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Old 05-27-2006, 05:18 PM   #1
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Its cause Gambit is my favorite charachter
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Old 05-27-2006, 07:40 PM   #2
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Just saw it.

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Didnt like Cyclops death. Didnt like Xavier's death. Didnt like Jean Grey's death.

I can understand that people will die but that was such a bullshit way to go about things.

Also, that was such a weak X-men lineup at the end. Storm and Wolverine? Okay. Iceman? I'll pass. But adding a lineup with no buildup of credibility pissed me off. I couldnt take their roles seriously. I was dissapointed to an extent.
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Old 05-27-2006, 07:42 PM   #3
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Old 05-27-2006, 09:05 PM   #4
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Jean Grey's death was sick
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The look of relief on her face just before she closes her eyes is heartbreaking.
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Old 05-28-2006, 02:11 AM   #8
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You guys are nitpicking things. You're doing the whole "it's not exactly like the comic book" type stuff that really is bothersome.

It was a good movie, better than the other two or at the very least on par with #2.
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Old 05-28-2006, 04:33 AM   #9
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Just saw it. Better than 1 yes but it does not match the sweetness of X2

Beast, Pyro, and Wolvie were fucking awesome. I am a little pissed about the Sentinel scene. Huge mark out moment and it wasn't even real. It should have been put at the end for god's sake.

Other than that i thought the movie was fine
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Old 05-28-2006, 06:21 AM   #10
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Loopy, I doubt the hand spike guy was Random. Random's hand becomes a gun and he generates random counterpowers to superpowers. Also he's huge and snow white.

Still not feeling Juggernaut's defeat. He's actualy pretty crafty.

Also Proteus is Moira McTaggart's kid, but not Xavier's. You must be thinking of Legion. Then again, Legion isn't Moira's kid either.

Also, I'm pretty sure we can stop with the black font now.
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Old 05-28-2006, 01:27 PM   #11
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Loopy, I doubt the hand spike guy was Random. Random's hand becomes a gun and he generates random counterpowers to superpowers. Also he's huge and snow white.

Still not feeling Juggernaut's defeat. He's actualy pretty crafty.

Also Proteus is Moira McTaggart's kid, but not Xavier's. You must be thinking of Legion. Then again, Legion isn't Moira's kid either.

Also, I'm pretty sure we can stop with the black font now.
If they do an X4, Proteus has to be in it....just so Colossus gets a bigger part
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Question: Is this movie really worth seeing in theatres?

I saw the first two, can't really remember them though, and I don't think I liked them very well.

I only wanna see it to see the Juggernaut say who he is
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the special effects alone are worth seeing it theatres
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There was a rumor that the guy who plays Sawyer on Lost was going to play Gambit...which would have fucking ruled.
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Heres a treat for all my fellow posters. The last episode of the greatest x-men tv show ever.

This series was my introduction to the x-men universe when I was 8 or 9 so it holds great memories for even though it has kinda of aged badily
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OK, I may be blind but where the fuck was Omega Red?
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It was a cameo. During one of the crowd shots of Magneto's "gathering" (the gathering is in the trailers, so I'm not going to black it out), there's a close-up of one guy who has an "omega" tattooed on his neck.

That's it.
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Saw it today. Thought it was a great film. Thoughts in spoiler black below:

- I thought Cyclopse's death came waaaay too soon. I don't care whether it was punishment, they should have built up his loss more than a couple of seconds of emoness

- The whole scene at Jean's house was amazing Xavier's death was a pretty nasty way to go. While the effects were awesome, I didn't really like that part, it just didn't seem right

- Juggernauts helmet was amazingly stupid. "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch" was simply amazing

- Human Mystique was hot, although it was a pretty lame way to go

- I had mixed feelings about Jean's death. While it was pretty emotional, it just didn't feel right for some reason. Wolverine should have been ripped to shreds during his walk up to her, which probably tainted it slightly due to it's ridiculasness. Still pretty sad though

- I knew from the begining that Grammer as Beast was perfect. Was really funny when he tried on the X-Men uniform, should have had more screen time though

- Magneto losing his abilities should have come after a huge fight/battle and not some crappy ambush. The end was pretty awesome though as it leaves a big question mark over whether the effects are lasting
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My biggest complaint about the movie as a whole, and this has nothing to do with spoilers:

It was just too damned short. It was only 105 or so minutes long, and they could easily have gone another half hour without it feeling too long. I know Ratner likes his movies fast and punchy, but an extra half-hour would have erased a lot of the complaints about lack of character development.

I have a feeling, though, that there will probably be some good deleted scenes on the DVD when it comes out. An extended cut would be a good idea, imo.
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Why develop the characters that aren't the main dudes. All the main players had their development in the first movie. The other characters in these movies are just there to compliment or fight the XMen. The only type of development a guy like Arc Angel should get is slow and gradual (if he's in more than 1 movie) The way they decided to use him (forget about the comics or cartoons) was perfect.
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Why develop the characters that aren't the main dudes. All the main players had their development in the first movie. The other characters in these movies are just there to compliment or fight the XMen. The only type of development a guy like Arc Angel should get is slow and gradual (if he's in more than 1 movie) The way they decided to use him (forget about the comics or cartoons) was perfect.
So is it your argument that the X-men really only consist of Wolverine and Storm? Cause that's the only two who had any real development in X1 and were still main players by the time X3 roled around.

BTW the idea behind developing new characters is so that if you ever wanted to do you could take the plethora of other X-men and do movie after movie with different casts and still be able to sell it.
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So is it your argument that the X-men really only consist of Wolverine and Storm? Cause that's the only two who had any real development in X1 and were still main players by the time X3 roled around.

BTW the idea behind developing new characters is so that if you ever wanted to do you could take the plethora of other X-men and do movie after movie with different casts and still be able to sell it.
They built up these characters quite well, I felt. Considering the limited time given to a movie, and the number of movies that is considered a theoretical cap these days (3) in which they had to do it...

They were just kids. That was the idea behind this movie in the first place. The X-Men weren't all established going into X1, and they did okay. This is something that actually happened in the comics, too, where the reigns were handed over to new characters, several of which were relatively fresh faces.

I think having Drake, Pride, and even the Young Rasputin step up was awesome. Even though Collosus really could have used more development, I think they did fine with Drake and Pryde. I would have liked a little more depth with Beast, but at least it was understood that he was a student, prior.

I don't think the idea was to develop a plethora of new characters, as they clearly didn't do that. I think the idea was to push newer characters to replace the more expensive, established ones (Except Wolverine, and unfortunately Storm, as they need a different actress) and replace them with characters that not only fit canon but allowed for a lower budget (castwise). They didn't even try for versatility of a large number of characters, and didn't continue to establish new characters. These are the folks we're getting, and they did develop them.
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They built up these characters quite well, I felt. Considering the limited time given to a movie, and the number of movies that is considered a theoretical cap these days (3) in which they had to do it...

They were just kids. That was the idea behind this movie in the first place. The X-Men weren't all established going into X1, and they did okay. This is something that actually happened in the comics, too, where the reigns were handed over to new characters, several of which were relatively fresh faces.

I think having Drake, Pride, and even the Young Rasputin step up was awesome. Even though Collosus really could have used more development, I think they did fine with Drake and Pryde. I would have liked a little more depth with Beast, but at least it was understood that he was a student, prior.

I don't think the idea was to develop a plethora of new characters, as they clearly didn't do that. I think the idea was to push newer characters to replace the more expensive, established ones (Except Wolverine, and unfortunately Storm, as they need a different actress) and replace them with characters that not only fit canon but allowed for a lower budget (castwise). They didn't even try for versatility of a large number of characters, and didn't continue to establish new characters. These are the folks we're getting, and they did develop them.
I had no problem with the development of Kitty and Drake in X3 (Colossus as you said is a slightly different story but at least his role is slowly getting bigger). Would have i liked more, as a Kitty Pryde fangirl of course but I definitely was pleased with what I got. My contention was with Hero stating they needed no development at all (or that it would be a waste of time) since they weren't "main characters" and were just there to fill out the ranks of the X-men (A point I disagree with considering as I said only two X-men that had any real role in X3 had any true development in X1). I'm glad they beefed up the presence of Kitty, Peter, Bobby,etc.. and weeded out some of the older members, the beauty of the X-men is that there are so many people to work with ( mutants like Siren have already been shown and eastablished and could be expanded upon in later films if needed much like Kitty was) that as long as you do it right you can keep recreating new teams and really have an endless number of possible films
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Why develop the characters that aren't the main dudes.
Because I want to care about the characters. If I have no emotional attachment to them, if they get hurt/die, it doesn't do anything for me. In this movie, a ton of people get killed and - rather than thinking "OMG, s/he killed (whoever)" - I'm just kinda shrugging and waiting for the next shot.

It's basic moviemaking. If you're going to have life-or-death stakes, make us care about who lives or dies. And outside of maybe five-to-ten characters (in a cast of 20+), I just didn't care.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about delving deep into their backstories to tell us about the exact moment they discovered their mutation. But at least let them show one human characteristic. A few of the new characters got to exhibit some personality (Callisto, Juggernaut, Kitty, even the Multiple Man cameo), but the vast majority of the new characters were just cannon fodder.

How hard is it to write a five-second scene where Psylocke sees Angel on TV and gets a crush on him? Or have Colossus writing a letter to his family in Russia?

With an extra 15-30 minutes, you can add in little tidbits of information that, combined, takes maybe five minutes, then you have time for more action scenes with more characters that we have an emotional investment in.

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And this holds true for any movie, imo. Any movie with a large ensemble cast, if I'm only given reason to care about some of the characters, it hurts the overall picture.
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Xmen is about Wolverine, yes. Then everybody else.
Perhaps you missed Rogue's and Magneto's development in the first movie, too bad.
Iceman and Pyro were built (#2), Jean, they build her through the 3 movies. But hey, I must be wrong. Cause Kitty, Colossus, Juggernaut, Arc Angel et la were all completely miscast and/or misused.
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Perhaps you missed Rogue's and Magneto's development in the first movie, too bad.
Iceman and Pyro were built (#2), Jean, they build her through the 3 movies. But hey, I must be wrong. Cause Kitty, Colossus, Juggernaut, Arc Angel et la were all completely miscast and/or misused.

I meant the X-men the team not the movie as a whole, Magneto is a villain, so is Jean in this film and as for Rogue she's a bit player in X3. You are also changing your story, as you said all the developing had occured in X1.
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Saw it today, was good, but after all the hype on here I thought it was a little lackluster. But that could be blamed on me knowing what happened in it before hand. Xavior's death was good, probably my favourite scene in the movie.

Only real problem I had with the movie though is the fact that it really didn't seem like a final end. IMO they need one more to finish it (Two would be awesome) .
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Only real problem I had with the movie though is the fact that it really didn't seem like a final end. IMO they need one more to finish it (Two would be awesome) .
IMO, they did a good job. They wrapped it up in many ways, insomuch as fans won't feel gipped without a 4th. There was a lot of doubt as to whether or not there would be another after this, so it's good that there is some degree of finality.

And yet, there is still enough room that they don't have to make a new series if they opt to do another.

They did exactly what a comic book franchise should do, IMO...Except for killing off certain people.
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Maybe Russians aren't heavily accented?

I mean after all, Storm's supposed to be from an African tribe.

Wolverine's supposed to be Canadian.

Xavier's supposed to be Atlantean.

Magneto's supposed to be...Wait...Magneto was supposed to be a british guy.
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Exactly

Even in the comics Colossus' wasn't, his english having been taught to him via telepathy,
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Exactly

Even in the comics Colossus' wasn't, his english having been taught to him via telepathy,
His English wasn't even that broken in the comics, so I ain't complaining.
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Yeah, but his healing factor cleared that right up.
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