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More excited for this than Dark Phoenix


It doesn't really look like it fits in the X-Men universe really, but it seems to be trying something new with some horror elements. Plus the cast is fantastic. I've heard it may not get a wide release though and might be heading to a streaming service instead. To me Dark Phoenix just looks like more of the same of what we've seen from the X-Men franchise thus far and they've already screwed up the Dark Pheonix storyline once in The Last Stand. I think the major issue is they don't build up to it that much.

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I'm actually excited for this, as opposed to not really even sure I'm going to see DP.

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For me, it's actually Sophie Turner who turns me off Dark Phoenix. She's OK on GoT, but she really isn't much of an actress from what I've seen in other stuff.

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I'm super behind on Game of Thrones so the main thing I've seen her in is these X-Men films and she's passable, but she doesn't really own the role. Though what mostly didn't sell me was the first trailer. It seems a lot like Apocolypse which was mediocre in my opinion. The second trailer for Dark Phoenix looked better, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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