EvaUnit02 on 12/2/2011 at 20:21
Are you purposely being thick? All of the Fox X-Men films are set in the same fucking continuity.
Batman didn't kill the Joker in 1989's Burton film anyway. WINNAR of a snipe there, brah!
Fafhrd on 12/2/2011 at 21:29
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Are you purposely being thick? All of the Fox X-Men films are set in the same fucking continuity.
Except this one. Which is a reboot. That's why they dropped the 'X-Men Origins' label and went with the established reboot naming convention: Batman
Begins::X-Men
First Class.
And the Wolverine franchise is, by all accounts, going to turn into a series of continuity free one-offs instead of one continuous serial story. Aranofsky's 'The Wolverine' isn't going to have anything to do with the Weapon X program or Stryker, for instance, and instead be taken entirely from Wolverine's adventures in Japan (and rumour is that Jackman has threatened the studio that if there's any interference to the degree there was on 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' that he'll walk from the character, since he's not under any contractual obligation to keep making Wolverine movies).
EvaUnit02 on 13/2/2011 at 00:38
(
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Poniverse/news/?a=21023) It's a prequel, not a reboot. You'd think that with the blatant visual references to Stewart's and McKellen's takes on Xavier and Magneto at the very beginning of the trailer, it would be fucking obvious to everyone.
Fafhrd on 13/2/2011 at 02:03
Fox marketing in 'using established iconography for an audience hook' shocker. More at eleven.
EvaUnit02 on 13/2/2011 at 02:40
yeah, let's completely ignore the link where the film director himself confirms that it's a prequel.
Oh, but by all means keep living in denial. Use whatever security blanket helps you get to sleep at night, brah.
Muzman on 13/2/2011 at 06:23
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Batman didn't kill the Joker in 1989's Burton film anyway
No, er, gravity did?
EvaUnit02 on 13/2/2011 at 10:35
Batman didn't murder him. In fact he even tried to save the fella, but obviously failed.
It reminds me of Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin being impaled by his own death glider, in Spider-Man.
Muzman on 13/2/2011 at 11:23
While his responsibility is somewhat indirect he really doesn't have any regard for the guy's survival.
First Bats punches him off the side of the bell tower, then he shackles him to statue when he tries to get away in the helicopter.
Sg3 on 14/2/2011 at 03:26
I've always been perplexed by most superheros' reluctance to kill the bad guy; they generally instead choose to let him continue running around killing masses of people and such. Iron Man is the most notable exception. Judging from the movie, he had a more effective method of dealing with the villains.
