X-Treme Letdown.... boo.

Since I heard of the filming of X3, I had been waiting for this weekend to come- everyone knows that I'm an X-Junkie. Week after week, I read internet posts and other reports on what the current gossip about the movie was- who would they bring in when Bryan Singer was tapped for Superman and Wonder Woman, which characters are they going to bring in, what would the storyline be, etc. I remained really hopeful no matter what the press brought, positive or negative.
I saw the movie last night and my fears about the movie were brought to reality. While I understand that poetic license will occur in any book-to-movie, as could be seen in the first two movies- At least Singer remained loyal to the Marvel Universe. For example, X2 was based on a storyline arc, "God Loves, Man Kills" and remained fairly loyal to it. This third movie brought poetic license to a whole new level. The X3 storyline was a mish-mash of different ideas in the X-Universe. Not a coherent storyline, but one gigantic mix of characters, incomplete plotlines, and.. well.. just ideas that were given a blank slate, put together in a story and put on screen, with everyone just hoping for the best.
Thats what we got. Storylines including the "mutant cure" by Dr. Kavita Rao (yeah, I love the actress who played her, Shohreh Agdashloo), Dark Phoenix- 95% of the storyline not given, Rogue and her personal problems with her powers, Angel and the Worthington family, the Callisto/Storm rivalry... I could keep going on with these but this still needs to be readable.
And the characters. Very little character development. I can understand that they needed some mutant fodder, but gave no previous info on them. Arclight- a Marauder. Quill- a student at Xavier's. Spike- Evolution cartoon character and later X-Force/X-Tatix. Callisto- Morlock, and that half-wasn't her power. They even had Kitty and Colossus in the movie and they did NOTHING with their comic book relationship. That was extremely disappointing.
This was just a big action movie for action-movie sake. It was a good movie if you know NOTHING about the X-Men, Marvel Comics, and were just looking for a ton of explosions and special effects. Though I surprisingly did like Kelsey Grammer as Beast, even though I thought it was a bad idea.

urp.

Yeah, this month sucks.
Not even gonna go back to Mother's birthday and the toxic mutant flowers that almost killed me. Lets just have a short recap of the last 2 days.
Yesterday, work was just drudgingly long. Despite the really nice weather I was politely asked to do some menial labor "because the students were running out of time." so i got saddled with it. whee. The rest of the day went fairly quickly; even got to help out a student making a floorplan of a 2 story house out of Lego's because his team was a) absent, b) truant, or c) in in-school suspension (actually with those guys gone the class was pretty tolerable). After work, I took an alternate route to get comics and ended up in bumper to bumper traffic. Frustrated, I whipped out a map and looked for an alternate route when- >scrape< I rear-ended the car in front of me in a low speed collision. We're not exchanging insurance crap because of the minimal damage; we even had a little laugh about it. That freaked me out a little; I'm paying for his damages (only $150, but im glad cuz it couldve been worse) and i needed to fix my license plate. I felt so dumb because I was out on this road to get COMICS.
After comics, I went to Best Buy and got the new 4400 Season 2 DVD set (new season starts June 11!!). On the way out, I was drawn into the Guitar Hero display and rocked out- getting 97% on expert hurts. Sauntering on my way out I heard the voice of one of my students saying hi. So I pretty much showed him that not only am I a Sci-Fi nerd, but I play video games at a pretty high level (read- Uber-nerd). Still trying to decide if thats a good cred-booster at work with the kids. probably not.
so: work sucks, car collision, nerd-out. But I got my contour foam w/ pillows for my bed so im sleeping better.

cake shake OD

iiiiiiiiiincredible. so today was another of those days out shopping for junk and then grabbing some food [read: grease] on the way home.. i order my standard indulgent meal at portillo's [jumbo chilidog, chz fries, cake shake].. and usually, that's the *perfect* amount of food to where i'm just past full, but it's a good thing; you plan around these things. but today, TODAY, ugh. i had at least 1/3 of the fries left, 1/4 of the shake, and barely managed to finish the dog.. i am SO full, it's unbelievable. 3 hours or so later, and i'm still in pain.
wha's wrong with me, you ask? nothing! hahaha- i've attributed it to what my diet has turned into.. muuuuch less reliant on fast food, junk food, etc. not to say i'm an all-out health food nut or anything, just good stuff- in no small part thanks to gary ;) it's just now i'm so used to eating decently, i'm *not* used to eating so much BAD!
but.. i like eating bad stuff..
but.. look what it's doing to me..
[blargh]