If they put these many characters in the movie, I wouldn't mind a 3 hour movie at all as long as everything in it meant something to the film.

Thats odd cause it reads quite well to me.

you fucking liar! then decifer it for me, ass.

It's going to be B. Remember, X2 had a ton of characters too.

Professor X
Wolverine
Magneto
Storm
Jean Grey
Cyclops
Rogue
Mystique
General Stryker
Nightcrawler
Senator Kelly
Pyro
Iceman
Deathstrike
Kitty Pryde
Jubilee
Siryn
Colossus
Sebastian Shaw
Hank McCoy
Mastermind (Jason 143)

All those people were in the movie, but a ton of those people were basically cameos. And that's not even counting characters like the Drakes, the President, so on and so forth. (Or characters like Gambit, who had scenes shot, but deleted)

I imagine that we'll get, like, a glimpse inside the facility where Omega Red is being created, just as a tease for potential sequels. Ditto for Trask. He'll be on TV talking about Project Wideawake, or maybe he's leaving a meeting with the President when Mystique/Kelly is on her/his way in.

Hold up, I do not remember Sebastian Shaw in X2. Did they screw with his character or something?

Also, Kitty Pride, Siryn, Jubilee, Hank McCoy (hell even Collosus) were just very brief cameos.

Anyway, Here's the cst according to IMDB. It's in black, so don't piss yourselves.

Patrick Stewart .... Professor Charles Xavier
Hugh Jackman .... Logan/Wolverine
Ian McKellen .... Eric Lensherr/Magneto
Halle Berry .... Ororo Munroe/Storm
Famke Janssen .... Jean Grey/Phoenix
Kelsey Grammer .... Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast
Anna Paquin .... Rogue
Rebecca Romijn .... Mystique
Shawn Ashmore .... Bobby Drake/Iceman
Ellen Page .... Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat
Ben Foster .... Warren Worthington/Angel
Aaron Stanford .... John Allerdyce/Pyro
Olivia Williams .... Moira MacTaggart
Shohreh Aghdashloo .... Dr. Kavita Rao
James Marsden .... Scott Summers/Cyclops
Cameron Bright .... Leech
Daniel Cudmore .... Peter Rasputin/Colossus
Vinnie Jones .... Cain Marko/Juggernaut
Michael Murphy .... Warren Worthington, Jr.
Eric Dane .... Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man
Dania Ramirez .... Callisto
Bill Duke .... Bolivar Trask
Bryce Hodgson .... Artie
Shauna Kain .... Theresa Rourke/Siryn
Mei Melançon .... Betsy Braddock/Psylocke (as Mei Melancon)
Vince Murdocco .... Omega Red
Omahyra .... Stacy X (attached) (as Omyhra Mota)
Kea Wong .... Jubilation Lee/Jubilee

That brings the total to 28, not counting extras. And I have a feeling there could be more who aren't yet credited.

Shaw was McCoy's "opponent" on whatever debate show was on in the bar where Mystique seduced Laurio. I don't know that he's ever actually shown, but McCoy calls him "Mr. Shaw."

And the second half of that statement is my point. Everybody but the pre-existing characters, Beast, Angel, and Juggernaut will be glorified cameos. Like, there'll be a scene with the "new X-Men" fighting against the "new Brotherhood," so we'll see Siryn, Jubilee, et al fighting against Pyro and the Morlocks or something, just as a side story to the main battle. Like the escape sequence in the second movie.

He said just because it's a franchise doesn't mean it will suck. Pretty standard statement.

I hope this is as good as the last two because I heared David Hayter {Writer} isn't writing this one.

Nightcrawler isn't in it because they have Beast and they felt two blue characters would confuse people. Sad but true.

okay. but i never meant to say it would suck because it's a franchise. i meant to say that it would suck because it has a cast of like 200 characters. i was merely trying to state that i do not expect a good movie from a franchise - in other words, it will probably suck because its a franchise, but it will definitely suck because the size of the cast alone leaves little room for premise, plot, or emotion.

but now that i think about it in the terms that YOUR Hero stated, i think that it is a safe bet that because it's a franchise does mean that it will suck. of all of the franchise movies out there ( Batman, Alien, Freddy, Jason, and all the rest ), they're terrible films after the second or third one. (exception: the Batman prequil was pretty good). but they are made for money, not because they have a story to tell. and many people feel like they have to see them. a lot of people see these movies knowing it will stink ( rotten milk syndrome ). and on top of that, these kinds of movies are extremely marketable, especially towards children and younger audiences. and that is the only level on which these movies make any sense, because without the name of the franchise, (i.e. X-Men) the movies do not hold up on their own on any level.

They make movies to make money. Always have. Even 'Shindler's List', a movie with a story to tell, wasn't free admission now was it? It was made to make money.

20th Century Fox opted out of the contract He was signed for 2 films, they not he backed out and decided not to use him or the Nightcrawler character

Kitty and Colossus should have larger roles, probably above a cameo.

Everyone understnads what you are trying to say. Go rant in a different thread now.

Yeah. One of the clips from the trailer makes it look like there's at least one scene of "new" X-Men walking down the sub-basement corridors.

Can't remember it exactly, but it's Wolverine and I think Storm followed by Rogue, Iceman, Colossus (in human form), and Kitty.

Makes me wonder if something's going to happen to Cyclops, and the new kids need to go all Giant-Size #1.

Is the bottom of this Synopsis true?

http://www.moviespoilers.net/xmen3.html

SPOILERS




Cyclops dies!

I'm fed up of the way Cyclops is portrayed in the films. He is one of the best characters about, and his mutant ability rocks. He has hardly been in the last two films, and now...he dies???

Maybe you wanna put that spoiler in black font?

Done. :)

I never understood reading about plots and stories before actually seeing the movie, doesn't it ruin it for some of you?

I never read plot details beforehand. At least not voluntarily, so I appreciate the black font.

I want to be surprised by as much as possible in May.

Is the colored fonts thing back? 'Cause I miss being Red.

I am really getting an awful feeling that this will turn into something like Mortal Kombat:Annihalation.

X3 Comes out on my birthday :love:

I don't remember that, thats the 2nd one right? I don't think I ever saw that one.

The thing about it though, if it is going to be a quick movie its pointless to introduce a bunch of characters unless they are going to have a legit impact and contribution to the story. If the movie was made longer into like a 3 hour type deal, I wouldn't mind all the characters as long as they were a benefit to the story, and weren't just in there as filler.

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/pics/xmen22.jpg

Colossus.

Discuss.

I hope they fill his eyes in digitally before the movie is done. otherwise that will look ridiculous.

What does he look like in the comics?

Ah less flashy, nevermind I looked it up. Kind of like how they don't have Wolverine in yellow spandex.

It's not a bad Collosus, but he goes completely meal, even the eyes, so they would need to put that in digitally, I guess.

A lot of the time Wolverine wears street clothes (wifebeater/flannel shirt and jeans) in the comics.

He had metal eyes in X2, so I'm sure that he will in X3. It looks like he's wearing a mask in that pic anyway, and they kept the eyes clear so that he could see where he's going.

Just caught the trailer on the 24 commercials. Looked pretty hot if you ask me.

Oh god, is this where your random red words started?

Yea, I usually just fast forward the commercials, but I had to rewind to watch this one.... twice. Can't wait.

I actually watched the trailer three times last night, 'cause I, too taped "24." Any doubts I had about Ratner's ability to get across the X-Men "feel" are just about gone.

I love love love love LOVE that shot of Juggernaut chasing Kitty, her phasing through the walls, him just plowing through them. And Jean blowing the X doors out into the hallway (even though we saw that in the previous trailer) is pretty badass. Angel looks cool, too.

Juggernaut still has to be bigger imo.

Doesn't bother me. I'm glad they didn't go the CG route, since the last time a Marvel movie had a purely CG character, we got Ang Lee's awful Hulk. Long as Juggernaut is indestructible and incredibly strong, they got him right, imo.

That was pretty badass.