tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post114868186586656051..comments2024-01-16T07:48:04.583-06:00Comments on Comics and More: X-Men: The Last Standpryde4747@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11628033835154946289noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post-1148949314770465382006-05-29T19:35:00.000-05:002006-05-29T19:35:00.000-05:00Caught you through When Fangirls Attack, and I agr...Caught you through When Fangirls Attack, and I agree with you on many points of X3 - it wasn't bad, it was just kinda...there.<BR/><BR/>Also, on Mystique's "reversal" - that could have (and should have) been a really good subplot: you have a woman with a complicated history with her mentor (suggested in the earlier films) suddenly lose her powers and abandoned. What do the filmmakers do? Make her strike out as a "jilted lover" - not explore the whole subtext of what-do-I-do-now-that-I'm-human? Maybe even suggest her own identity?<BR/><BR/>You're right - Whedon (or another writer) might have made that into strong filmmaking. As it stands, this film seems like let's-stuff-as-many-comic-book-references-as -humanly-possible.Gordon Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01048644813784102126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post-1148783869356126782006-05-27T21:37:00.000-05:002006-05-27T21:37:00.000-05:00you do realize you're forcing me to see it again, ...you do realize you're forcing me to see it again, right?pryde4747@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628033835154946289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post-1148763549686539962006-05-27T15:59:00.000-05:002006-05-27T15:59:00.000-05:00Didn't mind Xavier's death? Did you see the final ...Didn't mind Xavier's death? Did you see the final scene after the credits? :-)ADDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14926713718402276984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post-1148692642467117012006-05-26T20:17:00.000-05:002006-05-26T20:17:00.000-05:00I know what you're saying about Mystique - I'd be ...I know what you're saying about Mystique - I'd be pissed too. But I don't see Mystique turning tail and helping out the FEDs. Throughout the trilogy, she was the one that most embodied Magneto's message. What a sad, pathetic way to have her end her arc, when she had a view that provided some of the most thought-provoking moments of the pictures. I just don't see her helping people who she said things like "It's people like you who made me afraid to go to school" to, in the first film. She would be abandoning all she's learned and fought for up to that point. It's just too engrained in her character to react out of mere spite in the end.pryde4747@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628033835154946289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post-1148691401697700492006-05-26T19:56:00.000-05:002006-05-26T19:56:00.000-05:00I don't really think Mystique's actions were motiv...I don't really think Mystique's actions were motivated by the personal jilt so much as simply the fact that she was utterly abandoned by the movement. Perfectly believable, especially since that's often what happens to ex-terrorists in the real world. Especially considering the fact that her loyalty to Magneto was what got her "normed", it makes sense that she would be pissed.Tegan O'Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14815842488966694944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13602789.post-1148682622372021862006-05-26T17:30:00.000-05:002006-05-26T17:30:00.000-05:00Thanks for the good word on Last Stand .. I'll be ...Thanks for the good word on Last Stand .. I'll be seeing it Saturday morningReel Fanatichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09727636643227938924noreply@blogger.com