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The only good thing about this movie is Ellen Page. She is gorgeous!! I can't wait for her next movie
Thanks, that makes sense in a comic book sort of way.
My take on the movie is different than most, as I thought it was pretty good (not great). I think the first two movies were a little overrated so I just don't see the huge drop off everyone else does. They definitely tried to do too much in this movie but that'll happen anytime you have so many damn characters. Same was true for the first two. I really doubt Singer would have made much difference...but it does give people a a great excuse to . I thought X3 had it's pluses and minuses: Killing Prof.X so early was definitely a mistake as others have mentioned...and Angel was basically wasted. On the other hand, Beast and Juggernaut were really well done...and I think you have to give props for that because Juggernaut is hard to pull off without looking re ed. The group fight scene at the end was good, especially the parts with Beast, although the Iceman vs. Pyro fight was a letdown. Special effects in general in this movie were incredible though.
BTW Superman Returns looks seriously lame, as does Ghost Rider.
The only good thing about this movie is Ellen Page. She is gorgeous!! I can't wait for her next movie
No Marvel comic book movie adaptation was good and will not be good. You can't fit 1000+ issues in a 100 minute movie.
I saw this one too. Better than DaVinci code, but still lame.
The way Magneto and Mystique just loses her powers is uber lame.
Also, the final showdown battle when Magneto's all "let the pawns go first" and then waits until he's a ing human until Dark Phoenix rapes the entire island? Re ed.
Then he finally realizes he's unleashed a monster? After he saw his best friend incinerated with his own eyes???
ing re ed.
They did a half assed job of showing the bond between X and Magneto, but totally went against that the way they had Magneto utilize the Phoenix. He ing saw his best friend destroyed and still wanted her, then doesn't even use her. He could have had her destroy that entire island before he even lost a single man in his army, did anyone not realize this?
Also, Juggernaut had Leech and Kitty cornered one scene, exactly 4 seconds away from both of their deaths, and 6 scenes later, leech is okay! Re ed.
This movie blew ass. They could have made it so much better!!!! The inaccuracies from the comic are one thing, but the plot was just stupid taking it as a stand alone movie.
They should have just stuck with the idea of Phoenix being that force of nature, not her alter ego. But that's just a minor gripe.
Also, was it just me or did the director go out of his way to "showcase" everyone's mutant power? This is the 3rd ing xman movie, they did enough of that in part 1, and enough of that for the new guys in part 2.
They dedicated entire scenes for showing off a mutant's power in a useless situation. Re ed.
There also needed to be like 300% more action and fighting.
And whoever said the showdown between Pyro and Iceman sucked, you nailed it
The death scenes were cool, but there should have been more, and they should have been more violent and graphic.
I wanted to see the bad guys win on this one. And all we get is magneto realizing the phoenix is a monster after his army is destroyed and he is a human.
Ugh
From what I heard they didn't include Gambit because his character was too similar to Wolverine's (dark past, yada yada) and they didn't want that overlap. The actor who plays Sawyer on Lost was apparently gonna be Gambit until the Director decided to nix it. I thought it was kinda cool to show how Colossus is immune to Rogue's power during the Danger Room scene but they didn't really explain it in the movie.
Other things about the movie kinda irked me, like when Juggernaut loses his powers from Leech... Juggernaut isn't even a mutant, he gets his powers from a crystal... neither is Beasts blue skin... he got that in an accident.
Overall, I was expecting an 8 and I got a 6... at best. I'm not sure if they're making another X-Men, but I am sure they are making a Wolverine movie and possibly more spinoff movies... Gambit comes to mind......
Making one of the greatest x-villains of all time, Juggernaut, a mutant, was the discrepancy that ticked me off the most.
Being someone who hasn't read the comics, I enjoyed it. But my friends who have, told me the writers went their own way, so I can see the anger at the liberties taken.
Juggernaut is supposed to be one of the most unstoppable forces the x-men have ever faced.
In the movie he needs momentum for his strength. Makes him a house from the getgo. Then he's treated as a mutant and they ignore the fact that he's supposed to be Professor X's stepbrother.
this may sound like a little bit too picky but... anybody else notice that the guy in the forest who could make extra bone and was throwing it at Wolverine... was basically a male version of Marrow? (leader of Morlocks)... that tells you right there that they were trying to cram as many powers as possible in that movie and rushed it big time.
I thought the same thing. I swear..these directors--WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!
So when's the next remake of The Alamo scheduled?
Yet they even screwed up that. He had no momentum when he broke out of the floor.
Apparently they are making an X-Men 4...but those three were supposed to all tie together like a trilogy...who knows about this next one...
it man, the more I think of this movie, the more pissed off I get. THEY CRAMMED THE WHOLE MYTHOLOGY OF THE PHOENIX SERIES INTO ONE ING MOVIE!!!!
They could have just ended this trilogy with the mutant cure storyline, and not involved Phoenix. THEN, the next 3 movies could be all about Phoenix.
, I hate the movie studios sometimes.
That was TheTruth's rant.
that guy's name is e in the comics. i think he was black in the comics though.
so, basically, they should have paid singer out the ass to make a decent movie instead of hiring the ratner. hopefully singer will make a decent superman movie...
I saw the trailer for Superman yesterday before X-Men, and it looks pretty kick ass. It should be good for the money they spent on it. Kevin Spacey might be the perfect actor to play Lex Luthor. I think he is going to be a huge scene stealer.
no, they shouldn't have rushed the whole effing thing, and given ratner a shot to make a good movie.
he's no hackman, but it looks like he will do a good job. go kpax!
e was only created for XMen:Evolution, he was the male version of Marrow.
I finally saw it and it was lame. Why they didn't make this a 3 hr movie instead of craming so much in 105 min is beyond me. The movie didn't flow, it just felt like it was jumping all over the place. Every fight scene sucked.
I read this was supposed to be the last movie, then why show at the end Magneto was getting his powers back and Pro X still alive?????????????????????
I think the whole point of all these movies with Singer and Ratner is that the X Men storyline is somewhat plausible.
Granted mutants aren't real, but the movies give it a good feeling of being able to believe it.
The Phoenix saga was too early but when you think about it...nobody is gonna dedicate 5-7 movies on that one saga. It's too much to cram into a movie.
That's why you don't see the X Men with stupid ass costumes like in the cartoons, because while it does take fantasy, it doesn't go over the top of plausibility.
I personally liked the entire thing. They brought down the comics more down to Earth because if they were exactly like the comics. You'd have to make 20 movies over 3 hours long.
Actually Singer was the one who they screwed out of. He was all set to make the X Men 3. But he wanted to do Superman first and then come back and direct X Men but the studio didn't want that, so they gave it to Ratner.
Personally, I would have loved to see Matthew Vaughn do the movie. He was next after Singer but he dropped out. But he made Layer Cake and I would have loved to see him make an X Men movie.
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