Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dark Phoenix - The Movie That Finally Killed The X-Men" video.

  1. First of all, it's the nature of movie-making to make every production a one-of-a-kind, one-off, with the writing, directing and producing all focused on just the one movie, without any regard for what went before. They think they're showing their creativity, and keeping things fresh, and excited. The whole "subverting expectations" thing. Much could be fixed just by casting actors with charisma, especially the two leads. I think Sophie's a good enough actress, but she's just not very charismatic. Same for James Macavoy. But spot on with regard to how it just seems like they lifted chunks of old scripts and cobbled them together. It does seem like it's formulaic and they mailed it in. You wonder how they can copy so much and at the same time thumb their noses at continuity. I think they did sort of try to be a period piece with the sound track. Maybe the early '90s just sucked for music. Maybe Joe Walsh and the B52s just held out on 'em. Bottom line is well-intentioned movie by tone-deaf creatives. Yours and others' reviews kept me from watching this when it first came out. But I finally saw it, yesterday, because I still have HBO for some unknown reason. I never thought the X-Men writing was all that good, but good actors and good special effects could at least keep your interest. On the other hand, it may just be that nobody likes the fact that they wrote Jean Grey as a tragic figure, in the first place, and we want to see triumph.
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