I saw a Twitter post about the possibility of scarlet witch in the next X-Men movie. Do you think it should happen and
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Max_cinefilo89 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 12:20 PM)
Everyone was bad in Godzilla, except Bryan Cranston. You can't really blame Olsen, who has proven herself repeatedly on screen.
And X-Men movies haven't made bad casting decisions? How about two actors who share the last name Jones? -
bud-47 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 12:43 PM)
Given his inability to be objective towards these films, I'm sure he thinks Alexandra Shipp and Olivia Munn also gave worthy performances as well. To un-biased eyes though, they were nothing but bland, cardboard cut-outs. Jennifer Lawrence even phoned it in.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 01:30 PM)
Olivia Munn was used exactly as she should be; minimally and with emphasis on her tits. Alexandra Shipp was good, she gave a strong performance and made Halle Berry look amateur in comparison; give the kid a break. Jennifer Lawrence gave a strong, understated performance, she was good too, she never missed a single beat and had great dynamics with all of the other characters, especially James McAvoy, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Evan Peters.
To un-biased eyes though
Oh YOU'RE unbiased here are ya? You are?!
That's hilarious dude, funny stuff. -
bud-47 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 01:46 PM)
I knew you would praise their performances!
Shipp's performance was pretty much equal to Berry's. She just did it with an accent and a mohawk. Both were amateur performances for very under-written roles.
Look, I can admit that I'm biased to a certain degree. I'm an X-Men fan, just not a fan of the X-Men films. Haven't been since X2. And that does have an effect on my opinion of the franchise and films. But I can still separate my feelings and opinions to be somewhat objective (the MCU films are far from perfect). However, you've got rose-colored Fox-Men goggles that makes you see everything in these films as cinematic gold, which just isn't the case. -
hafabee — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 02:01 PM)
I think we're both equally biased on different sides of the scale, but I genuinely do both enjoy these movies and think that they're all around quality productions. Some of them have been amongst the best of the genre.
I do not excuse poor efforts though, like casting January Jones as mentioned above, it's not as if they're incapable of making errors in judgment but I do feel that they've been doing a hell of a good job with these X-Men movies lately, they're really pouring a lot of talent and effort into them and it shows in the quality of the productions.
And lastly like you I'm an old school X-Men fan, the difference is I've been quite happy with both the fan service and the changes made to the traditional/original stories and characters in the movies (with some exceptions). -
That_Guy_Son — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 02:56 PM)
Talent, yes. Effort, no. Like I said before, they go out of their way to not make the movies about them being X-men. It's like they can't think of a way to make the movies about X-men and have a story that would last 2 hours. Both DoFP and Apocalypse was them starting over so they could make it as minimum as possible.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 10:38 PM)
I don't think so.
One of the things that impressed me the most about
X-Men Apocalypse
was the juggling, high-wire act of so many characters and giving something to all of them, and having them mesh so well together.
Except Psylocke, I feel she was left out of the circle. Every other character got a good lead-in except for maybe Psylocke. She was Caliban's protector and agent/enforcer but she could have used the same fleshing out that all of the other characters in this movie got.