Episode 265 Topics Include:
- The Boston Con/Food Con 2013 round-up
- What we've been watching
- This week in trailers: Thor: The Dark World, Ender's Game, Her, Bad Grampa, The Counselor
- What we've been reading
- Featured Review: The Wolverine
Running Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
Episode Songs:
Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Ol' Dirty Bastard
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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Yeah i did have a lot of freebies, and realized on day 2 that just focusing on just one freebie is the way to go. Live and learn. Jesse we missed you man!
ReplyDeletethis episode has the most Rian snorting yet!!! haha.
ReplyDeletethanks for picking up the Alopex issue, Rian! and thanks for the nice words about my Turtles, Jesse. and yep, i colored it myself, and my friend Heather flatted about half the issue, i can't forget her! and you're right that it's first full-length comic i've colored, the only other things were my 3-page comic in Meathaus SOS and an 8-page back-up comic in Justin Greenwood/Marc Guggenheim's Resurrection. you didn't spoil my TMNT news, it was announced at Comic Con! ;)
i'm not gonna get into defending X-Men 3 or anything, it's whatever, but the point of the cure not actually working is the illusion of control. that's the main theme, Magneto hinted at getting his power back at the end is the entire point of the movie. all the main threads in the movie are about that, the government trying to control mutants via the cure, Angel's father trying to control his son's identity, Magneto and Xavier trying to control Jean, Jean trying to control herself and her power, Rogue trying to exert control over her life/identity, etc. all those things were futile, people trying to control things that are beyond control. it don't know if it quite holds up across the board since the movie is kinda shabby, but that's the basic theme in my opinion. :)
I snort?
DeleteYou make a good point about the meaning behind the cure in X-Men 3 Ross, but I still can't help feeling cheated when the movie pulls the rug out from under you like that at the end. I can see the intention you're getting at, but it really does make the entire movie feel worthless to me. Especially in the case of Rogue. As an X-Men fan it seems crazy that she'd actually accept the cure in the film, and in the end, despite her making that major decision, it was all for naught.
yeah! it's a laughing-snort thing, like George Costanza only more sinusy and deep. ;)
ReplyDeletei get what you mean about X3 feeling worthless or like it's just spinning its wheels, it's not entirely successful since the directing is so lackluster and doesn't have any real pop to it. i like the movie well enough, for a while it was my favorite X-movie, but i can't deny it doesn't totally work and has a lot of problems.
i think it would've felt more satisfying if the movie was better put-together and had some flair, and since at times it feels like Brett Ratner doesn't quite understand the theme himself. i personally love the nihilism in the movie, though, i'm a sucker for that kind of stuff (it's all for naught! everything is a failure!!! etc.) so maybe i'm biased.