mathhater said:I realize the movie universe is a whole separate entity, but they totally wiped out all of Wolverine's history...like how he meets Sabretooth and Deathstrike after joining the X-Men...and how it was hinted that he was "given" claws. But that's fairly minor I guess.
You forgot that Wolverine is a tall guy in the films but a short guy in the comics. You can actually tell he's taller than Cyclops in the films, even though in the comic books Cyclops stands head & shoulders above Wolverine.windriderx said:jean grey isn't a doctor
beast was never in the presidents cabinet
mystique isn't scaley and naked
iceman is too young
toad, plain and simple
senator kelly's death
deathstrike
stryker
rogue's hair
the original x-men
jason, stryker's son, aka the comicbooks mastermind
xjet instead of the blackbird
storm, jean and scott as teachers
rogue's powers
storm's powers minus her control of them in x3
cyclops' age compared to jean's
the way the phoenix was handled
well here are some i thought of to show people that the movies have never really mimicked the comics. if you can think of anymore post them.
this thread is also not a thread to complain in, but just to show how the first 2 movies, along with the 3rd, never was comicbook correct and many liberties were taken.
GhostPoet said:Wolverine's story is pretty basic. Easier to translate to film and because he's the most popular of the X-men. So naturally they would choose him.
If they did an X-men movie that portrayed EVERYONE's favorite characters just like the comic...the movie would have to be 8 hours long at least. :P
This is why comic films will NEVER make everyone happy. Someone always wants "their" mutant to have the most screen time or be the best represented.
Dr. Fate said:You forgot that Wolverine is a tall guy in the films but a short guy in the comics. You can actually tell he's taller than Cyclops in the films, even though in the comic books Cyclops stands head & shoulders above Wolverine.
But I guess that's a minor point...
windriderx said:thank you so much for this post. in making this thread i wanted all the "crybabies", "complainers", and " tempertantrum throwers" to be aware of just that. that they were inspired by the books, not copies. i'm really sick of going from thread to thread reading about stuff in x3 thats not like the books and that why it sucks. they were all like that. and yes the movie would have been very very lame if they were truthful to the books! i really loved your post .
GhostPoet said:You are thinking from a comic perspective. You said it yourself...you realize it's a whole seperate entity...which means none of what you said happened. Infact, it's highly likely that Sabretooth was never a part of Weapon X to begin with. At least in this reality.
Jan Irisi said:40 years of material vs. three LOTR books....hmmmm.....
40 years of material vs. 6 HP books....hmmmmm
How the hell do you keep 100% faithful to that much material? Material that has itself gone through changes, alterations, rewrites, retcons over the years? How is that done exactly?
The Batman said:again, you and everyone else just dont get it....
Jan Irisi said:Then explain to me how you take over 40 years of "source material" with a cast of virtually thousands, "source material" that itself has been rewritten, rehashed, retconned, altered and revised and compress that much material into a two hour story in a completely different medium while staying "faithful". How do you do that? Explain that to me.
The Batman said:You guys make it out to be some difficult task, when it has been done on film before....
Jan Irisi said:Oh yes, with the untouchable Spider-man and now suddenly uber cool Batman.
Again, I ask, how do you take 40 years of "source material" and condence it into a two hour film?
The Batman said:First of all, you're assuming most people want 40 years of source material in one movie. you're assuming people want to see the likes of the vanisher, mojo, Arcade, Erik the Red, and nimrod on screen.
Second of all, you're assuming that the characters have constantly changed within the span of 40 years. first off, five of the x-mens forty years were reprints. second of all, the essence of most of the characters are...essentially the same. so dont act like they've changed so much when....they havent, only in cotumes and art styles.
Third, you get the spirit of the character. Rogue, the southern belle, not the shy teen. Cyclops, strong, heroic leader, not a perceived dick. Iceman, a charming jokester, not some average teen. Again, no one's asking to see everything X-Men dumped onscreen, and if you thought that, you dont undserstand what people are asking for whatsoever
The Batman said:Third, you get the spirit of the character. Rogue, the southern belle, not the shy teen. Cyclops, strong, heroic leader, not a perceived dick. Iceman, a charming jokester, not some average teen. Again, no one's asking to see everything X-Men dumped onscreen, and if you thought that, you dont undserstand what people are asking for whatsoever
Nell2ThaIzzay said:Rogue: Go pick up a comic book. Rogue was always a shy, scared girl, before her Miss Marvel powers. Even sometimes after that. In the comics, she kisses her boyfriend, puts him into a coma, and runs away. The only difference in the movies being that her boyfriend in the movies was named David, instead of Cody.
I have the issue when Rogue joins the X-Men. And guess what she's doing the whole issue? If you guesses "sassing it up", you were wrong. She spends the whole issue crying, because she's scared. Rogue in the movies is very accurate to Rogue in the comics. The sassed up Rogue from the 90's and the animated series put a difference perception in the eyes of many over the character of Rogue, and the true essence of who Rogue really is was lost in all the sass, flying, invulnerablility, and tank shot-puts.
Cyclops: Cyclops often comes off as a dick at times in the comic books. Why? Because the only person he truly opens up to is Jean, and to a lesser extent, the Professor. When it comes to the team, the X-Men, he doesn't play around, and he doesn't take ****. He takes it very seriously. Hmmm... am I noticing a similarity to the movies? WHY YES I AM! Just because we don't see Cyclops barking out stupid orders, and optic blasting Wolverine into place, doesn't mean the movie version was unfaithful. Again, it was very faithful.
Iceman: I'll give you Iceman. He wasn't nearly as playful and joking as he should have been. And I would have liked to have seen more of it. But at least in X-Men: The Last Stand, he evolves as a character a bit, going from the "average teen" in X2, to a bit more confident about himself, his powers, and his status with the X-Men, in X-Men: The Last Stand.
You got more complaints about how the movies were "unfaithful" to the comics? I got 3 words for you...
BRING IT ON!!!!
Because you're wrong.
Nell2ThaIzzay said:Rogue: Go pick up a comic book. Rogue was always a shy, scared girl, before her Miss Marvel powers. Even sometimes after that. In the comics, she kisses her boyfriend, puts him into a coma, and runs away. The only difference in the movies being that her boyfriend in the movies was named David, instead of Cody.
I have the issue when Rogue joins the X-Men. And guess what she's doing the whole issue? If you guesses "sassing it up", you were wrong. She spends the whole issue crying, because she's scared. Rogue in the movies is very accurate to Rogue in the comics. The sassed up Rogue from the 90's and the animated series put a difference perception in the eyes of many over the character of Rogue, and the true essence of who Rogue really is was lost in all the sass, flying, invulnerablility, and tank shot-puts.
Cyclops: Cyclops often comes off as a dick at times in the comic books. Why? Because the only person he truly opens up to is Jean, and to a lesser extent, the Professor. When it comes to the team, the X-Men, he doesn't play around, and he doesn't take ****. He takes it very seriously. Hmmm... am I noticing a similarity to the movies? WHY YES I AM! Just because we don't see Cyclops barking out stupid orders, and optic blasting Wolverine into place, doesn't mean the movie version was unfaithful. Again, it was very faithful.
Iceman: I'll give you Iceman. He wasn't nearly as playful and joking as he should have been. And I would have liked to have seen more of it. But at least in X-Men: The Last Stand, he evolves as a character a bit, going from the "average teen" in X2, to a bit more confident about himself, his powers, and his status with the X-Men, in X-Men: The Last Stand.
You got more complaints about how the movies were "unfaithful" to the comics? I got 3 words for you...
BRING IT ON!!!!
Because you're wrong.