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Jennifer Lawrence On Her X-MEN Future: 'Fox Should Be Terrified'
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xaosslug
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Please save Sauron for Spider-Man.
i don't think Marvel (or SONY) can use him, tho?
boiled goose
good with gravy
Imo. None of the xmen except maybe Jackman are essential. Not one characters is Robert Downey as stark or evans as Cap.
Change the actors. Who cares.
Mystique?? Who cares.
They are all rhodey tier.
Heck even Hulk changed and no one cared.
Change the actors. Who cares.
Mystique?? Who cares.
They are all rhodey tier.
Heck even Hulk changed and no one cared.
This. Just bring her back. The real Mystique.
Calamari41
41 > 38
I don't have a problem with Mystique, but I've never understood why Fox features her so prominently and seems to think she's on or close to the same level as Charles and Magneto. I bet the box office would be the same whether she were featured or a different cool mutant were featured.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Someone tell her that The Xmen have been around since the 60s...
SonicMegaDrive
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I'm OK with this.
Septimus Prime
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Oh, he's a mutant? Maybe he falls into the same category as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
Because JLaw was the biggest up and coming actress in Hollywood when they signed her up.
TheCochese
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Well, if they've survived her acting up to this point...
timetokill
Banned
- Get different actress
- "Whoa, Mystique, you look different"
- "Haha, like I haven't heard that one before"
Boom, done. Send me a check, Fox.
- "Whoa, Mystique, you look different"
- "Haha, like I haven't heard that one before"
Boom, done. Send me a check, Fox.
Mutate, he got bitten by a sick pterodactyl and must drain the life force from mutants to maintain his form
Oscar winning lead actress from the hit franchise The hunger games
It's Magneto I will never understand
In the context of the movies
Most of them were treated no bigger than background furnitures
andythinkpad
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This thread is GAF collectively giving JLaw the ok.gif gesture.
Septimus Prime
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Best character ever, confirmed. Thanks!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It all goes back to First Class. Once you set the character up as Charles' sister and Magneto's soulmate, there's no way you're extricating her from the rest of the series.
I dont' think Fox mandated that (wouldn't make sense that was the case, either, Fox doesn't really give a shit about which mutants get used how) I think it's just how Vaughn/Goldman broke that story. Hell, I bet they landed on her as that character simply because of how Singer used her in the first three movies.
Lawrence blowing up as a star after the fact just made it all the easier to continue along that path.
Calamari41
41 > 38
I mean even back when Rebecca Romijn played her. I forgot, was she that prominent in 2 and Last Stand?
MisterHero
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Mystique will now be in disguise as Shailene Woodley for a few movies
How one signs up for a role like Mystique and then complains about the makeup requirements is beyond me, particularly given how I don't think she's in the blue form anywhere near as much as Rebecca was in the first three films. It's not like she's in a TV role as an alien having to do the makeup for years on end for 16 hour days.
Yup, give the X-Men franchise to Marvel so they can interact with Spidey and the Avengers.
Not really; her ability was used as a plot device more than anything else.
LMAO. Yeah, I doubt McAvoy will leave. Fassbender is a toss-up, but I doubt he'll leave either.
Because she can turn into anyone and is Magneto's "right hand" in some regards. They can cast literally any actress for the role without having to put her in blue paint. Jennifer is just pissed because she has to spend 4-5 hours in a chair getting painted for some scenes.
Because she can turn into anyone and is Magneto's "right hand" in some regards. They can cast literally any actress for the role without having to put her in blue paint. Jennifer is just pissed because she has to spend 4-5 hours in a chair getting painted for some scenes.
Toxicity of the paint notwithstanding
Bobby Roberts
Banned
If I remember correctly the complaints came from the realization midway through shooting that they never needed to do it the way they had been doing it and were wasting a lot of time and effort.
I remember Nimoy complaining about the ears quite a bit, too.
She probably thought it'd be a more streamlined process by now.
Discotheque
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well i'm pretty damn certain mcavoy/fassbender are contingent on each other. maybe lawrence squeezed into that pact as well who knows.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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I doubt Fox is terrified. The meat that sits in front of the camera and babbles can easily be replaced with fresher younger meat. They don't need Fassbender, McAvoy or Lawrence.
I don't even really believe this pact is as serious as she makes it sound, but I do hope it's true. She practically has one foot out the door and by this point, I bet the other 2 are more of the mindset where they could take it or leave it, and hopefully they just leave it.
I mean yeah. They did it for Fantastic Four and that worked out just fine, right?
They absolutely need McAvoy.
Bumblebeetuna
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Her acting in the previews has actually made me cringe, so please, don't come back JLaw.
How many movies have they had Mystique in?
And then I remember the version of Mystique that I grew up reading. How complicated a villain she was, how bitter and ruthless and resourceful at first, where you thought there was no good in her... and then discovering all those parts of her past that shaped her ideology. Her love for Destiny. Her self-loathing over abandoning Nightcrawler. Her maternal love for Rogue. Her repeated attempts to manipulate and sometimes reform, never being sure which was which. Her misery over murdering her own anti-mutant son. How so many of her actions were attempts to alter a future of misery and despair, to the point where she played the villain and pushed everyone away and isolated herself to minimize the pain.
Selfish, loving, cruel, scared, devoted, manipulative, confused, controlling, broken, strong... when I think about just how complicated and complex she could and should be, to be a character defined by SO much more than just her blue-skin, and to see the movies regress her traits down so much and strip away so much complexity from her... it's been beyond frustrating. She's one of Marvel's most intriguing villains ever, and despite having such a prominent role in all the films, they've merely scratched the surface.
And then I remember the version of Mystique that I grew up reading. How complicated a villain she was, how bitter and ruthless and resourceful at first, where you thought there was no good in her... and then discovering all those parts of her past that shaped her ideology. Her love for Destiny. Her self-loathing over abandoning Nightcrawler. Her maternal love for Rogue. Her repeated attempts to manipulate and sometimes reform, never being sure which was which. Her misery over murdering her own anti-mutant son. How so many of her actions were attempts to alter a future of misery and despair, to the point where she played the villain and pushed everyone away and isolated herself to minimize the pain.
Selfish, loving, cruel, scared, devoted, manipulative, confused, controlling, broken, strong... when I think about just how complicated and complex she could and should be, to be a character defined by SO much more than just her blue-skin, and to see the movies regress her traits down so much and strip away so much complexity from her... it's been beyond frustrating. She's one of Marvel's most intriguing villains ever, and despite having such a prominent role in all the films, they've merely scratched the surface.
Discotheque
Banned
yeah he's the only required one going forward. they could do without magneto for a sequel. but a recast for either character would be bullshit.
Those multiple images of J-Law are freaking my brain out. Holy shit.
That should be some kind of villain in an episode of Doctor Who. A face that is comprised of thousands of images from different times and places, of the same person. Imagine the mind-altering wackiness of seeing that person talk.
You need McAvoy as Chuck but the X-Men movies need to stop relying on the same characters. It's the biggest problem with the current line of movies.
This is a bad gif, let's not spread this around.
This is a bad gif, let's not spread this around.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
This is some struggle-ass memery. What the hell.
Umm no.
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