Tuesday, May 30, 2006
X-Men: The Last Waffle
If you went to see the movie this past weekend, and since it made 120 million dollars, chances are you did, you might not have seen the scene above. Yeah, this is what was playing after the credits. So, if you thought that Magneto moving a metal chess piece without touching it after he got hit with 4 cure syringes (not just one, FOUR!!) was not enough to tell you that this is not the last X-Men movie, then this should. I mean, what else do the producers need to do? Tattoo it to your forehead?
Anyway, this scene ties back to scene towards the beginning of the movie, where Charles Xavier was debating the ethics of using one's powers to inhabit a comatose body. I guess getting disintegrated by the "Phoenix" force changed his stand on that. I would have liked the movie to have stood by it's decisions instead of waffle on them like it did. The whole thing was practically a vehicle to eliminate actors whose contracts did not take them past a 3rd movie.
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Just like the comic, the characters never die. I mean come on how many times has the Phoenix remanifested and Professor X come back to life? At least it wasn't boring like the first one.
i understand that no one ever really dies in comics . . . but we're talking movies here. it's a different medium, with different rules, and therefore . . . if someone dies . . . it shouldn't only be because their contracts don't stretch through X-Men 3. Lets recap the deaths in this movie.
Xavier - Died - Came Back - Contracted for future X-Men movies before this one started shooting.
Cyclops - Died - And an off-camera death at that. Maybe because in that Superman movie with former X-men director Bryan Singer? Hmm . . not contracted past 3 X-men movies.
Jean Grey - Died - Not contracted past X-Men 3.
Rogue - De-powered - Not contracted past X-Men 3
Magneto - De-powered, yet, still able to move metal pieces - Contracted for future movies in the x-men universe.
So . . . what do you think Big D. I couldn't help but yawn through most of the movie and utter sighs and signs of flabbergasting at the choices they made in this one . . . not to mention the line, uttered by the President "Hell has no wrath like a woman scorned". ouch.
There were parts that were total crap. Beast is my biggest complaint, they should have left his ass out.
I never thought the cure was going to sap the powers permently. I figured it would be a temporary cure. Just like the effect with the boy the moment you moved away it lost effect. To truely work I think it would have to be given on a regular basis.
I bet Rogue comes back in the next X-men where we finally get to see her naked and just as Iceman is about to finish off, her powers cum back and she ends up almost killing him. Anyways that's just my intial idea on the opening scene of X4. I think I'm going to switch it with her and her new mentor Storm. That would be much more... ummm exciting.
Beast was terrible. Sure, they have the accent down, but I wish they could have gone CG with him . . . completely. Oh well. The only glimmer of goodness this non-resolution left me with is the slight hope that X-4 will be good . . .
Is this for real? I mean, the video!
http://raptusr.blogspot.com/2006/05/x-men-3-final-stand-is-finally-out.html
of course it's for real. this is why you have to stay through the credits.
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