Farren
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I'll come right out in this post and say I'm someone who was very disappointed with X3.
I am however, still in love with the trailer (not the teaser) - IMHO it's better than the movie. Anyone else feel the same way?
It's an excercise in restraint that knows just when to hold off and tease us, and just when to spit out a gem of hightened emotion.
...It opens with the foreboding dialogue between the Prez and Trask ('You know what needs to be done....')...then cuts to the 20th Century Fox logo with the eerie music - tantalizing us, letting the meaning of the dialogue sink in.
Cut to Mags's 'the humans will draw first blood' speech - unlike the final movie, this concise version is actually far more to the point and disturbing - the meat Magneto's fears and the best of the lines are uninterrupted by some of the cheesy shots and less interesting moments of the speech. The use of it as VO as we see Angel fearfully looking at the needle hightens a sense of panic about the implications of the cure; the shot of innocent Bobby and Kitty makes us know what's at stake this time around.
'...Who will you stand with' - BAM - cut to the Marvel Logo - Beast's explanation of the cure - Wolverine kicking @ss - now things are getting revved up.
But Xavier knows there's more - his great 'you of all people know how fast the weather can change' comment is a perfect cut in to the shots of Mags flipping cars (which is brilliantly cut down and brief - a tease of his powers).
Then the discovery of Jean: WHAM, it get's our attention with an optic blast - then things calm down and lead into a tantalizing buildup, with Xavier's foreboding 'she has to be controlled'; and the great coupling with the Angel scenes and Logan's VO about 'the beast'. We see Angel and Jean cut loose - again, a tease of it, that pulls back and cuts away to...
Xavier's eerie 'you have no idea' line...*shivers* which builds up with some decent shots and Logan's 'you've got a war' stuff...
But things really take off when we get more excellent VO from Ian: 'They wish to cure us, and I say we are the cure' - coupled with the shot of Pyro blasting the clinic, and Juggs smashing after Kitty (perfectly in sync with the pounding music). The perfect blend of human drama and action.
Then comes the most amazing, spine-chilling moment in the history of cinema trailers: we get Logan's 'we can fix it, we can make it like it was' plea to Jean. But after all we've seen (Magneto out for blood, Storm's 'it's time we make our choice' line) and what we continue to see during the VO (Leech 'curing' Beast, Magneto tearing up a bridge, Mystique cured and crushed) - we know it's as futile a plea as Jean: there IS no going back, Logan's fighting against the inevitable. The line is suddenly all the more tragic.
And the above is hammered home when the music reaches it's pitch: shots of Charles's pain-filled eyes, Magneto's shouting face, the collapse of the bridge.
Then WHAM! Jean's 'Kill me' (Famke's horrified yet resigned tearful gaze ripping your heart out and stomping on it) - fade out - which leaves us begging to know just how things will have gotten so dark.
I am however, still in love with the trailer (not the teaser) - IMHO it's better than the movie. Anyone else feel the same way?
It's an excercise in restraint that knows just when to hold off and tease us, and just when to spit out a gem of hightened emotion.
...It opens with the foreboding dialogue between the Prez and Trask ('You know what needs to be done....')...then cuts to the 20th Century Fox logo with the eerie music - tantalizing us, letting the meaning of the dialogue sink in.
Cut to Mags's 'the humans will draw first blood' speech - unlike the final movie, this concise version is actually far more to the point and disturbing - the meat Magneto's fears and the best of the lines are uninterrupted by some of the cheesy shots and less interesting moments of the speech. The use of it as VO as we see Angel fearfully looking at the needle hightens a sense of panic about the implications of the cure; the shot of innocent Bobby and Kitty makes us know what's at stake this time around.
'...Who will you stand with' - BAM - cut to the Marvel Logo - Beast's explanation of the cure - Wolverine kicking @ss - now things are getting revved up.
But Xavier knows there's more - his great 'you of all people know how fast the weather can change' comment is a perfect cut in to the shots of Mags flipping cars (which is brilliantly cut down and brief - a tease of his powers).
Then the discovery of Jean: WHAM, it get's our attention with an optic blast - then things calm down and lead into a tantalizing buildup, with Xavier's foreboding 'she has to be controlled'; and the great coupling with the Angel scenes and Logan's VO about 'the beast'. We see Angel and Jean cut loose - again, a tease of it, that pulls back and cuts away to...
Xavier's eerie 'you have no idea' line...*shivers* which builds up with some decent shots and Logan's 'you've got a war' stuff...
But things really take off when we get more excellent VO from Ian: 'They wish to cure us, and I say we are the cure' - coupled with the shot of Pyro blasting the clinic, and Juggs smashing after Kitty (perfectly in sync with the pounding music). The perfect blend of human drama and action.
Then comes the most amazing, spine-chilling moment in the history of cinema trailers: we get Logan's 'we can fix it, we can make it like it was' plea to Jean. But after all we've seen (Magneto out for blood, Storm's 'it's time we make our choice' line) and what we continue to see during the VO (Leech 'curing' Beast, Magneto tearing up a bridge, Mystique cured and crushed) - we know it's as futile a plea as Jean: there IS no going back, Logan's fighting against the inevitable. The line is suddenly all the more tragic.
And the above is hammered home when the music reaches it's pitch: shots of Charles's pain-filled eyes, Magneto's shouting face, the collapse of the bridge.
Then WHAM! Jean's 'Kill me' (Famke's horrified yet resigned tearful gaze ripping your heart out and stomping on it) - fade out - which leaves us begging to know just how things will have gotten so dark.
... the one where u see a good shot of Jean's legs... and she does her sexy Phoenix walk as she blows the doors... lol ... um... yeah...
With different friends. 
Second time to see the ending chess part again and third time just for the thrill of it. lol.
