X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Do you really have to be snide about anything regarding the DCEU?

In any case every franchise movie is going to borrow a lot from the source material, BVS takes inspiration for a lot of things but its story is pretty original. Otherwise Iron Man 3 and Thor Ragnarok would actually be far better examples of that issue.

I am not snide about the DCEU. I just doubt that this is a trend which has stopped.

Edited by Swanpride on Apr 19th 2019 at 7:44:41 AM

X-Men: Apocalypse also crammed in Xavier’s fight with Shadow King with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse storyline. Granted they replaced SK with Apoc but the movie just tried to do too much in one film.

Edited by DevilMayhem666 on Apr 19th 2019 at 3:21:43 PM

And then there is Thor Ragnarök, which combined Ragnarök with Planet Hulk.

It was more like an original story with elements of Walt Simonson's run and Planet Hulk. The worst part about that movie was that it kind of wasted Skurge's last stand.

At least Venom got to fight the title hero unlike Jean.

Edited by DevilMayhem666 on Apr 20th 2019 at 5:41:31 AM

Generally speaking, it seems to work better when they include elements of certain stories but don't really try to do a proper adaptation. Ragnarok had Hulk as a gladiator on an alien planet but cut tons of stuff from Planet Hulk.

Though I did think that it was obvious that Waititi was more interested in the Planet Hulk part than the ragnarok part.

Maybe the rights Universal had to the Hulk prevented him from making Thor: Planet Hulk?

Edited by Xopher001 on Apr 20th 2019 at 3:11:54 PM

Yes. But they only had to name the movie differently (meaning without including "hulk" in it) to sidestep Universal.

All they took from Planet Hulk was the basic premise of Hulk-as-Gladiator and a few names. It's In Name Only but done well regardless

So they completely changed the 3rd act in reshoots[1] from being set in space to on a train. Which I find extremely disappointing.

Ooof that's bad.

Grand finale, huh?

R e a l i s m.

...

God, I hope they put Jean in her Phoenix outfit in the MCU to make Fox realise comic book stuff can work on film.

Realism has nothing to do with it. Test screening audiences just didn’t like it.

Edited by DevilMayhem666 on Apr 27th 2019 at 12:34:18 PM

So this is hwo the movie franchise ends: With a whimpering choo choo

So, this franchise began in a concentration camp, and it ends on a train.

Think that was intentional, or was it just a "FUCK IT! Its on a train now, so we can use the shots of the interiors and say its a train"

Edited by qwigly on Apr 27th 2019 at 4:50:26 AM

I only saw the animated movie and wow was that one depressing. They killed a child in this one.

The animated movie was just one horrific, awful thing happening after another, until Hulk finally gets his happy ending. So imagine that, but if instead of a happy ending, the ship that the earth heroes shoved him in had a bomb on it that obliterated the planet, killing basically everyone except Hulk.

Wonder how it would have looked now.

Edited by Mizerous on Apr 27th 2019 at 9:42:53 AM

Wait...WHAT? So the Avengers destroyed a planet?

I recall it wasn't a bomb, but an anti-matter warp core engine that powered the ship, only a city was destroyed, and it was planted by the Red King's men.

Planet Hulk the comic was capable of being a conclusive, happy ending for the Hulk. This being comics, that wasn't allowed. So World War Hulk pulled a Happy Ending Override using elements from the previous story that made the Illuminati, the group of heroes lead by Iron Man at the time, to look much worse for it.