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The movie was very good in and of itself, but I love that it reset the timeline where virtually any story is possible.
I know Apocalypse is up next, but what I'd really like to see following that is a proper version of the Hellfire Club/Dark Phoenix Saga directed by Singer, if the accusations against him are wrong.
I want to See Jackaman in the sewers and him laying waste to a lot of clone-like soldiers. I want to see Kevin Bacon back as Sebastian Shaw kicking butt, I want Colossus to get a decent scene against a rotund Orson Wells lookalike as Leland Barclay. I want to see Mastermind (Jason Wyngard) seducing Jean with Mr. control Scott unable to do anything. I want to see Jean then fry MasterMind and the White Queen, for good Measure before zooming off into space and destroying a planet full of broccoli people.
I want to see the x-men fight for Jean against some sort of intergalactic inquisition and I want to see Jean's unselfish sacrifice and a nice epilogue scene. I probably want too much, but with this film's reset, it's possible.
Jackman's done a great job portraying Wolverine, and I don't blame the film producers for making him the focus of most of the films so far, but the heart of the X-men comics has always been Scott and Jean, even when she's dead, and then Scott and Emma. With Jackman wanting to step back or even totally away from the role, I'd like to see other characters take more important roles, even if it means recasting.
As for the current film, I thought McAvoy gave a really fine performance as Xavier. No, it's not the Xavier we know from the comics but Seeing a young Xavier in this film and First Class arc from being a selfish prick to a hero was fun. Fassbender didn't have as showy a part as Magneto, but he was really good, too. Jennifer Lawrence wasn't bad, but just a little bland when she wasn't fighting. I just remember how gritty and intense she was in Winter's Bone, and it seems like see just skated through this film, letting the effects and blue make-up do the work.
Jackman was fun playing off the other characters. The scene in the epilogue with Jansen and Marsden was excellent even though it was just seconds long. He also had nice scenes with McAvoy and Fassbender.
Really have to give credit to Simon Kindberg, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn for the story and script. They serviced a ton of characters fairly well. Shawn Ashmoore was likeavle in the small role he had as Iceman and we finally see him sliding on a nice bridge. And Evan Peters steals his scenes if not the movie as Quicksilver.
The super-speed prison-break sequence works so well. There's a fine line between silly and fun, and the scene was note perfect to me. Peters was impish fun. This Quicksilver isn't the butthole of the comics, but this take worked so well and made the character far more likable.
A movie like this is why sequels deserve to be made. Our familiarity and sympathy for the characters is why the film works so well. It's my favorite of the X-films, but it needed the character continuity of the other 4 films to work so well.
The movie was very good in and of itself, but I love that it reset the timeline where virtually any story is possible.
I know Apocalypse is up next, but what I'd really like to see following that is a proper version of the Hellfire Club/Dark Phoenix Saga directed by Singer, if the accusations against him are wrong.
I want to See Jackaman in the sewers and him laying waste to a lot of clone-like soldiers. I want to see Kevin Bacon back as Sebastian Shaw kicking butt, I want Colossus to get a decent scene against a rotund Orson Wells lookalike as Leland Barclay. I want to see Mastermind (Jason Wyngard) seducing Jean with Mr. control Scott unable to do anything. I want to see Jean then fry MasterMind and the White Queen, for good Measure before zooming off into space and destroying a planet full of broccoli people.
I want to see the x-men fight for Jean against some sort of intergalactic inquisition and I want to see Jean's unselfish sacrifice and a nice epilogue scene. I probably want too much, but with this film's reset, it's possible.
Jackman's done a great job portraying Wolverine, and I don't blame the film producers for making him the focus of most of the films so far, but the heart of the X-men comics has always been Scott and Jean, even when she's dead, and then Scott and Emma. With Jackman wanting to step back or even totally away from the role, I'd like to see other characters take more important roles, even if it means recasting.
As for the current film, I thought McAvoy gave a really fine performance as Xavier. No, it's not the Xavier we know from the comics but Seeing a young Xavier in this film and First Class arc from being a selfish prick to a hero was fun. Fassbender didn't have as showy a part as Magneto, but he was really good, too. Jennifer Lawrence wasn't bad, but just a little bland when she wasn't fighting. I just remember how gritty and intense she was in Winter's Bone, and it seems like see just skated through this film, letting the effects and blue make-up do the work.
Jackman was fun playing off the other characters. The scene in the epilogue with Jansen and Marsden was excellent even though it was just seconds long. He also had nice scenes with McAvoy and Fassbender.
Really have to give credit to Simon Kindberg, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn for the story and script. They serviced a ton of characters fairly well. Shawn Ashmoore was likeavle in the small role he had as Iceman and we finally see him sliding on a nice bridge. And Evan Peters steals his scenes if not the movie as Quicksilver.
The super-speed prison-break sequence works so well. There's a fine line between silly and fun, and the scene was note perfect to me. Peters was impish fun. This Quicksilver isn't the butthole of the comics, but this take worked so well and made the character far more likable.
A movie like this is why sequels deserve to be made. Our familiarity and sympathy for the characters is why the film works so well. It's my favorite of the X-films, but it needed the character continuity of the other 4 films to work so well.
Scott and Jean are the heart and soul of the X-Men to me as well...and my favorite 2 X-Men. I of course love Wolverine, but he always gets the spotlight. Time to give someone else a turn...name the 1st two X-Men...Scott and Jean!!
Man, it was great to see that crap fest X-Men 3 erased. Now the future looks bright for Marvel's Mutants!
happened, just lots of yakking and traveling around. I find Beast, Mystique, and Xavier (and Wolvie too, to an extent) to be boring characters (especially from a "powers" perspective), and having such a focus on them again left me flat.
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