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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aesthetic Monk" data-source="post: 2861016" data-attributes="member: 40091">This would be the list I'd cite, too. Not every moment in a movie has to be heartrending, but it strikes me that these scenes were pretty brief and not very central to the story (with the obvious exception of [d], although even that's handled more brusquely than it might've been).(A) is painful, but it's ultimately in the service of a very minor character. (B) seems mainly there to establish Jean's bad-gal cred (and sounds like it's undercut at the end, anyway). (C) actually *hurts* the film because it neuters one of the better characters from the first two movies. For me, this is a movie that gets the minor notes right (good scenes for some minor characters, for example) but trashes the major ones. Plus, with the possibility that the cure isn't really a cure, that people who died aren't really dead, any kind of emotional impact is undercut and everything feels like cheating anyway, or at least hedging bets. I know this sort of thing is endemic to comics, but I'd rather the future writers and director of X4 have to go to elaborate lengths to ret-con people back alive than have it all built into this movie. It's just like how I have to watch that "Remember" bit in Star Trek II each time, knowing how they're cheating me there.But I'm glad you liked the movie.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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