I must say I have been out of the X-Men loop for a while (four or five years, yeah, I know.)
I just want to know one thing…what does everyone have against Gambit! Please tell me! He is my favorite character.
So, aside from wanting Gambit they NEED Beast, and Nightcrawler would kick ass. (BTW, someone said the CGI would be hard for them? DON’T USE CGI! Use real makeup, fur, and latex.)
As for storylines, Sentinels or the Phoenix saga. Of course, I (ducking from bricks) also love Cable. C’mon, he’s cool. As for putting him in a movie, well, probably not, at least not the next one.
That’d work fairly well for Beast. Kurt on the other hand, would require CGI (I realised after making my first post concerning him) for 3 important reasons - his hands, his feet, and (Most important) his tail.
We’ll the feet could be really funky shoes and the hands funky gloves with two fingers together to make one of his. The tail would then be the only thing CGI, which shouldn’t be too difficult.
Beast before his blue transformation would be the easiest.
You know, I just had a thought (hey, gotta celebrate these things; they’re few and far between). Since they killed of Ray Park (Toad, Darth Maul), they can use him as the stunt guy for Nightcrawler. IIRC, he wasn’t that tall, so it really shouldn’t be a big deal. And it’d be neat to watch.
Poor Ray Park, just can’t manage to get through a movie alive.
He COULD be the stunt guy for Nightcrawler, except I think you have to be sort of…lanky to be Nightcrawler, bendable, skinny. Ray is a little too muscular and stocky I think. But any work for Ray Park is certainly appreciated by me.
Are you sure? He was still screaming when he hit the water, you know. Even the villains aren’t prone to staying nicely dead in the X-Men franchise.
FWIW, I kind of liked Storm’s “I’m about to zap you” line to Toad. I think it comes closer than anything else in the movie to capturing Storm’s character–that “You’ve pissed off a goddess” mode. To give Halle Berry (a very little) credit, Storm has to be an awfully hard character to play properly, and she didn’t get much help from the writers or the costume people. As much as I liked looking at her in her various outfits, she should have been dressed in something long, loose, and flowing when she was out of uniform–something more queenly and less hookerly. It can’t be easy to portray monumental dignity while dressed like a cheap tart in an action flick. That said, she should have done a #&!! of a lot more with what she had–especially with Kelly’s death scene.
Balance, you might’ve got me on that one. I assumed he died. (What happens when a toad gets hit by lightning? He frickin’ explodes, I’d imagine.) If he’s still alive then, well, damn. Thought considering the amount of costume he’d have to wear for Nightcrawler, it shouldn’t be too big an issue to have him do double duty. It’s also the costume that I thought could pass him off as the stunt double for Nightcrawler (who, though lanky, had to be pretty muscular, since all he did was teleport around punching people).
Without Colossus and Nightcrawler, the X-Men lose a lot of their innate good-guy persona, at least for me.
Petey’s naiviete and noble spirit always rocked. My favorite moments in the old comics were when he got mad, y’know, “By the White Wolf you will not defeat COLOSSUS!!” type-mad.
Kurt’s coolness, of course, defies description. It’s too bad none of the X-men in the film had anything like their friendship.
Oh and jarbaby, despite what I just posted, I think you may have a point. It’s just that he had about 4 minutes of screentime in X-Men, and in both SW: TPM and Sleepy Hollow (the scene at the bridge), he was wearing outfits that seemed to be designed to bulk him up. Just a lame excuse on my part, but there it is.
