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| Dr Baghead 3584th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):X-Men III - movie thread -" , posted Sun 28 May 07:28
Magneto and Xavier came across as so gay. What with Mangeto's very fashionable purple with matching hat and trenchcoat and Professor X saying he needed him with him in the first scene, and Magneto quitely playing chess alone at the end without his dear sweet Charlies.... it was just like Brokeback Mountain only fun and entertaining and not an hour too long!
I think they tried cramming too much into this movie, Beast and Juggernaut were awesome what little we got they really needed a lot more screen time.
I never liked Iceman, Rogue,and Mystique though, so I'm glad they got less screen time
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I really hope the cure is either perminate on Mystique so she never waste time again or they use this as a chance to redesign her stupid looking self in the next movie
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Does Hugh Jackman have a no nudity clause in his contracts? In both this and Van Helsing there's no reason his pants shouldn't have torn off during the final battle and yet they stay on.
I don't buy the "this is the last movie" BS one bit, I think that's just a marketing gimic so:
1-Synger knows he's no longer welcome to the party, they moved on without him and are closing the door behind him.
2-So the audience has some actual emotional investment in the dying characters and sees the cure as a real threat. If they know for sure X4 is coming, they start to think "well how could so-and-so be brought back?" or "how will so-and-so get their powers back?" rather then "oh no! what a sad way for it to end for so-and-so!"
The day a movie studio who still has rights to a franchise says "wow! what a successful triology we just made! let's walk away and never do anything else with it!" is the day the sun turns into a giant ball of snow. I bet we see X4 after "Wolverine" and "Magneto" are made (and if they're making character specific movies, "Nightcrawler" would be nice)
Blanka and Dan make for a most excellent tag image (yeah still not funny)
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| nobinobita
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| "Re(4):X-Men III - movie thread -" , posted Mon 29 May 07:19
The more I talk about other people with this movie, the more I dislike it, BUT while I was watching it, it was fairly enjoyable. It just really really falls apart under scrutiny, so if you can turn your brain off, its entertaining.
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Just got home from seeing good movie imo.
She IS in the movie? Where? How? Am I that stupid for not noticing her?
oh yeah, and as for Psylocke:
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No you're not dumb. She's just barely in the movie. She's that asian woman with a purple streak in her hair with the Morlocks. She has all of 1 line, uncamoflauges out of a wall (with Predator effect for some reason)then gets obliterated by the dark Phoenix
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As for the thing after the credits:
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I bet that if they make another movie I bet it'll be revealed that the prof WAS the veggie guy in the bed the whole time. He's just been astrally projecting himself so that his real body is never in danger. The reason is, they never show the guys face, and I doubt they'd replace Patrick Stewart. People like him and I don't think he's going to turn down another job.
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Anyhow, this movie definitely wasn't as good as X2. There weren't really any interesting fights and no one used their power in a creative or interesting way. In X2, NightCrawler used his powers even cooler than they'd ever been used in the comics (him attacking the President and everyone thinking it must be a group of terrorists, not just 1 guy). Also, X2 showed how destructive Magneto can be with just a few ounces of iron. Also, the fight between Wolverine and Deathstrike was cool cos it had good choreography and they could stab the shit out of one another as they both had healing factors.
X3 just didn't have any cool action. All the action scenes involved people getting hit by bolts or people getting punched. There was no back and fourth, just stuff happening.
Also, Magneto proved to be a pretty shitty leader in X3. None of his plans really made much sense:
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If he wanted to kill Leech, why did he send an army of weak Mutants. He could have just dropped the bridge on the whole building and kill everyone in there and be done with it. Or just sent Phoenix over there. Or lifted the building up by its iron supports and dropped it. Instead, he... lobbed cars randomly? Whoever planned out the action scnenes in x3 just didn't have any imagination
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Still, all in all i enjoyed the movie.
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| Mav
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| "Re(5):X-Men III - movie thread -" , posted Tue 30 May 10:52
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It made me LMAO.
Yeah, that was probably the best part of the movie. Sounded even more strange from that Australian accent.
On the wigs thing, I agree. Halle Berry looks quite hot in that short white hair. Not sure if Wolvy's is a wig or really waxed hair.
I could poke fun at the dozens of plot holes one could drive a truck full of rich Fox execs through, or mock the laughable scriptwriting and scene editing, but I thought I'd mention a few quirks about that extra ending.
It's funny that...
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Charles is giving the kids a lesson on the morality of taking control of this man's body, when he winds up doing it in the end. Additionally, I wasn't aware a mental brain transplant resulted in keeping his firmiliar Captain's Log vocals. The only explaination might be the one postulated above, in that he was in the hospital all along. But then... if you could project yourself into another body or some form of spiritual projection, why would you pick the wheelchair guy?
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I've often equated such comics with Soap Operas in their never-ending, always-twisting ways, but this movie tries to be the worst soap opera around, especially if they're trying to pull sequel material out of that tar pit.
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"Charles! I thought you were dead!"
"I was. And now The Phoenix is having my baby."
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| emagius
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| "Re(6):X-Men III - movie thread -" , posted Wed 31 May 12:34
In all, I liked the movie more than the first (which had the stupidest Magneto plan in recent memory) but not nearly as much as the second.
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Yeah, that was probably the best part of the movie. Sounded even more strange from that Australian accent.
Agreed.
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On the wigs thing, I agree. Halle Berry looks quite hot in that short white hair.
Aye.
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Charles is giving the kids a lesson on the morality of taking control of this man's body, when he winds up doing it in the end.
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It's not that suprising. If you've followed the comics, how far Xavier and the X-Men go in their fight for "freedom" ceases to amaze. The Fatal Attractions arc is a particularly good example:
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Chuck & co., with help from the U.N., set up an electromagnetic trap for Magneto (who is merely asking mutants to leave earth to join him in his space colony where they can live free of persecution). When the latter triggers it, it backfires on earth, killing "tens of thousands" (according to the X-Men). Xavier and his buddies suit up, invade Magnus's home, kidnap and forcefully brainwash his students, challenge him to a one-on-one duel, renege on the deal, then murder him. (What's even more interesting is that Magneto's monologue at the start of the arc ("I don't want to do this, Charles. Because you and your X-Men are weak I must be strong...") is censored in the trade paperback re-issue.)
It's possibly worthwhile to note who and how many are killed by whom in the movie.
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In short, the X-Men are no strangers to hypocrisy.
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| kofoguz 361th Post
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| "Re(1):X-Men III - movie thread -" , posted Fri 2 Jun 19:22
Well guess Who watched the movie.
Half of me loved the movie "remorsely", half of me really hate it.
Why do I hate it.
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They killed fucking Cyclops, he appeared for five minutes then killed disrespectly and we never saw him again. Not even a dieing scene in flashback or something.
They "cured" Mystique.
They "cured" Rogue and she appeared less in action as Cyclops.
And still has no fucking Gambit.
I dont even want to talk about Psylocke.
Did those make the movie bad? No. But for me its kind of horror movie.My favourites are First Gambit then Iceman, Rogue, Cyclops and Mystique (I'm not familiar the comic mystique, but I loved the movie mystique). All my favourites are wasted. Except Iceman.
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Why do I love it.
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Juggernaut./Harder
Iceman./Better
Beast./Faster
Colossus./Stronger
Seriously even though Colossus never enough, I enjoyed watching them.And finally I saw the true Iceman. In the last two I really dissappointed about Iceman cast. I didnt like the boy they choose. In this movie I approve his Bobby.
Oh and the Danger Room fight and Sentinel.
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Angel was lost in movie somewhere. I thought it was about him and he'd play a important role.
Morlocks were too random.I thought they hate humans and mutants equally who live above them. In the movie They only hate humans, and it was just about cure. I could be wrong but as far as I remember, their proud was being in Morlocks, not being mutant.
Transferring Pr. X is more stupid than anything stupid in the movie.It ruins the sequel idea in my mind.Yet the danger room fight assist the idea. You know, there was a episode in cartoon in the future where all the x-men are dead and world in a chaos. So new X-men travel back in time and try to save them. Something like that. Thats how they can fix the losses with this scenario.
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Does Hugh Jackman have a no nudity clause in his contracts? In both this and Van Helsing there's no reason his pants shouldn't have torn off during the final battle and yet they stay on.
Exactly.No reason at all.
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Thinking Phoenix is desire non-stop,and jean grey has feelings on him why the pants was on. We dont need to see anything they could cover up with visual effects but seeing his skin gone piece by piece and pants are still on. People can think "Wow he has stronger pants than his skin to resist".
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"Re(6):X-Men III - movie thread -" , posted Mon 29 May 04:28
