X-Men 3

Originally Posted by quazi

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.

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He's not really out of character, it just seems he developed but we missed a lot of it, along with the rest of the cast. We saw glimpses of his human emotions, particularly when Xavier's death was concerned (he calls our "Charles!" when he melts, and gives Pyro a good shutting-down), but the fact that war was upon them meant he couldn't very likely be namby-pamby about his treatment of the enemy. Didn't he practically strangle that guy in the chains at the end of X2 (forgive me for forgetting names)? He has to show strength as the leader of the Brotherhood, so I thought most of his behaviour was well justified. The Mystique thing was jarring though. I won't deny that, but I don't think she betrayed Magneto in return at all; didn't the information she provided lead to the "fake" camp, with the guy who duplicates himself? Or maybe they were initially there, but moved for that purpose. Who knows?
Magneto's "death" scene was appropriately dramatic. I liked it a lot. Very theatrical. As opposed to Wolverine's "no!!". Okay, he's upset, but he can hardly yell out no when he was the one to do it, for the greater good of all.

Xavier, Xavier, Xavier. He was a right bastard when it came to Jean and the "barriers", and Wolverine apparently waking her up (and here I thought she did so of her own accord). Hypocritical, too, after the whole ethics class. Still, it wouldn't have been so bad if he had developed and saw what he did (messing with her mind) was wrong, despite the best intentions. It just seemed he was crabby in this film, and a little too self-righteous, and that we missed a bit between films.

Ack, I keep remembering more problems now. How the hell did Jean awake? Cyclops' beam hitting the water? It was a little contrived he decided to ride all the way out to the lake again for no particular reason, and beam the water in anger. Also, it was a bit rich that Storm had her speech at Xavier's funeral about his teachings living on through them and the school but five minutes later doubting whether to keep the school open purely for a "subtly dramatic/tense" scene, with entrance by Angel and resolution of the issue resolved within a minute. I won't even go into Rogue's mess of a storyline. Her problem was solved before it really began. Is she as useless in the comic books? I was looking forward to her using her powers against the Brotherhood in the last battle but was sorely disappointed. It seems they just left her power as a burden. Then again, it did set up for a legitimate reason for a cure. Not everyone has cool abilities like telekinesis and magnetism so it's understandable she'd want to be normal if it meant human contact.

Then again, I loved the movie. The effects were absolutely stunning, and captured my imagination on more than one occasion. And heck, it's and X-Men movie. Of course I'd like it. There were far more good points than bad, so I won't even mention them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

That would be the worst movie ever.
Seriously, what kind of interesting history could the man possibly get? He's a one-dimensional (joke unintended) bad-guy.

There's nowhere I can't reach.