X-men : Movies (and all other Mutant related things)

[elliseamos]

when they completely fucked over deadpool.

this bugged me so much, too.

[MadTIGERmaN]

That scene still bugs me. Especially the flamenco guitar and the barkeep with the Mexican accent.

QUIETO CABRON

lol i actually found it comical that scene bothered so many people so much...
it happens, A LOT in movies

House of Flying Daggers, a chinese produced, kungfu movie... was shot almost entirely in the Ukraine
I could see if they showed a shot of the Statue of Liberty and said "San Francisco" or, the Golden Gate Bridge and had it in Chicago? or, "London" with a nice shot of the Eiffel Tower... or some other sort of famous site / city... that might be a lil more troubling lol.

the accent though... thats pretty lame... but then again they didnt bother to get a Brit for Emma, nor an irish lass for Moira, a Texan played Silverfox... so on so on.

[@SkitchP]

Isn't it entirely possible a mexican got a job there?

[Jorge]

That scene still bugs me. Especially the flamenco guitar and the barkeep with the Mexican accent.

QUIETO CABRON

lol i actually found it comical that scene bothered so many people so much...
it happens, A LOT in movies

House of Flying Daggers, a chinese produced, kungfu movie... was shot almost entirely in the Ukraine
I could see if they showed a shot of the Statue of Liberty and said "San Francisco" or, the Golden Gate Bridge and had it in Chicago? or, "London" with a nice shot of the Eiffel Tower... or some other sort of famous site / city... that might be a lil more troubling lol.

the accent though... thats pretty lame... but then again they didnt bother to get a Brit for Emma, nor an irish lass for Moira, a Texan played Silverfox... so on so on.

I don't think it bothered many people. I know that films shoot where it's most economical and convenient, but when you live in Argentina and you see an on-screen caption that says the scene takes place in Villa Gesell, which is a beach town... but instead there are these mountains... and also Spanish music... and also they speak in a Mexican accent... and use Mexican slang... it's understandable that it's going to take you out of the scene.

Isn't it entirely possible a mexican got a job there?

Given the context of the scene, it's not as likely as the filmmakers just calling the first Hispanic Bartender from Central Casting because they don't give a shit about what a small portion of the audience is going to think.

[malice]

*it's a south american thing, you wouldn't understand

[Jorge]

CHECK YOUR FIRST-WORLD PRIVILEGE

[malice]

I'm actually quite impressed by your ability to break down the particulars to madtigerman, 'lol' etc though

[malice]

you might need to go back and apply some ad hoc capitalization later...

[Jorge]

And to be clear, I didn't like the movie. I thought it had a lot of story problems, I thought the climactic final battle scene was really weirdly edited and depleted of any drama or tension, and I thought it sucked that every character not named Erik or Xavier (and to a lesser extent Mystique) was such a cardboard cutout. The Villa Gesell thing stood out for me because I'm in Argentina and the entire audience started laughing when that happened. Otherwise, I'm totally game for surrendering to the film diegesis and ignoring the minute details of geography or topography. The only reason I'm still talking about it is... well... because other people brought it up.

[@SkitchP]

Isn't it entirely possible a mexican got a job there?

Given the context of the scene, it's not as likely as the filmmakers just calling the first Hispanic Bartender from Central Casting because they don't give a shit about what a small portion of the audience is going to think.

What context, a bartender in a bar that has 2 lines doesn't have a backstory? I know if it was marvel studios he likely would have his own trilogy, but unfortunately fox doesn't do that unless your name is an austrailian accented wolverine.

[Jorge]

I meant the fact that they got everything else wrong. I don't think any thought went into the casting of that bit part.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Isn't it entirely possible a mexican got a job there?

Given the context of the scene, it's not as likely as the filmmakers just calling the first Hispanic Bartender from Central Casting because they don't give a shit about what a small portion of the audience is going to think.

What context, a bartender in a bar that has 2 lines doesn't have a backstory? I know if it was marvel studios he likely would have his own trilogy, but unfortunately fox doesn't do that unless your name is an austrailian accented wolverine.

That Argentina scene, was one of the best scenes in the movie too (for us non Argentinians)
Other than Xavier and Erik though, the rest of the characters were pretty stiff. X-3's Beast was a far better performance than the one in First Class (not just because he LOOKED beter)

and lastly... Wolverine, originally was going to be an Australian ex-patriot living in Canada, dont believe me? well check this out, the pilot for the 90's animated Series!

[MadTIGERmaN]

haha forgot, Dazzler was in the pilot episode!
not to mention Kitty, Night Crawler, and Colossus. (and Thunderbird appeared on 2 episodes of Spiderman around the same time with the same cast/voice actors of the X-men Pilot... far different roster)

oh and Stan Lee as a narrator!

[Peeps]

good lord that hurt to watch

[McParadigm]

Looks like the love child of T. Hawk and 80s Nightwing.

Looks like a goth Zack Morris.

Looks like if laser tag was a person.

I feel like this had the potential to end up great, with the right contributors....and instead we ended up talking about the X-Men.

[Whitey McTeeth]

I just wish this new movie had more mutants.

[Alex]

[McParadigm]

good appropriation

[Alex]

good appropriation

i've notified Birds in Hell that i'm going to PM him that GIF every day for the rest of our RM lives

[malice]

good appropriation

i've notified Birds in Hell that i'm going to PM him that GIF every day for the rest of our RM lives

I expect his daily responses to be along the lines of:

dreadful

what were you thinking

could barely stand to look at it

how anyone could find you funny is beyond me