{"id":72,"date":"2006-06-02T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-10-20T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:38:16","slug":"x-men-iii-is-entertaining-but-ultimately-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/x-men-iii-is-entertaining-but-ultimately-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men III is entertaining but ultimately disappointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the problem of high expectations\u2026 I may have liked the Da Vinci code more than it deserved to be as I had low expectations in light of all the bad reviews on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rottentomatoes.com<\/a>. For X-Men III the trailer was so good and the reviews so glowing that I was eagerly awaiting the movie. Surprisingly, I did not connect to the characters as well as I had in the previous movies \u2013 possibly because the plot surrounding the cure overwhelmed the rest of the story line. It\u2019s all the more surprising as the writers took more creative liberties than I would have expected by killing off or disabling several of the main characters (though maybe not forever in light of the last scene and the short clip after the credits are played). Ultimately the movie is entertaining, but not as good as the first two installments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the problem of high expectations\u2026 I may have liked the Da Vinci code more than it deserved to be as I had low expectations in light of all the &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"X-Men III is entertaining but ultimately disappointing. Categories - Movies &amp; TV Shows. Date-Posted - 2006-06-02T11:34:36 . Ah, the problem of high expectations\u2026 I may have liked the Da Vinci code more than it deserved to be as I had low expectations in light of all the bad reviews on Rottentomatoes.com. For X-Men III the trailer was so good and the reviews so glowing that I was eagerly awaiting the movie. Surprisingly, I did not connect to the characters as well as I had in the previous movies \u2013 possibly because the plot surrounding the cure overwhelmed the rest of the story line. It\u2019s all the more surprising as the writers took more creative liberties than I would have expected by killing off or disabling several of the main characters (though maybe not forever in light of the last scene and the short clip after the credits are played). Ultimately the movie is entertaining, but not as good as the first two installments.\n ","Category":["Movies &amp; TV Shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17576,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/17576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}