Pfft, forget actresses, let's put her Children of the Atom sprite in the movie!
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Who's with me?!
Lets just replace every Berry scene with clips of Justin Wongs MVC2 Storm play.
Pfft, forget actresses, let's put her Children of the Atom sprite in the movie!
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Who's with me?!
I think maybe Hollywood should branch out to more black actresses for dramatic roles. I just realized a little while ago that Bassett played both Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz in different films.
If there's one superhero movie series that needs a reboot, this is it.
Just start over with Professor X + the first five and introduce the rest of the team in sequels.
Can't stand her as Storm. Shame, cause the character is great.
I know recasting wasn't in the cards. But I think we deserve a more badass, strong Storm. A storm we deserve.
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I was thinking the exact same thing the other day while watching TWD. Why in god's name is she not playing Storm? How? I mean, Halle Berry got knocked up, severely reducing her range in terms of what she can take on a physical level, plus she's not a great actress to begin with, so why the hell not cast Danai as Storm, apart from scheduling issues with TWD?
How you interpret his explanation (excuse or valid defense) will depend on if you like Joss Whedon's tone of writing.
"It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script...but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."
If there's one superhero movie series that needs a reboot, this is it.
Just start over with Professor X + the first five and introduce the rest of the team in sequels.
Because Halle Berry is a much better actress than Danai?
Seriously, give an actress one badass role and suddenly guys think she has the same depth as a Hollywood great.
I'm convinced at this point that people who diss Halle's acting abilities have never actually seen the movies that merited her critical praise (Losing Isaiah, Monster's Ball, etc.).
Sorry, no, I've seen Halle's dramatic roles, and she remains a horrible actress, critical praise or not.
Always thought Halle Berry was a terrible Storm. I think Angela Bassett would have done the role more justice.
Because Halle Berry is a much better actress than Danai?
Seriously, give an actress one badass role and suddenly guys think she has the same depth as a Hollywood great.
I'm convinced at this point that people who diss Halle's acting abilities have never actually seen the movies that merited her critical praise (Losing Isaiah, Monster's Ball, etc.).
Sorry, no, I've seen Halle's dramatic roles, and she remains a horrible actress, critical praise or not. However, her worst crime is that whatever ability she does have, she immediately leaves at home the moment the role is anything but 'serious'.
The way you can tell a truly good actor is that they show up and put full effort into everything. Patrick Stewart brings the same dedication to a role like Professor X as he does to King Henry II. Ian McKellen treats Magneto as seriously as James Whale. With Halle Berry, she treats these movies as if it's just a stupid little job, and it shows on the screen. Compare her oscar-winning performance in Monster's Ball with the shit in Swordfish. Both the same year, both during her "i'm going to show my tits" phase, and one is laughably phoned in. Same goes for Dorothy Dandridge and X-Men, or Frankie and Alice and Dark Tide.
So, yeah, a shitty actress with little dedication to any non-dramatic roles...that's exactly who you want in your comic book movie....
Whether or not she is a better actress is up for debate to say the least (IMHO she's had one role where she absolutely honed up to what the role and movie demanded of her), but her performances as Storm are laughable at best. And no matter how you look at it; she's playing Storm in the X-men movies. And her performance in those are leagues away from what she pulled off in Monster's Ball. If she isn't going to bother aiming for that level of performance, why bother with her? Why not say "hey, here's a plethora of actresses who are aching to get a job in this industry, let's give them a try!"?
Maybe it's because they are "just comicbookmovies" that she decides to phone in her performances in the X-Men movies and the disaster that's Catwoman, but the fact remains that she's doing a shitty job in them and there are actresses out there who will take the job seriously.
As mentioned before, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart treat this as well as any other role and they nail it. Hugh Jackman, although physically not representative of the comics-Wolverine, nails the role. All because they take it serious and don't treat it like some some cos-play-event.
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.
She was a terrible Storm though the writing for her character was such that any actress would have produced a shitty performance. Also, whats up with 26 main characters? That doesn't sound right.
Berry whined about her lack of screen time in X3. They added scenes to please her.Sounds like they are heading in the "X-Men 3 Last Stand" -way again :/ too many characters that just pop in to do one thing and the end result being a worthless mess of a movie.
That entire characters could just be cut out like this makes me a little worried.
Probably would have been for the better if they had just continued with first class. (and kept matthew vaughn as director)
It's mostly a First Class sequel. The future setting isonly about 25% of the story.
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
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