"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."
---Kirkus
Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.
Really sharp reading of the mind-boggling X3, from Jane Dark’s sugarhigh!:
One by one, the X-Women are stripped of their powers: by cure, by election, and by death…The idea of the aging babe as destroyer of worlds belongs to Hollywood itself, wherein “world” always means market share.
Mon, June 12 2006 » Movies/TV
I thought the whole ending of the film was ripped off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Season Six Finale.
There was also a disturbing lack of “crisis of conscience” (for lack of a better phrase) - when the supposed good guys strip Magneto of his powers using the cure. It just seemed that that should have evoked a more powerful reaction.
Eh, the whole movie was a mess.
And Famke Janssen apparently got into Stevie Nick’s wardrobe before filming…
They were showing X2 on the plane, and I suddenly realized that everything wrong with everything could be explained by the fact that Helen Mirren will never get to play a supervillain.