crumplebot, I encourage disagreement, because group think is a terrible thing. But please, let's focus on the movie. Please, instead of going after me, at least cite one specific thing about this movie that is bad for you? You haven't so far. Even I came up with specifics with which I find fault (Please see further below.).

But a moment about your cheap-shot personal attack:

I won't attack you the way you attacked me. I'll just mention that I chose that name because I have been left on the shelf probably longer than you've been alive. My disabilities have kept me poor, until very recently, and women can't help their inner cavewoman genes guiding them, if they're interested in guys, to seek only guys with good access to resources, because that used to be the difference that allowed far more surviving children and grandchildren. So no, I don't take the indifference personally. I'm just sad about it.

So do you generally pick on disabled people?

Now, back to the movie:

My best roommate ever also has a Netflix DVD subscription, and without consulting me, decided to request "X-Men: Dark Phoenix." I just watched it again, and I still don't understand all the hate, from so many people. That's because so few people cite any specifics.

Even I can cite a couple. The fights, while great examples of what can be done now with CGI, are confusing. Don't confuse the viewer. Some of them are also dark.

And the two helicopters sent to Magneto's refuge settlement were way too much only poking a very powerful bear with a very short stick. That one made no sense.

With nothing specific to go on, I'm guessing most of the hate is from people who happily spent years reading the story line in Marvel comics: Jean Grey to Phoenix to Dark Phoenix to Jean Grey [which I'm guessing didn't surprise many]. I was always too poor to keep up with comics, aside from occasional opportunities to read from others' collections. I picked up some of the picture. I remember some people complained about the comic books, too.

Does anyone really expect a two-hour movie to cover as much as several years of comics? Even if the story line was covered in several movies, some things would probably have to be left out. Would there have been enough box office to fund a series of movies?

It's reasonable to be angry that this story line has been crammed into a two-hour movie. But don't forget how difficult it is to get support for anything in Hollywood.

And maybe because I missed out almost entirely on the comics, I enjoyed a second viewing of the movie. I didn't make you watch it, and I'm not trying to change your mind. I just want you to present a case. It's a good mental exercise.

Anyone who thinks this is anything other than a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad movie must be past their shelf date or something. The overwhelmingly negative reviews of it are, if anything, wildly understated, and watching it made me feel like a janitor for Gizmonic Institute, rapidly losing both my sanity and my will to live. In the interest of full disclosure, I didn't have any robot friends to help me through with yuks, but then again, if I did, I might've torn them rack from pinion in unbridled rage by the end. It's so bad, I honestly don't think that it's riffable, and although I'd love to see Rifftrax rise to such a stupendously colossal challenge, which would be roughly equivalent to landing on Jupiter, I would adamantly refuse to watch this movie a second time.

I'm watching it right now, even though I've heard so many thoughtful people say it's bad. So far, so good, watching little Jean Gray and young Charles Xavier. Even if it is good, in my view, I'd still like to see this riffed, by anyone.