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...X-Men...
Consider that the top-billed players of the five films after M:I2 were, in descending order of earnings and ascending levels of incredulity, Russell Crowe (Gladiator, $182 million), George Clooney (The Perfect Storm, $174 million), Hugh Jackman (X-Men, $149 million), Shannon Elizabeth (Scary Movie, $147 million) and D.B. Sweeney (the voice of the iguanodon in Dinosaur, $134 million...
...ending; the whole film is the teaser to a planned trilogy. So Wolverine, searching for his roots, keeps on scratching. Xavier and Magneto speak of battles to come. A muted film ends on a minor chord. Perhaps fans will return for later episodes. But for us nonmutants, X-Men is the movie that took the e-cite-t out of excitement...
...first scene of the X-Men movie, which follows 37 years of legendmaking in Marvel comics, video games and animated TV shows, tips the hand of director Bryan Singer and screenwriter David Hayter. This will be a fantasy film with a message: the shunned are special; those seen as mutants are really superior; odd kids are good kids. And the world is a dark brown place where even the most extravagant stunt or special effect lacks the all-important Wow Factor...
...Some are just hoping a successful X-Men movie would boost morale in the industry. But that depends on what segment of the industry you ask. Publishers of non-super-hero comic titles, like Fantagraphics, have a problem with perpetuating the public association of comics and adolescent male power fantasies...