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

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

iirc, Matt Frewer came first.

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

*reads description*

*twitch*

*twitch*

*twitch*

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I really liked the comic, damnit. I'm glad I've never seen this atrocity.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of this movie until I read your last post on it. It sounds very painful, and I eagerly await the horrifying screencaps.

[archica.livejournal.com]

Oh, the movie. I remember looking forward to it with so much glee when Wizard ran an article on it. I cried because my VCR broke and I couldn't record it, but I watched it on TV (I made a habit of recording things I watched so I could watch them later). I was sooooo excited about this, because I'd waited for the X-Men movie for so long and this was going to be my first taste of live-action mutants and the pictures looked AWESOME even though I was sad over the lack of Husk.

But... but... oh. The HORROR. I had waited for it for so long and talked about it so much that mom decided to watch it with me. Ten minutes in, I was so embarrassed that I turned it off in the living room and finished it in my room. I was determined to finish it, because I'd waited so long, darn it. But I didn't want mom to see how terrible it was. Of course, I was eleven, so my tolerance for cheese was pretty high.

The only thing I liked about the movie was Emma's outfit, which I thought was neat. Her hair... no. Pretty much everything else... no.

I thought Heather McComb as Jubilee was cute, but her personality was so off and, as you mentioned, she was totally not Chinese. XD But honestly, at eleven, I wasn't all that concerned about that part.

But yeah, the disappointment. It still burns.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

I have this strange, inexplicable love for this movie.

[neuclear.livejournal.com]

Ugh, man I remember this would come on tv, and I'd change the channel...man am I SO glad I did now.

[lotuseyes.livejournal.com]

I remember my brother and I, long before either of us actually understood what a fandom was and only really knew X-men from the animated series (so at least had some exposure to some of the characters in the movie), had begged to be allowed to stay up to watch this.

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...

[animeshon.livejournal.com]

Haha - I love watching old movies and realising they really are not that great :D