'X-Men - Color and Costumes' Video Essay by kaptainkristian

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The Guardians of the Galaxy were nowhere near as integral to the Marvel universe or were as itched in pop culture history as the X-Men were before their first movie. The characters featured in the film had been redesigned and repackaged for years, with varying personality traits and costuming. Creative liberties had to be taken to present the films as they are now, on the costume side of things some of the designs for the characters in the past might've been a bit too difficult to pull off on screen.

Pay attention to what I actually said. I said Gunn has a genuine love of COMICS. Notice the general term I used there. I never said he was a huge fan of Guardians, but he did take the time to read what he was adapting, unlike Singer. In fact, Gunn demonstrates being quite knowledgable of comics through both films if you bothered to pay any sort of attention.

Actually, whether or not each and every character has development and an arc is relevant, because you see, even if the Guardians don't perfectly line up with their comic counterparts, that's still better than how Singer has treated most of the X-Men characters. And you wanna know what else? Multiple fans of the FoX-Men films, including mellomoviereview, have admitted that if Singer and Fox were in charge of the MCU, they'd have treated Ironman the way they treat Wolverine, and Captain America the way they treated Cyclops. So do not continue to try insisting that the X-Men films are respectful in any way, shape, or form when the MCU at large has taken great pains to be as true as they can be most of the time.

"Because I didn't watch the movie. So I don't have an opinion on Ego. Plus it's not relevant to my point."
And we're done. If you can't even muster the decency to have seen the film we're comparing and arguing over, then there is no reason to continue.

Oh, and I criticized nothing unwittingly. I'm not a fan of God Loves Man Kills or Return to Weapon X, either. Not that X-Men 2 was an even remotely good adaptation of either one. Two stories that don't hold up that well were made into a movie that doesn't hold up that well. What a surprise. And what they did to poor Lady Deathstrike is EMBARRASSING. So a film that's obsessed with uncovering Wolverine's shady past includes a character that's A PART of that past and then casts out everything she had to do with Wolvy's past. Huh. Fuck Singer.

It does nothing of the sort.

The black costumes (with highlights) worked fine in the original saga, but I do wish the newer movies would have used something like the more classic costumes.  The ending of Apocalypse showed some decent costumes that could have worked throughout the new films.  

But in the end, it's not a make-or-break thing for me.  These movies are more like sci-fi adventures than straight-up superhero films.  So it has a more sci-fi look to it.  Whatevs.

Doesn't mean you're "ashamed" of the source material (don't be such a bitch, yo).  Just means you want the look to fit the tone.  Colorful costumes wouldn't have fit the tone of the original film, which was a sci-fi story about a segment of humanity that regular humans hate just trying to fight to be respected.

The yellow spandex line in X-Men(2000) does sound like a jab at its comic roots than a nice reference-in-passing.  I mean, it is kind of awkward - why say the color yellow and not green or purple if it wasn't intended to criticize the source material? 

I don't see why having much more colorful costumes like in the comics would've hurt the legitimacy of the stories from the movies, even in the weaker ones. The comic books also told serious science fiction stories with costumes still intact and it didn't hurt the tone they were establishing. 

That's because they put no effort into adapting the comic costumes in the first place.

Cap was guaranteed a lot of attention no matter? Tell that to Reb Brown and Matt Salinger.

"Lady Deathstrike is not Wolverine's ex-lover like in the animated series, if that is what you are thinking."
Oh, look, someone's missing the forest for the trees. Again. You're good at that. So basically, you're okay with having a character's entire... character removed, just so the writers and director don't have to put out any effort into them, right? Got it. You are an embarrassment to the X-Men fandom.