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[wattsu]

Couldn't go too much longer without chiming in, so here's my spoiler-free review of...

X-Men 3: The Last Stand - Right to the point, this is not as good as the first two movies. However, Bryan Singer did something amazing with the first two movies. He took a group of characters who until then I had only been moderately amused by, and made them

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[thunderphoenix]

I got to thinking, and if they REALLY wanted to have a sense of finality, in the last scene, instead of what they did with the chess set, they could have had Magneto knocking the king down. Think about it. With the empty chair there, and the chess set always being a symbol for the struggle between Xavier and Magnus. It would have been awesome.

[wattsu]

Well-done, sir, but that requires a level of symbolism and finesse that both blockbuster-oriented directors and major film studies lack.

[wattsu]

Major film studios, damn it. I would hope major film studies would have a pretty good handle on that sort of thing.

[thunderphoenix]

Well, the LOTR films were big, and I would say they had both of those qualities.

Also, I like how Juggernaut and Xavier had British accents. You MIGHT be able to say they're brothers, but I still think that'd be too much backstory to too little payoff for this movie.

[wattsu]

Yes, but you see, Peter Jackson operates on a different, classier level of reality.