X-Men 3: The Last Stand
May. 28th, 2006 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Omaha and I managed to swing someone to watch the kids, so we went to watch X-Men III: The Last Stand.
On the whole, it's a popcorn comic-book movie. They got many things right, and several things agressively wrong. The second movie discussed Kurt's Catholicism, so why in this film did the director or costumer refuse to give Kitty the Star of David she always wore? Where was Peter's Russian accent? Where was Rogue's Louisiana drawl?
It was badly edited and poorly written, and it could have been so much better. They got Kitty so right, and Colossus so cardboard. The ending makes sense, but not in the context of the comic book. It's much of a wash. If you're a serious X-Man fan from the 80s, you'll probably have the same love-hate reaction to it I did. Great actors doing great jobs with great characters in a setting and story that nobody could love.
And Hugh Jackman is still hot. Whoof!
On the whole, it's a popcorn comic-book movie. They got many things right, and several things agressively wrong. The second movie discussed Kurt's Catholicism, so why in this film did the director or costumer refuse to give Kitty the Star of David she always wore? Where was Peter's Russian accent? Where was Rogue's Louisiana drawl?
It was badly edited and poorly written, and it could have been so much better. They got Kitty so right, and Colossus so cardboard. The ending makes sense, but not in the context of the comic book. It's much of a wash. If you're a serious X-Man fan from the 80s, you'll probably have the same love-hate reaction to it I did. Great actors doing great jobs with great characters in a setting and story that nobody could love.
And Hugh Jackman is still hot. Whoof!
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Date: 2006-05-29 05:32 am (UTC)My take on it, from the audience around me, is if one is steeped in the canon it's an unsatisfying movie, but if one has just seen a few of the animated cartoons or something, it's fine.
Huge was definitely cute, though Patrick Stewart was pretty damn hot in the flashback. I sure get the vibe that he and Erik were a couple.
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Date: 2006-05-29 06:32 am (UTC)The pacing of this one wasn't the greatest. I liked the other two a bit more, except...
I love a good tragedy. Even with the bit at the end of the credits, they didn't fuck around with making a happy ending. I haven't seen so many important characters killed off in a movie since Dangerous Liasons.
I sincerely hope that this is the last movie they're going to make though. As much as the comic book tends to read like a bad soap opera with each character being killed and brought back to life multiple times, that's really something that I could do without.
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Date: 2006-05-29 06:03 pm (UTC)http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html