X-3 - Good, But Not Great. Why?

[PeruvianSkies]

My biggest gripe with this film was the lack of emotion in the film. This was suppose to be the darkest of all the films for reasons like...well, the death of 3 X-men. Oops, sorry SPOILERS ALERT......

So, 3 X-men die...and that's about how exciting or dramatic they make it.

The glossed over the deaths so much that when Cyclopes died...my wife looked over to me about 10 minutes later and was like... "He's dead". Yep, I said. Boohoo.

Why on earth did they make 2 previous movies to make us love these characters and then kill them off in such a poor manner that we hardly even care. Xavier is obliterated into nothingness and it's almost like....oh well.

The film needed more emotional moments and it needed to be darker in order to give us a more mournful experience, but that's what happens when we get Ratner as the director.

[Groundbeef]

It just proves the point that CGI cannot save a crappy plotline or dialoge. It seemed to me that the pacing was off, as if each scene was filmed only for the CGI to be introduced.


I think the worst example was moving the GG bridge. The scene was completely scripted so we can see the bridge be moved. Yawnnnnnn......It was like, comon already.

The acting was a bit stilted, and as others have said, there was no emotional envolvment in the death of Xavier or Cyclops. It was just a bad film all around.

Maybe its like Star Trek, and the next one will be better. However, if whales are involved in any way, I will turn it off!

[topspeed]

Maybe its like Star Trek, and the next one will be better. However, if whales are involved in any way, I will turn it off!

[bobsticks]

I remember as a kid hanging out at my friend's dad's pizzeria and arcade (can you say "mobbed-up"?) and picking up an X-Men comic book off the racks. I think I probably started in the 120s and read through 150 or so.
Much like the Bourne series of movies, this whole series, culminating with this movie, were slickly produced with many effects and top dollar actors. What somebody in H-wood forgot was the stories that made these characters popular in the first place.
I don't deny that these are fun movies with which to test your system. It just seems like the current modus operandi is to take characters with a bit of name recognition and slap together some lame excuse for explosions.