Nell2ThaIzzay
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I know that I am going to get flamed on for this, but, for all this talk of Fox being "unorganized", and making the wrong decisions and stuff, I think that they are doing this pretty much correctly.
I am not happy with all of the politics that have gone on behind the scenes that have influenced particular story arcs, but overall, I think the handling has been correct, going all the way back to the beginning.
You start with Bryan Singer, who comes in and basically takes the foundation of the story, the essence of the world and the characters, and brings them to life in a realistic way. I know a lot of people complaining, because they didn't "look" right, the powers were toned down, etc... but X-Men to me isn't about fancy powers and bright costumes. It's about oppression, and a particular group of people fighting back for their equality, as well as protecting those who hate them from the bad ones. Even when I was a kid, too young to quite grasp all of the themes, just the idea of the X-Men fighting to protect the humans who hated them was something appealing to me.
I don't love Sentinels because they are big giant robots. I love Sentinels because they are the ultimate symbol of human hatred, prejudice, and discrimination. I don't love Magneto because he flies around in magnetic bubbles, I love him because he has seen the pinnacle of human hatred, and refuses to allow that to happen to his people again, yet in the process, becomes the very thing that he is fighting against.
Sure, X-Men might be a comic book, but to me it's so much more than that and I thank Bryan Singer for grounding the movies in reality where they could be taken seriously, and their true meaning allowed to shine through.
As far as X-Men: The Last Stand goes, while people complain about the cure story and the Phoenix Saga both being done in one movie, they couldn't hold off the Phoenix Saga. Those seeds were planted in the previous movie, and they needed to strike while the iron was hot, so to speak. They needed to tell that tale, they couldn't afford to wait, and X-Men 4 was no guarantee. They made the right call. The problem was in their telling of it, where even then I still feel they made a lot of right decisions, they just killed off the wrong guy and had the wrong guy save Jean in the end. But I am satisfied with the rest.
As far as X-Men Origins: Wolverine goes? Damn right they needed to do the origin story first, and not Japan. I don't care how beloved the Japan story is, there was no basis for the Japan story to be told at this point. There were no seeds planted, there was absolutely no connection, it would have been completely random.
However, the seeds of Wolverine's origin story were planted, and that needed to be expanded upon. They absolutely told the right story, and I feel except for an adamantium bullet, and the exclusion of a particular mind wipe scene, they told the story correctly as well. I know a lot of details were changed, but that is the Logan story as I've always known it at the core.
And as far as future spin offs go? We don't need Magneto. We really don't. It shouldn't be done. Whatever story of his you need to tell, you can tell in a First Class film, and there are really no questions that need to be answered for his past. We get it. If Logan didn't have a mysterious past, there probably wouldn't have been such a demand for his story to be told in the comics, and that story wouldn't have been made into a movie. There is demand, because questions are left unanswered, and a story is there to be told. There's not much to tell about Magneto's past.
Now that we have X-Men Origins out of the way, go ahead and branch off into the Wolverine series, tell his solo stories now, and make a couple First Class movies that bridge the gap between X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men.
Fox is doing this right, and I know I will get blasted because Fox is the anti-Christ around these parts, but Fox is handling this franchise right and I feel has been from the beginning save for a few lapses of judgment in the creative department.
I am not happy with all of the politics that have gone on behind the scenes that have influenced particular story arcs, but overall, I think the handling has been correct, going all the way back to the beginning.
You start with Bryan Singer, who comes in and basically takes the foundation of the story, the essence of the world and the characters, and brings them to life in a realistic way. I know a lot of people complaining, because they didn't "look" right, the powers were toned down, etc... but X-Men to me isn't about fancy powers and bright costumes. It's about oppression, and a particular group of people fighting back for their equality, as well as protecting those who hate them from the bad ones. Even when I was a kid, too young to quite grasp all of the themes, just the idea of the X-Men fighting to protect the humans who hated them was something appealing to me.
I don't love Sentinels because they are big giant robots. I love Sentinels because they are the ultimate symbol of human hatred, prejudice, and discrimination. I don't love Magneto because he flies around in magnetic bubbles, I love him because he has seen the pinnacle of human hatred, and refuses to allow that to happen to his people again, yet in the process, becomes the very thing that he is fighting against.
Sure, X-Men might be a comic book, but to me it's so much more than that and I thank Bryan Singer for grounding the movies in reality where they could be taken seriously, and their true meaning allowed to shine through.
As far as X-Men: The Last Stand goes, while people complain about the cure story and the Phoenix Saga both being done in one movie, they couldn't hold off the Phoenix Saga. Those seeds were planted in the previous movie, and they needed to strike while the iron was hot, so to speak. They needed to tell that tale, they couldn't afford to wait, and X-Men 4 was no guarantee. They made the right call. The problem was in their telling of it, where even then I still feel they made a lot of right decisions, they just killed off the wrong guy and had the wrong guy save Jean in the end. But I am satisfied with the rest.
As far as X-Men Origins: Wolverine goes? Damn right they needed to do the origin story first, and not Japan. I don't care how beloved the Japan story is, there was no basis for the Japan story to be told at this point. There were no seeds planted, there was absolutely no connection, it would have been completely random.
However, the seeds of Wolverine's origin story were planted, and that needed to be expanded upon. They absolutely told the right story, and I feel except for an adamantium bullet, and the exclusion of a particular mind wipe scene, they told the story correctly as well. I know a lot of details were changed, but that is the Logan story as I've always known it at the core.
And as far as future spin offs go? We don't need Magneto. We really don't. It shouldn't be done. Whatever story of his you need to tell, you can tell in a First Class film, and there are really no questions that need to be answered for his past. We get it. If Logan didn't have a mysterious past, there probably wouldn't have been such a demand for his story to be told in the comics, and that story wouldn't have been made into a movie. There is demand, because questions are left unanswered, and a story is there to be told. There's not much to tell about Magneto's past.
Now that we have X-Men Origins out of the way, go ahead and branch off into the Wolverine series, tell his solo stories now, and make a couple First Class movies that bridge the gap between X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men.
Fox is doing this right, and I know I will get blasted because Fox is the anti-Christ around these parts, but Fox is handling this franchise right and I feel has been from the beginning save for a few lapses of judgment in the creative department.
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