More X-Men Stuff I've Been Meaning To Post
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redfiona99That still aren't my review. I am still removing the majority of the emoticons from it. One is a thing that will happen and I don't want to, the other is a thing that will never happen despite it being right and good and true.
1 - Channing Tatum as Gambit. Now I love Gambit and I like Channing Tatum (seriously, none of what follows is a diss on him). The two together I am not sold on. My friend L insists I am being ridiculous. My point is that that is not what Gambit looks like, and no matter how hard he tries, Channing Tatum will not ever look like Gambit. Trying to cast Gambit it one of those thankless tasks but this is a pretty poor attempt even by those standards.
2 - Friend L and I came up with an outline for an X-Men vs Avengers movie that would
Minor spoilers for Thor 2 and Days of Future Past.
The X-Men are doing their funky thing protecting mutant and the Avengers are trying to stop them because suddenly appearing militia groups with super-powers are not a good thing.
There's a fight, and the X-Men are trying to go easy on the Avengers because they're trying to leave minimal civilian casualties and the Avengers are trying to go easy on the X-Men because they're not sure they are bad guys. For reasons that we're still trying to fit into the plot, both Loki and Magneto 'n' Mystique are present for their respective sides.
The fight is reasonably evenly matched. Black Widow is fighting herself, Magneto has pretzled Iron Man but not permanently damaged him, Hulk and Beast (or Hulk and Wolverine) and Thor and Wolverine (or Thor and Beast) are merrily fighting away. Cap and Iceman are also fighting. Storm and Hawkeye are acting as snipers for their respective teams.
Mid-fight, Thor suddenly goes "has anyone seen my brother?" and Beast/Wolverine takes a step-back because neither the words, nor the tone, are a battle cry. All parties involved take the two steps back generally recognised sign of time out. Stark asks how the hell Loki got out of his handcuffs, and it turns out that Thor let him lose so he wouldn't be unprotected.
Prof. Xavier, who is acting as mission control does a quick head count. Mystique is by Black Widow, Iceman, Beast, Storm and Wolverine are present and correct. The two Quicksilvers have gone off to a nearby coffee shop, talking about life, the universe and everything (and playing slapsies because ...). A somewhat frustrated shout of "Erik" escapes from Prof. X and he asks Storm if she can see an advancing army of anything magical or metallic because guess who else has vanished.
Iceman wonders how much trouble Loki and Magneto could have got up to in ~ half an hour. Cue look from everyone else.
Of course, a metallo-magical army of killer robots appears soon enough leading to the end fight.
Now, there are all kinds of downsides to this, mostly that there's not enough mutant politics, but at least it means neither the X-Men nor the Avengers will lose their fight, which would send one set of comics fans home angry. (I also know they'll try and make it the X-Men that lose despite the fact, that as Mr. James McAvoy has pointed out, they would wipe the floor with the Avengers.)
The Magneto 'n' Loki alliance lasts precisely until the first "kneel before me". Magneto kneels to no-one.
1 - Channing Tatum as Gambit. Now I love Gambit and I like Channing Tatum (seriously, none of what follows is a diss on him). The two together I am not sold on. My friend L insists I am being ridiculous. My point is that that is not what Gambit looks like, and no matter how hard he tries, Channing Tatum will not ever look like Gambit. Trying to cast Gambit it one of those thankless tasks but this is a pretty poor attempt even by those standards.
2 - Friend L and I came up with an outline for an X-Men vs Avengers movie that would
Minor spoilers for Thor 2 and Days of Future Past.
The X-Men are doing their funky thing protecting mutant and the Avengers are trying to stop them because suddenly appearing militia groups with super-powers are not a good thing.
There's a fight, and the X-Men are trying to go easy on the Avengers because they're trying to leave minimal civilian casualties and the Avengers are trying to go easy on the X-Men because they're not sure they are bad guys. For reasons that we're still trying to fit into the plot, both Loki and Magneto 'n' Mystique are present for their respective sides.
The fight is reasonably evenly matched. Black Widow is fighting herself, Magneto has pretzled Iron Man but not permanently damaged him, Hulk and Beast (or Hulk and Wolverine) and Thor and Wolverine (or Thor and Beast) are merrily fighting away. Cap and Iceman are also fighting. Storm and Hawkeye are acting as snipers for their respective teams.
Mid-fight, Thor suddenly goes "has anyone seen my brother?" and Beast/Wolverine takes a step-back because neither the words, nor the tone, are a battle cry. All parties involved take the two steps back generally recognised sign of time out. Stark asks how the hell Loki got out of his handcuffs, and it turns out that Thor let him lose so he wouldn't be unprotected.
Prof. Xavier, who is acting as mission control does a quick head count. Mystique is by Black Widow, Iceman, Beast, Storm and Wolverine are present and correct. The two Quicksilvers have gone off to a nearby coffee shop, talking about life, the universe and everything (and playing slapsies because ...). A somewhat frustrated shout of "Erik" escapes from Prof. X and he asks Storm if she can see an advancing army of anything magical or metallic because guess who else has vanished.
Iceman wonders how much trouble Loki and Magneto could have got up to in ~ half an hour. Cue look from everyone else.
Of course, a metallo-magical army of killer robots appears soon enough leading to the end fight.
Now, there are all kinds of downsides to this, mostly that there's not enough mutant politics, but at least it means neither the X-Men nor the Avengers will lose their fight, which would send one set of comics fans home angry. (I also know they'll try and make it the X-Men that lose despite the fact, that as Mr. James McAvoy has pointed out, they would wipe the floor with the Avengers.)
The Magneto 'n' Loki alliance lasts precisely until the first "kneel before me". Magneto kneels to no-one.
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