But yeah, it's kinda funny to have a guy that - according to canon - can almost hit Quicksilver only to miss grown-ups that, huh... move around. Kinda quickly.
Well what I meant by eye-beams is that by definition if you're able to look at it, you just managed to hit it. If it's in the center of your field of view, it has now been blasted. Only if it's moving real fast do you have to compensate, and yes according to canon no one does it better than Scott. His uncanny ability to hit things, and do multiple-bounce trick shots is supposed to be as canonical as Wolverine's claws. Imagine Wolverine using guns instead of claws. That about sums up the problem.
They can most certainly be. They just won't save the day in a comic book movie when there's brawns around.
Wasn't that supposed to be part of the movie's theme? That brawns can't save the day all the time? Guess that lesson didn't take hold.
I still don't get how they managed to NOT fit the 'I burn away what doesn't work' line or at least something of the sort. At least we would've gotten the sense of imminent doom threatening all that lives.
Think about it for one second. At that point, all 'Ro and Logan had seen was her levitating a house and killing one person at a time. Not exactly doomsday material.
I agree. Upon watching it for the first time you get that sense that everything is going to hell, Jean is totally out of control on a PMS rush from hell, and you have to either smother her, plead with her on your knees, or destroy her otherwise everything and everyone will be destroyed and she'll go through the planet like a hungry college student through a bag of dorritos-
That is until you tally up the final score...
The only ones who were destroyed by Jean were the soldiers who directly attacked her or the X-men at one point or another, or those members of Magneto's army who had already committed murder or were about to.
Strangely, none of the civilians or scientific staff were harmed, and none of the X-men were blown away. Mere coincidence? or was Jean's random bout of destruction not as random and total as we are lead to believe? If that's the case then perhaps she's not as evil as we were lead to believe. Death would still hurt Jean's conciousness but at that point it still seems that salvation would be possible if you could show that she essentially killed those who deserved to die.
With no one knowing what Phoenix could pull off... Exactly what was the stake of the Alcatraz battle???
It was a political stake, but definitely nothing of military consequence. OK, so suppose Magneto and his armies manage to kill Leech and prevent the U.S. government from making any more Cure. So what? They still have other, lethal means of killing mutants at their disposal. I still fail to see how syringes full of fluid would be more frightening and deadly than depleted uranium bullets, missiles, chemical weapons or nukes. If I were mutant, given a choice between attacked with a cure gun and an M-16 (assuming my natural mutation can't protect me from supersonic projectile) I'd rather take my chanes with the cure gun rather than be turned into hamburger meat.
A few hundred jacka$$es not getting shot with the cure and a couple dozens scientists/civilians/guards/soldiers dying as collateral. How utterly
epic. 
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it was a subtle message about the state of the world. That even in the near future with all our advanced arsenals and technological marvels, the fate of the world is still decided with a good old fashioned physical brawl
I mean, damnit, X1's final showdown had to do with
world leaders mutating. X2's had to do with the
death of an entire race. X3 was just people beating the f*** out of each other in SF bay...
I suppose then that a more appropriate ending would have all the survivors standing in a single line arms in arms singing "always look at the bright side of life?"
Come to think of it, Jean did have a destiny beyond getting owned by clawboy. She was there to justify why a cure plot was worthy of a final stand against the forces of eviiiiiiillllll.
BTW. Is it just me or do others fail to see the connection between Jean's predicament and the Cure? Allow me to explain:
WHat sets her off is Magneto's big mouth convincing her that everyone around her just wants to cure her and rob her of her powers.... well, ok. But Jean is The Phoenix, isn't she? FOX and Ratner are trying to show us that Jean is now THE most powerful force on the planet, right? So why would Jean be afraid of the Cure? how could she be possibly threatened by a volley or syringes flying at her? She should have been totally blase about it and walked off. perhaps say something really cute with a snicker like "yeah, and who's gonna inject me with that? YOU?" and then fly off to do her thing.
