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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 876059" data-attributes="member: 3570">I considered mentioning that, but to me it kind of felt like cheating since the editing so strongly implies that he made one 'port to reach her.  Of course, if you wanted to get really picky you could wonder whether or not Nightcrawler and Rogue should have been pancaked by the back of the seat hitting them at 700 mph when they teleported back into the plane....  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />A criticism I have for the movie itself is that it does feel more like a collection of awesome scenes rather than a satisfying story arc.  Even though its based on a comic book and the episodic nature thereof, I do think its important to stay true to the medium of film; developing and resolving things in a satisfying manner (as with the original Superman and Spider-Man, heck even Daredevil managed this where X2 did not).  In this regard, X1 was the superior film, X2 was just a hell of a lot more fun.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />Interestingly enough, X2 felt more like a story out of a role-playing adventure than a movie.</blockquote>

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