Say "hi" to the Zone for me, eh?

Coming soon - X-Men Origins: Juggernaut. See Vinnie Jones grab Paul Gascoine's knackers in glorious 3D! It's what the cinema-going public want. All my 'focus groups' tell me so...

Now where's that copy of 'Days Of Future Past'? Just as soon as I've finished with this marker-pen, I'll give Brett Ratner a call...

I know it did good at the box office because that kind of shit often does, but did it really have good word of mouth and a good critical reaction?

Oh and a GFY to MCcain for making a mountain out of a molehill, that and being a hypocrite..then again most republicans are.

The only way I can see them carrying that to film would be to have him act as a self aware narrator whos not afraid to call out the silly and cliched stuff that's happening on screen to the audience, ala Robert Downey Jr.'s characterin Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Even more telling is listening to Richard Zanuck, who comes off as a bit of a moron. He's the only person who doesn't think POTA mirrors anything in America at the time. He says he can't see anything other than an adventure movie in it.

It's too bad he said he'd never ever do a comic book movie though.

Which is really weird considering some of their most popular stuff is animated AND appeals across a wide demographic.

I love the 'Marvel takes the creative reigns everyone shares the money' idea. It could probably give Fox a little credibility for making a sane decision regarding it's brand.

the dark phoenix saga can't be done justice without a hefty budget, that is a cosmic battle including different races/planets/kingdoms joining forces to (not) kill her.

they need to re-boot with the nightcrawler, collosus, wolverine, storm, shadowcat, rogue, cyclops team that really put them on the map. have shadowcat be an untouchable narrator (see the movie through the eyes of this young girl, like the comic was when she started).

the x-men are about team dynamic. don't put the soggy blanket members (jean grey, angel, beast).

don't put in melodramatic love stories. don't put in billions of pointless cameos. don't put in kids.

have magneto be an ally until the 3rd one. build a tension between humans and mutants. make the mutants fucking frightening (have rogue flying around like a train, have storm roll in with some intimidating thunderheads, CGI nightcrawler so his acrobatics and teleporting are almost confusing. they need to be scary. it needs more spectacle than "the same thing that happens to everything else".)

1st movie-x-men vs. sentinels (humans/army)

2nd movie-x-men vs. hellfire club/white queen (mutant vs. mutant, academy vs. academy)

3rd movie-x-men vs. magneto

and, i would love to see venus or serena williams as storm. she needs to be an imposing figure. she needs to be more warriorlike. storm is a great character that deserves more than being played by the beautifully boring halle berry.

and, for the love of all things dorky, don't put everyone in the same black leather jumpsuits. why are we stripping these characters of their individuality?

i'm fearful of how gambit will be ruined in the wolverine movie.

i just dorked all over my keyboard, but it drives me nuts that the movies all introduced characters just to introduce them. it was an action flick that rarely held up to the source material.

mystique was awesome, though. and, the nightcrawler sequence in the white house was great.

Remember one of Joss Whedon's best X-moments - a damaged but very deadly Sentinel emerges from the woods at the edge of the school's grounds. Everybody runs out in pajamas. Colossus and Wolverine are ready to attack, but Cyclops waves them back. Move, shouts Wolverine! I have to get to the central processor. Stay back, Cyclops replies, grimly. I want this thing off my lawn. He pulls off his visor. Half of a page goes crimson. When the light dies, the Sentinel is scrap and every tree within about 500 feet has been mowed down. Wolverine looks over.

"Summers," he says, " every once in a while I remember why you're in charge."

Fox is staffed by morons.

Speaking of Singer, it's ironic that he left X3 to helm SR and guess which one fared better at the box office not to mention more critical praise?

If there ever was a DD reboot, cast Jolie as Elektra as I have also previously mentioned on the posts.Matthew Fox just might do it as Murdock. (good suggestion)I can't picture Damon as DD or even Capt A.However, I do agree with his Anti-Palin sentiment.:P