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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Even if Marvel does get the rights back, there's no way of guaranteeing that those characters will show up in a sequel, reboot or even a soft reboot. And you have to keep in mind that studios must make these movies accessible to the widest possible audience. If they only catered to fanboys, I don't think any comic-based film would be as successful.

No way of guaranteeing, but Marvel has a proven track record with Ironman. With Disney power behind it, it's ALMOST certain to be successful.

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

How would you measure something like that? Even XMO:W could be technically considered 50% comic accurate, depending on how you do it.

"Wolverine" was almost 80% taken from various comics. X3 also was almost 80% from various comics. A panel here, a quote there... didn't help that comics have retconned themselves so badly that keeping comics-accurate is impossible. The very fact that Wolverine has forearm claws was a retconn. In Hulk, the claws extended from his gloves. The first issues of Uncanny, that was continued. It wasn't for a few issues in that the retractable claws were penned in.

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Personally, I thought both TF movies were enjoyable. Of course, both had cringe-inducing moments that I would've left out, but I still had fun watching them. X1 and X2 I thought were great and X3 could have been alright if they had stuck to one plot instead of trying to cram at least four into one film.

Other than Megatron tearing Jazz in half, and the fight in the forest, there was NOTHING for me with the TF movies. They insulted the intelligence almost as bad as the Bruce Willis/ Tracy Morgan buddy-cop film.

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

I'd have to agree with you on Wolverine, except for the story part. I think it was utter crap, especially when there are so many things that fly in the face of the established movie continuity without any explanation given for it (or was a poor excuse for one). And don't get me started on that Baraka rip-off at the end.

Story was weak, but not many continuity errors. Sabretooth has gone feral over the course of 40+ years... who knows what happened to him? The Deadpool blades will NOT be in the Deadpool movie according to both Reynolds and producers.

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Singer's sexual preferences aside, I didn't care for Superman Returns because of the way Luthor was written. Turning the Earth into a new Krypton? Why? What's his motivation? In the earlier films, he was about real estate and world domination. I just didn't get it.

That's the problem with ALL movie versions of Luthor. This one was no different. "New Krypton" was just a Superman-proof real estate scam. I prefer the more recent Uber-patriot, anti-alien war monger Luthor. Far more dangerous than the Realtor from hell.

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Oh, yeah, and there was that whole "Lois had a kid while you were gone" bit.

That was so poorly handled I just chapter-skip those scenes.

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

I liked some the casting from the first movies for the characters, Hugh Jackman makes a perfect Wolverine.. but I have yet to see him in a yellow spandex suit... flying from the arms of Colossus stabbing a sentinel to pieces.... The problem is x-men has 2 many characters, versions, and history to be captured in 2hr long movie.. it needs a proper trilogy or multiple triolgies facing certain villians issues... a cilvar war movie would be nuts.

Ummmm.... you want to see hairy men in yellow spandex? Go to the Castro district in San Francisco. Me, I'll happily stick with the military biker suits. Besides, they did the fastball special in X3. It looks silly in anything bigger than a comics panel. Sorry, but it's the truth. Here's the basic problem... with X3, XMO:W, it's the loss of the racial message. X-Men was about racism and outcasts... Xavier (MLK's peaceful intergration) vs Magneto (Malcolm X's violent take-what's-owed us). They started that in X1, expanded in X2, but dropped the racial metaphor for a "Gays can be cured" metaphor in #3, and it felt schmucky.