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I don't think I know any movie more prepared for a sequel.
I mean, Magneto's last line, say no more. Although he probably won't be the villain then. Hopefully Apocalypse and his horsemen. *Wants to see animated "Holocaust"*
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6/ 3 X-MEN $6.1/$135.6 (4)
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It made $6.1 this week? That's one lonely moviegoer.
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IIRC, X-Men had the highest-grossing opening weekend for any non-sequel movie in the first 6 months of 2000.
In Hollywood terms, that's an attention-getter.
plus, there's the whole merchandising angle: "The Perfect Storm" may have sold some tickets, but no one's going to rush out to Toys R Us and buy the sinking boat playset for the kiddies.
My little suggestion for any possible X-Men sequel: maybe this time Wolverine could actually _kill_ someone? The guy's a walking vegematic and the worst he does is beat-up some truckers, pig-stick a blue babe, and throw some growling git off a building...what a waste of potential.
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What a way to keep it a low rating as oppose to R, in which parents might not of taken their 10 year old son to go see.
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Nothing, and I mean NOTHING!!! can compete with the way the splatter-trendsetting "RoboCop" (1987) was castrated by the pathetic dito TV-show. I have never ever seen such nauseatingly pacifistic ways of disposing terrorist-gangs without hurting anyone.
At least Logan almost gutted a small girl.
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almost and she wasn't that small ------------------ "Homer, you're dumb as a mule and twice as ugly, if a strange man offers you a ride, I say take it"-Abe S.
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on the subject of sanitized violence, I saw the original "La Femme Nikita" and considered the funny 'restaurant scene' to be one of the best shoot-outs in movies, helped by that great back-beat.
Years later, along comes the TV series (if I get this right, an Australian actress playing an American assassin in a Canadian-made series based on a French movie.)
The restaurant "hit" involved Nikita just shooting at a steam pipe (!) to incapacitate the bad guys.
I haven't watched another episode, but based on the moody, hipper-than-hip commercials, it doesn't seem to have improved.
No, I don't like ridiculous "John Woo" action scenes (Con Air, Face Off, etc) or some of Quentin Tarantino's splatterfest... but c'mon!!!
He's a wolverine! He has Ginsu knives in his arms! Throw some ninjas at him in the next movie.
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John Woo acrobatics belong in the original John Woo-movies (The Killer, Hardboiled, Once A Thief).
How ABOUT that Nikita-beat!? Dum-dum Powah, Dum-Powah, Dum-Dum Powah, Dum-Powah...
*realizes that will make little or no sense to the uninitiated*
Wolvie was cool, now if he could only pitch his growl a little lower...
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Are you talking about the La Femme Nikita series on USA Xen? If so, it's one of my favorite shows. Also it's where I think DS9 got the idea of Section 31 from.
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