The movie is directed wonderfully by Bryan Singer. The the effects are our of this world, you can even tell they it was bluescreen, the vision of Singer comes throuhg to make you beliebe that people have these powers.

All and all the movie is a **** star film, and unlike "The X-Files" (even thought I am a huge fan of the show, but we all know it wa smade for the fans) ANYONE can walk into this film and enjoy it.

--Kyp

NP: X-Men (***)

--Kyp

Magneto looked right to me. After all, if he was 12 in 1944 and the film took place today, instead of the slightly distant future, he would be 68 years old. He looked just about right for that.

The rest of the cast looked perfect to me. The reason that Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stuart stand out is that they were the only ones with any real parts. All the rest were almost bit parts.

ditto dude.

Scott

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Now who all were the other heros we saw?

Ive never been a big Marvel buff but was that...

Iceman?

Human Torch?

Kitty Pryde?

Any others?

Oh and by the way, Kamen's music DID suck!

There are TWO sequels in the works (both in pre-production) and all the X-Actors are contracted for those two sequels...so...here we go...

Kamen's music was non-existant in the film...I remember not one single note (and I listened to the cd MANY times in the days prior to the film...I just didn't recognize any of it there). Kamen NEEDS to go and not be a part of any future installments. I agree that X-Men needs a distinct musical interpretation...and Kamen failed to give it that (his score was adequately serviceable but did NOTHING to help the overall film in my opinion...which, by the way, I absolutely loved!!!!!!).

Give ALL the credit to this film's success to Bryan Singer and to the actors who pulled off what COULD have been a horribly cheesy film and created a solid and respectable rendition of a much-loved comic series.

CONGRATS to Bryan, the actors, the editors and the SFX guys...you did good!

=)

Joe

NP - Animal Farm (Richard Harvey)

Bobby Drake is Iceman

Kate (Short for Katherine) is Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat

Johnny Storm is Human Torch? I saw the flame thing, but he isn't really a mutant. So I don't know.

I suspect that was supposed to be Sam Gutherie AKA Cannoball

Also according to IMDB was a Jubilee cameo

According to the Internet Movie Data Base (and we know how reliable THEY can be...), the following non-starting team X-Men appear:

Bobby Drake (Iceman)
Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat)
Jubilee
Sam Guthrie (Cannonball)
Piotr Rasputin (Colossus)

and perhaps others that weren't given X-Names but appeared in the school sequences.

I will HAVE to see the film again to pick out Colossus...hmmm....

Okay...enough of me...back to work...any help from the audience is greatly appreciated (I think I'll use one of my lifelines, Regis...)

How about NIGHTCRAWLER???

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Originally posted by JoeInSanDiego:

Kamen's music was non-existant in the film...I remember not one single note (and I listened to the cd MANY times in the days prior to the film...I just didn't recognize any of it there). Kamen NEEDS to go and not be a part of any future installments. I agree that X-Men needs a distinct musical interpretation...and Kamen failed to give it that (his score was adequately serviceable but did NOTHING to help the overall film in my opinion...which, by the way, I absolutely loved!!!!!!).

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Hey Joe! How is the score on CD, compared to within the film?

Hopefully, I'll see the film this week, since it sounds totally cool!

As for the score, I have it on order. However, I have to wonder if I should have seen the film first.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

Others like the score very much and have called it Kamen's best in a long time...which doesn't mean much to me as I am admitedly NOT a Kamen fan and find his music MUCH too impersonal for my taste. So perhaps you had best get the opinion of others, since I am probably NOT the best person to get a TOTALLY objective opinion from.

Hope this helps.

As for Michael Kamen, I have only an small portion of his work, but enjoy what I have
heard so far. Which includes The Iron Giant and even Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Thanks again.

Mr. InSanDiego, you show your hand by admitting you don't like Kamen's work anyway. I thought it was an excellent and remarkably subtle score, and in fact, the album does not really do it justice. It should have been twenty minutes longer to catch the whole range of what Kamen built throughout the picture. I rather admired the decision not to go with a big, obvious Fanfare -- or to suffuse the thing with useless, unrelated pop songs. How long's it been since we got a picture like this that wasn't crammed with em? If you liked the score more, you'd be counting your proverbial blessings, I betcha.

The fire-wielding kid is indeed Pyro who was an original member of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He was NOT Sunfire, because Sunfire is Japanese. He is NOT Cannonball, because Cannonball does NOT wield fire, he only propels himself through the air with a power that bears resemblance to a rocket. He is NOT the Human Torch because Johnny Storm was an astronaut bombarded by radiation on a mission in space, and he is NOT a mutant. Pyro's real name IS in fact John, and he is actually Irish (which would coincide with the kid on screen).

Jubilee's cameo was in a couple of classroom scenes; she is a Chinese girl with a yellow jacket and GIANT earrings.

Bobby is indeed Iceman.

The hot dog vendor [SPOILER] as the Senator emerges from the ocean is Stan Lee.

As for the kid who passed the basketball to himself, that was NOT Nightcrawler, for various reasons... Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) was born with yellow eyes, blue skin, blue hair, three fingers per hand, two toes per foot, and a prehensile blue arrow-tipped tail. There is also a puff of brimstone when he teleports. I don't think they'd take that many unnecessary liberties just for a cameo.

I doubt the kid who ran on the water was Quicksilver, because (a) Quicksilver has white hair, and (b) he wasn't running abnormally fast, he was just running on water. Besides, even if he HAD been running faster, it would have more likely been Thunderbird, who was actually an X-Man.

Scott
Rogue flying who have been cool, but they did a year-one kind of thing with her, and she was not born with the power to fly, nor with superstrength. She later absorbed those powers permanently from Ms. Marvel to save the life of Mystique, who was then Rogue's foster mother (this was at the time when Rogue was a bad guy, she did not join the X-Men until later).

I did not spot Colossus or Cannonball, but I still have to see the movie at least three more times (I've seen it twice so far).

James
NP - Dark City (****)

Regarding the music, I saw the movie again tonight and my appreciation for the score grows each time. I think there is a defining theme for the X-Men that is heard a few times during the film and there is a theme for Mystique (or perhaps it is better called a motive) and the lovely theme for Wolverine and Rogue. This is a very complex score that shows a lot of influences from composers like Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Samuel Barber. If you want to hear all the themes, stay through the end credits and Kamen presents most all of them.

By the way for those of you that have the score, are the ending credits on the cd?

NP - Lost in Space (BROUGHTON - EXPANDED) GET THE HINT X-TEAM!!

I know about Magneto's return to childhood. It was in an issue of The Defenders.

However, I also know that almost no one outside of comic book fans would know it. To have to explain why he was younger than he should have been would have been an unnecessary addition to a movie that might already be hard for non-fans to follow. It would be a distraction.

I think they made the right decision in making him older as it adds poignancy to his drive to of "Never Again"