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X-Men III : The Last Stand ________________________________________________________________

okay wow! finally watched the other most anticipated blockbuster hit of the season. I must say i was not expecting much because of the very many negative comments i've heard before watching. With expectations lowered very much, i still tried to keep an objective view watching the movie. And guess what? i hated it. ..Nah just kidding. i Loved it! i dont care what the critics say. I cant get enough of X-Men movies i cant believe it's called the LAST stand i'm really hoping they're just playing with the audience and give us X-Men IIII in the not so distant future i cant believe jean sucked the life out of scott i cant believe mystique one of the coolest mutants lost her powers i cant believe they just refuse to give storm her long lustrous gray silver white hair i cant believe they allowed professor x to explode (literally) or evaporate or be blown away particle by particle molecule by molecule whatever in front of my eyes can you believe it professor x [!!!!!] i know i cant. okay so much for ranting. sigh. come to think of it, it's more of a love-hate relationship with this movie now. It has left me thirsty for more. okay not just thirsty, i'm practically dehydrated and dying from it.

Honestly i'm not so hot about the directing, scripting and how the whole movie was put together because some scenes are too brief and therefore lacking in details. But i'm going ga-ga over it because i got to see so many mutants!!! lets all jump for joy!! let snap our fingers!! lets wriggle our toes!! lets ....!! well but anyway, ALOT happened in this movie, perhaps more than it could take within 1 hour 45 mins. i'm not gonna list out everything that did but for some ideas look above. and neither am i gonna say magneto lost his powers because that little scene of him playing chess with himself just showed that the cure was not permanent. and as such, i can stop worrying for the likes of mystique and magneto and rogue already. i can just imagine, if there was to be another movie (THERE BETTER BE OR I'LL TURN NASTY), rogue and bobby (aka iceman) holding hands and walking on the streets when suddenly bobby starts convulsing and rogue looks on in horror. she's got her powers back!!....

x-men cartoons accompanied me through my childhood, and for me, the most beautiful part of it was the powers the mutants possessed. This movie satisfied me thoroughly with the bounteous display of powers from many different mutants. Damn i wish i was a mutant!!! one friend told me, they could have went deeper with the mutants' characters etc. But think about it, at the end, most of the bad ones vaporised!! so no point going into their characters and backgrounds there. of course, there are those that survived lar(like the very cool -african american- girl who moves like Flash, dunno her name though), but then i think the director didnt go into such depth because it's gonna be in the next movie. Right? :D

Anyway for those who dont know already scott (aka cyclops) and jean and prof X died. Jean and prof X, being mutants of a high grade (or is it due to their psychic abilities) should be able to resurrect themselves so after the initial grief and total despair i'm alright now. cyclops is probably gone forever though...sob. and i dont know if everyone got to catch it, but there is one very brief scene at the end of the credits. sort of like a bonus and 'twist' to the movie. for those who didnt manage to catch it, the scene's basically about one doctor (the elizabeth hurley lookalike in the tape shown by prof X to his students about ethics) checking on her patient, only to hear him say something(her name i think) in a very familiar voice and she goes, in shock, 'charles?......' yup! so, hint hint there. Charles Xavier, the infamous professor X himself is not dead!! apparently he took over the man's body or someth..the patient is terminally ill i think. SEE. i told you he couldnt die. it's just not right. :D *heaves a great sigh of relief. anyway does anyone here think patrick steward, the guy playing prof x, is the perfect person to play him!!? i swear the creator must have had patrick stewart in mind when he drew prof x. they look 101% alike! no one else can play prof x. no one!!!!

hmm...now what else did i want to say..oh yes!! i didnt know mutants had grades! hahaha. (hopefully no one will ever grade humans coz i think i'd be a pretty low grade lol.) the whole grading thing made me think of wat all of their grades would be. like storm, prof x[!!!], wolverine, rogue etc... what a typical human being i am right, always waiting to judge people(or mutants in this case) and i'd probably end up liking those with the higher grade...haha. but i wouldnt! i'd just like those with the cooler powers (omg i sound like a teenage boy with hormone imbalances who's a X-Men fanatic). hahaha. but usually those with the cooler powers are of a higher grade...so..heh. anyway!! i decided to grade some of the mutants, just for fun :D

Jean Grey: grade 5 (this one was graded in the movie itself already)

Professor X: 4 ( if there was a half i'll give it to him :D but honestly speaking, prof x is so well controlled and disciplined that the extent of his powers is not really obvious. esp since it deals with the mind)

Cyclops: 3 half ( okay this is really ironic. i just read from a *website that ranked the 25 top X-Men, and prof x was second. guess who's first? yes, cyclops. ?!!?!?and he died?!!?!?)

Storm: 4 (without the half!)

Wolverine: 3

Rogue: 3 half ( this one's tough. her talent's actually really powerful but only at close range..)

Cool african american Flash girl: 4

Magneto: 4 half (i love Ian Mckellen. He made me feel sorry for magneto at the climax)

Mystique: 4 (this is after adding her intelligence to the equation. lol)

Juggernaut: 1 half ( the half is for his amazing strength of not being able to be stopped by anything after he gains momentum blah blah blah. the one is for his astonishing stupidity)

Beast: 2 (i dont really know what his talent is actually other than his superhuman strength and agility.. and can you believe he was played by Kelsey Grammer? the guy of Frasier. lol!)

Angel boy: 1 ( was quite highly rated in the *website as well but was very underdeveloped in the movie. his only talent, as i see it, is flying with wings. big deal?)

Kitty : 2 (walking through walls...okay. but i hear she's very prominent later on in the series)

disclaimer: grading was done in a few minutes. zero credibility! i only based their talents on what i saw in the movies. not a hardcore marvel comics fan.

Excerpts from very first movie:

Logan (talking about leather uniforms): "You actually go out in these things?"
Scott: "What would you prefer; yellow spandex?"

Logan: "Hey, it's me"
Scott: "Prove it."
Logan: "You're a dick."
Scott. "Okay.
[taken from: http://dreamwater.org/scottsummers/qoutes.html]

Ps: jean grey looks like the girl from exorcist when she's in her dark phoenix form. scary! and where's gambit!!!! and okay my 7 day break starts today instead! lol.

*http://comics.ign.com/articles/708/708826p1.html

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