League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Trailer 360
An anonymous reader notes that the
League of Extraordinary Gentleman Trailer is on apple.com. It's in quicktime. And since I'm downloading at under 3k a second, I'll let others comment on it. Here's hopin'
Is this THE League of Gentlemen? (Score:2)
Re:Is this THE League of Gentlemen? (Score:5, Interesting)
It is 'THE Legitimate Businessman's Social Club' (Score:3, Funny)
It's just a rather large typo.
Re:Is this THE League of Gentlemen? (Score:2)
"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe you should finally get rid of that 36.6Kbit/s Modem...
Yeah, trailer looks good-- but what is it? Am I supposed to know that?
Re:"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, "let them eat cake" is a missquote. When Marie Antoinette was told that the peasents had no bread, she replied 'Why don't they eat brioche', since in the royal family brioche had always been availible when the bread had run out. It was not an arrogant statement, simply one which showed how utterly removed from the real world she was.
Re:"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:2)
Re:"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:3, Informative)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau attributed the words to "a great princess" in his "Confessions" which was written about three years before Marie-Antoinette arrived in France in 1770. So she couldn't have been the original source of the quote.
The situation gets more interesting than that. Under French law, bakers were obliged to sell certain bread products at a fixed price. To prevent the obvious trick of baking only a few cheap rolls then using the bulk of the flour to make expensive products, the law obligated the bakers to sell more expensive products at the cheaper price if the cheap rolls ran out.
"Let them eat cake" was far from a sign of indifference or ignorance, it was a very humanitarian call: the bread shortage could be alleviated if the law was enforced against profiteering bakers.
But alas history is written by the victors, and the French Revolutionaries had a vested interest in making Marie-Antoinette seem foolish and callous.
--
Steven
Foolish Title (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Foolish Title (Score:3)
Just the link (Score:2, Informative)
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/f31fd0bc5c0b1d/
Re:Just the link (Score:2, Informative)
Simple
Re:Just the link (Score:5, Informative)
Mplayer and Quicktime on the web (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.webfreetv.com/linux/ [webfreetv.com]
Its a plugin that uses mplayer for quicktime on the web. It works pretty well for most of the trailers that I have tried it for. (Worked for this trailer, for instance)
If you have another plugin that handles quicktime (I was using plugger, which seldom worked) you will have to locate the plugin, rename it (xxx.so.OLD or some such) edit pluggerrc (if you use that) and start Mozilla. This removes Mozilla's "dependence" on the old plugin. Then, you close Moz, add the new plugin, rename the old plugin (if you were using plugger) back to its original name and start Moz. It should work, then. I would advise patience when you first try it out as the plugin gives no indication that it's downloading the movie. Pick a small, low res version to start out with.
Re:Just the link (Score:2, Informative)
Well, if the selection is done when you hit the trailer page (before you stream), then you can just view the page source, grep for "lxg_480.mov", copy the URL, change the filename to "lxg_m480.mov", and try that.
as one reply noted, he got 1K/s from it
I assume you're talking about me. My comment was about the size of the file (the reference file is ~1400 bytes), not the transfer speed (which was quite nice).
Weird name, great trailer (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Weird name, great trailer (Score:2, Troll)
That's probably because it's set in Victorian England.
Emmett Plant [mailto]
CEO, Xiph.Org Foundation [xiph.org]
LXG! (Score:3, Interesting)
I was really psyched by the various characterizations, though; they seemed spot-on. And the voiceover sounds like they kept the, um, moral ambiguity aspect of the Alan Moore stuff. Hopefully he had a large hand in the story/script...
Too bad Sean Connery is such a bigger star than anyone else; this means that the center of the story is likely to be Alan Quatermain, rather than, um, whatsherface. I wonder if he will be the leader, just because of the star power present there...
Re:LXG! (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, I suppose he will be the star of the show, but for some of us, the opportunity to see Peta Wilson of La Femme Nikita all vamped out is definitely something to look forward to!
Re:LXG! (Score:2)
Cinematography looks reasonably good, though (a bit Dark City-ish), so maybe not all bad...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:5, Informative)
The comic books are very good, however. Alan Moore has read every book ever written. And he really likes the ones written in and about Victorian England. In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality, just about every book and character ever written is real. The level of detail is astounding. Check it out.
B.
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:4, Insightful)
I was a little disappointed that the trailer was all action, and didn't give any feeling about the theme. It would've been cool to at least start the trailer with the cobblestone streets and horse-drawn coaches to show that it is the 19th Century, and not the 1930s like it seems based on the car shots. They didn't move it in time, did they??
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:3, Informative)
Jess Nevin's annotations [enjolrasworld.com] are an invaluable companion to the original books.
Volume two is in progress currently - the fifth one should be out at the end of this month (IIRC).
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:4, Informative)
"The Ballad of Halo Jones" is his best work during the time he was writing for 2000AD, very worthwhile and available in Graphic Novel form. "Dr and Quinch" comes a close second but is probably harder to find.
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:2)
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:3, Interesting)
He's very british in fact... He comes from Northampton, near where I grew up. Friends of friends know him - A hippy-goth type with big hair and beard! His knwoledge of History (esp. local)is pretty frigging good, btw...
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:2)
Collector's edition (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Collector's edition (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone wanna buy my Howard the Duck #1?
-gosquad
... And it looks truly awful. (Score:2, Insightful)
I was going to say, a fine opportunity wasted, but I don't think it was. The League was too sophisticated for the type of audience attracted to a movie derived from a comic in the West. They mainly want mindless violent-action crap, such as Dardevil appears to be.
Ignore the movie. Alan Moore's stuff is too good for movies; this looks to be a travesty even more egregious than the appalling From Hell. Read the book, instead. It's pure, inspired brilliance, with breathtakingly intricate Kev O'Neill artwork to match.
Always look on the bright side of life (Score:2)
Hard to convey these in a short, short trailer...
Good news for those of you of the male persuasion--a movie with Sean Connery is a movie your girlfriend would probably like to see.
Some basic Info (Score:5, Informative)
Basically it consists of pulp heros and villains, like alan quartermain (as in Alan quartermain and the lost city of gold, which i have seen, No imdb but plot synopsis here. [amctv.com] )
Basically Moore rewrites the characters of british pulp mythology in ways reminiscent of The Watchmen.
The Invisible man has sex with girls at a boarding school. It's that kind of comic I guess.
Expanation - League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:5, Informative)
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is a very successful comic book written by Alan Moore, who also wrote "Watchmen" with Dave Gibbons (THE comic book of the '80s) and "From Hell" with Eddie Campbell (which was recently made into a movie with Johnny Depp and Heather Graham).
The comic book follows the adventures of several fictional Victorian characters (like Alan Quartermain and the Invisible Man).
For more information on Alan Moore, you should check out The Alan Moore Fansite [alanmoorefansite.com]. LoEG is really worth the read.well (Score:4, Informative)
come on guys, this is a comic book. i thought you were geeks?
Re:well (Score:2)
you have nailed the difference between a geek and a nerd.
Background Info (Score:5, Informative)
The League is a recuited by MI-5 to protect England and includes Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea," Alan Quartermain from H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines," and Jekyll/Hyde of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", H. G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" and Mina Harker from Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
From the Alan Moore graphical novel http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563898586 [amazon.com]
The trailer looked good (Score:2, Insightful)
God knows that having Sean in it tells us nothing about the movie's quality. He lets himself appear in some real stinkers.
Here's hoping for the best...
Duplicate the commercial success of Mysterymen? (Score:3, Funny)
No one is going to see this movie.
I might, some of my friends definitely will, and some other slashdotters, but this movie is going to bomb. I want to know how a group of people can make decisions which are, at the same time, totally driven by greed and, at the same time, so obviously directed towards utter commercial failure.
Doesn't sound like a bad audience... (Score:2)
That sounds like its target audience to me. X-men, Spiderman and the Matrix seemed to do quite well, with pretty much the same demographic...
Re:Doesn't sound like a bad audience... (Score:2)
It is manifestly obvious, to me, that this movie is going to lack broad based appeal, liken the Turkeys that I mentioned.
This is a LOCAL shop! (Score:4, Funny)
This is a LOCAL shop, for LOCAL fol---
oh, wait...
My wife's a slag... (Score:2)
Re:This is a LOCAL shop! (Score:3, Funny)
As Sean Connery would say on celebrity Jeopardy.. (Score:2)
"That's not a real category, Mr. Connery"
"It was last night when I was with your Mother! HAR HAR HAR"
logic? (Score:3, Funny)
A script to download the movie in Linux (Score:2)
Here is a script [byu.edu] I hacked up a while back to automatically download trailers from Apple's website. Just pass the resulting filename to the player of your choice. It is written in Ruby, and I use MPlayer. You can use it by doing a copy-and-paste of the URL in the story as a parameter on the command line (watch out for the lameness filter putting a space in the filename near the end after an underscore character; they really need to fix the problem in a real way, like using CSS right :-):
playtrailer.rb http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/lxg_trailerRe:A script to download the movie in Linux (Score:2)
LXG Trailer (Score:3, Interesting)
I dunno. It doesn't look all that "extraordindary" to me. Just some slick CG from what I could see. In this day and age, the eye candy won't make the movie. Just look at Final Fantasy. My interest is piqued, I guess, but the trailer didn't convince me.
Compare this with the X-Men 2 trailer that also played. Just as good of CG as LXG, but with a healthy dose of plot. I suppose it could be that it's already riding on the success of the first one, and perhaps they are going with the whole "mystery" thing to get word of mouth going. And maybe I'm also full of BS, but I think that even non-comic book readers would be more likely to see X2 instead of LXG. Too many acronyms?
I'll reserve any final judgement (as if my opinion means anything) until I get more info on the plot. But many potentially good movies are bad because Hollywood thought they could dazzle moviegoers with distractions instead of paying attention to plot.
Re:LXG Trailer (Score:2)
I counted 83 cuts in that 1 minute, 8 second LXG trailer, which leads me to believe that the filmmakers expect people to still-frame through the entire thing (thank you, Contour Shuttle Pro with the USB jog dial). Of course, if they didn't expect us to watch it at the full frame rate, they should have been more careful with their physical effects. Did anyone else notice the goofy way that last pillar wobbled when the car struck it a glancing blow? It was clearly a fake set piece suspended from some stage catwalk.
Bad effects in trailers (Score:2)
A trend for the times... (Score:4, Insightful)
Hollywood seems to follow a pack mentality at times, but this time I think they've actually hit the right cultural spot...
Re:A trend for the times... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yep. Good versus evil right there, no doubt about it. Well, except for the "good" part.
the neverending saga of Israel & Palestine
Yep, once again it's good versus evil. Well, again, as long as you ignore the requirement for the "good" part.
Why is it that if something or someone is evil (like Palistinian suicide bombers or Saddam Hussien) that makes anyone believe the opposition to those things is morally good?
Iraq is run by a very, very bad man. That does nothing to provide any moral justification for killing another 250,000 iraqis to secure oil rights.
Palistinian suicide bombers are evil. That does nothing to provide any moral justification for imposing martial law on Palistinians in Isreal, and it does not excuse fifty years of condemnable human rights abuses by the Isreali's.
Stop looking at the world as black and white. Because, that point of view forces you to think that anything that's not "quite as evil" must somehow be "good." That way of looking at the world makes you into a moral cripple.
Re:A trend for the times... (Score:2)
Re:A trend for the times... (Score:2)
How are you Extraordinary Gentlemen !! (Score:3, Funny)
someone set us up the Victorian England (Score:2)
I know it is dangerous to review a trailer but... (Score:5, Interesting)
I will probably go see this for many of the same reasons that I saw Daredevil a movie about which the best I can say is that it didn't suck, and it enabled me to listen in on a funny conversation about Ben Afflec's chin afterwards. Perhaps this time I'll wait for the $2 theatre.
From the trailer, we have an adaptation that isn't an adaptation. Part of the fun of the comic was the inside jokes on these Victorian characters put into a "Justice League" situation. The trailer delivers little more than "Blade" in 19th century England.
Re:I know it is dangerous to review a trailer but. (Score:2)
some others that should never be... (Score:5, Funny)
Paul Atredies vs. Harry Seldon
Borg vs. Vorlons
Gremlins vs. The Littles
MIB vs. Illuminati
US vs. Iraq
Tech Support vs. the Vast Horde o'Clueless
Count Chocula vs. Lucky
The Thing vs. the Blob
IE vs. Opera (bork bork bork)
Cats and dogs living together...TOTAL CHAOS!
Re:some others that should never be... (Score:2)
Borg vs. the Vorlons. This actually could be moderately fascinating...
--Dan
Re:some others that should never be... (Score:2, Funny)
Borg: Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours.
Vorlons: No.
[Giant Explosions]
Re:some others that should never be... (Score:2)
Tsk tsk, a straightforward answer from the Vorlons? You must be joking.
Who are you? "We are..." "Who are you?"
--Dan
Unlike most of the other comments on here. (Score:2)
It doesn't look like an X-Men rip off either. X-Men the movie was lacking a certain charm about it. This movie looks like it's got everything it needs to be awesome.
boom bam formula (Score:2, Funny)
Hollywood please meet plot, Plot; Hollywood.
Speed (Score:3, Funny)
And since I'm downloading at under 3k a second, I'll let others comment on it.
Let me get this straight - your're dissatisfied with the speed at which you can download this thing, so what do you do? You LINK TO IT ON SLASHDOT? Do you understand CAUSE AND EFFECT???
Just FYI (Score:3, Informative)
the quicktime codecs and the Mplayer Plugin (there is one at mozdev.org but I haven't tried it)
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
You can easily watch quicktime movies in Mozilla. Not to mention many windows media files as well. It sucks to have to do a "workaround" but besides paying for the crossover plugin its your best bet for proprietary media types.
Saw it in front of Daredevil (Score:2, Insightful)
*Yawn* (Score:3, Insightful)
The whole trailer looks like an X-Men 2 rip-off.
Victorian roadster? (Score:5, Insightful)
And besides the Victorian anachronisms, why is it never daytime there?
Re:Victorian roadster? (Score:2)
The sun hides his face from the huge suck of this movie
Re:Victorian roadster? (Score:2)
This movie, which has taken all of the inessential parts of the comic, and none of the essential parts of the comic, has apparently set everything in a London that has never existed and will never exist. And the Extraordinary Gentlement must have been put in cryogenic stasis so that they can save london one last time.
I can't tell you how lame this movie will be. No, don't think Mystery Men. Think The Avengers. Without the soul.
And the game iszh on! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And the game iszh on! (Score:2)
Shit, Shit, and let's not forget, Shit. (Score:3, Interesting)
They've taken an intelligent well written comic by one of the masters of the genre and created a complete travesty!
It looks absolutely fucking awful, a mad sub-matrix mindless special effects extravaganza.
(Excuse me? Mina Murray coalesces from a swarm of bats? I think they missed a major point here in that she's not a fucking vampire!)
Alan. Alan, why do you let them do this? Do you really need the money so much?
When it comes on TV I may watch it if I have nothing better to do, but I'd not pay money to see this piece of shit, and I suspect anyone who enjoyed the comics will do likewise.
It's not just Moore (Score:3, Informative)
The comic's pulp brilliance also relies upon Kevin O'Neil, the hyper-frenetic, stylistic artist who has brought us (along with writer Pat Mills) such sick-humor nightmares as Marshall Law (one of the original and best post-modern deconstructions of superheroes, but one all about the humor and the sado-masochism). Kevin got his start with British imprint AD 2000, responsible for such stalwarts as Judge Dread and Slaine, working with Pat on stuff like Warlock.
I recommend LoEG the comic quite heartily (despite Ain't it Cool's support. . .even a stopped clock is right twice a day). It's written in the tradition of Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton books, where he takes such characters as Tarzan and Doc Savage and writes his own 'more realistic' adventures mixing them with other pulp heroes and villains. Moore can't use these characters due to our criminal copyright laws (he wanted to originally with the Twilight of the Superheroes [hoboes.com] series, the proposed DC book of which Kingdom Come was a very weak but direct rip-off) so he had to go back to earlier characters.
For those with twisted humor and a high tolerance for violence, I especially recommend looking for the original graphic novel collection of Marshall Law, Marshall Law: Fear and Loathing.
O'Neill's over-the-top art work is as detailed as Moore's references, and without it LoEG wouldn't be half the book that it is.
Additionally, LoEG predates the show League of Gentlemen. As for the trailer, it looks fun, but also a bit sad as they felt the need to turn Mina Harker into a vampire. I suppose that's their idea of grrl power, the dumbest/most-hypocritical ploy in marketing history (baby, you've come a long way. . .not only can you smoke yourself into an early tomb, but now you can be as brain-dead violent as so many Neanderthal men!)
LXG? Why the acronym? (Score:2, Insightful)
Where's the fun in that? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wouldn't use an acronym like that? In fact, I find it hard to swallow that ANY Victorian would use the letter "X" for extra. I guess they were just trying to make the logo not say "LEG."
The clips in the background look good, but I worry that the trailer's missing the feel of the comic completely. Something about the entire thing just doesn't feel Victorian. To much of the overblown "action movie" music, possibly. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope they pull off this movie...
LXG? (Score:2)
Re:Seriously (Score:4, Interesting)
Interesting point. In times of trouble (war, for instance) people need heroes. I have seen many news stories to this effect. Its a 'nurture' type need. For those of us in the US, a few more heroes would be a good thing, post 9-11.
In trying times, people don't want to see the bad guys win, and movie makers know that. I would imagine many projects where "good wins over evil" that were sitting on the sidelines pre 9-11 were given a second look, and we are just now beginning to see the fruits of this.
Re:Seriously (Score:5, Interesting)
This occured after 2000 (when X-Men was released and became a hit). Soon after that the rights were sold and all the projects entered the development stages (I remember the whispers appearing online and in publications like Wizard at the time), over a year before 9-11.
Sure they might get more push now but you have to remember how long it takes for the movie industry to go from buying the rights on a movie to lining up the off-screen talent that will pick the on-screen talent to writing the screenplay... even before shooting starts.
Take Daredevil. According to the Coming Attractions page [corona.bc.ca] on it, February 24, 2000 was the first time that Mark Johnson's (the director) name was attached to the project and July 13, 2000 when New Regency locked him in along with the Electra and Kingpin properties to make the movie. Over a year before WTC.
Re:Seriously (Score:2)
That was my point, there were plenty of projects on the side that "looked good, but not good enough" that now look good enough, and we are just seeing the fruits, 18 months later.
I am sure you are correct in saying that X-men opened up the door for more comic book hero movies, but the original post was about "heroes" in general, not just comic book heroes.
Oh, and your reference about it being "more economic than anything else". Isn't it always?
One step closer to Watchmen (Score:5, Funny)
I think Pharmboy is totally correct in his assessment of "trying times," which closely parallells Adrian Veidt's thoughts near the 11th hour of Watchmen.
. . . and I know a pretty good actor who will work for scale if you'll let him be in the movie.
Re:Heros? bah. (Score:4, Insightful)
Most find heroes inspiring. We look for the best qualities in our hereos that we hope to find in ourselves. Heroes remind us that the fight is worth fighting, and that in the end, generally, good does win over evil if the goal is worth sacrificing for.
Not everyone believes this. I do. I think the motivations behind every day heroes (doing the right thing) is stronger than the motivations behind the bad guys (self gain), in general.
To most persons, heroes don't represent any new ideals, rather, they affirm the deep convictions of those who admire them. This is not a bad thing in and of itself.
Wanting to watch virtual heroes defeat the bad guys doesn't make me weak as an American. It reinforces the American ideal that ordinary persons can do extraordinary things when they do it for the right reasons.
As a form of entertainment, I find this much more palatable and uplifting than "Faces of Death", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Scream".
Sudden? (Score:2, Funny)
> What is with the sudden onslaught of superhero movies?
Yep, ever since Superman came out.
In 1978.
That's about the time special effects were making large leaps forward (no pun intended) and it was finally possible to make a realistic-looking flying man. The Superman tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly".
Now we are seeing the results of a new generation of low-cost, high-power computers, which make realistic effect cheaper and cheaper.
Superhero movies are a necessary result of Moore's Law.
They ran out of original ideas (Score:2)
Re:excellent! (POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT) (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:excellent! (Score:3, Insightful)
the characters may not exactly have amazing powers, but they've definitely got a lot more going for them in terms of depth and charm
That certainly didn't come across in the trailer! It looked like an invisible guy, a long haired guy with a gun, blond guy in a car with two pistols, Sean Connery punching some bad guy, and some scenery falling down. {yawn}
... but I'm sure they were restrained somewhat by the marketing department who insisted the preview feature Sean Connery saying something "witty".
All media players do this (Score:3, Informative)
Don't rag on Quicktime just because you're too lazy to read the screens during the installation. Quicktime is a great player.
Re:i would download it... (Score:2)
Re:i would download it... (Score:2)
Quicktime is a nice format, and its main app doesn't try to take over your system or install "start centre" or attempt to contact 'home' every time you're online, or force you to enter email addresses (no matter how fake) to watch content.
It's a comic (Score:3, Informative)
Personally I didn't care for the book (and I was blown away by "From Hell" (the comic, not the movie)). Maybe this'll be one time the movie is better than the book.
Still waiting on movie adaptations of Bendis books. Goldfish, Jinx... Hollywood, I tap my foot in your general direction...
Alan Moore (Score:2)
Easily his best work was Watchman... why do they allways option his worst comics? (swamp thing, anyone?...)
Re:Alan Moore (Score:2)
Re:Alan Moore (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm just about to start again with the annotated guide...
Re:It's a comic (Score:5, Funny)
This will be impossible for the generation which follows us. I guess that means no blockbusters with Tom Clancy's characters turned loose to fight Mr. Bean on Jurassic park with Crockett and Tubbs.
Re:As long as they don't touch "V"... (Score:2)
Actually, now would be a good time to pick up that series and movie-ize it, since it would tie in great with the whole "good vs. evil" theme in the world today. I just dug out my copies while cleaning up the basement recently. and I though to myself "Man, this could make a good movie."
Another mini-series that I always thought could bve interesting as a movie was St. George, from Epic Comics. It was a subset of Marvel, and was kind of like the Vertigo line from DC - definitely more "adult", with more monsters, violence, and much murkier lines between good and evil - St. George, for example, was about a disenchanted priest named Michael Devlin who, after being given a suit of mystical armor, went on a quest to destroy evil by both magical and traditional means (power bolts, prayer, grenades... whatever was appropriate).
I found the writing style and artwork ground-breaking for the time; very cinematic in it's pacing and use of flashbacks to tell the back story. Strangely enough, Google doesn't come back with any examples of artwork, just lists of people with one or two issues in their collection for sale. I'll have to see about scanning a few pages and posting them somewhere.
Re:Looks Matrix-y (Score:2)
Woah, one movie has scenes that look a little like another movie! It must be a rip off! Wow, did you see the scene in each movie where the main character wakes up, what a rip off!!
Edmo, thanks for the funny post.
Re: (Score:2)
GitS. (Score:2)
--grendel drago
Re:This looks retarded. (Score:2)
I went to see "Dare Devil" last night and they played the advertisements for "LXG" and "X-Men 2" sequentially. Most people were laughing and mocking the "LXG" trailer but the comments were favorable and enthusiastic for "X-Men 2".