YouBet said:rhutton125 said:
Medium-high-heat take: I don't know if the Thunderbolts crew is right for a true ensemble X-Men movie. That was a movie with only 7 characters (Yelena, Walker, Ghost, Bucky, Red Guardian, Sentry and Val) and I'd say Yelena and Sentry were the only ones handled really well. Walker and Val were adequate. Red Guardian can't get away from being 90% comic relief, and Bucky and Ghost were likable but could have been used better.
Imagine an X-Men movie where Cyclops and Sinister are great, Jean and Rogue are fine, Iceman is purely there for yuks and Storm and Beast are kind of a waste of space. That sounds like X-Men Apocalypse to me.
But they are the new Avengers and not the X-Men. Confused.
Granted, I don't think they can be the Avengers long-term either and doubt that they will be.
I'm saying the director of the Thunderbolts is doing the new X-Men movie and I'm not convinced he's the right guy for the job, since his last ensemble film (the Thunderbolts) couldn't really manage the screen time well. Half the characters were just kinda there, IMO.
If that's how he manages the X-Men, there will be hell to pay. People can handle obscure former villain Ghost having no arc, but fan favorites like Rogue, Beast or Storm better have some solid character work in the film.
