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Yeah, I cant say anything but I'll just say it looks BIG, Avengers style big. Cool FX sequences.
@rbtoons Thanks for telling! now we are a bit more excited. Lets hope Rogue has a great physical part, same as Iceman and Colossus.
@X4Campaign Def saw them all in there! And LOTS more mutants from the comics.
Interesting.
NanaT said:Going through all the effort it must have taken to bring the original trilogy actors back after 8 years and building all the hype for this movie because of them only to have it be the last film, I mean why bother? If they truly wanted this to be a passing of the torch movie and JUST that than they could have just brought back Stewart and Mckellen. But instead they brought back EIGHT original cast members. WHY????
Not happy with The Avengers comparison, but then I'm not surprised that it was their main goal with this film.
I'm not surprised by the Avengers comparison at all, and I think it was necessary. I adore X2, for example, but in terms of scale, Avengers dwarfs it. If Singer can marry the cerebral, emotional character-based storytelling of his earlier X-Men films, with Avangers style action, we're going to end up with one hell of a film.
@X4Campaign Def saw them all in there! And LOTS more mutants from the comics.
I have no problem with that. Avengers was amazing!Like what I'm hearing! Loved the Avengers and glad they're aiming for this level of big.
That would be a first. I've never seen an action-packed movie which is also cerebral. If Singer can achieve it, kudos to him.If Singer can marry the cerebral, emotional character-based storytelling of his earlier X-Men films, with Avangers style action, we're going to end up with one hell of a film.
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All leads to think that this will be the Biggest and most epic X-Men movie of the whole franchise, and maybe..... the best team comic movie to date.
Going through all the effort it must have taken to bring the original trilogy actors back after 8 years and building all the hype for this movie because of them only to have it be the last film, I mean why bother? If they truly wanted this to be a passing of the torch movie and JUST that than they could have just brought back Stewart and Mckellen. But instead they brought back EIGHT original cast members. WHY???? Not to mention that if this meant to be some sort of last hurrah for the X-Men then it is kind of going backwards as that was the whole point of X-Men the last stand. I mean there is a reason the OT have not been in an X-men movie for EIGHT years. Also, I'm sure it was Fox's plan for it to be the last X-Men movie. IIRC they were planning on doing spin-offs, A wolverine now which resulted in XMO:W, a Storm one which Halle Berry turned down and a Magneto and Young X-Men which resulted in First Class. I'm sure there were also plans for a New Mutants one as well. (or is that just my fantasies mixing into reality). Anyway even if Fox did not intend for this to be the last X-Men movie they sure as heck marketed it as the last one. I remember interviews with the cast as well all stating it was the last one.
My point was that these were actors that many thought would not return in another X-Men sequel especially Berry and Page. The fact that Fox went through all the hassle to get them back only for it to be their last film just seems so....anti-climactic. It almost completely shrouds over the hype of their return. For me at lest.
And that hope that they have given to those may be lost if this is their last film. It just makes no sense not to continue with the original cast.
I'm not sure I fully understand what you're trying to say here so I want comment.
Cherry said:Not really. I'm addressing the idea that more films with an established cast is not beating a dead horse when they are only on number FOUR. It's very common these days to use a continuing cast. Look at the Fast and the Furious franchise. Maybe you'll find that a better comparison? There was clearly no established number of films for those actors, and yet they're are doing a SEVENTH one next year. And it may not happen, but Vin Diesel is talking about doing NINE.
Sure you can. Marvel Studios is doing it.
That would be a first. I've never seen an action-packed movie which is also cerebral. If Singer can achieve it, kudos to him.
The Avengers, like the majority of CBM, meant nothing to me in terms of character development. I've never cared much about those characters even in their solo movies, and The Avengers didn't change this; I still don't care. It was completely different with X-Men - I didn't know anything about the X-Men before I saw the first film and by the end I was emotionally drawn to the mutants. This is the one thing I care about when I think about the X-Men, much more than great CGI and 3D.
But since James McAvoy seemed to be quite enthusiastic about the script, and he's an actor invested in the emotional development of characters, it gave me some hope that at least Charles and some other characters will a have good, emotional character arcs, and it won't be just a CGI fest like The Avengers.