First and foremost, I’d like to say that I saw X-Men: The Last Stand today, and while it felt like getting a Snicker’s bar for dessert at a four-star restaurant, Snicker’s does apparently satisfy.

Despite being entertaining, albeit considerably thinner in substance than the first two films, there was one aspect which I felt the filmmakers completely failed to legitimately capture which was the depiction of Jean Grey’s childhood home. As a Bard alumni, I need to point out that in the comic, Jean Grey’s father was a professor at Bard College and the family lived in Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, a town consisting of one road and the campus. The Levittown-esque cul-de-sac depicted in the film is clearly nowhere to be found in Annandale, nor do any of the neighboring towns have streets that would look like it. This is disappointing and sickening because clearly Ann Coulter has gotten to the executives at Twentieth Century Fox pictures and in an unfocused chain of namecalling and derisive remarks about the DNC, convinced them that portraying Bard College, or as she’ll have it, “a Safe Streets program for traitors and lunatics,” on screen in anything other than a forgettable independent film or HBO’s The Sopranos would be akin to a terrorist attack on the cinemas. Either that or Steely Dan has a hand in it. Regardless, the X-Men need to do something to up that Bard endowment, because Leon Botstein’s mutant powers have dwindled significantly ever since he sold out and cut off his “crazy guy” hair.

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