After seeing Dune I wanted Hyperion to be adapted more than anything else.

Nearly anything speculative by China Mieville, but in terms of ‘filmability’, The City & The City is probably the easiest.

i mean its not that bad. when i was watching the original as a kid it made me super curious about the comics. so when i did eventually read those comics it was much more awarding. its like reading those kids books that are just big summaries of classic books but with a lot of illustrations.

Didnt comics Madelyne seduce Alex, Scott’s brother?

I mean, the ‘90s X-Men cartoon’s entire thing was speeding through entire arcs in a couple episodes.

Anyway, this episode was pretty fun as long as you assume that Scott is a dingus, which you should do.

I liked the fact that they made sure that Morph is still SUPER fucked up over what Sinister did to him. Morph’s joking nature is still mostly hiding a deep well of trauma.

Our son was infected as an infant and I had to send him to the future.

We never get to see the story Scott and Madelyne had in the comics...

Turns out the therapist is mephisto

“Okay, Scott... why don’t you tell me what brings you here to my office today?”

I just watched it, and up until McGregor shows up, it’s bad, but fun bad. But boy howdy, you aren’t kidding about how unwatchably bad he is. And he drags down everything else in the movie that probably would continue to be at least kind of fun.

If you genuinely think this movie is made for young people and not for middle-aged dudes to claim ‘they don’t make them like this anymore’, then you’re a dumbass

Does McGregor at any point inform Gyllenhaal that he once fucked guys like him in prison?

Problem is three of his first four movies were Swingers, Go and Bourne Identity.  He’s had some good ones mixed in since (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, American Made, and the superb Edge of Tomorrow) but there are some stinkers too.

My guess is they were hoping he would be the Terry Funk of this version.

Doug Liman is two years shy of 60

You don’t have to like the guy, but I think Liman directing Edge of Tomorrow and The Bourne Identity immediately disqualifies him from ‘hack’ status

Sounds awful, can’t wait to watch it.

Did anyone think McGregor could act?