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I'm sorry but Jubilee might be the lamest X-Man of all time, due to the fact that her power was basically magical jazz hands. Yet for some reason when they made her a focal point of the first couple seasons of the X-Men cartoon she was basically the mutant version of Wesley Crusher, worthless to the team overall but somehow the one who ended up solving the issue they were having. Regarding the age difference between Jean and Wolverine, if I remember right due to his healing ability he ages a lot slower than anyone else and was over a hundred years old by the time he entered Weapon X. Many people give the Last Stand a lot of shit, but looking at what came before it and what was heaped onto it with the Phoenix, I honestly think it could have been a lot worse than what it was, I just think that the Phoenix itself should be left out of the films if the entire movie isn't going to be centered around it. The other problem that the X-Men movies have face when trying to adapt a famous storyline is that said storyline is usually HUGE in comparison to other arcs in other comic titles. The average comic book arc goes from anywhere of 4-6 issues before being resolved, the X-Men though had MASSIVE arcs that would go on two to three times that length and even then might not be fully resolved. So to try and take that amount of information and condense it into a 2 1/2 hr long movie is really just not going to work. The first two X-Men worked because they were in essence original stories, Last Stand faltered because it mixed the Phoenix with a couple smaller arcs, First Class worked since it was original, Days was okay but a bit muddled with multiple storylines crossing along with characters having new powers that they didn't have either in the comics or movies, and this was sort of the same in that it used characters and chunks of story to create a film, but there was too much information to process down. Now with there being talk of a Deadpool crossover along with an X-Force movie, I really hope they go back to fleshing out new stories rather than try to use a huge arc from the comics, because that won't end as well as it could.

Yeah regarding the whole Stryker subplot, I get that they are trying to completely remove Origins: Wolverine from the history books, but it's getting to the point of being like Batman's parents, we get it, don't rehash it. What got me was the end credit scene which was an incredibly deep cut as far as an Easter egg goes, I even had to look up the meaning and I have a pretty good knowledge of X-Men folklore.

Actually thought Apocalypse was pretty good and a bit easier to follow than Days of Future Past. I still don't know why Bryan Singer is hung up on trying to bring a certain character onto film, which would easily need its own movie to get through THAT storyline. The makeup for Apocalypse was a lot better than what fanboys have been ragging on, and really the only hokey dialogue I noticed was Magneto basically yelling at God, which made me roll my eyes because it was so hammy.

That's similar to the Marvel movies where each Phase had a similar template for each poster.

I saw it as a kid when it came out on VHS and remember being confused by the final scenes where Weller fights his best friend for access to the escape pod, originally thinking he somehow abandoned the base and was trying to save himself like a coward. It wasn't only until a couple years later when I rewatched it that he was the "fake an injury" cyborg who had just skinned the friend and was trying to get off the planet to further spread the Screamers to Earth. Also, regarding to the "they look like people" aspect, I read that the company that helped create The Terminator franchise has the first right to refuse any Philip K. Dick movie adaptation since he has used that theme in a few of his novels (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Second Variety, in particular).

At least he never attacked Mr. Socko.

I completely forgot to mention that in my initial Omission, I'm sure there was some great ancestor to Connery who looked like Peel, but it was just cut out along with 30 other minutes of shit. Poor Mitch, he didn't deserve that.

Was I the only one kinda wishing that after a year of buildup for that couple and her telling him that he should have asked at the last episode, that when he finally did ask that she said no?

Thankfully Liefeld wasn't the original writer for Deadpool, he just stole the look of the character from Deathstroke, so it was up to Fabian Nicieza to write a decent personality for the character. While it was very 90s Xtreme, the first issues of Deadpool had some promise for the future. Liefeld is such an incredible hack and its unfortunate that he's so oblivious he doesn't realize it. When asked about his bad artwork he would go on to say that all of the Image founders were pretty terrible at drawing or writing, please remember that the other founders include McFarlane, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, and Whilce Portacio. Also, regarding Blade Trinity, I wasn't surprised that Reynolds didn't want to mention it as it was apparently such a horrible experience, something Patton Oswalt has talked about at various points since it was released.

While Crow made a slight profit, Blade did better but no one really knew it was based on a comic because the character didn't have a comic for quite a while and Snipes' version was very loosely based on the comic. But this article about the how the movie came into production shows that they intended it for PG-13 while trying to maintain its darkness because of a string of R rated comic adaptations, namely Barb-Wire, Tank Girl, and Judge Dredd. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-12/entertainment/ca-17749_1_comic-book

Loved the cartoon and still read the comic, which is way out of its prime. The cartoon actually went further with content than the comic in regards to sex and language, but as I said parents seeing that would need to definitely be convinced to take their kids to it. So by making it PG-13, teens could argue "hey it's not going to be that violent or filled with language since it's only PG-13."

Yeah I was going to bring up that the big selling point of this movie wasn't anything about it, but rather that it was the first movie to have a full length trailer for Phantom Menace, as they obviously needed some sort of ploy to bring people in to see this shit, and even then it still flopped.

The only reason that I can think of them going PG-13 with this was that as the comic was at its peak with readers, who were early to mid teens, it was parents who were outraged by the content of the comics. So to combat that stigma, they made it PG-13 to appease parents who were already mad while allowing the fans of the comic to be able to talk their parents into letting them see the movie. To be honest, not much was really cut out from the R rated version to this, mainly just blood and I think a couple uses of the f word. The new X-Men was way more violent than what was shown in the R cut of this film.

Yeah I knew it didn't get much love upon release, especially since no one really knew what it was about prior to its release, but I was talking about after years passed and now even the original cut is seen as one of the best sci-fi films.

I meant relying on CGI in that everything was done with it, rather than a few scenes where you see a couple Screamers or the cyborg's faces stretching. Yeah the movies based on Dick's are actually a lot better received than most other authors, either critically or financially. Blade Runner was a critical success after years of review, Total Recall and Minortiy Report were also a critical success and did well in the box office, while A Scanner Darkly did well with critics also. Unfortunately these are balance out against Imposter, Paycheck, Next, and the Total Recall remake, each of which could have an episode dedicated to them.

Correction and Omission: Okay I'm writing after having not read any of the prior comments because I have an honest to God three day weekend and am feeling lazy, so if these points have been discussed prior I apologize. First, regarding Father and her blindness, there are a few moments that were left in which show her as blind, such as being led to cars by the arm by Twoma and various small moments where she feels around rooms in order to get a grasp of where she is. It's kinda like what Denzel Washington did in Book of Eli but on an almost non-existent level. Regarding the bear costumes, I still don't know why Connery takes his mask off because in essence he is now at the mercy of every other person in that room who can readily identify him if they were to be capture by the police and interrogated. It should have been the other way around where they take their masks off while he leaves his on so that he has leverage over them to remain on task. Then with Twoma and the idea of her being a robot was a callback to an old episode of the Avengers where they dealt with robot doubles, as a nice nod to the fans of the show, but I think the creators of this movie were obviously overestimating the nostalgia for this show after seeing how poorly it did in theaters, similar to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. last year. The cloning was supposed to be the fallback idea and would have been explained in the 30 minutes that had been cut from the movie. As for there being no extras in the movie I have figured the answer out to that, they were only in the footage that was cut from the movie. Also, why the fuck was it never explained why there is an invisible man just working in the archives?! What happened to him that caused him to be that way? As for Twoma, why was it never explained or touched on by the hosts that she was basically indestructible? When she was fighting Steed on the roof after the bear meeting, Uma catches them just before Twoma escapes by jumping off the top of a fucking skyscraper, with no parachute! That crash would have liquefied her. Lastly, whenever I hear Twoma now I just think about Arnold Schwarzenegger and what he must have said when he met her on the set of Batman & Robin.

I fucking unironically love this movie. While it is cheesy, for being a smaller budget limited release movie, they did a good job of creating a believable threat using practical effects and not relying on CGI which was just becoming a big thing in movies, especially sci-fi. Peter Weller kills it in this movie as well despite the backstory not being displayed to the audience as well as it could have been. The only reason that they should do this movie is so that they can do the horrible sequel which has worse graphics than this one and has a subplot of Screamers getting people pregnant with Screamer babies, seriously.

It also tied for worst remake/sequel with Psycho and Godzilla. EDIT: Damn, didn't see that this has been answered already.

Yeah I remember that episode where it was differing stories of what happened in the vampire town and who was responsible for messing up the investigation. Scully thought Wilson was an uber-handsome guy while Mulder gave him buck teeth and a speech impediment if I remember right. What's more infuriating is that the final reveal of who killed Mona is even called into question because it shows things that the person telling the story could not have seen, so in the end the viewer has no real idea of actually committed the crime.

They literally treated this movie like the South Park Underpants Gnomes treat their underpants business:

While he did follow this up with Raising Cain which is a good bad movie, Carlito's Way, and Mission: Impossible, he then did HDTGM-worthy movies in Snake Eyes, Mission to Mars (especially if paired with Red Planet), and Femme Fatale, what an amazing downfall.

As far as consistency is concerned, this movie was apparently 2 hrs long but the studio cut over 30 minutes because test screenings were so bad. Basically no one involved with making the movie really knew about it or to what extent cuts had been made. Unfortunately the cuts basically cut out the bulk of the second act to where the Avengers figured out that Connery was behind everything, they skipped around from place to place in no time at all, and basically what the hell the Uma Thurman was and why she was basically indestructible. For some reason there have been people asking for a director's cut which no one thankfully has made, though the director has offered to re-cut the movie for free, which is interesting because no one in their right mind would willingly pay for that to happen.

Okay I'm at the bear suit scene and there is LITERALLY no reason for them to be wearing the suits when a simple mask would suffice to protect ones identity. Also Connery should have actually kept his face covered but made them reveal their faces as so that he would have leverage over them, not the other way around. And finally how big were the knives he threw at the two dissenting bears because not only do their pierce their suits, but also inflict enough damage to kill them?

I'm actually kinda miffed by the correction & omission segment for this episode as I gave a pretty decent plan for how to best avoid the inbred holocaust in Frogtown, but it was ignored. C'mon people how else are we has the human species going to survive the apocalypse if we don't have a plan to repopulate already in place?!

I'm 20 minutes into this hunk of shit and it's clear that they tried to make the most British movie ever. Really, was it necessary to sword fight inside a tailor shop? Or how long did it take for the agents to get to Connery's mansion driving a car from the 30s with a top speed of what appears to be 15 mph? Fuck this movie and the teddy bear suit that it rode in on.