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browncoat2x2) wrote2006-05-26 10:45 pm
browncoat2x2) wrote2006-05-26 10:45 pm
X-Men III.... my rant
This post contains SPOILERS for X-Men III - The Last Stand. If you do not wish to know about it, do not proceed!
***SPOILERS***
*Sigh*
I was disappointed. After waiting so long, and being so excited about the previews, I suppose it was almost inevitable that I would be. But I have very valid reasons.
Characterization. Way off in so many places. Magneto would have NEVER NEVER NEVER said "What have I done?" NEVER!!!!! He would have yelled at Jean to destroy them all! They just took away his powers! Made him human!!! He'd rather see everything destroyed. And besides that, YOU CAN'T MAKE A CHARACTER SAY THAT!! OMG CHEESY!!
And, I don't think Magneto would be so quick to dump Mirage after she'd been 'cured'... hell, there's no proof that the cure is permanent, and he ows her SO MUCH... there is SOME humane qualities to the man... (regardless of what I said abover *g*)
Wolverine would NOT break down and cry at Xavier's death... Storm would have, and Logan would have comforted her perhaps, but not the other way around. They weren't *that* close.
I didn't like the little 'inside joke' of having the X-Men fighting a Sentinal in the danger room... they don't even exist yet in this universe, how can they (and why would they) train against one?
Magneto moving the Golden Gate Bridge (or whichever bridge that is) was visually impressive enough, but so totally un-necessary! Oh, and he just happened to know that Mirage would betray him, and exactly when, so that Multiple guy could be there as a decoy?? Huwhat?
In the last stand at the end, why didn't we get to see Colossus fight??? He was there, but ... oh, dear, we ran out of money, so... no big metal guy (this is true, btw, not just my snarkiness)
AND.... why did Wolverine have to kill Jean? THEY HAVE A KID WHO NULLIFIES MUTANT POWERS BY HIS PROXIMITY! I mean, it was all there, totally set up, just waiting to happen... Granted it was a nice angsty moment, and you all know how I loves me some angst, (they were always better together then her and Scott!!) but...c'mon!
The whole look and feel of the movie was different, no doubt because the whole crew and director from the first two movies left to do Superman Returns, and the guy who was doing Superman Returns, left it to do X-Men... hrmmmm... weird....
They messed with some of the characters, combining two into one, giving them powers they didn't have, tried to cram as many mutants into the movie as possible, whether they were needed or not and... arrrgggg...
I really, REALLY wanted to like this movie. I was so excited. And now just all the more disappointed.
*sigh*
My advice, go buy Joss's Amazing X-Men (on which elements of the movie are based) It's infintely better and well worth the money.
***SPOILERS***
*Sigh*
I was disappointed. After waiting so long, and being so excited about the previews, I suppose it was almost inevitable that I would be. But I have very valid reasons.
Characterization. Way off in so many places. Magneto would have NEVER NEVER NEVER said "What have I done?" NEVER!!!!! He would have yelled at Jean to destroy them all! They just took away his powers! Made him human!!! He'd rather see everything destroyed. And besides that, YOU CAN'T MAKE A CHARACTER SAY THAT!! OMG CHEESY!!
And, I don't think Magneto would be so quick to dump Mirage after she'd been 'cured'... hell, there's no proof that the cure is permanent, and he ows her SO MUCH... there is SOME humane qualities to the man... (regardless of what I said abover *g*)
Wolverine would NOT break down and cry at Xavier's death... Storm would have, and Logan would have comforted her perhaps, but not the other way around. They weren't *that* close.
I didn't like the little 'inside joke' of having the X-Men fighting a Sentinal in the danger room... they don't even exist yet in this universe, how can they (and why would they) train against one?
Magneto moving the Golden Gate Bridge (or whichever bridge that is) was visually impressive enough, but so totally un-necessary! Oh, and he just happened to know that Mirage would betray him, and exactly when, so that Multiple guy could be there as a decoy?? Huwhat?
In the last stand at the end, why didn't we get to see Colossus fight??? He was there, but ... oh, dear, we ran out of money, so... no big metal guy (this is true, btw, not just my snarkiness)
AND.... why did Wolverine have to kill Jean? THEY HAVE A KID WHO NULLIFIES MUTANT POWERS BY HIS PROXIMITY! I mean, it was all there, totally set up, just waiting to happen... Granted it was a nice angsty moment, and you all know how I loves me some angst, (they were always better together then her and Scott!!) but...c'mon!
The whole look and feel of the movie was different, no doubt because the whole crew and director from the first two movies left to do Superman Returns, and the guy who was doing Superman Returns, left it to do X-Men... hrmmmm... weird....
They messed with some of the characters, combining two into one, giving them powers they didn't have, tried to cram as many mutants into the movie as possible, whether they were needed or not and... arrrgggg...
I really, REALLY wanted to like this movie. I was so excited. And now just all the more disappointed.
*sigh*
My advice, go buy Joss's Amazing X-Men (on which elements of the movie are based) It's infintely better and well worth the money.
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See, the story I heard was that he was just crazy busy with Lost and all. But yours makes sense also.
... 'sides which, Jean dies a whole ton of times, so it's okay... just surprised me more than anything.
I never read the comic books, I just watched the TV show off and on. Jean always annoyed me, because it just seemed like she was always like "I could help! ... But my POWERS. They're OUT OF CONTROL. I could HURT someone ... so I'll just sit by helplessly and angst for Wolverine without Scott getting jealous." Stupid Scott.
I've never been much of a Superman Super-fan (and, OMG is there a story behind that nickname I had)
Story! Story! :-)
And, Oh yeah, WTF did we need Kitty Pride in this movie for?
Personally, I think she was there so we could have the line "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" (Speaking of awesome portrayals.) She just bugged me because I wanted to see a catfight between her and Rogue, which would have consisted of Rogue wiping the floor with him.
Rogue getting the cure made sense, but it really still felt to me like she just did it because Iceman was being an idiot (btw, is he stupid or what?). It felt like she was angsting rather than getting fed up with life in general.
And yeah, Beast pretty much kicked ass all over the place. 'Cause he's awesome like that. Although being a politics dork, the scene with him getting named UN ambassador made me want to see that scene.
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hahahaha... yeah, pretty much... she had a roll to play :o) Personally, I always liked Wolverine better than Cyclops, because, well, he's Canadian for one, and just all around cooler *G* So... I didn't mind too much that Scott was so stupid *G*
I've never been much of a Superman Super-fan (and, OMG is there a story behind that nickname I had)
Story! Story! :-)
Ahhh geee... Okay. So, the story is, I was on my way home from college one day, and decided to stop in at my comic shop. It just HAPPENED to be the day that the Death of Superman comic was released, so I figured, meh, why not, might be worth something someday... And I just HAPPENED to get there at the right time to be the first in line. So I got my Collector's edition in the sealed plastic bag, and my newstand edition, ... and the Gorram paper guy was there and took my picture for the paper... So, I'm like, okay, no biggie, some little community column in the local paper....
FRONT PAGE FULL COLOUR PHOTO
Caption: Superman Superfan first in line to get her copy of The Death of Superman.
AAACK!!
Annnnnnd, it wouldnt have been so bad except that EVERYONE friggen recognized me EVERYWHERE I went... seriously... It haunted me, for like, a YEAR.... and I wasn't even a Superman fan! I just bought them for the MONEY!!! AAAAAHH!HH!
So, yeah, that's the superman superfan story.... my mother still has multiple copies of the article *facepalms* Celebrity might be great if it's for something you want to be known for... but it sucks when it's for being a superman superfan *wry grin*
As to the rest of your post, yeah, generally I thought a lot of the characterization was weak, and so people were dumb for plot convenience's sake... oh well
And, yes, Beast kicked ass... you political dork you! ;o>