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Oh, yeah, almost forgot that they do own the rights to some non-mutants, too, for obvious reasons.
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10-31-2013, 07:14 PM | #102 |
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That sucks, PikaGod. :\ I actually like Ryan Reynolds (at least in the few films I've seen him in, e.g. The Proposal alongside Sandra "Best MILF Ever" Bullock). I really wanted him to prove the haters wrong and do well as the Green Lantern but the early reviews gave me the impression that that sure didn't happen. Now you guys tell me he's played Deadpool already and I'm thinkin', "Okay. Maybe he's a much better fit for Deadpool. Maybe he proved to the haters he can actually act here." Noooooope.
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10-31-2013, 07:15 PM | #103 |
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The problem with Deadpool was that instead of having a wise ass joke cracking anti fero, they made Deadpool completely silent. Reynolds isn't a bad actor or anything, but the scripts for the Green Lantern and Origins were so bad, and nothing could have made the performances reaaly good.
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10-31-2013, 07:16 PM | #104 |
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I also think Ryan Reynolds is great (and love the The Proposal GET OUT OF MY HEAD TALON), and thought he did a brilliant job at the start of Wolverine for that one scene he's in for 10 minutes. When he shows up later as 'Deadpool', not so much.
But he's in for a reboot that promises much gore and fourth-wall breaking. Hopefully it'll do the trick. |
10-31-2013, 07:42 PM | #105 |
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What do people think of the lime up for Amazing Spiderman 2?
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10-31-2013, 08:02 PM | #106 |
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Can't go wrong with Emma Stone, even if she'll probably die in this one, or soon, anyway.
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11-02-2013, 04:55 PM | #107 |
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Of course, just as the new Thor comes out...
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11-02-2013, 05:15 PM | #108 |
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Not trying to be "that guy", but only stating this because of the previous laughter that was had over the UK's access to Thor 2 vs. the United States':
That trailer is weeks old. As in, I remember seeing that trending on YouTube one to two weeks ago. Is it seriously only just now coming up in the UK? We get the trailers early, you get the films early? ;P
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11-02-2013, 05:29 PM | #109 |
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I dunno, video's dated October 24th. I only saw it today because I was reading an article on the projected future of the MCU. I don't tend to go looking for them off my own back.
Also bringing back the whole 'X-Men in MCU' topic, I read that while Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are to be in the next Avengers film, due to the rights issues they can't make any mention of Magneto or the term 'Mutants'. Ha. |
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Netmago and the Aberrants.
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11-02-2013, 05:51 PM | #112 |
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That film looks like one gigantic headfuck.
I really need to get around to watching First Class. |
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Yeah no Dave is just slow on the uptake, I saw that weeks ago. Winter Soldier looks ok, X Men sort of doesn't but I liked First Class despite its retcons so I'm up for it.
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11-02-2013, 06:11 PM | #114 |
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Eh, I just figured that once someone saw the trailer they might either post it or make people aware of it in a thread designated for Superheroes on a forum they frequent.
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(Spoilers for the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand) Spoiler: show Second, good lord at how aged the men all look. I'm particularly surprised by Hugh Jackman. It doesn't make sense for the Logan character to look so aged by this point, so I can only assume that either Hollywood doesn't understand this and they made up Jackman to look ten years older than he really looks right now ... or else this is how he looks right now without make up and good God is that too old to be playing Wolverine any more. Sirs Stewart and McKellen aren't looking too hot either -- their age is really allowed to shine through here in this picture, which while it helps to portray how haggard the defeated mutant leaders are it sure does contrast sharply with the smooth-skinned images we have of Professor X and Magneto from the comics -- but it's Jackman's jowls which are really stealing the spotlight for the worse here. Sure do hope he doesn't look that aged throughout the entire picture. Not if at some point he's supposed to go back to looking like how Wolverine would've looked when Xavier was still a young man in his 20s. Third, not gonna lie: kinda disappointed to see that they brought back the actors I would've rather seen gone (Halle Berry as Storm, Anna Paquin as Rogue) while ditching the actors I would've loved to have seen again (Kelsey Grammar as the Beast). I guess this Hoult guy I've never heard of before is the one who played the younger Beast in X-Men: First Class? Speaking of which, does that mean that this new film, Days of Future Past, is going to bridge the two narrative arcs? I had thought that Fox wanted to distance itself from the first three X-Men films and that First Class was intended as something of a reboot prequel. Is that not the case? Does nothing in First Class contradict details in the first three X-Men films? Fifth ... (mild spoiler; only a spoiler if you're the sort who hates knowing what parts of an adaptation are different from the source material before you have a chance to watch the adaptation) Spoiler: show I can't put my finger on it, but something about the film continues to scream "Fox's X-Men movies just don't look as good as Marvel-Disney's superhero films." I think it's the plethora of B-list faces that I see whenever they show me a bunch of background mutants. Part of the problem with X-Men is that its expanded cast is so friggin' huge that the studios can't afford to cast a Chris Hemsworth or a Ryan Reynolds in eeeeeeeeeevery siiiiiiiiingle roooooole. It would cost them hundreds of millions of dollars to do something like that. The only way it'd be possible would be if the actors would, out of the kindness of their own hearts, volunteer to show up for one to two days of shooting free of charge. And there's no way that that would ever happen. So yeah, you see Hugh Jackman, you see Patrick Stewart, and then all of a sudden you see some nameless black dude as Bishop and some Joseph Gordon Levitt wanna-be as a mutant I don't even recognize (0m40s) ... and even with the bigger names, like Halle Berry, for example ... the way they hold themselves just doesn't seem in character. It seems like some ordinary woman trying to act and not being given proper direction on how to modify how she's acting so that she looks more like how her character would look. How much of that is the diva's fault and how much of it is Singer's, I have no idea, but this wasn't something I noticed in The Avengers, for all that I may have found that film to be underwhelming. With this lovely list of complaints and concerns aside , I'm honestly looking forward to this film. It might be the first X-Men film I'll have seen since 2006's X-Men 3. Never got around to watching First Class or the various Wolverine cash-ins. But this one ... this one could be good, if it's done right. If nothing else, I can count on this film for one thing: (Spoilers for the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand) Spoiler: show
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On the whole using a different actor than Stewart until the very end thing, they'd never go for that. Makes no sense. The whole point of this film is to make a large amount of extra capital on the fact that it has all these actors in it. Not using him would mitigate that a lot.
I'd advise you to see First Class; it's pretty good. Definitely much better than Last Stand. You have to be prepared to accept certain retcons and continuity changes/errors and it's very rushed, but on the whole it's worth it. Origins: Wolverine... not so much. They retcon Sabretooth and, while it's still not quite right, it's much better than Triple H doing it, but that's about all it really has going for it. |
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>dodges spoiler for First Class
>sees response to his mild spoiler on the comic >expands it >HUGE FUCKING SPOILER FOR THE COMIC Though probably not for the film. (I quit reading it the moment I got spoiled, but you're probably good, dude. I don't read X-Men comics so spoiling them isn't a big deal so long as it's not also spoiling the films.) And to answer your last question, you nailed it. (Response contains spoiler for X-Men 3.) Spoiler: show
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I still haven't seen X2 or X-men: Last Stand, so I'm avoiding those spoilers.
Saw First Class and it was excellent, which is why I'm pumped for Days of Future Past! It's a sequel to both First Class and Last Stand. |
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I'll put it to you this way: if X2 and X-Men 3 were available to watch for free, in full, on a streaming site like YouTube ... I still don't think I'd bother watching them any time soon. Certainly not this weekend. First Stand, absolutely I'd check it out if it was on YouTube. Iron Man 1 and 2, likewise. (Note: I haven't seen any of these three films still.) But X2 and X-Men 3 ... once was enough for a long, long time. ^^;
Doesn't mean you shouldn't see 'em yourself though, just to get 'em out of the way and not have to worry about being spoilered on anything. (Though really, if you did allow us to spoiler you on them / if you took to Wikipedia and read the films' synopses, you'd pretty much have zero reason to ever watch them. ) Putting it to you another way ... I'd rather watch The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones again before watching X2 again. Amras: Gee. Great. -_-;
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See I think that X2 is tied with the First Class as being the best of the series and have no problems watching it again, though I could care less about Star Wars. I do agree with you about X3 though, dear god that movie was just so absolutley horrible in like every way other than having Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde.
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I'm not sure if the fact that I don't in any way remember what happens in X2 is a statement for or against Talon's assessment... X3 is fairly pants, though. Still better than Origins: Wolverine. I mentioned in another thread that i saw The Wolverine recently... it's not a terrible film.
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X2 has these four things going against it for me:
Spoiler: show I may be remembering a few details wrong, and there are definitely a few moments in the film that still elicit some positive response, but for the most part it's a film that I feel is honestly better off forgotten. The only reason to see it is: Spoiler: show Aside from that ... you don't even really need the second film.
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