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Jennifer Lawrence: "I won't be Mystique in the X-Men movies"
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Some of it is that. Some of it is the fact that she has gotten a pretty inordinate amount of prestige thrown her way in a short amount of time for roles that weren't necessarily spectacular.
I was happy that she was recognized for Winter's Bone, and was fine with her winning for Silver Linings. I don't really see why she was nominated for American Hustle though, and from what I have heard, Joy is the same. I feel the same about Bradley Cooper's last two nominations. Maybe she's just well liked in Hollywood and that explains some of it, but it was a lot of exposure in a very short time.
I don't dislike Jennifer Lawrence, I just don't think she's really the top of her class in the way that Hollywood is trying to sell her.
EDIT: As for contractually obligated roles, I think people understand that these superhero roles are not the career highlights of most of the people taking them, but that doesn't excuse zero effort. Lots of actors in bad movies still do their best to sell their performances.
SlimySnake
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Lol j law backlash here is more fierce than the Witcher 3 and uncharted 4 backlashes.
Rad Shadow
Banned
She played mystique?
Could have fooled me seeing as she was barely in makeup for those films.
I thought she was playing j law cosplaying as a x men most of the time.
Could have fooled me seeing as she was barely in makeup for those films.
I thought she was playing j law cosplaying as a x men most of the time.
NullPointer
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C'mon Stinkums, you should know better than that. JLaw's Mystique is unsalvageable, whether you're an ever-nude or a never-nude.
Cortana FTW
Aeternus Malum
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Who in the hell backlashes Witcher 3?
NullPointer
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Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Her Mystique is just that bad, and her star power meant that each movie just keep putting her Mystique further front and center.
Good riddance.
Storm is supposed to be a model leader in the X-Men. Not just strong, but a mentor that is wise and intelligent. None of that in any of the film adaptations of her. Not enough character development in favour of focus on characters that nobody asked to see more of like Mystique, poor choice of actresses, poor writing, it's just a bad situation for the character.
X-Men has seemingly the majority of great female Marvel characters and Fox is squandering them all. It's a tragedy to see what they have done with SO many strong properties.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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pretty much, is not hating on her just for the sake of hating and im not a big xmen nerd either (more of a movie nerd in general) but jesus christ she just sucks for the role
I think a lot of GAF turned on her when she berated a foreign reporter for reading a question off of his phone:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_zja9pepgU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_zja9pepgU
Phoenix RISING
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Preach.
I think the Mystique push was due to Rebecca Stamos being naked under the makeup. Sex appeal. Seems like the writers came to their senses when they realized the movies Target a general audience and tripped over themselves as they ruined precisely every female character in The X-Men universe.
Yes all of them. Don't make me remind you of McTaggart striptease. Hell even the female character that was made up for first class was recruited from a strip club!
Successful. Be an underdog/established legend or gtfo
Sweeney Tom
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Supporting the X-Men films now
Fuck her sacred rock comments
Fuck her sacred rock comments
What did he mean by this?
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People dont like JLaw because she seems ungrateful. Even with this little interview, she sounds like she's direspecting anyone that ever liked her in the Mystique role. I guess they were just wasting their time
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Not made up:
those look like forza crowds.
Razgriz-Specter
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Hey, why does everyone hates Jeniffer now? I thought we liked her
She comes off really badly in these interviews.
She hits it big so she suddenly doesn't give a crap about her side role in X-Men.
Fine, Fox goes out of the way to make her way more important than she should be and she still doesn't give a damn and talks down about it.
Messofanego
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Winter's Bone was alright. The rest is trash.
Fox Mulder
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Good. She sucked but they made her a top character because shes a big name.
Killing_Joke
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No beef with JLaw but Mystique along with her acting was 100% trash. Not sure why this is turning into a fight thread. All of XMen OT threads were pretty vocal about it. The celebration is no surprise.
Mentosrock
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Well, I don't blame her. The dialogue she had in X-Men Apocalypse was pretty horrific. She's a great actor, but not much can help the corny ass direction they had taken her character in. The mother of the mutants or whatever.. Cringe. She is probably just a fan of Guardians of the Galaxy and doesn't really understand the marvel universe that well. She's just expressing her interest in the movies.
What did he mean by this?
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Depends, how old are you?
broncobuster
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In fairness, First Class had Emma Frost to deflect bad acting criticisms. And a number of her scenes were with Hoult who wasn't much better in the movie.
Zen_Arcade
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I think we could just get away from Mystique as a character altogether at this point. Pick another lady X-Men character to use.
Master Thespian
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She wasn't Mystique in the three movies she was in anyways.
That's an...interesting framing of the situation
As if Fox made her role in the story bigger only to throw her a bone, not because she's one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and having a larger role for her is a surefire way to boost attention to the X-Men series
Grenouille
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PixelatedBookake
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Who came up with X-men: Preys on Future Cast on here? That shit was genius.
Freeza Under The Shower
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wait wait
WAIT
What did she even do in that movie? I already completely forgot (along with the rest of the movie). Mostly because she was just "hey I'm here for my paycheck, don't expect me to wear that blue shit". Don't think I've seen that kind of blatant disregard for a movie's fictional rules from an actor recently either. Not that I really agree with 'butt naked lady with paint because comics' either, but it really stood out in Apocalypse that they shot the movie around that obstacle, whereas DofP still had a director's free reign. Or that's what that looked like.
Yeah, she won't be missed as that character.
Sanctuary
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Yep, although the movie version of Mystique was never good when Romijn-Stamos did it either. The blue chameleon shit was just utterly ridiculous looking. I get that they were probably trying to go for something pseudo-plausible, but it just looks so damn bad.
What? Is this some typical Marvel retconning of established characters to remain "edgy" or something? I stopped reading after "Erik" Lehnsherr was magically retconned to "Max", which wasn't too terribly long after "Logan" became "James" in Origins. For pretty much always it was rumored that Mystique and Azazel were the parents of Nightcrawler until it was confirmed.
CaptainofIndustry
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Good.
likedamaster
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She was already doing bad in the hunger games sequels. Yeah, no thank you.
Really liked Jennifer Lawrence a lot in the first Hunger Games, progressively got more tired of her or at least of her character as the series went on.
Really too bad Passenger's not good, it looks like she has good chemistry with Chris Pratt.
No, in the 80s they seriously considered having Mystique fathering Nightcrawler in Destiny. Better origin then what he got. But then again he was going to be an alien anyway before DC comics rejected him.
Thats right Nightcrawler and Storm was rejected concepts from DC
She was basically the hero of the story. Yeah, I didn't focus on those parts either.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Azazel didn't even exist until the storyline that revealed him being Nightcrawler's father, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
The hinting was always about Mystique being Nightcrawler's parent without confirming it for years. Chris Claremont's original idea (that he never wound up getting into the book) was that Mystique would actually be his father, rather than the expected mother (since she can change genders when she transforms), with Destiny being the mother. This never wound up getting published, so we wound up with the whole Azazel storyline.
bobawesome
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And nothing of value was lost. Just stay out of movies altogether.
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