X-Men 3

Snake_Six said:
I thought it was cleaner language-wise than the other two.
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I think the other two combined had less bad language then the third one. But I still liked it. I don't like Ratner though, Singer was mutch better! I can't believe he jumped ship for some dumb Superman movie.
 
I liked it.

I'll tell you what I didn't like though... No Gambit, no Nightcrawler, no Jubilee and Berry's performance. I also heard it was Ratner's decision to take out Gambit but who knows. I would of liked to see Nightcrawler's and Jubilee's characters evolve but there was not even a mention of them. Berry's performance was a little flat and I know she can do better than that. Maybe that's just her interpretation on the character but I don't care for the monotone delivery.
 
I'd like to go see it again. I missed the scene at the end of the credits. Have you heard about it?

Ummm...apparently Prof. X isn't dead. He transfers to another body. This is just what I read. I don't know if it's what really happened. Can anyone confirm?
 
I can confirm, and for me it made the movie about 2x better.
I just wonder who they're gonna get to play the new Prof X., it's pretty dissapointing that obviously Patrick Stewart won't be doing it.
 
Killerah said:
I can confirm, and for me it made the movie about 2x better.
I just wonder who they're gonna get to play the new Prof X., it's pretty dissapointing that obviously Patrick Stewart won't be doing it.
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Well, they could get him to play the part. After all there are mutants that can completely alter reality in the Marvel universe. So they just have to tie that into the story a little bit.

Here is a short list of mutants/people with reality altering powers;

Mad Jim Jaspers
Franklin Richards
Proteus
Scarlet Witch
Jamie Braddock
Alfie O'Meagan
Willie Evans Jr.
Trevor Chase
Hyperstorm
Arcadia DeVille
Fan Boy

And I'm sure the Profesor could even do it himself if he wanted to.
 
My wife and I just got back from seeing X-Men 3. Since our expectations were low going in, we weren't terribly disappointed. Still, it's obvious that the series suffered a great loss when Singer didn't sign on for the third film.

The screenwriters took strains of various stories in the X-Men mythology to craft a new story--that doesn't bother me. The screenwriters for X-Men 1 and 2 did the same. I did take issue with some of the groan-inspiring bad dialogue, especially a few tacky lines spoken by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. I felt that a few characters, including Xavier, did and said things that they would never have done in the comics. Plot mutations (pardon the pun) are all well and good; misinterpreting characters is less excusable.

Still, the film was enjoyable. I'm not certain whether someone will make a fourth film in the series, but considering the drop in quality (both in terms of plot and characters) between the second and third film, I hope they don't.

So, if you're trying to decide whether or not to go see X-Men 3, then I encourage you to see it, but make sure you go to a matinee and walk in with low expectations.
 
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Incase you haven't read the comics or watched the show, this is how Juggernaut sohuld have looked.

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Now I understand he couldn't have been that bi, but at least give him a good costume, and DON'T MAKE HIM A MUTANT YOU LAZY COPOUTS!
 
I thought Juggernaut was done very well. Compared to the Omega Red travesty (dude wasn't even red) and the millions of randomly created mutants, Juggernaut was kept true to form. And that "I'm the Juggernaut..." line was CLASSIC. (Do you all know where that came from?)

The movie as a whole stunk. Maybe okay as a stand-alone, but not as a connected piece. There are so many stories that could have been done yet they make up a pathetic new one. They tease us with a sentinel only to not use them and then start killing off X-Men in totally contradictory to the comic ways.

I was bummed, frustrated and angry.
 
Believe it or not, there weren't a lot of "made-up" characters, just versions of old characters that were completely unrecognizable. Callisto, for instance. My favorite part in X3 was when Kitty phased the Juggernaut into the floor and he busted out. What her power does is allow things to pass through each other, so he wouldn't have been 'stuck' so much as his legs suddenly shared space with the concrete etc. that was there.

Personally, I thought the dialogue was miserable throughout- which doesn't make any sense at all. Uncanny has always been a well-written book, but even "Ultimate" (the newer rewrite of the X-verse) contrasts sharply with X3:
Ultimate
Scott: ...And Nightcrawler and Marvel Girl are staying here in Harlem for
the uptown detail.
Jean: Are we seriously still going with "Marvel Girl"? I outgrew that
handle two bra sizes ago.
Kurt: At least you are not named after a worm, fraulein.

X3:
Prof. Charles Xavier: Something woke her. But she has to be controlled.
Logan: You know, sometimes when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry.

Generally, the movie focused on Wolverine the most (as did the first two), but it failed to really flesh him out as a character at all. The other two movies had already established his romantic sub-plot with Jean, and the way it was handled in X3 lacked depth (from my perspective). I also found that the Rogue, Kitty/Bobby, and Angel subplots all had a ton of potential and very little payoff.
 
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