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Wait...Magneto and Xavier are supposed to be over 60 years old in Dark Phoenix?
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Yes, the timeline gets changed when they go back in time in DOFP though.
Read this if you want to be really confused
Can you shoot shit out of your eyes, though? :D
You sure showed them; shitting on strangers over superhero movies in a videogame forum is the epitome of maturity;
Idk. But they should cast older actors to play them. Like, I want them to do something where the X-Men were around during the snap and everything, just have them deciding not to get involved or say they were too few in numbers or something. We don't need another origin story and it seems like Marvel is moving away from those considering what they did with Homecoming , Black Panther, and Captain Marvel. I mean, the last one kinda was one in reverse. I just don't see them doing the standard one again.
Spider-Man graduated high school in 65 and is now in his late twenties. I find it kind of cool how they adapted a sliding timescale in these films.
Is it true that's what happens if you sneeze with your eyes open?!
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well where else am I supposed to talk about this. Irl? Heeeell no.
Yeah, since Deadpool 2 clearly takes place in 2018, Xavier is 96 in this shot. Beast is pushing 80. Quicksilver in Nirvana shirt because fuck it, they just showed up the same day they were shooting something for Dark Phoenix and that's 1992. I mean obviously Deadpool doesn't give a shit about continuity but damn.
Oh god I never thought about that. It was a door into the past lol
Outside of the original trilogy, I kind of just view each successive movie as individual movies, with actors that we enjoy seeing in those roles. Like, each one a parallel reality with minor things altered or changed, but core elements the same (ie, Xavier and Magneto having a troubled past, Mystiques relationship with both of them, etc etc).
When the movie is fun, or good (like DOFP, Logan), it's something I can overlook and just enjoy the fun/good story the filmmakers came up with. But when it's bad (Apocalypse), it sticks out more. Like, I think setting X-Men movies in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's is a neat idea. The problem was then trying to pretend that they're all interconnected without even attempting to alter the appearances of the cast, or age up some of the actors. That's silly, but ultimately doesn't bother me.
Logan, if you want to dissect it, falls apart when trying to fit it into the established X timeline. But if you just roll with what the story is trying to evoke, it's great. Definitely my favorite. Yeah, it leans heavily on our affection for Jackman and Stewart's portrayal as Logan and Xavier, respectively, but it works.
Days of Future Past, for me, is the end of the X-Men film series. I thought it was a fun amalgamation of the original cast and the first class cast, and was a fun, entertaining movie.
Apocalypse and Phoenix are just "what ifs" to me. And I actually don't hate Dark Phoenix. It's just not very memorable for me. Entertaining, but dumb. Better than Apocalypse though.
When the movie is fun, or good (like DOFP, Logan), it's something I can overlook and just enjoy the fun/good story the filmmakers came up with. But when it's bad (Apocalypse), it sticks out more. Like, I think setting X-Men movies in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's is a neat idea. The problem was then trying to pretend that they're all interconnected without even attempting to alter the appearances of the cast, or age up some of the actors. That's silly, but ultimately doesn't bother me.
Logan, if you want to dissect it, falls apart when trying to fit it into the established X timeline. But if you just roll with what the story is trying to evoke, it's great. Definitely my favorite. Yeah, it leans heavily on our affection for Jackman and Stewart's portrayal as Logan and Xavier, respectively, but it works.
Days of Future Past, for me, is the end of the X-Men film series. I thought it was a fun amalgamation of the original cast and the first class cast, and was a fun, entertaining movie.
Apocalypse and Phoenix are just "what ifs" to me. And I actually don't hate Dark Phoenix. It's just not very memorable for me. Entertaining, but dumb. Better than Apocalypse though.
Man I'm still trying to make sense of the ending of DoFP. Wolverine gets tossed into the river or something. Stryker fishes him out but we then see it's Mystique. The very next movie Wolverine is caged by Stryker and Mystique is the Mutant Savior.
blame that on JLAW the academy award winner.
If she never blew up, her role would have been small.
Yup that's pretty dumb
It's like the writers don't know Mystique's character and intention
She was pure evil in the first three, but now she's more humanized
Just so non-comic people in this thread understand: BOTH happened.
1. Lucifer crippled Xavier, then
2. His space queen girlfriend (Empress of the biggest Marvel space civilization besides the Kree and Skrulls) whipped up a functional, walking clone body for him aaaannnnndddd....
3. As SOON as he got back to earth, the Shadow King crippled him again.
I kind of would have loved it if they had gone to the effort of casting someone as Alpha the Ultimate Mutant whose only job in the franchise was to de-age everyone at the start of each film.
i mean, it's totally fine for x men movies to slow down on sucking wolverines dick for a second, imo
90% of the casting decisions absolutely sucked for the last 4 Xmen movies
JLaw sux as Mystique
That dude who plays Cyclops sux
Nicholas Hoult sux as Beast
The new Storm sux
Fassbender is not magneto
The list goes on
JLaw sux as Mystique
That dude who plays Cyclops sux
Nicholas Hoult sux as Beast
The new Storm sux
Fassbender is not magneto
The list goes on
Quicksilver is already in the MCU
He sucked and he died in the same movie he appeared in (Ultron).
Logan was the best of the xmen franchise and it is Hugh Jackman
yeah but like half of the movies in the franchise are explicitly branded as starring just him and the other half he's basically the main character. It's an ensemble cast, sometimes it's good for different people to take the forefront. Not to say that days of future past is particularly good, but i liked it more than first class.
Basically what I'm saying is if anyone complains that wolverine isn't given enough prominence in the franchise because of one movie (where he is STILL the primary audience viewpoint) that's kind of ridiculous.
Cuban missile crisis is 1962, and Charles is leaving Oxford with his PhD at the start of the film lol. At the youngest they'd be born in the mid 1930s (given their ages in 1944 intro), Xavier should be near 40s by DOFP which takes place in 1973.
Edit: Patrick Stewart and Ian McClellan were age-appropriate castings for 90s Xmen with no sliding timeline or age manipulation shenanigans. The failure is in aging McAvoy, Fassbender, and others appropriately given that only Mystique and Wolverine should be ageless. Fass should at least have fully grey hair at this point.
Wait this is the same character?Edit:
Also this character:
Aged 40 years and then looks like this:
Mutant Genes Age slower? It's all I got
Real life - Actress Jennifer Tilly is 60 years old, this is from a few days ago
Had to check it twice... wtf
Lmao I had you pegged as a conspiracy nut for a second 😅
Lol the universe is conspiring against Xavier walking
He can walk now thanks to possessing Fantomex
How long before he's back and crippled again
