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Watched the trailer and ... it doesn't look good, unfortunately.


"X-Men: Dark Phoenix" looks quite boring (and also strangely reminiscent of "X-Men 3").

Maybe I'm in the minority but the appeal of "The Dark Phoenix Saga" was all the action in space (which we barely glimpse in the trailer), not Jean tearing up suburbia. But we do seem to be getting Magneto yet gain ... who basically seems to be filling Wolverine's "conflicted hero" role in the series nowadays.

It was a strange decision by Fox to allow Simon Kinberg to make his directorial debut with "Dark Phoenix", from his own screenplay. The best "X-Men" films have come from veterans like Bryan Singer and James Mangold - Kinberg's writing is only as good as whoever is directing the film.

Maybe Fox thought that if a first-time director like Tim Miller could make "Deadpool", it was worth giving Kinberg a shot.

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It looks exactly like X-Men 3. Now that Disney bought Fox they will just reboot everything, and this film, like all the original X-Men films, will be forgotten about.

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Yep. Also to me looks like another typical X-men flick. Formula hasn't really changed much (besides Logan).

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The X-Men in space thing definitely does not appeal to me. It's too silly for the universe of the films. I'm glad we don't see any of it in this trailer. I like that it looks quite grounded.

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Though its a part of a series whose background is way worthy than this trailer seem to be. previous characters are good. Still doesn't seem that bad. Waiting its streaming over https://lookmovie.ag/

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Visually it looks appealing, I love Storm ever since even during the cartoon time of X-Men. just watched on gofilms4u.ws

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Watch the Russian trailer. It’s far more interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/9iqu5n/the_dark_phoenix_leaked_trailer/

Though I think this one is okay.

also strangely reminiscent of "X-Men 3"


Time travel trope. I think this will have a lot of bait and switch though.

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I think I'm just underwhelmed by Jean going Dark Phoenix in suburbia again, Professor X being accused of being a jerk, etc. "X-Men 3" failed badly at making Jean an exciting character (although the "mutant cure" stuff was interesting enough).

More space action, please!

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To be fair, the suburbia battle and Xavier being at fault happened in the original.

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I liked it. Nothing groundbreaking - for an X-Men film - or super exciting, but it looks wondrous... and bleak. I do concur that the Dark Phoenix stuff is oddly reminiscent of The Last Stand (not quite comic accurate). Let’s hope that’s not the case!

How much the movie will be set in space (if at all) is left to be seen. However, if it does go that route, silly is the last thing I would consider it as long as it’s handled well. Keeping it more grounded instead? While that would perhaps appeal more to the big boys that find too much comic/fantasy elements immature for them, an epic X-Men film that looks like it’s straight out of the pages of a great comic book would be excellent. If the movie is good though, it can take any tone it feels necessary.

In any event, seeing as how they’re currently doing exstensive reshoots for Dark Phoenix (more than is the norm apparently), it’s possible the final film won’t resemble this trailer a whole lot. So come what may, hopefully this movie will not only do the Dark Phoenix Saga justice, but hoping it’s a worthy conclusion to this X-Men universe

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How much the movie will be set in space (if at all) is left to be seen. However, if it does go that route, silly is the last thing I would consider it as long as it’s handled well. Keeping it more grounded instead? While that would perhaps appeal more to the big boys that find too much comic/fantasy elements immature for them, an epic X-Men film that looks like it’s straight out of the pages of a great comic book would be excellent.


Agreed. Alongside time travel and alternate universes, a big chunk of the best X-Men stories have been in space (like "Asteroid X"). Some of the highlights of "The Dark Phoenix Saga" are Jean committing genocide and destroying a populated planet, and the X-Men fighting the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to save her life.

That would be epic if done right in a film.

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I think the problem Fox has with X-men is they are not using the cosmic stuff. I hope they have rights to use it. When original X-men trilogy was being made it was very grounded with our real world myth. So that must be the reason they are using the proper phoenix entity we get in comics.

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I'm guessing that bringing the Shi'iar Empire, Imperial Guard, Starjammers, etc to life would make the film's budget far too expensive.

To be honest, I think a storyline involving Magneto and his Acolytes going into space on Asteroid M would been an easier way to take the X-Men off Earth for the first time (and get rid of Magneto for awhile).

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I agree there are so many great stories out there for X-men. I always felt Fox wasted X-men without having many ideas. They just rushed to Phoenix storyline too quick both in original and now in reboot.

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It just doesn’t make sense to me.

DOFP seemed to set it up with Logan going back to the future, that Charles didn’t mess with Jeans head and she was in control (her hair colour and attitude make it seem that way). This seemingly because past Charles read Logan’s mind and saw his own mistakes with Jean and how that kinda screws everything up and a lot of people die.

Then in Apocalypse we get it again. Charles talking to Jean and him seemingly helping her come into her power and control it. Not by messing with her mind but by not holding her back and trusting her.

Now this trailer seems to be showing Charles going “nah stuff that” and blocking Jean mind again and messing with her head.

I think they fully planned on doing more with this story. But maybe when they started getting into talks about selling, they doubled down on the effort and are just putting something together to wrap it up as they already had it planned and started.

They should have cut their loses after Apocalypse. Stuck with making movies set in the X-Men universe but be their own enclosed story. That seems to be doing well for them.

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Xavier didn’t suppress her powers. Read the official synopsis of the film.

https://www.foxmovies.com/movies/dark-phoenix

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And yet the trailer makes it seem like he does.

The synopsis doesn’t say if he does or doesn’t really.

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No, the trailer says he hid the truth from her.

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Yes hiding the truth like how he did in the other movies not hard to follow mate.

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I don’t know why they gave the film to a first-time director like Kinberg ... seriously crazy.

“Deadpool” was small-scale, low-budget and was worth the risk, whereas “Dark Phoenix” could kill the main movie X-Men brand.

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Wouldn’t be the first time Fox did this. Remember Alien 3?

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Well I for one couldn't be more delighted with this development...I fucking hate the X-Men, and nothing would make me happier than to see this movie franchise get flushed down the shitter.

And here's something else I find humorous, early trailers for the New Mutant movie have people saying that it is going to have the same dark, brooding, and depressing tone as Batman v Superman and The Justice League, so just let that sink in Marvel Zealots

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Why would that make you happy?

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