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Went and saw X3....
We went and saw X3 last night…
First let me say that I have been a long time X-Men fan, and while I’ve not followed it in several years, it still holds a place in my heart that is near and dear…with that, allow me to bitch… Our audience was made up of comic freaks (like yours truly), teens wanting to see some hot chick in leather action and assorted ‘I’m not sure why I am here’ folk.
Dear Mr. Singer, If you are going to work with an ensemble cast who are all supposed to add something to the story, please try to make them something more than card-board caricatures of beloved characters.
Wolverine….what can I say. You have the cutest bouncy butt in the leather pants. Thank you for giving us that view. Could the writers please make the effort to please write you as something other than a buffoon? Please?
Jean Grey …. I am sure that Framke Janssen is a decent actress, not that I have seen any proof of it, but really…the Phoenix saga is an integral part of the X-Men mythos. And while I can appreciate that they are not in space, Phoenix didn’t knock off the planet of broccoli people and Professor X doesn’t have his floaty yellow chair, she is supposed to be so much more than a blankly standing and staring statue…which is what the actress did for the majority of the movie. Staring blankly really didn’t convey the whole angst thing. It was bad. Really bad. Thought it was nice that Brian Singer thought that since he didn’t have the Scarlett Witch in the Brotherhood that dressing up Jean in her trademark colors would be okay….(thank god he didn’t for the green spandex!)
Scott – we really didn’t get to see much of you, though we all enjoyed ‘scruffy grieving’ Scott. If you are really dead I am pissed. You have possibility and if you and Logan aren’t shagging you should be, the chemistry between the two of you is far more believable than that between you and Jean. The touching scene in the medi-center, when Logan pulled out your glasses and asked Jean where you were…classic slash man, classic.
Professor X -- The moral implications of the tampering with Jean (justified or not) and then the ending after the credits? Man…the writers seem to be bent on a Dark Xavier is all I can think about…. Though younger you and younger Magneto -- hot baby hot!
Kitty…Kitty…Kitty…eh…you were a little young in comparison, but still…not too bad, what little you got to do.
Iceman & Pyro…trading hair care secrets with your fanon love. In the first movie, Bobbi is dark haired and John is blond, next Bobby is blond and John is dark, now they have switched again. You love is soooo fire and ice…creating steamy scenes together. And on the plus side, Bobbi turned crystal ice…very cool. We were sorry that Pyro was reduced to being a PA reading off lists for Magneto -- it was nice that they allowed him to blow up stuff in the end…not enough but nice.
Pietor Rasputin… how I miss your accent, but your throwaway scenes were cute. Lugging the huge tv under one arm…throwing Wolverine like a baseball. Thank you for having a decent costume and not the spandex speedo from the late 70’s-early 80’s.
Angel…man what a waste. We see maybe 10-15 minutes of you total. Sad man…very sad. Biggest fuckin’ seagull I eveh saw! (props to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alphawerewolf for that comment)
Beast…well…it could have been worse (think the travesty of The Hulk movie). And at least you did say ‘oh my stars and garters’.
Fuzzy Elf…ahem..I mean Nightcrawler…we missed you man. It was a hell of a party.
Storm. Huh. If I’d been stuck in that wig I probably would have had a chip on my should the entire movie too. Though it was nice to see Ororo actually played as a person. A grumpy angry person, but still a person.
Magneto..Magneto…Magneto…you are the meanest little girl I know. (Maggie Neto). And what was the whole abandoning your best blue girl because she became pink and squishy? What a dipwad you were. Though we do appreciate that the terror level was raised to maroon, just to match the stupid cape fetish you have going on. Magneto bin Ladin.
The movie as a whole was not bad. It wasn’t good but it wasn’t bad. I’d give it a 5 on the scale of 1-10. The story was lame and full of plot holes you could drive a Mac truck through. Sigh…special effects are lame without a decent frame to hang them on.
First let me say that I have been a long time X-Men fan, and while I’ve not followed it in several years, it still holds a place in my heart that is near and dear…with that, allow me to bitch… Our audience was made up of comic freaks (like yours truly), teens wanting to see some hot chick in leather action and assorted ‘I’m not sure why I am here’ folk.
Dear Mr. Singer, If you are going to work with an ensemble cast who are all supposed to add something to the story, please try to make them something more than card-board caricatures of beloved characters.
Wolverine….what can I say. You have the cutest bouncy butt in the leather pants. Thank you for giving us that view. Could the writers please make the effort to please write you as something other than a buffoon? Please?
Jean Grey …. I am sure that Framke Janssen is a decent actress, not that I have seen any proof of it, but really…the Phoenix saga is an integral part of the X-Men mythos. And while I can appreciate that they are not in space, Phoenix didn’t knock off the planet of broccoli people and Professor X doesn’t have his floaty yellow chair, she is supposed to be so much more than a blankly standing and staring statue…which is what the actress did for the majority of the movie. Staring blankly really didn’t convey the whole angst thing. It was bad. Really bad. Thought it was nice that Brian Singer thought that since he didn’t have the Scarlett Witch in the Brotherhood that dressing up Jean in her trademark colors would be okay….(thank god he didn’t for the green spandex!)
Scott – we really didn’t get to see much of you, though we all enjoyed ‘scruffy grieving’ Scott. If you are really dead I am pissed. You have possibility and if you and Logan aren’t shagging you should be, the chemistry between the two of you is far more believable than that between you and Jean. The touching scene in the medi-center, when Logan pulled out your glasses and asked Jean where you were…classic slash man, classic.
Professor X -- The moral implications of the tampering with Jean (justified or not) and then the ending after the credits? Man…the writers seem to be bent on a Dark Xavier is all I can think about…. Though younger you and younger Magneto -- hot baby hot!
Kitty…Kitty…Kitty…eh…you were a little young in comparison, but still…not too bad, what little you got to do.
Iceman & Pyro…trading hair care secrets with your fanon love. In the first movie, Bobbi is dark haired and John is blond, next Bobby is blond and John is dark, now they have switched again. You love is soooo fire and ice…creating steamy scenes together. And on the plus side, Bobbi turned crystal ice…very cool. We were sorry that Pyro was reduced to being a PA reading off lists for Magneto -- it was nice that they allowed him to blow up stuff in the end…not enough but nice.
Pietor Rasputin… how I miss your accent, but your throwaway scenes were cute. Lugging the huge tv under one arm…throwing Wolverine like a baseball. Thank you for having a decent costume and not the spandex speedo from the late 70’s-early 80’s.
Angel…man what a waste. We see maybe 10-15 minutes of you total. Sad man…very sad. Biggest fuckin’ seagull I eveh saw! (props to
alphawerewolf for that comment)Beast…well…it could have been worse (think the travesty of The Hulk movie). And at least you did say ‘oh my stars and garters’.
Fuzzy Elf…ahem..I mean Nightcrawler…we missed you man. It was a hell of a party.
Storm. Huh. If I’d been stuck in that wig I probably would have had a chip on my should the entire movie too. Though it was nice to see Ororo actually played as a person. A grumpy angry person, but still a person.
Magneto..Magneto…Magneto…you are the meanest little girl I know. (Maggie Neto). And what was the whole abandoning your best blue girl because she became pink and squishy? What a dipwad you were. Though we do appreciate that the terror level was raised to maroon, just to match the stupid cape fetish you have going on. Magneto bin Ladin.
The movie as a whole was not bad. It wasn’t good but it wasn’t bad. I’d give it a 5 on the scale of 1-10. The story was lame and full of plot holes you could drive a Mac truck through. Sigh…special effects are lame without a decent frame to hang them on.
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I was really pleased with Kelsey Grammer as Beast. He had just the right tone, I thought. And yeah, I missed Nightcrawler. And was was surprisingly pleased with Kitty. And Pietor? Weren't you supposed to be, well, Russian? And what happened to the Great and T00by Crush (tm) that Kitty carried for Pietor? Unnecessary changes annoy me, man.
I was annoyed with Ororo. She cared more about Jean than that. Though she did go through her cranky phase. It didn't flow well here. And I miss her accent, darn it. She's not American.
Angel was always a doof. Sorry. ;-)
I'm convinced that neither Scott nor Professor X are dead. If they are, then boo for film adaptations. That's. Just. Wrong.
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And where the hell is Gambit? I want to see the Cajun!
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Yeah! Gambit! I'm very disappointed about those who were left off the cast list.
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Can I just ask, as one of those unlawful movies-only fans who knows nothing about canon: what was with the Dark Phoenix, originally? I can get that she was reborn and wacked, but how did that work in the comics? It seems you hint that the whole "locked within her subconscious" deal is so much bullshit, which makes me happy. Would anyone mind telling me what should've been?
Very grateful for answers!
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Since the entire saga of why Jean was exposed to such a thing and why she needed to bond with the Phoenix powere was never part of the movieverse, they needed another reason for Jean to develop the Phoenix personality.
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As I recall, the Phoenix was essentially an alien. It latched onto Jean and was more or less dormant, until it needed to save her from certain death. That sort of brought things to the surface.
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Thanks for clearing that up!