X Men III Review - SPOILERS

[InzeladunMaster]

Just got back from X Men III.

By the way, if you did not stay for the credits, you missed a scene at the very end.

Anyway, pretty good movie. Not sure why they killed off so many people, or robbed them of their powers. Will there not be an X Men IV?

It was nice seeing Kitty Pride and Angel and Colossus, although I could have used more. It seemed like everyone just had cameos in the film, other than Magneto, Storm and Wolverine.

Ian was once again in good form. I am so impressed with him, from X-Men, to Lord of the Rings, to Gods and Monsters, he manages different roles effectively.

The worst part of the movie was the handful of "shaky-cam" scenes. Some of the shaky combat scenes were simply impossible for me (and Amanda, I found out later) to follow the action. I hate shaky-cam. It really brings me out of the movie and reminds me that it is a movie.

The best part was Magneto.

All in all, it was entertaining and fun. Good movie!

 

[Fyrestryke]

Can you explain here what the after credit scene was? I went with some folks that don't do credits.

 

[Bob_Probst]

Here's one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wZo2jmH-JRA&search=x-men outtake though I don't think it's the one everyone is talking about

Here's the real last scene: Last Stand

 

[Feyd Rautha]

Now I definitely don't rank myself as an X-Men expert as my main experience with the series comes from verifying the saturday morning cartoon didn't diverge too much from the comics, but didn't this sequel pretty much take a right turn off of the comic book tracks?

From my limited knowledge there can't be a 4th installment b/c even if everyone comes back with their powers, pretty much ALL of the X-men storylines from the comics relate in some direct way to Jean and Scott. You can't do Mr. Sinister or Apocalypse (they both wanted Jean and Scott's child), you can't do the "Good Phoenix" series (if they're not going to bring magic in they're not going to bring in aliens but even more than that the phoenix is gone), and you can't do any of the future stuff because there's no Cable! Well.. maybe you can do the future stuff... but it would be missing chunks w/o those two...

Anyway... the only two dead that mattered are the only two dead upon which pretty much every possible "sequel" worthy story line directly relies. Oh well... trilogy it is

Good flick tho.. I recommend seeing it.

 

[thormagni]

Now I definitely don't rank myself as an X-Men expert as my main experience with the series comes from verifying the saturday morning cartoon didn't diverge too much from the comics, but didn't this sequel pretty much take a right turn off of the comic book tracks?

Yeah, this movie takes a drastic... DRASTIC detour from anything resembling comic book continuity. But I thought it was a really good story, nonetheless.

Although I think there are several good comic book based plots that could still be made into an X-men movie with the members that are left alive. One I would love to see is Days of Future Past --- Kitty Pryde's consciousness from the future returns to try to prevent the pivotal assasination of a senator. The senator's death sets off a anti-mutant fervor that leads to concentration camps and genocide where giant, mutant-killing robots called Sentinels enforce martial law. (basically it is the world seen in the Danger Room sequence in The Last Stand.)

But to be honest, while they did cut off many major X-men plots of the last 15 years or so, I was never really fond of the Mister Sinister and Apocalypse stuff anyway. To my mind, the best days of the X-men were the Chris Claremont/John Byrne years in the late 70s and early 80s. All that time-travelling, gun-toting, consciensnous shifting crap of the early 90s was just terrible, in my humble opinion. I'm really ashamed that I bought so much of it. If only I had invested that money in Intel or Microsoft...

Although, I should admit that while I retrospectively hated that time in X-men history, I actually named our new puppy Domino after Cable's sidekick. The dog has a patch over her eye and a white body, much like the comic book Domino. As near as I can tell though, the dog does not have a sword, guns or a bad attitude.

 

[thormagni]

The worst part of the movie was the handful of "shaky-cam" scenes. Some of the shaky combat scenes were simply impossible for me (and Amanda, I found out later) to follow the action. I hate shaky-cam. It really brings me out of the movie and reminds me that it is a movie.

Hehehe, I didn't see this earlier. Vince, you and your "shaky cam" hatred! I don't even notice this stuff anymore but it is becoming the bane of your sci-fi existence

 

[InzeladunMaster]

Hehehe, I didn't see this earlier. Vince, you and your "shaky cam" hatred! I don't even notice this stuff anymore but it is becoming the bane of your sci-fi existence

Yeah, I was hoping shaky-cam would die out when the 2nd Brady Bunch movie made fun of it (sort of how Jive vanished when Airplane! made fun of it). In the 2nd Brady Bunch there was a scene where Mike Brady goes to the police department to report the bad guy; every shot showing Mr. Brady had "invisible camera" and every shot showing the modern police man had "shaky camera." I thought it was funny and illustrated a point, but I guess no one else noticed.

Maybe I am just old fashioned but I hate the shaky cam technique.