New promotional image for #MarvelAnimation’s X-Men '97, showcasing sleeved trading cards, and a true tug at my heart-strings! Makes me long to pull out my #XMEN #tradingcard sets ...hhhhmmm.... Two episode premieres March 20th, on Disney+.
"It'll just be like old times!". Marvel Animation over-sells nostalgia with a new spot for the upcoming March 20 premiere of "X-Men '97", will all 10 episodes streaming, instead of the weekly Saturday morning broadcasts, back in the astonishing 90s :p
Here's another re-watch of the Official Trailer for Marvel Animation's X-Men '97!
Did you watch "The Marvels"?
Did you leave the cinema just as the credits rolled? Even though you know Marvel will have a post or mid-credits scene in their movies? Or did you not care?... so THIS was what you missed...
A more (if not the "most") comicbook-accurate depiction of THE BEAST, voiced by Kelsey Grammer! In full blue fur, swol like the comics, underneath his white lab-coat, soliciting gasps for folks "in the know" (IMHO, of course), and I certainly hope is a way Marvel will present the X-Men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, yes?
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
Patrick Stewart as X-Men's "Professor Xavier" was apart of the big-scene incarnation of "The Illuminati" assembles in "Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse Of Madness" (2022), alongside a Captain Carter (Britain), Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, Black Bolt of The Inhumans, and more you'll see in the following clip ... all of whom were dispatched as quick as they appeared, actually.
The PLUS of Professor X's appearance, was him sat in his yellow colored hover wheelchair, from the "X-Men 97" cartoons!
ALERT: No Professor X in following clip, but follows the flight, cheers.
Sure, this blog is titled "XMEN ON FILM", because well, when I started it, "X-Men Feature Films" were IN! Then everything went tits-up, and I frankly stopped giving a snikt, until recently when X-MEN" media news returns to pop culture, and by that I meant "updated NEW news" too!
So y'all gonna have relish this official trailer for upcoming "X-Men '97" from Marvel Animation, because THEY ARE BACK, BABYYYYY! Aren't you glad you held on? Premieres March 20 on Disney+.
Since my last feature (in "2022", no less), the first teaser trailer for DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE has dropped! With this third Deadpool feature film now under Disney, as well the "X-Men" franchise name returning to Marvel (hence "Disney"), expect the existence of "mutants" be included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
Actually the "existence" of "mutants" already pre-dated this feature film, with a "Multiversal" incarnation of "Doctor X" seen in "Doctor Strange & The Multiverse of Madness", and more recently the appearance of a uber-well-known blue-furred X-Men in "The Marvels"...! Don't worry, once I track down the video clips, I'll post them here!
Watch the teaser for the Coming of #MarvelJesus in Deadpool & Wolverine
So in lieu of casting a new WOLVERINE, they've gotten the one that retired to return? Hugh Jackman is teased to reprise his role of X-Man "Wolverine" (Look, he's even listed on IMDb)for the coming DEADPOOL movie (starring Ryan Reynolds) with a date set on "9.6.24". So on the scale of "1 to 10", how excited are you? ... not to mention Ryan is wearing the GREY Deadpool-uniform reminiscent of "X-FORCE", so THAT'LL BE FUN...!
I might well be a "Multiverse"-schtik which'll help herald and introduce a "new" Wolverine, innit? ... but that's just me :)
From 2000's "X-Men" to 2017's "Logan", Mr Hugh Jackman has played "Wolverine" for a total of 10 feature films! The oft mentioned story for how Jackman secured this iconic role, was when actor Dougray Scott was scheduled to play Wolverine in X Men, but was in a motorbike accident, and wouldn't have recovered in time for filming so the part went to Hugh Jackman (imdb.com) ... oh how different the landscape would've been...!
AUGUST 16/2020: I do not update this blog as often as I'd like to these days (yes, this is an "understatement"), but nevertheless continue daily on these blogs:
#DarkPhoenix was not a "train-wreck" as folks have said it to be, but the reality is, it had already derailed a few movies ago, and quite frankly has been careening along the edges of the cliff since, precariously so, kept on dried land by nostalgia to the first two movies, as far as I had been concerned. And with this last film under the FOX banner, just toppled itself quietly down said side of cliff, and no one cared if it went down in flames, or exploded like the shit-storm in space promised adventures would look like at the beginning of the movie. It was just not worth the invested emotions anymore.
I did not "hate" it, I just got tired of it.
Featured in the clip directly below - in full SPOILER-mode - is the train-attack & final scene, where the promise of the X-MEN and their powers manifest, where Nightcrawler showed us a glimpse of how visceral the character could have been, where the action over-shadowed every else that had gone on before - which quite frankly was utterly fine and welcomed (in my book), because they were simply beyond the "whining", and to me personally had been a bug-bear at the back of my mind, when their mutant powers had always soon to be "surface-level" on the silver screen, but not "destructive" as I remembered their comicbook counterpart was/is ...
I suppose at the end of the day, all the movies failed to address my own expectations of what I felt they "could" be, rather than being able to accept them for what I had seen on screen, being a verocious reader back in my day.
But to be fair, I tried ... I tried to look beyond the comics (calling it "graphic novels" does not elevate the source, the "source" is already MAGNIFICENT, IMHO), but alas I found it wanting. I look back at XMEN 1 and X2, and miss the days of wonder and awe, actually, now replaced by "mutant-fatigue", milking the "outsider"-status like they knew what it meant. What made them unique and special before, leaves them being whiney and self-important at the end. LOGAN was whiney too, I admit, but it dripped pathos and sentimentality, deepening the "human"-divide, and took the time to laugh at itself (the X-Men comicbook sequences were GOLD), and gave me - a normal, frail and flawed "human being" - able to identify with the emotions, the heartache, and shed tears without the need or assistance of super-hero spandex. What the viewer received, was the emotions they had invested into the characters thru its various films and impressions of the mutant, I felt.
#DarkPhoenix failed to inspire, or give aspiration to the viewers, and all we received in return at the end, was "regret".
It's okay if you do not agree with me, is not worth spending the time arguing over as well. There's the Honest Trailer to watch, and buyables on Amazon, so enjoy :)
Comparatively, I happened to watch the 2018 documentary "Chris Claremont's X-Men" (Watch/Buy here on Amazon) at nearly the same time actually right after Dark Phoenix, back-to-back, and enjoyed it immensely, as it spoke directly to my comicbook geek-boy inside of me, and wondered where that had all went with Dark Phoenix closing up the celluloid chapter ... but perhaps it was as what had "happened" to Claremont, when it stopped being a tale of "humans and mutants", and easily became a property to be commercialised and hawked-off with multiple foil covers, much like the mutiple costumesd X-Men standing around, waiting for their turn to showcase their powers, and their failures, which perhaps understandably was what the Xavier Insititue did not teach: "working together as a team".
I honestly cannot say I "hated it", although I would say I had been "disappointed", but ultimately I was not "surprised" this went they way it did, which I would simply call "Mutants Fatigue", an I think I am being exceedingly "kind". But hey, that's just me! Buy the Xmen: Dark Phoenix via Amazon below, thanks! Meanwhile, Moving on...!
SYNOPSIS: This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we've come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet -- one of their own.
SYNOPSIS: This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we've come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet -- one of their own.
SYNOPSIS: This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we've come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet -- one of their own.
SYNOPSIS: This is the story of one of the X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into the iconic DARK PHOENIX. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. The film is the most intense and emotional X-Men movie ever made. It is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies, as the family of mutants that we've come to know and love must face their most devastating enemy yet -- one of their own.
