Just saw it, and my anger and disappointments has pretty much been mentioned so I won't bother reiterating them. But I wanted to mention that I thought they still could have added Gambit into the story.

The way to do it, I think, is by writing him into the love triangle between Shadowcat, Iceman, and Rogue. If I remembered correctly Gambit and Rogue had a thing in the cartoon (right?), so that could have get things started between the two when Rogue got jealous.

Lol and what was up the Prince look on Arclight? That was so wrong. Man, it was so hard to tell if she was a guy or a girl. I mean if they didn't show breasts I would have mistaken her for a guy, a really homosexual looking guy.

BTW
During Xavier's lecture session, she was the asian girl, I think she was sitting beside Kitty.

In a sea of out of character moments in this movie, Professor X was probably the biggest asshole out of anyone. It was even worse when

I really disagree with that. Professor X was not out of character at all. If anything he was frantic and knew of the danger jean would become. He was right for what he did. As you see in the movie, Wolverine's views of how things should go down was not the most pleasant.

Movie was awesome. Infinitely better than lets say, Silent Hill.

Really loved the last scene when Wolverine walks up to Jean and of course the Juggernaut, bitch.

Yeah, I kept wondering who "That fruity guy with the dumb haircut was" until I actually saw her full view and thought "Holy crap! It's a man-woman!"

Also...

That thing was very, very disturbing. I looked at preview pictures on the web and totally didn't realize that thing was a chick until I read that the character was a woman. :o



Overall, I liked it, but I don't think you'd get as much out of it if you hadn't watched the first three movies. Knowledge of the comics also helps. I looked all the characters up on Wiki first, otherwise it would have been more confusing. I actually don't mind that they didn't develop all the characters - do they in any film? The only thing that I thought was cheesy about having hundreds of mutants is that during the battle at the end, they really didn't show any of their mutant powers, except for the very main ones. So, that scene didn't have impact, for me. Still, a great film.



Also, if they really had a "cure" for mutants, this is how it would pan out in reality:

Professor X was destroyed by a monster of his own creation, which had already killed his surrogate son, and goes on to kill several mutants and many humans.

How does that make the Professor right?

A fist fight broke out during the previews because some parent's kids were using a laser pointer on the screen. Some hillbilly fatass got agitated and went up into the top row where they were sitting and started having words. Then said parent shoves said hillbilly and fists begin flying. I can honestly say I've never seen anything like that at a movie theatre.

The movie was ok. Still, the charade before the movie was more of an event. They totally ruined the Magneto character, and killed off Cyclops needlessly. The action was certainly the best of the 3 films, though.

Too many mutants, not enough story.

How is that his fault? He tried stopping the Phoenix, not letting it make up its own mind. As stated in the film, Phoenix was a crazy, being controled by her unlimited power, not compassion or reason.

However, Phoenix was created by the professor's blockades in Jean Grey's mind. There was no Phoenix when Xavier first encountered Jean Grey, he simply feared that her unconcious use of her power was dangerous and decided to try to block off that portion of her mind. In doing so he created the split personality Phoenix which dominates Dr. Grey in X3.

Thats not true. Perhaps you should watch the movie over again. he states how when jean was young she had a split personality that called itself the Phoenix that let her powers control her. His blocks put the phoenix to sleep.

I'll leave it at this

I did not pay to see X-Men 3 - but I would like my money back

Ill have a greater detailed review when this spastic colon stops

Horseshit. Xavier states that he calls it the Phoenix, and that her unused subconcious powers developed its own personality behind his mental blocks.

Xavier sealed Jean's powers because he was afraid that her inability to control them would harm people, but he did so without her consent, and in doing so creates the Phoenix, and fucks over the X-men.

Yet for this sin, Charles faces no punishment, no atonement. The sacrifice he makes is rendered meaningless by the end credits.

Fuck that shit.

Also, an adendum. I was wrong about Spike. I thought I might have been, but Porcupine is actually Kid Omega, and he has the powers of the fucking Quill. So not only did the movie have too many mutants, it couldn't even get their powers right. They might as well have replaced him with the fucking Toad.

A friend of mine described this movie very poignantly as "the best piece of crap [he'd] ever seen."

As someone who never read the comics, I can't really point out the (seemingly many) inaccuracies, but what I can say is that while it wasn't overtly bad, it wasn't very good either. I hated Storm.
As for the miscellaneous mutants . . . Kid Omega was really fucking lame. At one point, my boyfriend had to lean over and ask me if Arclight was a man or a woman. Vinnie Jones (Bullet-Tooth Tony, bitches!) was awesome as Juggernaut. And Kitty Pryde was adorable!

What the hell was up with Angel's actor? I mean, really. Isn't Angel supposed to be one of the founding members of the X-Men? So what was up with making him look like some kind of dickless soap star?

Also, I really missed Nightcrawler.

Overall, though. Meh. The extra scene at the end kind of fucked up the whole movie for me even more.

Bradylama, seriously, see the movie again. In no such way did Xavier create Phoenix.

I'm not going to pay another 7 dollars to disprove your niggerdom.

Like Logan put it... He caged the beast without there really being reasoning behind it. Thus creating resentment in Jean and making that side of her into the ragin beast.

But at the time that he caged her, she wasn't as violent as she was in the end...

There could've been ways to tame the beast...

The end result being a bunch of dead X-Men and other lesser peoples.

Thus bringing up yet another untouched upon idea, in that sometimes the evil thing to do is the right thing.

Magneto should've been the vehicle for this concept, but that sort of ruins the whole basis of the Suprehero/Supervillain dichotomy.

I thought the ending was kind of weak.. I saw the meaning behind it


But still...come on..

Has anybody considered the idea that Jean's "Destructive Side" was childhood immaturity? There's no suggestion that her lifting everything in the neighborhood is anything more than childhood mischief. There's no suggestion that it's being performed by anybody other than Jean.