He only says that because he wants to eat ice cream out of Halle Berry's ass.
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"The two characters have a personality..."
1) Only one?2) SEZ YOU.
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Anybody else seen the new one yet. It had a couple of days premiere before it starts a full schedule on Friday. &it was cheap in the afternoon so I went.Not sure hnx it fits with the rest of the Marvel cinema thing is there any overlap?Anyway did seem a bit dumb but it is a !.2A. Does seem to take itself more seriously than I could. Maybe that's why I couldn't see an active thread for it?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
Days Of Future Past thread. Believe that this great graphic is current. It'll give you an idea of which properties can share the same sandbox. Potentially, the X-Men could meet the FF or Deadpool (who already pulled Colossus over). Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, as characters in both X-Men and Avengers comics, look like the only overlap.
So happy that egos/money have allowed Spider-Man to cross over into Marvel Studios territory.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Weird release schedule. How come US get an American film released 9 days later than us?
This got 8.1 on Imdb I think which seems a bit odd. Wonder what others will think.Looks ok and has some ok action scenes. But attempts at portentousness ain't that successful.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
It's been the same with other recent Marvel movies too, like Civil War - they're released a week earlier in Europe than in the US. And I've noticed the same happening with some other Hollywood genre movies too. I've no idea why this has become a common practice.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 May 2016 06:34 (eight years ago) link
Is it just me or has the promotion/ publicity push for this been pretty absent?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
this movie was garbage: Oscar Isaac grunting through a Gamorrean Guard mask painted blue. Whole cast visibly bored.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
xpost Compared to the other superhero movies released this spring (whose marketing was ubiquitous and inescapable), for sure.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
I don't know, I feel like I've seen Olivia Munn chopping a car in half about a billion times by now.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
I've not heard great things about this. Re: Apocalypse specifically, why would you slather Isaac of all people in prosthetics and not even attempt to make him look like the actual character? It's not nearly as egregious, but it reminds me of the insulting depiction of Galactus in the second Fantastic Four movie. If you aren't going to take advantage of an iconic character design that practically begs for a one-to-one translation from page to screen, why even bother? It's like making Wolverine just some dude who runs around carrying knives.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
I think the design of Galactus works incredibly well on the comic book page and in animation and would look outrageously silly in a live-action film.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
He doesn't have to necessarily be purple or have quite as many things projecting out of his face, but any ballpark depiction would've been a vast improvement over a cloud.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
I expect the makers of Thanos are gonna have the same problem: how do you make this simian-like beast in blue convincing? And you still have the problem of 6000 characters needing a line or two to remind audiences that they exist.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
My preview audience didn't laugh or applaud much, and it wasn't because there were critics in the audience (I was the only one, and I yawned once loudly).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:47 (eight years ago) link
GOTG did remarkably well with Ronan the Accuser & Thanos is looking not too shabby; I think a similarly muted approach to Galactus could work. Oh and there was that one shot of the Celestial in the Collector's educational reel.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I can confirm that Fassbender looks hot as a Polish steel factory worker, like the guy in Go West's "We Close Our Eyes" video.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
Did I see that right, did the Sydney Opera House get destroyed for no real reason?&the Golden Gate bridge stay surprisingly intacj for something that's had holes ripped in it while cars are on it?Just been reminded of Sydney for another reason.
Then as I was typing one of the Sky Broadband ads came on. I think there are a couple. Quicksilver hitting on a girl in the lounge. So he elaborately makes snacks etc.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Everything about Isaac's presence in this is befuddling
And they overplayed the Quicksilver joke naturally
― Number None, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
It's like making Wolverine just some dude who runs around carrying knives.
Fox, are you listening? Please do this, I will buy a ticket to see how ridiculous your movie is
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Is Hugh Jackman still much of a draw?Wonder how much longer he'll be in the role.Also if they'll get somebody of the right height and the right commonwealth country eventually.He is like the last actor in the series who hasn't changed ain't he?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
this movie was garbage: Oscar Isaac grunting through a Gamorrean Guard mask painted blue. Whole cast visibly bored.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:31 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I feel like Jennifer Lawrence's people totally missed the MUST BE IN ALL SEQUELS clause when she signed her contract for the reboot.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
this movie should've been set on fire
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
20 feet of set comment is... oh god, it's so right
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
No doubt they used green screen and CGI for those 20 feet, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
first class wasn't a great film, but it had characters more interesting than anything that'd been done in the franchise for a very long time
it's as if bryan singer saw that the franchise could have some life, threw it in the bathtub with days of future past (the near-future scenes were a boring dirge that approached the lifelessness of his last film, and the past scenes with the younger actors started out fine but quickly devolved into character in-fighting that ended with the barely-understandable final action piece), and then tried to drown it in the bathtub with this one
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Any X-Men movie that would cut out its scenes of mutants hanging out at the mall fundamentally misunderstands its source material.
there was maybe five minutes of 'normal life at the mansion' scenes which recalled the spirit of claremont but they got dumped double-quick in favour of poor oscar isaac joylessly teleporting around the world and giving people haircuts which turned them evil
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
what I got out of this movie is that mutants have powers, and they fight a lot
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Bryan Singer does not get the appeal of the X-Men. But his movies make money so this is probably as good as cinematic X-Men are going to get.
― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
(TBF, though, half the people who write X-Men comics don't seem to get the appeal of the X-Men either.)
― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
there are a few angles of appeal and somehow singer made at least two films without finding any of them
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
A general rule with films like these is if that if I have to have someone explaining to me what is happening on screen with some variation of "in the comics, it is explained that..." which was the case with this film, then the movie can fuck off.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
imo additional context makes this one worse
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
there's so much terribly delivered exposition in this
Rose Byrne gets saddled with some particularly horrifying dialogue
― Number None, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I just remembered that Havok's death was so unclearly depicted that the movie was almost over by the time I realized that he'd actually died.
― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Is anyone still reading Krakoa X-Men or have we all tapped out
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 26 March 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
I was deep into mutant stuff in 5th-10th grades and then dropped out. Started following a x-men cover thing on twitter and I'm stunned at how awful some of the 90's stuff looked. Just... ugh. The logos themselves are hideous, and seeing the bastard children of Jim Lee and Rob Leifeld barf barf barf was Slimer from the Ghost Busters in there at some point?
Did it actually get good again?
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 March 2023 04:05 (one year ago) link
That was Doop.
Doop is awesome.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 26 March 2023 05:08 (one year ago) link
I'm reading more of it than I expected, I'll read nearly anything by Kieron Gillen and Ale Wing, and the current crossover (taking the three main titles 10/100/1000 years into a future where Sinister has succeeded in infecting the immortality process so that everyone is Sinister) is pretty wild.
Cow_Art - this is the foundation for the modern X-Men, if it sounds like something interesting - "Mutants can't die" as a foundation stone is at least an interesting start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_X_and_Powers_of_X
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 26 March 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
Is Gambit still around? Gambit suuuuuuuuuuucked
First X-men I remember reading was on a road trip with my parents and I got it from a spinner rack in a gas station. I think the entire issue was Cyclops and Madeline (fake Jean Grey?) stranded in the ocean after their plane went down and fighting off a shark. The mix of action and soap opera really got to me.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
I read whatever came out till March 2020 and enjoyed it. Then, during the pandemic, I subscribed to a bunch of comics in order to support my local comic store during the "strange times", and finally got them delivered to the house in a bundle sometime in 2021. By that point, there so many of them, it was too exhausting to comtemplate starting them. I have, like, the Jimmy Olsen series, some Ale Wing and Chip Zdarsky minis, the last year of Immortal Hulk, and way too many Hickman Krakoa X-Mens. I'll read them sometime, probably!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
My desire to catch up was put off, somewhat, by the news that Hickman left.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
Also I find Leinil Yu's work annoying to read!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 26 March 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
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This
Plus there are constantly more and more and more series!
I may wait until this whole direction ends and then trawl to figure out which storylines are best regarded and buy those trades
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
good luck having those trades still be in print by the time you figure it out obv
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Meantime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv3Ss8o9gGQ
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link