today i saw x-men 3. that's right, i'm about to become the 94,882nd person to blog about it, and that's just on blogger: who knows what untold stretches of text have been created on other blogging sites!?
anyway, disappointment. my knowledge of the phoenix saga is not what it should be, but taking a quick glance at the wikipedia page (hold on, i'm about to turn into a geeky puddle of goo), i can see that there is litte relation between the movie and the phoenix saga. for one, the phoenix saga seems to involve a lot of aliens and names and characters that i've never heard of. i'm not against that, i'm just saying: whoa. not that it mattered, because they were pretty much done with that storyline about five mintues into the movie. great. awesome.
the reason the movie wasn't as good as the last two, however, had more to do with the total lack of character development. the last two movies had this great way of telling you about someone's situation, pulling you onto their side (or, at least, forcing you to understand where they were coming from), and then throwing them into these situations where you actually cared what happened to them. not so much in this film. there are half-a-dozen new characters, and absolutely none of them get a decent backstory; even angel, played by ben foster of six feet under, who looks to be one of the main four characters from the movie posters, has about 20 minutes of screentime, almost no dialogue, and though we see a scene from his childhood, it does absolutely nothing to inform us of who this kid is, outside of a petulant teen with wings. lame! he doesn't even do any contributing to the team fight effort, which we all know is the hallmark of whether someone is an x-person.
the lackluster quality of the movie (and truly, it's because it followed two superb films that it is is so lackluster) has led me to really hate the definitive one-timeness of movie making. yes, it's expensive and costly to make films, but part of me would love to see something along the lines of a film-off: give two production companies the same outlined script, and see who makes the better movie. yes, it makes no sense, but... christ. what a waste.
all right. i'm fading fast. until next time.
anyway, disappointment. my knowledge of the phoenix saga is not what it should be, but taking a quick glance at the wikipedia page (hold on, i'm about to turn into a geeky puddle of goo), i can see that there is litte relation between the movie and the phoenix saga. for one, the phoenix saga seems to involve a lot of aliens and names and characters that i've never heard of. i'm not against that, i'm just saying: whoa. not that it mattered, because they were pretty much done with that storyline about five mintues into the movie. great. awesome.
the reason the movie wasn't as good as the last two, however, had more to do with the total lack of character development. the last two movies had this great way of telling you about someone's situation, pulling you onto their side (or, at least, forcing you to understand where they were coming from), and then throwing them into these situations where you actually cared what happened to them. not so much in this film. there are half-a-dozen new characters, and absolutely none of them get a decent backstory; even angel, played by ben foster of six feet under, who looks to be one of the main four characters from the movie posters, has about 20 minutes of screentime, almost no dialogue, and though we see a scene from his childhood, it does absolutely nothing to inform us of who this kid is, outside of a petulant teen with wings. lame! he doesn't even do any contributing to the team fight effort, which we all know is the hallmark of whether someone is an x-person.
the lackluster quality of the movie (and truly, it's because it followed two superb films that it is is so lackluster) has led me to really hate the definitive one-timeness of movie making. yes, it's expensive and costly to make films, but part of me would love to see something along the lines of a film-off: give two production companies the same outlined script, and see who makes the better movie. yes, it makes no sense, but... christ. what a waste.
all right. i'm fading fast. until next time.
posted by Charlie Beckerman at 23:31
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