the setup of imagination. he took a trip to the la brea tar pits a couple times though
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I suspect they all got into tv scriptwriting in the 70s.
I wonder if there was, like, one scriptwriter dude in the 90s whose only sexual fetish was being eaten by a swarm of fish, and singlehandedly wrote the deadly piranha trope.
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Banned from the fish pedicure tank at the local spa
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Seems like big error he was missing right off the bat.
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Oh I was easily the coolest guy in my marching band. The bar, as the kids say, is on the floor
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but can you put a penis in it?
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watching x-men (2000) with almost no exposure to x-men generally outside of logan and new mutants
never mind magneto was right (
@loki), xavier is running a god damn inpatient institution
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itâs cliche to ask these things of the mcu but here itâs so much: why does the âschoolâ have a vtol jet?
more than any pop politics this movie has so little style itâs astonishing. the look is âwe have james cameron day-for-night at home on TNT.â even the obviously bad bits of dialogue donât hold a candle to batman and robin, the pathos doesnât land, good actors give wooden performances â itâs weird
weâre watching the second one next i guess. iâm getting an education
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guess which line of dialogue was written by joss whedon (itâs the worst one)
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my partner feverishly explained this before offering her substitution: âit croaksâ
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MCU didnât start until Iron Man in '08. All the X-Men movies were from before Marvel got into the movie business and had to partner with Sony.
I apologize for such a comic nerd answer that doesnât actually answer the original question (I can only assume they have a VTOL jet because it was in the comic).
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the second one has brian cox and and turned out way less flat than the first so people decided to praise it as great then they made the third one and everyone was like, darn, nevermind
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oh, i know! i meant i know the same criticisms of mcu movies are tired but this non-mcu one still raises an eyebrow because, uh, is this like a CIA-funded residential treatment center? what the hell? it sure seems like these kids arenât free to leave!
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You think the school had room for a runway?? Heâs not made of money you know!
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You can totally leave at any time but Professor X might use his super psychic powers to track you down and send someone after you. But yeah, youâre free to leave whenever you want (but youâll definitely be back).
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mostly because if you leave youâll either be recruited by militant fascists or murdered by militant fascists, so it kind of tracks that these kids would rather stick around a weird boarding school with a private stealth jet
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yeah in the world of xmen the government like literally has giant mutant hunting robots that disintegrate you. Anti-mutant sentiment is absurdly common and accepted. Half these kids had some kind of traumatic release of their powers that ostracized them from normies. Many xavier students dont have anywhere else to go
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Or, as the plot of xmen 2 focuses on, kidnapped by an alphabet agency and experimented on at some undisclosed blacksite
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Yea like itâs just a very hitlerian world. One of the many reasons why magnetoâs ideology of mutant separatism seems really good and cool in comparison.
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