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Post by Martin Brundle - Martinfly on May 30, 2020 23:22:10 GMT
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND is a bleak and brilliant superhero movie, with some terrific sequences and an impressive, epic final fight. All deaths in the movie are great, expect Cyke's one (which happens off-screen).
Beast was introduced. He looked very cool.
Angel was a glorified cameo, but Colossus, Iceman and Shadowcat had enough time to shine.
All the action set-pieces looked big and wonderful on-screen: the Danger Room; the Forest; the bridge; Alcatraz. I think the best sequence in the movie is Jean/Phoenix destroying the house and Xavier. That was astonishing.
Very underrated movie.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on May 31, 2020 0:34:57 GMT
It's not boring like Dark Phoenix and that is where my praise begins and ends.
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Post by politicidal on May 31, 2020 0:39:31 GMT
It's solid popcorn fare but I wouldn't call it brilliant. I'd probably rank it a 6, 6.5/10 depending on my mood.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2020 5:14:27 GMT
It had some moments but I got confused a few times. Without Googling it, I don't remember...did Xavier die? Or Cyclops? I remember the Multiple Man bit, that was cool. Mystique cured of her mutation, boooo. It wasn't not well done, but that was not a crowd-pleaser, and I'm the crowd. Kittie Pryde had a spot running from Juggernaut, "pawns go in first"...that's about all I remember.
It's been so long. Maybe what I'm about to say is dated but I felt like it was their last chance to use James Marsden's Cyclops and they blew it. Other than that, I don't even remember how it ends.
But if you enjoyed it, that's all that matters.
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Post by dazz on May 31, 2020 5:33:24 GMT
It's a spotty at best mess, it has interesting things like Phoenix not being a malevolent force but a instinctual and primal creature that is docile when unagitated but became extremely violent when threatened, and how Jeans powers were tied to her emotions and unrestrained is what causes the death of Cyclops the man she loves when they kiss could have been great, it was handled by a moronic turd and so all of that fell flat to the point even those who are obsessed with these movies fail to pick up on such things.
Then you have the idiocy of Magneto the master of magnetism hiding in a bleeding forest, yes he set a trap but the sheer idiocy of such a man with those powers to hide in a place surrounded by wood, not metal but pissing wood was ridiculous, then you have the stupid Juggernaut meme brought to life, Rogue is given nothing to do and was reduced to being less important than Cyclops which for this trilogy is an insult of the highest order, Kitty was wasted and served little to no purpose in the actual film, Angel was introduced for no reason, like seriously they didn't need a reason for some anti-mutant rich prick to develop a "cure", Xavier's death is hollow and meaningless and the end is fucking stupid, who gives a shit Logan has to kill Jean he's known her for what 2 weeks, we have literally seen his entire relationship with Jean across the 3 movies it amounts to a week or 2 at tops, the entire time she's with another dude, he fancies her that's it, yes other versions of Logan love Jean movie version doesn't even know her really so who cares?
Some of the visuals are cool though, even some of the gags are funny enough, but it's at best a below average popcorn movie, only worth going out of your way to watch if you are a doing an X-Men marathon and you are a completist, which also means you will be watching Origins you poor fuckers, hey atleast Wolvie's claws don't look like something out of the Looney Tunes in this so there is that.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 31, 2020 23:28:36 GMT
It was fine. Though its plot now feels more suited to a tv series.
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