I'm not going to try to redeem them. Well I haven't seen any X man movies. I had my own problems with LXG a lot of which had to do with the assignment of work. It's very interesting when someone points out to a character in game...I mean movie, that they are useless. Dr. Jeckle obviously knew a thing or two about chemistry but instead of him analyzing the properties of the mysteries flash powder he's wandering around the Nautilus talking to himself. It almost seemed as though the writer of the screen play had decided to take it upon himself to single handedly make up for all the times women were seen as helpless victims and make Mina capable of doing everything herself.
When they need to recruit Dorian Mina is the one that enables it. When they are being sniped at Mina is the one who rescues them. She even gets several nice scenes to herself where she explains that she's way above any threat level and most of the time she waited until someone else tried something and failed before she'd lift a finger to show them up. I guess it was important to see how the world's best just paled in comparison to her.
In any case Alan Quartermane was useless since Mina could have captured Hyde all by herself. Tom Sawyer was just eye candy and provided nothing but spunk, Hyde's only job from what I could tell was to wow the audience with special effects and have a climactic fight scene at the end. Grey was a bad guy so he was actually necessary, Nemo was the ride and he filled that purpose admirably. The invisible man was off helping move the plot along for far to long off camera for my taste, and the Mina...well I've already ranted on her.
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X men and LXG
Date: 2004-02-10 09:48 am (UTC)It's very interesting when someone points out to a character in game...I mean movie, that they are useless.
Dr. Jeckle obviously knew a thing or two about chemistry but instead of him analyzing the properties of the mysteries flash powder he's wandering around the Nautilus talking to himself. It almost seemed as though the writer of the screen play had decided to take it upon himself to single handedly make up for all the times women were seen as helpless victims and make Mina capable of doing everything herself.
When they need to recruit Dorian Mina is the one that enables it. When they are being sniped at Mina is the one who rescues them. She even gets several nice scenes to herself where she explains that she's way above any threat level and most of the time she waited until someone else tried something and failed before she'd lift a finger to show them up.
I guess it was important to see how the world's best just paled in comparison to her.
In any case Alan Quartermane was useless since Mina could have captured Hyde all by herself. Tom Sawyer was just eye candy and provided nothing but spunk, Hyde's only job from what I could tell was to wow the audience with special effects and have a climactic fight scene at the end. Grey was a bad guy so he was actually necessary, Nemo was the ride and he filled that purpose admirably. The invisible man was off helping move the plot along for far to long off camera for my taste, and the Mina...well I've already ranted on her.