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Author Topic: X-Men 3 Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-29-2006 01:11 PM                     I guess I don't quite see how self respect relates to time management, but wouldn't dividing your attention between TV watching and pool be "disrespectful" to both the filmmakers and your opponent? I can't imagine watching THE SOPRANOS while playing pool. I'd miss so much in terms of photography, since the light in the environment wouldn't be controlled, sound design, since I wouldn't be sitting in the "sweet spot" for the 5.1 channels, and especially editing, since I'd be taking shots during half of the cuts. And tell me you're not looking away as those credits roll at faster-than-light speed. As for your opponent, don't they deserve to play you at your best? How can you expect to do that when you're worried about Tony getting whacked? Of course, I'm exaggerating, but my point is that we all show respect in different ways, and I don't see any benefit to anyone in me sitting through five minutes of credits. And while I may not be able to watch 15 more movies a year, there have certainly been times, like today, where I realized that I would have just enough time to watch ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 before the Sox game started if only I stopped it before the end of the credits. [ 05-29-2006, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: Mike Schindler ]  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 05-29-2006 05:14 PM                     Just ou of curiosity (sorry about the spelling) do you americans actually do anything that is dangerous, apart fron declaing war on countries with a stange name? yOUR Footballers have body armour, rounders is called baseball(a mans sport?) and you're hopless at real football(soccer)!  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-29-2006 07:56 PM                     Of course we do dangerous stuff! This weekend, millions of Americans risked blindness by going to see X-MEN: THE LAST STAND .  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 05-29-2006 10:30 PM                     Back on subject... I liked the third X Men movie well enough. I read X Men when I was 13 and then stopped. I'm familiar with the characters but not the exact story line from the comics, which helps me enjoy the movies. I do think Halle Barry makes a terrible Storm though.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-30-2006 09:03 AM                        I liked it. All the mutants "coming out" kind of reminded me of "Mystery Men" Guess there are a few actors that no longer want to be in the Xmen franchise....  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-30-2006 12:25 PM                    Say what you will about the X-Men movies, but they always seem to put butts in the seats. After watching it again, I was able to pick up a few more things, and I liked it a little more.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-30-2006 12:35 PM                        X3 had the 4th-biggest opening ever. Someone from Fox said in an interview the age group demographics for the opening weekend audience is broader than they expected. Also that it's drawing a "crossover" audience and not just X-Men fanatics. Go figure.  |  IP: Logged Ian Woloschin Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Worcester, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-30-2006 07:51 PM                        I just saw X3 last night (5/29/06) at the Lowes (AMC?) Theater in Stony Brook, NY. The movie itself was pretty good, I never read the X-Men comics, though I know a decent amount of the story from my college roommate last year. I was surprised with the direction they took in the movie, but overall, as a action flick, I almost can justify paying $8.25 for it (yay student rates...). I say almost because when I'm back up at school this fall I'll be showing X3 myself and I'll see it for free, granted from in a booth, but the quality is better. Presentation wise, film was scratched (already!) slightly, but nothing horrible. Was slightly out of focus the entire time, though I didn't really notice this until the credits, when it was *very* noticable. I'm not sure if it was just me or the projector, but it seemed like the image was very flickery, almost like if the shutter was closed too long on each frame, but it's probably just me being used to the image my old DP-70s put out at school.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-30-2006 09:05 PM                     quote: David Stambaugh Someone from Fox said in an interview the age group demographics for the opening weekend audience is broader than they expected. Also that it's drawing a "crossover" audience and not just X-Men fanatics. Go figure. The "crossover audience" is known more precisely as women salivating over Hugh Jackman.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-30-2006 09:14 PM                     Was the focus out at the top of the screen during the credits? Would like to know if this is the print or us, there's nothing noticeable until the credits. Worldwide X3 must have taken a staggering amount. In the West End alone it is on at least eleven screens this week, that's within say a mile of each other at most, and they were probably all packed. I'll go when the crowds die down or before it gets moved from our 500-seater.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 06-01-2006 10:09 AM                     I thought it was kind of entertaining. It's not nearly as good as X1 or X2. It seems like it was over-edited. The first 2/3 just jumped around too much from plot point to plot point with very little continuity. If you haven't seen the first two, forget about seeing this one. You can't possibly understand half of the plot without knowing the back story. All-in-all I was a bit disappointed in "The Last Stand." I'll say 2 1/2 stars (btw, we need star and 1/2 star "smileys") out of 5.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 06-09-2006 01:18 PM                     I am not an X Men comic afficianado and even I was outraged at how lame they treated the Phoenix story arc. Why take the trouble to set her up in such a subtle way in the last XMen only to make her Hulkess in this movie. Aintitcool has a good story on how Rothman never gave this franchise any respect rushing production. I mean, with the abundance of characters, they still could not make a movie more than a 100 minutes long. I liked Kelsey Grammar as the beast. I wish they showed deMystique uncovered even longer. The way they handled the Cyclops subplot - LAAAAME. Oh, I did not bother to even sit through the entire credits to watch the extra scene. Since FOX could not wait an extra year to take the time to nurture this franchise, I will not give them my time to sit through the credits. I will catch the extra scene on cable. And Halle Berry gets an even bigger role? She was the worst part of the franchise. And I did not realize they recruited extras from Robocop 3 to play the parts of the new mutant characters that are led by Magneto.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-09-2006 01:43 PM                        I like all three just fine, with the first two having a lot more punch than III. Here I was enjoying the storyline about mutants and their woes, when right there in the New York Times, the reviewer tells me that it really is a subtext about homosexuals and society. Now, nothing against subtexts (and certainly not homosexuals), but stupid me didn't catch that. Can't a movie about mutants sometimes just be about mutants?  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 06-09-2006 08:05 PM                     Quite agree with that, too may 'minority' droups seem to jump on the nearest band waggon evan if the wheels have fallen off!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-10-2006 06:48 AM                        Well, I've not heard of any gay laying claim that X-Men is a bandwagon that they want to jump on....and to what purpose? It was the reviewer's "insight" or perhaps the better phrase would be "interpretation" that saw a gay theme as the subtext. And not for nothing, but EVERYONE jumps on whatever bandwaggon they think will do them any good, even the majorities do it, and then everyone else whines about it cause they are jealous that they didn't get to be on a bandwaggon too.  |  IP: Logged

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