Did you stay through alllll the credits? Yes, yes. What I mean is, Jean could bring back everyone she killed, including Scott. And it seems like they were intimating the drug wasn't permanent anyway. Which is just - argh. You know, if you're going to redeem the changes, do that. Don't pretend like you're making everything permanent, then balk at the last moment. Especially when there's no movie four on the horizon.
I agree that X1 was the best. I was thinking more about this and it could just be that I've seen X1 a lot more often, or that it was where I fell in love with this incarnation of the characters. But I really think it worked better as a film. In both X2 and X3, they're throwing so many mutants and story lines on the screen I can't help but feel everything gets short shrift. Which is funny, since I remember the reviews of X1 complaining that there were too many characters. And they throw in half a dozen more with each film. It's like the fan service has taken over. You can have that many characters and plotlines in an ongoing comic, but that's just two much for even three films to cope with.
I loved the 'grayness' of it all. I also loved the set-up of each of the storylines. But not the follow through. I realize I'm being spoiled by BSG and have come to expect all the logical consequences of each plot twist. But if they'd done that here, that would have been a whole season's worth of material.
To quote Ebert's review: "I especially liked the way it introduces all of those political issues and lets them fight it out with the special effects."
So, yeah. I essentially liked the movie because it provided a framework for a movie in my head that worked a lot better.
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Yes, yes. What I mean is, Jean could bring back everyone she killed, including Scott. And it seems like they were intimating the drug wasn't permanent anyway. Which is just - argh. You know, if you're going to redeem the changes, do that. Don't pretend like you're making everything permanent, then balk at the last moment. Especially when there's no movie four on the horizon.
I agree that X1 was the best.
I was thinking more about this and it could just be that I've seen X1 a lot more often, or that it was where I fell in love with this incarnation of the characters. But I really think it worked better as a film. In both X2 and X3, they're throwing so many mutants and story lines on the screen I can't help but feel everything gets short shrift. Which is funny, since I remember the reviews of X1 complaining that there were too many characters. And they throw in half a dozen more with each film. It's like the fan service has taken over. You can have that many characters and plotlines in an ongoing comic, but that's just two much for even three films to cope with.
I loved the 'grayness' of it all.
I also loved the set-up of each of the storylines. But not the follow through. I realize I'm being spoiled by BSG and have come to expect all the logical consequences of each plot twist. But if they'd done that here, that would have been a whole season's worth of material.
To quote Ebert's review: "I especially liked the way it introduces all of those political issues and lets them fight it out with the special effects."
So, yeah. I essentially liked the movie because it provided a framework for a movie in my head that worked a lot better.