X-Men 3

Originally Posted by LeHah

One of the CFOs or CEOs at FOX has already greenlighted X-Men 4, according to various news sources.

Only the best trilogies have 4 parts.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I came from just seeing the movie, and I have to say I was disappointed. Perhaps all the good reviews for it raised my expectations far higher than they'd otherwise be. I liked almost every scene with Jean in it, as they seemed very well done, but the same can't be said for the rest of the movie.

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The president had by far the cheasiest lines in the movie, with wonderful phrases such as "God help us all" and something on the order of "never underestimate the wrath of a woman scorned." The sappy ending at the end with beast being appointed to the UN just seemed completely ridiculous. It's like the ending of Anchorman, except that movie is a comedy. What possible value does the angsty fireballer following around Magneto have? Why couldn't they have made him into a character rather than the crybaby he is? All the mutants showing off their powers to Magneto made me laugh. Wow, great character development. "Hi I'm Joe, look what I do." I liked how in the battle at the end, all of the sudden all the mutants have the power to jump high and that's it. I know it would have been ridiculous to have all of them using powers, but come on; they were just fist-fighting. Oh and why in Beast's infinite wisdom did he decide to inject Magneto with all 4 of the vials? "Hey lets not save one for Jean and have Wolverine kill her instead good idea guys!" On that note, why not use Leach on Jean. All he has to fucking do is get near her. Oh, and I can't believe Juggernaught actually said "I'm the Juggernaught bitch."

On the bright side, I saw a trailer for Snakes on the Plane.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Something I found particularly surprising about the movie was the complete shift in Magneto's character. In the first two he comes off as a driven man, doing what he thinks is for the good of all mutants. However, in the third he turns into a cruel bastard. For example, in the scene with the convoy, Magneto kills all the cops driving around the truck when he could simply have thrown the cars to the side. For me, this didn't ring true with what Magneto had been doing in the earlier films.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by VitaPup

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.

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Originally Posted by LeHah

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*A lot of mutants have jumping powers - did it strike anyone as odd that all of Mangeto's "pawns" jumped REALLY far during the attack on Alcatraz?

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Magneto's army was rather pointless. Beyond 4 or so mutants, none of them had any powers to speak of besides that initial jump. They jump down from the Golden Gate bridge and then start fist fighting soldiers with guns. Am I the only one who could see MST3K ripping the shit out of this movie?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Dayvon

Other than that, it was a good spring flick. What more do you expect?

A good movie. Compared to the first two, this movie was terrible.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm not at all a fan of the comics. I've never read them. What I am a fan of however is good movies. Before I went to see this movie I heard incredible praise from nearly every source and it was at that time rated 7.9 on imdb (not that that's a good indicator of the quality of the movie, but that's still a little generous for this one), so I feel it was reasonable for me to assume that it would be as good if not better than the first 2.

In my eyes the first two were good movies, the third was not. it's that simple.

The great bridge sequence? Are you serious?

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Why the fuck did Magneto move the Golden Gate Bridge? Couldn't he have just made those metallic saucers as he did in X-Men 2 and move everyone across? Surprises don't make things good. The Jean portion of the movie was the only thing I really liked. The action in the final battle just seemed completely cheesy to me, perhaps mostly because Magneto's huge army sucked ass.

I'm judging it in comparison to the first two, something I find quite fair because it's a trilogy. I judge a movie based on whether I enjoy watching it. As I said before, with this movie I felt like I was watching one of the cheesey Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies and I did not enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by Kurado

He was certainly more interesting than all of the new villains (minus Juggernaut) combined.

He was certainly less realistic than all of the other mutants. Combined. I know the comics aren't as realistic as the movie, but I myself am not a fan of the comics (haven't ever read them, so I'm neutral). The jump from a single gene causing extreme mutations to the ability to create clones of yourself instantly is a little large in my eyes. All in all, I have to ask why they chose to include that mutant.

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