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2015/07/18 14:12:33
Subject: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer Leaks From Comic-Con
If they can make his flesh paler/more grey, that'll help. Hopefully the new Storm is better than Hally Berry (who sucked horribly), and I know nothing of Munn's acting chops. But she looks nice in her comic-accurate costume. 30000000 times better than Psylocke in X3.
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2015/07/18 14:13:28
Subject: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer Leaks From Comic-Con
Olivia Munn looks great, but After her Daily Show appearances I'm not sure she can handle the acting dimension. It's going to take some serious chops to sell a line like, "the focused totality of my psychic powers". Especially since canonical Psylocke must use this phrase every fifth sentence.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Olivia Munn looks great, but After her Daily Show appearances I'm not sure she can handle the acting dimension. It's going to take some serious chops to sell a line like, "the focused totality of my psychic powers". Especially since canonical Psylocke must use this phrase every fifth sentence.
Didn't see her on Newsroom? I think she's got the chops for this. She's not an oscar winner but we've already seen that they don't always work in comic movies (**cough**Berry**cough**)
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2015/07/19 01:30:08
Subject: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer Leaks From Comic-Con
Hulksmash wrote: Didn't see her on Newsroom? I think she's got the chops for this.
This right here. I was ambivalent about her until then but in The Newsroom she did a really good job. With the right material she can act her ass off. There was also a story with the other members of the cast she told about how the costume people had to lube up her and the suit to get her into it, and on the first scene the crotch snapped and broke.
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2015/07/19 02:24:39
Subject: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer Leaks From Comic-Con
I'd watch a DVD of just that outtake to be honest. I loved Munn in Newsroom and think she'll be great in Xmen. Or at least I'll want her to be good so much that, even if she isn't, I'll probably be alright with it.
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2015/07/20 01:17:48
Subject: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer Leaks From Comic-Con
If the back of the costume doesn't ride up her ass in every other shot she's in (at the very least), I'll be disappointed! Would be very comic-inaccurate if it didn't.
I read that interview too; seeing that scene would make for the best outtake ever.
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2015/12/11 14:29:25
Subject: Re:‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer Leaks From Comic-Con
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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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How would it cross over to the other Marvel properties?
It won't outside of their own outside of their own spin offs like the Wolverine films, the upcoming Gambit, and potentiallly Deadpool (this could be a little too silly and they might keep it at arms length)
I'll be amazed if there isn't a Wolverine cameo at some point, he's been in all the other 7 films.
Honestly, I think this film and one more Wolverine is all we need from the X-men. Rather than dragging it out into less and less interesting films for the sake of it (I'm no fan of Deadpool, Gambit really isn't solo film material and the New Mutants are just boring), I'd rather they just hit it on the head after those and leave us with 3 trilogies that, in my opinion, have been thus far perfect*.
It is interesting to note that by the time this comes out, we will have had 3 Spideys, 3 Hulks, 2 Supemen, 2 Batmen, 2 Fantastic 4s and and 2 Daredevils since the first X-men film came out. That's a rather damn good innings, I say!
*Other opinions regarding Origins: Wolverine and The Last Stand are available!
Looks incredibly grey, and quite dull. They're hiding Apocalypse as well.
Worse, we have two scenarios:
1. Magento is a mind-controlled bad guy, which is terrible for Magneto's character as it means he really isn't in the film (bit like Hawkeye in the first Avengers movie).
2. Magento isn't mind controlled, and is just biding his time until he betrays [whoever] and tries to enact his own agenda, like every other X-Men movie ever.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
H.B.M.C. wrote: Looks incredibly grey, and quite dull. They're hiding Apocalypse as well.
Worse, we have two scenarios:
1. Magento is a mind-controlled bad guy, which is terrible for Magneto's character as it means he really isn't in the film (bit like Hawkeye in the first Avengers movie).
2. Magento isn't mind controlled, and is just biding his time until he betrays [whoever] and tries to enact his own agenda, like every other X-Men movie ever.
The likely scenario in my mind is that Magneto is a genuine follower of Apoc's pro-mutant "survival of the fittest" mentality, but will either become disillusioned with him for some reason and betray him in the end or will seize the moment and try to make it on his terms after Apoc is defeated.
So, similar to your 2nd scenario, but "bidding" implies a premeditated intent to betray rather than an opportunistic one.
A huge amount of information has emerged as part of some set reports from the film. First, Bryan Singer tries to explain how this film fits into the X-Men movie timeline, and just how much Wolverine changed history in the last movie, to Collider:
It’s not leading necessarily toward exactly where we found Patrick Stewart and the ‘X-Men’ at the beginning of ‘X-Men 1,’ There are some things that lead in that general direction, that was part of the philosophy we had at the end of ‘Days of Future Past’ is that you can’t fully change the course or current of the river, but you can just divert it a little bit, and we diverted it a little bit. So some things will be surprises; people could die that were alive in ‘X-Men 1,’ ‘2' and ‘3,’ or people could survive that died during ‘1,’ ‘2' and ‘3.’
The idea that time is like a river. You can splash it and mess it up and throw rocks in it and shatter it but it eventually kind of coalesces and this is, again, quantum physics theory. It’s all based in quantum physics.
To /Film, Singer teased retelling elements of the famous Phoenix Saga with Sophie Turner’s young Jean Grey:
The full Phoenix story, I have no idea. I would have to re-explore that. If it’s already been explored, to re-explore and retell it. Plus the Phoenix story in the comic book has the Shi’ar Empire and the moon. As far as the idea of that brewing within [Jean Grey], without giving anything away I would say absolutely that interests me and you may find a piece of that in [’X-Men: Apocalypse’]. She’s trying to figure out her psychic powers, which are much more powerful than she realizes.
After describing Apocalypse as not having a true physical form but being an “energy”, Singer also teased the villain’s powerset to Collider:
One of them is to imbue other mutants and to heighten their powers and abilities beyond anything they ever imagined. Secondly, he can shield from psychic powers, he can form shields so that it makes it harder for a psychic like Xavier to tap in and get to them.
Bryan Singer teases the mall scene with Jean, Scott, Nightcrawler and Jubilee:
We have a scene where some of the mutants decide to play hooky while Xavier is off at the CIA. They steal one of his really nice cars – and an important thing about ’83 is it’s 10 years after the day that the world discovered mutants. So the world now embraces mutants and accepts them as part of society, so they can go to the mall. Obviously the instigator, Cyclops, who has only been there for like a day, convinces Nightcrawler, Jean, and Jubilee to play hooky, grab a car and go to the mall. It happens to be on a day that something bad happens…
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I think the most important thing coming out of this movie will be if the deleted scenes on the DVD include Olivia Munn popping the crotch of her costume and giving everyone a show. BluRay HiDef, please.
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-Loki- wrote: It won't outside of their own outside of their own spin offs like the Wolverine films, the upcoming Gambit, and potentiallly Deadpool (this could be a little too silly and they might keep it at arms length).
At least 2 X-men appear in Deadpool just from the trailer. The mutant universe definitely overlaps.
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