I agree with you about the first three X-Men movies - the second one was the only one which was even tolerable to me at all. My main issues are with the casting and with the decision to use the X-Men 'franchise' as a vehicle to tell Singer's personal stories of how difficult and angsty it was growing up gay. We get it Bryan. I have never particularly cared for Famke Jansen, and she was a horribly choice for Jean Grey. Halle Berry was stunt casting, and was also horrible for Storm. Anna Paquin may be a fine actress, but it would be hard to find a worse casting choice for Rogue. McKellen and Stewart were fine as Magneto and X - in fact I think McKellen is the only one who really relished his role. Besides Jackman of course. For whatever reason, Hugh Jackman has really bought into the character of Logan. At first, I was as disappointed as everyone else to find that the 'runt' that was Wolverine was not to come to life in the movies, and would instead just be another guy. But Jackman has embraced the role in much the same way that Downey has embraced Tony Stark. First Class I thought was closer to what Marvel may have made 'in house' if they still owned the rights, which is a good thing. It was mostly well done, except of course for the complete non-acting ability of January Jones.. and although I love Jennifer Lawrence, I did not like her for Mystique. And casting Fassbender as young Magneto was a stroke of pure brilliance. As for the two Wolverine movies: the 'Origins' one was a train wreck. It wasn't as bad I think as people like to say now, but it sure wasn't good. They didn't even bother to finish the sfx for crying out loud. But man.. The Wolverine. I absolutely LOVED that one. With the exception of the miserable casting of the 'Viper' chick, other than that, it was superlative in every way. Like you, I hope this new one kicks all sorts of you-know-what.
I'm with you. Storm, Rogue and Jean were not good choices. Halle Berry was terrible, she has an accent in X-Men 1 (a bad one) but doesn't even bother in the second movie. Jackman & Marsden were good choices but the characters were neutered. Jackman plays a heroic, good person. Wolverine is a cold blooded killer. Aside from a brief moment in X2 we never get that. Whedon described Cyclops as Batman, a leader, and wrote a great Cyclops. What we got in the movie... I don't even know what that was. The dialogue between him and Wolverine in X1 was on point though.
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that looks so incoherent and awful. Even with context I would have no clue what is going on in that sequence.
It's because Wolverine Origins and X3 was crap. I liked the Wolverine, but there's a taint on the Fox franchise because of the bar Marvel is raising. The hit or miss treatments Fox produced Marvel licensed movies have been is like watching a remake of a movie and hoping for a different outcome. In some cases it's like Oldboy where you wonder why it was made and why did they change and throw away every nuance or meaning that made the original so good. In others, it becomes a different interpretation, like the various Batmans or even Blade, that you accept as better than nothing and an interesting twist that still captures what the original character was even if you don't think it's truly faithful to the comic as a whole. Though in Blade, I don't know how much better it could get beyond the first two. I think the trailers are pretty interesting. It's unfortunate that the Sentinels aren't these tower-eque Frankensteins and more like life-size Robocop drones (...another remake) that's easier to shoot and imagine in a movie production but changes the scale of what the comics are trying to represent. Those giant purple colored Sentinels symbolically represented the best humanity had to offer to take down mutants, but are now replaced by something more "realistic". I don't care about the actual design except that it had to be huge. Singer's interpretations are generally satisfying, but I'm hoping less for more of the same...
I thought it looked pretty good. Really close to the feel of the comic books. But maybe without that context, it looks incomprehensible.
seriously? a guy named after a character in wheel of times finds this incoherent and difficult to figure out wat is going on All kidding aside it looked great. I'm really looking forward to this movie (of course I was a big x-men fan when I was a kid)
The splicing together of dialogue on that 3rd trailer was bad. Reminded me of the commentary on Madden a couple years ago where the play by play announcer would change his volume and tone with every word. Still, Fassbender as Magneto will always be badass and worth seeing.
X-Men is by far my favorite super hero comics-to-movies series. The trailer looks awesome. I am looking forward to the new one
This isn't anything new. Singer is notoriously one of the most repugnant men in Hollywood. Ya'll can Google Bryan Singer Datalounge if you want details of his parties and behavior.
That's horrible if true and sounds sort of like what happened with Polanski. I'm not going to jump to conclusions until I know more but he is riding high right now with X-Men Days of Future Past and has a TV series coming too. Wonder what these allegations might do to his career.
And where's cyclop? How is professor x is alive in the future and not cyclops? Didn't he and the optic blast guy died in x3 by the hands of phoenix?
