Amazing, fantastic, fabulous, dazzling, and generally just great. Just some of the words that come into my head having just seen X2. I must admit that although I was expecting it to be good (having heard everyone raving about it for the last two weeks), as I wasn't particularly amazed by the first film, I really wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was.

But the plot of X2 was brilliantly action-packed, and so much better than I remember the first film being. I'm sure I spent most of the film holding my head in my hands (that means I found it quite nerve-wracking). Towards the end wasn't quite so good, as my bladder began to exert an ever-increasing force on the rest of my body, but aside from that it was good.

It's really not that often that a film completely blows me away, but X2 did that. The last film to do that was Bowling for Columbine, though for very different reasons, natch.

I'd also like to point out that I am in no way completely obsessed with both Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) and (to a slightly lesser extent) Aaron Stanford (Pyro). Not at all. And as a result I'm certainly not extending this paragraph for no other reason that to enable me to fit a few more links in.

All in all I had a fantastic night out. And I guess I'd better mention how good the company was too :). Feeling slightly bad for abandoning my revision for the evening, and stopping up even later to write a blog entry all about it, but hey. C'est la vie, as Seldo would (possibly) say. But probably not :).