Last edited by yogaflame; 05-14-2019 at 01:26 PM.
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I never took what they have done on the X-Films as just conventional flying as Mags and now Jean are basically using their mind to move their bodies rather than their bodies to move in the air. Magneto should look even more awkward unless he's wearing metal in all parts of his body. Which curiously they did do with Polaris on the Gifted.
Were any of the previous X-films marketed this hard?
Still, Scarlet Witch and Vision have similar flying styles and they don't look nearly this B-Movie-ish. I never thought of it but when I look at those gifs and think back....yeah, this has been really poorly handled. Hilariously so almost.
But Fox never did quite figure out how to use anyone's powers except Mystique, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Quicksilver well. They were close on Iceman too I suppose.
Sure they did. The exact same shot in every film where the wound heals up and the round plunks out, then Hugh tilts his head to the side to say “uh oh, you done fucked up now!”
Sometimes he sniffs the air too, but seriously who cares about his original powers when he can just be more and more ridiculously unkillable?
Agreed. The downplaying/ignoring of his enhanced senses has been going on for years in the comics, and I don't blame them, as those powers as extremely situational. Unless you specifically write in a sequence to utilize said powers, they aren't likely to have any utility.
The two specific instances I can think of in the movies are when Logan smells Sabretooth in X-Men (after he's flung out the windshield of his camper) and when he hears the soldiers' footsteps in the mansion in X2. You could maybe make a claim that he heard the gunfire and such in the woods in the climax of Logan (right before he juiced up and joined the fray), but that's debatable. There could be some I'm missing, however.
As for the wirework/flying discussion, I'm all for practical effects/stunt work (as opposed to slathering unnecessary amounts of CGI onto everything), and those shots look good to me. Maybe I'm in the wrong, but I'm not one to condemn a movie (or their effects team) based on a two-second gif.
Last edited by Sam Robards, Comic Fan; 05-15-2019 at 05:18 AM.
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