Special K

'no' what?

Or that chick that led the X-Men for a long time and flew around and shit and caused storms. What was her name?

Even within the confines of whatever they're trying to do, Korn shouldn't be above Nine Inch Nails. No Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pearl Jam or Smashing Pumpkins? Fucking rubbish. Blink 182 ahead of Fugazi makes me want to puke. Green Day was more important than Nirvana? This list fucking sucks dick.

I think I'll have to see it again to judge it objectively. Damn, but did they do beast well, rhough, goood showon that front. Personality, Powe4rs, et al. And juggernaut bitch or no, that race, with Kittyt phasing and Juggernaut runng through everything, was very cool.

Though I still read comic books at 25, so thats pretty fucking nerdy. I play through a video game like twice a year now. Watch lots of movies. Watch very little TV now (Basically The Office, Veronica Mars and whatever FX show is on.) Don't really watch wrestling anymore, though I buy a tape or DVD about once a year. Oh, and I've seen my good share of anime, though I don't think I've watched anything besides a couple Miyazaki movies in the past year.

I think it'll play much more poorly on video. It was fun for the gee-golly special FX, but it really did turn out to be a clusterfuck, as most people feared. And I can't believe they built a 2500-foot replica of the GG bridge for that silly, silly, scene.

I like Jerry Lawler's fistdrop. Yeah, the Heart Punch would hurt, but so would getting socked in the face 20-30 times which often happens in a wrestling match. Shane Douglas's Belly-to-Belly of death had the impact of a basic body slam and was treated like death after 10 chair shots. He gets credit back for using the AWESOME Pittsburgh Plunge (Fishermen's buster into small package) And I marked out for the Greetings from Asbury Park. If done correctly, it would be fucking devastating(Rikishi always did it really well.) but Bam-Bam always left their heads above the canvas by at least a foot, making it really funny-looking. Here's one that might be a little more controversial: The Swanton Bomb. It's a beautiful, rather death-defying move, but it basically amounts to "Ow, your shoulder skimmed me while you just threw yourself off the top rope." Again, it's a really pretty move, but almost any other top rope move looks it has more actual impact on the victim.

Essential X-Men. It's your friend. Dazzler is not. She was a disco queen on roller-skates. She was really embarassing.

Lots of good stuff coming this summer. I'll see Nacho Libre, Superman, PotC2, Pulse and Clerks II pretty much for sure. And Motherfuckin' Snakes on a Motherfuckin' plane. There are also some intriguing looking ones like a Scanner Darkly and Lady in the Water. But Jesus Christ, all the horror movie remakes are starting to tick me off. Wicker Man? That movie, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre was pretty much perfectly conceived the first time around. Black Christmas? Now there's a good slasher flick that probably no one remembers.

Yeah, I really don't like Cable. I'll freely admit half of it is to his ridiculous Rob Liefield look. But he has the most morose, uninteresting personality. Deadpool may be a ripoff, but he had some great comedic issues. Bishop? Don't know enough to judge. Most of what I know about him is from the animated series. Lasers or not, Dazzler's roller-skating ass is lame. She was pretty cool in Ultimate, though.

A couple of Juggernaut's line-readings, while the lines themselves are fairly stupid, are golden. Notably when he kicks the door down with Lilandra.

I can't believe anyone thought a Phoenix Force from outer space was going to come down and possess Jean. Or that Juggernaut would have gotten his powers from the magical gem of cyttorak or whatever. Guess what? I really doubt Spidey's going to go on a Secret War and find the symbiote on an alien planet. And he probably won't beat Sandman with a fucking vacuum cleaner. Prepare to be disappointed. I always thought one of the most badass fights would be Rogue versus Juggernaut. I can't remember Colossus doing anything in the movie besides the two fastball specials and carrying a TV because he is teh storng.

The line about being invincible because of his Jamaican flag suit was pretty funny. The first couple of minutes made me laugh, then it wore thin.

This movie sounds awesome!

INCORRECT Mr. Sensitive is the SHIT. Anarchist is pretty cool too. Sure, they have some silly powers, but they're supposed to be silly. And how can you hate Doop?

Just saw it. Fun action scenes, but way too much jammed into 104 minutes. Absolutely no character development. I think they knew they had script issues, so they just put as much fanboy stuff in as possible. (fastball special, Juggernaut bitch, Iceman finally going icy, tons of cameos) Halle Berry sucks, so many characters were underused and she just sucked up screen time after originally turning down the role completely. Colossus had, what? One line? Jamie Madrox is the shit. His power always bothered me, though. If you kill one of eight of him, what happens? Wow, Cyclops, the longest running character in X-Men, was in about 10 minutes of X2 & 3 combined. And lastly, two X-statix cameos, and no Mr. Sensitive, Anarchist or U-Go Girl? Heresy!

His name is THE PUSHER. He's related to THE DEFENSTRATOR. Pak Chooey Umf. Or some reasonable facsimile. And Puh-nowned is funnier than powned. It just is.

Not nearly 'nuff said. Review?

Having recently reread 'Hitman' I'll start with some members of Section 8. The DEFENSTRATOR. To defenstrate is to throw out a window. This is his only power. It has been stated that he got into a row with a GOtham cop, and threw him through the same window 14 times. Carries a spare window with him. Bueno Excelente. As the leader of the team states: He fights the powers of evil with perversion! His power is fucking criminals up the ass. Seriously. And the best for last: The DOGWELDER: Wears a we;ders suit and mask. catches stray dogs in bear traps. His power? He keeps a cache of dead dogs attached to his suit. He takes them, and welds them to villains' faces. Fuckin' brilliant. Section 8 also has a guy names Shakes who does nothing but have DTs (something I think Garth Ennis is familiar with) And Friendly Fire, who is able to fire powerful energy blasts, but always misses and hits his teammates.

Mongo, on the first Nitro, I think the first words spoken on a Nitro: LOOK AT THIS VENUE THIS PLACE IS APROPO, AND THAT DON'T MEAN YOU'RE DIGGIN' AROUND WITH FARM IMPLEMENTS BABAY!

The best OMGPLAGIARISM! mashup of all time is Orbital's Halcyon (live) where they break the song to mix "You Give Love a Bad Name" with "Heaven is a Place on earth", then mix in Halcyon. It's on one of the B-discs to "In Sides" (which is one of the best techno albums anyway) which also features the awesome "Satan". Those are some pretty damning clips. But shit, Jet's whole act is ripping off songs and trying to sound exactly like other artists.

In that vein? Excel Saga. And the Ultimate Teacher. Maybe Ranma too. In the f'ed up serious-not-humorous collumn, Serial Experiment: Lain and Texhnolyze. Azumanga Daioh's the funniest anime I've ever seen by a long shot, tho. And I do believe I forgot Read or Die, which has the distinction of being completely awesome, and having the best name of any anime ever. It's three half-hour OVAs, which can basically be taken as a 90-minute movie. Great animation, some awesome action scenes, and one of the most loveably protaganists ever. Followed by an above-average 26-epi series.

The Berzerk manga when all's said and done will probably cover literally at least 6x the material the anime did. Trigun, similarly is still running in Manga form. Last Exile is pretty swell. Amazing animation for a TV show. ONly seen the first volume. Wolf's Rain I could not get into. I dunno about X the series, but X the movie is just gawdawful. I know the previews look cool, but trust me. The only cool thing about it is the unintentionally hilarious anticlimactic final duel. It pretty much sums up the movie. 25 & 26 are the ending Hideaki Anno wanted though. (I'm sure he didn't want the shite animation) End of Evangelion, in a way, is Anno mocking the fans. I personally prefer End, though ep 26 does have its merits, if 25 had somewhat set it up. And End has some real moments of fucking animated majesty.

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