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meganbmoore) wrote2008-11-05 10:14 pm
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?
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?
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we weren't allowed (omg mutants! violence! don't watch! watch instead this cheesy movie called Evil Dead which could in no possible way be MORE violent ::rolls eyes:: yes that was the logic my parents, or my mom at least, had) so we had to sneak to watch it on this 13" black and white rabbit ears TV. It came on Fox if I remember rightly. anyhow we were both hunched down together under his covers, anxiously fixing the rabbit ears to get better reception, obsessively watching the door in case mom woke up and found us and punished us and...yeah of the movie? I really remember none of it at all. except someone had a hot pink suit/shirt?
however if you are saying this generic blonde dude is Spike's long lost twin in that he is angsty, somewhat morally ambiguous
until he gets a soul and becomes a wimp, big on the violence and has a hot fake!british accent...I'm there. bonus points if he had a crazy sadistic ex-girlfriend.I do have this downloaded somewhere though...
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