soccerballtux
Lifer
Felt like a B-movie. Not in the budget sense, but the directing sense. It didn't fell like it had much focus or direction. It was like the director just filmed a bunch of scenes and threw them all together (funeral scene, ice skating scene, scene where wings boy joins the good mutants but then never does anything, scene where ice fights fire but there's no build up they just go at it and then its over before you know it [I was expecting an agreement to a "no powers" fight, until the very end, where they stalemate and then use their powers], the loose end of what happened to Cyclops).
"We have to fight?" "Right! We have to fight together!" I'm in."
Dialogue like this killed the movie. The reasons they gave for fighting were weak and didn't feel the least bit genuine. Neither did the interaction. I could tell they were trying, but seriously, Patrick Stewart is about the only one that deliver crappy lines ("Warp nine. Engage!" for the trillionth time). Overall the movie was entertaining, but the director fell back on doing cool special effect things with the mutant powers, rather than actually setting up a plot and making it a good ride.
They could have done so much more with Magneto....he could have
a)tried to control Jean but failed, and so Jean takes his spot and controls everything and kills all the mutants
b)turned everyone into mutants
c)been a non-cookie cutter bad guy
d)been an evil guy that you wanted to root for (ruins this by shruging off Mystique, which didn't feel like his character at all [if this were really him he wouldn't have reprimanded the fire kid for wanting to kill Xavier])
And what was with Jean? She had no reason to be evil, and when she finally did act evil, she didn't do anything truly evil like wipe out a whole city or anything. I know the movies have to follow the books to some extent, but common, this guy didn't write to follow anything but whim after whim.
Overall the script and directly felt so crappy.
Why do movie execs do this? They ruin what would have been a perfectly good movie by bringing in a lame director in place of the tried and true one (X1/X2 guy). Is it to prove that they're needed for these blockbuster films to suceed? (I've heard that when films do really well and they don't have a say in the production process, it shows they're not doing anything, so they screw around with something that they know will make a lot of money, and then when it does, "See? It wouldn't have sold like this without us".)
I give it a 4/10. Special effects are cool but only when they supplement a good movie.
edit: actually its not so official because I just saw another thread on page 2. Searched for X3, not X-Men 3.
"We have to fight?" "Right! We have to fight together!" I'm in."
Dialogue like this killed the movie. The reasons they gave for fighting were weak and didn't feel the least bit genuine. Neither did the interaction. I could tell they were trying, but seriously, Patrick Stewart is about the only one that deliver crappy lines ("Warp nine. Engage!" for the trillionth time). Overall the movie was entertaining, but the director fell back on doing cool special effect things with the mutant powers, rather than actually setting up a plot and making it a good ride.
They could have done so much more with Magneto....he could have
a)tried to control Jean but failed, and so Jean takes his spot and controls everything and kills all the mutants
b)turned everyone into mutants
c)been a non-cookie cutter bad guy
d)been an evil guy that you wanted to root for (ruins this by shruging off Mystique, which didn't feel like his character at all [if this were really him he wouldn't have reprimanded the fire kid for wanting to kill Xavier])
And what was with Jean? She had no reason to be evil, and when she finally did act evil, she didn't do anything truly evil like wipe out a whole city or anything. I know the movies have to follow the books to some extent, but common, this guy didn't write to follow anything but whim after whim.
Overall the script and directly felt so crappy.
Why do movie execs do this? They ruin what would have been a perfectly good movie by bringing in a lame director in place of the tried and true one (X1/X2 guy). Is it to prove that they're needed for these blockbuster films to suceed? (I've heard that when films do really well and they don't have a say in the production process, it shows they're not doing anything, so they screw around with something that they know will make a lot of money, and then when it does, "See? It wouldn't have sold like this without us".)
I give it a 4/10. Special effects are cool but only when they supplement a good movie.
edit: actually its not so official because I just saw another thread on page 2. Searched for X3, not X-Men 3.
