A non-spoiler - stay until the end of the credits! I didn't, but I won't let others make my mistake 
ANYWAYS - I'm gonna spoil everything from here on, 'cause that's the best way to discuss the movie, so it's your own damn fault if you read this before watching it
I saw X-Men III last Sunday night and I have mixed feelings. It was expected really, considering I'd been hoping for many, MANY X-Men movies and only got three (the spin-offs don't count). Hell, no Apocalypse whatsoever? That just sucks.
Am I biased then? Yes, very much so.
I don't like the line-up of X-Men we ended off with. Wolverine and Beast were definite aces, and Storm is alright, but Bobby, Kitty, and Colossus just didn't fill the ranks as well as some of my other faves would. Cyclops did annoy me in the previous movies by times (as well as the various X-Men cartoons), but killing him right off the bat seemed wrong. It made sense plot-wise - got the emotions going, Jean killing her lover - but what a shame. Same goes for Prof X. I at least figured he'd die near the end of the movie, not around the beginning. But meh. His death, like Scott's, got the movie rolling, so it made sense why they did it. The fact that we knew he was going to die from the trailers made it less heavy, too. Cyclops' actually did shock me, and it took me awhile to accept that he actually was dead and wasn't miraculously gonna pop back up later on. I've been tainted by too much Joss Whedon/Xena-ness (the characters never know when to stay dead).
Too many great characters lost their powers... Okay, only three greats did. Mystique and Rogue, again two of my faves who were out of action through mostly the entire movie (and aren't getting their own spin-off like Magneto, who btw rocked hard in this movie. Flying cars and moving bridges are teh fun). It seems like they wanted to give newer characters more show-time - or maybe the actresses didn't want large roles. Rogue not reaching her full potential in the movie series was just another shame IMO. She didn't even gain her flying ability
Nightcrawler definitely was missed, but I read about the circumstances behind his no-show. And why STILL no Gambit? I want my Gambit, dammit all!
At least we got Beast. I love Beast ^^
I don't know Angel (not Buffy's "Angel") too much, so sadly most of his role was lost on me aside from his obvious coolness factor.
So again, mixed feelings. Ignoring my obvious biases - I just didn't want the movies to end, and this one felt very, VERY final - it was a really great movie. Lots of cool special effects, and unlike movies like Matrix II they didn't seem cheap (by not seeming "cheap" I mean it felt like the plot actually drove the movie and the effects were just additions, while Matrix II was all special effects).
And now I must ask the question I'm pretty sure I can answer myself. Did this movie have anything to do with the original X-Men series? I feel like I've asked this before concerning the previous two... I didn't really read the comics, which are generally considered the "original story", so I wouldn't know either way. I've heard that the first movie did tie into the comic series in some ways, and I know vaguely of the Phoenix Saga - nothing extensive. So, did Prof. X really die in the comics? Did some mutants lose their powers? Yadda yadda.
If you haven't seen the movie yet and am reading this post, you're silly for ruining it for yourself. But even if you have, go see it now. Unless you're anti-superheroes/sci fi or something
ANYWAYS - I'm gonna spoil everything from here on, 'cause that's the best way to discuss the movie, so it's your own damn fault if you read this before watching it
I saw X-Men III last Sunday night and I have mixed feelings. It was expected really, considering I'd been hoping for many, MANY X-Men movies and only got three (the spin-offs don't count). Hell, no Apocalypse whatsoever? That just sucks.
Am I biased then? Yes, very much so.
I don't like the line-up of X-Men we ended off with. Wolverine and Beast were definite aces, and Storm is alright, but Bobby, Kitty, and Colossus just didn't fill the ranks as well as some of my other faves would. Cyclops did annoy me in the previous movies by times (as well as the various X-Men cartoons), but killing him right off the bat seemed wrong. It made sense plot-wise - got the emotions going, Jean killing her lover - but what a shame. Same goes for Prof X. I at least figured he'd die near the end of the movie, not around the beginning. But meh. His death, like Scott's, got the movie rolling, so it made sense why they did it. The fact that we knew he was going to die from the trailers made it less heavy, too. Cyclops' actually did shock me, and it took me awhile to accept that he actually was dead and wasn't miraculously gonna pop back up later on. I've been tainted by too much Joss Whedon/Xena-ness (the characters never know when to stay dead).
Too many great characters lost their powers... Okay, only three greats did. Mystique and Rogue, again two of my faves who were out of action through mostly the entire movie (and aren't getting their own spin-off like Magneto, who btw rocked hard in this movie. Flying cars and moving bridges are teh fun). It seems like they wanted to give newer characters more show-time - or maybe the actresses didn't want large roles. Rogue not reaching her full potential in the movie series was just another shame IMO. She didn't even gain her flying ability
Nightcrawler definitely was missed, but I read about the circumstances behind his no-show. And why STILL no Gambit? I want my Gambit, dammit all!
At least we got Beast. I love Beast ^^
I don't know Angel (not Buffy's "Angel"
) too much, so sadly most of his role was lost on me aside from his obvious coolness factor. So again, mixed feelings. Ignoring my obvious biases - I just didn't want the movies to end, and this one felt very, VERY final - it was a really great movie. Lots of cool special effects, and unlike movies like Matrix II they didn't seem cheap (by not seeming "cheap" I mean it felt like the plot actually drove the movie and the effects were just additions, while Matrix II was all special effects).
And now I must ask the question I'm pretty sure I can answer myself. Did this movie have anything to do with the original X-Men series? I feel like I've asked this before concerning the previous two... I didn't really read the comics, which are generally considered the "original story", so I wouldn't know either way. I've heard that the first movie did tie into the comic series in some ways, and I know vaguely of the Phoenix Saga - nothing extensive. So, did Prof. X really die in the comics? Did some mutants lose their powers? Yadda yadda.
If you haven't seen the movie yet and am reading this post, you're silly for ruining it for yourself. But even if you have, go see it now. Unless you're anti-superheroes/sci fi or something
