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04 Oct 2007, 2:40 pm

I watched X men two and three recently, and it reminded me of autism. You know, the whole cure/anticure debate, the prejudices... Just something to think about...



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05 Oct 2007, 3:34 am

As political allegory, I thought the third movie was the strongest.

Now we've only got to convince the world that we are superior mutants...



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05 Oct 2007, 1:52 pm

Generally I don't like too much watching films based on comics, some things like for example clothes of superheroes, looking so perfectly normal in comic books start to look ridiculously when shown in a movie.

I truly hope the fourth film will show us Apocalypse :D It's my favourite mutant :D

Btw, translation of some names of the characters into our language was simply stupid - something sounds so pretty in English but in Polish a literal translation of them is a veritable madness :? Cerebro's name was in Polish version not Cerebro but the Brain - there was that scene when Xavier was talking to Jean about this device and he asked her(I am not sure how it sounded in original English version): "Have you ever used the Brain"? Jean:"No, for someone like me it would be too dangerous". :twisted: :lol: Well, sincerity is considered a priceless quality :twisted:



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07 Oct 2007, 1:36 am

I loved the X-men movies. The reason the x-men have been popular since their creation is that they are a minority group. Everybody feels like they belong to a persecuted and misunderstood minority on some level. Finding a cure for the mutant gene is like a cure for autism or ADD or left-handedness. Some people want it and some like being unique. I think that Stan Lee was a genius for creating such an identifiable group of heroes.



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07 Oct 2007, 1:50 am

Aerin wrote:
I loved the X-men movies. The reason the x-men have been popular since their creation is that they are a minority group. Everybody feels like they belong to a persecuted and misunderstood minority on some level. Finding a cure for the mutant gene is like a cure for autism or ADD or left-handedness. Some people want it and some like being unique. I think that Stan Lee was a genius for creating such an identifiable group of heroes.


Are you serious? There are thousands of X-men; of course they're identifiable. If you don't like Cyclops you can like Wolverine, if you don't like them you can like one of the hundred female X-men. There are so many of them that you can't help but identify with one of them. It doesn't take a genius to just do a shotgun approach to characters.



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07 Oct 2007, 2:38 am

Joybob wrote:
Aerin wrote:
I loved the X-men movies. The reason the x-men have been popular since their creation is that they are a minority group. Everybody feels like they belong to a persecuted and misunderstood minority on some level. Finding a cure for the mutant gene is like a cure for autism or ADD or left-handedness. Some people want it and some like being unique. I think that Stan Lee was a genius for creating such an identifiable group of heroes.


Are you serious? There are thousands of X-men; of course they're identifiable. If you don't like Cyclops you can like Wolverine, if you don't like them you can like one of the hundred female X-men. There are so many of them that you can't help but identify with one of them. It doesn't take a genius to just do a shotgun approach to characters.


I was just saying how every group of people can identify with the X-Men. That's what makes them so great. The Fantastic Four were changed into superheroes, but the X-Men were born to it. Most non-comic reading people like the X-Men because they're a group of outsiders, they don't really look that deep into the thousands of mutants in the comics.



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07 Oct 2007, 4:20 pm

Irulan wrote:
Generally I don't like too much watching films based on comics, some things like for example clothes of superheroes, looking so perfectly normal in comic books start to look ridiculously when shown in a movie.

I truly hope the fourth film will show us Apocalypse :D It's my favourite mutant :D

Btw, translation of some names of the characters into our language was simply stupid - something sounds so pretty in English but in Polish a literal translation of them is a veritable madness :? Cerebro's name was in Polish version not Cerebro but the Brain - there was that scene when Xavier was talking to Jean about this device and he asked her(I am not sure how it sounded in original English version): "Have you ever used the Brain"? Jean:"No, for someone like me it would be too dangerous". :twisted: :lol: Well, sincerity is considered a priceless quality :twisted:









...Iru , how are Western contemporary movies such as the X-Men presented in Polish ? Dubbed ? Sub-titled ?
Or , with a narrator reading along with the show , as I have read is the tradition - Or , was . - in Polish movies and TV when using foreign material ?????????