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jackI saw X-men 3 again. It's still well done (though still silly in all the ways people said it was before).
* It definitely benefits from a big screen
* Magneto and the tattoo, magneto and the bridge, Hank "There comes a time when any man... oh, you get the idea", are all my favourite moments.
* It's still stupid to build a magneto-proof prison out of metal. What's next, out of money or high explosives?
* I notice Magneto, despite being willing to kill all humans in the world last film, still attacks on foot rather than, eg. dropping a nickel-iron asteroid on alcatrz island
* Alternatively, I notice Storm, Magneto, Wolverine, Charles, Pyro, etc could nearly run the economy of a small country. What would it be worth to never have any storms devastate any coast for ever, or free space travel, or free heat, or free meat? Oil barons get legal breaks, how about mutants? :)
ETA: Did Magneto's powers start coming back for any particular reason? Is he just that cool? Do class 4 mutants have greater powers in other ways? Or did they just not have enough long term testing for the cure and it's going to wear off for *everyone*. That would have been handy to know before.
ETA: The academy is going to be fun with Jimmy in some classes, it'll keep some people on their toes.
* It definitely benefits from a big screen
* Magneto and the tattoo, magneto and the bridge, Hank "There comes a time when any man... oh, you get the idea", are all my favourite moments.
* It's still stupid to build a magneto-proof prison out of metal. What's next, out of money or high explosives?
* I notice Magneto, despite being willing to kill all humans in the world last film, still attacks on foot rather than, eg. dropping a nickel-iron asteroid on alcatrz island
* Alternatively, I notice Storm, Magneto, Wolverine, Charles, Pyro, etc could nearly run the economy of a small country. What would it be worth to never have any storms devastate any coast for ever, or free space travel, or free heat, or free meat? Oil barons get legal breaks, how about mutants? :)
ETA: Did Magneto's powers start coming back for any particular reason? Is he just that cool? Do class 4 mutants have greater powers in other ways? Or did they just not have enough long term testing for the cure and it's going to wear off for *everyone*. That would have been handy to know before.
ETA: The academy is going to be fun with Jimmy in some classes, it'll keep some people on their toes.
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Date: 2008-01-03 11:25 am (UTC)The real problem with mutants, I think, is not just that they all have different and inconvenient powers, but that you don't even know what everyone's powers are. Their prison seemed secure against everyone they knew about, but if they'd known about Callisto, they'd have designed it differently again. (Not that I have any idea how, right at this moment; it's possible that the only solution to Callisto for these purposes might have been a sniper rifle. But anyway.)
I think it was explicitly stated to be a mobile prison at some point, although I haven't seen it recently enough myself to be absolutely sure.
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Date: 2008-01-03 02:11 pm (UTC)Oh yes, totally. Xavier or Magneto or Mystique or Kitty or Nightcrawler could obviate all sorts of things you might have thought were secure. It's like designing a very redundant system, it has to keep working, even if the worst possible things go wrong in several places.