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seandcSo, today was the opening day here for X-Men 3 - The Last Stand, so here's a few things I thought of while watching it, running commentary style (yes, I had a notepad)...
In other words, I ramble on about stuff as it shows up, often connecting with their comic counterparts.
Oh, not a spoiler, but in case nobody else on all your FL mentions it: if you can, stay until the end of the credits. There's one last little scene at the end there. I'm sure the ushers must've thought me nuts, waiting there - I don't know about elsewhere, but around here everyone leaves as the credits start rolling - they start cleaning the cinemas while they're still rolling, since they expect everyone to be gone.
Anyhow, a good time was had by all (well, I assume everyone else had a good time, I did), and for much cheaper than normal too, since Cinema City is running with $9 tickets during the daytime. Haven't paid that little since me student days.
In other words, I ramble on about stuff as it shows up, often connecting with their comic counterparts.
Hmmm, the Marvel-Page-Flicker at the start of the film now has scenes from Astonishing X-Men and Phoenix Endsong... nice update ;) (yeah, yeah, I know... still good to see though)
What, you don't mindwipe parents into letting their kids come to the school? Try telling that to Kitty Pryde's parents, Charles. And in this version Elaine Grey's the more understanding of mutants and all? Tell that to Rachel, whose grandmother Elaine in the comics spent her dying breath saying how much she hates her, Xavier, mutants and pretty much everything since Jean's powers appeared (Uncanny X-Men 468).
Here we are inDays of Future Past Terminator 2 The Danger Room (in which the team are bloody lucky nobody remember the Holodeck Gone Haywire stories, and that the second AXM story came out after they started the film... (just imagine Rogue and Bobby if Joss Whedon were writing...)
Heee - Rogue taking on Peter's powers to dodge a missile. And I bet the bit with Logan's cigar is the visual equivalent of the "I really like beer" page in Astonishing X-Men 7.
"I want to see your eyes." Ahhh, simpler times, and goodbyes.
Talking about the incredible destructive force known as Phoenix as if he created the thing - wow, not to toot your own horn or anything, right, Charles?
Pose, Warren, POSE!!
Magneto... is PISSED! Even XornMagneto in "Planet X" was more merciful than this Mags trying to free Mystique.
Did Logan and Ororo even try to find Scott, or did they just forget him as soon as they found Jean?
O & L: "gasp! Jean!" *they carry Jean away*
Scott, ten feet away: "aaacck... help... me..." *pathetic wave at departing X-Men*
Jean, honey, you don't have to be a teep to see how obvious Logan's being :lol: "ooohh *leer* oh, hello Dark Phoenix" (at least the Exiles version).
Logan, Charles, great plan, guys, piss off the Omega-level mutant...
Xavier smiled at Logan the last moment he saw him... might there have been a transfer?
Charles: I'm sorry Logan, I have no time to discuss this logically. Remember.
Logan fighting in the forest sure seems to like stabbing people through the lungs... Northstar's lucky they decided to only have one speedster in the movie, otherwise he'd've been here the same way he was in "Enemy of the State"...
George, George, George Logan of the Jungle
Watch out for that tree-e-ee...
Watch! out! for! that! *CRUNCH!* ooooooohhh treeeeeee...
Selling out Magneto now she's human and abandoned? Is anyone else thinking Mystique and Lionel Luthor would make an interesting match?
Egads! Colossus... any Colossus... in a uniform that isn't red? (this is what happens when you sleep through the Morrison era, Petey, you don't get the new uniforms).
Magneto, flying up above the bridge, cape flowing but unlike Supes this is just showing his great and terrible power - this is how he should be, yes.
Hmmm, one of Magneto's first wave had the same teleport signature as X2's Nightcrawler. No idea if it was him recast as an uncredited extra (there wasn't enough time to check for blueness), but it would be fitting that at least one Kurt would decide to hell with the flatscans. Several times through the years in the comics Kurt's questioned out loud why bother doing anything for people who'd shoot him even as he saved their lives (which would have happened in Uncanny X-Men 445 if not for Carol Danvers of the Avengers showing up).
Oh my stars and garters - tada, catchphrase! (just wish they'd put in a Sideshow Bob reference, like a rake or something).
Logans sure like to slide down metal things on their claws - movieverse Logan here, 616-Logan sliding down the statue of Magneto in Genosha's ruins... (UXM 443, or the Bright New Mourning trade).
Ooohhh... even if the guy can regrow stuff, that just ain't cricket, Logan! (everyone laughed though)
Ignoring the difference between phasing powers movie and comic (in the comics being released while inside a wall/floor would kill that person), this version of Juggy chasing after Kitty with "Don't you know who you're dealing with? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" strikes me as showing someone's read All Star Batman and Robin a bit too recently... "What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman."
Kitty looks so young with Leech... she must be a New Mutant, not allowed to age ever. :P
Ok, I don't know about everyone else, but I reckon that chess piece moved. Of course, it could be paving the way for Polaris to appear...
What, you don't mindwipe parents into letting their kids come to the school? Try telling that to Kitty Pryde's parents, Charles. And in this version Elaine Grey's the more understanding of mutants and all? Tell that to Rachel, whose grandmother Elaine in the comics spent her dying breath saying how much she hates her, Xavier, mutants and pretty much everything since Jean's powers appeared (Uncanny X-Men 468).
Here we are in
Heee - Rogue taking on Peter's powers to dodge a missile. And I bet the bit with Logan's cigar is the visual equivalent of the "I really like beer" page in Astonishing X-Men 7.
"I want to see your eyes." Ahhh, simpler times, and goodbyes.
Talking about the incredible destructive force known as Phoenix as if he created the thing - wow, not to toot your own horn or anything, right, Charles?
Pose, Warren, POSE!!
Magneto... is PISSED! Even XornMagneto in "Planet X" was more merciful than this Mags trying to free Mystique.
Did Logan and Ororo even try to find Scott, or did they just forget him as soon as they found Jean?
O & L: "gasp! Jean!" *they carry Jean away*
Scott, ten feet away: "aaacck... help... me..." *pathetic wave at departing X-Men*
Jean, honey, you don't have to be a teep to see how obvious Logan's being :lol: "ooohh *leer* oh, hello Dark Phoenix" (at least the Exiles version).
Logan, Charles, great plan, guys, piss off the Omega-level mutant...
Xavier smiled at Logan the last moment he saw him... might there have been a transfer?
Charles: I'm sorry Logan, I have no time to discuss this logically. Remember.
Logan fighting in the forest sure seems to like stabbing people through the lungs... Northstar's lucky they decided to only have one speedster in the movie, otherwise he'd've been here the same way he was in "Enemy of the State"...
Watch out for that tree-e-ee...
Watch! out! for! that! *CRUNCH!* ooooooohhh treeeeeee...
Selling out Magneto now she's human and abandoned? Is anyone else thinking Mystique and Lionel Luthor would make an interesting match?
Egads! Colossus... any Colossus... in a uniform that isn't red? (this is what happens when you sleep through the Morrison era, Petey, you don't get the new uniforms).
Magneto, flying up above the bridge, cape flowing but unlike Supes this is just showing his great and terrible power - this is how he should be, yes.
Hmmm, one of Magneto's first wave had the same teleport signature as X2's Nightcrawler. No idea if it was him recast as an uncredited extra (there wasn't enough time to check for blueness), but it would be fitting that at least one Kurt would decide to hell with the flatscans. Several times through the years in the comics Kurt's questioned out loud why bother doing anything for people who'd shoot him even as he saved their lives (which would have happened in Uncanny X-Men 445 if not for Carol Danvers of the Avengers showing up).
Oh my stars and garters - tada, catchphrase! (just wish they'd put in a Sideshow Bob reference, like a rake or something).
Logans sure like to slide down metal things on their claws - movieverse Logan here, 616-Logan sliding down the statue of Magneto in Genosha's ruins... (UXM 443, or the Bright New Mourning trade).
Ooohhh... even if the guy can regrow stuff, that just ain't cricket, Logan! (everyone laughed though)
Ignoring the difference between phasing powers movie and comic (in the comics being released while inside a wall/floor would kill that person), this version of Juggy chasing after Kitty with "Don't you know who you're dealing with? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" strikes me as showing someone's read All Star Batman and Robin a bit too recently... "What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman."
Kitty looks so young with Leech... she must be a New Mutant, not allowed to age ever. :P
Ok, I don't know about everyone else, but I reckon that chess piece moved. Of course, it could be paving the way for Polaris to appear...
Oh, not a spoiler, but in case nobody else on all your FL mentions it: if you can, stay until the end of the credits. There's one last little scene at the end there. I'm sure the ushers must've thought me nuts, waiting there - I don't know about elsewhere, but around here everyone leaves as the credits start rolling - they start cleaning the cinemas while they're still rolling, since they expect everyone to be gone.
Anyhow, a good time was had by all (well, I assume everyone else had a good time, I did), and for much cheaper than normal too, since Cinema City is running with $9 tickets during the daytime. Haven't paid that little since me student days.
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Date: 2006-05-26 04:30 am (UTC)lol when I worked at the movie theatre we used to get so frustrated with ppl who stayed to the end of the credits. We understood when there was somehting worth staying for, but more often ppl seemed to stay just for the hell of it. Meanwhile we were silently willing them to get the hell out so we could clean the theatre. I worked at a big complex that used to screen so many movies that if we had five whole minutes to clean a 500+ seat theatre, we were lucky. If we didn't start cleaning during the credits we wouldn't have enough time to finish. ah, good times.. lol
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Date: 2006-05-26 11:02 pm (UTC)Everyone laughed at the showing here, too. A few guys were heard to say "Ouch."
Kitty looks so young with Leech... she must be a New Mutant, not allowed to age ever. :P
This makes me wonder something. At one point in one of the scenes with Magneto's army (before Magneto joins in maybe) you see a little blonde girl in pigtails. Could it possibly be Illyana?
...that chess piece moved.
It definitely moved. It was meant to be an homage to the end of the first movie. The part where Charles and Magneto are playing chess. And if the cure is wearing off, and Rogue's wears off, Bobby is doomed.