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Movie Review: X-Men III: The Last Stand "Spoilers"

May 29, 2006 00:44

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Comments 14

lazerbug May 29 2006, 15:14:50 UTC

agreed. my huge geek of a boyfriend made me see it with him, and when the movie ended, i walked out nonplussed. definitely not the best movie i've seen.

theskooch May 29 2006, 16:41:58 UTC

But did you stay 'til the credits were over? :O

lazerbug May 29 2006, 19:27:33 UTC

no, was i supposed to? was there something that made the movie have a better storyline after the credits?

theskooch May 29 2006, 20:01:10 UTC

I wouldn't go that far.

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andythesaint May 29 2006, 16:53:04 UTC

Wow, you beat me to a review. Probably because it's too painful for me.

cryingdrunkgirl May 29 2006, 17:01:42 UTC

The Golden Gate things was comepletely pointless.

I was really looking point to Angel and I figured they would have good stuff for him because they got Ben Foster, but him flying out of that building was the only cool thing about him.

I didn't hate it as much as you, but I was kind of depressed after it was over.

On the plus side-Halle Berry didn't suck as much as she did in the other ones....

mustbebunnies88 May 30 2006, 01:33:43 UTC

Every time I watch the first "X-Men" film, I repeat to myself: Oscar winner Halle Berry. And then I laugh. And then cry. Johnny Depp and Martin Scorsese have zero Oscars; little miss "hey, where'd my accent go?" has one.

vocabulate May 29 2006, 21:07:45 UTC

I wonder why after so much work was put into Rogue's character she was completely left out of this one? Completely.

But then I didn't go into this one expecting anything breathtaking. (It was in a way though - sucked all of the air out of the theatre...)

theskooch May 29 2006, 21:50:15 UTC

Rogue's character was very much dependant on the previous two movies. After everything she went through in those two, could you really blame her for taking the easy way out? Sure, that might make for an interesting story, but that's not what this movie was about.

oyaguy May 30 2006, 04:39:27 UTC

I don't think her decision was really that surprising, but then again, something that insanely important was thrown out there and then completely ignored. This film kept doing that too. Throwing out some very interesting ideas, and then ignoring them.

When the President mentions how can a democracy function when single citzens can move cities with there minds, was a really good point in favour of "the cure." Then it's ignored again. This movie constantly threw out these ideas and ignored them.

mm511 May 30 2006, 06:53:51 UTC

I loved the fact that, though they KNEW Magneto would come after Mystique, they didn't bother engineering all-plastic trucks or all-plastic prisons... although they DID learn by the time they created their guns...

You can see my own LENGTHY review for what I thought of the rest of the movie. :-)

oyaguy May 30 2006, 07:03:03 UTC

See, that would be Stupid People Syndrome at work. Though to be fair can anything operating at the mechanical stresses of a moving vehicle be made without using ANY metal at all?

Even then, there is so much metal out there that Magneto could use other metal to bash his way through the convoy.

mm511 May 30 2006, 07:14:42 UTC

If they can engineer plastic guns and a plastic prison (X2, I think) I imagine they could have handled automotives. And plus, stop thinking! Heh. This is an action movie set in an imaginary, alternate universe: of course they could have handled it. But it would have been more difficult, I guess, for the 0.2 seconds allotted in the movie for the "Magneto frees Mystique, then abandons her, so we can have the later scene in which the mutants outsmart the humans yet again, because really, humans are really dumb" scene.

*shrugs*

I had such high hopes for this damn movie...