Originally posted by Robtard
End credits scene in X3:Remember the very beginning of X3, Xavier was talking to his students about a brain-dead man and the ethics in transferring another's mind into the body.
Them not touching back on it for this new film is weak though.
I remember the ending of X3 where Charles transferred his consciousness, yeah. But how in the f*ck is it an identical clone?
Weak sauce, indeed.
Just got back from watching it so here's my mini review. First thing i gotta say is that the movie was.. ok. I cant say it was bad but cant say with a clean councious that it was good either. They did a nice job tying both first class and the trilogy together, at least Mystic is lo longer a complete stranger to an older Xavier like it seemed in X1. Still left some things unanswered like how is Charles still alive. Also the whole love triangle or whatever the heck it was between Charles, Eric and Raven was kind of unnecessary. I did get the feeling that writers tried hard with the story, scenes like Charles talking to his younger self etc it was emotional.. but like everything else lost in an overly complicated slow paced story. At some point I actually cought myself thinking "Come on already!". That prison scene with Pietro was the best part of the movie. And while im happy for Quicksilver that's hardly a compliment for the movie. Now if i had to sum it all up in one sentence id say - it feels like reading a really long comicbook that has a retcon within a retcon. Nothing i didnt see coming tbh making a movie about time-travel is always a risk and ends up with an overly complicated event by the end of which noone remembers anything which is never good. Still I hope it does ok in the cinemas, wouldnt want it to be the last X-men movie.
Forgot to mention. Quicksilver was fantastic. His action scene was phenomenal and up there with Nightcrawler's White House infiltration. I also loved how they hinted at his parentage.
Originally posted by Darth MartinSpoiler:
"So much for being a survivor. "
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That was great.
Originally posted by Zack Fair
Have you played the portal games?
Yep.
The scene where she
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accelerated Colossus was pretty much straight from portal.
I did like how Eric
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whooped non-metal Logan's butt! I was worried they were going to make them equals 😂
And yeah Quicksilver was cool but
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a bit too powerful. Would be pretty difficult to stage a fight between him and anyone else. They will always have to have plot devices to keep him out of the main action.
Originally posted by ares834
Uhm, what?Spoiler:
They were under Magneto's control. He activated them.
I must admit I did doze off for a couple of minutes (long day prior) but I assumed they automatically activated themselves in the presence of mutants...I thought Magneto simply inserted the steel rods in them just to control their movements?
Did I miss something where he actually re-programmed them?
Originally posted by ares834Spoiler:
They weren't supposed to activate at all during that scene. Trask says as much. The presence of mutants shouldn't have activated them. Presumably, Mags activated them with the rods within them.
Then again, if Mags did activate them...what was the purpose of that? The 1st thing he does is destroys one for attacking a fellow mutant?
Originally posted by Firefly218
I loved how there was no black and white crap in the movie. The bad guys were bad for the right reasons, the good good for the eight reasons. Everyone was doing everything with good intentions
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That's the beauty of X-Men. Magneto is especially interesting. And if you think about it, he's not any more evil (in these prequel films that is) than most governments today. In fact in a lot of ways there's a lot of nobility to him. If your a mutant chances are he'll fight to protect you from persecution.
Heck he even tried to
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save JFK
And most his evil actions against humans do seem to be in self defense or in seeking out justice where no one else would/could.