The geek alienation thing is especially out of place in the context of this movie for a couple of reasons:
The obvious parallels between the Senate hearings and Sen. McCarthy's communist hunts (I have in my hands a list of every..., etc.)
The fact that mutants have extraordinary powers. Geeks are just people who don't fit well in society. We got our asses kicked lots as children. We got ridiculed. We cannot summon fire with our minds and make people's braces fly out of their mouths. Finding parallels here is just romanticising being a geek into some sort of super hero. If you want to do that, go rent Hackers and get a good laugh while you do it.
Good movie. Good character development. No obvious good.evil character traits. Not an epistle on geekdom. Not a commentary on Columbine. We all need to move on with our lives (and learn how to enjoy a movie for its own sake).
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Good movie. Good character development. No obvious good.evil character traits. Not an epistle on geekdom. Not a commentary on Columbine. We all need to move on with our lives (and learn how to enjoy a movie for its own sake).