X-Men 3 The Last Stand
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Additionally, Elliot Page[b] appears as Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat: A mutant with the ability to phase through matter and walk through solid objects, her clear affection for Iceman further adds to the tension already present between Iceman and Rogue. Maggie Grace was considered for the role,[27] before Ratner invited Page, who impressed the director with his performance in Hard Candy (2005). The actor initially declined, not wanting to yet jump to Hollywood filmmaking, but accepted after reading the script.[28] Page said part of his motivation was having a new experience: \"I thought, well, when else am I going to have a chance to wear a leather suit and run through exploding things Why not be a superhero for a change\"[29] Daniel Cudmore appears as Peter Rasputin / Colossus: A mutant with the ability to transform his body into an organic steel, while also granting him superhuman strength and a resistance to physical damage while in that form. Cudmore wore a foam latex muscle suit covered with a chrome-plated plastic plus a hard plastic head to have the metal skin on the set, with some digital augmentation being used to enhance the facial expressions. A digital double was used only for stunts that could not be achieved practically, such as the Fastball Special where Colossus throws Wolverine at Magneto.,[19] Ben Foster appears as Warren Worthington III / Angel: The mutant son of an industrialist, who has feathered wings which allow him to fly. The static wings were models with a 15 feet (4.6 m) wingspan and 5 feet (1.5 m) height glued to Foster's back, replaced with computer-generated ones when movement was required.[19]
As the studio was simultaneously developing X-Men Origins: Wolverine, limitations were set on which mutants could be used for cameo appearances in X-Men 3 in an attempt to avoid risking character development for Wolverine.[63] Gambit was considered for both the convoy scene being freed by Magneto and the Battle of Alcatraz along with the X-Men, but the writers did not want to introduce a fan favorite character and \"not be able to do him justice.\" Kinberg reasoned, \"there just wasn't enough space\", and considered Gambit would only work with as much screentime as Beast.[31][58] Alan Cumming had been uncomfortable with the long hours he had to take with the prosthetic makeup as Nightcrawler in X2, but still planned to return for the sequel. The part of Nightcrawler was so minimal, however, that the studio felt it was not worthwhile to go through the long and costly makeup process, and the character was cut.[64] Kinberg felt that \"there wasn't much left to do with the character. It also felt like he might tread a little bit on the terrain of Beast, in terms of similarities in the characters and their political standpoints in terms of dealing with their mutancy.\" Nightcrawler's absence was later explained in the tie-in video game.[58] The introductory scenes tried to emulate the Auschwitz opener for the first film, going with different scenes that resonated later in the plot instead of an action scene like in most blockbusters. Afterwards came a scene in the Danger Room, which was considered for the previous X-Men films but never included for budget and writing concerns. The writers tried to make the simulation not feel extraneous by showcasing some of the character conflicts and abilities in a \"Days of Future Past\"-inspired battle with a Sentinel. Another repurposed scene was Magneto attacking the convoy to free Mystique, Madrox and Juggernaut, which Penn had previously envisioned for X2.[31]
Justin Chang of Variety said the film was \"a wham-bam sequel noticeably lacking in the pop gravitas, moody atmospherics, and emotional weight that made the first two Marvel comicbook adaptations so rousingly successful.\"[122] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly called it a \"\"diminished sequel, a brute-force enterprise\" and said it was an example of \"what happens when movies are confused with sandwich shops as franchise opportunities\".[123] The Minneapolis Star Tribune characterized Ratner's approach as \"Forget subtlety! Let's blow things up!\"[124] David Edelstein of New York magazine called it \"just another big-budget B-movie. It's a fast and enjoyable B-movie, though.\"[125] Foreshadowing X-Men: First Class, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said, \"Last stand My ass. Billed as the climax of a trilogy, the third and weakest chapter in the X-Men series is a blatant attempt to prove there is still life in the franchise. And there is: just enough to pull a Star Trek and spawn a Next Generation saga.\"[126]
In February 2006, Ratner said that The Last Stand could be the final X-Men film: \"We wanted to make sure the audiences knew that this was a trilogy. Even though they weren't made together like Lord of the Rings, this is really closure for the X-Men series. ... This is the last stand for sure.\"[142]
The next two X-Men films, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and X-Men: First Class (2011) were prequels that took place before the events of the first X-Men movie. The first film set chronologically after The Last Stand was The Wolverine (2013), a standalone sequel,[143] that shows Logan heading for Japan to escape the memories of what occurred during The Last Stand. Jackman and Janssen reprised their roles, while McKellen and Stewart appear in a mid-credits scene.[144]
At Worthington Labs building in San Francisco, Worthington's son Warren arrives to take the cure, but changes his mind at the last minute. He breaks free and flies away to New York with his big, feathered wings.
The next morning in San Francisco, Magneto leads his Brotherhood to Worthington Labs. Magneto uses the full force of his powers to move the entire Golden Gate Bridge and his army over to Alcatraz Island. The battle begins, but the soldiers have the upper hand. They now use plastic guns and a lot of mutants are being cured. The guns are destroyed by Arclight and the soldiers are now losing. The X-Men arrive just in time and help the troops fight off the Brotherhood. The fight goes well until Magneto sends Juggernaut in to kill Jimmy. Shadowcat manages to slow him down and make it to Jimmy first, but his powers prevent her from phasing through the walls. Juggernaut arrives, but gets knock out when trying to get Jimmy. Storm defeats Callisto and Iceman defeats Pyro.
So strong is Leech's anti-mutant power that a mutant need only stand near him to lose his or her abilities; maybe the antibody works through pheromones. Meanwhile, Mutant Cure Clinics spring up around the country and are picketed by pro-Mutant militants. Extremists arm themselves with guns that can fire the antibody, and go out to shoot themselves some mutants. Beast, as the administration's Cabinet minister in charge of mutant affairs, is caught in the middle.
\"X-Men: The Last Stand\" raises all of these questions in embryonic form, but doesn't engage them in much detail, because it is often distracted by the need to be an action movie. Consider, for example, the lengths Magneto goes to in order to neutralize young Leech. The kid is being held on Alcatraz Very well then, Magneto will stand on the Golden Gate Bridge and use his powers of industrial-strength levitation to rip loose a whole span of the bridge and rotate it so that it joins Alcatraz with the mainland and his forces can march on Worthington's fortress.
One of the distractions in all the \"X-Men\" movies is that the X-Men are always getting involved in local incidents that have little to do with the big picture. They demonstrate their powers during disagreements and courtships, neighborhood emergencies, psychological problems or while showing off. After three movies you'd think they would have learned to coordinate their efforts, so that Storm (Halle Berry), for example, is not suddenly needed to brew up a last-minute storm and save the neighborhood/city/state/world.
Mike, Kevin and Bill were extremely disappointed to learn that X-Men:The Last Stand even lies with its name, as the franchise continues to stand to this day, despite repeated requests at ever escalating volumes to please, PLEASE, in the name of all that is holy, take a seat!
X-Men: The Last Stand opens with a flashback set \"20 years ago\" where Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart), who is able to walk, and his best friend Erik Lensherr (McKellan) visit a young Jean Grey (Haley Ramm) in order to recruit her to the Xavier School. Rather than cast younger actors in the roles - as would eventually happen when James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender took over as Professor X and Magneto in the next wave of X-Men movies - Ratner opted to utilize digital de-aging to make the two legendary actors, who were both in their mid-60s at that point, look two decades younger. The result is an unfortunate trip into the uncanny valley as both Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan's faces were jarringly smoothed out, giving them an inhumanly plastic quality in the scene.
To achieve the digital facelifts for X-Men: The Last Stand, Brett Ratner employed a studio called Lola, which specializes in \"digital cosmetic enhancements\" like the kind that had been used on musicians and singers in music videos for years. The scene was performed normally by the actors and shot in-camera. The ages of their faces and skin were then reversed digitally in post-production using a process called \"digital skin grafting\". The visual effects team worked from photos of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan when they were younger and they smoothed out the age lines and wrinkles in order to take 25 years off of each screen legend's face. In addition to reference photography, Lola's visual artists worked with a plastic surgeon, who helped Lola's team understand how the human face ages and kept them from making the fatal error of going too far with their touch-ups and making the actors look somewhat off. 781b155fdc