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Post by Mutant 77 on Aug 29, 2021 15:09:58 GMT
X1.
She generated a very strong wind and channeled lightnings across the room.
Note about the lightnings:
The room is lighting up through thunderbolts, but if you look on the wideshot when the room lights up, you can see it's lighting up from at least one of the florescent lights in the room, so my guess is the lightning surges are causing the lights to supercharge and emit more light, near their maximum, replicating the lightnings light up effects despite Storm not being in the room. This is Bryan Singer being "grounded" in his approach to superpowers.
My questions:
1- Does this sequence look epic and grand-scale to you?
2- Why did Storm display so much power against Toad? He's not Magneto LOL.
3- Did Toad die in your view?
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Aug 29, 2021 18:33:00 GMT
1) The low budget of that film really shows unfortunately. I like it a lot and consider it a classic- but the effects don’t exactly look great.
2) She hated that mofo and wanted to zap his slimey butt.
3) Yes
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Post by Vassaggo on Aug 29, 2021 23:09:42 GMT
The whole scene including the corny line about what happens to a toad when hit by lightning is just a pay off to a running joke that was cut. Toad throughout the movie was supposed to keep saying different scenarios with Toads. "Do you know what happens to toads when..." and he would try to explain what would happen. All of them got cut but the payoff stayed in. Before I knew that context that line/scene always felt meh.
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Post by Cat on Aug 30, 2021 19:07:44 GMT
To teach him a lesson.
'DON'T BE A BAD GUY!'
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Post by poutinep on Aug 30, 2021 22:34:03 GMT
The whole scene including the corny line about what happens to a toad when hit by lightning is just a pay off to a running joke that was cut. Toad throughout the movie was supposed to keep saying different scenarios with Toads. "Do you know what happens to toads when..." and he would try to explain what would happen. All of them got cut but the payoff stayed in. Before I knew that context that line/scene always felt meh. also, Halle Berry insisted on saying it the way she did
Storm's line about what happens to toads when they're struck by lightning was never intended to be delivered seriously. It was supposed to be a joke line, delivered in a tone like she was shrugging it off, "eh, the same thing that happens to everything else." Halle Berry insisted on saying it with a serious tone.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Aug 31, 2021 18:04:36 GMT
1) The low budget of that film really shows unfortunately. I like it a lot and consider it a classic- but the effects don’t exactly look great. Forget about the special effects: what about the cinematography of that sequence? It looks a bit "TV-like" to me. Must be the budget.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Sept 1, 2021 0:57:17 GMT
1) The low budget of that film really shows unfortunately. I like it a lot and consider it a classic- but the effects don’t exactly look great. Forget about the special effects: what about the cinematography of that sequence? It looks a bit "TV-like" to me. Must be the budget. Yeah the whole third act looks cheap AF. It really hurts the movie’s legacy. Also the short runtime. Could’ve done a lot with an additional 20-30 minutes. Otherwise I think it’s a pretty stellar comic book movie.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Sept 16, 2021 23:59:17 GMT
I agree. It's a pretty stellar comic book movie, despite the (relatively) low budget. And as you said, it needed an additional amount of 25 minutes for more action sequences in the final third act. I also feel that the roster needed at least one more X-Man.
That said, it was 100% groundbreaking and a classic of the modern era.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Sept 19, 2021 16:04:11 GMT
The first film has aged the worst of the entire series. It looks like a B-movie to me, and Brian Singer's legacy doesn't help it much either. The only thing saving it for me is the enormous amount of effort Jackman put into his role. He really sells it.
The storm/Toad sequence was one of the dopier moments in the film. The wirework reminds me of a cheap community theater production of Peter Pan I saw as a teen.
First Class and X-Men two are the only ones I can watch in a single sitting anymore. Half an hour into the others and I'm already thinking about what I'm doing next.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Sept 19, 2021 23:50:18 GMT
The storm/Toad sequence was one of the dopier moments in the film. The wirework reminds me of a cheap community theater production of Peter Pan I saw as a teen.
LOL. The special effects and the wirework of the Storm/Toad sequence were great for their own time. I was only concerned about the vast amount of power that Storm displayed against Toad in such occurrence; on the other hand, Movieverse Toad was as much strong and agile as Beast or even Wolverine, as well as having additional powers.
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