4 things I loved, hated, and was confused by in X-men 3: The Last Stand.
First, the spoiler-free review: Xmen 3: The Last Stand is a movie I'm pretty split on. Part of me liked it; part of me didn't, and part of me was pretty boggled by it. I'm not comparing it to the comics, as I think the movies are in an entirely different universe, and thus the comparison isn't really apt. (Besides, I don't have a strong-enough
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Phoenix: I agree with you here. The cosmic entity wouldn't've fit in the movie. Especially since you would've needed Death to come around to explain part of it - or some other explanation - so that you'd know it was more than just some cosmic entity that chose Jean. The Phoenix didn't choose Jean. Jean chose the Phoenix. She reached out to a force of nature and personified it. That's bloody incredible... but far too complicated for the movie. The way they did it worked. I just need to explain to my friends what the real Phoenix is, because I think they'd like that version too.
Storm: I don't remember the first two movies well at all, but Storm being active does make me happy. The fact that her big moment is versus Calisto, who was a pretty big changing point in the comic book Storm's life, makes it all the better in my eyes. In the comics, Ororo was one of the biggest on the whole Stupid Heroic Thou Shalt Not Kill™ thing, and she had to be willing to kill Calisto in order to save Angel and half the rest of the X-men from Calisto's Morlocks. The fact that one of the Morlocks could heal a knife wound to the gut is beside the point: there was no guarentee Calisto could survive that, and Ororo found the courage to do it anyway. My one disappointment here is that she did seem to kill the movie Calisto, but that was only after I refamiliarized myself with the characters after the movie.
Beast: Another agreement. Especially after rereading some of my old X-men stuff, and remembering Beast's personality, they couldn't've found anyone better than Kelsey Grammar for him. Very, very well cast, and extremely well acted. No one else could pull off a character who tends to say stuff like "Oh my stars and garters" and such.
Small details: This one's a good and a bad, as you sort of pointed out later. Small details were great, except the small details that should've been there and weren't. For example, I liked how Colossus saved Rogue by touching her and sharing his power, but her power - and if I recall correctly, it's this way in both movie and comic - steals more than just power. It's extremely detrimental, and steals life, power and memory. Yet there was no fallout from it. At first, I thought, "Hey, odd, Colossus can suddenly wrap his metal-ness around other people too?" And when I realized it was Rogue, and how it worked, I was disappointed that it was never revisited. I could see him making that sacrifice in a real situation, but in the Danger Room? Go metal and cover her, that would've worked just fine.
Okay, I think before I go onto the next section, I should split this. It'll get to be longer than your post, or damn close, if I'm not careful, so three comments it shall be! *nods sagely*
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