there. No Angel, Beast and Iceman being just a kid. As you said they should have tried more and the difficulty of compressing 40 years of comics into movies is no real excuse for how much they warped everything. I was able to enjoy the movies only because I went in with marginal expectations. I expected it to be better than much of the Hollywood drek that comes out... I expected to see the Phoenix make its appearance. I feel that projects like these need to be made into mini-series. Excellent synopsis of the X-Men line by the way... I think I wrote of any hope of the X-Men movies bearing any sort of resemblance to the actual comics when the first movie came out.
I mean you look at the starting lineup of the movie versus the comic book and that’s a big tipoff right there. No Angel, Beast and Iceman being just a kid.
As you said they should have tried more and the difficulty of compressing 40 years of comics into movies is no real excuse for how much they warped everything. I was able to enjoy the movies only because I went in with marginal expectations. I expected it to be better than much of the Hollywood drek that comes out… I expected to see the Phoenix make its appearance.
I feel that projects like these need to be made into mini-series.
Excellent synopsis of the X-Men line by the way…

]]> By: Smite http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-94 Smite Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:24:05 +0000 http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-94 Karas, I agree - very well done! As I argued to Mystagogue the other night, the real crime of "comic movies" is that they dumb'em down so much for the (assumedly) stupid American movie audience, which then leads these same audiences to conclude that it must be the original comics that are equally dumb and immature. Vicious circle. The shame of it all... By comparison, "Sin City" was awesome not because it was just a great new vision, no, it was because it tried so hard to be true to the original great vision of the book - and for the most part succeeded with it. The "triumph" of the movie, as it were, is that Rodriguez found the tools and means to do it right on a shoestring budget and fly under the big money Hollywood machinery that is the inescapable doom of most major comic movies... Karas, I agree - very well done! As I argued to Mystagogue the other night, the real crime of “comic movies” is that they dumb’em down so much for the (assumedly) stupid American movie audience, which then leads these same audiences to conclude that it must be the original comics that are equally dumb and immature. Vicious circle. The shame of it all…

By comparison, “Sin City” was awesome not because it was just a great new vision, no, it was because it tried so hard to be true to the original great vision of the book - and for the most part succeeded with it. The “triumph” of the movie, as it were, is that Rodriguez found the tools and means to do it right on a shoestring budget and fly under the big money Hollywood machinery that is the inescapable doom of most major comic movies…

]]> By: Jason Chen » Forty Years of X-Men Summarized http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-93 Jason Chen » Forty Years of X-Men Summarized Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:58:21 +0000 http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-93 [...] X-Men: the Last Rant [d21 Gaming] [...] [...] X-Men: the Last Rant [d21 Gaming] [...]

]]> By: Mystagogue http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-92 Mystagogue Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:30:24 +0000 http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2006/06/08/x-men-the-last-rant/#comment-92 Karas, I'm in awe of your X-Men comic history recap. It's perfect. It's beautiful. I'm nearly in tears. Karas, I’m in awe of your X-Men comic history recap. It’s perfect. It’s beautiful. I’m nearly in tears.

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