X2 vs X3

[xwolverine2]

I'm voting neither.
I don't really like Marvel movies.
DC all the way!
I'd rather watch V for Vendetta than the both of them.

yeesh...........................

dc has made........ONE good movie..lol

 

[Kaboom]

i think x2 is the best comic book film ever made, better than spidey 2, better than the first blade, better than batman begins. somwhere down the list, after movies like daredevil, batman and robin, or mask 2, is X3.

 

[The Chairman]

X2, without a doubt. It had the right balance of action and storyline and actually managed to include some genuine character development.

That being said, I loved X3 as well. It's more eye candy than anything, but it was still vastly entertaining and head and shoulders above a number of other cinematic atrocities, both comics based and in general.

 

[Speedball]

yeesh...........................

dc has made........ONE good movie..lol

No...
Superman, Superman II, Superman Returns, Batman Begins, V for Vendetta, Batman. All of them are instant classics.
and their TV shows are far superior as well.

How many does Marvel have?
X2, Spider-man, and Spider-man 2. any more? no!
and their TV shows are pathetic.

 

[HighVoltage]

My favorite list of X-MEN Movies.

1.-X3- Good Things;Great end for a great movie trilogy, with a great cast, a great score played and created by John Powell, a better director and a better script, with the main characters this time similar to comics.

Bad Things- Where is Gambit?

2.-XMEN 1- Good Things; Hugh Jackman as Wolvie, Patrick Stwart as Professor Xavier, Ian Mackellen as Magneto, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, with a great score played and created by Michael K-MEN.

Bad Things- Rogue is a free version from comics, Same goes to Storm, Jean is too old for Cyclops, but I love Famke!!!!, Magneto is not similar to comics, average action sequences, Cyke is wasted, and the simple plot about The Mutant Machine is out of the comics, you don´t know what is a Mutant machine?, join the club.

3.-X2- Good Things; Nightcrawler in the attack to White House, The X-jet flying, escaping of 2 jets, Kelly Hu as Deathstryke, and Lady D vs Wolvie, first scene of Collosus, Wolverine´s berserker rage in the X-Mansion, and Magneto´s escape from that tupperware prison, I mean plastic prison.

Bad things- Bad John Ottman´s music, the worst music of the 3 movies, especially when the X-jet is flying between the tornados, in order to escape of that 2 jet fighters, the attack of Striker´s forces into the mansion, that´s stupid, where are all the defences of the X-Mansion?, Cyke defeated in one second by Lady Deathstrike, Cyclops is too dangerous in comics, and in X2, he is too weak, Thanks Bryan Singer, that stupid plot where the Profesor Xavier is controlled by another mutant, come on, Professor Xavier is the most powerful mind in the universe, and he is in control by another mutant in a wheelchair?, and also, he´s brainwashed by Stryker`s son called Jason, in what another comic book movie I heard that name?, and still the Professor can control Cerebro in order to destroy all mutankind, what a stupid idea, but yes it was an idea from director Bryan Singer, and his writers, and the death of Jean at Alkali Lake, she is phoenix, the most powerful and dangerous mutant in the universe, and she can lift the X-jet and fly at same time in order to escape from Alkali lake? to save her own life, but she can´t do this, what the?

 

[The Dark Defender]

Even though I detest the film, I'd have to disagree about the score. I thought X2 had the best music of the 3. The main theme is easily the most exciting piece from the trilogy, and Deathstrike's Deathstryke is my favorite theme.
I hated the X1 score, generic as hell. The only part that works is the theme when Wolverine is with Rogue atop the Statue of Liberty.
X3's score wasn't bad, but it was a bit overblown and felt more loud than epic.

 

[Sabretooth]

X2 actually lifted a story from the comics and used the basic plotline. X3 took the biggest comic masterpiece ever written, killed off it's main character and changed him to Wolverine, then main the female lead a lackey, then forgot to conclude anything at the end of the movie and tried to cover all this up with action.

X2 also was superiorly scripted for a film, despite the differences from the comic story.

Biggest comic masterpiece? Hardly.

 

[Warhammer]

Not to want to go into a Score debate, but I prefer X3's score.
X2 was close behind, because all of Ottman's music is great. X1 was nice, too.

 

[Warhammer]

Biggest comic masterpiece? Hardly.

On my list, Batman Begins would be my "biggest comic masterpiece", so far, because it's easily better than X2.

 

[Kaboom]

anybody else noticing the poll results up there?

the tribe has spoken.

 

[Warhammer]

anybody else noticing the poll results up there?

the tribe has spoken.

By a landslide.

 

[Mentok]

Ottmans score (although a little vauge and dull) was far better than the score in X3.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

I'm voting neither.
I don't really like Marvel movies.
DC all the way!
I'd rather watch V for Vendetta than the both of them.

Dude, you're making the rest of us DC fans look bad.

 

[DACrowe]

Woah, HighVoltage did you say Brett "I am most famous for Rush Hour and After the Sunset" RAtner is a better filmmaker than the the director of The Ususal Suspects and Apt Pupill?

Nevermind that Singer made a good and great pair of X-Men movies and a darn good Superman movie (Though nowhere near great) and Ratner made a terrible waste of celluloid with X-Men on the title.

Ratner had no style, no finesse, no good editing, cinematography, composition, character development and betrayed the characters of Magneto and Xavier and Rogue built upon in the first two movies, disgarded Cyclops when Singer set him up to be a major player in X3 (and when he was directing he said that, but Rothman reportedly told Penn and Kinberg to take Cyke out of the picture after Singer left as he watned Jackman to be the love interest) and gave Wolverine all of Cyclops' responsibilities and lines (good or not).

**** Ratner. And this poll shows this.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Odd how you can replace the name of the guy you're bashing with the name of the guy you're praising, and your points would still hold true; and polls show popular, not quality, not the same thing...
and yeah, he made a really good Superman movie...
so good that his casting decisions were a matter of youth over talent, he spent way over $200 million and still put ****ty effects onscreen, had so many plot holes you could seimotameously fit 20 diesel trucks through them....other than that though, yeah, it was great.

 

[Speedball]

Oh, well, of these two, I'd rather watch X2, only because of Brian Cox's Stryker.
Oh yeah, and I said V for Vendetta because It is one of my favorite films of 2006, I was saying it was bad.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Why is this forum turning into the Xmen forum... X2>x3 by a hair...

 

[Kaboom]

and polls show popular, not quality, not the same thing....

well considering the question was what movie do we prefer...not which was the better movie, .... think the poll answers the question that was posited perfectly.

=)

 

[FaT_tONle]

Ratner had no style, no finesse, no good editing, cinematography, composition, character development and betrayed the characters of Magneto and Xavier and Rogue built upon in the first two movies, disgarded Cyclops when Singer set him up to be a major player in X3 (and when he was directing he said that, but Rothman reportedly told Penn and Kinberg to take Cyke out of the picture after Singer left as he watned Jackman to be the love interest) and gave Wolverine all of Cyclops' responsibilities and lines (good or not).

**** Ratner. And this poll shows this.

Nah... you might be right about Cyke and ROugue... but I thought the relationship between these two finally came full circle... Magneto was great... Patrick IS Xavier... you finally saw the philosophies of these two clashing with finally one prevailing over the other... and I could care less that too many people died... this isn't the comics... and the movie still left the door opened for everyone to come back in the next trilogy

 

[DACrowe]

I agree their relationship was done well, the only thing though.

In actuallity though Xavier isin't a control freak and egomaniac who brings about his own destruction because he "caged the beast." And Magneto is not a 2-demensional villain who would walk away from his insinuated lover after she saved his life in the same breath without trying to help her in some form (my guess would be mercy killing, which would have added depth). Nor would he consider his brothers "pawns" to get killed off without blinking when the whole time he could flow burning cars, or more aptly just have Jean kill everything in that building and in front of it.

As I said their characters were butchered, especially Magneto in comparison to his portrait in the first and especially second film though.

 

[The Dark Defender]

well considering the question was what movie do we prefer...not which was the better movie, .... think the poll answers the question that was posited perfectly.

=)

Yes, it does; but it doesn't prove who sucks or who doesn't, as the poster that I was responding to claimed it did.

 

[BatJeff7786]

Yeah, it's almost fact...aside from almost no characterization and bland as can be direction.

Yeah cuz X3 had loads of that.................

 

[The Dark Defender]

Magneto and Xavior were what made all 3 films watchable.

X-Men and X2 butchered Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Rogue, Iceman, Deathstrike, Sabretooth, Mystique, and even Wolverine despite all the time wasted on him...everyone I just mentioned either horribly adapted or just plain had no substance whatsoever.

Jean had two personalities in X3, she didn't even have one in Singer's films. Storm is passionate, shows leadership skills, brings out the best in her teamates, in Singer's films she was the black chick that controlled weather...again, no personality.
Ashmore is ridiculously wooden as Iceman, he and Rogue's love story is pointless and goes nowhere. Kitty and Bobby's relationship is better even though it was in one film than there's was in two, and she also contributes more to the team than they did throughout the first 2 films(which would include contributing ANYTHING).

NOBODY!!!! knows how to butcher characters like Bryan Singer(and I'm not saying it didn't happen in X3 too, but not nearly as bad, and X3 had the disadvantage of following 2 horrible films as opposed to being the culminative achievement of what was built in 2 good films).

 

[The Dark Defender]

Yeah cuz X3 had loads of that.................

Compared to Singer's trash it did.



And keep in mind, I didn't even say The Last Stand was an actual good movie, it's decent, and that's all it takes to put Singer to shame(actually, he does a fine job of that all by himself).

 

[xwolverine2]

No...
Superman, Superman II, Superman Returns, Batman Begins, V for Vendetta, Batman. All of them are instant classics.


How many does Marvel have?

they may be classics but the only good ones are BB and VFV...


and ANYONE who says they ****ed up magnetos character can suck my dick!!! ....respectively