It depends on how it's delivered. The movie may have not given the audience much of a chance to care about the characters with its rapid pace.
So...audiences are so stupid they can't care about a character unless the film STOPS and allows them to "catch up"? Give me a break. X-MEN and X2 didn't feel the need to do this. it went merrily from scene to scene, often quickly. Odd, I still cared about the characters.
X3 just lacked the depth that x2 had, it was too faced paced, and it had to many dumb characters.
Question. Since you've seen it. What kinds of depth did X2 have that X3 lacks?
I've seen the film, and I think it's major problem was that it never followed through with any of the "emotional" plotlines.
How so? The way they never followed through with what happened with Bobby's family in X2?
Everything seemed to be thrown in just to make the film seem more like a drama-action film.
How so?
The film didn't have any sense of reality really: because it was so short, people weren't able to grieve, it was difficult to interpret Phoenix's emotions.
That's the point. She's conflicted about who she is. That's called "good acting"
and characters were underdeveloped (Rogue fans will be extremely disappointed....she is nothing more then an extended cameo, and her final conclusion was just a throwaway.)
Characters have been underdeveloped in every movie ever made. Even in (gasp) X2.
I also thought the deaths cheapened the entire movie: not because of fan complaints (Cyclops, etc.) but because they were just throwaway deaths. They had no build up to the moment it was just, Kiss, now dead.
Kiss, now dead, huh? So...no dialogue? No acting? No facial expressions? Somehow I doubt it's that empty.
I liken it to if Storm had been hit by a stray lightning bolt. It may be shocking etc., but unless this plotline is followed up, it's just a meaningless death.
So, unless the characters keep talking about it through the entire movie when more important matters are at hand...it's meaningless?
You'll understand when you see it. Wolverine is the only one who is sorry for Scott's death.
As in no one else even mentions it? Or Wolveirne is the only one we see any extended "mourning"/regret from?
Rogue issue is not adressed at all.
What about the whole Wolverine/Rogue scene where she umm...you know, addresses her issue?
She just goes to the cure line and in the end of the movie she is cured.
Yeah. That's a change in Rogue. That's called character development. Her having to decide to do so? That's called character conflict.
Oh. Magneto's not angry, but he's throwing cars at people and ripping bridges apart and yelling about "fury". Riiight. So he just...sounds angry. Riiight.
It's not the pace. it's the moments and the characters in those moments!
In X2 we had Bobby's nasty family, Magneto's glass prison, Stryker whom we all loved to hate. We even had that moment where Xavier is standing up and you can see a tear, and then Deathstrike with that look at the end before she dies...
And nightcrawler was a damn lovable character!
We have all these moments in which we trully have a conection with the characters. It's not overly emotional because it's still an action movie, but we are involved. Singer is just better at that then Ratner.
And in X3 we have...
The Mutant Cure, forcing important decisions for uh, everybody. The rising and emotional turn of Jean Grey/Phoenix. Magneto's obsession and hatred and fear reaching a fever pitch, and him drawing legions of followers to him, Xavier/Storm relationship, Xavier passing on his legacy, Wolverine's emotional conflict over Jean Grey and his place on the team, Bobby's conflict with his former friend Pyro. Mystique's love/betrayal for Erik, Kitty's homesickness and feelings for Bobby, Rogue's reaction to that and feelings about her powers being a curse...
You have got to be kidding me.
Ebert and Roeper didn't complain about pacing. If it was an issue and was such a big problem, you know they would've said something about it.
I'd tend to agree.
