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Which X-Man May Be Showing Up In THE WOLVERINE?!?!
The Kidd here...
It seems that the X-Men have a flair for the dramatic, showing up in other parts of their world, in order to give the fans watching an incredible geek-out moment (yeah, I'm looking at you, Logan). That tradition may continue into a second film with a familiar X-Man from our past potentially popping up in Wolverine's solo prequel sequel THE WOLVERINE.
According to We Got This Covered, Famke Janssen flew over to Sydney where production has been ongoing in order to shoot a cameo as Jean Grey, her role in the first three X-MEN films.
This would imply that perhaps Jean Grey and Wolverine crossed paths before the first X-MEN, which, if memory serves me correctly, really gave no indication that they ever knew each other, although, in that film, Jackman's character has no real recollection of the past, but... well, you'd think Grey would have said something, no?
This, of course, is sure to start the speculation again though that the universe of FIRST CLASS and the original films may wind up coming together in DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Could the X-Men we've come to know - the present-day mutants - re-appear on-screen as the older versions of those in the FIRST CLASS sequel?
Mark Millar recently confirmed the time travel element of the story arc, which shouldn't be a surprise, since we knew that was coming when we first broke the sequel story title a few months ago, but in calling it "X-MEN meets THE TERMINATOR" to SFX... well, that does get the mind wondering exactly how massive this idea could be for DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Could it open up an alternative timeline that restarts the X-Men, sort of like J.J. Abrams did with STAR TREK, allowing the canon to exist while having the freedom to then do other things? Might we be seeing more of Jean Grey in the future? Can they possibly re-do "The Dark Phoenix Saga" the right way? We'll find out sooner rather than later.
-Billy Donnelly
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You just blew my mind with all those what ifs, Mr. The Kidd. Who's directing this by the way?
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As more of a reboot than a prequel anyways. Linking it to the previous 4 films is a Near impossible task without taking serious liberties.
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That would be more than Batman was in "The Dark Knight Rises"
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XENIA ONATOPP
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Oct. 21, 2012, 11:25 p.m. CST
So this is: X-cram in as many mutants as possible, even if they dont do anything or it doesnt fit in with the other movies-Men Again.
by DidntPullOutInTimeCop
FOX is doing it again.
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As long as it completely destroys the memory of X3. And more Famke? yummy!
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Oct. 21, 2012, 11:32 p.m. CST
Larry Wachowski. Only ex-man I can think of at the moment.
by vic twenty
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He gives her the adamantium third-leg and she mind wipes him when he gets too needy and clingy.
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Oct. 21, 2012, 11:46 p.m. CST
Famke Janssen was always a budget bin choice for that role, just like ALL those movies were done crappily on the cheap til First Class. They should be cutting all ties to that cast except Jackman, Stewart and maybe Marsden.
by reflecto
Famke is a lovely lady, but too old for the part now and also just not strong enough. If Jean Grey is going to be anyone, it's someone like Jessica Chastain.
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A la Spock.
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Just make a good fucking movie and I don't care what rules they brake.
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I'd rather they use a younger actress by now. No offense, Famke. But give another actress a chance to play the character.
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Imagine Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy on screen together. It's gold.
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Not. What a typically ham-fisted and lame idea on Hollywood's part, so much for doing something that might actually 'inspire' or 'excite' audiences like say, I don't know, inject some passion or enthusiasm into this project rather than recycling what happened in earlier movies... Btw I think Omega Red is an awesome foe for Wolverine and I loved his cameo in the anime movie!
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Oct. 22, 2012, 2:11 a.m. CST
One of Marvel's strengths is their continuity, but the X-Men films DO NOT have it, not between Singer's work and First Class.
by Sean
Much as it would be nice to link everything together into one filmic mythos...i can't see that happening. Yes, my brain too has exschplodeded.
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she would still get it - however, is she not a bit old for a prequel?
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Oct. 22, 2012, 3:04 a.m. CST
Despite the fucked up continuity, a cameo is fine, if
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
only just a cameo. The last thing this movie needs is extraneous characters, which is what ruined the last one.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 4:46 a.m. CST
I thought I read that "The Wolverine" takes place after X3
by smudgewhat
Thus those events can be referenced as flashback. Also, to those riffing on Famke's age - eat a dick. She's a goddess and an excellent actor and you'd be lucky to stand 10 feet from her quaking in your cowardly boots. While I'd be chatting her up pleasantly the way actual human beings do. And quite possibly taking her home. (Been bagging babes for years by being a real person, you knobs.)
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The second half of First Class was fucking embarrassing. So it's the tallest midget, what a wonderful distinction. And Smudgewhat, those who speak of "bagging real babes" are usually the ones with a collection of spent fuck dolls in their closet. Taping Famke's photo to it doesn't mean you've bagged her...
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Though sentinels is something I have no interest in seeing. Giant robots with laser eyes and the ability to detect mutants, a bit too juvenile for my tastes, even for a comic book movie.
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Seems fitting. No one remembers the 90s? As long as the movie is true to the characters, I'll probably enjoy it.
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It makes no sense other than bowing to stupid-ass fanboy idiocy to do shit like this. It serves no purpose other than getting a cheer from the audience in the theater, and it DESTROYS any sense of continuity the movies could hold.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 5:53 a.m. CST
Anyone who says they've been *bagging babes for years* probably means literally.
by Banned-ki-moon
As in waiting in alleys and taking them home in large duffel bags.
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Sorry, but that movie doesn't hold up at all anymore. I was blinded by the lens flares and actually enjoyed it first time around. But now, I realize the errs of my ways and see it for the hollow, worthless endeavor it truly was.
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Did you think it would pick up after Wolverine: X-Men Origins? A headless Ryan Reynolds running around in the early 80's with a synth pop Drive-style soundtrack and Wolverine fighting neon ninjas in Japan with Duran Duran haircuts? (Actually...that would be so much more awesome than any X-Men movie made to date.)
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First of all, what a ridiculous username! Secondly I like the way you think but I'm just hoping Beak makes a cameo too in the next one... Thirdly, disregard my last post.
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who says she shares the screen with Logan? There's nothing in the report that she shot a scene with Hugh Jackman directly, so what if she pops up elsewhere in the film somehow without Logan around? That would at least fit with previous continuity in the films.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 7:20 a.m. CST
First Class washed away the original slew of X films. Even in spite of 1 & 2
by Wcwlkr
Look I liked X-Men loved X2 hated with a passion X3 & dis-liked X-Men Origins Wolverine. But in my mind you definitely will get th JJ Abrams treatment. Because too many things in First Class made the things in the original X-Films not make sense. So I always felt like it was a reboot. One that was great & more than welcomed. So if this gives us a chance to do X-Men again but with a better final acts I'm all for it.
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That's what we want.
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and have him die a horrible, slow death, please.
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She hasn't aged a day since GOTCHA.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 7:59 a.m. CST
when even acknowledge the "bad"films,do it like the BOND series, just keep making the movies,keep the elements that work, and move on
by j2talk
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Well at least there no form of the word "RISE" in it.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 8:30 a.m. CST
Damn I'm just not nerdy enough know what elements of first class screw up the timeline of the other x movies.
by UltraTron
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Oct. 22, 2012, 8:32 a.m. CST
I'm all ears though. Now is the time to impress me with your scholarly knowledge of the subject
by UltraTron
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I don't see the big deal here. X-Men 1 was good due to context, much like Batman '89. There was nothing like it previously and so many were happy to see some pretty good live action versions of the characters, they didn't care that the story had a lot of problems. X2 was great, and X3 was a Ratner movie... enough said about that. I'm ok with a loose continuity based on those movies, but I don't want to see a reboot.. just go from here. Less Star Trek and more Bond when it comes to how they handle continuity.
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who did she play? I remember Linda Fiorentino.. LOVE that flick.. but I can NOT for the life of me remember her in it... First thing I ever remember seeing her in was "Goldeneye" in '95.. which puts her less than 20 years in the industry, at least visibly..
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Just give me a great sequel worthy of X-2, please.
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Look, I like The Terminator, and I liked Looper. But anything involving time travel just leaves you with that "wait a minute" feeling after watching it. lets just get through The Wolverine, get through the next First Class and then pick it up where The Last Stand left off. With the mutants regaining their abilities and find out what really happened to Xavier.
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Janssen.. btw.. I forgot.. she was in an episode of Star Trek: NG and who can forget the wacked out tv flick "Model by Day" about the high fashion model / superhero?!!! I actually remember seeing model by day back when it was released on FOX.
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Agree... she's just too old now
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Nice try, but no. Bitchez love humility and confidence. And major wood. PS your mom says hi. (Mom jokes will never get old, thank god.)
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People love to bag on Rattner just to bag on him but X3 was great. Iceman/Kitty relationship. Way more Colossus. Fast-ball special. Awesome Storm right with Callista. Surreal and emotional Prof X decimation. Beast! And he looked great too. Loved Wolvie vs. Juggernaut. Loved Pyro unleashed. Multiple Man! Phoenix goes bonkers & sexy-time with Wolvie. cyclops atomized! Seriously did you knobs even watch the movie, or did you pre-hate like a bunch of weak conformists?
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If they're going to go the "Days Of.." route, maybe the time travel aspect can be introduced in the timeline between X2 and X3, thus allowing the return of James Marsden, McAvoy and Stewart onscreen together, and a semi-rebooting of the series from that point forward. (And then incorporation into the Iron Man/Marvel universe, building to an 8 hour epic featuring everyone, ever).
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Yes we can all pretend First Class takes place in another timeline and that's why there's no Cyclops or Jean Grey or why older Patrick Stewart is walking in Origins: Wolverine and why Emma Frost is young and in there too... ... Yes, we can and SHOULD be treating the films that way... ... But to put Jean Grey into Wolverine's film, a movie which IS supposed to jive with the other X-Men movies? That just makes no sense at all, unless neither one of them see each other.
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And fuckers need to stop trying to cast people based on hair color. Seriously, Jessica fucking Chastain? Get the fuck out...
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Oct. 22, 2012, 10:23 a.m. CST
smudewhat, obviously you aren't familiar with the X-Men mythology...
by Amadeo Zeller
The producers, in their haste to get X3 out, they reduced the Dark Phoenix saga into a cliff note after thought...Instead of pushing the production back one year to give Joss Whedon time to produce a workable script (after Matthew Vaughn dropped out as director), they opted to hire Brett Ratner instead, who ironically threw out the original shooting script and used the first six issues of Joss Whedon's story arc of The Astonishing X-Men
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Oct. 22, 2012, 10:29 a.m. CST
Maybe she's playing a former love that looks identical to Jean?
by John
I agree with previous posts that the cinematic X-Men continuity is a mess. I really liked First Class though and was hoping for a proper sequel not a remix/reboot like it sounds like they're planning with Days of Future Past.
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Guess I'll be asleep for a long while...
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make a bunch of Wolverine movies and have him get knocked on the head at the end of each one. they can even work in the birds circling his head, ala Roger Rabbit
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Electric Bugaloo. It has to be said.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 11:14 a.m. CST
i was there first hand when the Claremont/Byrne Phoenix books came out
by smudgewhat
so i am well-familiar with the mythology. I had no problem with the adaptation. We do not need literal one to one translations of comics to movies. It's neither interesting or desirable.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 11:38 a.m. CST
is Fox specifically trying to NOT make the enormous pile of money they'd take in by rolling out another X-film with the original cast?
by kevred
Really, as much as I liked First Class, the fact that they're angling toward Days of Future Past tell me they're not really sold on the world that a young X-Men bunch could provide. Are we really expected to believe that Hollywood can't find a way to bring Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan, and Patrick Stewart into one film? That the prospect of huge sums of money couldn't override whatever barriers of logic stand in the way of that, from a storytelling standpoint? Maybe the future/past angle of the next X-film will end up doing that. It would provide an interesting vehicle for it. Just seems strange to me that a studio would abandon what was a lucrative franchise just to tell smaller stories with a much less well-known cast.
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The continuity is so screwed up and characters are so watered down. They can't even bring themselves to put the characters in proper costumes. If you embarrassed by the material then don't do it. The Xmen are an epic franchise, make it epic.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 12:04 p.m. CST
The Wolverine is taking place AFTER "X- Men the last stand"
by MariusXe
Come on... Look at he cars from the spy shots. Those are more than current automobiles, some of the look like prototype cars. Even the comicbook didn't play out before Logans time with the X-Men. Seriously guys... You call yourselfes geeks? I am ashamed.
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Famke Janssen was a HORRIBLE choice for Jean Grey. For the exception of Stewart and Jackman, I LOATHED the previous X-Men films casting. And honestly, at this point, she's way too old for the role. It's time to recast even if they are referencing the Original series.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 2:29 p.m. CST
Man I wish I could get together w/ the First Class lovers...
by Nice Marmot
... want to watch it w/ them all and point out just how much of that movie just stinks to high heaven.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 3:16 p.m. CST
X3 stands up there with Batman & Robin, X-Men Origins Wolverine , & Elektra as some of the worst comic book movies ever.
by Wcwlkr
I can't even fathom how someone would categorize that movie as anything but a steaming pile of shit. That movie was beyond awful.
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Just to fuck with the canon idiots.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 4:06 p.m. CST
I agree with those who said to scrap all previous movies and start fresh with the 1st Class team.
by Charlie_Allnut
Let Jackman do a couple more movies, then just start fresh. I don't think any of the X-Men movies have help up that well, and some of the roles were not cast very well.
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where did anyone get that idea? The post-credits teaser of Origins shows Logan in Japan. This is a pre-X-men story, before he gets his memories back again. I have no idea how they'll work in an older Jean Grey, but I'm curious. smudgewhat, X3 was an abortion of Collossal proportions (see what I did there?). Just because they put in a few things fanboy things like the fastball special does not make it a good movie. The script was awful - killing Cyclops offscreen? Really? The leader of the X-Men just gone. Killing Xavier for no apparent reason other than the script called for it. Turning Magneto into a total douchebag, abandoning Mystique in a completely out of character move. Turning Rogue into a quitter. Killing off Rao (one of the only interesting human characters ripped from Whedon's run) for no apparent reason other than a mutant felt like it. Ruining Dark Phoenix. Doing all that 'cure' stuff just to imply that it could be reversed. There was no weight to it, at all, unlike the Singer films. Every possible emotional moment was rushed past just so Ratner could get to the next "cool" meaningless action scene. The whole thing seemed to exist merely to trash what Singer had built up and make it next to impossible to continue the story in any meaningful way. I just hope Days of Future Past find a way to undo all that X3 bullshit and bring back a standard contemporary X-verse we can enjoy again.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 4:45 p.m. CST
FC SHOULD be a reboot. Keep nothing but Jackman and maybe Stewart. Bring them in line with the other Marvel films somehow. The rest of the X-films are a wash.
by reflecto
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Oct. 22, 2012, 4:59 p.m. CST
Finally saw First Class, and was pretty underwhelmed
by animatronicmojo
Other than Fassbinder, I wasn't really thrilled by any of the casting. The retro look wasn't done terribly well or with much thought. A lot of the scenes had this cheap made-for-TV quality to it. And do you know what I'm talking about when I say there were more than a few Scooby-doo moments? <BR> Worst of all, what was this Kevin Bacon villain, "Shaw" all about? Was he supposed to be subversive 19th century Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, who later became a Nazi doctor, and then a 70's leisure suit wearing secret nuclear war starter? Makes about as much sense as anything I saw onscreen.
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The second on is a classic. X3 and Wolverines Origins are abortions. Distance yourself from these flicks.
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Please, replace her.
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Oct. 22, 2012, 9:02 p.m. CST
oisin - they didn't kill all those characters for no reason.
by Nintendarth
They killed them so the most expensive cast members could be recast in a future sequel and paid significantly less. Think about it.
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Then at least I can pleasure myself while watching the sequel...
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Oct. 23, 2012, 12:36 a.m. CST
If I were an actor and I read this site I would die of despair
by smudgewhat
You knobs are so sad and desperate to find fault in things which are good. Noting can save you until you safe yourselves. Bitches. Bring on the hate. Check the mirror. Then fuck you (or kill yourselves). Return to the great infinite.
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Oct. 23, 2012, 1:17 a.m. CST
animatronicmojo, agree. In fact all x-men moves have the made for tv sets and scooby doo reveals.
by DidntPullOutInTimeCop
FUX will never get it right. I do think First Class was the best one so far, so I guess there's a chance they're slowly learning.
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On the top?
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that doesn't make any sense. If that were true, they would have killed off Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman (maybe Ian McKellen). Patrick Stewart maybe. But James Marsden? Shohreh Aghdashloo? No, I think most of the weirdness around X3 was Tom Rothman getting back at Bryan Singer for leaving to do Superman Returns. To completely fuck up the franchise so Singer can't come back or if he does, he's gotta pull some time travel ju-jitsu to get his original cast back.
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Oct. 23, 2012, 10:09 a.m. CST
Seriously there should be a movie about the X3 debacle.
by kindofabigdeal
Do it now that the cast is still young enough to play themselves. Or we can wait 20 years and have a fresh crop of actors playing Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen. It opens with real footage of the Avengers premier with Robert and friends celebrating their box office success. We pan over from the TV and see a drunken James Marsden hitting the JD and crying.
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Oct. 23, 2012, 11:55 a.m. CST
There is a great X-men movie..no one movie but in parts of each so far
by Darth Macchio
X-men2 is probably the most consistently good X-film but, honestly, are any of them without faults with respect to the comic? This is not to hate - I only cannot watch the Wolverine Origins POS as I find X3 to be a cheesy but still fun movie (with the best and most iconic soundtrack to date of any Xmen film). The reasons are meaningless as anything i say will be shit to you no matter how much i explain it...likewise whatever reasons you have to ensure my douchebaggery are just as shit to me so blah blah..and who cares.... but i think we can probably all agree...to some extent anyway...that if we had a pure "phantom menace" edit of all the existing X-films (Xmen, X2, X3, Wolvie:Origins, and X:FC) that it could actually be a truly brilliant X-film. ok, perhaps we wouldn't need anything out of that Origins piece of shit except for one casting beat: Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth is an odd but excellent choice (yeah, he's not big enough but then Jackman is WAY too tall, etc) The nazi hunting scenes in FC are the best thing in that movie and, taken independantly, some of the best stuff in the entire Xmen film series. The Magneto power display scenes in X3 are excellent even if his motivations are off (biggest problem with X3, to me, was characterizations and motivations) Most of these movies don't suck for what they are but suck because they *could have been* something more than they were.
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...the three sentence character development. none of the characters have ever been essential to the plot, they're only used as cardboard cutouts so the audience can see their superpowers. if the character is big enough, they might get a cliche. let it go fox, you're killing the material.
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Wolverine was a crucial part of the Days of Future Past storyline. He was infected with the disease and he was able to be cured of it. Hence a cure was found for it and was able to prevent Apocalypse from taking over.
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The reason why they can't let go of their original continuity is that Bryan Singer was on board and he is producing the futur X-Men films too. The guy has an ego.
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Oct. 24, 2012, 2:21 a.m. CST
Please let it be somebody we dont care about or Ryan Reynolds Ruining another Comic book movie?
by Balkin Flabgurter
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Oct. 24, 2012, 8:39 p.m. CST
The Dark Phoenix Saga is fucking lame. Yeah I said it. I read the original thing in X-MEN CLASSIC back in the day, when it was all new to me.
by Autodidact
I always felt like things were really tight and the battle lines were clearly drawn before the whole Phoenix thing.
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decently budgeted films with some real balls. Do something that surprises and gets people talking and not just spending their hard earned money on the lowest common film denominator
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Oct. 24, 2012, 11:03 p.m. CST
Doesn't anyone remember that Vaughn oversaw the development of X-Men 3?
by castoutthiswickeddreamthathasseizedmyheart
He was attached to direct and pulled out at the last minute.. He's responsible for the Dark Phoenix saga being done the wrong way.
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I don't know where you get your facts But when Fox would not give him a real budget and wanted him to shoot the movie in * weeks he sold Fox to suck it and they gave the movie to Ratner who told them he could shoot the movie in 8 weeks and under budget.
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Oct. 25, 2012, 7:36 a.m. CST
Since Days of Future Past is about Time-Travel...
by Anakins_Anal_Douchewater
...have any of you whiny bitches stopped to consider that her cameo *might* just be setting up a link to Days of Future past ala time travel? Like maybe another post-credits sequence? The limited filming time certainly suggests this... Sounds like it could be just a link to a future film in the main continuity where she goes back in time to warn Logan of something. Sounds very MARVEL to me so why not stop thinking you know everything and quit shitting on something before we even see it? And you wonder why fanboys get such a horrible label...
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STOP with the reboots.You have six X-Men films to work with, just build upon them. Did we really need a new Spider-Man? That shit was rehash hell.
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http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/173345-the-wolverine-is-not-a-prequel So I guess the post-credit sequence in the first Wolverine movie just sets up that he spent time in Japan. Frankly, this is more interesting as they can play on Logan's isolation post-X-men. I'm a bit intrigued now.
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That was so fucking funny
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