[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD Young Charles/Eric: Very interesting FX work. Patrick Stewert specifically looks 20yrs younger rather convincingly. Ian still shows some age, though.

Meh. Erik already looked older than Charles, so it was probably intentional.

Danger Room: Wolverine and Storm training teenage mut-... X-Men: Evolution? Anyway, it was nice to have a sentinel; not so nice for it to be off screen the whole time. Logan getting tossed was badass. In this sequence lies my first and most frequent complaint: character plots. Shadowkat is introduced as an X-Man without so much as a flashback detailing her entry. She's just there.

She's shown up in a prior movie. I don't think they needed to add much more to make this reasonable.

Enter Phoenix: It's nice how they totally spit on Singer's flaming Phoenix when he was obviously gonna present it for his X3. Still, I do like the one they went for here. Kinda scary when she gets into her final form. Her presence is explained rather poorly. Split personality? Much too forceful. I would've had it so her growing powers simply manifested into this Phoenix entity with a Goddess complex. But that's me.

Venus Envy?

I agree though. They fucked it up. But I always found Phoenix boring anyway.

Angel: Honestly I expected him to be used for a foreshadowing to a future Apocolyps storyline. Guess I asked for too much.

I expected him to be in the movie. We both asked for too much.

Magneto Breaks Out Mutants: Cool how he destroyed that convoy. Very. It's pretty insulting to Magneto as a character, however, that he disowns Mystique over a technicality. Did she not grow up as a mutant? Did she not feel the prejudice? Bad writing. Alot of cool scenes end with bad writing.

I disagree. I liked the fact that she was viewed as a martyr, but no longer one of them. Magneto's dream had no place for the normal.

Logan Keeps Scott's Shades: I'm most disappointed in this overlooked and interesting detail. When Logan questions Jean about Scott he pulls out his shades. Wouldn't the writers or the director find that interesting enough to elaborate on? Did Logan have some respect for Scott? We'll never know. Missed oppertunity.

Subtext?

Showdown at Jean's: Can we safely guess Pheonix killed Jean's parents? I like to think so. The movie gets better from here; after some pretty good scenes. Xavier getting vaporized (or whatever the bitch does to you) really got me at the time. But again a key relationship of the movie-series is vaporized as well. Why have either Magneto or Xavier when the other's dead? The empty wheelchair shot sent it home, though.

I disliked that scene.

Wolverine Jungle Battle: Something about Logan in the jungle felt right. Then Magneto reminded him why he's not a match for the Master of Magnetism. Gotta admit; everytime Magneto and Wolverine were in the same scene I expected an adaptation of the... Bone Surgery. Xavier got "killed", I was ready for anything.

I was hoping for that. It'd be an awesome way to launch the solo movie.

Rogue: Sell-out. I would've loved for Bobby to disown her ass and get with Kitty for pulling that shi... Did I just contradict myself? No, I didn't. Anyway, there was absolutely no resolution to Rogue/Kitty/Bobby that satisfied me.

That was pretty bad writing IMO, and the subplot seemed pointless. Especially when you had Beast, a man who did try and cure himself, as a perfect way to drive him the desire to be normal.

The Last Stand: This is really what people paid to see. On some levels it delivers, but it could've been better. Seeing Beast throw down was unexpected cool. Did Storm maliciously kill Calisto? Abit forced to me. Of all people to go after Juggy when he went after Leech; Kitty?!? Collossus vs. Juggernaut any day of the week. Still, Juggy's line in the floor: Gold. Iceman could've pulled an Ice Slide just once... Speaking of that...

I think Storm was at her wits' end. The bit with Kitty made sense, as they didn't know he'd knock her powers out, and she'd be the logical choice to get him away from the Juggernaut.