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bionicbob said:--there is an event that occurs that suddenly turns America against mutants again, except it is so poorly staged/edited/directed that the US gov't reaction seems like overkill....
bionicbob said:--wow, Nightcrawler really went to the dark side... not sure how I feel about that scene? [...] I mean what the hell happened to Nightcrawler? Where did that come from????
TV Tropes said:Informed Wrongness: Charles Xavier is portrayed as being in the wrong for hiding an Awful Truth from Jean Grey, yet it's clearly shown that her father didn't want anything to do with her after she accidentally got her mother killed, and he just wanted to protect her from being hurt even more. The movie also calls him out for trying to use the X-Men as a means to generate good PR for the entire Mutant species, but considering that they were being vivisected by the government merely 19 years prior, trying to make heroes out of his students is a logical course of action in a world where many of them are still hated and feared. Hank and Raven also quite bizarrely act like this is the only reason for Jean going bad, somehow forgetting about the evil alien force intensifying her emotions.
bionicbob said:So what is better, DARK PHOENIX or LAST STAND? Dark Phoenix is Jean-centric as it should be, and attempts to be more character oriented, but it fails to fully engage. While Last Stand is a slick, more polished and exciting movie. Tough call but I would probably go with Last Stand.
wilhelm scream said:One thing I don't understand about Dark Phoenix is it's terrible continuity with the other movies. Not only does ignore the fact that Jean already had the Phoenix force in Apocalypse, but it also tries to make it look like she's dead at the end, even though she's alive in the epilogue of Days of Future Past.
Gaith said:
bionicbob said:
bionicbob said:--wow, Nightcrawler really went to the dark side... not sure how I feel about that scene? [...] I mean what the hell happened to Nightcrawler? Where did that come from????
I couldn't figure out what you meant by this, until I realized surely you must be talking about Beast's determination to kill Jean? Yeah, even counting Raven's hint that they should run off together, that seemed extreme.
Dark Phoenix: B-
bionicbob said:Actually I was referencing the train sequence, where Nightcrawler goes psycho and starts murdering soldiers.
bionicbob said:It is better than Apocalypse