Has anyone seen the trailer for X-Men 2? It looks really cool.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x2/02/
My question is, as a lad who’s never read X-Men comics, does anyone have a source where I could learn more about the characters, the history, etc? My son knows all the characters. Unfortunately X-Men came out after I was an adult.
www.marvel.com has biographies of most of their major characters.
And www.uncannyxmen.net has an impressive listing of issue summaries.
Is there any way to save the trailers to the hard drive? Streaming them crashed my browser.
Right-click and chose “Save Target”.
I don’t think you can do that with the trailers on Apple.com.
Dewey, what browser do you use? I use Juno and quicktime movies crash it, so I watch QT movies using IE and it works fine.
You’re right, it didn’t work. Apologies. It tried to save some HTML file.
If you know something of HTML, you can look at the page source and find the direct address of the .mov file.
UnuMondo
Naw, even the HTML doesn’t work for some reason – Apple has some kind of redirect thing, so if you save what’s in the HTML, you only get that one frame that says “Click X to Begin.”
Heck, I even tried browsing the IE cache. No go.
Actually, I take that back. I think I dug out the redirected location. For those of you having trouble, try saving this link to your hard drive.
Nope, that’s not working either…Hmmm…
The easiest way is to get Quicktime Pro. Then you can save all them trailer-type dealies.
Yeah but Quicktime Pro costs money. That’s a problem.
(Using Linux, I’ve gotten used to not having to pay for software).
UnuMondo
I really hope that this one will be better then the first. It looks good visual wise, but will there be a plot?
I’m seeing Storm, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Kitty Pride, Iceman, Pyro, Rogue, Magneto, Prof X, Mystique, Deathstrike
No sign of Sabretooth or Toad.
Well, umm … didn’t they die in the last movie?
Takes a lot more than that to kill Sabertooth.
That’s the comics. Doesn’t apply.
Nonetheless, you did not actually see Sabretooth die, so he’s still fair game to be brought back in a sequel.
Sabretooth is not in the movie, nor is Toad.
They might be slated for a return further down the line, but not in X-2.
The last time I checked the Marvel site, I was unable to find character biographies. I remember that they once had them (not just X-Men but all major Marvel characters), but since the site was revamped, I can’t find them. Do you have a more specific link?
I’m looking forward to seeing Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler. The trailer shows a little bit, but I want to see some teleportation. I fear that the movie will not include this.
hopes that people realize that “Cumming” is Alan’s last name