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09/22/09
The camp factor was priceless, and the replacement of Husk and Chamber with boring stand-ins was unfortunate, but Finola Hughes was spot-on as Emma Frost. Moreover, the whole thing had its own way of coming at a comic book aesthetic in a loving, if cheese-tastic way.
09/22/09
I think I actually enjoyed it quite a bit too.
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Now I hear there's DougLok... wtf?
09/22/09
It'd basically be X-Men: Wolverine (again) plus some Storm.
I guess you can throw Nightcrawler & Beast in there, but that doesn't quite work.
You really can't do X-Men without Cyclops.
09/22/09
You can do X-Men without Cyclops, only if Storm wasn't Halle Barry. (See, Storm lead the X-Men but Halle is a bad... ah, y'know what? Forget it).
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@Paul_Is_Drunk: Robby Benson just tweeted that they're fitting this guy for an X-Men uni.
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The only way Magneto will be able to work is if they take a legitimate director who is known more for period drama and treat the movie more like a Holocaust survivor tale that involves elements of the fantastic than an "OMG super powered mutants who are old and were in WWII" movie, which is exactly what Hood would deliver.
Sadly, I don't think Fox is capable of taking such a story seriously enough to justify its existence. I'm not saying another company couldn't, but the movie should not be made by Fox. They simply don't care enough about the characters they have control over, which is sadly very many.
09/22/09
Since the Nazis actually did believe and study the occult it would be fascinating if Magneto was hunted partially for his Jewish heritage but then, once his powers manifested, partially because he was deemed a satanic demon of some sort. Hoping to capture and utilize his "demonic" powers for evil, the Nazis could bring in their personal Doctor and investigator of "the occult" (read: mutant phenomenon), Mr. Sinister.
Sinister could be introduced as a Menghella-type fanatic hoping to create the perfect race (uber-mutants, not Aryans) for his own twisted purposes, not Hitler's. He could serve as the nemesis to Magneto for the film who is later just barely saved from the brink of complete evil from Charles Xavier, but whose impression on Magneto would make his ideals shift between those of Xavier and Sinister, landing in his moral gray area.
Sinister's introduction and experiments on himself (and others) could open the door for his inclusion in the inevitable X4 film. Possibly also opening the door to Apocalypse, who in the movie would be the culmination of Sinister's experiments on mutant kind.
The fourth film could also incorporate Cyclops' history (and return) with Sinister as well as, assuming Angel would be back since he survived X3, Archangel's story arc as a tool of Apocalypse and the Horsemen (maybe bring Gambit in as a Horsemen, too... yes, I know Angel and Gambit were not Horsemen at the same time, but I'd like to see Gambit brought into the fold again somehow... minus the bowler and telekinesis). Sinister could then be revealed to have been the doctor behind the experiments on the mutants in Wolverine Origins (that movie inadvertantly retro-fitting Sinister's obsession with Cyclops into the movie series AND partially explaining Gambit's disappearance at the end of that film, him becoming an early member of the Horsemen).
I'd pay to see 'em.
09/22/09
First Class? Hell, no!
Hood on Magneto? (Hell, no)^5. One butchered character is enough.
09/22/09
Goddamn you, Ratner.
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Hood then added:
"So of course we'll need to to dumb it down a lot for the mouthbreathers and maybe butcher the shit out said characters. Oh yea, and invest in better anti-pirate defense systems!"
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09/21/09
Still, that's some mighty fine larping.
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This Russian group really goes all out on these S.T.A.L.K.E.R. events. I think this is the 4th or 5th one that I've seen now.
09/21/09
Fallout came out in 1997 as an RPG and based on Wasteland which came out in 1989.
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09/03/09
"9. All mutants are transhuman.
When transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil or R.U. Sirius talk about humans evolving into something better, what they mean is that we will mutate into creatures who are not recognizably human. Of course that doesn't mean we won't be humanists."
When Kurzweil and Sirius talk about evolution, they are using the term incorrectly. It's one of the things that drives me crazy about them. Transhumanism is generally about planned changes with specific goals. Evolution is about random happenstance, and either what works better, or at least has minimal negative effect.
Mutants might be superhuman (yeah, not usually), but they are only Transhuman if the mutation was induced intentionally.
-Kle.