A long awaited, or dreaded moment happened yesterday. The first trailer for the last FOX installment of X-men: Dark Phoenix was dropped. This marks the seventh X-men movie that Fox has made, and the fourth in the line of films started by the reboot of X-Men: First Class. The movie is set to adapt the iconic Dark Phoenix storyline from the books (if the title weren't enough of a giveaway) for the second time in the franchise's history, the first being the ever infamous X-Men: Last Stand which killed the momentum of the initial franchise in the early 00's. Before going any further let's take a look at the trailer below:
While this trailer is not the absolute disaster I was expecting, it is still not great as actively nothing happens. It's intensity is only really held up by the two things that have held up the previous 3 films in the performances of James Mcavoy and Michael Fassbender. The voice overs they have in the trailer are testament to how good these two are in their respective roles and are the only thing we will actively be missing out on when the franchise is rebooted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The rest of the trailer is pretty unspectacular as the X men costumes look very bland and cheap, and they still apparently haven't learned that not all bad guys should wear trench coats as both Jessica Chastain's character and Jean Grey sport them throughout the trailer. It seems that the only thing they have learned since Last Stand is that Jean Grey should get this power in a cosmic scenario and that having Cyclops be around while the love of his life becomes an uncontrollable and evil force hell bent on universal destruction could be an interesting angle for the character to have.
In addition to the recurring cast of the First Class films, it appears that we are adding even more characters (because that worked so well for Apocalypse) with introducing X-men Villains like Selene and we are getting overloaded with multiple stories once again as Magneto has apparently established Genosha in the time between Apocalypse and this film. Really guys? Just going to through Genosha under the rug like a second fiddle storyline? Didn't you learn anything by trying to slam M-Day alongside Phoenix? You don't combine MAJOR storyarcs, you can pepper in some minor story arcs to aid the primary, but you don't just say well Genosha's cool lets have it compete screen time with Dark Phoenix and vice versa. YOU GET ONE! Pick it and focus on it!
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| Genosha: Mutant Paradise |
Needless to say I don't have especially high hopes for this film. After X-Men: Apocalypse I have found my taste for Fox's X-men franchise to have soured. I am just eagerly waiting for Kevin Fiegie to slam the reset button over at Marvel the moment the ink dries on this merger.
This has been another edition of Comic Relief! we will see you again soon!
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