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My X-Men 3 Review

May 31, 2006 10:56

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andythesaint May 31 2006, 23:37:49 UTC

Okay, I can't leave it alone. If this was the best they could do given all the problems before hand, they shouldn't have bothered.

Here's the biggest liberty they took with the Phoenix story, which was unforgivable-- the death (and therefore exclusion) of Cyclops. The story doesn't work without him. Period. If the actor didn't want to come back, either recast him, or don't do the Phoenix story. Once Phoenix kills the most important person in her life (then proceeds to kill the second most important person in her life), then it's game over. There's no coming back and she should've just slaughtered people at will. She's uninteresting at that point, as there is no internal struggle or humanising factors to her character. It would be as though Elijah Wood didn't want to come back for Return of the King, so they killed him off after five minutes of screen time with a line of dialogue.

And if they HAD to kill him off (which they didn't), then perhaps they should've treated his passing with more gravitas and pathos than they did the Beast seeing his hand turn pink.

fornikate June 1 2006, 06:08:33 UTC

Agreed.

mm511 June 1 2006, 06:40:06 UTC

Agreeing to the previous agreement.

Death to X3, I say! Death death death!

mm511 June 1 2006, 06:42:48 UTC

Hah! I just read the last paragraph. Seriously! Cyclops's death was like, "Meh!" but Storm's empassioned, "We're not sick. There's nothing to cure" was like borderline birth-of-the-messiah-ish. Not to mention Beast's pinkness. Ha! Or the totally superfluous scene with Angel that's sole purpose is to say, "Ha! Look how 'hot' (I use the term loosely) that-actor-from-FlashForward-whose-name-may-be-Ben-Tucker-or-something-like-that got since Flash Forward! Ha!"

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