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

[Sammael]

I must have watched a different movie. In my copy, there was no characterization, killing was pointless and gratuituous, and the direction was horrible.

Definitely a franchise-killing movie.

 

[Firebeetle]

Wonder what the chances are of an X-Men 4 given the heavily casualties.

Rumor has it that the next movie will be a solo Wolverine picture.

 

[Firebeetle]

I wonder why they (the movie makers) chose to kill all those characters? And do the killers repent?

This movie breaks the comic book code. You see, comics have to be sold in perpetuity, what is the end of the Batman story? Or Superman? or any comic book hero? It's the major weakness of comics, grand operas without endings.

This movie is the end. It's war, people die. That's the way stories are meant to be told. I wish all franchises had the guts to do this.

 

[Ghostwind]

So what is the so-called shocking final scene that is supposed to be so awesome?

 

[Dog Moon]

Rumor has it that the next movie will be a solo Wolverine picture.

I'm hoping you're kidding, which I assume you are.

Personally, I think the X-men series would have been better as a TV series. They could have done so much more with it, but unfortunately, they wouldn't have the few well-known actors that they had for the movies and their budget would be worse [not necessarily bad things though]. They could have delved into the past of the various X-men, detailed them better, etc.

I thought the movie was good, though I was surprised that yeah, they killed off/changed so many people. I was hoping that Iceman would go chill with Kitty and that at the end of the movie, Rogue would find someone new: GAMBIT! Sad Gambit didn't have an appearance. Weird though that Rogue lost her power. I was actually thinking that maybe she would gain her super strength and flight in this movie, but apparently not.

And for those of us who left as the credits started to avoid the rush, what happened after the credits?

 

[NiTessine]

Remember that old guy with no brain activity that Moira McTaggart was treating, as seen in Xavier's lecture? Remember how he discussed the ethics of moving the mind of a father of four with terminal cancer into the "empty" body?

Yeah. Charles is back.

(Although a guy who's never had any brain activity probably wouldn't have a very healthy body, either. Atrophied muscles, for one thing.)

 

[Dog Moon]

Remember that old guy with no brain activity that Moira McTaggart was treating, as seen in Xavier's lecture? Remember how he discussed the ethics of moving the mind of a father of four with terminal cancer into the "empty" body?

Yeah. Charles is back.

(Although a guy who's never had any brain activity probably wouldn't have a very healthy body, either. Atrophied muscles, for one thing.)

Oooooh yeaaaah! I'd totally forgotten about that. But would he still have his mental powers? Yeah you're moving the mind, but wasn't it the mutant gene that cause his mind to gain powers? Without that gene, seems like maybe he should lose his psychic powers.

 

[Bront]

Rumor has it that the next movie will be a solo Wolverine picture.

This is indeed supposed to be the last X-Men movie, and there is a Wolverine picture in the works.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

This movie breaks the comic book code. You see, comics have to be sold in perpetuity, what is the end of the Batman story? Or Superman? or any comic book hero? It's the major weakness of comics, grand operas without endings.

Not quite. Many characters in the comics have died. (Supes, Jean Gray, etc.) They just keep on coming back to life.

 

[NiTessine]

Oooooh yeaaaah! I'd totally forgotten about that. But would he still have his mental powers? Yeah you're moving the mind, but wasn't it the mutant gene that cause his mind to gain powers? Without that gene, seems like maybe he should lose his psychic powers.

Mmh... Now you're trying to apply logic to an X-Men plot. It doesn't work in the comics, either.

The one good thing about the movie is that the events are self-contained and the next, hopefully better, director in the series can decide what to keep and who to bring back. Xavier is already back and if Magneto's regaining his powers, what's to stop the rest of 'em?

They're apparently already working on Wolverine and Magneto, and if X3 does well at the box office, we're pretty much guaranteed to have X4 sooner or later.