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  1. fantastic_four
    They're all PG-13. That line seems totally tame next to the violence in them films, which itself is fairly tame as well since they're robots. I imagine if cybernetic organisms were real we'd think it was far more violent though.
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    How's that different than the last four? I view these things as children's movies. I generally enjoy them, but I don't think of myself as the intended audience. I've seen no reason for kids not to love the ones I've seen.
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    I wonder if Sony is allowed to use Marvel's characters in the films they produce the way Marvel felt free to use Iron Man in Homecoming?
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    Huh? This immediately harkens back to the quote starting at 1:15 in the clip below from "The Dark Knight." Harvey Dent: When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service. Rachel Dawes: Harvey, the last man who they appointed to protect the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power. Harvey Dent: Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. With Caesar being the villain of Rome by rising to dictator and creating the historical precedent of emperor that dominated Rome following his nephew Octavian's rule and effectively ended the Roman Republic. So how, exactly, does Reeves view Caesar as heroic in a similar way that Batman is?
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    Is Marvel producing the spin-offs as well? I can't imagine that movies about Venom, Black Cat, and Silver Sable would be anywhere close to a priority if Marvel was calling the shots. I wouldn't be wild about Amy Pascal deciding to milk the Spider-Man license for all it's worth with weak film ideas that she's expecting me to magically make into something that's not terrible if I were Feige.
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    While I like Rebecca Romijn more in the role, both pale to the comic version of Mystique and don't represent her at all. Mystique in the comics is a far stronger character than she's ever been in the films. She leads the Brotherhood instead of Magneto and is more talkative with a far stronger role. But all of that is an effect of the writing more than the performance of either actress. And if she were written on screen as she has been in the comic, I expect Lawrence to do better in the role. She's a far more accomplished actress with more speaking range than Romijn has. Romijn did well with a few snide lines to snarl out from time to time, but most of her presence in the first three films was physical, not verbal, and Romijn's physical movement is far stronger than Lawrence's, which for a character like Mystique is important. In the films, by far the major role Mystique played was in "Days of Future Past," and I'm not sure Romijn would have done as well as Lawrence did with the larger volume of spoken lines.
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    I wasn't guessing, I saw an interview where she said she's a blonde. And she's 21 now, GoT started in 2011, so she was 15 when it came out, possibly 14 when she recorded it, and either 13 or 14 when they picked her for the role.
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    I figured they cast her because she's young, gorgeous, tall, and a redhead on GoT and that all matches Jean Grey. I say "redhead on GoT" because that's not her natural hair color; she claims it's some shade of blonde and they dye it for the show.
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    I view her performance in Game of Thrones the same way. If she's progressed since she started on that show at age 15, it's lost on me.
  10. fantastic_four
    We appear to be entering a dark time for X-Men films both figuratively and literally.
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    Oh definitely. It wasn't the first time they had done it and the timeframe stuff had been included in previous deals as well. I don't recall the complete list of titles they had leased to film studios, but I know that awful FF movie from the early 1990s was made solely to satisfy the provision of the timeframe clause of the contract Marvel had with the studio who produced it.
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    It wasn't dumb; they had no choice. They were bankrupt, so it was sell off assets or go out of business. All the film rights they sold to Fox and Sony were in perpetuity as long as they continued to actively make films within a specific timeframe. Marvel didn't make movies at that point and had no vision for doing so until after CGI became good enough to depict superhero powers realistically in live-action films. So yes, in retrospect, it looks dumb, but if it's 1994 and Marvel has just filed for bankruptcy, what would any of us have done differently? Remember, the X-Men lineup has gone through dozens and dozens and dozens of changes. Apparently it got clarified as mutant characters which jibes with the way Stan Lee and subsequent writers looked at the team as well.
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    Yes, in the early 1990s. The contract included all current and future mutants, which is why Marvel has been very hesitant to create new mutant characters in recent years. I expect Disney will eventually buy Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four back, but it'll be hard for them to get the X-Men. Fox would really bend them over for it.
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    The "I believe there's a hero in all of us" speech that Aunt May gives to Peter in Spidey 2 still perfectly captures the reason most of us still enjoy superheroes well into adulthood. The film also focuses on the core problem with superheroes--why go through all the trouble? Why risk your life and family for the sake of strangers? When Otto breaks into that cafe, grabs Mary Jane, and tells her he'll peel the flesh off her bones after he's given up being Spider-Man, I still get an adrenaline rush every time I see that film which deeply, vividly answers the question of "why do it?" Despite some of the hokiness that AC813 is pointing out that I don't disagree with, the film hits hard on all the right points, and Alfred Molina is an absolutely perfect Otto Octavius. I love it.
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    I still rank Spidey 2 as the second-best superhero film ever made, although Logan is making a strong case for usurping that position that I'm still undecided on until I watch both films again.
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    Michael Keaton as Vulture and the possibility that Marvel producing the film makes it amazingly great are the only things I'm at all looking forward to for now.
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    The concept is played out. I love lions, tigers, and cheetahs, but I can't imagine watching half a dozen films devoted to seeing them in action. The xenomorphs are just alien versions of Earth's predators taken to evolutionary extremes.
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    Snyder has eight total kids--two from an early girlfriend, four from a previous marriage, and two adopted with his current wife in 2004. One of his adopted daughters is who committed suicide. She's the third from the right in the pic below. That's a lotta kids!
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    Those Prometheus ponderings were 100% from Damon Lindelof. I presumed it would be more xenomorph action-centric since he wasn't anywhere on the credits, and xenomorph action is played out. James Cameron took it to its extremes and there's nowhere else to go that anyone has figured out.
  20. fantastic_four
    I'm thinking a different word that starts with "w" and ends with "tf".
  21. fantastic_four
    If I where Mangold I'd wait at least four or five years for Dafne Keen to be old enough to carry a picture. She was incredibly compelling for an 11-year old, but she wouldn't have been able to provide an extended screen presence without Hugh Jackman there.
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    Didn't realize that. Were those issues supposed to be an alternate reality?
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    You're right, my bad. The idea of Xavier killing them was an implied change by the film.
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    The movie derives from the "Old Man Logan" limited series. I don't think it's supposed to be a part of the main canon, but I'm not sure of that.
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    The movie didn't elaborate, but in the comic Xavier did it, so it's safe to assume they were referring to Xavier killing a lot of the X-Men, probably during some early fit of his dementia setting in.