Comments on: What X-Men 3 Could Have Been

By: Yuki

Yuki — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:23:15 +0000

They should get Emma Frost played by Blake Lively or something. Apocalypse would be epic!

By: Ry

Ry — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:47:53 +0000

it would be better if its the rise of apocalypse…that would be interesting…

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:46:09 +0000

I love these ideas. It would be cool to see there vision of x3 played out. Itd be sweet if they could get the cast back together to do some filming and produce a x3 brian singer cut…similar to superman 2 richard donner cut. They could even release it. I’d see it in theaters

By: xfan6

xfan6 — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:06:45 +0000

Am I the only one who actually thinks this treatment sound terrible?

Besides, if you distill X3 to an equal description, you are looking at the

1. X-men being faced with the choice of a cure,which really allows for exploration of some of the central themes of x-men

2. and Jean Grey coming back as an extremely powerful and out of control mutant, who is confused after she is essentially “reborn” and is fought over by Xavier who wants to help her regain control and Magneto who wants to unleash her power and use her as a weapon.

On paper, i think the x3 we got was much more compelling! It’s just the specifics of how it was done that caused it to fall short of its potential. What are your thoughts on this?

By: jdhetherington

jdhetherington — Thu, 26 May 2011 06:08:35 +0000

I can’t get over how negative everyone is being about X-Men 3. It was 5 years ago. The X-Men movies are set in a “real world” type scenario. Gods, aliens and people with no technological ability building a danger room. Yeah that’s legit. Brett Ratner did a good job. Storm actually did something. Kitty Pryde actually had a real role in it. It did away with the Jean/Wolverine/Cyclops love triangle. Iceman iced up. Phoenix was creepy in how simple her design was, yet how scary she managed to be.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:28:34 +0000

On the first page, I think some of that would have been cool to see, but as far as making Phoenix a “God”, I do not agree on. And as for the second page, where she ‘leaves’ is a cop-out and lame. What would have made X-Men 3 better was more Rogue and Angel (who should have been called like Bird-man or something like that…no Angel wears jeans!) air time and maybe even a romance between them…

As far as this whole “Scott” thing making a ‘danger room’ L-A-M-E-O-! This is how it should be in the beginning of X-Men 4: Scott was left for dead by Phoenix, who Jean Grey secretly put in an energy charged bubble or something and therefore is kept alive by her – unbeknownst to her Phoenix side. We see Scott use this ‘bubble’ to absorb some new powers and thus making him able to control his ‘laser beam eyes’ and no longer needs ‘glasses’. I agree he would have been a great leader but I wouldn’t want to see him moping around cause he ‘killed her’ and I like that Storm is taking the initiative and needs Wolverine around to be the muscle and therefore validating why he is there cause if Scott was there to lead – Wolverine would have left never to be seen again. I would like to see a seperate story line where Scott gathers himself realizes she’s alive and she killed him or tried to and then saved him…this leaves him confused and wanders the world helping when he can – and then eventually he finds himself back at the school only to find out she’s dead.

In X-Men 4, Phoenix can come back as a God(ess) because she was after all in her human form when she died – that could ‘free’ her of her human side so she can transcend into a God(ess) and therefore can return when she wants to but will be harder to kill than a regular human/mutant. And has no ties to the humans now and so therefore could care less of their existence and only Scott and Wolverine can tame her. And being a God(ess) she has the power to come back in a human form as Jean Grey.

In X-Men 4 we see Rogue gain back her power and something unexpected: Every power she ever absorbed before she now has control over – at
will – and anyone she absorbs power from in the future becomes hers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:38:44 +0000

During the credits there is a scene where there is a comatose-like body and Moira McTaggert is watching over it and I think we are supposed to assume that the body in the scene is the body that Xavier transfers his soul/conscience/whatever you want to call it into. After all I am 80% sure that the Prof. did the same kind of thing in the comics as well.

My problem with the movie was that they tried to combine the classic 80s dark phoenix saga which they didn’t even do right as they skipped over the whole, Jean as just “Phoenix” and not the evil DARK Phoenix, with a story that Joss Whedon had written like 1-2 years prior to the making of X-3

By: whitey

whitey — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:35:04 +0000

In X-Men 3 professor X talked to a class of students about transfering the consciousness of one mans mind into another mans body ?

I believe when phoenix/Jean Grey killed him….that he did what he hinted to his students at the start of the movie…..he transfered himself into a new body ?

But who’s and where ? Food for thought

By: BC

BC — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:22:41 +0000

where o’ where was Nightcrawler in X3?!? no reason. no explanation.

the best scene from X1, X2 & X3 was Nightcrawler in the Oval Office!!

the 3 films were good, not great.. they could done so much more with these films i was majorly disappointed! need to lose the pg 13, big time!!

By: patricia

patricia — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:24:13 +0000

It makes my stomach hurt to think about what xmen 3 could have been! maybe that makes me the biggest nerd but i was so excited for the dark phoenix saga and the result was awful. But i blame Brian Singer more than anyone else, abandoning a trilogy two thirds of the way just because you get a shot at superman isn’t fair to the fans. I think xmen 3 lead the way to these horrible super big budget soulless superhero movies hollywood is pumping out.

By: Andres

Andres — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:22:44 +0000

I would not mind Fox to forget all about X3…just forget it was ever made.

What really sucks is how they handled the Phoenix Saga. Famke Janssen was good in X3, so she could’ve been incredible in this version of X-Men 3. It pisses me off that, even if they do make an X-Men 4, Jean Grey can’t come back!

By: Wepz

Wepz — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:46:48 +0000

I agree with some of the things the write posted but there are others that I think arent so hot. I think Cyclops not getting killed and wandering the woods is a great idea.

I think Professor X I think coming back from another dimension would be a better idea. Maybe he didnt get KILLLED but instead his mass was sucked into another dimension, and the Phoenix when she dies undoes what she did.. So the people she killed get dropped back in various places in the world.. the X men have to go find Prof X.

Wolverine and Storm need to take a backseat to Cyclops I agree. He needs to be the kick ass Leader of the Xmen we all know he is. It’s time for him to show it!!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:41:35 +0000

I wouldn’t mind them simply dropping X-3 out of continuity myself, sort of like the second or third Nightmare on Elm Street where he tries to take over some kid’s body. Why? Not much of that movie worked either, just like Last Stand.

One thing is for certain, the next X-Men movie, if there is one and I do hope there is, needs to be true to the actual history and depiction of the characters. So much potential has been wasted thus far.

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By: nanananaji

nanananaji — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:03:29 +0000

OMG! I thought (while I was watching this in the movies) “Who endorsed this pile of crap?” So in agreement am I that the concept Singer had would have absolutely been better. X3 sucked soooo bad. You would HAVE to be a die-hard X-Men fan to understand this also. To new or occasional viewers, this MAY have sufficed but for us who truly knew the total power of the Phoenix, this was bologna…garbage…a waste of time and energy. I am also in agreement that Wolverine was center-staged way too much in X3. Cyclops is a major figure in the XMen world and his presence was just side stepped and put in the dirt. How could they kill him? What? In what XMen sequence did this EVER occur? Garbage I tell ya! I was so disgusted with X3. Cannot tell you how much (but I'm definately trying to give you an idea)! LOL! Please either make 4 a beautiful apology for this massacre of a classic or just re-do 3. Dammit! We need justice.

By: HG 1

HG 1 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:06:50 +0000

AT Have You Considered… says

The problem of X3 can easily be remedied. If they actually make X4, they can start out with Cyclops or Wolverine having dreamt the whole thing (X3). Dougherty’s version can then be easily implemented from there. However, I think I would want a casting change (just my opinion about the casting change).

By: HG 1

HG 1 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:57:58 +0000

I have to admit, I didn’t realy like Superman Returns either. I thought that movie was bland and dull. I mean the real enemy (and more dangerous one) was in fact the kryptonite; a 6in by 6in rock that just sat there and did nothing, but shone green. Then to make the movie even more “thrilling” and “exciting” Supes had to “battle/confront” an even bigger krytonite rock, this time the size of an island. Oh yeah, that’s some fun watching. YEEEEE HAAAAAW!

By: Have You Considered...

Have You Considered... — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:54:13 +0000

I boycotted X3 and I still haven’t seen it yet. It was precisely the kind of waste of storyline and character development that I thought it was, upon reading. I was so disappointed that the real power of Phoenix and Dark Phoenix weren’t adapted in a way that made sense and had any emotional heft.

At the end of X2, seeing Jean flaring and the Phoenix Effect in the water brought a tear to my eyes, there was so much promise for something epic and thrilling with Dark Phoenix.

In the meanwhile, we have to wait and see what they do to make lemonade out of the huge lemon that X3 created.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:36:18 +0000

I really liked where Bryan Singer & Mike Dougherty were taking Jean/Phoenix’s story in X2 & 3. I think this concept would have went over much better with the fans. But As for X3 I liked that Scott needed to take some time for himself to recover from Jeans death. It was realistic, while also giving room to bring out the potential leadership abilities of Storm. However They let the ball drop, they went way went over board on Cyclops and then killed him off, at least as far as we know. While also having Xavier tell Storm that she was to take Xavier’s and Cyclop’s place as leader but then mis handling that idea by giving most the leading commanding moments to Wolverine.
Storm led the X-men team for over over two decades either with Cyclops as coleader or as THE leader. I hope they bring back Cyclops in X-Men 4. I would really like to see both Storm and Cyclops be the strong leader we have all come to love in X4.
Both Cyclops and Storm need good roles in this next movie, and Wolverine needs to take more of a back seat.
I would also love to see Rogue get super strength and flight.
We also have to have more of Gambit! This where I would like to see the next coupe of movie go.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:47:37 +0000

bring on the x-men 4 and x-men 5 back to back.