Reviews of X2
Ian Galbraith
been uniformly lukewarm yet the reaction here has been uniformly
positive. Maybe its a movie for the fans. Although some of the reviews
have made clear that the reviewers didn't really watch the film, for
example Leigh Paatsch in the Melbourne Herald Sun stated that there
was no explanation for the X-Men and Magneto teaming up. WTF!!
Phil Sweeney
I was surprised at the extreme negativity of the review in the EG
(what's his name?). Very harsh indeed.
Phil
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"Ian Galbraith" <igalb...@ozonline.com.au> wrote in message
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Leigh Paastch was the same person who gave X-Men(2000) 4 stars out of 5, yet
this around 2.5 out of 5.
Yes I know generally sequels can suck(not in the case of X2 though) and most
of the time deserve the poor score- but this time he definitely got it
wrong.
In regards to the bit about Magnetto and X-Men joining forces and what
Paatsch wrote about this- a definite WTF is in order!!
damnfine
Name one good Australian newspaper critic.
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Keith Gow
waxed lyrical:
>"Ian Galbraith" wrote:
>> One thing that I've found interesting is that the reviews of X2 have
>> been uniformly lukewarm yet the reaction here has been uniformly
>> positive. Maybe its a movie for the fans. Although some of the reviews
>> have made clear that the reviewers didn't really watch the film, for
>> example Leigh Paatsch in the Melbourne Herald Sun stated that there
>> was no explanation for the X-Men and Magneto teaming up. WTF!!
>
>Name one good Australian newspaper critic.
Adrian Martin, The Age.
I don't always agree with him, but at least he knows what he's talking
about.
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"Phil Sweeney" <phil@NOSPAM_whirlpool.net.au> wrote in message
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> I was surprised at the extreme negativity of the review in the EG
> (what's his name?). Very harsh indeed.
I'm surprised too. I would have thought that X2 was gonna be hearld as the
next Gone With The Wind.
fAbs
going on, and Magneto told thme what was happenning, and proposed a truth to
save all the mutants on earth, and their professor? ..after saving them
ofcourse.
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"Ian Galbraith" <igalb...@ozonline.com.au> wrote in message
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Ian Galbraith
Jim Schembri who has very little credibility as a critic. He appears
to deliberately go against the grain on most of his reviews. He's an
entertaining writer but don't read him for an informed review.
Ian Galbraith
wrote:
>Adrian Martin, The Age.
Seconded.
corks
saving jewish homosexual piano playing whales stuck in the ice....it'll
never get a good review
out of interest what did straigthorn and pommeranian think of it
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"corks" <trig...@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> lets face unless its some arty farty movie about french killer lesbians
> saving jewish homosexual piano playing whales stuck in the ice....it'll
> never get a good review
>
> out of interest what did straigthorn and pommeranian think of it
You can find out all about what they thought here:- http://tinyurl.com/axsj
:)
Trevor Gensch
<igalb...@ozonline.com.au> wrote:
> Maybe its a movie for the fans.
Most definatley - what has got me most excited about it is being able
to draw parallels with the first movie and more importantly the
animated series. Its a movie for the fans, no doubt.
But that isn't to say it isn't a good film - its a cracker.
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Mitch Gibbs
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> On Sun, 04 May 2003 11:22:08 +1000, Ian Galbraith
> <igalb...@ozonline.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Maybe its a movie for the fans.
>
> Most definatley - what has got me most excited about it is being able
> to draw parallels with the first movie and more importantly the
> animated series. Its a movie for the fans, no doubt.
>
> But that isn't to say it isn't a good film - its a cracker.
I think X-Men was a sleeper (for my age group anyway) - a $480M sleeper. Only
really recognized by it's potential by comic book readers and those more
enlightened. X2 will do better IMO.
Mitch
Ian Galbraith
<mgi...@removemail.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
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>I think X-Men was a sleeper (for my age group anyway) - a $480M sleeper. Only
>really recognized by it's potential by comic book readers and those more
>enlightened. X2 will do better IMO.
It had the 2nd biggest opening in the US ever behind only Spiderman.
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David Barnett
: been uniformly lukewarm yet the reaction here has been uniformly
: positive. Maybe its a movie for the fans.
Equivalently, for people who have read the comic books.
Unfortunately, I haven't read them myself.
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