just saw the movie. finally.
really cool. better than x1, dd, and spider-man.
otoh, i had a fair number of nitpicks.
minor ones with deathstrike (she didn't know logan, she could retract her claws, she had healing powers)
bobby was seriously underused.
what the heck happend to kitty and collossus and all those kids?
why couldn't someone else have stopped those missiles? pyro could have expanded the thruster flames and blown them up. bobby could have pelted them with ice. storm could have knocked them aside. jean could have shielded the jet. in a pinch, kurt could have teleported them out of the way.
speaking of kurt, if he didn't want to make blind 'ports, why was he willing to port out of the falling jet and back in?
and why couldn't any of them have saved the jet? jean's telekenisis combined with storm's wind control should have done the trick. i guess bobby wasn't quite up to an ice slide at that point, but i sort of expected it of him.
who was the kid with the forked tongue? what about the one who never sleeps and could change the channels by blinking? (btw, the guards were shooting tranquilizer dars, so he wasn't seriously hurt)
jean's "death" made no sense (way too many ways that could have gone differently), and i knew she wasn't dead anyway, what with all those pheonix hints. made it even worse when the prof didn't notice until the very end and cyclops and wolvie were getting all teary. i just kept expecting her to burst out of the lake surrounded by a full glory pheonix effect.
how was jason able to make the prof try to kill people? i can see him tricking the prof into trying to find the x-men, but not kill them. especially since that meant that prof was also linked to jason's mind. and can the prof really link to all those billions of non-mutants, especially with a secondhand cerebro?
was it just me, or was kurt making eyes at mystique for a sec there? dude, that's your mom! nice to see a little brotherly scene for a sec with rogue, tho.
are they actually going to do the pheonix saga in x3? seems unlikely, since that would involve trying to explain the shi'ar, the crystal, and corsair all at once.
cool seeing beast. very unexpected, considering the way they stuck jean with his role when they cut him out of the first movie. odd to see him looking human, tho. i guess this is before he goes all blue and furry, but still, even at the beginning (when there were 5 x-men and jean could only lift as much with her mind as she could with her hands) he looked vaguely ape-like.
that opening scene with kurt ROCKED!
wouldn't have liked logan cutting loose in the mansion, but the crowd was so enthusiastic that i had to go with it. it was definitely spot-on wolverine, right down to the growl/roar.
was it just me, or did it look like bobby froze part of the dam for a minute there? things stopped shaking, there was frost coming out of the pipes, and they stepped out into a huge snowscape. then we find out that no, bobby was in the jet the whole time doing nothing.
oh- about the uniforms.. wolvie's comment was a joke, but even so, i don't think they had actual uniforms. i think what happened was that the prof made the president think the lights had gone out and the feed had been cut, etc. then he linked all their minds and the x-men saw themselves as being in uniform. the file on his desk was, i think, kitty's work (and the prof just made sure everyone was staring too hard at the president to notice it being put there). either that, or it was there before the president got into the room, and the prof kept him from noticing it (and everyone else just thought it was a random file- a briefing or something).
oh- about jubilee... i was kind of wondering if that was her at the end, sitting on the couch with the hoop earrings.
think that's about it.
next?
Paul
