Angela Bassett shoulda been STORM

[DarkSuperman]

I think she woulda nailed the african accent and her body is wicked. Way better choice than Halle, just saying...

Who agrees?

 

[Jennifer Walters]

God. Please. Make. It. Stop.

I sometimes wish Angela Bassett had never been born.

 

[Cyclops]

I think actually that an unknown actress would have been the best bet. Someone more physically imposing than Halle with very striking North African features. Most hopefully someone with ancestry from Kenya.

Storm needs to be someone who is both beautiful and commanding, and Halle Berry strikes me as far too mousy to really be Storm.

 

[Snikt 6]

^ I feel the same way. She should have been very "in your face" but it seemed she was always just afraid to get hit and was just.....there.....

 

[PeRfEcT_StOrM]

God. Please. Make. It. Stop.

I sometimes wish Angela Bassett had never been born.

DITTO.

 

[HBW]

Why so angry? I agree with whoever went for an unknown. As said before, Halle Berry is way too mousy for Storm. Storm has presence and an exotic, majestic quality to her. Halle Berry does not. And she doesn't look remotely African. African-American? Of course, but she just doesn't have the features and skin tone of someone who's actually from Africa and pure black, IMHO.

 

[Abaddon]

I think actually that an unknown actress would have been the best bet. Someone more physically imposing than Halle with very striking North African features. Most hopefully someone with ancestry from Kenya.

Storm needs to be someone who is both beautiful and commanding, and Halle Berry strikes me as far too mousy to really be Storm.

Agreed. But I don't think it would've mattered who was playing Storm, of they were going to write the character the same. Afraid of humans?Pfft.

 

[Cyclops]

Sigh. Again, the line was "Sometimes, I'm afraid of them."

Not "Those humans scare the **** out of me all the time."

Keyword is sometimes. Sometimes, humans scare me. Sometimes, they scare you. Humans have a great capacity for doing terrible things, and when a majority of humans hate you, chances are that you're going to be pretty damn scared of them a bit more often than "sometimes".

So only being scared sometimes is still pretty damn gutsy.

 

[Abaddon]

Stop defending her!

 

[Cyclops]

I'm not defending Halle, by any means. I'm defending the rationale behind that line.

Part of why I haven't liked Storm lately is that she has been so detached from genuine human emotion and diction that it makes her unrelatable. That line right there made Storm more human than she's been in years.

 

[Abaddon]

Well, unfortunately it was that line and a compilation of other things that gave the impression that Storm was a fragile woman.

 

[Cyclops]

And it was getting up and showing Toad the fury of nature after getting kicked around and knocked down an elevator shaft that proved that she wasn't. Of course, it was accompanied by a bad line delivered badly, but still.

 

[phoenix_force]

its a shame angela would've bin much better
just about all the x-cast are replacements (ala hugh jackman) second choice (halle berry , james marsden ...)
i think the only ones they wanted in the first place were
Patrick Stewart Ian Mckellan and Famke Janssen
and Famke practically turned down the role at first

 

[Jennifer Walters]

its a shame angela would've bin much better
just about all the x-cast are replacements (ala hugh jackman) second choice (halle berry , james marsden ...)
i think the only ones they wanted in the first place were
Patrick Stewart Ian Mckellan and Famke Janssen
and Famke practically turned down the role at first

Get your facts straight.

Famke was not first choice in fact, many women were rumored for the role of Jean Grey, before Famke was even becoming famous as an actress.

Second, we know not if Halle was a second choice/third choice, whatever. And Angela was never offered the role. Angela has said it herself.

 

[phoenix_force]

i was talking about Bryan Singer's x-men
not the old tom cruise/ nicole kidman one for the 90's
and alot of actresses wanted the role of Jean Grey they auditioned for it but never got it famke never went to them
bryan went to famke

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I wasn't talking about anything but the Singer films. Show me solid proof that Singer went to Famke. Cause I have never heard this.

I have no problem with Ms. Janssen, in fact I love her. I think she's an amazingly talented actress, I think for the most part she brought those amazing chops to the table as Jean Grey.

But was she the first choice? Oh hell no. She wouldn't probably even be a choice really, considering she's rather not what a studio goes after. She's not marketable. If you are not marketable it holds you back from getting a role. Sure, now thanks to these films/James Bond/Nip/Tuck she's becoming more marketable, but she's not quite the household name, most just see her and go ''Oh, look Jean Grey. Oh, that's that girl from James Bond." And well, she can't be marketable as Jean Grey/A Bond Girl, she must be marketable as Famke Janssen herself.

This is the reason Halle Berry has the role of Storm, she's marketable, not because she's the best woman for the job (Neither is Angela btw.), but because she's marketable and is a house hold name. She sells, people know her name. And believe it or not, the woman can act, why the hell she hasn't acted as Storm yet is my guess.

 

[phoenix_force]

Sure i got that proof in a famke interview
hold on leeme find it should be on famke-janssen.org

 

[phoenix_force]

When she was offered the role of Jean Grey in the first X- Men film, the prospect of playing a mutant in a sci-fi studio blockbuster based on a comic book wasn't enticing - until she learned that Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) would be directing. "I wasn't at all interested in comic books," she says. "They've been around for decades and they were drawn by men, so the women were idealised. I don't know any woman that could possibly look like those cartoons - they were these perfect creatures. All the early comic book film adaptations like Batman or Catwoman subscribed to that perfect image. But Bryan wanted to make everyone human - normal people who happened to have special powers. It's like you're in any other movie, just with more special effects."

Brett Ratner directed the third, most recent instalment, The Last Stand, and it is a credit to Janssen's skills that she elevates her telekinetic character way beyond the cartoon level. In fact, her super-powerful Phoenix is far more compelling to watch than Halle Berry's weather-wielding Storm - or most of the other mutants. Having died in X 2, she comes back to life - with ultra-violent schizophrenic tendencies.
http://www.famke-janssen.org/press/...ll&id=1160778854&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&
from the UK independant

 

[Jennifer Walters]

When she was offered the role of Jean Grey in the first X- Men film, the prospect of playing a mutant in a sci-fi studio blockbuster based on a comic book wasn't enticing - until she learned that Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) would be directing. "I wasn't at all interested in comic books," she says. "They've been around for decades and they were drawn by men, so the women were idealised. I don't know any woman that could possibly look like those cartoons - they were these perfect creatures. All the early comic book film adaptations like Batman or Catwoman subscribed to that perfect image. But Bryan wanted to make everyone human - normal people who happened to have special powers. It's like you're in any other movie, just with more special effects."

Brett Ratner directed the third, most recent instalment, The Last Stand, and it is a credit to Janssen's skills that she elevates her telekinetic character way beyond the cartoon level. In fact, her super-powerful Phoenix is far more compelling to watch than Halle Berry's weather-wielding Storm - or most of the other mutants. Having died in X 2, she comes back to life - with ultra-violent schizophrenic tendencies.
http://www.famke-janssen.org/press/...ll&id=1160778854&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&
from the UK independant

No where does it say she was first choice there. It says she was offered the role (which no big duh seeing as she has it. ) ...other actresses could have been offered the role before her.

And the last part? That's just bad journalism. It's insulting not only to the cast, but the characters they play.

 

[Cyclops]

Yeah, no kidding. Phoenix from the movie made cartoon characters look like realistic, well-fleshed beings.

 

[Abaddon]

I'd take Madame Faintsalot from TAS, over the silent vein queen any day.

 

[phoenix_force]

movie phoenix is way better than comic/cartoon phoenix

 

[BMM]

movie phoenix is way better than comic/cartoon phoenix

No.

 

[Goddessreicho]

movie phoenix is way better than comic/cartoon phoenix

Oh jeezuz.

 

[Matt.S99]

movie phoenix is way better than comic/cartoon phoenix

wow..just wow
besides from the casting of famke,phoenix sucked all she did was stand there,even my dad said that