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( So much to say, so many spoilers. )
All in all, I got most of what I wanted out of the movie. Mystique is still the awesomest thing that awesomed about these movies. She is the hardcore girl that none of the three or four others who came to the forefront in the Brotherhood could ever be. She's the mover and the shaker and the risk-taker. And when( spoiler! ) Just, yeah...
So, I had a good time. Was it as good as X2? No. Good as X1? Probably not. Fun? Definitely. Too many cooks spoiling the proverbial sauce? Absolutely. I wonder what Singer would have done with it...
Oh! Speaking of Singer, here is the summation of those rumors I was talking about at the screening. It details why certain characters got short-shrift and why others were embellished because their actors ::coughcoughHalleBerrycoughcough:: are pushy enough and have enough box office draw to get things written in their favor.
Honestly, this was a bit sad for me. Yes, the franchise doesn't have to be over, but it feels like it should.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ivy03 very astutely posited that since it was envisioned as the last movie, the studio felt no compunction against "breaking all the toys" now they were done with them. There's always room for your typical comic-book comeback, but I hope they don't. For one thing, it would lose dramatic impact (as it has done in the comics). For another, I really don't want to see any more. I would love more X-title movies, perhaps New Mutants or Generation X, or just X-Men continuing in the future with the X-kids in this one taking wing as X-Men good and true. I think it would do well, as I quite enjoyed seeing some of the kids we met in X2 back in class in X3. They've got presence, and we notice them.
But Hugh Jackman was looking old in this movie, as was Famke Jannsen and Shawn Ashmore. For a guy with perpetually youthified features, the Wolverine looked as old as the hills in parts, and Famke was a bit long in the tooth for Jean back when X1 came out. Shawn Ashmore has developed some wrinkles across his forehead that cannot be disguised, it seems, because he looks his age, too, or at least he looks like he's no younger than upperclass level college age. Next to Kitty, who looked twelve, it was particularly noticeable. Halle Berry continues to look fabulous, but her portrayal of Storm ought to have been retired before she ever finished X1. What I wouldn't have given to see Angela Bassett as Storm...
All in all, I got most of what I wanted out of the movie. Mystique is still the awesomest thing that awesomed about these movies. She is the hardcore girl that none of the three or four others who came to the forefront in the Brotherhood could ever be. She's the mover and the shaker and the risk-taker. And when( spoiler! ) Just, yeah...
So, I had a good time. Was it as good as X2? No. Good as X1? Probably not. Fun? Definitely. Too many cooks spoiling the proverbial sauce? Absolutely. I wonder what Singer would have done with it...
Oh! Speaking of Singer, here is the summation of those rumors I was talking about at the screening. It details why certain characters got short-shrift and why others were embellished because their actors ::coughcoughHalleBerrycoughcough:: are pushy enough and have enough box office draw to get things written in their favor.
Honestly, this was a bit sad for me. Yes, the franchise doesn't have to be over, but it feels like it should.
ivy03 very astutely posited that since it was envisioned as the last movie, the studio felt no compunction against "breaking all the toys" now they were done with them. There's always room for your typical comic-book comeback, but I hope they don't. For one thing, it would lose dramatic impact (as it has done in the comics). For another, I really don't want to see any more. I would love more X-title movies, perhaps New Mutants or Generation X, or just X-Men continuing in the future with the X-kids in this one taking wing as X-Men good and true. I think it would do well, as I quite enjoyed seeing some of the kids we met in X2 back in class in X3. They've got presence, and we notice them.But Hugh Jackman was looking old in this movie, as was Famke Jannsen and Shawn Ashmore. For a guy with perpetually youthified features, the Wolverine looked as old as the hills in parts, and Famke was a bit long in the tooth for Jean back when X1 came out. Shawn Ashmore has developed some wrinkles across his forehead that cannot be disguised, it seems, because he looks his age, too, or at least he looks like he's no younger than upperclass level college age. Next to Kitty, who looked twelve, it was particularly noticeable. Halle Berry continues to look fabulous, but her portrayal of Storm ought to have been retired before she ever finished X1. What I wouldn't have given to see Angela Bassett as Storm...
