Keep in mind that I still haven’t seen the first two films, but I don’t think that was terribly necessary in understanding or appreciating (?) this one.
01. OMFG SNAKES ON A PLANE TRAILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For reals, yo, this was pretty much the highlight of the whole movie for me and it wasn’t even a part of the movie. I was trying not to get my hopes up out of fear that they wouldn’t show it — Like, my heart skipped a beat. Seriously. And it was short and sweet and I nearly died and I was the ONLY one clapping. The guy beside my sister was like “Is this for real?” Dude, yes, yes it is.
02. The flahsback with Magneto and The Professor? Cute and creepy at the same time. Cute in that as they first approached the house they were sort of OTP x 10 and you couldn’t help but go “Aw!” Creepy in that the whole “let’s make these old dudes look 20 years younger” digitization was frightening beyond all belief. And, um, what sane parents would leave their young daughter alone with two obviously weird men?
03. The movie was amusing in a kind of dumb way most of the way along, but once Magneto was like “FLYING BRIDGE TO ALCATRAZ OMG!” I kind of lost it with its stupidity.
04. I have a problem taking characters in wheelchairs seriously in films because of previous films where people have behaved ridiculously in their wheelchairs. I’m mainly referring to Mason Verger in Hannibal after his first chat with the captured Dr Lecter.
05. Wolverine is totally hot. Okay, I know this is not news, but he had the proper effect on my ovaries that the filmmakers intended. Amelia says that while he always had a strong personality in the other films, suddenly he’s this wisecracker, which was sort of weird. I mean, what’s with all the one-liners? And that scene at the end before he killed Jean? If bits of his FLESH are flying off and we can see the bones in his ribcage, it doesn’t seem logical that his pants would still be intact. Clearly he has the same tailor as the Incredible Hulk.
06. What’s the point of this new Angel character? Can you say set up for X4? Because he pretty much had very little bearing on the film; his father could still have created the cure without making any point of introducing his son. The scene that introduced him was sort of heart breaking, though. I get that his son was his motive for creating it, I just think they could have found other similar motives without introducing a character who had so little to do with the film. Clearly he’s meant for X4, which means the filmmakers were being ridiculously heavy-handed.
07. It’s great that Storm’s super power is basically pathetic fallacy, really. *facepalm* But I love that she had that hate on with that other super-speedy chick.
08. Ian McKellan still pretty much pwns everything. I’d join his army. The only problem is that he looks sort of silly in that helmet. And magnetless!Magneto playing chess at the end? TRAGIC.
09. The dialogue was really, really awful in places. Like, Star Wars level of cheese. Which I enjoy to an extent, but still sort of annoying.
10. Everyone kept telling me that everyone died at the end of this, so I was expecting a real bloodbath. I kept waiting for Magneto, Wolverine, and Storm to die and then … nothing. NOTHING.