To all the complaints re: James Marsden (IIRC Cyclops)'s lack of acting ability, bear in mind that the character of Cyclops, as written, is very, very lame. He frets about Jean, he clenches his jaw, he serves as a nancy boy punching bag for Logan.
Where are his character-building scenes? Why is he fighting this war? I thought he was the leader of the X-Men once.
Also, the ending was way too protracted for me. Blah blah, the dam is breaking!, blah blah, the dam is still breaking!, blah blah, the dam is still breaking!, lame sacrifice. (Okay, that last part’s too strong, but I still think some things, including this, should’ve been set up better.)
Plus, I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the similarity between this ending and that of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Both involve the semi-senseless self-sacrifice of a beloved high-ranking team member and a denouement in which the dead character recites…well, some kinda previously said intro speech (“Space, the final frontier…” vs. “Mutants, a genetically blah blah”), paving the way for a sequel focused entirely on that resurrected character.
Vorae: Okay, so there’s another last little bit. Thanks for the memory jog.
I did turn to Mrs. Skeezix and say, “X-Men 3: The Search for Phoenix” as the credits started to roll. Guy sitting behind us (with four kids in their early teens) laughed, and was still explaining it as we left the theater.
I should’ve been clearer about this. I meant that it was senseless only in that you see Spock’s hands moving through the light, and yet you don’t actually know what he’s doing, except that he’s saving the ship in a way that, apparently, no one else can.
I thought the deal in ST2:TWoK was that anybody could have made the repairs, but (A) whoever did would absorb a lethal dose of radiation, and (B) Vulcan physiology is tougher and so Spock would be able to work on the warp reactor longer before the radiation overcame him.
Here’s my questions: Doesn’t nightcrawler have to seriously rest if he Bamf’s more than just himself? And is he really that religious in the comics? I don’t recall that at all.
And for the record, Collosus not being russian bugged me, and I really wanted to hear “bamf”, dammit!
Huh? When I saw it, he was “BAMF”-ing all over the place. The sfx were about as close to “BAMF” as I could’ve imagined. It didn’t stand out – the visual effects overshadowed it – but it was appropriate.
Just got back from seeing it a seocnd time, and I noticed a few extra things I didn’t before:
Anotgher file on the computer, along with Project Wideawake, was called “Omega Red.” I appreciated that reference. My friend pointed this out after I saw it the first time, so I looked for it the second time and kind of saw what he saw:
During the damn breaking scenes, there is a shot of the damn with the water almost coming out, but it appears kind of frozen, as if some kind of ice-man froze it. Odds are, they had a scene with him doing it, or planned on it, and didn’t go that route, but kept that shot, maybe to elude to him freezing it to give the people inside moretime, or because they ran out of outside sgots of the damn.
