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[geebs]

Saw the midnight showing of Spiderman 2 last night at Parkway Pointe. It was pretty cool, that's all I'll say. Okay, I'll say a little more. It had several comedic moments, and I enjoyed the action. The fights between Spidey and Doc Ock were well done, I think, very super-hero like. Its easy for the fight choreographers to just be lazy and rely on wire-fu and Matrix-like effects to give us a "superhuman" feel. While there was some of that, they did a good job of integrating both Spiderman and Dr. Octopus' abilities into it- Spidey's agility, web-slinging and wall-stickiness, and Ock's mechanical arms. I think one of the disappointments in X-men was the under-use of their powers- they basically fought it out Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style before, they realized, "Oh wait, I can hit them with a powerful blast of energy!" Even Rogue just uses her powers to knock people out! I suppose on could argue she and Iceman are "kids" and thus can't be fighting it out yet. But while the Nightcrawler scene in X-2 was cool, when did he become this martial arts bad-ass? Or Toad or Mystique?

I dunno, in my opinion, the Spiderman series is prolly my favorite of the recent comic book flix to come out in the last few years. Hellboy was okay, but nothing special there. X-men was cool too, but I found my mind drifting at times. Daredevil could have been better. And I didn't see the Punisher, but I don't think he translates well into movies anyways. His whole schtick has been a plot of action movies for decades! I don't count Blade. Honestly, Blade is a comic book character, but I think the movie is its own animal. I doubt he would have made a comeback in the Marvel Universe if the movie wasn't successful. I mean, before the movies, its like "Blade who? That vampire guy who hunted other vampires back in the 70s?" Its like making a movie about Luke Cage and the Iron Fist!

Getting farther in TF. Got all the mini-cons I currently can. It took a while, especially with tricky gliding you had to do. But now I have plenty of goodies, like my all-time fav, invisibility. Got a flak cannon so those pesky fliers are no longer the problem they have been. And I can also use it to take out those pesky dropships orbiting around. It was offending me that there was something out there I couldn't destroy. And I got a chargable blaster a la Metroid Prime. Anyways, I'm getting better, but I still suck. It took me forever to beat Cyclonus, and as such, went into one of my frothing, loud-cursing tirades upon his death. But its cool, I take on Tidal Wave next, that should be eggciting.

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Woah, this is a real old post to reply to! Or is it some weird LJ thing where it ate a post you made back then and I'm only now getting it? But yeah, I like them little whiskey girls. And them redneck women! You know, the kind of girls who go with gun racks.