Beyond My Geeky Life

I hope everyone is having a enjoyable Halloween today. I could blog about a lot today, there is just so much going on. I loved the Star Wars Episode 9 trailer.  Really looking forward to the film and I believe it will be good. I don't really like where they have gone with the X-Men in the comics. Not sure what they were thinking. Seems like the X-Men have now become Magneto's dream not Prof. X's. Watched the first two episode's of HBO's Watchmen. Not a fan. Something about it feels off. I don't think it is lined up with the Graphic Novel myself. I think the story itself might work better for me if it was in its own universe and was its own thing, but I don't find it feels like the Watchmen universe. And so far I saw every 'twist' coming a mile away. What I have seen is way too predictable and I get the feeling the writing is not going to improve. Instead of going into detail on any of that, I am going to promote myself and what I have been ...

I remember back before the MCU, back when super-hero movies were a rarity. Even rarer were really good ones. Superman has his item in the early 80s, with movies that only work if you accept just how badly campy they are. There had been the Batman movies, which had a good start, but didn't last long as the quality dropped withe very movies.  Blade had come and surprised everyone, but few realized it was a super-hero movie. Then came X-Men. This was a real super-hero movie with interesting, complex characters, a decent plot, with good special effects and well done fight scenes and one of the greatest openings to a movie ever. In just those few moments we understood the character of Magneto. The first X-Men movies showed us just what the genre could be. Ignore some bad dialogue and the over use of comic book science, and you have an enjoyable film. And X2 was... Well it showed that a squeal could be something amazing and unique. It was so much better than the first. the had clearl...