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7:42 PM 6/1/06 · It is sometimes annoying to deal with this whole tell but not tell too much spoiler stuff. I can talk old time comic stuff without having to cloak it in de evil LJ·cut but the more recent stuff is viewed as a no no. In regards to this particular movie...there are a few things that aren't exactly spoilers that I can freely go on about.

For example, a lot of people keep saying it's very important to watch all the way through to the end of the credits. I'm a bit iffy on that point...it's significant but it won't kill you to not see it. Although, I used to work at a theater and know that most films have more in and at the end of the credits so it's still good advice.

Did you know there's 3 whole more minutes of story at the of the credits to Constantine? They were pretty significant. Put a whole new spin on the rest of the movie...for those of you that didn't catch them anyway.

Another thing I've been hearing, both before and after I saw the film, was that they tried to do too much. Too many characters, too many branching storylines, and way too much of pretty damned near everything. This one I completely and totally disagree with! If anything the amount of stuff in here made it a lot more like the comics the characters originate from. Think about it: the original story where Phoenix goes into overdrive and damn near kills everything around her she was fighting as part of one team (X·Men) that was fighting another team (Shi'ar Imperial Guard) with agents of other organizations (most notably a Kree soldier and a Skrull warrior) when she suddenly betrays everything and winds up fighting off all of them to fulfill her nihilistic destiny. Sound familiar? If not, you just haven't seen the film yet but it balances out very well considering the circumstances.

Basically, most films can't pull off a story such as this because there are too many fronts to handle. Most movies only give you two protagonists, be they people or organizations, and if there are anymore than that it's largely something not terribly specific. I do have some gripes with this film, which we'll get to in a bit, but this is certainly not one of them.

Oh, one last little thing. I am very happy to say this is the first film, of the 3, that didn't make Wolverine do something he was completely incapable of. The last two there were two distinct things he shouldn't have been able to do that he did do...

...okay, typing that made my head hurt.

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Might've been nice if the film had been a little longer, though I would've missed my train, to flush out a bit more detail. Was originally supposed to see this with Brand, special screening at a particular theater; nice to have friends. May still take him up on that because there's a bad splice in what I think was a signficant point near the end on the reel I saw.