[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Music preferences in the HP world (if they listened to Muggle music)

[Kathryn]

Kathryn,

Actually, that part I didn't mind. It was the fact that they (the 
general public) have the belief of "We've gotta have Wolverine. 
Without Wolverine, X-Men can't exist. The entire space-time 
continuum relies on Logan being in X-Men." They should've just stuck 
with the original five (of which Logan was _NOT_ a part): Cyclops, 
Beast (who wasn't always a blue-furred gorilla), Iceman, Archangel, 
Phoenix (Jean Grey).

My biggest complaints:

Wolverine and Sabretooth being about the same height. I have the 
trading cards; Sabretooth is 6'7", Wolverine is 5'4".

Storm getting her butt kicked by the Toad. A second-stringer, for 
frag's sake!

The Toad having green hair and yellow skin. That's the DC Comic 
character the Creeper (who I always think of when I hear that laugh 
at the beginning of "Wipeout"). You may have seen the character on 
that Batman animated series that was on the WB for a while.

Anyway, I'm done ranting for now.

Jack

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I was disappointed with how they treated Sabretooth. The guy was totally
inept, every single task he was given he screwed up somehow. He's supposed
to be a match for Wolverine but every time you see him in the film you have
to wonder how it is that Wolverine couldn't deal with him with both hands
tied behind his back. Wolvie is one of my favourite characters so I'm glad
he was in the film. I missed Beast and Archangel but there are so many X-men
that I understand why they just picked a few - most cinamagoers would have
been confused as hell if they'd dumped the whole lot on us in one go. It
didn't bother me that they made Bobby a kid as much as I didn't get *why*
they did it - they could have easily found another character to use without
having to de-age Bobby. Having said that they made up for it with the
offhand reference to blue and yellow spandex (I would probably have killed
to see Hugh Jackman in a skintight costume like that but I liked what they
picked.) Liked Kitty Pryde too.

However, was I the only one who spent most of the film battling the urge to
whack Cyclops round the head with something? I mean yes Scott Summers is the
pin-up boy for all-american heroes but honestly the movie version was so
uptight, straightlaced and goody-goody that I couldn't stand him. However it
wasn't a bad attempt at bringing them to the screen, certainly beats George
(I-don
t-think-people-want-to-hear-Batman-going-on-about-some-incident-in-his-childh
od) Clooney

K