Amph X-Men Movies & TV - Discussion

I was much more pleased with the appearance of the characters in the trailer than in that Entertainment Weekly piece a couple months back whose photos were so overly brightened and glossy that they made the actors costumes almost appear as bad cosplay garb. Now seeing them within the grittier and darker cinematography of the movie itself left me feeling much more optimistic, especially about Oscar's Apoc.

 

"Alas poor Gavin Hood/Brett Ratner. I knew them, Mr. Singer."

 

Yeah, but how many watched "Winter's Bone"? Much less know that it exists.

Except DOFP was already in the works to begin with and would have focused on Charles, Erik, Raven and Hank as much as they were in FC. The only difference would have been the use of Emma. Hell, if Vaughn had been involved, we wouldn't have even had the future sequences at all.

 

I concede the point.

 

More should.

 

As it stands, Bryan Singer deserves a measure of good will; his X-Men triad were among the very few superhero adaptations that had anything remotely interesting to say, and DOFP is an underrated gem of a movie, sadly eclipsed by the efficient but hollow Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

How is DOFP underrated? It's the highest-grossing movie in the franchise and has a 91% on RT.

 

People say mean things about it on the internet tho

 

Trailers are still doing the shot-INCEPTION FART-shot thing?

 

What is hollow about Captain America the Winter Soldier?

 

I don't see the connection myself.

Personally, I'm pretty sure Apocalypse will blow us away, and I look forward to JLaw's role in the film.

 

ClevverMovies: New X-Men Movie Timeline Explained



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I think a bit of both works. It still allows Cable's future to exist, while going towards what will happen in the next Wolverine film. Especially if "Old Man Logan" is used as a basis.

 

I'm very excited for the next one as I love First Class and DOFP. However, I always felt Jennifer Lawrence was wrong for Raven.

 

Yeah, I remember the 90s X-Men animated series, there were two parallel futures; one with Cable's future and one with Bishop's future, IIRC.

And this reminds me of the X-Men panel at the 2014 WonderCon where Kinberg kind of apologized for X3 and the Dark Phoenix story line and hoping to make up for it.


from an interview with Cravenonline:

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This new timeline would allow for a new Dark Phoenix story to occur. However, I hope Mystique/Jennifer Lawrence is the new Wolverine/Hugh Jackman of the franchise. I think the strength of the X-Men is the ensemble cast and the dynamics within the group, without a leading front man. Which is why in the comics, outside of Wolverine, there hasn't been an X-Man with a long lasting solo title.

I kind of don't want to see Old Man Logan movie because they can't use key Marvel characters like the Hulk. I suppose they could use the Blob, but I don't think Blob is not as iconic as the Hulk nor does he have an iconic cousin that creates a disturbing element in the story.

I'm expecting this Apocalypse to cover what Mystique did with Wolverine after she fished him out of the river at the end of Days of Future Past and the Logan still ended up in the Weapon X program.

 

The Trask and Angel in Last Stand compared to the Trask and Angel in DoFP & Apocalypse are oddities. I'm calling distant relatives and/or clones.

 

Well, either they're going to handwave it. Or you could say that Jubilee's mother was also named Jubilation Lee. Granted, you don't hear mothers naming their daughters after themselves too often, but I would assume it happens from time to time.

 

The evil mutant, Plotholio, was running amok. He looks like this guy:

 

What characters pose a continuity problem? I really have not thought about it. To my mind, Days of Future Past, was the "reboot" of the franchise and we're kind of starting off with a clean slate.

X-Men flicks continuity has all been screwed up, but there wasn't anyone really stirring the ship like Kevin Feige was been doing with Marvel when the original films came out. I mean, Emma Frost is a great example of the screwed up continuity, as there was an Emma character in Origins and one in First Class. Obviously, Fox just wants to move forward and not worry about continuity all that much. Which I think is the smart move.

Anyway, I found this:

 

So, like Scott Summers, Jean and Ororo, right?

 

Those three appear to be on track with regards to their ages.

 

If by 'clean slate' killing half the First Class cast off screen and negating any of them from ever being in future movies despite some of them being major characters in the comics... sure, great way to reboot a franchise by immediately doing that...
Have a continutiy problem with two Emma Frosts? Solution, just make make there be zero Emma Frosts...