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Post by janggut on May 30, 2006 7:44:04 GMT
what?! no wonder i didn't see Singer's name in the film. i was hoping to see Singer's X-Men movie & ended up with somebody else's.
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Post by hector on May 30, 2006 7:51:21 GMT
Really? Well, no, Singer didn't directed this one. The director was Brett Ratner (Rush Hour 1 and 2, Red Dragon).
Singer left the project to direct the upcoming Superman Returns. Ratner, who was previosuly set up to direct Superman, went to make The Last Stand.
And thank God for that. I'm not greedy. I have two quite good X-Men pictures done recently. We haven't had a good Superman movie in decades.
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Post by Tsel on May 30, 2006 15:27:21 GMT
I actually liked this movie a whole lot. When I went to see it, I decided within myself, this is going to be a totally different story than in the comic series, and not to judge it by those previous stories. It was a little slow for me in some spots, but overall it rocked. I personally thought Angel was very good for what little he did in it. The little build up of him was to point out that very racial thing you hate could be the thing that helps you later. In those brief few clips of Angel it told a big story of individual acceptance. If one would imagine for a moment if they dare, they could see that if the father would have succeeded in curing the son, the father would have died. It was his son being a mutant that saved him. Did any of you watch the final ending after the movie credits? Remember Xavier talking about the morality of dealing with a brain dead hospital patient, but the body is still very healthy. It ended with Xavier transferring his mental being into that patient. Yes, us yanks sure do love our movies with total pure, raw, brutal unadulterated power. ;D
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Post by met on May 30, 2006 19:11:23 GMT
I caught it yesterday, and while I enjoyed it as a follow-up there were a lot of "I hope they're going to do more with this" moments. As has been mentioned, if Logan can get close enough to kill Jean, why not use the drug that was lying around in any of the carefully-issued weapons? Or take Leech? A kid who can project a non-mutant zone, and we only see it once in lab conditions? There seems to be a large amount left hanging for another movie, which is probably why this one didn't grip me in the same way. Well - that and no nightcrawler or Gambit! Grrr!
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Post by hector on May 31, 2006 1:25:27 GMT
I actually liked this movie a whole lot. When I went to see it, I decided within myself, this is going to be a totally different story than in the comic series, and not to judge it by those previous stories. That's correct. I judged it be the previous movies. And the sequel was extremely lacking. Still, there is something to be said about the terrible adaptation. Not because there should be any faithfulness, but because the printed story was so much better. The Dark Phoenix was a story about love, desire and sacrifice. DP was an entity full of life, eager to experience. In the movie she's a set piece behind Magneto. It's sad that the best adaptation we'll ever have of DP was the sixth season of Buffy. And it wasn't that good. Elsewhere, I read the best description of Last Stand: "a bunch of junkie-looking men and women with wierd hairdos talking about The Cure. It felt like the 80's"
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Post by janggut on May 31, 2006 4:16:48 GMT
yeah, too bad robert smith wasn't in it.
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