Now that you've seen it, how would you say X3 measures against the first two films?

[FreeRadical]

Wolverine
Jean's back, better start loving her again even though we covered she doesn't like. So I am going to go stalk her everywhere she goes and then right before I kill her blurt out I love you. That'll get her to like me.

Xavier
I just realized I am a major *******. Let me tell you all the secrets I have kept from all of you in one conversation which you had no indication of before.

Magneto
I like killing things, I mean really killing things. Mutants, cars, humans, I don't need any reason to do it either. Also I take my most powerful weapon and do nothing with it until after my entire army has been decimated when she could have done the job twice as easily.

Cyclops
Hey I got killed in the one story that is suppose to be about me. Some people say Wolverine is the only one that could have stopped Jean. But really I could have gone in with Leech (making him a useful character) and depowered Jean and gotten close enough to her to calm her down. Then she could have sacrificed herself.

Multiple Man
You may remember me, I was kinda cool and had an interesting personity. Me and Juggernaut joined Magneto with out any idea of what his cause was. Then the wrote me out two minutes later.

Could'nt have said it better

Psylocke
I have different powers to my comic counterpart.......oh yeah, I get demolecularised. Cool.

Colossus
I throw stuff.....wait a sec? Where was I at the end of the film?

President
I am the one that shouts out generic movie president stuff.

Sentinel
Where's my body?

Kids in the car during the bridge moving scene
Wow! Awesome! it's a movie!

 

[Tony Stark]

It's the worst Marvel Film to date.

X3 had elements to make it a good movie, but when it all came together it never worked. The editing was horrible, the directing was horrible, the dialogue was horrible.

 

[Nathan]

Oh come on, I don't think it's worse than Elektra.

 

[J.Howlett]

It's not worse than Elektra but considering the films that came before it, it feels worse than Elektra because of the potential that it had with its ideas and characters.

 

[co2]

Yea, I didn't like it but that's a little too harsh.

 

[FreeRadical]

It's the worst Marvel Film to date.

X3 had elements to make it a good movie, but when it all came together it never worked. The editing was horrible, the directing was horrible, the dialogue was horrible.

Worst Marvel film is Howard the Duck.

 

[Tony Stark]

I mean it's the worst in terms of being a horribly edited, horribly directed, horribly written movie.

Elektra was dull and boring, but I don't think it suffered the technical issues X3 did.

 

[Tony Stark]

Worst Marvel film is Howard the Duck.

Oops, forgot about that one, ok 2nd worst.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

No motivation? Are you sure it isn't you that's persistently vegetative!?

It was full of motivation, brimming over with it.

Ask me something specific and I'll go over the motivation with you.

I shouldn't have to. What was those characters motivation you ask. Xavier motivation for Storm was that "Scott was a changed man", Storm just decides to reopen the school when I did not even realize they closed it, all conversations regarding ethics and who the characters were had to be brought UP, not shown. In movies your suppose to show the characters not tell the characters. Whenever they need to progress the characters they blindsided you with a line. "You lover her don't you, Logan"....what??? all of the sudden he loves her after telling Scott to get over with it and then being freaked out by her, now you love her...wonderful. It should have been obvious to me why Logan was going out in the woods. Just like it should have been obvious Storm was becoming leader. Just like it should have been obvious the cure had ethical implications rather than Beast and Xavier saying "what are the ethical implications here". I had to be told Jean was schizophrenic rather than carefully planned character development telling me. In Beautiful Mind for example we see Nash's mind breakdown and what we though was reality turns out to be phantasy, brillant. In this we get "Oh by the way, Jean is nutty" and now lets watch her go nuts. No build up no character development. "Scott's a changed man" you honestly HAD to inform me of this. Next you should have Wolverine say "Kitty is a cute girl, Colossus is the strong silent type, and watch out for Bobby; that pimp". Strangly enough because the smaller character did not get face time they were not privvy to that horrible exposition.

In X2 all we got was "Erik what have you done" and we knew what he had done. Erik did not follow up saying "Stryker brainwashed me and made me tell you all about the mansion, he is using Cerebro". blah blah blah. We knew, the scenes and brief conversation told us so, and we did not need a whole lot of explanation. In one "SCCCOTTTTTTTT" we knew that Xavier actually felt akin to Scott, he was almost yelling out like you would to a son. All these little things like watching Colossus draw, Cyclops being hesitant letting someone else with Xavier, watching Rogue and Bobby almost kiss, knowing that the students have trouble sleeping, seeing Wolverine toss and turn, watching him not want to leave Stryker in the mansion, this is how you build motivation. X3 had none of that. period.

 

[e-three]

By far this movie is the worst of the trilogy. All of the characters are sadly one note. With a couple of exceptions (Wolverine, Storm, Magneto, and sort of Jean), all the characters we got to know in the first two movies basically make extended cameo appearances here. The "cure" is nothing but an excuse to have everyone fight and get rid of some characters the writers had nothing for (Mystique, Rogue). Jean is there only to make Wolverine cry and get rid of more characters the writers had nothing for (Cyclops, Professor X). It's like the goal of this movie wasn't to tell a good story, but instead "let's see how much we can shock the audience (ooo, major characters die!)" and "let's make a bunch of awesome fight scenes!" This is a huge disappointment, and that's big coming from me...I liked Fantastic Four, for crying out loud!

To sum it up, if "X-Men: The Last Stand" was a comic book story, it's name would be "Maximum Carnage."

 

[FreeRadical]

Howard the Duck RULED!!!

Ok....

Captain America (1990)

 

[Secret_Riddle]

x3 was better then x1 not as good as x2. great conclusion and i always knew x3 wudnt be as good as soon as i saw x2 cuz i loved it soooo much.

 

[Secret_Riddle]

lol i think its one of the better marvel films...not the worst

 

[bittercarrot]

x3 was better than x1 because x1 had a laughable budget.

 

[Nathan]

How big was the budget for X1?

 

[comicgirl]

its a trilogy... i enjoyed x3 the most though.

i think i like them all equally(x1 not as much as the last two)...

sort of like the killbill movies

X3 was the best....Sentinel head!!!

 

[Nathan]

X3 was the best....Sentinel head!!!

That and the rest of the Danger Room were actually one of the worst parts in the movie.

 

[comicgirl]

That and the rest of the Danger Room were actually one of the worst parts in the movie.

pfffffffft!!......I liked it....and the snnnkt noise of Wolverine's claws...loved it

 

[Nathan]

The music still sucked, Colossus effects weren't touched up at all, turned out the footage we saw weeks before was really the final version. And Wolverine still appeared out of nowhere.

 

[bittercarrot]

How big was the budget for X1?

the average budget for huge summer movies are 100 mil.

x1 - 75 mill
x2 - 110 mil
x3 - 140 or 150 mil.

 

[The Caped Knight]

X3 is the best of the trilogy

 

[Nathan]

And there's the Twilight Zone feeling again.

 

[WorthyStevens]

The music still sucked, Colossus effects weren't touched up at all, turned out the footage we saw weeks before was really the final version. And Wolverine still appeared out of nowhere.

The music was different, so it wasn't in essence the 'final' version.

 

[bittercarrot]

yea wolverine appearing out of nowhere bothered me....

 

[true316]

X3 had its moments but I was still dissappointed with it overall. It just seemed to move along too quickly from one scene to the next. There was no time too process the dramatic events occuring. What bothered me about Cyclop's demise was that bascially no one seemed to care except Wolverine. Angel had such a ridiculously small part that my friends and I actually laughed about it later. Colossus was just there to help Wolverine with the fastball special. The epic war just came across like a big battle. Alot of the mutants in the last battle looked really stupid. I don't where they found all the hopping mutants, but all they seemed to do was hop and get cured. Also Magneto could completly own Wolverine. So what does he do when Wolverine is barking orders and stabbing multiple people from Magneto's side? He just stands there and lets it happen!

On the postive side I thought Famke did a good job (very creepy). Although, I was dissapointed that we didn't get to see the firebird.