Days of Future Past The Official JANUARY JONES/Emma Frost Thread

[Wolverine1988]

I was kinda of hoping for more of a deeper more cold sounding voice, she sounded like a chick from the valley trying to sound smart, not very intimidating imo.

 

[x-men_pro]

On the X-Men: First Class website it has mini-descriptions on all the main characters including bio,powers and info on the actor.

For Emma Frost it said:

Spoiler

Emma can now transform her skin and hair into a diamond-hard form at will. Emma is nigh indestructable except for one small flaw that, if exploited, cause her to shatter

So... something tells me this will happen at the end of the movie, with either Emma [BLACKOUT]being put back together[/BLACKOUT] in the sequel or [BLACKOUT]being killed off from[/BLACKOUT] the franchise, if they want to fit it in with the original trilogy(as she is not in X1). But I think that the better of the two will happen as she is signed for two more films after.

 

[psyonic]

On the X-Men: First Class website it has mini-descriptions on all the main characters including bio,powers and info on the actor.

For Emma Frost it said:

Spoiler

Emma can now transform her skin and hair into a diamond-hard form at will. Emma is nigh indestructable except for one small flaw that, if exploited, cause her to shatter

So... something tells me this will happen at the end of the movie, with either Emma [BLACKOUT]being put back together[/BLACKOUT] in the sequel or [BLACKOUT]being killed off from[/BLACKOUT] the franchise, if they want to fit it in with the original trilogy(as she is not in X1). But I think that the better of the two will happen as she is signed for two more films after.

Spoiler

In the comics it happened, but in the movie she joins Magneto at the end

 

[psylockolussus]

I think of all the villains (not including Mystique and Magneto), Emma is the one that has to be in X-Men: Second Class.

 

[psyonic]

I thought the diamond fx was pretty good, I didn't see anything wrong with it. The use of her powers was also plenty. I loved the

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make-out fantasy sequence

. Something she would do in the comics!

 

[ciscostudent561]

She was awesome.
Mighty fine too if I could say so myself.

 

[Antrax255]

Did anyone notice how every time she turned into her diamond form no matter what hair was before it was always the same style in length.

 

[tedw]

That's because diamonds don't have hairdos. But they do, seemingly, have breasts...

 

[By your Command]

Am I the only one bothered about why she didn't escape from the holding cell?

 

[tedw]

Am I the only one bothered about why she didn't escape from the holding cell?

No, I wondered this too. The room didn't seem to be dampening her powers, which I originally thought, so she must not have believed she could trick enough people with her mental powers/beat enough people with her diamond form to make it out safely. For some reason.

 

[psyonic]

Am I the only one bothered about why she didn't escape from the holding cell?

Free room and board? It looked like she was napping at the end lol

 

[Sentinel X]

Did anyone notice how every time she turned into her diamond form no matter what hair was before it was always the same style in length.

I was wondering how she turned her clothes into diamond too.

 

[By your Command]

No, I wondered this too. The room didn't seem to be dampening her powers, which I originally thought, so she must not have believed she could trick enough people with her mental powers/beat enough people with her diamond form to make it out safely. For some reason.

I'm starting to think that the writers just didn't want to have her in Cuba blocking Charles' telepathy, but they really should have explained it with one line, anything would have done it for me, it just seems like such a loose end, especially after she cuts the glass.

 

[By your Command]

Free room and board? It looked like she was napping at the end lol

HAHAHA She looked like a vampire at the end, and the beam of light where the bed was, actually reminded me of Mr Freeze's holding cell in "Batman & Robin".

 

[tedw]

I was wondering how she turned her clothes into diamond too.

I'd say she was just covering them, but she can't have been, or else she'd have had a diamond miniskirt a few times. Maybe she just has a vacuum between her legs.

I'm starting to think that the writers just didn't want to have her in Cuba blocking Charles' telepathy, but they really should have explained it with one line, anything would have done it for me, it just seems like such a loose end, especially after she cuts the glass.

I assumed that after Magneto caused the stress fractures in her neck that she pretty much had to stay in human form to avoid the danger of just getting beheaded. Having no diamond form might've been enough to inspire her to stay in prison, given it's half of her powers and she may not have been strong enough telepathically to fool every guard she meets fast enough. And that could've been a great reason... except she then transformed back twice after getting captured, so that reason goes out the window.

 

[By your Command]

I assumed that after Magneto caused the stress fractures in her neck that she pretty much had to stay in human form to avoid the danger of just getting beheaded. Having no diamond form might've been enough to inspire her to stay in prison, given it's half of her powers and she may not have been strong enough telepathically to fool every guard she meets fast enough. And that could've been a great reason... except she then transformed back twice after getting captured, so that reason goes out the window.

Exactly, I thought that too, and then right at the end she transforms to diamond to fight the man that actually fractured her. I have to go back to the writer thing, I mean that's one of the problems when you have powerful telepaths in these movies, Emma was supossed to be one, she could have easily escaped, they should have at least adressed it, in one way or the other, the old X-movies had the same problem, they just solved it in more intelligent ways, they incapacitated the Professor, or you know, killed him.

 

[Specter313]

She was easily the worst part of this film. She had NO attitude at all. She seemed bored to be there. There was none of the typical snarky, *****y Emma 'tude to her line readings at all, and for the most part, seemed to volley between flat and almost ... I'll say "bright" when she talked and wasn't threatening in the least. Perfect example would be the scene where she's making the general think he's getting it on with her, but she's really sitting over one the couch putting the image in his mind and she calls calls him "Pig" or whatever it was, but with the tone and inflection she had, or lack thereof, she may as well have just gone "eh". The real Emma would have been completely grossed out if that's what they were going for and said it in a way that would have made a man's skin crawl. I also didn't care for the diamond effects. It was especially distracting when she would be wearing a coat or dress that goes down to her knees, but when she diamonds up, it completely disappears and you see her legs as if she's not wearing anything at all. Just dumb.

 

[By your Command]

^While she was not the Emma Frost we all know and love, I have to admit that she was pretty good in the movie as Shaw's assistant, her scene in Russia had me cracking up every time.

 

[ALP]

I thought she was great.

The scene where she makes the military commander think he's making out with her...that was the one moment in the film when I literally LOL'd.

 

[Specter313]

Like I said, that scene is totally something that Emma would do, but January did NOT sell it at all. :

 

[By your Command]

How about that little smirk she gives when Shaw tells her what he was thinking? you gotta give her something.

 

[PWN3R]

Like I said, that scene is totally something that Emma would do, but January did NOT sell it at all. :

I agree completely. Eh, I just didn't like her acting. She blinked at least 15 times when she had her "assuming your enemy is equal" line.

She wasn't that bad, don't get me wrong. Just pretty bland to be playing Emma Frost.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I never saw January Jones in anything before this. I assumed she was a good actress because of the good stuff I heard about Mad Men. She didn't really deliver the Emma Frost personality across. She seemed to be kind of airhead to be honest.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Yeah. Easily the worst part of the movie for me too. Just no sort of oomph in her line reading what so ever. Her smiles were too bright and should've been more sly. It's not even like it was with Halle. There's clear motivation in the writing that they know who Emma Frost is, January just fails to be her.

 

[Silvermoth]

She was fun as Emma but I think she needs to work on her icy leadership a bit. That's fine, she could definetly do that in a sequel. I thought Emma was a lot of fun in this.