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    " Take a Stand"
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    Runtime 1 hr 40 min
    Budget $210 000 000 51
    Premiere: World $460 435 291 May 23, 2006
    USA $234 362 462
    Other countries $226 072 829
    Box Office – Budget $250 435 291
    Premiere: USA $234 362 462 May 26, 2006
    first day $45 102 265
    first weekend $102 750 665
    Digital: World May 1, 2008
    Parental Advisory
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Violence & Gore

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Profanity

      few

    • Sex & Nudity

      few

    Production Companies Twentieth Century FoxMarvel EntertainmentIngenious Media...Donners' CompanyDune EntertainmentMajor Studio PartnersthinkfilmX3 Canada ProductionsX3US ProductionsXM3 ServiceBad Hat Harry Productions
    Also Known As
    X III: The Last Stand United States

    Description

    The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.

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    X-Men: The Last Stand - The Comic Book Inspiration

    Comic Book Origins

    The film "X-Men: The Last Stand" is primarily based on the "Dark Phoenix Saga" from the X-Men comic book series. This storyline is one of the most iconic arcs in the X-Men universe, originally published by Marvel Comics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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    Storyline Overview

    The "Dark Phoenix Saga" follows the transformation of Jean Grey into the Dark Phoenix, a powerful and destructive entity. The storyline explores themes of power, corruption, and redemption, as Jean struggles with her newfound abilities and the X-Men attempt to save her from herself.

    Film Adaptation

    The film adaptation, while inspired by the "Dark Phoenix Saga," takes creative liberties and combines elements from other X-Men storylines. The movie introduces a "cure" for mutants, which was not part of the original comic arc. This addition creates a parallel plotline that diverges from the source material.

    Comparison to the Comic

      • The film simplifies the complex narrative of the "Dark Phoenix Saga" to fit the cinematic format.

      • Key characters and events from the comic are altered or omitted to accommodate the film's storyline.

      • The emotional depth and character development present in the comics are condensed in the film adaptation.

    Overall, while "X-Men: The Last Stand" draws inspiration from the "Dark Phoenix Saga," it is not a direct adaptation and includes significant deviations from the original comic book storyline.

    Production

    Bryan Singer, the director of the first two X-Men films, left the project in July 2004 in favor of developing Superman Returns. Singer stated that he "didn't fully have X-Men 3 in my mind" in contrast to a fully formed idea for a Superman film and interest in joining that franchise. By the time of his departure, Singer had only produced a partial story treatment with X2 screenwriters Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, who accompanied him to Superman Returns. The treatment focused on Jean Grey's resurrection, which would also introduce the villainess Emma Frost, a role intended for Sigourney Weaver. Frost was an empath manipulating Jean's emotions in the treatment and, like the finished film, Magneto desires to control her. Overwhelmed by her powers, Jean kills herself, but Jean's spirit survives and becomes a god-like creature, which Dougherty compared to the star child in A Space Odyssey.

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    Toronto Star May 26, 2006

    To anyone more discerning, and certainly to those fans who cherished the way the first two movies took pains to honour what made the X-Men such spe...

    Chron May 26, 2006

    Oppressive overkill can suck the life from any hallowed institution. Even, dare say it, the X-Men.

    USA Today May 25, 2006

    X-Men: The Last Stand expands on the themes of discrimination and alienation explored in the first two films, and still retains the franchise&rsquo...

    I can’t say I was entranced this time round.

    Newsweek July 7, 2010

    Sillier than the Singer versions, Ratner’s movie is also – for this less-than-reverent X-Men fan – more satisfying.

    Observer June 7, 2006

    [I] found myself strangely moved by the sense of relationships, friendly and unfriendly, coming to an end in a dull return to normality in the...

    ae.miami.com May 26, 2006

    Ratner seems incapable of infusing his overly busy story with nuance, depth or the wonderful wry humor that connected us so thoroughly to these cha...

    Boston.com May 25, 2006

    The battle sequences, always the least exciting, most obligatory feature of the first two movies, seem to have something at stake – namely the...

    … a fast and enjoyable B-movie …

    calendarlive.com May 25, 2006

    Action – and issue-packed.

    SFGATE May 25, 2006

    This is the third film in the series, which means that on three occasions now we’ve been presented with the same story, featuring the same co...

    Austin Chronicle May 25, 2006

    There’s much to enjoy here – Ratner’s pacing is fluid and fast and the film rushes along its busy, cluttered way with something ap...

    film.guardian.co.uk May 27, 2006

    While the movie takes itself seriously, not to say solemnly, it’s really an occasion for funny, frightening metamorphoses and spectacular eff...

    Denver Post May 26, 2006

    The three-quel is a talky D(N)a Vinci Code, devoid of pacing and rife with inside jokes.

    MovieFreak.com May 26, 2006

    It’s not really a shock that Brett Ratner isn’t a director in Bryan Singer’s league.

    Washington Post May 26, 2006

    [Director] Ratner makes a hash of the story and characters his predecessor brought to such complex, sympathetic life, delivering a pumped...

    I suppose it’s asking too much of Ratner to impart some kind of visionary flourish to the proceedings. But without it, these comic-book movie...

    ReelViews May 25, 2006

    X-Men: The Last Stand is the first blockbuster of the 2006 summer season that hasn’t caused me to shake my head with disappointment...

    Slant Magazine May 23, 2006

    A dreary species of empty pomp and circumstance, far too similar to many of its summer movie brethren and disappointingly dissimilar from its super...

    BBC May 23, 2006

    Unless you’re already dedicated to the X-Men, The Last Stand won’t really hold up.

    RogerEbert.com May 25, 2006

    I liked the action, I liked the absurdity, I liked the incongruous use and misuse of mutant powers, and I especially liked the way it introduc...

    Decent Films May 26, 2006

    Watching Ratner struggle with his enormous cast makes one appreciate the economy with which Singer established even minor supporting characters.

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    I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!

    You know, sometimes when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry.

    We are the cure!

    I don’t have to be what you want.

    You never learn, do you?

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    The first of two reveals of the Dark Phoenix plot, combined with the story of the fight against the cure. The two mutant camps begin open clashes with each other. Someone takes medicine, and someone "I’m a mutant and I’m proud of it." I recommend checking out the entire trilogy. All the best

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    I was upset with Jean Gray’s arc and how she and Logan got too much attention while many other characters only got bits of it.

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    Tremble, Perry the Porcupine, I invented a de… Wait, so what is this allusion to? To gays? To abortions? To drug addicts? To trans people? To blacks? To the disabled? To transhumanism? To animals? Oh no, this is an allusion to a normal film. (Also unsuccessful)

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