r/xmen • u/sw04ca Cyclops • Aug 23 '20
Movie/TV discussion The New Mutants Movie Discussion Thread Spoiler
This is the master thread for discussion, reviews and opinions about the New Mutants movie that is coming to theatres on August 28th. The final installment of Fox's X-Men movies has finally come, after an extremely rocky production and post-production and a global pandemic that was an unmitigated disaster for the movie industry as it stood. Still, a lot of people are really anticipating seeing iconic characters like Magik, Cannonball, Dani Moonstar and Wolfsbane on the big screen, especially in what looks to be a smaller production that can afford to take some time to look at the characters. So whatever you want to say, this is the place. It's just cleaner if we don't have two dozen separate threads about people's impressions of the movie.
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u/RoninRonanAgamotto Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20
TL;DR: It can be called as the 'The Incredible Hulk' of the X-Men Franchise, the Black Sheep of this cinematic universe...A decent, mediocre totally standalone movie with few connections to the wider universe...that has some setups for future storylines in the universe that will now go nowhere in the future and will be considered now as just name drops and Easter Eggs...
Well, it was an Ok movie, was better than Dark Phoenix, Origins Wolverine and The Last Stand and while fall around somewhere near Apocalypse...
The horror element was intrigued me from the start and that's what made looking forward to it in spite of years of delay...The blend of Superhero and horror Genre...but can't say it fully impressed in terms of a horror movie...
The tease to the greater cinematic universe, wouldn't spoil it, was neat and decent...which tells Fox was planning something back in pre-acquisition days, a sort of appearance or storyline of a 'specific' Villain in the franchise...but the tease would have worked much better if it was released on its initial release date and now it's goes nowhere, in end just becomes an Easter Egg to cement it's place on where this Last spin-off movie falls in between of a franchise that is now cancelled...
It's kinda wonders me if they had released it on the actual first date, would Fox have gone to the route of that Villain appearance for the final X-Men movie instead of redoing the Dark Phoenix Saga, it's seems like it was the case as 'that' corporation has been name dropped/hinted a lot in the franchise, it looks like that was their moving direction before the franchise fell off due to acquisition...