X2 *spoilers*

I didn't like it that much. Just one good fight (and Kelly Hu has ONE line of dialogue) and a very drawn-out ending. Also, it was hard to convince me that Stryker's Son could just control Xavier to destroy all mutants. I thought his power was to project images in people's minds, not to control them. I expected Xavier to question the 'child' at this point.

Magneto still stole the show. Ian Mckellan just has outstanding presence. (Ben Affleck, are you listening?)
 

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Tallarn said:

Plus I heard that they put an X-ray of Archangels wings on the wall of the room where Wolverine and Deathstrike have their big fight...

Yep, it's in the upper-right portion of the wall with the rest of the X-rays.

I just got back from seeing the movie myself, but we had a power surge hit the theatre halfway through the movie, and we missed some of it by the time they got everything started up again. Could someone fill me in on what happened between (1) Bobby makes an iced latté for his mom, and (2) Jean, Storm, and Nightcrawler are on the Jet. About 5 minutes we missed, I think.
 

bagpuss, just like you know that steel-skin big russian guy was colossus.
just accept that screaming till it hurts girl is siryn.
and fall-through-the-floor girl is shadowcat.

jubilee was actually called by name during the movie.

and all 4 of them are listed by name in the credits.

personally, x1s version of jubilee LOOKED more like jubilee, both facially and with her trademark yellow jacket.

as for why jean left the plane, it very well could have something to do with the phoenix-force telling her to do it that way, depending on how they are going to play the whole phoenix thing.

krug, deathstrike was nothing but a flunky. she didnt need any dialogue.
there were numerous cool fight scenes (crawler vs the secret service guys, storm vs the fighter jets, wolverine vs the soldiers, magneto vs the prison guards, and wolvy vs deathstrike)
as for xavier vs the illusionist. once you believe the illusion, you believe the illusion. it wasnt controlling him. he believed he was helping the girl. and wanted to help her.
 

Steve,
Those were more like action sequences, and in at least two or three of them, the X-men dominated.

Being a flunky doesn't mean you need to have little dialogue.

But hey these are the comics. Overall, I can't say I was that impressed by it. Too many characters, too little attention to each. 3/5
 

Bagpuss said:
Also was the screaming girl Siryn? (Banshee's daughter from the comics).

I was disappointed that Professor X fell completely for Jason, I thought he was ment to be a much stronger mentalist than that.

DAMN, that movie ROCKED!

That was Siryn...she was identified as such in the credits, as was Jubilee, Colossus and others.

As for the Professor, he did have a inhibitor device slapped on his skull, and presumably was drugged, as well. Not that much of a stretch that he could be dominated under those conditions, frankly.

I (and my friends) were initial disappointed that Bobby didn't freeze the water comming out of the dam, until I thought about it. He's only learning the extent of his powers, a lot of the time he still needs to touch things to freeze them, the wall in the corridor, the tea cup (although he blast the lad in the Museam with ice so they aren't completely consistant on that point).

Mostly frozen water vapor in the air at the museum. Notice how little effect it actually has. Movie Bobby's powers require physical contact and some time for it to actually work. Note that it takes at least five to ten seconds for the ice wall to form. That water WASN'T waiting.

Why didn't Jean do everything from the plane? She gave it power so why didn't she just do that and take off? That's the main sticking point. I guess she didn't have time and she can't use her TK on the water through the glass of the cockpit, or lift the plane if she is actually in it, but still her giving it power didn't make much sense.

Considering the last time, just twenty minutes prior, that she'd cut loose with her power, she shattered the whole dam superstructure (creating the crisis in the first place), I can see why. That, and the fact that she caught on fire while tapping the power that deeply, among other things. She was most likely afraid of killing everyone while trying to save them. Since we never see Jean levitate, it's safe to assume she can't affect herself directly (yet).

Alan Cummings' Nightcrawler was, like Hugh Jackman's Wolverin, SPOT ON. I couldn't have asked for a better performance, or more faithful capturing of the character's essence. It was like watching so many events in the comic distilled down to their pure source, and then displayed for my enjoyment.


it's gonna be a Hella good summer. :D
 

For those who like the little details (I saw the movie twice this afternoon) when the file on Cerebro in the second monitor catches Mystique's eye you can also see files on....

Reed Richards
Omega Red
Muir Island

and most ominously

Project Wideawake
 

I liked this one a lot. I also thought it was better than the first one.

I caught the Gambit reference.
I wondered how many people saw the phoenix spread its wings underneath the water in the final shot of the movie. The people in the theater didn't seem to notice, for the most part.

Some of the plot changes, mostly the ones that involve Rogue and Jubilee, annoy me.I don't mind so much though because the movies are quality. If they were garbage I'd be pretty angry.

So we've seen Siryn, Colossus, Kitty and Jubilee.
Incidently, Gambit was in the cast list too...
 
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I liked the references to Gambit and Beast, plus Franklin Richards. Hopefully in the next movie we'll get to see Collosus and Shadowcat take a bigger role. I also like the use of Syren as well...a siren to wake up the rest of the students. I was trying to think of who the hell this Jason Stryker was, but the reference in an earlier post of Jason Wygrade finally made me realize who he sort of is. My only bad point on the movie was that I was hoping that the bald man with the hook would have been shown at least as a lead scientist behind the Weapon X project. Well, that and Lady Deathstrike was the Darth Maul of X2. A cool fight, but no meat as a character. Too bad, she really was a neat villian in the comics.

This makes me want to go out and start reading the X-Men again!

Kane
 

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