Now from the reviews I've read Imagine me and you has been pretty much slated. I have to say though that I liked it. But then I also like 4 weddings.., Nottinghill, Love actually etc. And what I really liked about Imagine me and you was that it was just as lame and cheesy and light hearted as all of those films but they finally put someone I can relate to in the lead role rather than Hugh Grant.

Plus the film is definatly worth watching for Tony Heads fantastic performance as an embarrassing if well meaning Father, there definalty aught to be some kind of award for the dancing he does at the wedding.

SPOILERS

• Juggernaut - Truely awfull, it was Vinnie Jones with a metal bowl over his head, no acting required.
• Scott's death - Now don't get me wrong I like that he died, I really hate cyclops, but it was such a throwaway, I hadn't even really realised that he had died.
• Phoenix backstory - I don't really mind them doing their own thing on this, but by making Phoenix a part of Gene's subconsious rather than the whole taking her over just before she died thing from the comics, they rule out bringing her back, at least in any semi-plauable way. However since it seems that any more X-men films will be prequels I guess it doesn't matter.
• Angel - seemed like a plot device rather than a character

Now that's over I'll talk about the things I loved.

Special effects were awesome inc.

• The danger room scene
• Phoenix vapourising people
• Pyro setting the car alight

• Beast - not a trace of Frasier in there!
• Phonix make up - seemed very like scary veiny Willow to me. lol
• Wolverene saving Gene - Another BtVS tie in for me, very "crayon breaky Willow speech", but maybe I'm seeing parallells where its just that not much is original anymore!
• The fact that characters you love die indiscriminatly, another Joss-like thing!
• The entrance of the X men at the lab - one of those scenes where you can see it taken straight from a page in a comic book.

I'm halfway through the first episode. It's not actually the really first episode, just the one they give you first on the DVD, absolutly nothing is explained. I may have put too much hype on it, it has moments of absolute brilliance but also has quite a lot of tedium inbetween. Kind of Scooby doo-like.

I think that a lot of my RP prejudices are based on this program though - The barbarian's an idiot, the acrobat's really annoying and the crusader (knight?) is an arogant twat. The only one I really like is the archer, which coincidentally is what I'm currently playing in Oblivion.

A few of my favourite quotes from the first episode:

"I shall use the magic of your hat"

"But he looked like M erlin, standing there stroking his white rabbit"

"I shall add your magic to mine and then destroy you and your meddlesome friends"

"You have won for now but I shall win in the end"

What fantastic cliches!

You could however email me if you really feel like it and I'll stick your comment up manually - if I can be bothered. I know it's a bit lame for a geek.

I'm basically gonna be talking about Games / Comics / Movies and general phd stuff, there's been so much I've wanted to comment on recently that I figured I'd give myself a forum for doing so. Recent stuff I won't be talking about but might have if I'd got my arse (yep, I'm british) in gear earlier:

• Wii - ridiculous name, exciting new console
• PS3's stupid price tag
• E3 - I didn't go, but I so would've liked to
• The recent govenment re-shuffle
• The whole Sussex Chemistry fiasco
• My serious lack of money
• Doctor Who