This movie was doomed to fail from the start. We need to know more about Sophie Turner’s version of Jean Grey to care before they try and pull off the Dark Phoenix saga and seeing as she only had one X-Men movie prior to this it hadn’t sufficiently laid the groundwork for her character development to tell her tragic end.
DC made the same mistake with Batman v Superman, it had them fight (even though we weren’t invested in these characters at this point) and it also killed Superman off in the same movie.
Can you imagine if the MCU released Iron Man and then followed it up with Civil War whilst also killing Iron Man in that movie? It would be cheap and hollow and rightfully panned.
The Dark Phoenix Saga had time to build up to in both the comics and the animated series, this is arguably the biggest X-Men story ever. The studios need to know this, that buildup and payoff takes time.
Even Days of Future Past, a solid movie definitely feels like a franchise capper for the X-Men and Matthew Vaughn has said recently that it should have been the end of it all and not the film after First Class. They need to plans these movies out years ahead of time and not just attempt to adapt big stories that they think will make them easy money.
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BrunoAntony (1198)
5 years ago
No.
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WhereIsRent (1013)
5 years ago
Are you blaming Marvel Studios for X-Men: Apocalypse as well cus that movie sucked as well and that was long before Disney’s acquisition of Fox. It critically and financially underperformed. Who wrote it? Simon Kinberg.
Also Dark Phoenix was screen testing poorly as far back as early 2018 when it had it’s original ending with the aliens (who weren’t even called Skrulls even back then according to leaks.) Again all Kinberg.
Having seen the film the first half is the better half and most consistent, but it’s still poorly written by Kinberg. Even if they had to change the ending because of Disney meddling/Captain Marvel the rest of the movie is still rather terrible and that’s down to Simon Kinberg.
Fox made some good X-Men movies but they’ve also made some crap as well and this was crap before the reshot ending.
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ultravioletx (10212)
5 years ago
He's a complete moron. First he says its bad because of Disney's interference. Then he defends how good it is because its not made by Disney.
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