The Last Stand
Dark Phoenix
Because this movie wasn’t about her heel turn. It was about Jean turning way from a dark destiny, similar to Mystique in DOFP who also had only appeared in one film. Even Kinberg said it was about Jean gaining control over her destiny.
According to Deadline Hollywood:
https://deadline.com/2019/06/dark-ph...hy-1202629749/Now, Dark Phoenix was originally planned to be two movies, we hear, and during late pre-production, the studio changed gears and said it was to be one movie. Kinberg, we hear, was flexible and rewrote. Days of Future Past erased the timeline of The Last Stand, so a rebooted story about Jean Grey was possible here. Our sources tell us that testing Dark Phoenix was a continual headache, and the feature adaptation of Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and David Cockrum’s fan-beloved Dark Phoenix Saga comic was hard to get right.
Jean's story in the comics is one of a hero. The Watcher says it as such in the end. But along that way, Jean showed herself to be the supreme villain. It is the overarching arc, from young hero, to supreme hero(Phoenix saves the universe from the Neutron Galaxy), through wondering and fluctuating hero(World Tour era, up and to the Proteus story), to the corrupted Black Queen(a slaver, someone who hunts humans with dogs, and revels in destruction), which crescendos into the Dark Phoenix(eater of stars, smiter of billions), the supreme villain. Her human connections, though, help her come back from that edge(she goes back home to her mother, father, and sister, she is confronted by her lover, her mentor, and her friends/teammates), but the Shi'Ar come to hold her accountable for her actions as DP. And ultimately, she holds herself accountable and does the heroic thing of destroying herself, to stop herself, who was now the greatest threat to life. She died a hero, by destroying the villain she had unleashed.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
I do get that, and that's why I overall enjoyed the film. But with this newer cast, it's also her ending. Her existence in the franchise is summed up by one moment in Apocalypse and this movie. I didn't get to know Jean enough outside of that monumental all-consuming struggle.
Only one was "un-blowupable" and I think that was a plot hole (much like how Captain America's shield does or does not absorb all the kinetic energy depending on what works best for the scene in question). Besides, two movies made years apart. Yeah, reaching.
Okay.
Fair enough; I think I like the first one the best, myself, which I think isn't a popular choice, either. (IMHO, I can see why X2 might be objectively the best, but I kinda think its overrated in some ways). Frankly, I don't hate Last Stand (or Origins: Wolverine, for that matter), but I do think that they are the weakest of the original batch.
Yeah, good stuff (although I think they only scratched the surface on those plots).
I suppose, although there wasn't as much of that as could be wished and I do think other movies did it better.
Maybe?
Beast was one of the good things, I will give you that.
Maybe? Thing is, in Last Stand, it was a true split personality, so Jean was never in control, the other personality was (in effect, she was being mind-controlled). In Dark Phoenix, it was Jean being influenced by her new power surge and the aliens, so the stuff that she did was actually her doing it, which I think is a lot scarier.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)