Word: xavier
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...done everything we can for them," said Consul of Switzerland Xavier Comtesse. " If they refuse to be happy, it's their choice...
...climax is not the end. There is no ending; the whole film is the teaser to a planned trilogy. So Wolverine, searching for his roots, keeps on scratching. Xavier and Magneto speak of battles to come. A muted film ends on a minor chord. Perhaps fans will return for later episodes. But for us nonmutants, X-Men is the movie that took the e-cite-t out of excitement...
...Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) runs a school for exceptional young people: folks like Storm (Halle Berry), who plays tricks with weather; Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), whose fists contain adamantine blades; Cyclops (James Marsden), with a killer stare; and Rogue (Anna Paquin), whose touch is toxic. Xavier and Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) battle the bad guys led by Magneto (Ian McKellen) over the fate of the planet--that old thing...
...premise comes straight from the comic book: Professor Charles Xavier leads a group of superpowered mutants against the evil forces of Magneto, a mutant bent on destroying humanity. Amidst the persecution of a society that fears and hates them, the X-Men seek the allegiance of a new mutant named Wolverine, who must make a choice. Does he choose Xavier's idealistic dream of a peaceful co-existence between humanity and mutantkind, or does he opt for Magneto's vision of a world in which mutants replace humans on top of the evolutionary ladder? Translating a comic book onto...
...most thuggish moves of the year, and one which epitomized the nascent bitterness between the two teams, Starks clothes-lined Pippen in the sixth game as the Bulls all-star went up for a dunk. The emotions spilled into the final and deciding game of the series when Xavier McDaniel actually challenged Pippen to a fight on the court. Refusing to let his team back down though, Jordan dropped 42 points to lead his team to the clinching victory and sent an emphatic signal to New York that they'd always have to go through Chicago if they wanted...