I being a TV-show watcher of Spider-Man (old skool), TMNT (old skool), Superman, B:TAS, and X-Men... all the other 90's shows that followed (I think I hit the ones I watched when I was younger, The Real Ghostbusters was in there but that doesn't apply to the situation...)... I have never read the comics.

I just got into reading the comics of most of these shows (and movies) because I liked them. Now, one of my friends is obsessed with X-Men (she owns all the Evolution DVD's that are out and I started watching them around 3rd season) and while we saw V for Vendetta they showed the X-Men: Last Stand trailer. This very same one.

She could name the charcters, she too also had problems with the changes and things going on with the storyline. I can't remember exactly what she said, but if I showed her this article she'd perhaps say you hit home on it.

I had faith in this movie because it was being done by a different director, also he said he was staying truthful to the comics. (Obviously implying "more action" meant "more faithful".) But since you seem like a huge comic fan, you know what you are doing. And if I was at that level, I'd possibly have a website where I'd be venting out my anger, too.

But I will keep this all in mind when I get down to reading the comics/graphic novels. I do, however, think they picked really good actors for the roles. But they have a terrible screenplay to work with.

Andi

A series I HIGHLY recommend for you is "Lunch Hour Comics". Basically, it's a guy who for one hour a day draws a comic-strip about whatever is on his mind. It's VERY simular to the DPH comics that you draw about your life.

More on that in the coming weeks.

Here's an article by Peter Chung (yes, the Æon Flux guy) that I think very much applies to our current conversation.

I would have to say I disagree with his dislike of first-person narration in comics, but I think he makes some VERY interesting points.

2-Well, the Brotherhood wants to kill all humans so mutants will rule the world. The X-Men just want the humans to leave the mutantsalone. There's a difference.

3-Tetsu, you described "Postman Blue's" in one paragraph, and it already sounds better than "Naked Blood".

4-I've red "New X-Men" and played the game "X-Men: Next Dimension", and the X-Men wear leather costumes.

But come on, colorful skin-tight costumes make you look like a grag queen. Leather battle gear make you look badass. Did anyonje in "The Matrix" wore spandex? How about "Mad Max", "Escape From New York" or "The Crow"?

5-Professor X and Wolverine had pretty deep lines, and I don't want to argue about what you undertand by "depth".

Also, in a movie about a team of heroes VS a team of villains, you have to develop some characters and leave others in the background.

6-I'm not defending Juggernaut, but I think the director went with that look because:

a) the helmet would cover too much of Vinnie Jone's face

b) the jacket would cover too much of Vinnie Jone's body, therefore being unable to show his muscles to show just how buffed up Juggernaut is.

I can send you a copy, if you like.

Postman's Blues sounds interesting -- I'll have to look into it. Off the top of my head, though, I'd have to say that these are vastly different kinds of movies -- difficult to compare head-to-head. But in the artsy foreign sci-fi category, Naked Blood is pretty tough to beat.

I'd also like to say that one of my biggest complaints about the X-Men movies, is the new costumes. And, I'd REALLY like to say that movie-juggernaut looks like a Chô Aniki character!

I'd also like to say "Naked Blood" looks like a pretty good movie to me, and is one I'd watch given the chance. No way it's any better than "Postman's Blues" though.

Re 2: Beats me, but that's how it seems.

Re 3: Two characters too many, though I can see putting Trask in the film. The guy playing Trask looks kinda like Apocalypse to me, though -- if he were to do an Apocalypse turn towards the close of the movie, I think I might actually be able to stomach a fourth. Unless, of course, they fucked him up like they did poor Juggernaut...

Re 4: Maybe not spandex, but they certainly could've stuck to the color schemes and/or given them legitimate costumes instead of standard punk street clothes. For Pyro, a trench coat with flames around the hem and an orange and red undershirt might even have been acceptable. Juggernaut's costume required almost no modification, though.

Re 5: Yes, but my point is that the X-Men in these movies are no more idealistic than Magneto and the Brotherhood, so why are they fighting? It's certainly not to further the Professor's dream, since he doesn't seem to be dreaming of anything other than mutant segregation.

Re 6: Did you actually see the movie, or did you just read my review? If the latter, I fear I didn't do it justice. Yes, parts of it are pretty sick, but it's really a clever film.

And Arkham had some pretty interesting inmates, so I'd probably fit in better with them than I do among people in this society! At least until the Joker murdered me for cheating at cards, anyway.