I finally got up off my ass the other day and went to go see a movie. I haven't been to the theater in a long, long time. Anyway, I went and saw X2: X-Men United. It pretty much kicked ass. I'm glad I saw it in the theater; the effect would have been lost on a TV screen. The movie kind of blew its wad early, though; the Nightcrawler fight scene was probably the best action sequence and that was over in the first five minutes. They're definitely setting up the franchise to go into the Dark Phoenix saga, though, what with Jean Gray's eyes and hands lighting on fire occasionally. Not a classic attribute of a telepath/telekinetic, but certainly suggestive of Phoenix. I also like Beast's cameo as Dr. Hank McCoy and at least they included a mention of Gambit. I would have liked to have seen the Fastball Special, though...

I also recently found two trailers for a Hong Kong movie of 2001 that is finally being released in the US. Yes indeed, it's Shaolin Soccer. I'm kind of amped about it; I might just go ahead and order the foreign DVD instead of waiting for the English dub to be released in August. Part of that is because of the ridiculously high cost of seeing a movie in the theater. I paid $6 for a matinee, and that doesn't even include the price I paid to park my car. If I see three movies, that's the cost of buying one DVD. That's ridiculous.