X2 and His Dylanness.

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BOB DYLAN! LESS THAN TWO DAYS AWAY!

Yes indeed, on Saturday night myself and my adoring mama will be only seventeen rows from His Bobness Himself. I hope to God that he's having a good day... Dylan's famous for being either fantastic or shite depending on his mood. I will admit that part of the reason I begged my mam to get the tickets on ebay was because I'm a little scared that if we don't go now, I will never be in the same building as Bob Dylan. And quite frankly I'm tired of my 'I've not seen much live music because the people I want to see aren't in a position to make live music' excuse.

Finally saw X-Men 2 today thanks to emony who lent me her shiny new DVD... And absolutely no thanks to Natasha, John and marquiserachel who all promised during the cinematic release to go with me up in Lancaster and then all promptly went with other people.



Tis a pretty good film- I certainly liked it more than the first one, which I saw on a cold Lancastrian day in the first year, probably because the first film had to spend much too long establishing everything for people who haven't read the comics or seen the cartoon (people like me, then). I think it's just a bit more dynamic than the previous movie, although this will only be proved to me by a second viewing.

Liked Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner/Alan Cumming/Whatever and was expecting to see an evil-doer (thought it was Toad from the first picture at first glance)... Did not expect a German circus-performer with deep religious scruples. Also, when he first said Wagner, I was inexplicably reminded of Paul Nicholas as the composer Richard Wagner in Lisztomania and was transported back to that in my mind. Consquently had to re-watch the next few minutes again cos I was concentrating more on Roger Daltrey than Nightcrawler.

Logan/Wolverine is just so damned cool. I thought so in the first film, but this time... The moment when he leaps from the balcony and stuff to save Rogue and Bobby, I did actually say, out load "OH MY GOD!".

I know that there are lots of Logan/Rogue shippers out there, but in this movie at least, Rogue & Bobby were really very sweet. Made me smile.

Question: Why does a boarding school have a kitchen more suited to an affluent family than a, you know, school?

The armoured kid we see who takes the kids back to safety during the raid on the school- is he meant to look like the dude who played Superman in the TV series, Dean something?

Another raid thing- do you really believe that that weird nightgown thing is what a bird like Rogue wears to bed? That was just a gratutitous 'let's get a bird in a skimpy dress' thing.

Also thought Mystique was quite cool this movie- and it was nice to see Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as herself and clothed, albeit briefly.

Stryker was a bit cliched-rogue/evil-government-man, but whatever.

Funny moment: Bobby's mam saying 'Have you tried not being a mutant?' Kinda summed up the whole mutant thing for me really, in a funny if heavy-handed kinda manner.

Saw the Pyro thing coming a mile away. Saw the Girl-Wolverine thing coming a mile away. Liked it anyway.

And last thing: Is she really dead? Will there be an X3? *hopes so* I assume so since we still don't really know what the fuck happened with Logan and Stryker and the big lake thing and the adamantium thing. *still confused*

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Woo hoo!

Don't know about the drinking bit- you'd think I'd have heard something along those lines, but then again, maybe not!