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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

Halle can't help the lines she is given. Gawd that line in the first movie (you know the one i speak of I'm sure!) is just about the worst thing I've heard in any movie short of Batman & Robin.

Funnily enough, Joss wrote that! He was asked to give the script a once over, to which he gawked at and edited a large amount, including the addition of an on-going joke concerning lightning where the punchline would be Storm's "the same thing that happens to everything else." However, being the stand up guys that they are, Fox disregarded everything Joss contributed, except that one line. The one line of his that depended on multiple jokes earlier in the script to make sense. Yeaaaah.

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Eh, she never, ever made me feel like she was Storm, regardless of her lines - it's the delivery that matters. At least Shipp actually made me think of a young street thief 'Ro.

I think Shipp did a pretty wonderful job with the accent and tone. Her physical acting needs a lot of work (lifting up your arms would not make a tornado), but I see her becoming a lovely Ororo if developed correctly. That leads me to my next point: there are no "bad" actors in an X-Men film.... there is only Bryan Singer. If Singer doesn't want Storm to be comic accurate, or engaging, or powerful, or a leader, there's not much that Halle Berry could have done. Poor luv was doomed from the start.

The most ironic thing the X-films have ever done is belittle every single female character. They came close to legitimacy with Mystique in DOFP, but, nah, they're still floundering!