https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvHW1oIKUxI The Last Stand has so many deleted scenes, it's hard to stop going back to it - but here is the last entry for X3 in this list, promise! Actually, this is another extended version of a scene that partly made it into the finished movie. Remember how the X-Men talk briefly as they suit up, about to risk their lives to stop Magneto's army? Well, halfway through that conversation, Kelsey Grammer's Beast gives a Shakespearean speech, for no reason other than that's exactly what the Beast would do at a time like that. It's Iceman's steadfast determination to ignore the lengthy soliloquy given by Grammer that sells the scene, and who can blame Bobby? Grammer certainly hams it up enough to warrant the others politely pretending that his outburst never happened. Honestly, it's so bad, it's funny. No, it's so bad, it's sheer genius. It should have stayed in the final cut.
Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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