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Were Halle Berry's scenes in X-Men: DoFP left on the editing room floor?
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You're going to see some serious shit.
GraveHorizon
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I saw a deleted scene from the first X-Men where Storm was talking to somebody, but was using some weird accent. It was weird.
On-topic: I agree with the Angela Bassett suggestion, she was great in ER.
On-topic: I agree with the Angela Bassett suggestion, she was great in ER.
The Outsider
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If I recall correctly, Bassett was offered the role originally, but turned it down.
DonasaurusRex
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X2 was based on a tossed storyline for an annual. Tossed with good reason the villain wasn't enough to pose a real threat to the team. They later did some line with zero tolerance i think
Certainly no one was going to make that lightning line suck any less.
Rookje
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What is going on with this movie?
- Spiderman comes out roughly around the same time as X-Men, and yet we have seen legit no promo other than those TERRIBLE magazine covers. We have on trailer with ZERO action in it.
- This movie's budget is *250 MILLION* which is way higher than any other X-Men movie thus far. Where is all of this money going?
- Bryan Singer is becoming weird. He's been bringing gay porn stars to tour around set, and PA's complain he's becoming difficult to work with.
- And now this whole storm debacle.
- Spiderman comes out roughly around the same time as X-Men, and yet we have seen legit no promo other than those TERRIBLE magazine covers. We have on trailer with ZERO action in it.
- This movie's budget is *250 MILLION* which is way higher than any other X-Men movie thus far. Where is all of this money going?
- Bryan Singer is becoming weird. He's been bringing gay porn stars to tour around set, and PA's complain he's becoming difficult to work with.
- And now this whole storm debacle.
Forsaken82
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They already "did" the reboot thing with First Class. In regards to a full on reboot that recasts everyone for a brand new Xmen, that won't happen till Hugh Jackman feels he wants out of the franchise and it sounds like hes got at least one more film in him following DoFP
Zeyphersan
Banned
Well yeah, isn't he doing Apocalypse?
To be fair this movie looks to be MUCH more spoileable than The Amazing "we already saw 2/3 of the movie" Spider-Man 2 =P
lovely ladies
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Meagan Good should be new Storm, I don't really care if she can't act.
Discotheque
Banned
good. her and rogue were kinda meh in singer's xmen films.
still on the hype train though. mckellen magneto is god-tier.
still on the hype train though. mckellen magneto is god-tier.
MisterHero
Super Member
I think Singer said that Apocalypse will feature younger versions of the Present/Future X-Men and the First Class team. It might be pointless to recall the Future team.
I want a sequel to X2/X3/The Wolverine though.
I want a sequel to X2/X3/The Wolverine though.
What is going on with this movie?
- Spiderman comes out roughly around the same time as X-Men, and yet we have seen legit no promo other than those TERRIBLE magazine covers. We have on trailer with ZERO action in it.
- This movie's budget is *250 MILLION* which is way higher than any other X-Men movie thus far. Where is all of this money going?
- Bryan Singer is becoming weird. He's been bringing gay porn stars to tour around set, and PA's complain he's becoming difficult to work with.
- And now this whole storm debacle.
what the fuck?
SilentSoldier
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I don't get all the hate for Halle Berry as Storm. I thought she did fine with what was given to her. There really wasn't much room for other characters while all the focus kept getting put on Wolverine.
I also wish that this movie would be split up into 2 parts or be 3 hours long considering how many characters are supposedly in it.
I also wish that this movie would be split up into 2 parts or be 3 hours long considering how many characters are supposedly in it.
beyond_death
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I didnt particularly like Halle Berry Storm but its still disappointing along with the Rogue thing. But should I be surprised that Singer cant make a true "X-Men" movie?
It may not be the most professional thing in the world, but it's not like he's wrong. When you deliver a joke line in a stone cold serious tone, of course it'll sound like shit. Actors fucking up the intended line deliveries isn't a new phenomenon.
MisterHero
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Good for Jackman. I'm just wondering if we'll ever get a complete and awesome movie with the X1/2 cast though.
is that for real?
There's no source for it and googling around doesn't even bring up a rumor article so I'm guessing not.
Agreed on both counts. The character has been written awfully in all of the movies, so.... Nothing Halle did was going to change that. But she is still a bad Storm. Even if there was good material to work with, Im not sure she would have done well with it.
I'm still wondering what the point of Pyro being casted/put in X2 (and X3, but albit very small part there) was. Just some character that made logical sense powerwise for an action set-piece, really?
a lot of Singer's character choices make no sense.
Like why does he keep pushing Toad on people?
lovely ladies
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Why did Kumar beat the shit out of Superman in Superman Returns?
MisterHero
Super Member
So they could have a proper antagonist for Iceman.
There was this terrific clash of hot air and cold air and X3 turned philosophical and shit.
"You should have left."
"You should have stayed."
Then Iceman got Ice Armor. That one's for the nerds.
As arbitrary as 90% of the movie casting =P
This.
Halle Berry is an undeniably terrific actress, so it's always sucked that she got the primary backlash for her quiet, overly demure portrayal of Storm. The problem with the movies is that that's how Storm's written to be lately. ANY actress would have gotten backlash for the same reason.
Halle Berry is a huge name and a better actress that pretty much the majority of the cast that made the film, so if her scenes did get cut, it was likely a budget/story-contraints thing. Not a "LOL Halle Berry's a shit actress" thing.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
I will NEVER forgive that wooden plank Halle Berry, and that hack Bryan Singer for butchering Storm, my favorite Marvel character and a comic book ICON. 
What is going on with this movie?
- Spiderman comes out roughly around the same time as X-Men, and yet we have seen legit no promo other than those TERRIBLE magazine covers. We have on trailer with ZERO action in it.
- This movie's budget is *250 MILLION* which is way higher than any other X-Men movie thus far. Where is all of this money going?
- Bryan Singer is becoming weird. He's been bringing gay porn stars to tour around set, and PA's complain he's becoming difficult to work with.
- And now this whole storm debacle.
Yeah, some thing is off this movie.
I'm still excited though.
Yep. Why his universe falls short for me. Animated series in all its bad voice acting and writing is best characterization of the team still.
This is something that I've been wondering...it seems like MOST of the recent canon portrayals of Storm have been of her as extremely demure. Why is that?
Femmeworth
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Did Singer disappear for a few decades?
ZackieChan
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If only they could manage to fit two characters onscreen at once. Double the screen time!
Well, part of it is that one of Toad's running quirks in Whedon's script was that he would keep throwing out toad trivia. "Do you know that toads can hibernate for decades underground?" and stuff like that. So Storm's line when she zaps him is supposed to be a payoff related to him doing that the whole film. His toad trivia was cut from the film but nobody bothered to change Storm's line, and on top of that it was delivered wrong, so it comes off as borderline nonsensical.
There's nothing embarrassing about Whedon explaining why careless rewriting and thoughtless delivery resulted in the appearance of a nonsense line in a script he's credited on. None of the shortcomings of the line in the final film are his fault.
Blood Diamonds
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this is amazing oh my god
Discotheque
Banned
Lmao that's weird. Maybe gandalf requested them
Sounds like hearsay though
Sounds like hearsay though
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Regardless of how it's supposed to be said, it's still a stupid fucking line.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
How about we cancel the movie completely and put the $250 million dollar budget into more seasons of Wolverine and the X-Men
On a serious note though, I really hope this movie doesn't turn out terrible.
On a serious note though, I really hope this movie doesn't turn out terrible.
Jason Frost
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Ok, I will wait for the Director's Cut on Blu-Ray to see all the scenes that were removed.
Tokubetsu
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How about we cancel the movie completely and put the $250 million dollar budget into more seasons of Wolverine and the X-Men
On a serious note though, I really hope this movie doesn't turn out terrible.
I really don't think there is anyway this isn't terrible.
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