Best one vs one fight in the X-Franchise?

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Agreed, Those action sequences from X2 never get old IMO.

No they dont, they are amazing, yet people think Singer cant direct action .

It's not a matter of having room, it's a matter of who fits the story best. And Emma Frost did have a substantial role in the Dark Phoenix storyline which the end to Singer's X2 obviously hinted at for his X-3.
And Gambit was originally in X-3, even got as far as having a guy cast and showing up in the movie trailer, only to have been edited out. I forgot the actor's name, but he was pretty vocal about it on here during the pre-X3 days when the teaser trailer hit. So looked like X3 had no room for him either.

Agreed, you write the story and find which characters fit that story, not the other way around. And i'm pretty certain Singer mentioned Gambit being in X3 just after X2 was released, I think he would have been included.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

As I've said before, the Nightcrawler scene is probably one of the best action scenes I've seen in ANY movie, let alone a comic book movie.

 

[returntovoid]

Stuntman James Bamford had an cameo as Gambit in X2, which got cut.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

As I've said before, the Nightcrawler scene is probably one of the best action scenes I've seen in ANY movie, let alone a comic book movie.

Agreed, the choreography and wire-work was amazing, especially the slow mo stuff in the main room at the end, amazing.

Stuntman James Bamford had an cameo as Gambit in X2, which got cut.

Are you sure? In the script Gambit was going to be seen in a cell next to Cyclops once Stryker captured him, but it got at the script stage.

I'm surprised more hasnt been mentioned about Stryker capturing Cyclops twice.

 

[returntovoid]

Are you sure?

Check Gambit in other media page at Wikipedia.

 

[Schlosser85]

Wolverine vs. Deathstrike is probably the best.

But Nightcrawler in the White House is by far the best action sequence in the entire series, including Wolverine.

And just a couple nitpicks...I don't see how Phoenix and Xavier counts as a "fight", and the second Wolverine/Creed fight is not in Las Vegas, it's in New Orleans.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

N'awleans don't you mean?

 

[Adrian89]

Bryan Singer's original script for X3 was going have more screentime for Cyclops.

Here's the description for Singer's X3 script, taken from Wikipedia:

Though Singer, Harris and Dougherty had yet to complete a script, the director has revealed that at the time of his departure they had partially completed a story treatment for the film which would have focused exclusively on Jean Grey's resurrection[6] with the new villain Emma Frost, a role intended for Sigourney Weaver.[7] Frost was an empath manipulating Jean's emotions in the treatment, and like the finished film Magneto desires to control her. Overwhelmed by her powers, Jean makes Cyclops kill her, but her spirit survives and becomes a god-like creature, which Dougherty compared to the star child in A Space Odyssey.[8]

Interesting... Thanks! But Sigourney Weaver as Frost? Too old! haha

Anyway, Singer should have NEVER left for Superman Returns! The 2 X-Men movies he made may not be the best, but they were really good and uncomparable with Ratner's X3, that's for sure!

 

[Majik1387]

Interesting... Thanks! But Sigourney Weaver as Frost? Too old! haha

Anyway, Singer should have NEVER left for Superman Returns! The 2 X-Men movies he made may not be the best, but they were really good and uncomparable with Ratner's X3, that's for sure!

Ah memories of posts from the pre-X3 time.

 

[MrWayne]

Interesting... Thanks! But Sigourney Weaver as Frost? Too old! haha

Anyway, Singer should have NEVER left for Superman Returns! The 2 X-Men movies he made may not be the best, but they were really good and uncomparable with Ratner's X3, that's for sure!

Ugh! Bret RATner should have his film making license revoked..

 

[MrWayne]

and isnt the thread title "best 1 vs 1 fight" why are we talking about action sequences? thats another thread... lol and it looks like the majority say Wolverine vs Deathstrike.. id have to agree.. but its a shame how XOW didnt have a over the top fight scene to top anything from any of the 3 X flicks.. i would think with each movie they would take things up a notch.. so according to my logic Wolverine shoulda took the crown but fell short...
tsk tsk tsk.. huhhhhh!

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

That treatment sounds pretty good, except for the whole aspect about her spirit surviving as some god like entity.

I like The Last Stand's portrayal best, that the Phoenix powers and force come from within herself, a split personality that has taken control, and that she is in fact just as mortal as anyone else.

I don't like supernatural for the sake of supernatural, which is what her spirit surviving as a god like entity sounds like to me.

 

[PSINGRAPHD]

That wasn't really a fight. That was an action sequence. These movies are full of action sequences. But, I must say that X2 is full of beautifully shot and memorable action sequences like Nightcrawler in the White House, Magneto breaking out of his prison, the X-Jet chase, etc...

It is just a wonderful movie full of greatness.

I couldn't agree more, X2 remains the high point. It's the pinnacle of success in every aspect for the X-franchise so far, IMHO.

I voted for Jean vs. Cyke, 'cause she's my girl. Love her! God, how I wish Singer would've completed the trilogy. TLS was, well, just not up to par.

 

[PSINGRAPHD]

Spot on, the movie just has everything an excellent X-Movie needs, it is not only the best of the series but one of the best CB movies of all time also.

Again... DITTO!!!!!!!

 

[Cyma]

Shouldn’t Storm vs. Mastermind also be on the list?

For me, the best is Nightcrawler vs. White House. I never get tired of watching it

 

[returntovoid]

I found the Nightcrawler White House attack video on YouTube.

 

[katie_girl09]

Ugh! Bret RATner should have his film making license revoked..

Oh come on now! He did well with the first two Rush Hour movies! He's just a good action-comedy director. Or really unlucky with threequels...

 

[X-Maniac]

Ugh! Bret RATner should have his film making license revoked..

Hehe...But the weirdest thing is that people blamed Ratner, Penn and Kinberg for X3, and yet none of those three were involved in Wolverine, which was written by David Benioff (The Kite Runner) and Skip Wood and directed by Gavin Hood.

And yet Wolverine gets a lower rating on RT.

So what do the haters say this time? Most of the negative folk are saying that Ratner, Penn and Kinberg's X3 was better than Wolverine.

So what does that say about Gavin Hood and David Benioff?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Check Gambit in other media page at Wikipedia.

Interesting, thanks

Wolverine vs. Deathstrike is probably the best.

But Nightcrawler in the White House is by far the best action sequence in the entire series, including Wolverine.

And just a couple nitpicks...I don't see how Phoenix and Xavier counts as a "fight", and the second Wolverine/Creed fight is not in Las Vegas, it's in New Orleans.

They were fighting with their powers, so its a fight in a technical sense.

That treatment sounds pretty good, except for the whole aspect about her spirit surviving as some god like entity.

I like The Last Stand's portrayal best, that the Phoenix powers and force come from within herself, a split personality that has taken control, and that she is in fact just as mortal as anyone else.

I don't like supernatural for the sake of supernatural, which is what her spirit surviving as a god like entity sounds like to me.

Funny, just reading that treatment was on the whole a thousand times better than watching X3 for me.

I couldn't agree more, X2 remains the high point. It's the pinnacle of success in every aspect for the X-franchise so far, IMHO.
I voted for Jean vs. Cyke, 'cause she's my girl. Love her! God, how I wish Singer would've completed the trilogy. TLS was, well, just not up to par.

Totally agreed with the bolded, following on from X2, it should have been so easy to make an X3 that not only matched X2, but surpassed, and under any other studio and director, it probably would have. But no, we are stuck with Fox.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Hehe...But the weirdest thing is that people blamed Ratner, Penn and Kinberg for X3, and yet none of those three were involved in Wolverine, which was written by David Benioff (The Kite Runner) and Skip Wood and directed by Gavin Hood.

And yet Wolverine gets a lower rating on RT.

So what do the haters say this time? Most of the negative folk are saying that Ratner, Penn and Kinberg's X3 was better than Wolverine.

So what does that say about Gavin Hood and David Benioff?

Have you not seen the X3 vs Wolverine thread X-M? Wolverine was voted better by the majority of people on here.

 

[X-Maniac]

Have you not seen the X3 vs Wolverine thread X-M? Wolverine was voted better by the majority of people on here.

But what about its lower RT rating then? Doesn't that indicate that Gavin Hood and David Benioff didn't deliver what critics wanted?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

But what about its lower RT rating then? Doesn't that indicate that Gavin Hood and David Benioff didn't deliver what critics wanted?

It does, but at the same time, post Iron Man and TDK, in Wolverine's defense, I think critics expect more from CB movies today than they did in 2006.

 

[X-Maniac]

It does, but at the same time, post Iron Man and TDK, in Wolverine's defense, I think critics expect more from CB movies today than they did in 2006.

True enough, it's a point I have raised myself and is bound to have been a contributing factor.

 

[chaseter]

IDK, the threequel curse is still in full effect.

 

[PSINGRAPHD]

Hehe...But the weirdest thing is that people blamed Ratner, Penn and Kinberg for X3, and yet none of those three were involved in Wolverine, which was written by David Benioff (The Kite Runner) and Skip Wood and directed by Gavin Hood.

And yet Wolverine gets a lower rating on RT.

So what do the haters say this time? Most of the negative folk are saying that Ratner, Penn and Kinberg's X3 was better than Wolverine.

So what does that say about Gavin Hood and David Benioff?

I don't know, I kinda hold Fox's decision makers more responsible for the results of the last two films than anybody else. Maybe even Marvel, to some extent. While I have no love for Ratner, it was ultimately Fox and Marvel who chose him to helm the film. It also would have been Fox and Marvel who approved the scripts. But you're right in saying that TLS's creators seem to have gotten a lot more blame than WO's are getting. I think Hood and Benioff might have been out of their league, while Ratner was just plain WRONG, no ifs, ands, or buts. And Singer was by no means perfect, as the first movie evidences, but he IS a more serious and superior filmmaker in my mind. At least in regards to big-budget tentpoles.