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meganbmoore ([personal profile] meganbmoore) wrote2008-11-05 10:14 pm

Generation X: The Movie

Well, our file kinda...died...an hour in and we're waiting for the last part to be uploaded separately.  So I shall share the glory of it with you.

For those of you who don't know what Generation X is, it's  a comic book than ran in the 90s that is one of many spinoffs from X-Men.

I have love for it that far exceeds its actual quality, though it did often have quality.

And it resulted in a very bad made-for-TV movie.  In the original comic, of the 8 students, only 2 were white, two students had mutant powerss that made them look hideous, and another's power was shedding her skin to reveal a new form underneath.  The movie reduces it to 6 students, makes the asian girl white, replaces the girl who sheds her skin with a muscular girl, makes one ugly mutant normal looking, and replaces the other ugly mutant with a generic good looking blond guy.

I'm having trouble uploading caps, so you're spared that for now.

Emma Frost suddenly has  electric powers.  And a very bad wig.  Banshee pronounces "Jubilee" and "Juriwee."  No, I'm not kidding.  Skin is a tech wizard.

white!Jubilee and normal!Skin are making goo goo eyes at each other.  He's cheating on her with a blonde girl in town, though.  Naturally, the other 2 white students are romantically paired together.  Honestly, I'm amazed they let Skin remain hispanic. *

It's rather painful.

Emma and Banshee also indulge in painful flirting.

The villain is trying to impersonate Jim Carrey.  I don't know who I hate the most:  him, Banshee, or the empty twit pretending to be my Monet.   It's almost as bad as Helle Berry as Storm.

Am depressed now.

*I harp on this mostly because the original pretty much killed itself trying to cover diversity and not have a bunch of pretty, mostly-white mutants.

ETA:  Did i mentionthat the new generic good looking guy is Spike's long lost twin?

[identity profile] kakkobean.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
*reads description*

*twitch*

*twitch*

*twitch*

[identity profile] kakkobean.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I read the comic books. Hearing what the movie was like makes me cringe.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, just wait until I upload caps. Andyou see non-ugly Angelo and white Jubilee. And the wig.

[identity profile] kakkobean.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
,fvzkmcxnv,zxkmncv,zajkshlszdkjfvszkcmv><ZSKdjfhlasjkdf,AJKXc<JKShfvzaklsdih *DYIN' ON THE INSIDE*