The_root_of_all_evil said:
Gildan Bladeborn said:
Anyhow, I'd be more ambivalent/upset about this film if I wasn't aware that there are (or at least was, I couldn't tell you if that series is still running) X-Men comics out there that do exactly what this script proposes to do: throw out all the established backstory and reinvent everything in a new context that is just similar enough to the old stuff to make existing fans immensely irritated.
TBF, there's the
Elseworlds(DC) and
What If?(Marvel) that have been doing that for years.
I just find the idea of hastily bolting the latest IP onto a slush pile script to be repulsive.
Oh certainly, there's the whole "Alternate reality" one-offs and what-if scenarios that play out in the comics, and the entire DC-Universe official canon is practically a mobius strip of ret-cons at this point. The offender in question that I was ranting about wasn't one of those though - I can't remember what they were calling it but it was basically presented as a full on
reboot of the X-Men, tossing out everything that came before and re-appropriating the more well-known character's likenesses and powers to create "new" (worse) versions of the originals. And then they would wholesale re-purpose older material seemingly
just so they could re-tell it
wrong, and make me
bloody infuriated.
*Excuse me whilst I Google...*
Aha! It appears I am ranting about the
Ultimate X-Men, just another part of the whole "Ultimate Marvel" initiative that I loathe utterly with every fiber in my being. I picked up the first trade paperback of that series and
all I could think was "What the hell is this bullshit?! Why would they do this?! So much rage!!!" and I never read another issue after that. My cursory research tells me that other people like that crap, but the bit of my brain that shrieks "That never happened! That's wrong!" just can't be reasoned with.
With the films though they've been getting things wrong from the word go if you examine them from the perspective of a canonical stickler, so a new film that continues to get things wrong (but in different ways!) isn't quite so horrible in the grand scheme of things. Would I prefer they make a movie that's set in some entirely new IP with that plot rather than co-opt the X-Men? Oh hell yes, but even the
good X-Men films were never very faithful to the comics except in the broadest of strokes; that makes it hard for me to get too angry at them for shit like this (the Spider-Man reboot on the other hand... yeah... [small]
Kill it with fire![/small]).