User blog:Sammm鯊/X-Men in films

WIP, saving first, laptop crashing.

The following content was originally posted on September 20, 2014 at 1:23pm on my Facebook Note under the title Thoughts on X-Men: Days of Future Past; at the time I haven't joined Wikia, but since I'm obviously here now and am more familiar with wikitext, I might as well tweak what I wrote and post it here as well.

Please note that I do know the film adaptation (if you can still call it as such) is NOT meant to be exactly the same as the comics, and at this point I've given up all hopes for 20th Century Fox to remotely rectify their choice of direction, but it doesn't mean I can't "wish" what they "could have done."

Also please note that my knowledge towards X-Men and related X-titles is limited to publications during 1990-2015.

The content is mostly in respond to the then-latest film X-Men: Days of Future Past (film).

Overview
I decided to write this overdue 'overview' aka 'how-it-would-have-made-more-sense-and-better rant'.

First of all, I don't think it's a bad movie, I just don't think it's the most awesome sh*t. I think it is a tad bit overrated on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yes, I've started reading the comics, but I didn't have so much to say only because of it; even judging the movie alone, I still like the first 3 better than this one! A lot of dialogs just seemed forced, and a lot of fight scenes just seemed unnecessary. But I'm not going in to all that. I simply feel that the character selection itself if chosen better, would have helped pleasing the people who would like to get into X-Men even more, or the people who also read the comics. I've always felt this way, even before actually reading the comics. I watched the film versions, liked the characters, looked them up, and then got disappointed when their origins or relationships with each other were way off the mark from the original materiel. This movie had tons of opportunities to adapt canon character relationship continuity, and missed.

WHY Quicksilver? WHY????
Quicksilver? Okay, there was a nice easter egg when he said to Magneto: "'They told me you can control metal, my mom once knew a guy who could do that'" But then isn't that catering to the comic/cartoon fans, who do know Pietro Maximoff is in fact Magneto's son? (By the way, they couldn't even keep his actual name, why changing it to Peter? Does that HELP?)

'''Seriously, other than the easter egg, why him? Why pick him when it was confirmed this character would also be in MCU's Avengers? The thing is, I read it on Wikipedia that the role of breaking Magneto out of jail was first written for Cain Marko aka Juggernaut'; how the eff did they go from that'' character to Quicksilver? And for Logan to know about this guy?

If you need a guy with SPEED, and being someone Logan's at least on speaking terms with, it just make more sense if picking Jean-Paul Beaubier aka Northstar!

They are both Canadians and have been Alpha Flight members at some point in their lives (and obviously X-Men later on). The hairstyle the actor had in the film imo was actually pretty close to Jean-Paul's (just different hair color), and I don't believe Pietro ever had his hair like that; not to mention Northstar actually does wear those glasses/gargles whereas Quicksilver does not. It would have also been nice for he would have been the first homosexual mutant on screen (I'm pretty sure Mystique can only be counted as bisexual at this point). Sure, the characteristic might be way off, as Northstar's pretty uptight and stern, but seeing that they made silly and humorous characters (Iceman and Beast) serious and calm, I honestly wouldn't mind an OOC adaption for this case.