{"id":720,"date":"2000-07-17T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2000-07-18T01:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2000\/07\/17\/720\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T16:02:41","slug":"x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2000\/07\/17\/x-men\/","title":{"rendered":"x-men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ i was *forced* to wait 1.5 hours to see &#8216;x-men&#8217; and *had* to sit in the third row from the screen, but the movie was suprisingly worth it. having been an unabashed collector of marvel comics for the past 16 years, i have seen repeatedly the shameful adaptations into live action: &#8216;captain america&#8217; (video), &#8216;nick fury &#8211; agent of s.h.i.e.l.d.&#8217; (television miniseries), &#8216;fantastic four&#8217; (to my knowledge only bootleg copies exist), &#8216;blade&#8217; (starred wesley snipes). even a true-believer should be ready for the worst. however, apart from an initial impatience with the back story that had to be spelled out to the philistines who hadn&#8217;t picked up an &#8216;x-men&#8217; comic in the past 35 years, i was more than pleased with both the personalities and the accurate relationships in the film. the good examples of the love-triangle between cyclops, jean grey, and wolverine or the personal respect\/professional animosity between xavier and magneto both outweigh the tender footed portrayal of storm by the vapid halle berry. i happen to know that technology is capable of better effects than we are given, but logan&#8217;s claws looked totally righteous, even if it seems that the x-men never existed without him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/logdot.gif\" alt=\"logdot\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>~ does this week&#8217;s news [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\">npr.org<\/a>] unfair to anyone else? if you live in florida, and are actually stupid enough to misunderstand (and stupid enough to admit it) the dangers of smoking, you now get a piece of $145 billion; on the other hand, if you were forced into slave labor during the holocaust, you have to make due with only splitting $4.8 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/logdot.gif\" alt=\"logdot\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>~ are *still* you looking for the photos of the new home for the southern california institute of architecture? in seven weeks, this <a href=\"#\">building<\/a> (*link removed) will be converted into the most intense, &#8216;avant garde&#8217; graduate and under-graduate architectural school in downtown l.a., if not the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ i was *forced* to wait 1.5 hours to see &#8216;x-men&#8217; and *had* to sit in the third row from the screen, but the movie was suprisingly worth it. having been an unabashed collector of marvel comics for the past 16 years, i have seen repeatedly the shameful adaptations into live action: &#8216;captain america&#8217; (video), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,20,41,7],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-comic-books","tag-hypocrisy","tag-media","tag-sci-arc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}