PROFESSOR X WANTS TO SHOW YOU A MAGIC TRICK

Is that how... Mystique... regularly breaks up arguments?

Before her turn, that moment with Professor X and the politician was the most interesting X-Men moment in the last couple of movies alone.

I'm wondering, it is because Jennifer Lawrence is bit more...well endowed...that we get clothed Mystique? Makeup seems fine, it's seeing the character in normal clothes that feels weird.

I think it might have more to do with the fact that she's a teenaged girl discovering her powers for the first time and is insecure.

She's about 50 years off from being a super-vampy villainess who's confident and sly enough to walk around bare-assed.

(I just realized that this prequel makes Mystique a 60-70 year old GILF in the first three X-Men films...)

I think it has more to do with the fact that, while Jennifer Lawrence is a very good actress and very attractive in her own right, at the end of the day she is not a statuesque, 6ft tall supermodel. I've been waiting for people to say something about this, mainly because I've been thinking it but didn't want to come off like a dick about it. Rebecca Romijn is "fantasy hot", and that's what she brought the character. Lawrence has a whole other thing going on and it doesn't sync up.

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(I just realized that this prequel makes Mystique a 60-70 year old GILF in the first three X-Men films...)

The farther we get into an X-Men movie franchise, the more questions I ask. Specifically, has there ever been a line addressing how there are quite a bit of mutants that age pretty slowly? Part of all mutation isn't "agelessness" though I know some characters seem to have it built in, quite arbitrarily. I'm just wondering, from a regular fan's perspective, aren't they going to assume that this is Mystique's mom in the 1960's? The whole age thing is further complicated by X-Men 3, where Mystique is given "the cure" and turns into... a good looking thirty year old non-mutant woman.

Hey, I wasn't making any snipes or anything, just speaking out of hormones here. I think Jennifer Lawrence ranks pretty high up in the "fantasy hot" file, but that might just be me. Don't begrudge me wanting more helpings of blue boobs.

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(I just realized that this prequel makes Mystique a 60-70 year old GILF in the first three X-Men films...)

Moira MacTaggart is aging even more slowly and she's not even a mutie.

Yeah, the X-Men franchise may very well become the first film franchise to have to switch over to the time-honored comic-book tradition of the sliding timeline.  Moira MacTaggart eventually became enough of a problem that they offed her in the comics, though, because yeah, while you could handwave guys like Xavier and Magneto being physically younger than they should be in a variety of ways, Moira was attached to specific parts of Xavier's past that made her roughly the same age, which should NOT have had her looking like a 30something MILF in the late 90's.

Anyway, I'm digging the young Xavier we're seeing.  He's got some swagger to him, and is proud of his abilities.   Definitely has some growing to do to become the wise old sage of the "later" films.  In the meantime, it'd be fascinating if they took a page from the Ultimate X-Men stories and flat-out had young Xavier as a dangerously manipulative guy who isn't afraid to use his powers to make things go the way he thinks they should.  Plus it would add a layer to the Magneto/Xavier friendship...to have Magneto starting out not quite as hardened and Xavier starting a little less saintly.

At this point I think we're one clip away from being able to edit the entire movie out of all the footage released.

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Yeah, the X-Men franchise may very well become the first film franchise to have to switch over to the time-honored comic-book tradition of the sliding timeline.  Moira MacTaggart eventually became enough of a problem that they offed her in the comics, though, because yeah, while you could handwave guys like Xavier and Magneto being physically younger than they should be in a variety of ways, Moira was attached to specific parts of Xavier's past that made her roughly the same age, which should NOT have had her looking like a 30something MILF in the late 90's.

 

Anyway, I'm digging the young Xavier we're seeing.  He's got some swagger to him, and is proud of his abilities.   Definitely has some growing to do to become the wise old sage of the "later" films.  In the meantime, it'd be fascinating if they took a page from the Ultimate X-Men stories and flat-out had young Xavier as a dangerously manipulative guy who isn't afraid to use his powers to make things go the way he thinks they should.  Plus it would add a layer to the Magneto/Xavier friendship...to have Magneto starting out not quite as hardened and Xavier starting a little less saintly.

I like Charles' casual attitude and swagger. Plays nicely against Patrick Stewart's "I'm Charles Xavier; would you like some breakfast?" take on the character.

Whether it's Vaughn's intention or not, I'm thinking of this as something like Abrams' Star Trek: an alternate universe/timeline that keeps the stuff he likes and doesn't need to synch up with previous versions.

Or Singer is making a point to only use the continuity established by HIS films, i.e. we have yet to meet Moira MacTaggart. If this were true, it would be such a wonderfully catty move.

Singer has a human Hank McCoy on TV in X2.

What's even funnier about the wonky timeline, and I think I've mentioned this before, is that the first film has a subtitle that states the X-Men film universe is all set sometime in the "not too distant future". It never specifies the date, but the implication is that it takes place at least a few years beyond the 2000 release date of the film.

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Or Singer is making a point to only use the continuity established by HIS films, i.e. we have yet to meet Moira MacTaggart. If this were true, it would be such a wonderfully catty move.

Wait, wasn't Moira the woman at the even stupider end to stupid X3?

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Wait, wasn't Moira the woman at the even stupider end to stupid X3?

Yes. Which was not a Bryan Singer film.

And the Hank McCoy with human flesh thing can be explained easily, as he went from hairy to normal frequently in the comics.

Ergo, X-Men First Class is the third film in the Bryan Singer series of X-Men films, the only series of X-Men films that matter.

I can't wait to meet an age-inappropriate Juggernaut again!

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Wait, wasn't Moira the woman at the even stupider end to stupid X3?

 

 

Yes.

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Moira MacTaggart is aging even more slowly and she's not even a mutie.

 

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I like Charles' casual attitude and swagger. Plays nicely against Patrick Stewart's "I'm Charles Xavier; would you like some breakfast?" take on the character.

 

Exactly.  Makes him seem like a character that has a lot of developing to do.