new job

[cali]

I've been ridiculously busy this week because in the midst of graduating from college I also got a new job and have already started. It's just data entry (read: incredibly, horribly boring) but it's for a non-profit I've volunteered with for years and they're paying me $12 an hour so I'm really not complaining. The most obnoxious thing is that the internet sometimes doesn't work. Very frustrating! But the guy I'm workingclosest with is a friend of mine and I have a couple of other friends working here too so it all evens out I think.

In other news, I saw the x-men movie last night and I was a little unexcited by it. It was exactly what I had been afraid of: it was just all action all the time and it didn't have any of the psychological/political overtones of the first two. I still enjoyed it, I mean it was pretty entertaining, but on the whole? It was kind of a let down. Especially since they fucked the Dark Phoenix mythology all to hell and gone. I mean seriously. Professor X! The power of Wolverine's love!

I hate that they never really addressed the fact that they essentially set up two bad guys in the film: Magneto and the cure, and then just ignored both of them in favor of the Bigger Plot of Wolverine's Great Love for Jean. I mean seriously. Magneto's last line? "What have I done?" I call bullshit. Neither Magneto or Mystique would have ginormous changes of heart that quick. And having the ending be so happy go lucky/Beast is the head of the US's United Nations delegation, see the president's not a bad guy at all annoyed the hell out of me too. It's like they never even read a single x-men comic or something. Plus it's still not the x-men without Gambit. And if they were going to introduce a new character (Warren) why the hell couldn't they at least give him a few more lines?

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[handful.livejournal.com]

Yay for new job!

[cynicatlantis.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the job!

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[eponis.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I agree with pretty much everything in your review. Nowhere near as good as the first two.

Except - it didn't have any of the psychological/political overtones of the first two.

You really think? To me, the problem was that it had too many political overtones, and it kept mixing its metaphors to the point where it just got confused. Being a mutant is like being gay: you are who you are, it's an inherent part of you and you shouldn't feel ashamed of it! Being a mutant is like being pregant: it's your choice to control your body, and nobody should stop you! Being a mutant is like being from the Middle East: the public will hate you along with the terrorists who look like you! Which leads to conclusions like: it's more effective to bomb abortion clinics than to protest them! And if you get an abortion, your boyfriend will be repulsed by you!

But yeah. Lots of little moments of fan service and cuteness, some fun action, but overall a mess, with a massive amount of out-of-characterness.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm yeah I think I agree with you re: the political overtones. I'll restate. This movie didn't have any of the well written psychological/political overtones of the first two. It was a complete mishmash. And I thought they pretty much ruined all of the tension of the Cyclops story by having him killed off screen. I spent pretty much the whole movie thinking he wasn't really dead. What a waste. astolat had some good observations about the movie in her journal.

[magician-sakura.livejournal.com]

I have yet to see it. At first I was super excited waiting for it to come out, and now after the review pop out and the people I know tell me their thoughts... I'm kinda just shrugging and going "Meh." I'll still watch it though. My loyalty forces me.