X-men fan's comments

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2006)

OK my 2 cents about this movie for any comic fans: **spoilers** SEQUEL: as far as an xmen-4 -- i really do believe it's an issue of contracts and these actors' schedules. I heard there were contract disputes with Halle Barry which I'm sure will get no easier if more negotiations have to take place. They can make as many movies as they'd like. Look at Batman 1 -- killed off the Joker (violating comic canon), but he's coming back -- and before you tell me that batmanbegins2 takes place before batman1, please keep in mind that the writers and director of Begins stated that they're pretending the first 4 batman movies "never happened". So deaths-- ESPECIALLY in comic book movies like xmen are never permanent. Hell, those mofos could just be in another dimension or god knows-where-else.
CHARACTERS, CANON, etc: Phoenix is supposed to be a supreme alien being that bonded to jean grey. Now, can you imagine them trying to explain all that in this movie? It'd be awesome, but the movie would be far longer (we can dream, can't we?); getting into all that Shii'ar crap would take ungodly amounts of time and it'd be a bit too "geeky" for the mainstream you-and-me weekend "comic book movie fan". yes, they broke canon many times and it bothered me.
Xmen3 as a MOVIE: was not good from a critical standpoint, especially juxtaposed to the amazing first 2 (especially x2). Poor dialogue, many hints of character development that are never followed-through (bobby-shadowcat, shadowcat-rogue catfight, wolverine-cyclops, etc); horrendous end-battle. Go watch X2 again (or at least think about it). Aside from the fact that x3's final battle had a lot more actors (see: extras) in it, which battle had the more epic, GRIPPING feel? C'mon--X2. I mean, magneto--a brilliant tactician was THROWING FLAMING CARS BLINDLY at no one in particular waiting to be defeated. Brett "party animal" Ratner is trying to go all Braveheart here and it ain't working. We don't want to see these xmen knock off a bunch of no name extras whose faces we can't see and whose powers seem to be limited to getting their asses beat. That entire final battle scene had a cheesy, low budget, B-movie kinda feel. I mean, look at how Magneto was beat -- beast sneaking up from behind him??-- that's just silly and inconsistent with the qualities of the character.
that was a bad show. I wanted to watch X2 over and over again; just like Begins; I don't want to see X3 again. Did like Beast, tho.