yeah if one thing that peeved me it was the fact it flew along. Could have perhaps done with a slower paced opening, spent more time at the school for one thing. An extra 15-20mins would have done it good.

I wouldn't be so sure that this would be the last one (not counting spin-offs). It made about 45 million on Friday alone, so Fox will probably go back and say "We never meant for this to be the last one!" Fucking hollywood.

While watching the movie it became apparent to me that this would be the last one, however, those final scenes made me quickly do a 180 turn. If you're going to end the series why shoehorn those revelations into the film, why not just end it..?? The fact that its making cash (anything over USD200 million will pretty much assure another) tells me more are coming.

Was anybody else embarrassed for the film when Vinnie Jones says "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"? Yes, I've seen the cartoon voiceovers, and yes, it was funny for the first 2 minutes I watched it (anyone who could make it through that entire thing of 2 guys talking about fucking each other or saying that quote 200 times is better than I am), but did they really need to give a shout to it? I mean with everything this film needed to do with the seriously short running time, I think the Juggernaut bitch shit was plain stupid.

I believe it's been reported there will be Magneto vs. Wolverine spin offs. As far as having the other characters in those films, who knows only time will tell.

I'll actually be seeing this movie tomorrow in theaters. I wasn't sure if I would be or not so I downloaded it and watched it.

I for one loved it, I am a bit over-whelmed though by some parts of the film but as a whole I definitely enjoyed it. As far as the big reveal after the end credits, I read the spoiler since I doubt I'll be able to stay for after the End Credits and I don't really want to wait until this fall for this to come out on DVD and see what happens.

I dunno for the "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" line I laughed at it and even Kitty's response to him. I also loved how Kelsey Grammer pulled the character Hank McCoy / The Beast off pretty well, I had a feeling he would.

Again over all I enjoyed the movie I can't wait to see it on the big screen tomorrow and I definitely can't wait to buy it on DVD this fall.

By the way I was told this has become the second highest money making movie since ROTS, is that true?

I have a new respect for the first two X-Men movies after sitting through this crapola.

Kelsey did steal the show with easily the best performance of all of them, which really surprised me.

As for spin-offs, there isn't a "Wolverine v Magneto" movie, but both a Wolverine and a Magneto movie in the works. I'm guessing that the Magneto movie was the reason for the Magneto part at the end, and maybe even the post-credit scene.

and just one other thing I'm quite accustomed to todays CG wizardry yada yada yada amd I usually keep my praise for the SW movies because there's always shit in them I am in awe about, however some of the effects in TLS I was like "fuuuck".

When Jean Gray went postal on that house I thought that was hella cool.

Not unless it earns about 300 million more today (Memorial Day). It is the biggest opening weekend since ROTS, and 4th overall in first 3 days.

Well I must say nothing beats seeing a movie on the big screen. All though the theater I was at they had the front speakers down to low and a lot of times you could barely hear the dialogue.

A complaint: Why the fuck can't parents find baby sitters for their actual young babies? A theater is no place for young babies especially for a movie like X-Men 3. There was this one couple that was sitting a seat over from my dad and I and a lot of times their fucking kid cried and I just wanted to yell, "Shut that fucking kid up!" I swear bringing babies to theaters is one thing that annoys the shit out of me big time.

By the way I just read this on msn.com.

"X-Men: The Last Stand" stormed to an estimated $107 million three-day opening, the largest ever for Memorial Day weekend and the fourth-biggest in box office history."

"The 20th Century Fox film opened in 3,690 theaters and grossed a whopping $28,997 per theater."

"On the all-time list, "X-Men: The Last Stand" ranks behind only "Spider-Man," "Star Wars: Episode III" and "Shrek 2" for opening weekend gross. None of the other films opened on a holiday weekend, which usually gives movies a boost."

So far X-Men 3 has made a total of world wide $120,125,000 for opening weekend. That's not pretty damn bad at all. Shit X-Men 3 out beat ROTS on opening weekend. ROTS only made $108, 435, 841 on opening weekend. That's according to boxofficemojo so msn was a bit wrong about it being behind ROTS. Plus the three day weekend isn't over yet, they said that they will have the final results of this weekend after tonight to see how much it fully made for its opening weekend..

Edit: By the way I remember someone stating that they missed that Nightcrawler was not in the movie, however I think he was. I think it was Nightcrawler or another muntant with the same teleportation abilities. During the battle of Alcatraz I caught a glimps of a muntant teleporting the same way Nightcrawler did. Perhaps Nightcrawler for some reason decided to switch sides and joined Magneto.

Actually, the 120,100,000 was for Friday - Monday. Because of Memorial Day. ROTS opened with 108,435,841 from Friday - Sunday (although they actually made more by Sunday if you figure in that it opened on a Thursday). But anyway, X3 made 107,000,000 (estimated) from Friday - Sunday. So ROTS actually is 2nd on the all time opening weekend list behind Spider-Man who beat the shit out of everyone with 114,000,000.

I was able to catch this movie tonight (Tuesday) and really enjoyed it. Yes there were parts that could have been slowed down, with a little more emphasis on some character developement like Angel, or at least some back story that could have added to the overall plot of the movie.

[spoil]One aspect I didn't like was how "glanced" over some of the deaths/ cures were. Mystique gets the "cure" Gandalf leaves her, she gives up an old position of where the Brotherhood was and that's it. Cyclops looks into Jeans eyes then bam, we don't see him and he's dead (or is he). That and some of the FX in a couple different parts. I almost laughed at the beginning when I saw a 20 year "younger" Magneto. [/spoil]

Other than those minor things, I really like the movie. Oh yea, Beast kicked some ass.

I very much disagree. As a longtime reader of the comics (since 3rd grade to be precise), I didn't find my familiarity to be "baggage" in the slightest. Quite the contrary, it enhanced my enjoyment of the film ten-fold. I find it very hard to believe that someone totally unfamiliar with the comic would get the same thrill out of seeing Wolvie and Colossus executing the Fastball Special against a Sentinel in the Danger Room, or hearing Beast utter "Oh my stars and garters!"

Case in point; my second time seeing the movie, I noticed there was this trio of teenagers who had this reaction indicating total cluelessness when some audience members cheered the scene where Iceman (finally) "ices up".

As a dyed in the wool comic book dork, I consider myself something of a purist (I loathe everything that is Ultimate Marvel for instance), but I also tend to keep a level headed approach towards "adaptations" (particularly book to film) if that makes any sense. So long as the important core elements are faithfully retained I'm happy, and any further details that are retained and/or shouted out to are a bonus.

I have my fair share of complaints to be sure, but on the whole I thoroughly enjoyed Last Stand, ranking it in between X2 (still my fave), and X1 (my least fave, still a really good movie but waaaay to much of a "prologue" rather than an actual story arc). If I had never really been much into X-Men before these movies, I'd probably regard them as nifty action flicks with great characters and an awesome message. But I think due in large part to my familiarity, and my having grown up with these characters and having a special place in my heart for this universe makes these movies a bit more special to me, and thus something a bit more than simple summer popcorn flicks.

Wow, that hour and a half really flies along. I haven't been a big fan of the previous X-Men movies, and this one didn't really turn my crank either. The action was entertaining, but this film really suffered from lack of exposition.

Pheonix was cool, as was any scene with Mystique, and R. Lee Ermey made me laugh. Plus the body count. I was pretty underwhelmed by everything else, like Beast for example. The Rogue storyline seemed tacked on, as if nobody really cared about the continuation of her story from the first two films and she was there as an afterthought.

Also, I thought the plot revolving around the Chemo Kid wasn't taken as far as it could have been. He lives on an island under the protection of humans? What happened to him after he was rescued?

All-in-all it was way too short and I'm glad I didn't pay to see this one.

About Leech (I think that was his name) he ended up living at the mansion.

I totally agree with you about the Rogue story line too. Oh hey, look I'm cured!! That was lame.

I'm definitely with you guys on that one. Rogue's character suffered quite a bit in the transition from comic to screen in general, but here in this film she was completely wasted. Shame, she's a much stronger character (literally and figuratively) in the comics. Still she's in the minority of characters who were weakened in the films as opposed to the majority of characters that were absolutely nailed (like Wolverine, Beast, Nightcrawler, Professor Xavier etc.).

I think nailed is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. Better adapted than Rogue though, no doubt. I think not having her accidentaly absorb Ms. Marvel (or someone powerful for that matter) put her at a disadvantage from the word go. She was more or less depowered other than saving herself from shit thru the whole series. And she had no cleavage, and was jailbait. Really lost all of the appeal and purpose of the character, beyond the first film.

I recon this stuff is pretty interesting:

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X-Men 3 used some pretty amazing digital trickery to portray Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart as younger versions of themselves. Now you can see side-by-side comparisons of just how drastic the transformations were, turning Stewart into a smooth plastic doll, and McKellen into Timothy Dalton's gayer brother.

Full article here: http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/casestudies/6703.html[/align]

I thought X3 came together as well as it could under the circumstances. It certainly was interesting to see the similarities between certain X comics and the plot of X3. Astonishing X-Men and the cure, anyone?

I certainly hope we get more in the series (especially with that age-reduction technology...crazy stuff)

4 Deleted Scenes up at IGN, the best of which is the extended fight sequence at Jean's house, who the hell knows why they cut this one out.


http://media.dvd.ign.com/media/845/845171/vids_1.html

I hope they have these scenes either in the movie for the DVD or at least on the DVD as deleted scenes.

Those are three of the ten deleted scenes we're getting and one of the alternate endings (Logan goes back to Canada). I think it is ten deleted scenes and all three alternate endings for the Region 1 DVD.

Unfortunately, everyone else is getting the TWO DISC.

Ratner has already admitted that we're getting a two disc in the US eventually. It will probably be used to hype the Wolverine prequel.

The two disc has twenty-one deleted scenes and the same three alternate endings.