Just saw X-Men III (Now with spoilers!)

[Black Omega]

Watched the movie a second time. Definitely enjoyed it. More violence and less of a plot than previous movies. Magneto's definitely the bad guy, but I can still understand his point of view. Typical comic book deaths, only Cyclops might not be able to be brought back (and the actor is not coming back anyway, he left to follow Singer to Superman). Everyone else can return in some form or another. The de-powered people can come back, though it's unclear if it's only some of them or the cure is not nearly as permanant as was thought.

 

[sniffles]

I thought it was an excellent film, well made. Slightly below the spiderman movies, but above any of the other comic book movies that I've seen.

I liked the twists in the plot (and the ending), I felt that there was more emotional depth and impact than I'd seen in the other x-men movies and if they do end it here (and don't do any more) it would be a fitting end to a series of three films.

I honestly don't think there is anything I'd have changed for the film.

Cheers

Funny, I thought there was more emotional depth in the first two movies. Not that there wasn't any in 3, just that it didn't seem as well-realized.

I felt that my concerns of an oversized cast were somewhat justified, but fortunately they didn't try to give the new characters much screen time, which had been my biggest fear. I think the movie would have been fine without Angel or Juggernaut, but I didn't find them too bothersome.

I was really surprised by some of the story choices they made. They made this film a lot more final than I expected. I like it when producers aren't afraid to kill off major characters.

 

[GSHamster]

I have, I mean dang, the bad thing is you couldn't help but watch the movies before this movie came out. Every channel every day. I honestly watched two on cable the day before when i got to my friends beach home. I watched the second half later in the week. When you see those last two alive, they show you that so that you realize htat he was giving them non fatal wounds. I will watch it again, but I remember seeing it and commenting to my GF About that scene. As a matter of fact, the irony is we were having a conversation in the car about how they tried to remain faithful and how unfahtiful batman was to the mythos. It was a surprise and made ma hypocrit to see x-3.

DonTadow, it's possible that the versions you watched on television were edited for content. Indeed, it is extremely likely that the television stations clipped the killing to reduce the violence rating and avoid complaints.

In the theatrical release, Wolverine kills the soldiers.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I never knew there was a warm and fluffy Wolverine, he has always been the killer and the berserker, there was even a cross-over with Spidrman where he showed Spiderman that it was sometimes the only option. Hugh is way too tall but the character personality is dead on, I really expected the movie to show him with a Hustler mag.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I never knew there was a warm and fluffy Wolverine, he has always been the killer and the berserker, there was even a cross-over with Spidrman where he showed Spiderman that it was sometimes the only option. Hugh is way too tall but the character personality is dead on, I really expected the movie to show him with a Hustler mag.

I saw a brief desc. of Wolverine somewhere and he's listed at 5'3". Which does make Hugh too tall. But I do like his portrayal of Wolvie in the movies.

And the Hustler mag was probably done but left on the cutting floor....

 

[Shade]

I was delightfully surprised. I had little hopes for this film, but found that it stands up to its predecessors.

As for humor, I loved Wolverine's solution (and subsequent one-liner) to the stalemate against the fast-regenerating mutant.

 

[jasper]

Great movie stay true to most of story lines and cleaned them up.
Juggernaunt. If forget when in the comics his powers chg from mutant to magic.
Prof X. sorry character right on. Plenty of times the X step across the line to mess with peoples minds. (of course some of this was explaining power boost in characters).
No Nightcrawler. So what? Did we need a triple of blue people?)

I will be getting on dvd the week it comes out.

 

[Taelorn76]

Regardless if he is dead or not, he's barely in the movie and even if he's not, he wasn't a key player in this movie, despite being a key player in the first two and in the comics.

See, I didn't see Scott as a key playerin the 2nd movie. I remember walking out of it thinking they barely used him. He get's captured pretty early in the movie and you don't see him again until he fights Jean

 

[Black Omega]

See, I didn't see Scott as a key playerin the 2nd movie. I remember walking out of it thinking they barely used him. He get's captured pretty early in the movie and you don't see him again until he fights Jean

True. And in 3, the actor left the project to work on Superman with Singer. So there was no way for Cyke to play a big role in the movie. I seem to recall Marsden had to complain before he was allowed to beat up the guards before getting taken out.

Edited for spelling.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Funny, I thought there was more emotional depth in the first two movies. Not that there wasn't any in 3, just that it didn't seem as well-realized.

I concede that in absolute terms you may well be right!

The bits which I found impressive in this movie on the emotional level include

a) young Warren clipping his wings in the bathroom.

b) death of Professor X. I didn't see that coming!

c) betrayal of Mystique by Magneto when she became human

d) Wolverine and Jean at the end

I was sorry that Cyclops didn't emotionally involve me, but frankly I hardly recognised the character in the film from the ones in the comics that I used to enjoy, so it wasn't really surprising.

Cheers