Just finished watching the X-men 3. All I can say is "What the hell is this crap?". I grew up reading comics, and the X-men was always my favorite. In the first two installments of the film, they changed up some things to make it watchable by people who don't read the comics. They were well written and very nicely done, the third film was not. I try to find good thing even in bad movies, but when you see characters you grew up with done in this manner it is hard to find the silver lining.
This movie killed a some of the main X-men:
Cyclops - Dead (before 10 minutes have passed in the movie)
Jean Grey - Dead (again)
professor X - Dead or possibly transferred into a brain dead body in Scotland (WTF?)
Other important mutants were left powerless:
Magneto - powerless (again WTF?)
Rouge - powerless (sappy teen romance subplot)
mystique - powerless
Some characters power and story were changed to suit the hack director and writers:
Juggernaut - Originally the older brother of Professor X who found a magic ruby that granted him armor that made him invunerable, and gave superhuman strength. The movie version was a mutant by the same name who once had momentum could not be stopped.
Callisto - Originally the leader of the Morlocks (bunch of mutants that lived in the sewers hiding from humanity), had super acute senses. The movie version had super speed, and the ability to tell how powerful mutants are.
Phoenix - Originally a supernatural force that Jean Grey absorbed aboard a space shuttle. The movie version is Jean Grey's split personality in full control of her powers.
Now lets get to the plot. The movie revolves around a company finding a "cure" for mutants, and Magneto's attempt to destroy the "cure". Into this they mixed a hacked up version of the "Dark Phoenix Saga". The resultant is a half-assed, poorly written, attempt to make money. I read that the original script left with Bryan Singer, and that this movie was rewritten quickly. After seeing the film, I can believe that.
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This movie contains something that always pissed me off whenever it came up in Marvel comics. The cure for being a mutant. How in the hell do you cure a genetic trait? That's like finding a cure for having blue eyes.
I came upon your blog while I was browsing and I really liked it by the way, but as a person who has never read the comics and doesn't share the knowledge that you do of the X-Men universe, I thought this film was very good, because it did what it had to do. Yes, unlike Singer, Ratner didn't include a shining moment for each character in the film, and he also didn't have cool new character introductions, except for Beast and Angel. Anyways, I enjoyed the film, but of course it's all opinion. Keep up the good posts.
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