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Two good movies and one not-so-good.

The not-so-good one is, of course, is the first remake of Planet of the Apes. The best of bunch is a personal favorite of mine, Evolutionl, which is directed by the same guy who did Ghostbusters. But I like it even more.

The final movie is the first X-Men, which was really good — as opposed the most recent one, which sucks in the opinion of almost everybody.
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X-Men (2000)



My goodness, who knew that a couple of crazy guys call Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko could take a few comic book titles back in 1961 and . . . well, you know the story.

After a few half-ass attempts to bring the Marvel superheroes to the big screen, Marvel Studios came out swingin' with the the first X-Men movie, and we've been in love with these guys ever since.

The nifty thing the X-Men did that trumped the old guard of superheroes was to establish one pseudo scientific reason to explain the superpowers of all the X-Men -- genetic mutations.

Prior to this, each superhero had to have his-or-her own distinctive origin story -- like coming from another planet or being given a ring that did a whole lot more than just match his nice green outfit.

With the X-Men, people with strange powers started coming out of the woodwork, and all because human chromosomes are such quirky little things that any tiny modification causes the recipient to develop fascinating abilities -- like eyes that generate death rays, or mental powers that control people.

It's a safe bet that Darwin never saw this coming.

Naturally all the people with plain, ordinary, healthy chromosomes felt plum perturbed about being so whimpy and dull, so the main focus of this first movie is the struggle between the gifted haves and bigoted have-nots.

Magneto seeks to level the playing field by making everybody just as wonderfully weird as him and his posse of fanatical followers -- never mind the fact that his conversion process tends to turn normal humans into warm Jello instead of super-people.

This movie is highly recommended for folks who love science fiction, superheroes, and Halle Berry in a blond wig. Very Happy

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Planet of the Apes (2001)



Confession: I enjoyed the original "Planet of the Apes" when I first saw it in 1968 and several times over the years since then. But frankly the ape makeup just never impressed by very much: rubber masks that were marginally flexible, and actors who didn't do a very good job of walking and moving like apes.

Say what you will about this 2001 remake, but it certainly took the make up to the next level. And the acting was pretty good, with a fine cast striking a good balance between human behavior and simian movements.

This versions plugs some serious holes in the plot of the first film. The origin of the ape civilization and the way the astronaut gets into the future are tied together, and the story takes place on a planet other than Earth.

But this version creates it's own gaping black holes in the plot, like when the original spaceship pilot-chimp from the present arrives in the future long after the human astronaut does, even though he left first.

Okay, so this is about time travel and the normal laws of physics don't apply. But the rules of good story telling should always be followed, and this movie just doesn't do that.

The newly-arrived, long-overdue chimp is mistaken by the apes as a prophesied messiah, so the simians and the humans suddenly go all religious.

If you're still with the movie at this point, you'll love the ending, which involves a cameo by Aperaham Lincoln — and that's not a typo.

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Evolution (2001)



Ah yes, another movie masterpiece which I instantly recognized as a classic while the "film critics" felt duty bound to ditz on it savagely — because they are, after all, film critics, not film praisers.

This movie won my foolish heart completely with a magical cast, a toe-tappin' music score, eye-popping special effects that Ray Harryhausen secretly envied, and a story that seamlessly combines elements of the sci-fi classics from the 1950s with a modern treatment of alien infestation threatening a small desert town.

Critics panned it because they said Ivan Reitman was trying to make another "Ghost Busters" but it wasn't as funny. I disagree.

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