I saw X2: X-men United, formerly X2, formerly X-men 2, on Friday night along with the throngs of rabid comic book fans. Every single show was sold out when we arrived at 6 except the 11:30 showing, so we spent a delightful evening on West Olive for 5 hours and still were at the end of a huge line to get in. The movie was, of course, highly entertaining and excellent, and apparently the die-hards thought so too since they cheered and whooped and hollered whenever anything happened. I would post more about it, but any detail I reveal about the plot would spoil the whole movie for you, so I'll leave it at that.

Afterwards, as I so often do, I logged on to IMDB in order to find out all the trivia about the film. In doing this, I stumbled across the message boards, where legions of people who have been reading the comic books since 1965 have descended en masse to discuss how X3 needs to incorporate time travel, space travel, and every single remaining character that has not been introduced yet. This is why script writers write movies and comic book readers don't. Scriptwriters also don't have flamewars about whether or not Nightcrawler should have been furry or say things like "Storm has been my idol since I was 7".