[Colonol Dekker]

Cable ist super,

Cable is the ultimate 90s Liefeldian* tough bad in-your-face over-the-top boring character there is. HE USES HIS MIND TO KEEP A TECHNOVIRUS CONTAINED and he is superhyperpowerful supertelepath and his glowing eye switches sides and he has a cybord arm and a ****load of ridiculous guns and swords and whatever.

Exactly 

[Ulala]

News blurb:

The final installment in the X-Men trilogy ruled the box office this weekend, scoring the fourth best opening of all time. The $120.1 million, four-day opening also made X-Men: The Final Stand the most successful Memorial Day weekend movie of all time

They screwed up though; I thought it was "The Last Stand."

[edit]*Reads thread title* Yeah.. missed that until after I posted.  [/edit]

[Getter Robo G]

I screwed up a long post yesterday so here's the short version...

1.) They screw over some very important characters that in this era would be Veterans of the X-men.

2.) TOTALLY cheesed out on the Sentinels (I was uber disappointed).

3.) Phoenix? Please, it was merely Jean Grey at her "full potential" she always could do that on her own. Her morality kept her in check. Phoenix is a seperate personality with UBER powers far beyond what Jean can do (that thing she does is nothing spectacular for "The Phoenix"..)

4.) Phoenix herself needed to remote control a beam cannon on the blue area of the moon built by the Shiar to kill herself. Thing was like a mile wide... NUff said about that certain scene cop out

5.) No Gambit or Jubilee.... Dammit!

6.) Now there will never be Rachel Summers (New Phoenix) or Christopher Summers (aka Cable)...   You bastards!!!!

They had 3 chances to "get it right" and it became one big train wreck by the end. If you know nothing about X-men except from the movies, good you will like or even love it. However, hard core fans are likely to be sorely disappointed at all the inconsistances and mis-implementation of important characters..

Forget the characters age thing a second. Let's get more basic, Trask dammit, he's WHITE!!! (no offense to the actor)

Sorta like How Billy D in Batman was Harvey Dent (eventually TWO-FACE) then in the third movie it was Tommy Lee Jones) who in my opinion should have been casted from the start he was awesome.

I mean is the guy black or white, just pick a friggen color (make him green for all I care.) Sorry but sometimes I think fan films are more faithful to teh source material then some of these "big budget" ones...

(Grumble)...    :

[NGTM-1R]

Comics are inherent trainwrecks. It's the nature of their form of storytelling. You really can't blame the movies based on them for going the same way.

[Blaise Russel]

ffs

It's the movie, not the comic: LET IT GO.

[Ulala]

It could have been worse.

[redsniper]

It could have been a lot better.

[aldo_14]

ffs

It's the movie, not the comic: LET IT GO.

I'd have to agree with this sentiment.  You have the comic, why the hell would you need to see exactly the same thing again?

[Turambar]

i just get this feeling that the people who made the movies never really read the comics, and just had basic knowledge of the characters.

[Flipside]

Well, I still think that one of the best comic-movie conversions was Flash Gordon, for the simple fact that just about everyone kept a straight face despite being in entirely ridiculous situations, uttering completely ridiculous lines and generally taking the piss. It was practically the comic book bought to life in that respect And I always loved the way they stuck to the 'old' Flash Gordon Comic school of modelling, rather than try to bring the movie 'up to date' with other sci-fi's of the time.

[Mefustae]

I preferred Flesh Gordon myself.

[Fineus]

Ok... just saw it and:

Firstly, I've not seen the comics. I know a vague background of some of the charachters but thats it - all I've really learnt about X-Men has been from the movies.

I enjoyed the film.

Tonnes of action, a few nice lines and an interesting storyline - I enjoyed watching it and will do again.

However I do have a few bones to pick. The whole thing moved to fast... everyone going all over the bloody shop and acting pretty much on their own... it made keeping tabs on the story somewhat tricky as you never got a chance to settle. It hopped too much.

The love interest between Rogue, Iceman and the girl who can run through walls was a complete waste of space. I don't know if Rogue walked out on Iceman without so much as a word in the comics but here the whole thing wasn't interesting enough to be worth including and just long enough to take the focus off the important stuff. As someone else has pointed out, just a few scenes after Xaviers death (and lets face it, he's an important charachter) we have ice skating on a frozen pond? I know Iceman was doing that to cheer the girl up and all but really... I'd have preferred it if the whole film had a slightly darker and more apocalyptic feel... after all we do lose some integral charachters and see some pretty evil stuff going on.

That said.. as an action conversion of a comic book story it's not bad at all... perhaps not my favourite of the three (I preferred X Men 2 to be honest) but still a good film in its own right.

[Mongoose]

Nice to see that someone else liked it.

Personally, I thought the movie kicked all kinds of ass; it was probably my favorite of the three.  (Honestly, when I heard a few people saying it was "abysmal" afterwards, all I could think of was, "What the hell are you on?")  Lots of action, which when it comes down to it is what summer blockbusters are all about, and I thought that they got the emotional parts right, as well. It was great to see Storm get a bigger role, along with an expanded cast of mutants.  I didn't mind the faster pace; if anything, I thought that the first film dragged somewhat, although the second was decidedly better in that regard.  I was thrown for a loop several times, especially when Xavier was offed; that had me sitting there stunned.  The visual of the Golden Gate Bridge flying through midair was just awesome.  And who knew that Jean Grey was actually a total badass?  I'm not a comics reader (nor do I ever intend to be), nor did I ever watch any X-men animated series, but on their own, I can honestly say that I really enjoyed all three movies.

(That ending after the credits was a huge shocker, too, as was the fact that that vaccine didn't seem as permanent on Magneto as everyone would have hoped.  I have heard that there were plans for possible spinoffs in the works, so we'll see what happens.)

[Unknown Target]

(That ending after the credits was a huge shocker, too, as was the fact that that vaccine didn't seem as permanent on Magneto as everyone would have hoped.  I have heard that there were plans for possible spinoffs in the works, so we'll see what happens.)

I thought that whole thing with the vaccine not being permanent just killed whatever the movie had left in it. I mean, when we last saw Magneto, it actually struck a cord with me...I felt sorry for him, a man who was once on top of the world, and had everything, now is an old, weak man with nothing left, and not a friend in the world (the empty chair I took to mean Xavier). Then they went and made him move the chess piece and it was like OMG OMG OMG ACTION HOLY COW HE CAN STILL DO IT! WOOHOO THIS IS SUCH A FREAKING RIDE! PAY ATTENTION TO THIS MOVIE CAUSE IT'S GOT ACTIOOOON!!!111oneoneone

[aldo_14]

Aside; there is a Wolverine spinoff mooted.

[Flipside]

Yeah, but in keeping with Marvel Tradition, you have to go watch Spidey 3, The Hulk 2 and read Incredible X-Men to get the whole of the plot

[Windrunner]

Aside; there is a Wolverine spinoff mooted.

yeah and one about magneto too.

[Fineus]

Could someone tell me about the ending after the credits? We left by that point.. didn't think there'd be any more to it.

[Flipside]

No Offence to Ian McKellan, but I still think that Rutger Hauer would have made a better Magneto, not that he does a bad job by a long shot but...

[vyper]

Er no Flip... just no.