X-men Age of Apocalypse

[jgsugden]

Some casting news I like...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/71096

I never loved the character, but Olivia Munn is an actress I appreciate and can see in the role...

I'm assuming the whole 'Warren Worthington as the Horsemen / Angel of Death' is a part of this film... I'm kind of shocked there was not a thread for this film yet.

[Trippy]

No she's a horrible choice for Psylocke.

[HaemishM]

She's a great choice for Psylocke as long as Psylocke NEVER EVER SPEAKS. She's a nice lady, a geek and hot as hell, but she is a terrible actress.

[Ironwood]

There are so many actual British Artists that could have done this role perfectly.  That's all I'm saying.

Also, what the fuck.  Is she one of the 'future' ones given that the main cast are Sophie Turner younger ?

[Evildrider]

Does Psylocke even have a British accent anymore?  She's been changed so much.

[Ironwood]

She does in the game.  It's yummy.

[Nevermore]

And by 'yummy' you mean terrible, right?

I'm pretty sure whoever writes these X-Men movies doesn't know very much about the characters anyway.  They probably just go down a checklist of names, look at a picture or two and make up the rest themselves.  See: Sunspot

[Furiously]

I thought she was Japanese now.

[Trippy]

Yes she is, or more specifically her body is.

[Evildrider]

Either way it's not going to matter.. I highly doubt they are going to show her back story in the movie, that would confuse the fuck out of 99% of the audience.  I think without that info though people would be more like, why does the ninja girl have a British accent instead of a Japanese one.

[Lantyssa]

She has a Japanese body but kept the British accent.  I liked the old Betsy Braddock more though.

[Surlyboi]

As much as I hate her acting, I'd still hit it like the fist of an angry god.

[HaemishM]

Well, duh. 

[Hutch]

Gonna have to wait your turn. The god emperor of Wisconsin isn't through with her yet 

[Ard]

I liked the old Betsy Braddock more though.

This, so much this.  I hated the new version when it happened.

[HaemishM]

I thought the original costumes for Besty Braddock were utterly stupid looking - though turning her Japanese and making her a ninja dressed in a goddamn one piece was equally stupid, just in a more fan-service (re: wank) manner.

[Lantyssa]

It would have been easy enough to change her costume.  Even someone like Dazzler's gone through a bunch of different ones.

[shiznitz]

She's a great choice for Psylocke as long as Psylocke NEVER EVER SPEAKS. She's a nice lady, a geek and hot as hell, but she is a terrible actress.

Reasonably hot and a bad actress, actually. Hot as hell is pushing it.

[sickrubik]

[Samwise]

It's the square nails.

[Bunk]

The first comment in the article (actually second now):

"Olivia Munn is a soulless phoney and a zero-grade skank. The only thing more pathetic than Olivia Munn are the fanboys who bought her geek-goddess fangirl act and continue worshipping her and believing she is some sort of legitimate talent."

I actually liked her in the Newsroom.

[Threash]

I actually liked her in the Newsroom.

[jgsugden]

I've seen her do horrible stuff - and some good stuff.  Most of the horrible stuff I've seen were intended to be horrible (G4 era), or were just crappy shows as a whole where her biggest mistake was taking the role.  I think she has more to offer.

[Khaldun]

I think worrying about any cast member beyond the marquee protagonists in an X-Man movie hardly makes sense. Look at how crowded the cast is going to be--some X-Men are very nearly window dressing inevitably unless the movie is incredibly deftly written and directed. First Class did a fair-enough job giving everybody a wee measure of personality but nobody was going oh boo hoo Havok is dead in the next movie. Munn probably will have a few lines of plot-driven dialogue and a single establishing scene and otherwise will just stand around, hopefully not in the extremely unfortunate thong-ninja outfit she had in the comics.

[Nevermore]

But Havok was the only non-major mutant who didn't die by the next movie...

[sickrubik]

How are we qualifying "non-major"?

[Mattemeo]

At this point I'd rather Fox put down some serious TV money and made an X-men series. The only way you're ever going to give characters like Betsy a chance to shine is to decompress the shit out of the usual movie narratives. I read X-men comics primarily for the character moments and interactions; plot takes a big step back as far as I'm concerned. Then again, they only needed to work off two issues in the previous movie and my god they fucked that up royally.

[Furiously]

I kinda shocked Fox hasn't made an X-Force movie.

[SurfD]

At this point I'd rather Fox put down some serious TV money and made an X-men series. The only way you're ever going to give characters like Betsy a chance to shine is to decompress the shit out of the usual movie narratives. I read X-men comics primarily for the character moments and interactions; plot takes a big step back as far as I'm concerned. Then again, they only needed to work off two issues in the previous movie and my god they fucked that up royally.

X-Men as some kind of super hero based soap show.   I can totally see that working.

[Mattemeo]

I've been calling X-men soap opera for years. The only real difference is the characters in X-men are more believable.

[01101010]

I've been calling X-men soap opera for years. The only real difference is the characters in X-men are more believable.

Looking back through the old comics I have stashed away and I can say.... I never thought about it like that before, but now that I see it...

[Teleku]

Do I need to post that huge picture graph that shows exactly what xmen have slept with who over the years again?   

Of course it's a soap opera.  It's been nothing but a soap opera with explosions for many decades now.  That's why people keep reading it.

And yes, the most important part of casting somebody for an xmen movie is finding somebody that looks like the character.  That's about it.  Munn is hot and vaguely asian.  Ergo, she is the perfect Psylocke.

[Trippy]

Being vaguely Asian is a problem.

[Teleku]

She's a white woman trapped in an asian girls body.  So getting a half white, half asian girl seems pretty spot on.   

[Khaldun]

This is of course the OTHER thing the X-Men have been for decades: the product of Chris Claremont's rather intricate sexual fetishes.