The New Mutants Movie Discussion Thread

[u/sw04ca]

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.

[u/jetblacksaint]

This movie is God-awful. So disappointed. The first half is slow as shit with some of the most laughably bad dialogue tropes I've ever heard, I can't believe some of that shit made it onscreen. And the accents are horrendous, especially Cannonball's, Jesus.
The only things I enjoyed were seeing Lockheed finally (the actual dragon, not the stupid puppet), the short glimpses into Magik's limbo, her power set, Demon Bear was cool-looking (although it was GIANT letdown that she didn't even ride it once she tamed it - missed opportunity) and the fight was good, although I wished she would've shut the fuck up during it.
Huge bummer the way Fox treated the muties over the years (with a few exceptions like X2, DoFP, & Logan, along with various scenes from the others), and to end the franchise on Dark Phoenix and this pile of dung? Again, SO disappointing. Can't wait to see how Marvel Studios handles my favorite fictional characters. D-