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I enjoyed Kitty vs Juggernaut...it was very funny
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On a different note, was anyone really surprised that Jean was going to die? Where's the suspense?
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His answer to the thing was: "the deaths weren't a big part of the movie". The situation got even worse, people saying he couldnt decide what was important in a movie, others saying he doesnt hav a right to tell the deaths, well it lasted about 1 week until the paper wrote an apologising letter LOL |
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The Last Stand is Fans VS Fox
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LOL! I know. It's a shame that THATS what it comes down to.
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The only good action sequence was Xavier vs. Jean in her house. And maybe Wolverine vs. Spyke. The others were crap.
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Yeah! *Grabs knives and pitch forks*
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Given the title "The Last Stand", plus the movie's premise of a final showdown between the two opposing forces of Mankind and MUtantkind, I was expecting to see confrontations on a grander, more massive scale.
Yes, there were numerous battles, both small-and-large scale, but the way they were executed made them really nothing more than gratuitous action sequences meant to highlight certain favored characters' powers. "Whose side will you be on?" the posters always asked. It was a time to make a radical choice, not unlike what's happening now in our real world. The hysteria, the paranoia, and the radicalism that reduces people to the simplistic notion that "If you are not with us, then you are against us" just wasn't there, imho. The action sequences could've built up progressively, escalating in scope and yes, even violence, to finally reach its zenith - or nadir, depending on where you stand - in one Final Battle Royale. On the Human side, the anti-mutant riots and demonstrations could've been more massive, showing tens of thousands of angry, frightened humans, captured in frenzied hand-held shots on CNN, railing against what they perceive to be "the mutant threat". Since a picture paints a thousand words, we could've been SHOWN the blind hatred that fear and distrust could breed. A mutant kid being beaten up by a roving band of human hooligans, maybe? Homes of known mutants being vandalized and spray-painted with the word "MUTIE!"? Suggestions of lynchings, even? Thing is, the violence that often accompanies a hysteric mob mentality just wasn't there. The so-called "oppression" of mutants by homo sapiens was never shown, only suggested in exposition. We may have had more sympathy for Magneto's radicalism had we been made to understand what he and his kind are made to undergo in a harsh, intolerant homo sapien environment. On the Mutant Side, the increasingly radicalized mutants could've been goaded into violent retaliations. A mutant goes berserk in a crowded shopping mall, for instance. Or torments Homo sapien sympathizers with threatening displays of mutant might. Or how about breaking up an anti-mutant demonstration even more dramatically than Pyro did in that Mutant Cure Center scene? We don't have to look very far to see examples of these in our real world. Just tune in to CNN any day and you'll get what I mean. My point is not about wanting to see gratuitous violence on-screen, especially not in a GP-rated summer popcorn movie. But I felt that we NEEDED to see an escalation of hysteria, violence, and desperation from both sides in order to dramatize the culmination of these in one final showdown between Mankind and Mutantkind. True, there were soldiers in Alcatraz, but they seemed more like a disposable regiment of the G.I. Joes rather than the armed might of the US military. I would've wanted to see them lined up in menacing row after row after row, like Hitler's Nazi Army or even Darth Vader's Stormtroopers, death squads armed not only with weapons but anti-mutant propaganda. On the opposing side, I would've wanted to see Magneto rallying his troops, making fiery, impassioned diatribes against Homo sapiens, and seeing a wide variety of assorted mutants thrown together in unity by desperation and self-preservation. Instead, The Brotherhood looked little more than a ragtag band of expendable thugs rather than a force to be reckoned with. There was no true show of force; hence, no battle scene that was a tour de force. As a matter of fact, the entire confrontation between Mankind and Mutantkind could've been GLOBAL in scope. We could've seen the world's armies gearing up to wipe out mutantkind. And we could've seen mutants of all races banding together to defend their kind. And as the clock strikes down to Zero Hour, only the X-Men could've stood in the way of both these opposing forces of Homo Sapiens and Homo Superior, the sole voice of reason, as it were, in a world united only by madness. That's the battle I was looking for. End of rant.
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That... is a final, grandoise showndown Between mutants and humankind? Looked to me more like an angry mob led by a terrorist trying to raid a research lab...
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My point, exactly. What was supposed to be a "Last Stand" looked more like a "Let's Raid The Pharmacy And Break Out The Quaaludes"
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LMFAO! I agree with you BareDevil. Bye!
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