SAUSAGEMAN
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It's Emma Frost, bitches
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Oh, Emma...
The Tomtrek
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Yeaahhh she could pull off Emma Frost, maybe. Needs bigger breasts, though.
SAUSAGEMAN
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"Maybe"? I guess you don't watch Mad Men. She basically plays the iciest ice queen in there too, and pulls it off perfectly. She's probably the single best person they could have cast to be Emma (that I'm aware of, anyway).
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CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
That looks like a non-shit cast!
Needs Michelle Trachtenberg as Kitty's mother though.
Needs Michelle Trachtenberg as Kitty's mother though.
The Tomtrek
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I've seen every episode of Mad Men.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
So is this going to be set after the Wolverine movie, even though a plastic Patrick Stewart played Xavier in that but James McAvoy is playing him in this?
CaptainWacky
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This Angel's a girl so I assume so.
SAUSAGEMAN
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Two very, very overdressed Emmas:
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
At least she's wearing white.
Robert "Monkey" Loggia
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I want to put my dick in January Jones
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
What about February Smith.
CaptainWacky
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They don't all have the same style and why should it?
Conchaga
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They do have the same style. They're all darker and edgier than the (almost cartoonishly) brighter action thrillers that the previous X-Men movies have portrayed. The newer graphic novel (I always thought that was a pretentious term, btw) movies are all about the personal relationships and difficulty of being in a super-human or surreal-human existence. X-Men was about having as many flashy mutants as possible on the screen to fill in the spaces where the screenwriters were off smoking crack and jerking eachother off about how awesome they were. I'm with Tis. I totally think that X3 was an abomination and should be stricken from the records as ever having been made. I say this not as a fan, but as someone who watches enough "good" shitty movies to know the difference between X3 and something far more fun to watch that sucked nearly as bad.
Wolverine did a fairly good job at finally capturing one of the X-Men as they really are in the books. They still missed the point a bit by tossing in so many mutant cameos that the story and characters were nearly lost to the studio's desire to action-fluff it up.
I will continue to say this for a long time: the only successful comic book stories that get translated to film are the solo heroes like, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Superman, etc. With the exception of the Incredible Hulk. For some reason they never can get that one quite right. Even with adding a star like Norton to the main role, it still didn't click. The reason that single hero stories work is that they can concentrate on a main character and a main villain. When there's too many characters on the screen you have to sacrifice the time it takes to introduce each character so that you can get on with the story. Especially for American audiences who only want their 90 minute features. This ends up making the characters and their woes seem difficult to associate with and thus making them less likable. On the flipside, if you do take the time to introduce each character properly, the audience is forced to sit through a three hour epic. If the story isn't worth the intro, or the action is a Michael Bay clone, you've just wasted their time and money.
Granted, it's fun to go in and watch people blow stuff up and flex their giant CGI cock for 90 minutes, but there's only so much of that you can take before you're bored; because, frankly, we've seen it hundreds of times before in movies that were actually good.
I have high hopes for the upcoming release of Thor. If they don't do to it what they did to Punisher or Spawn, we'll end up with a half-decent comic movie. However, like I said, due to the fact that this seems to be a large cast and the pre-vis stuff on the web looks like more cartoon-ey garbage, I'm not getting my hopes up for this new X-feature.
Besides... Kevin fucking Bacon!? I thought he was busy, off singing crappy music, and sucking his brother's cock. How did they manage to pull him away from such an artistic endeavor?
Wolverine did a fairly good job at finally capturing one of the X-Men as they really are in the books. They still missed the point a bit by tossing in so many mutant cameos that the story and characters were nearly lost to the studio's desire to action-fluff it up.
I will continue to say this for a long time: the only successful comic book stories that get translated to film are the solo heroes like, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Superman, etc. With the exception of the Incredible Hulk. For some reason they never can get that one quite right. Even with adding a star like Norton to the main role, it still didn't click. The reason that single hero stories work is that they can concentrate on a main character and a main villain. When there's too many characters on the screen you have to sacrifice the time it takes to introduce each character so that you can get on with the story. Especially for American audiences who only want their 90 minute features. This ends up making the characters and their woes seem difficult to associate with and thus making them less likable. On the flipside, if you do take the time to introduce each character properly, the audience is forced to sit through a three hour epic. If the story isn't worth the intro, or the action is a Michael Bay clone, you've just wasted their time and money.
Granted, it's fun to go in and watch people blow stuff up and flex their giant CGI cock for 90 minutes, but there's only so much of that you can take before you're bored; because, frankly, we've seen it hundreds of times before in movies that were actually good.
I have high hopes for the upcoming release of Thor. If they don't do to it what they did to Punisher or Spawn, we'll end up with a half-decent comic movie. However, like I said, due to the fact that this seems to be a large cast and the pre-vis stuff on the web looks like more cartoon-ey garbage, I'm not getting my hopes up for this new X-feature.
Besides... Kevin fucking Bacon!? I thought he was busy, off singing crappy music, and sucking his brother's cock. How did they manage to pull him away from such an artistic endeavor?
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
I haven't seen Scott Pilgrim yet but I seriously doubt it's "dark and edgy". Cartoonishly bright sounds more accurate to describe it. Kick-ass and Watchmen's style reflects the source material.
Err, no? X-Men and X2 both did a great job managing to combine character arcs for several characters and giving all the team something to do (except Cyclops kind of got screwed.)
Yes, it sucked. And hopefully it'll be largely ignored now that Bryan Singer is back on X-Men for the first time since X2 as producer of First Class.
The first two X-Men movies were critical and financial successes.
I'm sure Mathew Vaughn and the rest of the team working on First Class will have already taken your concerns about the follies of team movies into account.
It looks to be in the same style as the first two X-Men movies, which is good enough for me. I'm sure it'll be jazzed up a bit but I hope it still fits into the same continuity as them.