Comments on: Thoughts on X-3, and why it’s getting harder to be a comic book fan

By: Noodles

Noodles — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:11:14 +0000

well that’s no big deal. all girls can do that.

By: Phil Kahn

Phil Kahn — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:49:53 +0000

Stacy X’s mutant power was the ability to control pheremones or something. Basically, they made her power sex.

By: Noodles

Noodles — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:50:36 +0000

I thought what killed the Batman movies was a combination of poor directing and trying to take the whole thing back to the “Adam West” era and still keep a semblance of the darkness Burton added to it. In my opinion the Burton movies and the latest one are the only Batman movies worth a damn. (Oh, and the Adam West era stuff is in a class of it’s own. It rocks for it’s own reasons.)

Anyway, I never read super hero comics as a kid. My experience with X-Men started with the animated series. I don’t even know who the fuck Stacy X is, and neither will over half of the American population. As an ‘occasional fan’ of X-Men, I’m just hoping to be entertained like I was when I first started watching the cartoon as a kid at this point.

By: William G

William G — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:01:54 +0000

Well, you’re right. If they do smartly keep all of these mutants in the background, things should be okay. But X2 was pretty much pushing the limits of being un-entertaining when they focused on characters other than Wolverine… Let’s face it. If Huge Jackman didnt carry the weight of the thing so well, the series would be in “Punisher Land”

By: Blue

Blue — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:27:23 +0000

I don’t know, William. I don’t think they “overloaded it with characters” – there were lots of them in the first movie (I enjoyed pointing out Pyro and Shadowcat and Jubilee, for one) and the second movie had more (Colossus, another Shadowcat, Siren, Warlock, and the WHOOOOOOLE list that Mystique scrolls through to find Magneto). I think it’s how much of a point the movie makes about these scattered characters – if they’re featured like “Not now, STACEY X, blah blah blah” or “he’s like some kind of MULTIPLE MAN!” in a really cheeseball way, then BARF. There’s a right and a wrong way to do it… I think the right way is to reward the fans with glimpses of the characters they recognize from the series, but NOT punish those who have no idea who they are (ex. when I was watching X2, a friend and I were spazzing all over that list while our other two friends didn’t notice anything special about it). The WRONG way is a furthering of a different agenda, a kind of “who’s who” cascade of names and faces – a furthering of what I felt could go wrong that I mentioned before: getting away from the original point.

(And the Batman series didn’t suck because they overloaded it with characters. It began to suck because the scripts were ass, the effects were stupid, and the acting made me want to stab out my own eyes.)

By: Abby L

Abby L — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:48:51 +0000

The problem (or possible parallel) in the Darth Vader example is that Darth Vader was in the film for two minutes and it was STUPID. And none of the people who like Darth Vader and think he’s cool liked that portrayal.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:37:54 +0000

People are making too big of a deal of all the minor characters. I bet if anything they all just show up, use thier power once, then get punched in the face. It’s like with Darth Vader in Episode III. They made a big deal about him being in it and he was in it for two minutes. If anything most of the characters are just nods to the fans, just like when they cast actors that looked like other characters in the first two. Personally I’m looking forward to this movie.

By: Phil Kahn

Phil Kahn — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:22:04 +0000

Whew, thank goodness I ain’t the only one.

By: Abby L

Abby L — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:17:15 +0000

Is it weird that whenever I see X3, I see an excited cat face?

By: William G

William G — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:29:39 +0000

X3 will suck simply because they’ve overloaded it with characters. It’s what killed the Batman franchise back in the 90s.