Generation X: The Movie

[meganbmoore]

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?

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

He's first billed, but I don't know who he plays.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

The bad guy. He's been playing similar types for years (now I sorta want to dig out his Next Generation episode, darn). Actually, this also makes me want to watch Eureka. I wonder if my roommates would object (Frewer plays Taggart, there).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

THAT'S why I wanted to like him...

Eureka, that is.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'll totally admit he's just awful, but so's the entire cast. That movie is like a homework assignment on How Not To Make a Good Movie.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much.

I mean, this movie even makes me dislike Jubilee. And it actually made her fashionb sense worse.

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

Um, are you finally confessing your love for the Dreamwalking bad guy?

Also, I think I've forgotten the entire plot in this short hiatus.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

There was a nagging feeling of guilt behind my hatred. Now I know why.

There's plot?

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

There was! And I was keeping track of it! And now I'm like the rest of you, just making a mockery out of a masterpiece. *is ashamed*

And we all knew you were crushing on the dreamwalking!mutant. I shall update everyone for the next session, and we'll try to mock him less.