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Not that I was expecting Two Towers-quality cinematic genius (it doesn’t come around often, just watch ROTK!), but even my very basic, withered, atrophied need for either intelligence or genuine emotion in bites cried out in protest. I was probably more moved by Will Ferrell’s spiraling delivery of “I’m in a glass cage of emotion!” than at any point during The Last Stand.

Maybe I was expecting too much. Clearly, the first two episodes of the X-men trilogy had at least some honest exploration of the characters. Wolverine and Rogue as two loners who find comfort in one another (in a brother/sister context of course. Watching the bond between them begin to develop and eventually expand to allow others others at best was typical/standard movie adapation of comic book fare. It’s just shit you find youself willing to tolerate.

But in hopefully the last vehicle of the franchise, the semblance of dramatic conflict has been leveraged repeatedly — a few, repeatedly (what’s with these scientiest or military fathers who spawn mutant freaks and then dedicate their lives tomutan eradication? Read the rest of this entry »