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

[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.