I watched X2: X-Men United mid-week on DVD. The impetus was the release of the third X-Men movie. Although box office numbers have been great for the one in theaters now, I don’t want to see it without having seen both of the previous films.
Pretty solid film. Magneto (Ian McKellen) is quite a villain, and the plastic prison (which we saw briefly in the first film) is well executed. I don’t think I missed anything by seeing it at home versus the theater, though. Metacritic score of 68, although users were much higher, at 83.
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1 » X-Men: The Last Stand clock — watching time, the only true currency // Jun 14, 2006 at 8:25 pm
[...] X-Men: The Last Stand, otherwise known as X-Men 3, was playing to a mostly empty theater on Sunday night. I’ve watched the second one earlier this month. I think it’s helpful to have seen the earlier films; I’m not sure anyone would care about these characters without a bit of the back story. [...]
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