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Concept Art for the Skrulls in Dark Phoenix
- Thread starter ManaByte
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That they revise the ridged chin as this vein-y dental indentation just so perfectly encapsulates how Fox kept screwing this up. The shame in the weirdness of the original comic designs, the need to fix and recontextualize it so that it "makes sense" and "looks realistic", all of it. And yet here comes Captain Marvel giving us green dudes with pointy ears and ridged chins, toned down a bit from the comics but still properly representing them, and it's worked wonders.
It's hilarious, because it shows a basic misunderstanding of the source material. "It looks silly." Motherfucker, they're super hero comic books, that's the point.
Yup, seems like the type of Skrulls design Fox would do. They've been pretty ashamed of the comics and classic concepts since the first X-Men movie. "Yo, comics just can't be translated into movies, yo! Gotta change the hell outta them, because aliens and super heroes wearing colorful costumes and masks will NEVER be accepted by modern audiences. Gotta go more GROUNDED!" It's like the heads at Fox that were calling all the shots regarding everything X-Men-realted were stuck in the 00s-mentality, EVEN AFTER the idiocy of the 00s-mentality was shattered upon the rocks (and comic movies are BETTER because of it).
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They were making comic book movies, but comic books were BANNED FROM THE SET.
As stand alone alien designs, they're not bad. But CM gave us Skrulls that look like Skrulls. Even Kirby-looking ones.
Why are they all wiry?
Why did fox keep on doing this?
Gotta feel sorry for the artist who was given the brief of Skrulls that don't look like Skrulls.
Why did fox keep on doing this?
Gotta feel sorry for the artist who was given the brief of Skrulls that don't look like Skrulls.
Imagining this movie with Captain Marvel's ending with green whatevers instead of grey whatevers...doesn't seem any better.
Man they really fucked up bad by not using this Goblin.
Man they really fucked up bad by not using this Goblin.
I dig the MCU skrull design more, but something about the execution of the makeup just makes it feel uber cheap. You could tell Ben Mendelsohn was really struggling to emote properly under that layer of rubber.
It helps that the movie had a reasonable explanation for the big head and big eyes. Same thing for Mysterio. Two of the most outlandish looking comic villains have good reasons for their designs.
People want to talk about the mid-credits scene for Far From Home, but honestly
I was so excited to see that they weren't going to forget about Talos, because Ben Mendelsohn was so good, too good to throwaway on one movie. It looks like he and the Skrulls could play an interesting role in the MCU going forward.
I was trying to wrap my brain around this, too, but I gave up, because Singer X-Men is dead and gone and we no longer have to live in fear. But I'd love for someone to try and explain how providing actors with decades of source material that gives layers upon layers of depth to these characters would make the actors think the characters are two-dimensional.
Remember it next time anybody says the X-Men movies were good. They were literally terrible on purpose.
The final design in the movie (what little you can see) sure as hell looked like they did.
The generic alien guys weren't very interesting, but I loved the train ending. I can't believe that was a late change cause it's a pretty well staged bunch of action.
Pigs roll around in mud. Find happiness where ever you can, I guess.
And fox quiksilver was better in every way than the MCU version and a highlight of DOFP.
Except one was actually Quicksilver. I won't argue that the character in Days of Future Past wasn't cooler, because he was, but he's not Quicksilver. I recognize that almost everyone doesn't give a shit.
That's what I said! But you said FOX Quicksilver is "better in every way," and that's not true. He's not a better representation of the character.
they also look bad for completely different reasonsFor comparison, Skrulls in Captain Marvel
I prefer MCU Skrulls tbh.
i wish they looked like this
MCU Skrulls are meant to be sympathetic and relatable, which is important because of how they are implemented in the plot. These concept Skrulls are monstrous, inhuman, and devoid of emotion or recognizable facial features, which suggests they were only meant to be disposable cannon fodder, which is a huge waste.How amusing...
I do prefer the MCU version.