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

[Wayside]

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.

My thoughts exactly. I wasn't planning on seeing this, but you've sold me on it.

 

[buzzard]

For what it's worth, the Wall Street Journal reviewer gave it rave reviews. I will be seeing it this evening.

buzzard

 

[Firebeetle]

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

Exactly, they live and so the story does not end. For their near death experiences, they are completely unchanged (unless you count Superman's longer hair.) A dead character returning to life should profoundly change that character (a la Dark Phoenix, kudos to Claremont!)

One of the coolest comic stories I ever read was in the future, where a white haired Superman was no longer needed by a techonogically and socially advanced human society. He felt so inadequate he lost the ability to walk, but he (after his own crisis) realizes his work is done here and leaves to go save another world. That's an ending.

Why did Dark Knight Returns sell so well? It was the end of the Batman saga, and a righteously cool one at that. When I am rich, I will buy a major comic book company, and put them on a 30-year Cerebus-like plan where they have to tell a character's whole story. Imagine the sales when that line finishes! After that, we can just do it all over again.

 

[Someone]

I though it was ok, but didn´t quite liked the portrayal of

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Magneto

´s character. He´s now a

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racist

, nothing else, and a son of a bitch to boot.

 

[Dog Moon]

I though it was ok, but didn´t quite liked the portrayal of

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Magneto

´s character. He´s now a

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racist

, nothing else, and a son of a bitch to boot.

Yeah, I agree. I never really though of him as being a bad guy, just viewing things a little differently. When he

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left Mystique when she lost her powers

I just kinda thought that was wrong. And then when he let the 'pawns' die, that didn't seem right either.
I can understand that armies need cannonfodder, but you don't really actually want to refer to them as such.

 

[Captain Tagon]

This movie demonstrated the power of the internet.

"Do you know who I am?"

 

[WayneLigon]

Just came from seeing it. I have nothing but love for the entire film; easily the best of the X-men films and as it stands right now possibly my favorite comics film to date (still in contention with the amazing Spider-Man 2 movie). Everything about it was perfect and it still leaves open the chance for more core group films, though I understand this is the last one planned for an ensemble cast.

I liked seeing Jamie Madrox. That was a completely brilliant use for his character. Moira.. ahhh. That was a nice surprise. Seeing Callisto and Arclight was very cool. Colossus could have used a bigger part, but then I'm always up for more Colossus. What he did get to do was pretty fantastic. Seeing Trask in the film was quite good as well.

Next up, the Wolverine film and hopefully a Magneto one.

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The only possible tarnish to it is Scott's death because he is one of my favorite characters, though we see no body (then again, we wouldn't, would we?). Still a possiblilty of him being alive. I was hoping he'd have a bigger part, but I still liked how everything was handled.

Loved seeing Magneto move the chessman.

Loved the little bit at the end. Totally logical. I thought the bit at the end would be Trask telling the President about his Sentinel ideas.

 

[Archetype]

Way...WAY.. too much of The Beast.

It was very annoying to have "Frasier" eat up so much of the screen time. His character was never one of my favorites from the comic, and he seemed shoehorned into this movie in order to give another "name" actor a lead role. Which of course took away from all the development of the other, already introduced, characters we might have wanted to actually see on screen. He doesn't even have any "kewl" mutant powers to show off. They tried to make him into this "raging killing machine" for the final battle, which is something the original character never was. He was just a furry, agile, intelligent blue scientist geek. Nothing worth a screen appearance.

And every time he spoke, I kept looking for Abe Sapien from Hellboy to appear from the ranks of the mutants to argue with him, or say "Daphne, I love you!" If they bother to keep this franchise alive, maybe Frasier and Niles can have their own solo mutant movie together...

Please let this franchise die now...before it gets much worse.

 

[Klaus]

This movie demonstrated the power of the internet.

"Do you know who I am?"

Eh?

Sorry, but I failed to catch the meaning...

 

[Captain Tagon]

Eh?

Sorry, but I failed to catch the meaning...

I'm sblocking it because it contains spoilers and minor profanity.

[sblock]The big internet phenomenom the last couple of months has been the "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" cartoon.

In X-3, there is a scene where Juggernaut tells Shadowcat, "Do you know who I am?...I'mt he Juggernaut, bitch!"[/sblock]