- casting Anna Paquin as Rogue (Rogue should've been played by a hotter actress);
Yes because all the characters in X-Men must look like supermodels
At the same time though, I think making Rogue hot adds to the character. Because here you have this gorgeous girl, yet no one can have her because of her power. That's a nice piece of character development. Yes I'm contradicting myself we
PS.. I thought Anna was pretty hot in X2. IDK what happened..
Anyway here's my take on the films: When you look at the movies themselves, they are beyond incredible. Great plots, great cerebral undertones, and a few good character development. But when you look at it as a comic adaption, mainly with characters, it could have been better. I know Halle gets a lot of slack for Storm, but really she just wasn't right for the part. She's a good actress and all but she really didn't give off that mother African goddess vibe. And the way he treated Cyclops was just sad...And another big problem I had was not introducing Beast earlier. Gambit I could understand until the third film, But Beast is one of the central characters and it's sad that all he got was a brief cameo in X2 and then he's introduced as cookie monster in Ratner's film (Grammar was great though).
The thing that really get's me about Singer's films are the deleted scenes. I was watching the film last night with commentary by him on the deleted scenes and he really missed some good opportunities taken them out (he even hinted at that himself. For example:
-Not a big one, but I think showing a brief shot of Scott and Jean holding hands at Scott's class meeting while Wolverine looked on would be nice. I never liked how you never saw any affection between them and then all of a sudden, during the Jean and Logan scene in the bedroom, you find out there going out.
-Speaking of the bedroom scene, Singer needed to keep the full scene in tack with the extended talk with Scott Logan and Logan and Jean. Why? Because it develops Cyclops soo much. You understand why he is the way he is and why he doesn't like Logan and it makes him come off less as a prick. Singer said he deleted that scene because he didn't like how Logan hinted at his past "Ever seen real combat boy?". He said he wanted Logan to have full amnesia and having him say that would screw up the plot for X2. Yeah a big screw up on Singer's part because he sacrificed developing Scott.
-The Storm/Rogue scene after class would've really added some depth to the characters. You get to seem some development with Storm as a motherly, caring type figure and Rogue becomes more acquainted with the school. I think Singer took it out because of pacing and also Halle's accent was pretty thick but I think it really would've added a nice touch to the film
-There's some other scenes as well that I can see why they were deleted but still would've added something. The extended subplot with Bobby and Rogue would've been nice to see but it wasn't too necessary as it slows the film down. The Jean, Xavier scenes were really good to. Their cerebro scene was great (and even adds more emotional impact for his death scene in X3), but it is a bit slow. Plus it introduces Cerebro too early. Their scene where Jean talks about reading Logans mind is good because it shows why Jean is a little attracted to him but I always thought it was deleted because you have to telepaths not realizing Mystique is a few levels below them screwing up cerebro.
