{"id":15,"date":"2005-01-24T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2005-01-24T09:35:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T14:35:49","slug":"video-mini-review-x-men-2-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/24\/video-mini-review-x-men-2-united\/","title":{"rendered":"video mini-review: X-Men 2 United."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer every night, watching something or other I got from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcl.org\/\">library<\/a>. The past couple of days it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=befuddledsens-20&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB0000BWVCJ%2Fqid%3D1106577276%2Fsr%3D1-2%2Fref%3Dsr_1_2%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Ddvd\">X-Men 2<\/a>. Now, I was never a fan of the X-Men, or for that matter, Marvel comics. I was always a DC-type of guy and Batman was my favorite. The Batman movies weren&#8217;t all that great, and they got worse with time. But I liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005JMQW\/qid=1106577568\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-9456149-4022237?v=glance&#038;s=dvd\">Spider-Man<\/a> movies okay.<\/p>\n<p>Anway, the X-Men wasn&#8217;t operating that level. It was okay to watch. I especially liked the scene where one of the characters pilots the advanced jet through about 20 tornadoes caused by the character &#8220;Storm&#8221;. CGI forever! But beyond that, whatever. I give it 2 stars (out of 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer every night, watching something or other I got from the library. The past couple of days it has been X-Men 2. Now, I was never a fan of the X-Men, or for that matter, Marvel comics. I was always a DC-type of guy and Batman was my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-f","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}