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20 million for special effects, 5k for the screenplay

X-Men: The Last Stand - Review - Movies - New York Times

"Mostly, as so often with these types of empty entertainments, you are left to wonder why companies that hire so many fine actors to run around under latex and foam and have the best technological wizardry money can buy seem to spend so little attention to the screenplay."

Finally someone has caught on.

Posted at May 26, 2006 07:39 AM


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That is precisely what our little group of moviegoers said when we walked out of this picture. "There is a special mutant that supresses the writer's ability to produce a decent screenplay."

Posted by James at June 4, 2006 8:01 AM


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