wildcat

1. I wanted to review X3: The Last Stand but I was too appalled by the whole thing to even bother, other than to say that they mined about six different story arcs in making the script - many of which either didn't mesh together properly or needed to have space of their own - and that golly gee, the overwhelming message of the movie is that Powerful Women Who Go Crazy really just need a deep-dickin' to make them feel better. I could have just watched that one scene with Jason Lee in Chasing Amy to get that and not be both bored and offended. Jean Grey has to be cured/killed by thrusty-grunty manhood penetrating her via Wolverine's claws, followed by an extremely distressing post-coital expression on Famke Jenssen's face as she dies. Woo-fucking-hoo. And apparently they forgot how important Rogue's character arc has been, serving as the backbone of the trilogy, and they send off the superior actress Anna Paquin for three quarters of the movie instead of giving Rogue some story time. There wasn't character development so much as a series of character cameos. It's really irritating to have a decent batch of actors (Jackman, Kelsey Grammar, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Paquin) often in the same scene together but given absolutely nothing of value to do or say.

2. Mostly because I've been haphazard and busy for the past couple days, my word count is only 9776. I'm going to push to break an even 10,000 by the end of the hour come hell or high water, and then pound out some more tonight.