Side-by-side comparison of X-Men 3 anti-aging effects

fxguide.com — "The actors had no special makeup, not even hair colouring. There were no special tracking markers, greenscreens, measurements or considerations given to the effects team." As photoshops these would be pretty good, but in motion -- wow. Jun 14, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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letaalio Jun 14, 2006

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McKellen is actually one year younger.. weird.

pooper Jun 15, 2006

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great effects, can't wait to see this implemented in future films and shows...

biffsputnik Jun 15, 2006

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@shaun944 Good points, all. That's what I was looking for, thank you. I admit, I did notice most of that myself- didn't put together the Jean/Liberty Island thing, though. I agree with your deus ex-machina assessment also. The Jean/Phoenix thing was definitely obvious as a path of convenience, but that's always going to happen when adapting books/comics to a 90 minute, beat-every-10 summer action movie. I wasn't aware that these directors were involved in the script writing, though now I see Singer was credited in the first 2. Though I am a huge Marvel/X-men/Stan Lee fan, I guess I just don't hold summer action movies to high standards. It definitely had weak points, but I thought it was enjoyable. A good criticism on your part though, all valid points, and all noted for my next viewing of the movie.edit- also thought the CG was good; certainly not the horror show of the first installment (wolvie/Statue of liberty - yuck), although I know they had budget constraints on the first one. Thought this one was quite impressive though.

shaun944 Jun 15, 2006

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@rickcarsonI don't see why you think being insulting is going to somehow help you establish counter-points, but whatever. I didn't mention headlights, ever. The fact is it goes from day to night in a PAN from Magneto standing on the bridge to the soldiers in the courtyard, its IN CAMERA that it changes. Thats jarring and bad IMO. You are welcome to disagree.As for the CG, I wasn't actually saying the CG was horrendously bad in the movie, just that darkness is often used as a trick to hide bad CG (think agent smith/neo fight in the rain in Matrix 3...). I believe it went day to night because of the ridiculous shooting schedule this movie was supposedly on, but thats only conjecture.@forumreaderI didn't list that I was a writer to brag, only to point out that my perceptions and criticisms are coming from a different perspective than most people sitting in a theater so take them with a grain of salt. I didn't work on "Reba".