Days of Future Past Which Beast do you prefer? Kelsey Grammer's Classic Beast or Nicholas Hoult's Cat?

[Snikt]

I enjoyed both, but I found the Beast make-up for First Class seemed very limiting and restrictive. Seemed like Hoult had a lot of trouble emoting.

When I first saw the make-up for Grammer, I wasn't too enthusiastic. However, when I saw him in motion and heard his voice...I was thrilled!!! Thought it was perfect casting.

Then when I saw Hoult's Beast in photos, I thought it was pretty cool. But then when I saw First Class, it seemed like they used two different make-ups. And i wasn't too thrilled with his make-up in motion.

Overall, I enjoy both; but prefer Grammer's.

 

[Project862006]

do wonder what ben walker would of been like beast since he was originally beast till fox chose to recast due to his age

 

[henzINNIT]

do wonder what ben walker would of been like beast since he was originally beast till fox chose to recast due to his age

I haven't seen him in action, but he certainly looks the part.

The longer I sit with it, the less I like Hoult's Beast. I didn't like the character pre-transformation, and he looked damn awful after. Grammar's Beast was perfect to me in look and performance and it's tragic that he wasn't in a watchable film.

 

[Art Damage]

Yikes, Beast looked horrible in First Class. The CGI where he grabs Fassbender's throat looked god awful.

 

[psylockolussus]

Hopefully they'll improve his look for the 2014 X-Men movie.

 

[Spuzz]

Actually enjoyed Grammar's Beast a lot but hated the movie so.....XD

 

[SpideyFan866]

I like the way the teeth were done on Grammar's more than Hoults.

Hoult's teeth were made to bulky, unfit for the already have makeup applications, and forced them to have to do the obvious redub of his lines, because he couldnt speak properly with them.

 

[Great Mind(s)]

Hoult didn't sound right when he was under the make-up. A little too much like the little kid monkey from Planet of the Apes, with a perfectly clean normal voice that just didn't fit. He was good and all but Grammer was to Hank McCoy as Ledger was to Joker. He saved that movie for me and makes me want to rewatch it despite it's 100 flaws.
To be honest, there's many alternate scenes that if were replaced and/or added to the final film would have been so so so much better.

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

They both weren't that all that great. Kelsey Grammar's Beast looked pretty much human. He didn't even really have sharp claws on his hands or feet if I recall. Fangs weren't big enough either. Hoult Beast just looked very bizzare

 

[marcvader]

They definitely need to do a better job next go around.

 

[The Guard]

Here's hoping for Dark Kelsey Grammar Beast in DOFP.

 

[Duran Man]

Definitely Kelsey Grammer's Beast. I don't care much for the blue kitty cat.

 

[X-Maniac]

They definitely need to do a better job next go around.

They might rely on motion-capture and CGI, considering how the technology has improved as shown by Fox's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

That technique should also be used for The Thing in the next Fantastic Four, rather than a fake-looking body suit.

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm Kelsey Grammer's *****, so I can't answer this fairly, but you know... Kelsey.

 

[Spuzz]

I liked the FC Beast a lot on second viewing recently but whenever he open mouth-smiled as Beast it was very stupid looking. Only real complaint. :P

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I hated his face every time I saw it. Coming from a huge fan of Beast in both the comics and the cartoons.

 

[Matt Mortem]

They should have toned down FC's Beast's teeth to allow for better speech and annunciation.

 

[YoungPrime]

Neither! FOX is comic book poison!

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Kelsey Grammar's Beast.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Kelsey Grammar did a good job for the role and Beast was the best new character in X3. Like imagine if X3 was a great film, everybody would have praised him so much.

Seriously. Beast was the best new character in X3, just like Nightcrawler was the best new one in X2.

I missed a scene in X3 where they would have showed Beast in the lab, as a doctor, in his lab coat.

Thats the Beast I wanted to see in the theatre. And doing a few more acrobatics, to show the contrast between a really smart mutant but with a beastly look and moving like an acrobat, with one or two funny lines, in a smart way.

I think Beast's acrobatics were handled better in X3 than they were in FC. I was expecting him to cut loose in FC but he ended up disappointing me.

 

[X-Maniac]

They should have toned down FC's Beast's teeth to allow for better speech and annunciation.

You mean enunciation, the act of pronouncing or articulating words so they are clear.

Annunciation is the act of announcing, or an announcement.

 

[747]

I thought Hoult's Beast looked unintentionally funny, I really liked the characterization though. Develop him more towards the classic Beast look in the sequel imo.

 

[X-Maniac]

I would love to see Grammer's Beast again. And perhaps some tweaking of the look of his and Hoult's Beasts so they look as if one really is an older version of the other.

 

[747]

Neither! FOX is comic book poison!

What a constructive and insightful post!

 

[Baneis8feettall]

Neither! FOX is comic book poison!