*spoilers* - X-3 The Last Stand

[Bozos of Bones]

I too watched it yesterday. Dang! That was one good movie! Easily the best of the three. I loved McCoy and Colossus, but I missed Nightcrawler. I guess I'll have to play the game to find out what happend to him. Why doesn't Gambit appear yet?

[Balintherlas]

C'mon though, was anyone really that sad to see cyclops go? It seemed to me they made his character so weak and whiney.

[Sir Goulum]

Cyclops was boring, I agree. No point in even having him in the series.. he did absolutely nothing then died.

[timothy trotter]

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yeah where was night crawler? maybe he went back to his church or something.
I think pheonix could have disintergrated wolverene, she managed to destroy all those soldiers pretty fast. I mean if some one like magneto can move the golden gate bridge, then somebody of phonix's power could do all of the stuff luvian luvian suggested, aswell as disintergrate wolverine.
as for rougue, what a wimp!

[Balintherlas]

C'mon man, its Wolvy, nothin can hurt him except Magneto, not anymore though right hehe? But seriously i was dissapointed with som of the mutants, like Rogue and Colosus not kickin more tail, and not knowing for sure about Juggs, but hey how long has the Juggernaut B*tch video been around, I just saw it about a month ago? Oh and i almost forgot, new avatar baby!

[ 05-30-2006, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: Balintherlas ]

[Memnoch]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Cyclops was boring, I agree. No point in even having him in the series.. he did absolutely nothing then died.

The reason for this is that James Marsden, who played Cyclops, had scheduling conflicts with his Superman Returns shoot. As a consequence his airtime was severely curtailed.

[Sir Goulum]

Originally posted by Memnoch: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Cyclops was boring, I agree. No point in even having him in the series.. he did absolutely nothing then died.

The reason for this is that James Marsden, who played Cyclops, had scheduling conflicts with his Superman Returns shoot. As a consequence his airtime was severely curtailed. </font>[/QUOTE]Well in the other 2 movies as well. He's just sort of thrown in because comic book fans would have rioted if he weren't there.

[Marathon]

As an action movie, I thought it was ok. As a guy who grew up a X-Men fan, I thought it was god awful.


Cyclops' treatment was terrible, and the scheduling conflict could have been avoided. He was signed to Superman before the shooting schedule for X3 came out, and only for a small part in Superman at that. It was more of move by Fox studios to get back at a perceived traitor than a neccessity as I understand it. And while he wasn't ever that good in the movies, he should have had a strong role in any movie that focused on Dark Phoenix, even if it was a shell of the original story.

As for Phoenix vs. Wolverine - she did once obliterate a star. Destroying Logan would have been child's play to her had she wanted to.

Arclight was a former Maurader, who killed Morlock's in the Mutant Massacre. Made it funny to see her paired with Callisto, the leader of the Morlocks (with completely different powers).

I could go on for days about little things they did without thinking about them that were inconsistent. The point is they could have tried to be somewhat consistant to characterization, at least, if not comic plot, but they didn't.

[Bozos of Bones]

Yes, well, I just don't see them cramming 40 years of comics into a 6-hour long trilogy. Some things had to be cut. Mystique is Nightcrawler's mom(who's a spawn of a demon) and Rogue's foster parent. She's also a few centuries old. Juggernaut is Xavier's brother. Stryker killed his son at birth(the one loosely modeled after Mastermind). And I don't want to even start on the Phoenix. She once obliterated a star? How long has she been active in the movie? Do you really think he reached the level of powers she had in the comics?
My point is that they had to lose alot of stuff, add a lot of stuff(most of which is closely or loosely modeled after comic events and characters) to better fit the story. Otherwise it would have been boring as hell. So I raise this cup for X-Men and Spiderman, the best comic book movie adaptations ever!

[Marathon]

My point above, as I said, was that they could have tried to at least be consistent with characterization if not plot. I never expected them to follow any story lines consistently, least of all the Dark Phoenix story. This was parts of many different story lines crammed together, resulting in a bad story, no characterization and no respect for the material they adapted. Singer's movies had that characterization but didn't follow any established plot arc well, and I loved them.