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redfiona99Once again breaking with the format because, while there are three particular scenes I will focus on, mostly it's just going on about how good Beast is in X-Men 3 and how he's the only highlight of the film.
The case for the prosecution:
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angstbunny was right when she said it was made by the Despair Squid. Sadly the best description of the multiple faults of X-Men 3 is in someone else's post that's long since been lost to the depredations of internet time. I shall have to do my best to explain its many problems.
1 - Killing off one character in such an off-handed manner that one of the writers was still apologising about it 8 years later.
2 - Killing off another character just have him randomly brought back at the end in the most aggravating case of Marvel dead ever.
3 - Wasting the Phoenix story.
4 - Having Bobby Drake and Kitty Pryde doing things that caused everyone to go either 'Kitty would never,' or 'Bobby would never' or both.
5 - Generally having a lot of characters being not quite themselves. Including giving my darling girl Marrow's powers to someone who looks significantly more like Maggot [or possibly Spyke from X-Men Evolution].
6 - Having the end be a pallid rerun of the ending of X-Men 1. Which is still my favourite of the films (sorry).
The Redeeming Feature of the Film:
Kelsey Grammer as Beast.
I mean, the X-Men casting directors have made maybe one mistake in 6 plus 2 films, but this was perfect.
It's perfect from the first time we see Hank, hanging upside down in his office of state. I have a soft spot for this scene because it looks a lot like the first time I ever saw Beast, which was hanging upside down in a lab in the cartoons, and, if we whisper it quietly around Gambit, Beast may be my favourite (joint favourite. Gambit is still my baby boy.).
That scene:
(In keeping with tradition, I can't find the other two scenes online and my internet issues prevent me from uploading them. Once I have internet again I will update this post.)
I also really like this bit from the fight scene at the end:
Logan: [while he and Beast are fighting off Magneto's forces] I thought you were a diplomat.
Dr. Hank McCoy: As Churchill said, "There comes a time when every man must..."
[pauses to fight off another baddie, then another, then another]
Dr. Hank McCoy: Oh, you get the point!
Because yes, well that is the duality of Hank in one snippet.
But my favourite scene has to be the one where Hank meets Leech, and his blue fur fades as Hank comes closer to Leech. Kelsey Grammer sells so much with just his body language. He manages to convey both Hank's desire to be "normal", his knowledge of why this way of doing it is wrong, and trying to remember there's a boy behind this, not just a cure. With his arm. And a shake of his head. It's fantastic.
I have no idea how they got Beast so right and everyone else so wrong in X-Men 3.
The case for the prosecution:
angstbunny was right when she said it was made by the Despair Squid. Sadly the best description of the multiple faults of X-Men 3 is in someone else's post that's long since been lost to the depredations of internet time. I shall have to do my best to explain its many problems.1 - Killing off one character in such an off-handed manner that one of the writers was still apologising about it 8 years later.
2 - Killing off another character just have him randomly brought back at the end in the most aggravating case of Marvel dead ever.
3 - Wasting the Phoenix story.
4 - Having Bobby Drake and Kitty Pryde doing things that caused everyone to go either 'Kitty would never,' or 'Bobby would never' or both.
5 - Generally having a lot of characters being not quite themselves. Including giving my darling girl Marrow's powers to someone who looks significantly more like Maggot [or possibly Spyke from X-Men Evolution].
6 - Having the end be a pallid rerun of the ending of X-Men 1. Which is still my favourite of the films (sorry).
The Redeeming Feature of the Film:
Kelsey Grammer as Beast.
I mean, the X-Men casting directors have made maybe one mistake in 6 plus 2 films, but this was perfect.
It's perfect from the first time we see Hank, hanging upside down in his office of state. I have a soft spot for this scene because it looks a lot like the first time I ever saw Beast, which was hanging upside down in a lab in the cartoons, and, if we whisper it quietly around Gambit, Beast may be my favourite (joint favourite. Gambit is still my baby boy.).
That scene:
(In keeping with tradition, I can't find the other two scenes online and my internet issues prevent me from uploading them. Once I have internet again I will update this post.)
I also really like this bit from the fight scene at the end:
Logan: [while he and Beast are fighting off Magneto's forces] I thought you were a diplomat.
Dr. Hank McCoy: As Churchill said, "There comes a time when every man must..."
[pauses to fight off another baddie, then another, then another]
Dr. Hank McCoy: Oh, you get the point!
Because yes, well that is the duality of Hank in one snippet.
But my favourite scene has to be the one where Hank meets Leech, and his blue fur fades as Hank comes closer to Leech. Kelsey Grammer sells so much with just his body language. He manages to convey both Hank's desire to be "normal", his knowledge of why this way of doing it is wrong, and trying to remember there's a boy behind this, not just a cure. With his arm. And a shake of his head. It's fantastic.
I have no idea how they got Beast so right and everyone else so wrong in X-Men 3.
