MaroonersRock:
’ve been thinking about this lately. The X-Men film series is screwed. It has been for a while. The first two films, while taking liberty with the vast X-Men universe, were good films in their own right that could be watched by people who have never before read about Sniktbub and his amazing adventures. But with X-Men: The Last Stand, things started going all crap shaped. Too many characters, no story, deaths for no good reason, it was a mess. And X-Men Origins: Wolverine just kept the stupid coming without any of the quality that X3 had somehow kept from the first two movies. And then what they did to Deadpool…yeah, it was bad. So, here we are with yet another prequel. What can Fox, Marvel and Matthew Vaughn do to bring the X-Men movies back to where they once were? Well, here are five things that they could/should do to get the quality back into this series.
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Not suck...nuff said.
Seriously, though, this is a pretty good list, and I too hope the studios have learned from past mistakes. It's really not about cramming in a bunch of characters so the fans can ooh and ahh over them. It's about utilizing and caring about the characters we do have.
I agree with the list, the only issue is its a bit contridicting in Hollywood terms. I personally want it to follow the comics. The comics are what made Xmen popular to begin with, so why would you need to change it? Yes it has aged a bit, so "update" it to be more modern. That doesn't require changing the core of the story though.
Contridicting because it states "stay a pre qual" "follow the comics" and "change for film." Remember you are talking Hollywood here. So either they will change it massively, or they will follow too closesly, there is hardly an inbetween. Also if you are to follow the comics, you need to revamp the whole franchise since the other movies have traveled so far off from the path. Of course they can tweak and mend things to follow the comics, but that requires skill and time something FOX hasnt been willing to have for a while.
I didn't hate the third XMen movie as much as most people appear to have hated it. I enjoyed all three and I will be looking for this one to be a fun movie.
He contradicted himself by praising Batman Begins but then saying he doesn't want them to give X-Men a beginning and reboot but rather pick one. When in fact Batman Begins is a beginning and a reboot. Not only that but he also has grammatical and spelling errors in there.
He does make some good points though, especially the throwing characters in there for no reason. I hated Gambit being in there for only 10 minutes (what it seemed like at least).