Mutants, Unite, Again!

Perhaps you pay attention only to "traditional" news and thought we were living in a depressing era of terror and torture. Well, you're half-right. The other half of the time, we're living in a new golden era of wintertime movie trailers — yesterday the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean was unveiled, and today our no. 2 top link is the trailer for a little movie we like to call X-Men 3. The original director, Bryan Singer, may be gone, as well as that lovable blue German demon who charmed our hearts in the last movie ("In ze Munich sssircus I vas known as 'ze amazink Nightcrawler' "), but in his place is that beloved blue scientist known as Henry McCoy, aka Beast. Played by Kelsey Grammer, of course, he's a sublime casting choice that will shine through all that makeup and fur. Gosh, what must bloggers think about all this? Actually, they're pretty lukewarm. Twitch: "The first trailer for X3 has gone online and I have to say I was more than a little nervous going into this. I love both of Singer's X-Men films but between the last-minute director juggling, constant script revision, loss of key cast - losing Nightcrawler really hurts for me - and Halle Berry's continuous raging ego this is one that just screamed 'troubled production.' " People are also worried that Halle Berry now has short hair: "I really don't know what to think of Storm's hair. Honestly. What in the world is that? It's like she's trying to rock the black streaks in her hair that Chloe wore in "Rush". And it looked better on Chloe, I think." Picky, picky picky! Whatever, dude. This movie's gonna be sweet.

Posted by Philip Ewing at December 7, 2005 10:23 AM

Category: Moving Pictures