X-Men: The Last Stand
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jetpack_monkeyRandom thoughts on the "final" X-Men entry.
X-Men: The Last Stand moves fast. Very fast. It has a lot of plot to cram in, many characters to introduce, and it really doesn't waste its time by pondering philosophy and ethics, much as it would like you to think it does.
There are many, many moral grey areas in the film, mind, but they are presented like a bulleted list of discussion questions that is thwipped away before due consideration can be given, in order to present the outline of the next chapter and the next bulleted set of quandries that will be thwipped away with equal speed. While people are tossed about, disintegrated, or generally made to go 'splodey in the background. You know -- summer school in Cambodia.
So, no -- X-Men 3 is not the great thinking superhero film like X-Men and its immediate sequel, but oddly, I'm okay with that. There's something to be said about action movies with smart acting, slightly-cerebral concepts, visually exciting direction, and a breathless pace. It's really difficult not to enjoy yourself, and Ratner's directorial attitude seems to be "yes, I know I didn't explain that well enough, but you know enough about comics to get it -- fill in the rest. I got another preeeeeetty set-up to do." If you have a philosophy that can be proudly marked "Nothing was harmed in the making of this thought process" and you can sell it? I'm okay with it.
Not to say that it's a perfect film, but it's a fun one.
Top kudos to Kelsey Grammer, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Kelsey Grammer, and Vinnie Jones for the fun together. No love to Famke Janssen for wasting so much in a potentially juicy role.
Oh, and there's a reference to this video. It's funnier when Vinnie Jones says it.
X-Men: The Last Stand moves fast. Very fast. It has a lot of plot to cram in, many characters to introduce, and it really doesn't waste its time by pondering philosophy and ethics, much as it would like you to think it does.
There are many, many moral grey areas in the film, mind, but they are presented like a bulleted list of discussion questions that is thwipped away before due consideration can be given, in order to present the outline of the next chapter and the next bulleted set of quandries that will be thwipped away with equal speed. While people are tossed about, disintegrated, or generally made to go 'splodey in the background. You know -- summer school in Cambodia.
So, no -- X-Men 3 is not the great thinking superhero film like X-Men and its immediate sequel, but oddly, I'm okay with that. There's something to be said about action movies with smart acting, slightly-cerebral concepts, visually exciting direction, and a breathless pace. It's really difficult not to enjoy yourself, and Ratner's directorial attitude seems to be "yes, I know I didn't explain that well enough, but you know enough about comics to get it -- fill in the rest. I got another preeeeeetty set-up to do." If you have a philosophy that can be proudly marked "Nothing was harmed in the making of this thought process" and you can sell it? I'm okay with it.
Not to say that it's a perfect film, but it's a fun one.
Top kudos to Kelsey Grammer, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Kelsey Grammer, and Vinnie Jones for the fun together. No love to Famke Janssen for wasting so much in a potentially juicy role.
Oh, and there's a reference to this video. It's funnier when Vinnie Jones says it.
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Date: 2006-05-27 05:30 pm (UTC)I will now see this movie eight billion times, because it'd be worth it to hear Vinnie Jones say that line each time.
(I've not seen it yet. But now I'm a gonna work on my new roomies so that I can go, oh yes)
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm the Juggernaut... bitch.
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Date: 2006-05-30 01:22 pm (UTC)