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seriousficX-Men: First Class is going to be a period film set in the 60s, with the Hellfire Club and with no Jean or Scott. See, this is why you don't use up all the good mutants in crappy cameos. Now the big teen hero of the film is going to be Havok or something. There could've at least been Psylocke. The race wank would've been hilarious. "They cast a white woman to play her! Racists!" "But she is a white woman! Her mind was just transferred into an Asian body!" "What about Revanche?" "What about the Ultimate incarnation?" Hours of fun, guys, hours of fun.
Anyway, ballsy choice, there'd better be a sequel where Emma gets redeemed and joins the team, and so long as there's room to do a fanvid to the "Be A Man" song from Mulan, I'm mostly happy. Any movie with a possible training montage needs one of those.
Am I the only one, though, who gets kinda irritated when they're doing an adaptation and they pick a title that has nothing to do with what they're adapting? Like when they do a Young Justice cartoon and it's about Dick Grayson and Wally West? Or they do a movie called X-Men: First Class, and the only dude it has it in from the actual comic is Beast? Of course, it's worse in X-Men's case, because now you're inviting a ton of reviews going "New mutant movie is hardly 'First Class'." Seriously, can anyone resist the puns?
Also, the love interest in Spider-Man won't be Mary-Jane, but probably Gwen, and there are a bunch of unexciting choices vying for it. Seriously, I've seen more star power in Disney Channel movies. Anyway, if it's Gwen, when the bridge scene rolls around, I'm rooting for inertia. She was so boring, they killed her for it. You know how boring you had to be to get killed off in the Silver Age? Those were the days where you didn't really have to have a personality, you just had to be a white guy with superpowers and they gave you a comic book. These guys were so whitebread, you could spread butter on 'em.
Do you think it's a coincidence that Ultimate Gwen and Spectacular Gwen have pretty much completely different personalities from 616 Gwen? It's because she's so boring. She's so boring, that even though she was dead, people thought it would be a good idea to reveal a shocking secret about her, like how she was having the Green Goblin's bastard kids. That's how boring she was. Even dead, she was too boring. If you're dead in comic books, your only job is for people to angst over you, and she was too boring for that. I'm really surprised Peter didn't fall asleep every time he went to Teh Bridge to brood. "Oh, Gwen, never again will we... do... stuff... like we did... yaaaaaaaaawn..."
If they actually got into into the Peter/Gwen/MJ triangle, and the awesome story of howClark/Lana Peter/Gwen's fated-meant-to-be-love is totally unworkable and sucky and he actually ends up with the other girl, be it Felicia or MJ -- "Face it, tiger, you just hit the jackpot" would be the best cliffhanger ending since Batman Begins, let's not deny -- and then Gwen gets fridged, that would work, but the love story of Peter and the girl next door? They kinda already did that with the Raimi movies (and even there, you won't find many people saying nice things about the romance subplot of the Raimiverse). Calling her Gwen is just putting a fine point on it, not making it any different from what Raimi's done.
Also, one of the candidates is Imogen Poots. Don't we have stage names specifically for people who have names associated with bodily fluids? Or is there just no point to it now that Vin Diesel is calling himself Vin Diesel? Because how can anyone top the name of VIN DIESEL?
Anyway, ballsy choice, there'd better be a sequel where Emma gets redeemed and joins the team, and so long as there's room to do a fanvid to the "Be A Man" song from Mulan, I'm mostly happy. Any movie with a possible training montage needs one of those.
Am I the only one, though, who gets kinda irritated when they're doing an adaptation and they pick a title that has nothing to do with what they're adapting? Like when they do a Young Justice cartoon and it's about Dick Grayson and Wally West? Or they do a movie called X-Men: First Class, and the only dude it has it in from the actual comic is Beast? Of course, it's worse in X-Men's case, because now you're inviting a ton of reviews going "New mutant movie is hardly 'First Class'." Seriously, can anyone resist the puns?
Also, the love interest in Spider-Man won't be Mary-Jane, but probably Gwen, and there are a bunch of unexciting choices vying for it. Seriously, I've seen more star power in Disney Channel movies. Anyway, if it's Gwen, when the bridge scene rolls around, I'm rooting for inertia. She was so boring, they killed her for it. You know how boring you had to be to get killed off in the Silver Age? Those were the days where you didn't really have to have a personality, you just had to be a white guy with superpowers and they gave you a comic book. These guys were so whitebread, you could spread butter on 'em.
Do you think it's a coincidence that Ultimate Gwen and Spectacular Gwen have pretty much completely different personalities from 616 Gwen? It's because she's so boring. She's so boring, that even though she was dead, people thought it would be a good idea to reveal a shocking secret about her, like how she was having the Green Goblin's bastard kids. That's how boring she was. Even dead, she was too boring. If you're dead in comic books, your only job is for people to angst over you, and she was too boring for that. I'm really surprised Peter didn't fall asleep every time he went to Teh Bridge to brood. "Oh, Gwen, never again will we... do... stuff... like we did... yaaaaaaaaawn..."
If they actually got into into the Peter/Gwen/MJ triangle, and the awesome story of how
Also, one of the candidates is Imogen Poots. Don't we have stage names specifically for people who have names associated with bodily fluids? Or is there just no point to it now that Vin Diesel is calling himself Vin Diesel? Because how can anyone top the name of VIN DIESEL?
