Generation X: The Movie
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meganbmooreWell, 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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Date: 2008-11-06 04:29 am (UTC)Eureka, that is.
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Date: 2008-11-06 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 04:32 am (UTC)I mean, this movie even makes me dislike Jubilee. And it actually made her fashionb sense worse.
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Date: 2008-11-06 05:05 am (UTC)Also, I think I've forgotten the entire plot in this short hiatus.
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Date: 2008-11-06 05:11 am (UTC)There's plot?
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Date: 2008-11-06 05:14 am (UTC)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.