Oh don't forget the woc sex worker who immediately decides to be evil
Wait were those the only two non-white cast members? Probably a coincidence.
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but he has no lines
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
And he was also evil
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
After hating First Class I remember giving Days of Future Past a shot and for some reason thinking that maybe they could turn the franchise around and man I have never been so wrong about anything
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
After hating First Class I remember giving Days of Future Past a shot and for some reason thinking that maybe they could turn the franchise around and man I have never been so wrong about anything
After hating First Class I remember giving Days of Future Past a shot and for some reason thinking that maybe they could turn the franchise around and man I have never been so wrong about anything
it does have that one sick as hell scene though
Huge Jackedman's butt?
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I liked Days of Future Past, really
Like it was good enough that I thought maybe they had figured something out
And then they took all of the shit that they had saved up and shit their pants three times as hard immediately after
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
After hating First Class I remember giving Days of Future Past a shot and for some reason thinking that maybe they could turn the franchise around and man I have never been so wrong about anything
it does have that one sick as hell scene though
Huge Jackedman's butt?
two sick as hell scenes
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
When you threaten to make an 80s period piece with Jubilee, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, and one of my all time favorite villains played by Oscar Isaac (I will always be a sucker for Apocalypse) immediately after an X-Men period piece I thought worked really well, I am going to do the stupid thing and let my hopes get inflated
When you threaten to make an 80s period piece with Jubilee, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, and one of my all time favorite villains played by Oscar Isaac (I will always be a sucker for Apocalypse) immediately after an X-Men period piece I thought worked really well, I am going to do the stupid thing and let my hopes get inflated
Jubilee was in Apocalypse? Fuck me I do not remember that at all.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
She was a huge part of the marketing!
She basically was not in the movie!
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I really wish Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix could have actually been about the X-Men and not the continuing Xavier/Magneto/Mystique love triangle
They still would have had a lot of issues, but
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
If we're talking about favorite moments in the first X-Men movie, I will happily mention how when Wolverine yells this at Magneto, "You're so full of shit! If you're really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing." Magneto's response is to huff and then levitate away because Wolverine is absolutely right and Magneto has no catty response for Logan's claim.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I often think back on Rogue & Magneto's brief scene of dialogue at the Statue of Liberty.
Magneto: (staring at the Statue of Liberty) Magnificent, isn't she? Rogue: I've seen it. Magneto: I first saw her in 1949. America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace. Rogue: Are you going to kill me? Magneto: Yes. Rogue: Why? Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else. Whole families destroyed, simply because they were born different from those in power. Well, after tonight, the world's powerful will be just like us. They will return home as brothers, as mutants. Our cause will be theirs. Your sacrifice will mean our survival. l'll understand if that comes as small consolation.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I re-watched days of future past and X2 recently and I think the former is probably my favorite
i think first class has to be my least favorite of them all
i still have to see new mutants
and it is already the worst because of all the problems it is known to have
but i have come too far to not be a completionist
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I really ought to rewatch them all
I thiiink I'd go with the original X-Men as my favorite and either Dark Phoenix or X3 as my least, but several of them I haven't seen since they came out
Still haven't seen New Mutants of course either
And this includes the Wolverine movies but not the Deadpool movies
I often think back on Rogue & Magneto's brief scene of dialogue at the Statue of Liberty.
Magneto: (staring at the Statue of Liberty) Magnificent, isn't she? Rogue: I've seen it. Magneto: I first saw her in 1949. America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace. Rogue: Are you going to kill me? Magneto: Yes. Rogue: Why? Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else. Whole families destroyed, simply because they were born different from those in power. Well, after tonight, the world's powerful will be just like us. They will return home as brothers, as mutants. Our cause will be theirs. Your sacrifice will mean our survival. l'll understand if that comes as small consolation.
And yet he has no comeback when he's called out on his hypocrisy.
Like it was good enough that I thought maybe they had figured something out
And then they took all of the shit that they had saved up and shit their pants three times as hard immediately after
I thought they had something with DoFP as well but in retrospect the fact that young Magneto doesn't end the movie working with Xavier is a big red flag. The most they had was Xavier and Magneto's undeniable chemistry and the movie even shows that the end of Magneto's story as is will be one of regret. Its so pointless to make him play the part of the villain. They were staring at what could have been the core of the franchise going forward and nobody could see it.
Logan is my favorite X-Men movie and it isn't even close
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
IIRC the was a deleted scene in X-Men that was a kinda clever foreshadowing of Magneto's plan; it was a classroom scene where the kids at the Mansion are learning about early Christianity and how Christians were persecuted until Emperor Constantine converted.
so, my covid bubble wanted to do a movie night and watch Trial of the Chicago 7 on the weekend.
I was pretty ehhhh because a) well it's Sorkin and b) I'd heard from others that it was indeed very Sorkin, but figured ok I'll drink beforehand
I'm setting the scene so you know my expectations were at rock fucking bottom, but with that in mind, it was actually ... alright? definitely his best work since A Few Good Men. Not really spoilers but in case you want to go in without knowing much
The Sorkin of it all: There were bits of the real history which IMO should have been left in, would have made great lines/scenes, but were skipped or moved around. I have some theories on why. The ivy-league Joe-Kennedy-lookalike was the main character, of course, while most of the others were relegated to comic relief (Rubin in particular got cast as a total clown). As far as I know, IRL both prosecutors were pieces of shit govt stooges but of course we have to have a Principled Opponent who is a Good Man on the Wrong Side blurgh whatever. JGL did an ok job with a shit role. They walked all over Hoffman’s character, I assume his grave is a mass of roiled earth, but tbh I was expecting Sorkin to just make him an outright villain. And speeches, speeches everywhere - real spoiler:
one crucial emotional moment hinges on a grammatical nuance which was almost at the point of self-parody.
The pros: There was more focus on Fred Hampton and Bobby Seale than I expected (but again my expectations were fucking low). Not enough, but it got me excited for Judas and the Black Messiah. People really need to hire Sascha Baren Cohen for more actual movie roles, he's much more valuable as a character actor than when he's doing his own bullshit - anyway he made an A+ Abby Hoffman. And while there was a lot of dancing around whether the political institutions of america are inherently biased and undemocratic, the film as a whole was much less of a wishy-washy liberal take than I had feared.
basically this is the movie you show to your liberal-but-what-about-property-damage-parents to nudge them to the side of BLM.
Kringle just inspired me to watch a Friday 13th movie out of curiosity. I'm sure I've seen the first (but I don't remember it), and I've definitely seen the most recent with Jamie Lee Curtis.
I watched Jason X.
Hahaha, holy shit - that was waaaay more fun than I expected it to be.
"Yeah, that'll do it.".
this is an attack
Oh my Gods I laughed at this for way too long
She gave that interviewer that look until he died.
I still have never seen any X-men after Days of Future Past
You... aren't really missing anything, and I say this as someone who's favorite comics are the X-men ones. I can't in any good faith recommend Apocalypse or Dark Phoenix unless you love the source material. There's nuggets of neat tidbits, but by and large, train wrecks.
Literally in DP's case.
The only film I've never seen is Origins: Wolverine, because I don't hate myself that much.
Though the other day I happened to catch the post-credits scene, and... it was kind of creepy, whether unintentionally or not? It was... Ryan Reynolds as not-Deadpool's severed head?
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magneto, but make it pray tell from pose
Any time the plot wasn't laser focused on them it was miserable trash
kevin bacon had a lot of fun and I was ok with that
nobody saw anything
you saw nothing
I'd say it's more frustrating than bad, because you can see how good it could have been
Wait were those the only two non-white cast members? Probably a coincidence.
riptide
but he has no lines
it does have that one sick as hell scene though
Huge Jackedman's butt?
Like it was good enough that I thought maybe they had figured something out
And then they took all of the shit that they had saved up and shit their pants three times as hard immediately after
two sick as hell scenes
Jubilee was in Apocalypse? Fuck me I do not remember that at all.
She basically was not in the movie!
They still would have had a lot of issues, but
i still have to see new mutants
and it is already the worst because of all the problems it is known to have
but i have come too far to not be a completionist
I thiiink I'd go with the original X-Men as my favorite and either Dark Phoenix or X3 as my least, but several of them I haven't seen since they came out
Still haven't seen New Mutants of course either
And this includes the Wolverine movies but not the Deadpool movies
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And yet he has no comeback when he's called out on his hypocrisy.
Jubilee getting shafted is cyclical. Happened in X-2 also.
I thought they had something with DoFP as well but in retrospect the fact that young Magneto doesn't end the movie working with Xavier is a big red flag. The most they had was Xavier and Magneto's undeniable chemistry and the movie even shows that the end of Magneto's story as is will be one of regret. Its so pointless to make him play the part of the villain. They were staring at what could have been the core of the franchise going forward and nobody could see it.
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I was pretty ehhhh because a) well it's Sorkin and b) I'd heard from others that it was indeed very Sorkin, but figured ok I'll drink beforehand
I'm setting the scene so you know my expectations were at rock fucking bottom, but with that in mind, it was actually ... alright? definitely his best work since A Few Good Men. Not really spoilers but in case you want to go in without knowing much
The pros: There was more focus on Fred Hampton and Bobby Seale than I expected (but again my expectations were fucking low). Not enough, but it got me excited for Judas and the Black Messiah. People really need to hire Sascha Baren Cohen for more actual movie roles, he's much more valuable as a character actor than when he's doing his own bullshit - anyway he made an A+ Abby Hoffman. And while there was a lot of dancing around whether the political institutions of america are inherently biased and undemocratic, the film as a whole was much less of a wishy-washy liberal take than I had feared.
basically this is the movie you show to your liberal-but-what-about-property-damage-parents to nudge them to the side of BLM.
So she's now an independent who votes Republican, probably.
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She gave that interviewer that look until he died.
It took 7 seconds.
You... aren't really missing anything, and I say this as someone who's favorite comics are the X-men ones. I can't in any good faith recommend Apocalypse or Dark Phoenix unless you love the source material. There's nuggets of neat tidbits, but by and large, train wrecks.
Literally in DP's case.
The only film I've never seen is Origins: Wolverine, because I don't hate myself that much.
Though the other day I happened to catch the post-credits scene, and... it was kind of creepy, whether unintentionally or not? It was... Ryan Reynolds as not-Deadpool's severed head?