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Were mutants not made more public knowledge much sooner in this timeline than those of the past, what with Magneto's grand stadium play at the end of Days of Future Past. I had the same thought about it being odd they are advertising on TV until I remembered that.
Yeah, Days of Future Past changed the timeline, mutants were revealed to the world in the 70's.
 
I'm pretty sure the only reason Mutants is being tossed around is because they are kids and calling them Mutants might be considered pejorative. Sure, the adults understand and embrace the term but calling a kid a "mutant" sounds an awful lot like making fun of them for being gay or something.

Which is sort of the entire point.
 
I'm pretty sure the only reason Mutants is being tossed around is because they are kids and calling them Mutants might be considered pejorative. Sure, the adults understand and embrace the term but calling a kid a "mutant" sounds an awful lot like making fun of them for being gay or something.

Which is sort of the entire point.
I thought mutants was the official term for those with an activated X-factor. I've never read the comics or watched the cartoons, only seen the movies. If mutants is a slur, what is the correct term in the Marvel universe? Because honestly inhuman doesn't sound too great either, but Medusa keeps using that with gusto to describe Marvel's mutant replacement.
 
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Aw, man... what poor servant got punished by being turned into a piano?!

I mean, the prince was a dick, so he earned it, but the rest of those poor people probably weren't volunteers. Or even paid. "Oh, you really didn't want to give up one of your 72 empty rooms to let an old lady get out of the cold? No, it's fine, I can't wait to spend the rest of my life as a spoon. ....Asshole."
 
I really hope those voiceovers weren't direct from the movie, because they need to do another take.

EDIT: Referring to Beauty and the Beast.
 
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Nobody posted this yet?



This looks like popcorn fun.
When they said the line about not screwing with humans, it reminded me of a reference that I saw on TVTropes I think to... something I've never seen/read that talked about how an alien species came to earth and declared that we had a "slight propensity for violence" or something like that, and thus should be destroyed. We had X months/days/weeks until they did it. Humanity bent over backwards trying to make peace, and succeeded, and told the aliens that we're peaceful and don't need to be destroyed.

And then they explained: we weren't violent enough to be useful. They wanted a species they could use as a weapon, and we were a failure.


And then there's movies like this (and many other media that demonstrate the idea) that give the idea that when pushed to the wall, we endure. I particularly "liked" that message in C.S. Lewis' "Space" trilogy. Not the point of it (quite the opposite) but the whole idea that we'll kill/destroy anything else for our own survival is true most of the time. Good? Probably not, but true very often.


Anyways, I agree with fade. Good popcorn movie I'd say. I wonder if Will Smith just didn't want to do it, or if he was cut from the movie for other reasons? Considering the amount of the original cast, it's conspicuous.
 

fade

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What I read on io9 was that he didn't want to do the father/son thing again after it failed miserably in After Earth. According to his Twitter, he was pretty upset that they killed his character off-screen, though.
 

Dave

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Okay, so the aliens kill Bill Pullman. Glad that was in the trailer. Not that it's giving away a major plot point or anything. For fuck's sake.
 
Okay, so the aliens kill Bill Pullman. Glad that was in the trailer. Not that it's giving away a major plot point or anything. For fuck's sake.
Brent Spiner's character appears to have survived the aliens speaking through him from the first movie. No reason Bill Pullman couldn't do the same this time.
 
When they said the line about not screwing with humans, it reminded me of a reference that I saw on TVTropes I think to... something I've never seen/read that talked about how an alien species came to earth and declared that we had a "slight propensity for violence" or something like that, and thus should be destroyed. We had X months/days/weeks until they did it. Humanity bent over backwards trying to make peace, and succeeded, and told the aliens that we're peaceful and don't need to be destroyed.

And then they explained: we weren't violent enough to be useful. They wanted a species they could use as a weapon, and we were a failure.
 

Dave

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Brent Spiner's character appears to have survived the aliens speaking through him from the first movie. No reason Bill Pullman couldn't do the same this time.
You're right. And that makes no fucking sense. He was dead. I know they are making it look like he wasn't but he was. They even have that in the Director's Cut. The officer says, "He's dead." This was cut out of the theatrical release.
 
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