Nell2ThaIzzay
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Horhey said:Is there something wrong with me? Am I just too easy to please?
X3 haters like LastSunrise1981 would say that you have low standards, and that you're "willing to accept mediocracy"...
As the movie is, although I think you gave the movie credit for some of it's flaws (I.E. it's "perfect pacing" and "great script", both of which I feel were weaknesses of this film) you are absolutley right.
The acting is brilliant. The character moments are there, and people's unwillingness to see and accept them does not make them non-existent. And they are just as emotional and powerful as the character moments in X-Men and X2. What the difference is, is that Singer had more character moments, not neccesarily better. But this is the 3rd part of a trilogy, we should know these characters by now. Just how X2 upped the action from X-Men, X-Men: The Last Stand upped the action from X2. It did not neglect character. Although I will admit there should have been a touch more.
The action was X-Men action at it's finest, something that Singer never delivered with X-Men or X2. X2 had some flashes of brilliance with the action (Nightcrawler's White House invasion, Magneto's prison escape, Stryker's raid of the Mansion), but overall it just wasn't exciting. None of the action captured the X-Men like the X-Men leaping down into battle, theme music blaring, and lining up on the battlefield across from the Brotherhood!
I think Ratner had a better balance of character and action. X-Men and X2 were great because of their well developed characters, but there wasn't much action. X-Men: The Last Stand found a very good balance between character and action. It did also have the luxury of having 2 movies of character before it, so it could back off a bit... I don't know that the character of X-Men: The Last Stand would have worked for a first installment. But I think it balanced character and action better than the previous 2. For that, I think it might be my favorite of the 3, despite not thinking anything close to that after I saw it the first time
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