Even after all these years I’m still pissed off with X-Men: The Last Stand, mainly because it contained the biggest, “So what happened?” moments of all moviedom. There’s that scene where Cyclops is by the lake with Jean, and then “something” happens. Wolverine accuses Jean of killing Cyclops, but all he has for evidence is a pair of glasses. Jean then later claims she killed Cyclops, but this is after the idea has been planted in her head. There still remains the possibility that he’s alive. There’s also the method in which he’s supposedly killed. You see Professor X being “disintegrated” by Jean’s powers, but after the credits he comes back in the body of another mutant. Meaning: he’s not dead. So if Professor X is alive, why can’t Scott be too?Plus, this is the X-Men. There is literally no method of killing them in which they will not come back. Cyclops was also a big part of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so they’re obviously not going to waste all that development into his back-story and then not bring him back for a fourth X-Men movie, or a spin-off.
I’m just pissed off about how Cyclops was handled during the movie franchise in general. He’s not the most interesting character: he’s a whiny pretty-boy jock who gets pissed off every time some even tries to look at his drop-dead gorgeous girlfriend, but you could flesh him out a little instead of killing him off outright. The whole love-triangle thing between Scott, Jean and Wolverine wasn’t even a triangle because no one gave a crap about Scott. In Ol’ School, Scott would have been the guy who got caught plowing the caterer. He’s there for a few minutes to set up the rivalry between two opposing lovers and then he’s gone.
It’s the same for X2, where Scott gets kidnapped and brainwashed about fifteen minutes into the movie, and he doesn’t show up again until the last fifteen minutes. That’s not a lot of screen time. The basic problem with his character is that a: he’s not played by a Hugh Jackman, and b: he isn’t Wolverine. Plus, it’s difficult for any actor to properly portray him in all these overly-emotional moments because no one can see your eyes. That’s why there’s these scenes with the actor curling up his lips to a ridiculous extent to compensate for the loss of that facial region.
Plus X-Men: The Last Stand basically took everything that was wrong with the movie franchise and ran with it. There were nameless mutants no one knows, not even me: and I’ve literally read and collected hundred of X-Men comics, watched their cartoons, collected toys and trading cards, and I still don’t know who they are. I think the one dude was supposed to be Omega Red, but I’m not sure. I’m just confused. Plus there’s like three funerals in the movie. There’s a funeral for the same chick they had a funeral for in the last movie. Think about that. Think about how little death matters in their universe where a person can die twice, and they’re still all teary-eyed and making speeches. I think they even used a new grave marker. They could save a hell of a lot of money just by having a reversible sign saying, “The Professor is In/Out.”
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