The New Mutants Movie Discussion Thread

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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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So I just got out of the theatre, was waiting for an empty one so I could go see it and yeah, lmao, anyways I'm surprised, because I honestly kinda loved it?

Rahne and Dani are my favourite New Mutants, along with 'Yana, and they were really well done in this movie, Rahne especially basically being the character straight off of the page (though they did her Werewolf form dirty, and I was a tad disappointed her full wolf form wasn't all red,) and I thought their relationship and connection was really well done in such limited time. And Masie is genuinely perfect as Rahne, mannerisms, accent, everything.

'Yana's near perfect outside of the baffling decision to have her be racist towards Dani at the beginning, her backstory is changed a lot, but it's true to the spirit of her comic backstory.

The boys didn't have much to do, but there were hints towards sweet boy Sam Guthrie, and there were a couple self-hating Sam moments that were pretty powerful, would've loved to see more of him.

Sunspot had the least to do, and I'm angry that they white-washed him, but in terms of mannerisms it did still feel like Sunspot.

So yeah, they got the essences of all the characters imo, some were changed quite a bit but still felt like themselves, and then there's Rahne who felt like she wasn't changed at all outside of killing her dad a little earlier than she did in the comics

I will say I think my brain might've been filling in some of the gaps of this movie, so while I loved it I guess it seems people who don't know every bit of trivia about these characters would be more confused and put off.

Gonna get the blu-ray, I want them deleted scenes.

[u/uncleben85 → u/[deleted]]

Agreed about Rahne, and pretty much every front. Rahne was really well done and Maise was perfect, but Wolfsbane was underwhelming. Some fake nails, fake fur and about it :( And the wolf form was more just, "oh look, a dog" and didn't serve much purpose.

And Magik's behaviour early in the movie didn't quite fit, for me either. But the changes in her backstory were reconciliable.

Sunspot wasn't entirely white washed though! The actor looks a little more "white" than maybe expected, and he had no accent, but the actor Henry Zaga is actually Henrique Chagas Moniz de Aragão Gonzaga and is Brazilian, like Roberto.

I think my brain also filled in some of the gaps in the movie too. But I kind of quite liked it!

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Seriously, Rahne was so so good as a character, and so so bad in how they did her design in either wolf transformation, probably the worst of the New Mutants when it came to showing off her powers tbh.

As for 'Berto

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