Saturday, October 6, 2007

Don't bother - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

If you love action films, go see MI:3. If you love comic book adaptations, go see "Superman Returns" (which looks fabulous). If you loved the last two X-Men films, stay home and don't see this one. You'll be disappointed in the story, the acting, the make-up, everything. Even Wolverine, who usually steals the show, does several things that are completely out of character for him and make no sense. The direction of the fight scenes is horrible, but the (lack of) direction of the personal moments is worse.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Non-stop action - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

An hour & 45 min of non-stop action. Everyone was at the edge of their seats. No one wanted the movie to come to an end. How could you ask for more? This movie was worth much more than the ticket price. My overall rating is A+.

Wtf - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

I was so excited to see this one that I saw the midnight showing with the X-Men nuts, but I was highly dissapointed. I wish I had never gone to see it. Really, I had to convince myself afterwards that the storyline was different just so that I could sleep. It was a weak ending to the trilogy and by killing off all of the strong female characters (only leaving HAlle Berry)is an insult of the deepest kind. Jean GRey finally is in tune with all her powers, making her the most powerful mutant the world has ever seen- but she can't control them and eventually has to be killed.--Womens Lib people? I mean seriously, the strongest mutant ever is a woman that can't learn to harnest her power and instead must be killed, not to mention Rouge gives her's up for a man?! For shame to the writer of the screenplay and to those who excepted this story...its total crap. If it was not for the visuals and the character acting of Wolverine, the Beast and Magneto(I'm quite upset about him too but I don't want to give everything away)I would have demanded my money back.

Wtf? - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

when did it become ok for story tellers to deny the responsibility to tell the story and instead make up their own. That was so lame. They butchered the pride of the essense that is X-Men. They castrated heros or just killed them off. It was so disrespectful to the fans, but I guess that's ok because 75% of movie goers just wanna see booms and bams and Halle Berry. (Don't get me wrong, I love her, and I love Storm, but she ruined yet another super hero because she's the "it" girl right now. Go win more Oscars hun...) Where's the responsibility to be true to the story? I think their biggest flaw was having the war be the focal point of the movie while butchering and adding in the biproducts of the Phoenix Saga. And that was hardly the war. They took down a pharmacy... big deal. Ugh... I wish they'd issue a recall on this movie before all the fans get their feelings hurt. I really never want to see another super hero movie... Doesnt false advertisement work for movies too? I expected to see the GREAT X-Men... Legends... but they were movie maker pawns... or gambits... BOOO!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Violent end new beginning to x-men franchise - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

The movie is rather violent, definitely not the campy style of comic book movies like spider man or batman and robin. Many characters and humans die in the movie, some rather gruesome and disturbing. The visual effects are stunning as well as the fast-paced action. There is some passionate sexual scene in the movie also. Overall the plot is a good one, in which a mutant antibody/cure is formulated and so there begins two sides of the issue. Magneto assembles an army and xavier has his x-men. it's a combination of stories, like the x-men cartoon "graduation day" in which the x-men are left to fend for themselves and to think for themselves. Without giving away the plot, let's say toward the middle people get shocked and silent b/c something big and violent happens that is quite unexpected and gut-wrenching... it's like "what just happened? that can't be right, can it?" this sets the morose and violence tone to the movie. there is some foul language in the film as well (B word and Dic----- word, etc.)\ There are some twists in the movie, mainly to the characters in the movie, to set a whole new enemies/allies, etc for the most likely next movie sequel (apocolpyse?)... the plot was quick and choppy, but that is b/c a lot information was fit in the movie. overall, it's an enjoyable movie that i would watch again on dvd... it's rather violent and graphic PG-13/R version. it opens the door of new characters and storylines in the next movie. there's many new characters that are fun to watch and make you excited. finally, i would stay until the end ie after the credits scroll by, there's an added scene in the end that will relieve some people of what happened prior.

What a movie!! - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

I just got back from the midnight showing (which was sold out, btw, and it was on FIVE screens at once) and it WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! The visuals, storyline, acting...everything was on par with the series and made one HELL of a finale to an already superior film trilogy. I LOVED IT, as did everyone I went with. Phoenix/Jean Gray was the best in my opinion, she looked soooo scary as Dark Phoenix, it was perfect. Deaths in the movie, thats all I will say...and they shocked me. Yes, indeed. But what else can you expect for a third installment of a trilogy? They DID however leave it open, I guess you could say. You just have to go and see it for yourself! DEFINITELY AN A++++ MOVIE!!!!! I predict it breaking box office records, I really do.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Unxpected - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

I couldn't wait to see the Last Stand in the Xmen series, but I gotta say I was a little disappointed. Some the characters that we all got to know so well in the previous series role's changed so dramatically or disappeared that it almost makes you want take the script and change up some of the movie. It was still an Xcellent movie, however, and even if you didn't see the previous movies, you'll still feel entertained. This movie is different from the other two in that it has more of a serious mood to it and it's supposed to, but for the fans of the first two in the series it will change your expectations of the film and alot of its characters. The thing that stands out the most about X3 is the amazing visuals and action-packed pace of the story. Even though this movie is quite different from the rest, you'll still leave the theatre feeling "cured" after seeing the final climax the other two had built up. As far as the best overall, though, X2 still holds first place.

The best summer action movie. ***spoiler*** - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

The plot is full of tragic and expected events. Phoenix, a class 5 mutant/river/hurricane (you get the picture) as we all knew was going to play a central role to the plot opposite Hugh Jackman whose usually excellent performance is this timed seemingly dragged down by the side characters. You can tell they all wanted more time. It's like Magneto telling Pyro, "Stand back and let the pawns go first". Indeed there are perhaps too many pawns stealing the star power in this flick. Surrounding this plot is an excessive amount of controversy around cures. At times it seems as belabored as AI's corn starch thick "pinocchio-blue fairy" allusion but by the end, it seemed to have been just subtle enough not to make this a mutant object lesson in pharmacology and disability rights. The directing did seem to pull off a few good onliners for Hugh Jackman as well as some not so good one liners reminiscent of Han Solo's famous "laugh it up fuzzball" in reference to Chewbacca, I mean Beast as well as a short little "Noooo-argh!" to avoid stealing a Darth Vader line. This film will provide a bit of tragedy as Charles, Scott die, Mystique and Magneto are cured of their mutant power and...well, I'm not going to spoil all of it but let's just say the very end leaves this open for perhaps a final, last stand after this.

Midnight showing - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

The theatre was abuzz tonight. This movie had it all. The audience broke out in applause at least 10 times. I am not a big fanboy but I was seriously impressed. There are a few plot turns and deaths that some people may find disturbing but I definately feel they added to the story. Go see this movie and tell your friends....The x men are bast in the best installment to date in the series...

Monday, October 1, 2007

X-men 3 makes a stand - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

Wow. Head out to the theatre now this movie was awesome. I have been waiting for this movie for a long time and it was worth the wait. The visuals for this movie were just awesome. X-Men: The Last Stand was better than the first but not as good as the second. If you wan to ogo see a comic book style action packed Sci-Fi movie its worth the money and don't let any of the people who are giving this F's stop you X-Men fans from seeing the movie just go and have a good time. Another thing the acting was awesome I think that Hugh Jackman does a great job playing Wolverine he can be funny sometimes and serious in the movie and of course has most of the action scenes it was just awesome thats it if your a fan go see it if your not I think you may still like it!!! This is the summer movie everybody has been waiting for!

Better than the second one - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

If you come to see this movie you will not be thinking " Is it almost over???" I do think they killed to many characters and i don't think that Jean Grey should have come back but they gave a logical reason explaining why she came back. Oh and at the first part in the neighborhood there is a guy mowing his lawn. The guy mowing was the writer of the X-MEN comic books. And i think it is neat how they think up different kinds of powers for each person. That would be kind of hard to do. I wish that MYSTIQUE would have been on the movie longer and ROGUE too because I like both of them. I also enjoyed some of the newer characters like that bald guy that could cure the mutants, the bird guy, and BEAST. Oh one other thing i didn't like is that near the end you see magneto at the park near some kind of chess club thing and THIS IS A SPOILER !!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T READ UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!! When the metal chess piece started moving even though he had lost his powers. But that could mean that when ROGUE and BOBBY are holding hands or something that might mean that her powers may come back. Which would mean that the cure was only a temporary thing. Which makes sense since when they are near the boy they can't use their powers. OH AND THAT MEANS MYSTIQUE WILL BE BACK!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!! P.S. Watch after the credits because there is another seen but if you didn't get it scroll down below only if you saw it though.... Aparently there was a guy at this hospital that didnt have a mind but he still lived and when the proffessor dies which i think is stupid just. keep him cuz he comes back and posseses the mind of the guy who had no mind.

A different view than the first two - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

Visually - Amazing. The third in the trilogy has what the first two lack, which is serious kick-ass action sequences. This film is X-citing as hell, but not without problems, especially for the X-men purists. There are hints at deeper meanings, which the first two films gave in full, but only momentarilly in this one. If you are a BIG fan of the comics, espeically Chris Claremont's work on them, you'll both appreciate this one as well as maybe be upset at a few parts. If not, then you may not have a problem with anything, or at the same time, maybe you won't appreciate it as much either. Nevertheless, if you enjoyed the first two, and you want to see the summer started off with a bang, this is the movie to see!