Month: May 2003

It’s cuz I’m such a dork myself, I think, that Christopher Guest’s movies always ring so true to me, for all that they’re sublimely, subtly silly — they’re about people so immersed in doing what they love that they have no idea how absurd they are (which doesn’t bode well for me, I know).

Too bad for everyone who’s not a geek, who’ll dismiss *X2: X-Men United* as nonsense without even checking it out because it’s comic-booky or “just” a summer blockbuster or aimed at The Kids. Too bad for them, because they’ll miss out on one of the more germane metaphoric portrayals of the terrifying political and social landscape we’re living in today in the United States.