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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2854894" data-attributes="member: 172">Just got back from movie & dinner date with the wife unit.I liked it. I liked it a lot.I went into it thinking that they really should have tried another villain than magneto -- there was more to the X-men story than Magneto.Early on, the movie is crowded with plotlines and events. I thought they did a good job with the existing characters,  but I feel like they didn't try hard enough to give some more focus on the younger team members like Ariel and Collossus.Beast was cool, but I was an Avengers fan more than an X-men fan; I'll always remember his as an Avenger. (Shrug) I guess in the context of the movie-verse it worked. (AFAIAC, I pretty much had to make peace with the fact that the movie verse was different after gulping down the way different rogue in movie 1).Phoenix was my favorite X-man from the original comic. But you know what... I was afraid that I was REALLY going to hate what they did with her, being inevitably so different from the comic. But you know, after I saw it, it seemed so much more logical and compelling a crisis than the comic to me. I couldn't help but like how they handled Phoenix, save that 1) I think they could have layed on more of the "arrogant goddess" thing of the original and 2) She was a wallflower for too long; should have brought her in later.Though I was not ready for another Magneto movie, I will say that McKellan (with the help of the screenwriter) really did good with him, laying bare what a monster he really is. This movies drives home, if you have any doubts, that this guy is WRONG.In the crowded subplots, Angel was also a victim of the sidelining.It was sort of good that they invested some time in plot development in the beginning; it takes the edge off of later when it turns into a Bruckheimer film...The "magneto on the bridge scene" lost the movie half of the "this makes sense" points that Phoenix earned.Towards the end, I was playing a game of "saw that coming" with my wife. Lots of things I could have seen. The only thing that blindsided me was the clip at the end. And it totally shouldn't have. Oh well. Score one "surprise me" point for the flick.In the end, I enjoyed it.</blockquote>

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