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In response to "I know I/we joke about how wrong you can be but...wow." by Mel Profit

The jump from X-Men to X-2: X-Men United is one of the most dramatic I've ever seen in a franchise.

Posted by David (aka David) Jun 18 '11, 11:39

That entire movie is a series of incidents where the good randomly meet one another, the bad randomly run into the good guys, and then they fight for a while. It's readily apparent that 80 minutes of footage had to be cut, because there is absolutely no cohesion to the story. To Singer's credit, he realized he had missed a lot, so he cut it down to a point where it was watchable, but that's about all I've ever found it to be.

Our other consideration from the X-Men franchise was also in X-2. It's the one where Wolverine gets shot in the head and all of the police cars get blown up.

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If you want to discuss X1 vs X2 we can do that (we can fight that one out another time) but that's not really what we were doing... - Mel Profit Jun 18, 12:38 5
- We seem to be talking through one another. I am not joking when I say that there is absolutely nothing that moves me about the original X-Men. - David Jun 18, 12:50 4
  - Yeah X-men 1, problems that it had, had a stellar opening sequence that was Schindler-esque in it's quality. rest of the movie has problems for sure - Remlik Jun 18, 14:09 1
    - stellar. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 18, 15:38
  - Yeah...I think we watched different movies. -- nm - Mel Profit Jun 18, 13:00 1
    - I watched the one that was a desperation cut of a three hour movie. -- nm - David Jun 18, 13:07

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The jump from X-Men to X-2: X-Men United is one of the most dramatic I've ever seen in a franchise.

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