Sonic

Those blue eyes of hers get me all the time.

They picked the perfect girl for Dark Phoenix.

B5Erik

Yeah, I don't get all the love for this. The trailer makes the movie look awful. And the movie probably IS awful.

I can't stand the girl they got to play Jean (Sophie Turner - God, she's awful - I so miss Famke Jannsen). She completely lacks personality, and she doesn't even look the part. And the writing, even in the snippets, just seems so amateurish. The make up for Mystique looks like shit (as in ordinary Halloween make-up quality), even the editing of the trailer seems like it was done by film students on their first assignment.

I don't like anything about it. As a long time X-Men fan that is just about one of the most spirit crushing trailers I can imagine.

That was just a depressing trailer.

B5Erik

Me, too. I liked it a lot. Still do. There's a lot of good stuff in that movie.

fujishig

devilshalo

This...
Though, I never cared for Famke either, who I felt was too old to begin with.

And I guess when you bitch long enough about being in the make up chair, you get the Halloween version of Dory from Finding Nemo for your face paint.

Why So Blu?

The international trailer is much better.

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Decker

Yeah, that is better. I really want to see this.

dex14

That is a much better trailer.

fujishig

I can't tell if the whole trailer ending in a trainwreck and the cops wearing MCU on their sleeves are like intentional or just massive coincidence/irony.

dex14

You observant motherfucker! Brilliant.

Decker

My nerdy son mentioned this to me yesterday in regards to Apocalypse It stands for Mutant Containment Unit but could be a nod to the MCU as well.

Sonic

I found her old as well, and a bit out of place.

DaveyJoe

As someone who thought Apocalypse was fun and got a bad rap, the trailer made this movie look pretty awful. Sophie Turner is a poor actress and a terrible choice to headline a film. If the lines used in the trailer were her best takes, we're in for a bumpy ride.

The fact that it looks like a retread of part 3 just makes me uninterested. The Power Ranger jokes in regards to Apocalypse were funny, but I was still excited to see a classic villain on the big screen for the first time. I agree with the comments on the film looking pedestrian instead of cinematic.

Timber

Famke was just so wooden. I can't say Turner is any better than or worse than her.

DaveyJoe

Well The Last Stand was an absolute mess of a movie. I'd rather they not revisit that story so soon. Then again I've never read the Dark Pheonix comics so I'm not sure what kind of potential we're missing out on. However this movie doesn't look very promising to me. It'll be a blemish on the franchise to have two failed versions of the same story.

Timber

It's too big of a story for a movie. They're going to give you the highlights but no nuance. I doubt we'll see Mastermind or the Hellfire Club/Black Queen and so on in a 2 hour movie.

fujishig

Yeah, as old as the story is, they really need to spend some time investing in the characters and the backdrop before doing Dark Phoenix, in particular the relationship between Cyclops and Jean, but really fleshing out the other X-men as well. Like I said before, all of the X-men movies have been kind of terrible at making you care about more than two or three characters at a time.

To me the real beauty of the saga Claremont and Byrne wrote was the inclusion of Kitty as the outsider being introduced to this crazy world of the X-men. That's kind of what they tried to do with Rogue in the original movie, I guess.

Jason

So how are they going to shoehorn Wolvie into this one? The time period between escaping Alkaline Lake and showing up in the first movie is supposed to be his wandering, amnesiac period, right? How is he going to end up in space with them?

Jason

Is she supposed to be some sort of manifestation of the Phoenix Force?

Mike86

milo bloom

Sigh. I've been along for the ride this far, I'll see it to the end.

story

That's why I'm still married.

Perkinsun Dzees

International trailer

Hokeyboy

In a perfect world, "The Dark Phoenix Saga" would be like the entire ten-episode third season of an ongoing X-Men series, on like Netflix or Disney+ or whatever.

Jason

A better trailer than the domestic version, to be sure. Looks like we're kinda sorta getting a proper Phoenix origin, even though the Phoenix Force has already manifested itself.

I am really tired of the "oh noes, all the X people have been captured by some shady government agency" stories though. Hopefully Marvel will relegate the "mutant menace" to the same place they tossed J. Jonah Jameson.