May Movie Mania

Well, May 26 has finally arrived. X-Men 3 – my number 1 movie to see this year – is now in theatres. I hope to see it this weekend. It’s been really difficult to stay away from any and all previews / giveaways as the marketing hype ramped up into full gear this last month. I managed to catch and record a couple interviews on the various talk show circuits, but always looked away during the clips shown. After having the coolest spot in X2 spoiled by a preview clip, I’m not taking any chances this time around. I have, however, a whole folder of X3 related web articles bookmarked, which should be fun to read through once I’ve seen the movie. I also managed to download to my hard drive some of the clips and pretty much all the commercials as well. It hasn’t been easy not viewing them :) It’ll be interesting reading the reviews after I’ve seen the movie. I have no expectation that this one will be better than the first two – it has way too much working against it. Still, I hope I’ll like it (and probably will – I mean it’s got Wolverine in it), and sit back and enjoy the ride. Then I’ll post my own review. By the way – I did get out to see Brick at the theatre on Tuesday night, just haven’t had time to post a review. I will say this though – good movie, definitely recommended. It’ll be interesting to have just seen a character driven, low budget, indie film right before a summer mega-budget blockbuster. I wonder which one I’ll rate higher…