Originally Posted by
Gortam
MCU movies have explosions, BUT (thereīs a big but), characterisatin is perfect. This are comic movies, and they work like... in a Tarantino concept. Where character development is the focus of the story.
When you watch and hear Captain America in an MCU movie, he perfectly relates to the CAptain America in the comics. You can see him like a real person with real problems. And this translates to 90% of the MCU characters. If you are a fan of them, you donīt get dissapointed of them. Their personality is in place. Hearing them talking is like reading them in the comics, how they think, how they feel.
Tell me: Besides Xavier, Magneto and Logan. When you see Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Havok, Kitty, etc.. on a Fox Movie... what do you feel? They have no resemblence to what they are in the comics. They donīt feel real people with real problems. They are DEFINED BY their powers, not their personality. They feel hollow and uninteresting. When they interact... itīs boring. When i saw Jean and Cyclops onscreen my feeling was "mhee...". How can that happen to an X-Men fan.
Point is you can change almost all the X-Men in fox movies and replace them with "other character or weird people with powers, like you with an optic blast..." and it would really make no difference. You canīt take Captain America, or Iron Man, or Thor, or Vision, etc... from MCU movies, because they leave a hole that canīt be filled by others. Because their personality is what brings them to the screen, and their powers complement them.
Excpeto Colossus in Deadpool haha he is just great there. Deadpool is another great example of a good movie. And the reason behind it is that the people who made the movies "cared about the characters". Ryan Reynolds and the director made a great effort to get Deadpool right and they succeded. Hugh Jackman cared about Logan and he succeded. But thatīs just it.
Plot might not be great in MCU movies (mostly), but the same can be said about FOX movies with few exceptions. Of course thereīs a benefit to not really caring about your source material, you can make more serious movies with more violence and maybe make them interesting. But then again... if you donīt care about the source material...
When i read an X-Men comic, what defines an x-men comic, is soap opera, drama, characterisation, the characters seam real people with real problems, they question themselves, they have fears... they feel real. And reading them interacting is special. FOX movies lack that. They create an X-Men enviroment but that just it. I always loved the X-Men since i was a kid. And though i like the avengers i donīt find them as interesting as the X-men. Because they deliver different topics and stories.
And thatīs part of what really bothers me about FOX movies. IT IS WAY EASIER to make a good X-Men Movie than to make a good avenger movie. Because X-Men focus and topics is more mature, serious, real life related. You could make perfect dramas (like logan) out of X-Men movies. Instead we got what?
As an X-Men fun iīm dissapointed at 90% of FOX movies. Really dissapointed. While the avengers movies deliver what can be expected of the avengers.