Hardcore Mel Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Saw it last night, it's OK, but probably the worst of the three movies. Overall it was still pretty good, and most of my quibbles are fan-boy...Good stuff: The Danger Room Scene (very reminiscent of 'Days of Future Past')Wolvie in general - especially the fight with the Spyke/Marrow-style stoogeKitty Pryde is ace, nice pink flashes on her uniformStorm's powers have been max-ed out, she does ace stuffMultiple Man's ruseThe adjustment of the the Dark Pheonix storyline is interestingIceman's groovey ice formBeast was ace. Nice 619...and he says "Oh my stars and garters"Magneto moving the Golden Gate Bridge was ace*affects ridulous Scottish accent* Moira Mactaggert fae Muir IslandI repeat - SPOILERS...Bad Stuff:Prof X and Cyclops BOTH get killed off in the first half hour. Cyclop, IMO, is pretty integral to the X-Men, and you don't even get to see him die.Juggernaut was SHIT SHIT SHITNo GambitRogue did fuck all Colossus did fuck allMystique did fuck allAngel did fuck allMuch more could've been made of Prof X's manipulation of Jean Grey's powersWhy make up characters for the film when there are literally thousands of minor villains to pick from the books?Juggernaut is not a mutant, his powers come from the Cyttorak crystal - why did Leech's powers affect him?No Juggernaut Vs Colossus fight!?No Nightcrawler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 That was me /\She hadn't logged oot.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest b-bert Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 oh, i actually thought i was the best of the three movies.i agree it was weird how little angel did, when he was introduced he seemed like he'd be a fairly important character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demon Of The Fall Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 load of crap. skimmed over things. none of the main characters did anything relavent. utter pish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 SPOILERS!!!Well....I ENJOYED IT. I'm not a huge reader of the comics, although I could catch up over Summer..but even then I thought this was good. Obviously there were a few scenes that made me groan, so here is a plus and minus points list.PLUS POINTS*The Comedy Moments - 'I'M THE JAUGGERNAUT BITCH!!'*Storm kicking everyones ass with lightning*Magneto*Bobby turning into the Ice-Man proper. Take that and shove it up your fancy lighter sleeve Pyro*Killing off Cyclops five minutes in. Scott Marsden buggs the fuck out of me*The pure 'OMFG' scariness of The Phoenix in full RAGE mode, especially when she obliterates the Professors body.*BEAST! He was ace!!MINUS POINTS*Bobby and Kitty skating on the pond, barforama.*The schmaltzy ending going on five minutes longer than it needed to when it should have ended with Wolverine clutching Jean's dead body.*Magento/Mystique/Rogue (three of my favourite X-Men no doubt) being cured. *Some of the dialogue was on par with Storm's toad/lightning scene from the first move. *The fact that there were some scenes being played purely for the emotion that just didn't work in the hands of Brett Ratner. Overall, a pretty good movie, not a touch on X-Men 2 which it could have been if Singer had remained in charge. Alas, it is a 3 star movie in the hands of Ratner. It's really enjoyable, but there's a slight twinge of ''this could have been a thousand times better than X-2 if Fox hadn't fucked up''. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 I read a really bad review of it today, it said that it lacked everything that made the first 2 good. It's quite odd how many characters appear to have minor roels in the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 SPOILERS!!!*Bobby and Kitty skating on the pond' date=' barforama.[/quote']I went for a piss at that bit. I was perhaps a bit harsh, I will be going to see it again for sure, I've FUCKING LOVED The X-Men for 16 years now, some bits just fucked me off though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John C Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 i agree with most of the 1st post, even pointed out to my mates about the Juggernaut not being a mutant bit.did everyone stay right til the end of the credits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 No, what happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John C Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 you know when prof x is teaching in the classroom and asks the students, whether it would be wrong to operate on the brain dead man in moira's lab? well at the end you see moira walking over to the person and prof x says "hello moira"did you notice magneto slightly moving the chess piece with his powers at the end aswell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 SPOILERS!!!*The Comedy Moments - 'I'M THE JAUGGERNAUT BITCH!!'The 'comic' moments were death, Vinnie Jones has no comic timing, and you were always waiting for some lame one-liner from Wolverine, they completely toned him down from the bad-ass he was in the second movie and made him a hokey character, as well as giving him very few decent action scenes. It reminded me of Moore-era Bond, and that's not in a complimentary way. In fact, none of the action scenes were great, and a lot of the effects weren't as good as they could have been.The movie was disappointing, even given that I expected it to be disappointing. The fact that characters like Angel just seemed to be bunged in for the sake of it gave it a very fractured feel, hard to care much about any of it. The death of Phoenix was bollocks as well. There were a couple of really nice moments, but they just reminded me of how average the rest of the movie was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onlynik Posted May 27, 2006 Report Share Posted May 27, 2006 I've yet to see it but I still feel so bitter that Gambit never appeared in any of the films *sigh* he was my favourite character.I wouldn't bother going to see it. Having watched 1 & 2 on Wednesday in preparation for this film I was left sad and dissapointed. Major charachetrs dying, favourite charachters not appearing, overall it was a pretty poor story told badly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted May 27, 2006 Report Share Posted May 27, 2006 Reading this......to maker myself feel better about the whole thing. Wolvie in Japan, hmmmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Disorder Posted May 27, 2006 Report Share Posted May 27, 2006 I've yet to see it but I still feel so bitter that Gambit never appeared in any of the films *sigh* he was my favourite character.He's in X-Men 2. Right at the end.I enjoyed it but I know fuck-all about X-Men so that might be why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kan' Sharuminar Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 I loved it, though not as good as the second film. No Gambit though, I grumble lots.I loved:Magneto: Glad to see him back on top form after a rather dissapointing X2. Completely missed him moving the chess piece though. Darnit.Professor X's exit. Looked amazing, lots going on, looked amazing, was still a little bit devastated at his loss. Whimpers. Looked amazing though Beast: Loved him. Absolutely and totally. "Oh my stars..."? Beautiful.I did not love:Juggernaught: Just shut up and smash things.No Gambit: Think I've touched on this before. Ho humAngel: Now you see me, now you don't.Iceman vs Pyro: It was cool, but was hoping to see more of a fight rather than just straightforward fire vs ice. Glad to see Iceman in proper, well, Iceman style.Going to see film with a comic book geek. Who hated everything.Just nitpicking:Golden Gate raising. Magneto...dude...just hire a boat. And was it just me or did the scene just jump from daylight to night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eat your parents Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 I thought it was terrible. Characters written out, no explanation of aspects of the story, hammy script, no development of the sub plots (making the film very one dimensional), no cohesion with the first two films, pointless scenes....Ugh, I'll stop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 Golden Gate raising. Magneto...dude...just hire a boat. And was it just me or did the scene just jump from daylight to night?Yeah, saves on budget, let's not worry about how ridiculous it looks... also helps cover over the fact that they aren't that many people in the final scene, and is supposed to make it look more exciting. But doesn't.Basically, I agree with pretty much everything Al said. There's moments you can see that it could have been a far better movie, perhaps aspects of the script that Singer had in mind. I guess we'll never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metarie Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 Nyah, kinda uninspiring really. Didn't see the point of the Jean coming back to life at all, although I loved her hair and coat I was waiting for the film to get going and nothing really happened.Way more could have been done with Leech or whatever the cure boy was called. He didn't feature much in it. I'm fed up with mutants, especially the bad ones just going for the black leather look. They just looked like goths and it's pretty stereotypical to have the bad guys looking bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 I saw it last night. I thought it was pretty good. Could have been a lot better though. Good to see Cyclops bite the dust as he is a blouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medichi Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 I loved it. Pheonix was full-on apocalyptic awesome-ness, and Beast was great too.And the chess piece wobble was brilliant!Death to Vinnie Joens EVER being in a film again.Who is Moira? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodyRATM Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 i seen it last night, was ok, disapointing tho.beast was immense. but the bridge scene.. it did go dark to quick.pheonix's power was pretty cool, like evaporating in her path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 ....And the chess piece wobble was brilliant!you didn't stick around till the VERY END of the credits then?...I bet a lot of people missed out on those 10 seconds of very interesting footage in the hospital....ho ho ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodyRATM Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 you didn't stick around till the VERY END of the credits then?...I bet a lot of people missed out on those 10 seconds of very interesting footage in the hospital....ho ho hothere was something at the very end? shite what was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 professor x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 professor xtied in nicely with his "unfinished lecture" I thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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