so since ive been watching deadpool, and before that x-men 97, i wanted to check out the live action movies. ive never seen them before. i know the meme where rogue is like "yeah man i kinda wanna fix my debilitating disease which causes me to literally steal lifeforce of every living thing that touches me " and storm is like "nah girl you chill. you a cool ass mutant. no need to fix"
so i did first movie. i thought it was ok. my main like takeaway from watching xmen 1 and 2 is that, well, the director was afraid of being cool. i mean they try. i dont get why storm, the mistress of elements, had to get fucking bodied by toad. also the fact that storm no longer "commands" the elements is a major drag. i miss the other mutants, too. morph. jubilee. beast. in xmen 2, there is a scene where nightcrawler teleports into the "well" to save the kids, and they are scared of him. i like to think they wouldnt be scared of him, if beast was a teacher at xaviers school.
dont get me started on xavier and magneto. like, they are just very different characters compared to how they are in the animated series. and thats fine. i do find it utterly insane that magneto was a-ok with having his best friend murder 8? 9? im not sure the global population of the world in that series. but yeah, he was ok with his best friend killing bilions. which makes no sense. magneto is a fighter. he is strong, on his own. the most powerful mutant. he wants to fight. so. i dunno. i was saddened.
oh yeah. where is remy. when mystique was gathering info about cerebro 2, she saw him there, so he exists atleast.
also just remembered, made me laugh so hard. there is the scene after magneto saves the jet, where he and mystique go "love what you did with your hair rogue" and like. thats crazy. you fellas turned her into a nuke almost and you will joke like that? magneto? the saviour of mutants?
of course i like the gore though. it makes perfect sense that wolvie would fucking go ape shit and rip and tear. i missed that in the animated. but i wish they could somehow merge more stuff from the animated, with the "real, and gritty" live action shit. kinda like deadpool and wolverine did. that fucking last suit with the cowl made me fucking melt. so fucking cool.
aight. ive now finished all the live action xmen movies.
i dislike them heavily. normally when i like movie ill keep the file. so that i can rewatch or something. not with this saga though. and its not like i utterly hate these movies. its just, nothing worth revisiting in my eyes.
im so bored of the dark phoenix storyline. people mustve fucking loved it cuz ive seen three adaptations by now. i definitely still prefer the animated one, but even that one was very messy, i didnt care much for the conclusion. these live action ones are horrible though. i dont think logan is capable of killing jean. and frankly, even if he was succesful, scott would kill him. so. i dont know. just strange, all around. oh, right. scott was dead by then. right.
first class and days of future past are interesting, ill say. it does make everything way too fucking messy. timeline wise, i mean. especially xaviers relationship with mystique. and frankly, its not a horrible idea. mystique was good. i liked it. jennifer lawrence is very fucking bland, but frankly, everybody kinda was by the end. i did love magneto though. the cast have no chemistry. except magneto/xavier, mystique/hank, in the original trilogy, jean/logan. there are almost zero friendly interactions between the crew, which hurts the relationships. i mean, i first class they atleast had that one fun power showing scene, with the party and stuff.
suprisingly. i thought apocalypse was pretty good. i kinda liked this interpretation of apocalypse. they kinda turned him into mutant jesus in a way. but it falls apart pretty quickly unfortunately. i wonder what happened to psylocke, angel, and caliban in the end. i dont think it was shown. they prolly dead though
oh, i was so saddened by dark phoenix. do you wanna know why? because of jubilee. they fucking got her in! and it was. absolutely meaningless. i have no idea why they went so hard with the costume design, an actual good look-alike actress. to have her do absolutely nothing. it was sad.
oh and the "relationship" with hank and mystique? i kinda love it. but not like that. XD if that makes sense. also i did dislike how beast was basically the hulk. felt weird to me.
so yeah. live action xmen are done. and im glad. such a messy fucking series of movies