New Mutants

I've never read or even seen New Mutants. I'm slightly familar with Magik and heard of Moonstar but nothing else. I would prefer something more modern, but it's ok if it isn't.

The X-Men should be portrayed as they were in the 90's comics run for example of roster:

LEADER/TEACHER:

Charles Xavier / Professor X

BLUE TEAM:

• Cyclops

• Beast

• Rogue

• Gambit

• Psylocke

• Wolverine

GOLD TEAM:

• Jean Grey

• Storm

• Iceman

• Colossus

• Nightcrawler

• Archangel

NEW MUTANTS:

As a whole, the New Mutants should have the same roles as they did in the X-Men evolution series. They are added to make the Xavier Institute seem more populated by having several students in the background, and primarily have supporting roles.

MEMBERS:

If I had to pitch a main MCU X-men line-up it would probably look like this right now. In my opinion we’d pick up with them in a new/modern setting for the X-men time period. Has some new characters rather repeat the same cast from previously. Still would has the OGs to teach the next generation.

Instead one team, about having multiple teams, like The Hellions or Alpha Squadron with the veteran assigned to each team. Imagining it to be something similar to Hogwarts Houses from Harry Potter but for mutants. If this X-Men reboot is going to happen in MCU, some point like after Marvel's Multiverse Saga. Would personally like the studio to introduce new faces we have seen before in live-action. It's something new for next generations of fans and familiar with the older audiences who've seen or are fans of the X-Men’s movies. So what’s y’all think? Would the first introduction of mutants be the Young-Next X-Men/Generation-X type of team?

This movie is really good. Simple as that. I’m not a huge fan of horror but this is the perfect mix of horror, suspense, and action. There are a few problems, slightly rushed plot and short runtime being a few of them, but the problems aren’t big enough to ruin the movie. Also, Magick is absolutely amazing. I love her attitude and character.

How do you think that this would’ve connected to the X-men?

So after this, I realised that New Mutants was on Disney+, and having a cold I decided I’d rather waste an hour and a half of my life in favour of doing more productive things that I had to do.

My end verdict, overall: it’s fine. It’s a movie and I watched it. I definitely don’t care enough about it to watch it again, but I’m not angry at the movie or myself for deciding to watch it.

The acting was a little bit all over the place - mostly just sort of there with no abjectly terrible performances.

Illyana probably stood out the most because she was given the most to do (that wasn’t just looking pensive).

Now I’m going to just nitpick and criticise, so here we go in no particular order:

Coming back round to Illyana - her character and how they framed her was super inconsistent.

It’s implied that the smiling men from her nightmares appear monstrous because of memories distorted by trauma - they gloss over her strong hatred of humans (literally comes up toward the end reading from her file); they have what looks like tattoos you’d associate with Russian organised crime; Limbo isn’t a real place but something she made up?

But there’s no explicit realisation there, or her showing that she knows they were only men doing monstrous things instead of actual monsters.

How the hell did she “make up” Limbo? If she made it up why does she have to chant in Latin? I have mixed feelings about her using the Lockheed puppet as a crutch of sorts, but when the (incongruously cute) Lockheed showed up at the end it just raised so many more questions - it seemed to imply that it was the puppet come to life, so Illyana is a reality manipulator now?

Following on from this, the characters know Dani for all of two days and abruptly they’re all ready to die for her. Risking their lives to save her from her own powers no less. Some of that is consistent characterisation, Rahne was down bad for instance, so that’s fine. Illyana though, she spends the majority of the movie being antagonistic to Dani to the point of caricature, then does a 180 because it’s needed for the climax.

The “two bears” story that they bring up, I’m curious if it’s actually legitimate in any way or something fabricated for the narrative.

Every time it came up it made me remember the “two wolves” bit that floats around the internet, which again, I’m not sure whether it’s in any way legitimate.

The CGI has a sort of unfinished look to it, which tracks along with the fact that there were no reshoots to tidy up scenes or improve narrative flow - the movie was sort of abandoned.

I came across this as well:

So this follows on to a couple of points.

First, the Roberto whitewashing is an issue but not one that even occurred to me because, well, the comics pretty much got there first. Someone in the development stage would have been aware that he started out as black, but I don’t think this was ever going to be the movie to revert that change for the wider audience.

Second, I can understand that he wouldn’t have chosen to go with a horror movie to introduce the characters, but my issue was that they didn’t commit to it. There’s a sort of wishy washy horror aesthetic going on, but if they went all in on a creeping psychological dread I feel like it would have helped a lot. I know they would have wanted to keep the rating down, but I’m sure they could have snuck some mild body horror in for Rahne and possibly Roberto - highlight that mutations can be physically and mentally horrific to live with.

(Bonus third point there - the name misspelling is a fair indication of the care and attention this movie got in the final production stages.)

So overall, it’s just sort of there. Had the movie not been abandoned as far as post-production goes it would have been a better movie for sure, but a lot of what makes it a forgettable movie seems baked into how they approached the story and characters.

I would like to append a photo of this moment in the movie, which made me internally cringe so hard that I may have suffered lasting harm.

Today’s mutant is Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa):

Today’s Mutant is Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa). He is another one of the mutants I like and I think he is a cool character that has good stories and good character arcs. What are your opinions on him? Do you like him? Did you like how he was represented in The New Mutants and X-Men: Days of Future Past?

Welcome to the first Flash Fact! In this series I want to review comic related stuff (like Movies/TV Shows and of course comics). On this wiki I'll only do Marvel stuff (wich makes sense). DC stuff will be on the DC Fandom (wich also makes sense). I called this series so because The Flash is my favourite fictional character (surprise surprise) and I didnt have a better name in mind (if you can think of better ones feel free to comment them down below).

This Flash Fact will be about The "The New Mutants" movie. I just came out of theaters like 10 minutes ago so my impressions are fresh.

First of all please dont judge me if a character didnt act like his comic self or something like that as I've never read a New Mutants comic (I'll try to get one soon though!). Also please have in mind that this all is my opinion and you have yours. So lets keep it nice and we can discuss things in the comments of this post (I'd love to hear your opinions!). And please take care of the fact that I'm not a professionel reviewer. I just love talking (or writing) about things I love (Superheroes). In fact I've only done like three "official" reviews before so feel free if you want to give me some tips.

So lets begin with the positive:

• The combination of the horror and the superhero genre worked really well. It was the best aspect of the movie. The film-makers did really a good job in portraying both aspects.

• What also helped the movie is the small cast. There are like only 6/7 people in the movie, wich created a nice and quite atmosphere.

• I also think that the action was pretty dope and I enjoyed the action scenes a lot. The CGI didnt look bad and it really suprised how realistic it was. Especially when you have characters like Magik or Sunspot in the movie.

• The portrayal of the characters in the movie (especially Cannonball, Sunspot and Magik) was really good. Everyone had his own personality and no character seemed bland (except the doctor).

• What I also loved was that the movie was misleading us in thinking Professor X was this "boss" of the doctor. I really thought that this other institution was Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters.

That was everything positiv I have in mind right now so lets move to the okay stuff:

• The acting was lacking sometimes. Especially with the main character (Mirage). The rest of the cast did really fine. But tha acting of Mirage was really distracting in some scenes (especially in the end).

With that said lets move to the bad stuff this movie ha:

• The doctor was a really bland character. I would be really interested in seeing her motivations and more of this organisation she worked for, wich makes this young mutants to killers (if someone has comic knowledge please explain).

• Why did they leave Magiks Nightmares unexplained. They made so big of a drama out of it and then left it unexplained. Why the hell. They we're the most disturbing and wierd nightmares of all(here again If someone has comic knowledge please give explanation or/and comic recommendations).

To wrap this up:

It was a really entertaining movie and definetly better than I expected. I'd give it a 7,5/10.

If you've also watched the movie please give me you're opinions down below. If someone has good comic recommendations for the New Mutants please feel free to leave them down below as the movie had the same effect as an appetizer for me and I'm really interested in some New Mutants comics.

I hope you liked the first Flash Fact and I'll see you in the next one :D.

Does Anyone Know If The New Mutants Will Still Come Out At The End Of August???

In this series, I'm going to tell you a team, and you're going to say you dream roster. The characters don't have to have ever joined this team. And they should be from Marvel.

This episode: New Mutants!