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Post by coinilius on Apr 19, 2017 18:49:02 GMT -5
Emma has telepathy and her diamond powers in Fislrst Class, doesn't she? So there is also that as an example of Secondary Mutation in the film franchise before Days of Futures Past, although it wasn't explained as such
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Post by coinilius on Apr 19, 2017 6:23:31 GMT -5
I think they could have gotten away with introducing Rachel though, as a mysterious possible child of Jean - they did have other freshly introduced characters like Bishop and Blink, after all. Though I agree that they probably wanted to have the character in that role to have more of a connection to the audience. It's a dramatic choice. The new characters were there to fight, not have character arcs. Putting Kitty there gave her a key role with emotional weight. Yes, agreed - that's always part of what bothers me about the Rogue Cut and the way Rogue comes in to replace someone - I don't know if I should say anything more at the moment in case of spoilers though
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Post by coinilius on Apr 18, 2017 17:48:19 GMT -5
I think they could have gotten away with introducing Rachel though, as a mysterious possible child of Jean - they did have other freshly introduced characters like Bishop and Blink, after all. Though I agree that they probably wanted to have the character in that role to have more of a connection to the audience.
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Post by coinilius on Apr 18, 2017 17:18:24 GMT -5
Agree with Coke and Comics on the Rogue Cut and how it effects movie, and would also like to add that it also, well, adds more to the character developments throughout the movie, ironically except when it comes to Rogue herself who just gets in the way of the narrative and pushes out another character (who wasn't necessarily doing much anyway but is reduced to pained looking reaction shots for the rest of the movie).
Someone mentioned that there is an extended cut of the first x-men movie - if it's the one that I am thinking of, it is more that you can watch it with deleted and alternate scenes placed back but they are incomplete/not officially reworked back in and there is at least one key scene that isn't included that is mentioned, but I do think it make for an interesting look at the original movie - I think the scenes do help make for a more complete movie and a real, official extended version would be interesting to see.
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Post by coinilius on Apr 16, 2017 5:08:45 GMT -5
I like the Rogue cut better as well, except for all the Rogue stuff a a third hybrid cut would be great to see, IMO.
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Post by coinilius on Apr 14, 2017 8:52:25 GMT -5
It's in the DVD commentary for Last Stand, depending on how much weight you want to put in DVD commentaries, although it does explain why he spoke in Patrick Stewart's voice in the end of Last Stand. Why is he crippled as well? Muscular atrophy, I guess... I think I could more easily accept the idea that Xavier grew a clone of himself than that he had a twin brother who was brain-dead and not being kept on premises, benefiting from the clearly superior technology Xavier kept there. Well, he was being kept on Muir Island which in the comics is a pretty standard place to store comatose people, when it's not being blown up or taken over by the Shadow King or whatever it's also kind of a play on the Cassandra Nova backstory, although any similarities are probably more coincidental than deliberate... it's all kind of silly but the movies don't dwell on it at all, it's just kind of out there if you look as an explanation, but not something they have really played up in the subsequent movies. Personally, it always seemed to me that when they made First Class the idea was to retcon out Last Stand and Wolverine Origins but then they hot on the idea of getting all the original actors back for Days of Futures Past so they suddenly started back pedallinga no tried to have it so that all the original movies were part of the continuity (before changing time in story to basically render all of them really incaple of happening as originally depicted). Of course, First Class doesn't really fit very well with even the first two X-Men movie either, so whatever... continuity isn't these movies strong points (and don't get me started on how a version of Apocalypse must have happens in the original time line as well, considering it offers up explanations for Xavier going bald and Storm's hair going white,I think, it's honestly all a bit of a blur). Great reading your reviews, btw - I don't usually frequent this sub forum so I didn't realise you were doing them until today!
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Post by coinilius on Apr 14, 2017 8:00:13 GMT -5
It's in the DVD commentary for Last Stand, depending on how much weight you want to put in DVD commentaries, although it does explain why he spoke in Patrick Stewart's voice in the end of Last Stand. Why is he crippled as well? Muscular atrophy, I guess...
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Post by coinilius on Apr 14, 2017 2:06:46 GMT -5
Xavier is in a body that looks just like his original because he transferred his mind into the comatose body of his identical twin brother, whom he mind wiped in the womb or something.
Seriously!
That's apparently the explanation that is there, and hinted at in Last Stand, but not explicitly laid out in any movie.
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Post by coinilius on Mar 14, 2017 3:44:28 GMT -5
An interesting post about swimsuit issues appeared on Escher Girls recently (via another blog for the original images).
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Post by coinilius on Feb 25, 2017 17:24:58 GMT -5
I collected Wetworks for awhile when it was coming out in Australia, possibly published along with a number of other image titles by Topps but I can't remember - I know that's how I picked up a number of early Spawn issues back in the day, but I also got some of the original Image published issues as well so it's hard to remember without digging them out of storage. Wetworks was a lot of fun and quite well written, plus I was absolutely mad-keen on Portachio's art at the time.
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Post by coinilius on Jan 5, 2017 20:27:17 GMT -5
In regards to What If...? Vs Elseworlds - I tend to see them as very different concepts, as usually Elseworlds deal more with taking a concept and placing it into a completely different setting, while What If stories usually spiral out of a specific issue or event in a comic, then exploring the consequences of this change.
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Post by coinilius on Jan 5, 2017 7:05:21 GMT -5
I think marvel was always better at the 'what if' conceptthab dc could ever be, at least after all the reboots and retcons dc has had over the years - when marvel did the recent Secret Wars or whatever it was stories with the alternate universes around the same time dc did the convergence stories, the marvel ones in general seemed to actually feel more era and continuity appropriate than the dc convergence stories did (with a few exceptions) - andthe what if stories that ireadcrom at least the second volume always seemed to take into account larger marvel continuity and how the changes might effect them, even if they were always 'worst case' scenarios.
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Post by coinilius on Nov 8, 2016 6:16:40 GMT -5
Ah, the Filmation Star Trek animated series...the least animated Star Trek series. My brother-in-law told me and after much debate I guess by some one on authority on Sci Fi that the animated series is now considered as cannon to the Star Trek original series and is also considered as the 4th Season of TOS. Seems fitting to me since A: most of the original actors provided the voices to the animated series and B: The writers who wrote for the animated also wrote for the original Star Trek. In fact a lot of the stories for the animated series were originally written for Star Trek for a fourth Season but of course NBC canceled it after 3 seasons.The Filmation Star Trek is an excellent series and a great continuation of the series - DC Fontana was the story editor for the first season of the cartoon.
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Post by coinilius on Oct 14, 2016 22:48:12 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this could possibly be good.. unless you're going the route of tying PotA to DC's Gorilla City, and even then in the end it would probably just be a generic DC story with Grodd as the bad guy. I like to think that, given a creative team that had something interesting to say with the material, then almost anything could be good... I don't have much faith in this particular crossover, but there are angles of attack that could be made to work - the gorilla city angle, Grodd on the Planet of the Apes... But yeah, it really seems like they are using a roulette wheel or something to choose these crossovers...
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Post by coinilius on Oct 14, 2016 5:27:59 GMT -5
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