For me, I thought the movie was going great in it's first act. But immediatly after Xavier dies, it goes downhill and gets real mediocre real fast.
Here are some of my biggest problems with it:
It suffers from "fan writing." Or amateur writing. So many no pro writers work like this: They have a great begginning of the story, then they have an idea of how the story should end. But what happens in the middle? they are usually really nebulous on this. this happens in X3. Look at Magneto's story. He's pissed off both at the notion that normies think mutants need a cure and that even though the cure is "voluntary" normies are using it forcibly on mutants. He then decides to gather a force, and attack the facility that makes the cure to destroy it. But look at how that story is distributed in the film. Everything up through "he gathers a force" happens at the beginning of the movie, but he doesn't end up attacking until the very end. So why is he fucking around in the woods so long? You see, it probably would have been a better idea to let the "end" attack on Alactraz happen in the second act and allow the story to develop from there, as everyone faces the consequences of it.
By all rights, Wolverine's story should have been Cyclop's, it would have made more sense with him. Though Phoenix did make the wicked suggestion that Wolverine had been surreptitiously mind neutered by Xavier as well, and if developed that would have really changed the map of this character, and given him a chance to question his allegiances. But they didn't develop it.
And Xavier and Magneto's endings. I don't mind that Xavier died or magneto lost his power. But the suggestion that they're gonna take that all back pissed me off to no end. Magneto, because there was no class to it. It had a slasher horror pick ending, like in Freddy or Jason movie, where even though they die, the movie winks and suggests they'll come back. It's hacky, and I didn't like it for Magneto. And Xavier's ending is so star trek Spock/Data cracky resurrection nonsense that I could barely believe. Yeah, he is patrick stewart, but come on.
Alright alright alright. I liked beast. A lot. And I liked the first act of the movie a lot. I thought what they were setting up with the cure and Dark Phoenix was great in that first act, but the rest of the movie just really let it down. And I thought the final fight was lame.
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Here are some of my biggest problems with it:
It suffers from "fan writing." Or amateur writing. So many no pro writers work like this: They have a great begginning of the story, then they have an idea of how the story should end. But what happens in the middle? they are usually really nebulous on this. this happens in X3. Look at Magneto's story. He's pissed off both at the notion that normies think mutants need a cure and that even though the cure is "voluntary" normies are using it forcibly on mutants. He then decides to gather a force, and attack the facility that makes the cure to destroy it. But look at how that story is distributed in the film. Everything up through "he gathers a force" happens at the beginning of the movie, but he doesn't end up attacking until the very end. So why is he fucking around in the woods so long? You see, it probably would have been a better idea to let the "end" attack on Alactraz happen in the second act and allow the story to develop from there, as everyone faces the consequences of it.
By all rights, Wolverine's story should have been Cyclop's, it would have made more sense with him. Though Phoenix did make the wicked suggestion that Wolverine had been surreptitiously mind neutered by Xavier as well, and if developed that would have really changed the map of this character, and given him a chance to question his allegiances. But they didn't develop it.
And Xavier and Magneto's endings. I don't mind that Xavier died or magneto lost his power. But the suggestion that they're gonna take that all back pissed me off to no end. Magneto, because there was no class to it. It had a slasher horror pick ending, like in Freddy or Jason movie, where even though they die, the movie winks and suggests they'll come back. It's hacky, and I didn't like it for Magneto. And Xavier's ending is so star trek Spock/Data cracky resurrection nonsense that I could barely believe. Yeah, he is patrick stewart, but come on.
Alright alright alright. I liked beast. A lot. And I liked the first act of the movie a lot. I thought what they were setting up with the cure and Dark Phoenix was great in that first act, but the rest of the movie just really let it down. And I thought the final fight was lame.