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Movie Review : Xmen 3

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It was ok.


Now overall the movie was decent and would make most noncomic book reading fans happy. For the rest of us, it was really a let down. X2 was so much better and you can tell they (whoever they are) changed the formula for this one.


Do not scroll down unless you want to read SPOILER ALERTS!!










Ok, first off... the entire premise of The Cure was worthy of the entire movie plot. It had potential. But they were not happy and had to throw in the Jean Grey / Dark Phoenix saga. BIG MISTAKE. The Dark Phoenix saga is worthy of an entire movie itself. Here as simply a subplot, it was cheapened and rung through hell to water itself down to fit in and not overshadow the other plot. They bombed here. Big time.

Next, where the fuck was Nightcrawler? He was done awesomely in X2, but here no trace or mention of him.

Professor X died. That was really unnecessary.

The directors fucked up and had mutant powers doing things they simply could not do. When Colossus transformed into his armored self, he was able to also transform other people along with him if he were touching them. (as shown in the Danger Room sequence.) He never had this power in the comics.

The Cure was actually a mutant named Leech that disrupted the mutant gene on a DNA level. If you were in the room with him, your mutant gene was deactivated and you lost your powers but if you were injected with his antibodies, your mutant gene was completely destroyed. Ok, so Kitty runs in there to save him with the Juggernaut on her heels. She tries to phase them out of the room but she can't because her powers are disrupted while being close to Leech. Now here is the kicker, the Juggernaut busts in the room and they trick/defeat him after Leech causes him to lose his mutant powers. The problem with this was that Juggernaut was never a mutant in the first place. He had no mutant genes to deactivate or disrupt. He was an average guy until he gained his power from some Cytorak ruby gems he came in contact with. His power is from a magical/mystical source, not mutant genes. That made no sense at all.

Also the superheavy weight slugfest between Colossus and Juggernaut never materialized. That was robbery. What good is it having two super strong beings if they battle each other?

The good news however is that Cyclops died (I hated him that sniveling little pansy) and Storm got her ass kicked royally in the movie. (Uppity bitch that she is deserved it)

Overall, I give it two stars out of five.
 
My review was better bitch!!! :Chef: :tuc:
 
I hate the fact that Cyclops died. I thought he was a pivotal character in the books (but completely wasted in the movie).
 
AAP said:
It was ok.


Now overall the movie was decent and would make most noncomic book reading fans happy. For the rest of us, it was really a let down. X2 was so much better and you can tell they (whoever they are) changed the formula for this one.


Do not scroll down unless you want to read SPOILER ALERTS!!










Ok, first off... the entire premise of The Cure was worthy of the entire movie plot. It had potential. But they were not happy and had to throw in the Jean Grey / Dark Phoenix saga. BIG MISTAKE. The Dark Phoenix saga is worthy of an entire movie itself. Here as simply a subplot, it was cheapened and rung through hell to water itself down to fit in and not overshadow the other plot. They bombed here. Big time.

Next, where the fuck was Nightcrawler? He was done awesomely in X2, but here no trace or mention of him.

Professor X died. That was really unnecessary.

The directors fucked up and had mutant powers doing things they simply could not do. When Colossus transformed into his armored self, he was able to also transform other people along with him if he were touching them. (as shown in the Danger Room sequence.) He never had this power in the comics.

The Cure was actually a mutant named Leech that disrupted the mutant gene on a DNA level. If you were in the room with him, your mutant gene was deactivated and you lost your powers but if you were injected with his antibodies, your mutant gene was completely destroyed. Ok, so Kitty runs in there to save him with the Juggernaut on her heels. She tries to phase them out of the room but she can't because her powers are disrupted while being close to Leech. Now here is the kicker, the Juggernaut busts in the room and they trick/defeat him after Leech causes him to lose his mutant powers. The problem with this was that Juggernaut was never a mutant in the first place. He had no mutant genes to deactivate or disrupt. He was an average guy until he gained his power from some Cytorak ruby gems he came in contact with. His power is from a magical/mystical source, not mutant genes. That made no sense at all.

Also the superheavy weight slugfest between Colossus and Juggernaut never materialized. That was robbery. What good is it having two super strong beings if they battle each other?

The good news however is that Cyclops died (I hated him that sniveling little pansy) and Storm got her ass kicked royally in the movie. (Uppity bitch that she is deserved it)

Overall, I give it two stars out of five.
the let down for me is that the juggernaunt was twice the size as they have him in the movie. He was almost the hulk's size.
 
AAP said:
It was ok.


Now overall the movie was decent and would make most noncomic book reading fans happy. For the rest of us, it was really a let down. X2 was so much better and you can tell they (whoever they are) changed the formula for this one.


Do not scroll down unless you want to read SPOILER ALERTS!!










Ok, first off... the entire premise of The Cure was worthy of the entire movie plot. It had potential. But they were not happy and had to throw in the Jean Grey / Dark Phoenix saga. BIG MISTAKE. The Dark Phoenix saga is worthy of an entire movie itself. Here as simply a subplot, it was cheapened and rung through hell to water itself down to fit in and not overshadow the other plot. They bombed here. Big time.

Next, where the fuck was Nightcrawler? He was done awesomely in X2, but here no trace or mention of him.

Professor X died. That was really unnecessary.

The directors fucked up and had mutant powers doing things they simply could not do. When Colossus transformed into his armored self, he was able to also transform other people along with him if he were touching them. (as shown in the Danger Room sequence.) He never had this power in the comics.

The Cure was actually a mutant named Leech that disrupted the mutant gene on a DNA level. If you were in the room with him, your mutant gene was deactivated and you lost your powers but if you were injected with his antibodies, your mutant gene was completely destroyed. Ok, so Kitty runs in there to save him with the Juggernaut on her heels. She tries to phase them out of the room but she can't because her powers are disrupted while being close to Leech. Now here is the kicker, the Juggernaut busts in the room and they trick/defeat him after Leech causes him to lose his mutant powers. The problem with this was that Juggernaut was never a mutant in the first place. He had no mutant genes to deactivate or disrupt. He was an average guy until he gained his power from some Cytorak ruby gems he came in contact with. His power is from a magical/mystical source, not mutant genes. That made no sense at all.

Also the superheavy weight slugfest between Colossus and Juggernaut never materialized. That was robbery. What good is it having two super strong beings if they battle each other?

The good news however is that Cyclops died (I hated him that sniveling little pansy) and Storm got her ass kicked royally in the movie. (Uppity bitch that she is deserved it)

Overall, I give it two stars out of five.
lol it was gay as shit

the mutant whose mutation was being a fucking tinker bell fairy (the kind that flys, and th ekind that loves men).

everyone dies.

juggernaught wasnt even black, his muscle suit was fake as hell, he wanst even funny
 
Non-spoilers:

Good casting. "Warren" looks the way he should, "Colossus" was dead-on, Kelsey Grammer makes a great "Hank." Much better luck with their Juggernaut than they had with Sabertooth. "Iceman" rocks in his wholesome whitebread way (even if the 18-year old playing "Kitty" makes him look like a child molester).

On the Juggernaut's origin, meh, they can't go draggin' in Doctor Strange and all that, any more than they could introduce the Sh'iar and Empress Lilandra. The critics' heads are exploding from "too many characters!" as it is. So, in the movie he's a mutant. Deal with it.

Make a note of the guy running the lawnmower -- the guy the camera lingers on for no apparent reason. The credit for "Lawnmower Man" will make it clear why. :D

And don't make the mistake I did and leave before the credits are over. Apparently there is one last teaser scene AFTER the credits. (Feel free to PM me and tell me what it is.)

What the heck is this noise about how rotten the director is? Given the sheer inevitability of the script, I don't see that having Singer directing would have changed a thing.

Spoilers:



(Making them gray so they aren't too spoilerific -- highlight them to read)








How the heck did they make Ian McKellen twenty years younger? Nicely done.

Colossus could share his power in the Danger Room sequence because the person he was sharing it with was Rogue. Duh.

The Scott & Jean love story -- daaaaamn. They actually filmed what Claremont wrote, near enough, and figured out how to put it up on the screen. I never hoped to see that, let alone done right. Famke J. said right after the first movie that she knew the Dark Phoenix story, and that she wanted to do it. Glad she signed on, and glad they were able to come so close to doing it justice.

Can't believe they actually used "I'm the JUGGERNAUT, bitch!" :D
 
But Rogue doesn't share powers, she steals them. She would have become armored, but Colossus would have been still in human form (and usually unconscious since that is the effect her touch usually has in the comic books)

They should have saved the Dark Phoenix saga for another movie. But since they wasted that plot, what do they have left with to use the next go around? The Brood saga? Can you imagine the heads imploding trying to figure that out?
 
AAP said:
But Rogue doesn't share powers, she steals them. She would have become armored, but Colossus would have been still in human form (and usually unconscious since that is the effect her touch usually has in the comic books)

They should have saved the Dark Phoenix saga for another movie. But since they wasted that plot, what do they have left with to use the next go around? The Brood saga? Can you imagine the heads imploding trying to figure that out?
it was called the last stand or whatever

its the last movie it was a trilogoy
 
hugh jackman is one of my favorite actors of his generation.
 
oh ok..lwnmower man...i know who it is now..that pretty cool he made a cameo..16 years writing the shit..lol
 
AFTER CREDITS SPOILER!

You see the man who Xavier talks about in his class. The one with "no mind" but all bodyfunctions working. He calls the doctor by her name. She looks at him and goes "Charles?".
 
AAP said:
But Rogue doesn't share powers, she steals them. She would have become armored, but Colossus would have been still in human form (and usually unconscious since that is the effect her touch usually has in the comic books)
What's the one thing Xavier tried to teach all his students? How to control their powers. One of the (many) points of that exercise would have been for Rogue to learn how to "borrow" some of Colossus' power without taking it all, even under stress.

I thought "Huh?" just as you did, "Colossus can't do that" then registered Anna Paquin's face and Rogue's hair, and went, "Oh, yeah. That works." I really like that they were able to show it in a fraction of a second without hitting us over the head with it. Those who care can sort it out, those who have no idea that the character's name is Colossus just go "big steel-plated guy, cool." (Did they ever mention his name?)
They should have saved the Dark Phoenix saga for another movie. But since they wasted that plot, what do they have left with to use the next go around? The Brood saga? Can you imagine the heads imploding trying to figure that out?
Ha. Naw, story's over. They cherry-picked the part that made Claremont's rep, and I'm relieved that they didn't completely ruin it.... now they'll miss the point and do a spinoff Wolverine that will tank like Elektra or Van Helsing. Pity.
 
But Halle Berry said in an interview that she wouldn't be back as Storm that it was time for someone new to fill the role.

Wolverine is suppose to have his own spinoff in the future.
 
Van Helsing was cool, plus there was this hot vampiress chic in it.
 
bah, i hope superman isnt a let down like this.
and the preview for Ghost Rider w/ Nicholas Cage was shown.
i honestly dont remember wtf ghost rider was about. but damn its fucking comics book city in hollywood it seems now
 
a generous review AAP

it sounds worst then the Matrix 3

all your points are right on, if they only followed the xman cartoon that was on years ago, that was a direct representation of the comics they would have been fine........but nooo they could not do that could they.........

assholes
 
digger said:
Non-spoilers:

And don't make the mistake I did and leave before the credits are over. Apparently there is one last teaser scene AFTER the credits. (Feel free to PM me and tell me what it is.)

Spoilers:



(Making them gray so they aren't too spoilerific -- highlight them to read)








How the heck did they make Ian McKellen twenty years younger? Nicely done.

Can't believe they actually used "I'm the JUGGERNAUT, bitch!" :D

When I saw it last night about a third of a packed theater did not move until the credits were fully run. Both moments before and after the credits leave the door open for more.

The FX brushed both McKellen and Stewart to look younger in the flashback scene. It seemed more obvious to me when looking at Patrick Stewart: his neck has looked like a chicken's for a while now.


As for the Juggernaut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrplUI7iPAc
 
chefbone said:
My review was better bitch!!! :Chef: :tuc:


That's AAP. There could be 3 reviews of a certain new flick on the 1st page of Chat, and he'd start his own.

Waaaa....search button? who, where. You mean other people may have seen this flick before me?
 
wow, i'm glad i'm not a comic book dork... i enjoyed the movie quite a bit and knew enough to know the characters.
 
There are things I liked about the Movie and there are things I did not like.
I'm upset that Night Crawler didn't come back, but then again the guy is like Wolverine in the comics and takes time off to do his thing back home in France from time to time. So that is understandable...

I couldn't care less if the whole plot floows the comic book or not. Fuck the comic book stuff the movies are drawing on now where written in the 60's and 70's for comic books... I can't see those scripts doiong too well in movies in the 2000's... I'm a comic book fan but don't care about accuracy with the comics as long as the individual characters we have grown to love are still the same. As long as the character's personalities and powers are recognizble, put them in ANY setting I don't care...



Iceman:

The same guy as in the early comics. A little lazy in developing his powers, a slef doubter, underacheiver (who has limitless power potential) I was VERY happy to see Iceman convert to ice fully like in the comic book. It adds to the "feel" of the character AND opens the door for Icemand to later become the powerhouse he became in the comicbook after the White Queen took over his powers and pushed them to its limit(awesome shit)... Any comic book fans can elaborate on this if they wish.


Wolverine:

THe character was a hit in the comics and a hit on the screen as well. Simple yet complicated powers... He was a little too "nice" and "leader-like" in the movie, it took logan YEARS to become this way in the comic book.. Oh well, they had to do it.... One thing about logan that is true in the movie as in the comics.. Wolverine loves the kids, always has. Wolvie was a dick to everybody but always had a soft spot for the kids. I hope is he has his own movie they keep it "earthy" like the comic book. Don't over dress him or over do his foes. Keep it simple and small.

For the Wolverine movie I would like to see a regular action-hero plot, with a guy that has claws pop out of his hands... None of that save the world from doom type shit. If the movie doesn't start with Wolverine on his Harley riding down a lone higway in Canada... I'm walking out of the movie theater on the spot. The wolverine movie need to start the same way the X-men 1 movie started. Earthy, real, normal... Until the claws pop out.





-BRR
 
Big Rick Rock said:
There are things I liked about the Movie and there are things I did not like.
I'm upset that Night Crawler didn't come back, but then again the guy is like Wolverine in the comics and takes time off to do his thing back home in France from time to time. So that is understandable...

I couldn't care less if the whole plot floows the comic book or not. Fuck the comic book stuff the movies are drawing on now where written in the 60's and 70's for comic books... I can't see those scripts doiong too well in movies in the 2000's... I'm a comic book fan but don't care about accuracy with the comics as long as the individual characters we have grown to love are still the same. As long as the character's personalities and powers are recognizble, put them in ANY setting I don't care...



Iceman:

The same guy as in the early comics. A little lazy in developing his powers, a slef doubter, underacheiver (who has limitless power potential) I was VERY happy to see Iceman convert to ice fully like in the comic book. It adds to the "feel" of the character AND opens the door for Icemand to later become the powerhouse he became in the comicbook after the White Queen took over his powers and pushed them to its limit(awesome shit)... Any comic book fans can elaborate on this if they wish.


Wolverine:

THe character was a hit in the comics and a hit on the screen as well. Simple yet complicated powers... He was a little too "nice" and "leader-like" in the movie, it took logan YEARS to become this way in the comic book.. Oh well, they had to do it.... One thing about logan that is true in the movie as in the comics.. Wolverine loves the kids, always has. Wolvie was a dick to everybody but always had a soft spot for the kids. I hope is he has his own movie they keep it "earthy" like the comic book. Don't over dress him or over do his foes. Keep it simple and small.

For the Wolverine movie I would like to see a regular action-hero plot, with a guy that has claws pop out of his hands... None of that save the world from doom type shit. If the movie doesn't start with Wolverine on his Harley riding down a lone higway in Canada... I'm walking out of the movie theater on the spot. The wolverine movie need to start the same way the X-men 1 movie started. Earthy, real, normal... Until the claws pop out.





-BRR
Wolverine was my favorite as a kid, but I did notice that depending on the comic book and year he would look absolutely goofy in his yellow costume, or "earthy" as you say with no ridiculous costume.

A Wolverine movie will be a hit I believe.
 
Lestat said:
Wolverine was my favorite as a kid, but I did notice that depending on the comic book and year he would look absolutely goofy in his yellow costume, or "earthy" as you say with no ridiculous costume.

A Wolverine movie will be a hit I believe.



Well that depends on the comic and writer at the time. If you picked up a regular X-men comic, he was wearing that ridiculous yellow shit, off in some far universe saving the world from doom with the other X-men... If you picked up the "Wolverine" comic books, he was wearing a wife-beater and cowboy hat, beating the crap out of some super powered mutant who was trying to bully a little guy. Some of the best Wolverine comics came AFTER Magneto removed the Adamantium from his body... His claws still poped out but they where just pointy bones... Regular guy at the bar with mutant powers type of plots.




-BRR
 
Big Rick Rock said:
Some of the best Wolverine comics came AFTER Magneto removed the Adamantium from his body... His claws still poped out but they where just pointy bones... BRR



:(

damn thats messed up
 
It could be. Writers and producers tend to change during the process.

I read my week old Entertainment Weekly today. Apparently the chick that kept fighting Storm with superspeed was Callisto. The Callisto I remember wasn't that quick and looked like Chrissie Hynde with an eyepatch.
 
Wynn said:
It could be. Writers and producers tend to change during the process.

I read my week old Entertainment Weekly today. Apparently the chick that kept fighting Storm with superspeed was Callisto. The Callisto I remember wasn't that quick and looked like Chrissie Hynde with an eyepatch.


Yep. I never knew she had powers either, just using that knife.
 
OMEGA said:
:(

damn thats messed up


That ain't shit... there was one fight where the bad guy knocked him down and then stepped on his claws (bones) and shattered them.
 
AAP said:
That ain't shit... there was one fight where the bad guy knocked him down and then stepped on his claws (bones) and shattered them.


I dont like that at all :(

whats wrong with people
 
It looks like Wolverine will be up first. Jackman is even co-producing it.


After a boffo box office debut for X-Men: The Last Stand, the franchise opts for a divide-and-conquer strategy. Plus, we've got buzz on the Akeelah and the Bee DVD and Tony Bennett's birthday plans.
Movies: 'X-Men' franchise mutates into a pack of solo films

The X-Men mutants plan to divide and conquer.

After last weekend's four-day, $122.9 million debut of X-Men: The Last Stand, the third film in the Marvel Comics series, producers are devising ways to launch some characters into their own franchises.

The first spinoff will be Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. His character has an as-yet-unrevealed back story in which researchers replaced his original bones with a metal skeleton. Jackman has signed on to star and co-produce, and X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner says it will likely head into production next year.

"We've also talked about doing something on the kids in (Professor X's) school, focusing on their lives, and less of a global adventure for the team," says Hutch Parker, production president of 20th Century Fox.

The studio is also exploring a movie with Three Kings director David O. Russell based on the character of Emma Frost, a sexy mutant telepath who can transform her skin into diamonds. She is an X-Men comics regular but was not featured in the movies.

Another likely solo project: Magneto, also in the script phase. The film will focus on his youthful pre-villain days, Shuler Donner says.

Though it would require a younger actor for those sequences, she says the film would need Ian McKellen to anchor the flashbacks. "What's a Magneto movie without Ian?" she asks.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-06-01-coming-attractions_x.htm
 
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