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Mrs. Frakkor and I are looking forward to it as well. End of May, correct?

Looking forward to the next xmen movie.

Got a good laugh at how they almost hammered Phoenix Saga into your head in X2.

Christmen, please.



Dirty liberals

They casted Fraiser as Beast.


nifty.

Yeah, I'm pleased with that. His voice lends and air of legitimacy to the professor character I think.

Nexa

I'm assuming by your swank avatar your familiar with comic books. Too many story lines is a most common occurence.

I saw both X-Men and Superman: Returns trailers (using Marlon Brando's voice is genius) at V for Vendetta and they looked amazing.

Just watched both trailers. My only complaint is that it's not May yet.

Same way that I'm willing to take on Colin Farrell, Jude Law and Heath Ledger.

I love sexy voices, for some good phone pron, I'd take on Michael Douglas, Matthew McConaughey and Clive Owen.

See you in Boston

Silk baby. Silk.

I'm a bit concerned about this as well. Not only too many storylines, but maybe too many characters. Let's see. They ended with a lead in to the Phoenix saga, so we're presumably going to see that in some form. They've already got a large cast. Prof X, Cyclops, Wolvie, Storm, Rogue, and Iceman are all back as mains, plus a number of backdrop characters like Kitty, Piotr, Jubilee and such that they tend to toss in. To this, they're adding the whole Muir Island cast (Madrox, Roark, and Mactaggart), and Angel and Beast. But that's not enough. Let's toss in Juggernaught. And toss in Magneto as well. And hey! Let's toss the Morlocks in for iceing on the cake...


When are they going to have time between introducing characters to actually tell the Phoenix story *and* whatever other story is going on (gotta have magneto, the morlocks, and juggs in there for a reason). And btw. Where is the Hellfire club in all of this? Aren't they a significant part of the whole Phoenix thing anyway? Where's Sebastian Shaw? Where's Emma Frost? Are they maybe planning on stretching the saga out over a couple films instead of resolving it here?

Interesting bit I noticed in the credits of X2. The scene in the backround in the bar where the Beast (McCoy) is debating the issue of mutants on TV? Guess who he's debating with? Yup. Sebastian Shaw. The Black King of the Hellfire club. Just seemed interesting that they tossed that in. And strange that they're not going in that direction, since it's an obvious and historically accurate way to advance the story. This one *should* have been about a new attempt to "get" mutants. It should have been about Sentinels and secret organizations (and mutants like Shaw, who've infiltrated them). But at least from everything I've seen so far, they went in a totally different direction.

EDIT: Although interstingly enough, it does seem to have Bolivar Trask, who IIRC, was the guy in the comics who started the whole sentinel project in the first place (oddly enough, when he was killed, it was continued by Henry Gyrich, but he was the Senator's aid who was killed off in the *first* X-men film and replaced by Mystique, so they've already kinda changed things a bit).

Not that different isn't good. I'm hoping for a kick butt movie. I've just got some concerns as a long time X-men fan about where they're going with all of this. I know they intend for this to be the last X-men film, so I can kinda understand the changes. But it just seems "odd" to add more characters and story ideas if your purpose is to wrap everything in the series up. Why introduce new major characters in the 3rd film of a trilogy? I just have fears that you've got too many creative influences going on behind this film that aren't totally in sync.



Hehe. Still going to watch it of course though... :)

Edited, Tue Mar 21 22:09:29 2006 by gbaji

I've been pleased with the first two X-Men movies, but I'm agreeing completely with Gbaji. I'm worried that they are going to cram so much into this movie that the entire plot will never truly develop. I'm interested in seeing all of the backdrop characters don't get me wrong, but if they are sacrificing the plot for a 30 second cameo of Gambit, then it's not going to be a very good movie. But like Gbaji, I'll still be there to see it most likely, how can you not lol it's the X-Men.