Sequels Should they reboot the X-Men films?

[returntovoid]

As a lot of users have pointed out in various threads, I think they should bring in the Fantasy aspects of the X-Men comic books in the reboot, Realism doesn't work well with X-Men but when it comes to Batman, realism worked quite well and just because Nolan made realism work in his Batman films and the fact that The Dark Knight was a huge box office success, doesn't mean that every comic book adaptation should get the same realism treatment IMHO.

 

[Metal Spidey]

And I don't want Bryan Singer back either. Hated the costumes, hated a young Iceman, hated no Russian Colossus, hated Halle Storm F**k you Fox and your manatees.

I could have sworn that he gave off a bit of an accent. I guess not.

As a lot of users have pointed out in various threads, I think they should bring in the Fantasy aspects of the X-Men comic books in the reboot, Realism doesn't work well with X-Men but when it comes to Batman, realism worked quite well and just because Nolan made realism work in his Batman films and the fact that The Dark Knight was a huge box office success, doesn't mean that every comic book adaptation should get the same realism treatment IMHO.

Do you mean to tell me that all this time they've been going for "realism"?

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Bryan Singer definitely went for hyper realism.

 

[Sloth7d]

They made good two movies, but again HORRIBLE adaptations. I also don't wanna hear that 40 years of comics ****. They could have taken one of the most successful graphic novels and based it on that. There was no reason why everything was backwards. wolveriine is NOT Xmen. he is an X man and that's it. Those movies were about him and everyone was a supporting actor. In the comics and cartoon, even Gambit has his own sagas without wolverine in them as the lead and they work well. The under used everyone else just to base it all on WOLVERINE???!!!! How annoying. I LOVE Wolverine like any other, but honestly as I grew with the series I realized he ain't **** without the entire team cast. Cyclops is a ****ing bad ass too, as is storm, and jean, iceman, GAMBIT, and hell even kittie are all THE SCHIT!!!!!!! rushed material to make fast money and u can tell. They just thought of the audience they can draw and didn't act on making the comic trully come to life. They only thought if the ticket draw. Market Wolverine cause he is the most popular. Then they should have started with the origin story of Logan and then made X men movies.


The whole thing was done incorrectly.

What the writers didn't realize, I believe, is that Wolverine doesn't work as the leader. He's not the guy the team revolves around either. Wolverine is the anit-hero. That guy who when things are in a pinch, and you don't rely him to save you, HE DOES. Sure he's the coolest guy in the franchise based on mass popularity polls and recognition, but you could probably say the same thing about Han Solo in Star Wars. Cyclops should be the pure hearted hero instead of just that one guy Jean Grey likes for some reason. Cyclops is the Goku to Wolverine's Vegeta. His Luke to Wolverines Han Solo. His Buffy to Wolverines Spike, minus the sex. /but yeah. Wolverine got way too much attention due to popularity.

 

[returntovoid]

What the writers didn't realize, I believe, is that Wolverine doesn't work as the leader. He's not the guy the team revolves around either. Wolverine is the anit-hero. That guy who when things are in a pinch, and you don't rely him to save you, HE DOES. Sure he's the coolest guy in the franchise based on mass popularity polls and recognition, but you could probably say the same thing about Han Solo in Star Wars. Cyclops should be the pure hearted hero instead of just that one guy Jean Grey likes for some reason. Cyclops is the Goku to Wolverine's Vegeta. His Luke to Wolverines Han Solo. His Buffy to Wolverines Spike, minus the sex. /but yeah. Wolverine got way too much attention due to popularity.

I agree and good analogy.

 

[zenith16]

i'm not sure about the ugh mental images of spike and buffy though. I almost got lost with the the Vegeta thing, but that one really lost me. You just should have said angel. damn mental images of that weird sex thing that Istill can't make sense as to why that happened, in buffy ugh ugh that show. where's the hammer I need to make my self forget all that again.

 

[zenith16]

OK I'm good now. and no wolverine didn't get this due to popularity it was due to the people working at marvel in the Joe Q regime period. he was mostly into wolverine and i bet you when he sent them comics as source material and info along with the people working for him they gave them wolverine stuff more so then X-men.

I bet most the people on the movies they found were just wolverine fans only as well and they said they were x-men fans but they were really wolverine fans making that claim as well cause of that.

so bah

 

[Dick Motorman]

I'm desperately hoping for a reboot. Let someone who knows and loves comics do it, and do it right.

 

[Project862006]

i think a good idea to do in the films was when they needed wolverine's leadership he was off trying to figure out his past.


they should not i repeat not reboot the series just do x men 4 i say this because you cant get any better actors for the roles

Wolverine/cyclops/beast/jean/storm/xavier/magneto/ were all perfectly casted

 

[Deaths Head II]

Anyone can be a better Storm then Halle Berry.

 

[Project862006]

^ huh explain i have seen people comment on this why was she bad i thoguht she was good Halley is a good actress and she looked like ororo was it because she had no accent?

 

[Deaths Head II]

By X3, she was just Halle Berry. After X1, she didn't even make an attempt to portray Storm. Any actor would be a better choice because any actor would probably make an effort to act like the character. I don't see how she was perfectly cast. She was so perfect she couldn't even maintain an accent?

The only two cast choices I think were close to perfect were Beast and Professor X, and even then I wouldn't mind seeing someone else take a stab at the role. Everyone else was simply an interpretation of the character to me. I would be willing to see other interpretations.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

By X3, she was just Halle Berry. After X1, she didn't even make an attempt to portray Storm. Any actor would be a better choice because any actor would probably make an effort to act like the character. I don't see how she was perfectly cast. She was so perfect she couldn't even maintain an accent?

The only two cast choices I think were close to perfect were Beast and Professor X, and even then I wouldn't mind seeing someone else take a stab at the role. Everyone else was simply an interpretation of the character to me. I would be willing to see other interpretations.

Yeah I agree with you. I want to say that Hugh Jackman was perfect for Wolverine, despite the increasing character derailment by film.

The casting for Jean was good despite the fact that she was a little older looking.

I'm slightly on the dislike side for Cyclops.

Storm was flat ot horrible. Halle Berry is not Storm, and can never be storm.

Patrick Stewart as Professor X was perfect.

I dislike Rogue though. I know she didn't always have the Ms. Marvel Powers, but I just like the Ms. Marvel Rogue better.

 

[Project862006]

not many people had problems with gambit loosing his accent in 1 movie lol or having red eyes for 2 seconds during the whole movie

she had a presence to her just like jackman brought to Logan you notice them i think that's why i kinda liked her she felt like a leader

 

[insane polaris]

The First Class films are kinda reboots anyway.
Because theyre prequels, theres alot of room for the films to be creative. (as long as
they end up in the same status quo to lead onto X1)

 

[Project862006]

yes but first class can end up like the OC do we really want that

 

[insane polaris]

The Writer is very good at character development tho... if he just cuts down the over-the-top teen drama and adds some action scenes. it could turn out really good.

 

[Deaths Head II]

not many people had problems with gambit loosing his accent in 1 movie lol or having red eyes for 2 seconds during the whole movie

Except Taylor felt like Gambit regardless. He made an effort to imitate Gambit's mannerisms. Halle Berry was just Halle Berry.

And having a presence doesn't make you a perfect choice for a particular character. You can find an actor with presence that is actually willing to ACT instead of just basically play themselves with white hair. Not that Halle felt like a leader anyway. Even in X3, Hugh upstaged her.

 

[zenith16]

The First Class films are kinda reboots anyway.
Because theyre prequels, theres alot of room for the films to be creative. (as long as
they end up in the same status quo to lead onto X1)

By status quo if you mean by useing the same formula/ execution of story telling which is unbalanced that's been getting worse with each movie since they've been rehashing it since X 1 as had been made apparent and won't allow for development of others characters cause they only know how to focus on mostly one character and the script writers hired so far since that start are poor in that department. I say I pass. sorry.

Except Taylor felt like Gambit regardless. He made an effort to imitate Gambit's mannerisms. Halle Berry was just Halle Berry.

And having a presence doesn't make you a perfect choice for a particular character. You can find an actor with presence that is actually willing to ACT instead of just basically play themselves with white hair. Not that Halle felt like a leader anyway. Even in X3, Hugh upstaged her.

Taylor did fine all he needs is to find a speech therapist that specializes in accents in the states which most actors like the ones from Australia use when they learn new accents and keeping practicing doing the accent til the next movie. they showed some thing like that on TV I forgot the lady's name that does this job unfortunately. But that's what he should do. And may be on his own in payments cause we know fox is too cheap to add that for things to be done well for their movies.

But ether way I still want a reboot and a way from fox.

as to hallie I think I see why she wanted a bigger pay check in her weird way she was tell them she wanted to do more but was trying to force them to under stand that they gave that in X 2 but in x3 as you said their focus was still you know who. it's the writers and producer fault there mostly if she had fought any more that movie would have taken longer to make . I would have understood it.

But I think most fans are just mad at her cause she asked for that bigger check in most cause studios read that as the actor or actress want more meat in their roles. cause she was getting annoyed with what should have been a main role, she should have played on more but was getting pushed a side for wolverine. I think and know from what she said she wanted to do storm justice. but couldn't do that much cause the people in charge of that department only had one thing in mind. the only real power she had there was to say i wont do more until storm has equal screen time and I sure that would have delayed and fan's would have hated here even more then they do now so she didn't. she should have but didn't so there' not much she could have done other then that. she just took what she got and went it.

 

[donaldthe3rd]

They need to stop making them all together. The third one was enough for me and I'm a HUGE FAN of Wolverine and the X-men but just feel that their gonna juice this up like Marvel always does with anything that shows them a good profit. Like theres a Deadpool, Wolverine 2, First Class, Magneto and X4 movies that are either underway now or soon will be. Its ridiculous!

 

[Godman]

As a lot of users have pointed out in various threads, I think they should bring in the Fantasy aspects of the X-Men comic books in the reboot, Realism doesn't work well with X-Men but when it comes to Batman, realism worked quite well and just because Nolan made realism work in his Batman films and the fact that The Dark Knight was a huge box office success, doesn't mean that every comic book adaptation should get the same realism treatment IMHO.

but X men tackles real **** that does go on with prejudice and it would work in such an amazing way if given the realism treat or the treatment of watchmen

 

[javi1024]

As a lot of users have pointed out in various threads, I think they should bring in the Fantasy aspects of the X-Men comic books in the reboot, Realism doesn't work well with X-Men but when it comes to Batman, realism worked quite well and just because Nolan made realism work in his Batman films and the fact that The Dark Knight was a huge box office success, doesn't mean that every comic book adaptation should get the same realism treatment IMHO.

but X men tackles real **** that does go on with prejudice and it would work in such an amazing way if given the realism treat or the treatment of watchmen

i dont want to see a single Shi'ar in these movies. keep them grounded as possible.

 

[CB Fan]

^ It would be stupid to put the Shi'ar in the current run of the X-Men movies, but to have them in a reboot would be great if they decieded to do the pheonix saga again. If they reboot, and I hope they will one far off day, they should bring the fantasy back into it.

 

[javi1024]

no Shi'ar. no Mojo. no time travel. the X-Men films work best when theyre grounded as much as possible, current or rebooted.

 

[CB Fan]

^ Really? Because I have yet to see an x-men film that has not had to fight to stay grounded even singers films almost crossed the line a little bit (have you heard about his star child concept for X3). Face it the X-Men are not and will never be Batman, not saying you inparticular want for them to be but it's obvious others do. Realism doesn't work when you have people controling the weather with their minds/eyes, having metal claws come out from between their knuckles/nails, and optic blast shooting out of their eyes. These films are trying so hard to be something they are not and that's realistic. I am all for the thought provoking/realistic tones that the X-Men have given but the X-World is Fantasy and, to me, should be portrayed as such.
BTW I was never a huge fan of Mojo myself.