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26/05/06 9:00 - X Men 3: The last stand
Most of it was great, but I had a few problems with it, so I'll do those first:

SPOILERS

  • Juggernaut - Truely awfull, it was Vinnie Jones with a metal bowl over his head, no acting required.
  • Scott's death - Now don't get me wrong I like that he died, I really hate cyclops, but it was such a throwaway, I hadn't even really realised that he had died.
  • Phoenix backstory - I don't really mind them doing their own thing on this, but by making Phoenix a part of Gene's subconsious rather than the whole taking her over just before she died thing from the comics, they rule out bringing her back, at least in any semi-plauable way. However since it seems that any more X-men films will be prequels I guess it doesn't matter.
  • Angel - seemed like a plot device rather than a character

Now that's over I'll talk about the things I loved.

Special effects were awesome inc.

  • The danger room scene
  • Phoenix vapourising people
  • Pyro setting the car alight
Also great was
  • Beast - not a trace of Frasier in there!
  • Phonix make up - seemed very like scary veiny Willow to me. lol
  • Wolverene saving Gene - Another BtVS tie in for me, very "crayon breaky Willow speech", but maybe I'm seeing parallells where its just that not much is original anymore!
  • The fact that characters you love die indiscriminatly, another Joss-like thing!
  • The entrance of the X men at the lab - one of those scenes where you can see it taken straight from a page in a comic book.
So overall I thought it was fab, and while I'd been a bit downhearted at what happened to Magneto, the very end left me leaving with hope. Which is always nice.

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