On Tuesday night, I watched the first of the X-Men films. It’s been a long time, and I’d forgotten a lot of it, so it was rather delightful to see all over again. I remember thinking how incredibly annoyed I was that they left the Toad in Magneto’s brotherhood, but they did manage to make him interesting enough to bear. It was interesting, too, to see how they set up the Pyro character in that small bit in X-Men where he tries to launch a fireball at another student and Iceman freezes it.
I plan on watching X2 tonight, a film that I’ve seen more recently because it’s been all over the TV lately. Plus, it’s one of those films I tend to get hooked on if I’m channel-surfing and it appears.
And I will see X3 sometime this weekend. Unfortunately, I may not get to it until Sunday. B’nai Mitzvah season is upon me. The first one is this weekend, then there’s a break, then four in a row to fill out all of June. I’ve been invited to three of the five (two are newer students that I didn’t teach or meet until this year). That will be four of my first year’s class by the end of June. I think the twins are in August (on the same day, naturally). I know of one other in October. Not sure when Samantha’s bat mitzvah is. But from now on, I’ll be attending the b’nai mitzvot of my former students. But that’s okay. They’re going to have to attend mine in November of 2007.
As for the reviews of X3: Not interested. I will not be reading them, nor paying attention to anything anyone says. I’m going to see the movie and judge for myself.
I think that for those who may misunderstand, you should add that you are not 12 years old, but that this is a celebration of your bas mitzvah rather than the bas mitzvah itself (which happened when you turned 12 [x years ago]). Then again, you could always claim that you are a very young teacher and advanced for your age. (:-)
Sabba Hillel
Ah, Bnai Mitzvah season – I know THAT feeling (our simcha is THIS WEEKEND – I am amazed I even have time to read blogs!). The kids have their social life covered for most of the year.
(My son asked about seeing X3 – I told him it wasn’t worth sacrificing his life, he will have to wait until Monday.)
At the risk of uninformed speculation, it is possible Meryl grew up in a congregation where the girl’s did not become Bat Mitzvah’d (like mine until the early 1970s). I know a number of women who became a Bat Mitzvah (including their first ever aliyah) as adults. Or she’s doing what Sabba suggests, and celebrating it all over again as an adult. She’s probably posted on it before and I am too lazy a slug to go check the archives.
If one actually watches this vomit … even when it is free on HBO or MAX or STARZ or whatever … then there IS NO doubt. You are an idiot. If you pay for it … IN ANY WAY … you are an insane idiot. I know. I watched War of the Worlds with tommy cruz last night and I will never be truly clean again. Yuk and double yuk!!!
I should like to point out to you, Scott, that the words “you are an idiot” violate the “no flames” part of the comment policy.
You don’t like X-Men, fine. I do. You want to call me an idiot because we have different tastes?
I wouldn’t do that again if you want to keep posting here.
Bat Mitzvah Dad: I quit Hebrew School a year before I was going to have my Bat Mitzvah. As I am not male, my Orthodox grandfather didn’t object, and my mother didn’t care enough to make me finish school and have one.
Both my brothers, of course, had a Bar Mitzvah.
I just finished my fourth year teaching fourth grade at my synagogue’s religious school. About a year ago, I decided I wanted to have an adult Bat Mitzvah.
I’m having my Bat Mitzvah next year because it goes along with a milestone birthday, and I like to do things that make me feel young on my birthday.
However, I’m going to read the Torah portion I’d have done during my childhood. It’s Chayyei Sarah. I think it’s about time I started practicing it, too. I want to impress my students a year and a half from now.
The first X-Men was pretty weak but the second one definitely made up for it. And you overlooked an even better scene with Pyro when Magneto asks him “What is your REAL name?”
Looking forward to seeing Part 3 on the big screen as well.
That’s in X2, Cameron. I was talking about X-Men in the post.
X2 is on the slate for sometime tomorrow. The podcast took a lot longer to write than I’d thought it would.
For some reason, I thought you were going over both in the same post when you had mentioned Pyro. Forgot about the cameo in the first movie. oops.
Friday’s WaPo carried an interview with four of the twenty-something actors who play mutants (Rogue, Ice-man, Pyro, and Callista) in Last Stand. They all claimed to have left the screening of the completed film part-way through the credits, and not to know about the final scene that’s tacked on at the very end.