Magy started getting his powers back in the end. I think this could be explained by Hanks hand when he went to meet jonny. It seems that it doesnt kill the entire cell off?
dunno...i just really enjoyed it for what it was

I did!!!Pext wrote:did anyone see the subtle PS3 product placement?phantasmagoria wrote:oh, did anyone notice how much they pimped dell monitors and TVs?
More product placement than I fucking Robot.
Huh? Archangel isn't gay.SplishSplash wrote:yupPext wrote: did anyone see the subtle PS3 product placement?
Edit: WTF was that Arclight thing? Man, woman, kitchen appliance?
I read he's supposed to be gay. Which would explain a lot.Jackal wrote:He was most likely just being set up for a future film. My god he looked terrible though.
Actually, I think it was because Beast wasn't close enough to the kid. I'm pretty sure they mentioned that people only lost their powers within a certain radius of him, so obviously only Beast's hand was close enough to lose its mutancy. Also why the 'walk thru walls' girl tells him to stay real close.Don Carlos wrote:Magy started getting his powers back in the end. I think this could be explained by Hanks hand when he went to meet jonny. It seems that it doesnt kill the entire cell off?
I had read the original comics arc and I wish they had stuck to it - There was a far greater feeling of grandeur in the original.R00k wrote:*spoilers*
It just seemed to me that a lot of the liberties he took with the story, were just plain unneccessary to make it a good film. Rogue giving up her powers for the love story stands out as one, but there were others. Why make the dark Pheonix a psychological issue? I can understand that the alien symbiote/whatever wouldn't exactly have fit in with the mutant vs. human war they decided on for the storyline, but why not make it a mutant who hijacked Jean's body and powers, instead of making it a generic split-personality disorder, that was all Professor X's fault?
Why kill Jean Grey, when the antidote would have stopped all the destruction?
Magneto turning his back so quickly on Mystique was pretty ridiculous, since that didn't seem to fit with the character that was developed in the movie - a man who had a lot of character and grand vision, but who thought his approach was the only way.
I wasn't much of a fan of the Cyclops character in the films either, but he just seemed to be the first domino to fall in a quest to kill off as many characters as possible for a contrived dramatic effect.
And after Nightcrawler was so involved in the battle in the last movie, he is just omitted and not spoken of in this one, like he just disappeared with no explanation.
It seems like the writer, for whatever reason, already felt he needed to kill off a lot of the characters, and just had to fit them all in somewhere.
And like someone already mentioned, Magneto could have practically won the last battle and gotten the boy by himself, so the battle only added to the feeling that everything was very contrived to get to the point they wanted it to, but still without putting much thought in the way it should be played out.
hax103 wrote:I had read the original comics arc and I wish they had stuck to it - There was a far greater feeling of grandeur in the original.R00k wrote:*spoilers*
It just seemed to me that a lot of the liberties he took with the story, were just plain unneccessary to make it a good film. Rogue giving up her powers for the love story stands out as one, but there were others. Why make the dark Pheonix a psychological issue? I can understand that the alien symbiote/whatever wouldn't exactly have fit in with the mutant vs. human war they decided on for the storyline, but why not make it a mutant who hijacked Jean's body and powers, instead of making it a generic split-personality disorder, that was all Professor X's fault?
Why kill Jean Grey, when the antidote would have stopped all the destruction?
Magneto turning his back so quickly on Mystique was pretty ridiculous, since that didn't seem to fit with the character that was developed in the movie - a man who had a lot of character and grand vision, but who thought his approach was the only way.
I wasn't much of a fan of the Cyclops character in the films either, but he just seemed to be the first domino to fall in a quest to kill off as many characters as possible for a contrived dramatic effect.
And after Nightcrawler was so involved in the battle in the last movie, he is just omitted and not spoken of in this one, like he just disappeared with no explanation.
It seems like the writer, for whatever reason, already felt he needed to kill off a lot of the characters, and just had to fit them all in somewhere.
And like someone already mentioned, Magneto could have practically won the last battle and gotten the boy by himself, so the battle only added to the feeling that everything was very contrived to get to the point they wanted it to, but still without putting much thought in the way it should be played out.
As to why they did it with the split personality - I would say for simplicity and the director's ego. Also, when Jean kills Scott, it makes it more poignant that a part of her actually did it and not just a wacko mutant.
"Why kill Jean Grey when there was the antidote?" - Because just as Magneto's powers are coming back, Jean's probably would also have come back.
Magneto didn't get the boy himself for the same reason he stated in the movie - he knows the enemy had ample time to setup defense directly against him, but he doesn't know what those defense are so he lets his minions go in first and test the enemy. For all he knew, it was a trap for him. They might have been able to hit him with the antidote in other ways (Nightcrawler teleporting in, some super blinding fast mutant just running up to him, etc.) so he kept his attention on defense, not on hurling cars into soldiers.
Also, in the original comics, Jean does come back or more precisely, she never died (even though they make the reader think she did)
Jackal. Actually you are wrong - the phoenix force didn't revive the "original" Jean.Jackal wrote:hax103 wrote:
I had read the original comics arc and I wish they had stuck to it - There was a far greater feeling of grandeur in the original.
As to why they did it with the split personality - I would say for simplicity and the director's ego. Also, when Jean kills Scott, it makes it more poignant that a part of her actually did it and not just a wacko mutant.
"Why kill Jean Grey when there was the antidote?" - Because just as Magneto's powers are coming back, Jean's probably would also have come back.
Magneto didn't get the boy himself for the same reason he stated in the movie - he knows the enemy had ample time to setup defense directly against him, but he doesn't know what those defense are so he lets his minions go in first and test the enemy. For all he knew, it was a trap for him. They might have been able to hit him with the antidote in other ways (Nightcrawler teleporting in, some super blinding fast mutant just running up to him, etc.) so he kept his attention on defense, not on hurling cars into soldiers.
Also, in the original comics, Jean does come back or more precisely, she never died (even though they make the reader think she did)
What original comic arc?
And yes, Jean did die in the comic. The phoenix force revived her, hence "phoenix".