He tore open the train to scare the **** out of anyone inside in case they tried to stand up to him IMO. And he lifted the cars to show the police was wasnt going to come along easily. IMO thats not showing off its doing what needs to be done to survive.
What he did in those scenes was terrorism. What he did with that bridge and that prison convoy were terrorism also, a show of power, showing he was not a person to be trifled with. In the Planet X storyline the bridge scene is derived from, he rips apart an entire city in a show of power.
Not sure why Storm create Tornadoes and fly the jet at the same time!? And i did think she had a significant power rise in 2 either, its just that in X1 she couldnt cut loose as she didnt know were the other X-Men were, she could have cut loose on Toad and inadvertently hurt Cyclops or Jean because she didnt know were they were thats why she didnt cut completely loose but just enough to finish Toad.
I've answered the question of Storm flying the jet and creating weather phenomena in another post above where i replied to BMM. I'm not going to repeat it here. Many people believe the tornado scene showed a power upgrade from X1, it's open to interpretation.
True, but movies should be good enough to make us ignore them, IMO X3 wasnt.
It doesn't seem to work that way. I've seen you making all sorts of lengthy interpretations of parts of SR in the Superman forums - you love the movie, have watched it obsessively and so you 'get into it', you think about it deeply, you obsess over it, you read things into it, you end up almost worshipping it and defending its every syllable. If you don't like something and keep thinking about it, then you come up with new ways to justify why you didn't like it.
It's plain that X3 was made by different writers and a different director to the first two movies. It's pretty obvious that X1 and X2 had different writers, but the same director (and more studio interference now Fox realised they had a hit on their hands). Those things create differences that are not really the fault of the people themselves. Bryan Singer makes things moody, dark, angst-ridden, emo, serious. Brett Ratner is much more colourful, less dark, less intensely brooding, more 'full-on'. The directors' personalities come out in their work. Brett was never going to make a movie exactly in the way that Bryan would, he tried to follow the story along but it's still his own 'take' on it. A director will not be a slave to someone else's style. What Brett did have was the enthusiasm and energy to get it done on time. Of course he's not the obvious choice for following on a franchise of two movies made by Bryan Singer - is that his fault??? But Bryan isn't God either, let's get that perfectly clear. It's just a movie and he's just a person.
Dont see how it would be so hard for Lex to get the Vanderworth fortune when Gerturde's signature was on the will, but i'll admit i'm not the best on that type of law. As for the power company not investigating the black out, the black out lasted what, 10-20 seconds, i doubt they would do a huge investigation on that, but i'm not sure. Plus, they may just have seen were the BO originated from and thought no reason why it would start there and just could have been a freak occurance.
The power blackout hit the entire east coast - I would imagine the power company bosses would want to find out why it happened so they could fix any defects in the electricity supply (as they usually do whenever there is a blackout of any kind).
As for the will, which was signed behind closed doors and left nothing to Gertrude's blood relatives all standing outside, there would of course be repercussions and suspicions and probably legal action by the relatives. I mentioned Anna Nicole Smith, whose legal battle over a fortune left to her is well known - the papers have been full of it recently everywhere, as she recently died - surely you are aware of this?
A) Jean wasnt as powerful as Magneto in X2 and before the end was apprehensive about her powers except when defending herself.
B) Storms electrical powers didnt open the spillway doors Mystique did from the control room, Storms electricity just jammed communication so more soldiers couldnt be called to the spillway door section and so the soldiers in that section would be distracted from shooting.
C) Those generators werent for Cerebro IMO, they controlled the water pressure, hence why the Damn eventually collapsed once they had been damaged.
A) Jean's powers were fluctuating through the movie. It's still a possibility that was not addressed
B) Correct - Storm's electrical disturbance blocked communication. It's still a possibility that an electrical disturbance might have stopped Cerebro just as Magneto's own electromagnetic waves did.
C) Mystique told us that a large portion of the dam's energy was being diverted to Cerebro. Cerebro needed its power from somewhere (never mind that the version of Cerebro in the mansion had no power source the size of a dam to run from!!! Where did the mansion version get its energy??). The dam's power obviously was in generators - which would have been within the dam structure. The dam had a 'generator room' where Jean and Cyclops fought - therefore the generators were in that room. Therefore, stopping the generators would stop Cerebro. Not that I'm complaining about Storm's arctic icestorm, but there were other possibilities that were not mentioned, explored or ruled out. The only possibility mentioned was a stupid one - Cyclops blasting the doors off, whch once again (like the 'Fry him' line) had the effect of making him look stupid.
Nightcrawler tagged along because he was a wanted fugitive and the X-Men showed immediate compassion for him, of course he will go with them. The accept except Magneto and Mystique because they saved their lives for one, knew how to find Xavier and Scott, AND knew of Strykers plans to destroy all mutants. They NEEDED him to come along, and its nothing like that crap scene in X3. How could Jean and Storm show worry for the missing children until they didnt know they were missing until halfway into the movie? Plus Storm did several times. Jean had other worries.
Nightcrawler didn't have to go along with them. Neither did they have to take along Mystique or Magneto (though it's a good job they did). They had all the information from scanning Nightcrawler's mind. It was an alliance made fairly quickly with someone (Magneto) who had been far from friendly in the previous movie and who is never to be trusted. No one really showed any concern for the mansion or missing children, which was a shame.
I dont mind a different approach X-Maniac, i just mind a poor one, IMO hiring Ratner, making the movie 99 mins long, killing Scott and i could go on forever were TERRIBLE decisions. Had they hired Zach Snyder, or the likes of him, and not someone with ADD, i'd have been confident. I mean Ratner has hired Chris Tucker more than any other actor, what does that say about him?
I understand your disappointments, and share some of them. I never thought Singer was the perfect choice for X-Men or Superman, although he has a better (more careful, purposeful) film-making approach than Ratner. In my view, the ever-present producers like Shuler-Donner and Ralph Winter and Avi Arad, and Marvel's Stan Lee and Chris Claremont (who were both involved in a small way), should have all had greater influence on ensuring X3 was better.
I think if Singer had made X3 from the existing X3 script, he would not have included the mutant army or the two sides charging on Alcatraz, that's not his style (it would have been one-on-one battles of people sneaking around dark corridors as in the Statue of Liberty and Alkali Lake).
In a way it's perhaps a shame they didn't leave Phoenix out of X3 altogether and also write out Cyclops as leaving the team (as he did after Jean's death in the comics), and focus instead on the impact of the cure as it related to Angel and Beast and the others. Even Wolverine has an interesting role in the cure - if he were cured of his healing power, he'd die from the metal implantation that was done to him, as it's only his healing that keeps him alive. That way, Singer could have come in and done an X4 with Phoenix returning in it (and Cyclops coming back too). But we can't keep wishing for things that didn't happen.
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That movie completely contradicted the science of that universe and there was no rational explanation for why Superman was not hurt and killed by his exposure. It's no coincidence that many superman fans including Bryan Singer act as if that film never happened.
I doubt they would have a moral problem representing an evil criminal mind in a court of law. That family in Superman Returns would have needed the best damn lawyers in the nation to keep that money away from Lex.
