Thursday, June 29, 2006

X-men Trilogy

I had only seen bits and pieces of the first X-men, so I watched the first two installments before seeing the third in the theater. As a disclaimer, I must mention that I am only moderately familiar with the details of the X-Men series and comics, so I have no historical bias as to how the storyline developed, all I know is what I saw while playing the arcade game at the skate rink. That being said, I would tend to disagree with the choice of making Wolverine the main character of the series (and as rumored the star of a solo project) as he is technically one of the weaker characters and traditionally not one that was focused on. ENDING GIVE AWAY WARNING! For those of you who think that the series can not continue as it ended in the Last Stand with the death of Professor Xavier, Gene Grey, Scott Summers and the (possible) loss of powers to Mystique and Magneto; I hope you stayed past the credits. A short scene after the credits revealed that Professor Xavier may not be dead, and may have taken over someone elses body. This is an incredible interesting cliff hanger: How can they continue the series with Professor Xavier in the form of another person, yet still being voiced by Patrick Stewart? Debate will rage until the next installment comes out, and probably still after that. I think its obvious that the cinematic version of X-Men is targeted at those with minimal exposure to comic book story lines, yet that shouldn't really bother the uber nerds who know the orginally story lines; they should just be happy they got to see the comic book made into movies.

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