FieryBalrog
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Probably the single weakest point of the movie. Yes, the pacing was extremely jumpy, scenes ended and cut without any room or time to breathe, but if anything made me dislike this movie it was the dialogue. Its the same with songs for me; even good music can be ruined by terrible lyrics. And this dialogue is the equivalent of Chris Martin's lyrics.
It breaks the cardinal rule of film: Show, dont' tell. Among the many examples are the ham-handed exposition parts: "What can you do?" (Callisto zips around). "So... you have "talents" (no ****, shes a mutant). "I can manipulate the metal in this, but you can do anything" (show, dont obviously dictate to the audience). "You can walk through walls, you know" (duh?)
And then theres the second class: the obvious lame Hollywood-isms which are typically of nearly every generic action flick: the oh-so-clever puns that are also supposed to be deep and profound insights, the type of dialogue you will ONLY hear in a Hollywood movie and nowhere else.
"Not everybody heals as fast as you, Logan" (spelling out what could have been done subtly).
"Charles always wanted to build bridges" (same).
"Its what we want" "No, its what you want". (most cliched line in the movie)
"You of all people know how fast the weather can change"
Then finally is the generic cornball dialogue including everything that came out of Juggernaut's mouth and the President's lines (who seemed have a particularly fey lisp in a bunch of scenes- "God help us", "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").
If someone competent with dialogue had written this movie, we might have had a much better movie. Some of the scenes Kinberg and Penn come up with are clever- I particularly like all of Mystique's scenes, and I do like the scenes at Jean's house and the final battle, but thats got little to do with the dialogue, which isat best decently serviceable.
It breaks the cardinal rule of film: Show, dont' tell. Among the many examples are the ham-handed exposition parts: "What can you do?" (Callisto zips around). "So... you have "talents" (no ****, shes a mutant). "I can manipulate the metal in this, but you can do anything" (show, dont obviously dictate to the audience). "You can walk through walls, you know" (duh?)
And then theres the second class: the obvious lame Hollywood-isms which are typically of nearly every generic action flick: the oh-so-clever puns that are also supposed to be deep and profound insights, the type of dialogue you will ONLY hear in a Hollywood movie and nowhere else.
"Not everybody heals as fast as you, Logan" (spelling out what could have been done subtly).
"Charles always wanted to build bridges" (same).
"Its what we want" "No, its what you want". (most cliched line in the movie)
"You of all people know how fast the weather can change"
Then finally is the generic cornball dialogue including everything that came out of Juggernaut's mouth and the President's lines (who seemed have a particularly fey lisp in a bunch of scenes- "God help us", "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").
If someone competent with dialogue had written this movie, we might have had a much better movie. Some of the scenes Kinberg and Penn come up with are clever- I particularly like all of Mystique's scenes, and I do like the scenes at Jean's house and the final battle, but thats got little to do with the dialogue, which isat best decently serviceable.
