World How would you alter the films, in ANY way?

[ComicChick]

Yeah, thats a good call. I go with your first option, Storm is running the school and there for the kiddos. I just wish Pete could have been there for Kitty. It seemed they built up her needing someone, and well, I thought that would have been cool.

i wouldn't have minded more pete in the movie period. he barely said anything. some dialogue with someone, something substantial wouldve been nice

 

[Snikt 6]

^ Yeah, I agree. I really did like the movie (I kind of just try and enjoy stuff when it comes out instead of being overly critical), but I would have enjoyed X3 so much more if Colossus actually was a character instead of just some strong guy.

 

[ComicChick]

a lot of people hated the movie, but i didn't really think it was that bad. there are parts i didn't like, much like in most movies, and there were parts i really liked. i tried to take it as what is was, and it was pretty entertaining.

 

[Snikt 6]

a lot of people hated the movie, but i didn't really think it was that bad. there are parts i didn't like, much like in most movies, and there were parts i really liked. i tried to take it as what is was, and it was pretty entertaining.

Yeah same here. I am glad it ended with a kinda/sorta cliffhanger that opened the door for future films and I am glad they at least tried to bring the Phoenix into it....while not what I would have liked, I did enjoy it. I really liked Juggernaut in X3. I am really looking forward to the Wolverine movie.....

 

[ComicChick]

i wouldve liked to see a phoenix effect in the movie, whether it be a little one in her eyes during her "battle" with xavier. or one behind her during the end battle when she was destroying everything.

we saw hints of the phoenix in X2 in the scene in the blackbird and in alkali lake at the end. they shouldve carried this over and brought the effect into X3

 

[Kyalesyin]

X3: What about taking out some of the extra storylines? You got the cure, and the war with the humans, and the phoenix, plus you killed off a whole bunch of school staff so they've got some gaps to fill...

Why couldn't they just pick one story and do it well?

Personally I'd find some way to incorporate Sage and Gambit, cut out the cure thing and focus on the phoenix better, tone down the war as to more of a background thing and... about half a million other things. Its a good no-brainer as a film though.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Looking back there's a quite a lot of stuff I wish would have been done to these films that wasn't.

- Rogue being sassy, confident and strong in X3, I didn't mind her being afraid in 1 or for the bit she was like that in 2, but the end of 2 set up that she was gonna become more like herself from the comics and then X3 flew in the face of that.

- Iceman's character. He could have still been with Rogue, but was their really need to make him Mr. Everyman?

- Colossus needed a character. Desperately.

- Storm's character needed to be sorted out. In the three films as it stands she looks like she has one big multiple personality disorder.

- Phoenix wouldn't have been able to disintegrate people. More comic accurate powers for her.

- Cyclops would not have died in X3.

- Rogue would not have cured herself in X3.

- Not so much focus on Wolverine.

- Make the team feel like a family. The 3 films make it seem like ''Okay, you are my teammate." That's not the feel of the X-Men, the X-Men are a family. They are brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, lovers. You get the point.

- Everyone would have been from their respective country in the comics. The multi racial/culture thing is one of the many things that sets X-Men apart from other teams of superheroes.

- Nightcrawler in X3.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Amen to Nightcrawler. He was one of the best things about X2

 

[ComicChick]

unfortunately alan cummings didnt want to reprise the role, and if there wouldve been a recast, ppl would be in an uproar about that too.

i agree, it seemed like there were way too many plots going on. i liked the mutants/human war cuz and the cure played on that. i wouldnt even have minded seeing the FOH and some riots or something, where we couldve seen little "easter eggs" so to speak of other mutants in action.

to be honest, i wouldve been ok if they didn't use the phoenix story in this one. since marsden was doing superman at the time, they couldve just showed him leaving for a while to grieve. the phoenix couldve been brought in number 4 or something, that way it could be handled properly.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Yeah... the whole phoenix thing deserves its own film. Thing is, to do phoenix as a film in its own right, you'd have to bring in a lot of backstory, so I guess they figured the way they did it in X3 was easier.

 

[ComicChick]

yeah it was definitely easier, but i just wish they could've carried it out better.

i don't mind a story without the shi'ar and such if they could present the phoenix plausibly, but i wouldn't have minded if they didn't try to solve everything in the one movie.

i see the phoenix saga being a movie close to 3 hours long lol

 

[Snikt 6]

yeah it was definitely easier, but i just wish they could've carried it out better.

i don't mind a story without the shi'ar and such if they could present the phoenix plausibly, but i wouldn't have minded if they didn't try to solve everything in the one movie.

i see the phoenix saga being a movie close to 3 hours long lol

Yep, at least!

I really wish Nightcrawler could hav shown up also. Alot of people are upset that Rogue chose the cure, but to me that makes perfect sense. She joined (in the comics) the X-Men to learn how to control her powers. She was always wanting to be close to someone but couldn't. It just makes sense to me that she would want to be cured to be "normal". I don't really like it because Rogue is a stronger character in comics, but in the movie I guess it just.....worked.

 

[ComicChick]

when the first movie came out, i was irate over rogue's characterization. then i read some older comics and finally started to accept it.

i was used to the sassy, fiesty Rogue, with her thick southern accent and attitude to spare. I was basing my thoughts on TAS and more recent comics.

she wasn't always that way, so i finally grew to accept it. still, after 3 movies, i wouldve liked to have seen a lil sass.

 

[Kyalesyin]

She was hardly even in X3

 

[ComicChick]

yeah she was definitely downsized in x3.

they couldve used the fight in the end as a way for her to gain some extra powers if they wanted some crazy plot device.

they couldve made miss marvel be one of the brotherhood and in battle, rogue held on too long or something.

can u imagine how many would go crazy if that wouldve happened lol. pandemonium i'm sure

 

[Snikt 6]

^ Yeah, that actually would have been kinda cool. Maybe if they make an X4the brotherhood or Hellfire Club could be the villians. Rogue is such a cool and complex character, and for the most part she was not portrayed to well in the X movies, but hey, there could be more....right?

 

[ComicChick]

i think the last stand could open up the door for a lot of things.

when magneto was recruiting his brotherhood, so to speak. there were lots of different mutants there, some with deformities and such. they could go off into hiding or whatever as a result and with things going on.

and after callisto got fried by storm, something couldve happened to one of her eyes and she'd have to get the eyepatch

i know i'm grasping here, but i'm overly tired and these ideas are kinda whacked out. lol dont mind my ramblings

 

[Snikt 6]

^Its all good. That's what makes this kinda stuff fun. Here are a few of my bad ideas:

- Proteus story line. Cool story and it involves all the major X-Men.
- Something with the Sentinels!!!!! The visuals would be just amazing.
- What about the Mutant Massacre? I mean that would be cool. Have Sinister start wiping out those mutants in hiding witht he Mauraders and have the X-Men kick their tails.
- Maybe they could even do an Apocalypse story line. The story with Apocalypse in X-Men Evolution's was done really well.

 

[ComicChick]

we kinda have similar ideas.

i wanted to bring in the morlocks, and have them driven underground so to speak, because sentinels come in the picture. The first couple of pages of Ultimate X-Men 1 would be a good introduction to the sentinels.

with the moorlocks coming in, my goal was to bring about the mutant massacre and combine parts of when angel was kidnapped by the moorlocks.

 

[Snikt 6]

^ That would be sweet. Never know, they could do something like that in X4...if there is one. The Mutant Massacre would be the perfect storyline becuase it could 1) drag on 2) have alot of reprecussions and 3) introduce us to a whole new cast of characters.

 

[ComicChick]

that's why i thought the mutant massacre would be a good way to go. the lead up in the movies now, and the repercussions of x3 would be a good segue into it.

after what the brotherhood and phoenix did, people are going to take precautions to make sure it won't happen again. sentinels could pop up, or FOH or something, and the result could be some going into hiding.

 

[Snikt 6]

Exactly. Set the mood with all the remaing brotherhood members on the run, then BAM! welcome the sentinels. Then of course its X-men to the rescue. If only they would listen to us.....

 

[ComicChick]

maybe we should write our own version lol

 

[Snikt 6]

Sure....why not? If only I could write.....sigh

 

[Mike059jig]

-Professor Xavier wouldn't die, nor cyclops,
-Jean would be a rogoue mutant out of control on her own, not joining magneto's brother hood
-storm team would lead assault on magneto and cure
-whilst Xavier and Cyclops track down the Pheonix
-HFC minipulates pheonix, not HFC from comics, more like unknown scietist tracking jean her whole life...
-end of flim is X-men the whole Team, not just Wolverine, against Pheonix..

thats like about 2 movies or so