If we say that last year's "X-Men: Black Phoenix" has already kicked the Fox "X-Men" movie universe, which has been working hard for 20 years, into the grave; while "New Mutants" has to go to the grave. , Stomping a few more feet to make the unfinished end of this epoch-making superhero series more thorough.
The success or failure of the movie "New Mutants" is all about the word "new". It was originally regarded as a new fulcrum to expand the X-Men movie universe, but the results presented, whether it is a new storyline of hip-flooding, a new character that is not well-prepared, or a new nondescript style, it has indeed been updated." The lower limit of the "X-Men" series of movies.
Audiences who have not seen the X-Men comics should find it difficult to get the connection between "New Mutants" and the X-Men series of movies. Although every second of the filming process is looking forward to the next moment there will be an Easter egg that can be used with the main story, but in fact, even if you are the reincarnation of Leeuwenhoek, you have to look upside down and watch it several times before you find a little bit of grass. Snake gray line.
The biggest reason why the story line of the movie "The New Mutants" looks small and digressive is that the key character-Mr. Fright has been cut off.
The man in the comics is a British geneticist who was born in the Victorian era. After being transformed into a mutant by Apocalypse, he was included in the villain's command. Mr. Evil can not only extract the superpowers of other mutants to genetically modify himself, but also realize the clone of mutant individuals, with the force value not losing to heavyweight villains such as Apocalypse and Sentinel.
In the comics, Professor X, Wolverine, Laser Eye, and Phoenix Girl were all his research objects. If they are really aligned, I am afraid that the righteous side will not be able to fight.
After the boss of Apocalypse overturned, Mr. Evil stepped on his foot relentlessly. After that, he developed his own Essex company and continued his research on mutant cloning.
In the egg in the movie "X-Men: Apocalypse", Essex Company appeared in the movie universe for the first time and took the blood sample of Wolverine. The X23 and X24 that appeared in "Wolverine 3" are also obviously different from this egg. related. "Deadpool 2" also implies that the transformation of Deadpool may have some mysterious connection with Essex.
In general, Mr. Fright and his Essex company can be said to be a dark line buried in the "X-Men" movie universe. The branch line and the main line are twisted into one unit, connecting the top and the bottom by the way.
As you can see in the movie, the villain, Mr. Fright, played by Joe Hamm, was hacked away without a trace, and Essex was also covered up. The existence of the villain can almost only be relied on by the little villain Reyes. A few lines of instructions in the doctor's work computer. Even though the fast flashback that Moon Star saw revealed the Essex label, it was also endless.
There is no key villain to balance the plot, "New Mutants" can only revolve around five young mutants with no fan base almost from beginning to end, and can't hold up the scale of a qualified superhero movie.
The film length of more than ninety minutes, although compared with other large commercial productions, it is already a pocket condensed version, but the more than ninety minutes of "New Mutants" is like a high school trying to make up the word count. Health composition.
Every character has to twist and talk about the plot, whether it is in touch or not, but it does not go into deep discussion. The whole story can be said to be a collection of old-fashioned exaggeration, serious water injection, fragmentation and other flaws.
The foundation of the story is poor, and the skeleton has basically collapsed by more than half. I didn't expect the characters to be portrayed less forcefully, making the whole movie even more boring. The five young mutants Mystery, Wolfe, Cannon, Sunspot, and Moon Star are actually just second-tier heroes that are not very popular in the X-Men series.
Originally, "New Mutants" planned to learn the routines of "Guardians of the Galaxy" next door, pack and group to suck fans, and return to the main storyline, but it is a pity that the excavation of each character is too superficial and superficial. The result was self-defeating.
Moonstar’s superpowers in the movie can visualize what people fear, and this setting has become a life-saving straw for screenwriters to be lazy. The inner world of each character can be revealed very straightforwardly through this setting, which can not only inject water into the plot, but also create a high-powered style of going inside.
However, repeating the monotonous psychological fear over and over again not only scared the young girls into a daze and stiff, but also squeezed a large amount of the time of the plot that shaped the characters such as dialogue and interaction, making it completely reduced to a running account.
The flat characterization wastes the star-studded cast of "The New Mutants", and the acting skills of several young actors can only slightly save the arc of the role.
Recently, Anya Taylor-Joy, who used "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing", once again showed her charm in this film, playing Miker, a teenage girl, beautiful and sassy, and the fragility under the appearance of rebellious and proud indulgence is just right.
And the transformation of Maisie Williams, who played the role of "Second Girl", of Wolf Poison, from the brave and stubborn little wolf daughter in "Game of Thrones" to the now sensitive LGBT mutant girl, also let the audience watching her grow up. By the time she grew up from a child star to a professional actor.
Although Charlie Heaton, the actor of Cannon, doesn't have many roles, he can also see the improvement of his acting skills since the American drama "Stranger Things". The unique British melancholy not only added a lot of points to the character, but also made him dubbed the title of "Little Plum 2.0".
The original story of the X-Men was born in the 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement in the United States, and the setting of mutants bears the shadow of ethnic minorities and minority groups. This kind of commendable political consciousness also makes the X-Men series become Marvel's most thoughtful trump card works.
However, when it comes to "New Mutants", the X-Men comics and later movies that strive to balance political and commercial entertainment are all completely laid on the table. Aborigines, minorities, LGBTQ, religions Persecution, imprisonment, child abuse, etc., are really a hodgepodge of perfect match and rich content.
Even if the audience can endure the film’s breaking of the once implicit metaphorical narrative techniques, they will not be able to bear the chaos of various political symbols behind the chaos, ramifications and far-fetched characterization and plot advancement, in order to shout slogans have been reckless and unreasonable. Not logical.
The director of the film "The New Mutants", Josh Boone, started his career with "The Mistakes in the Stars", and Foss picked him for his mastery of youth style. But in fact, there are many styles of youth, and the director is obviously better at beautiful pure love youth stories.
But the film party seems to want to challenge the clown's soul-returning horror + superhero smashing fight + the ultimate complex evolution version of the youth cruel story, which is preferably a little ambiguous.
But in the end, the horror relies on the low-level jump scare and the soundtrack, and the fighting scenes are lackluster except for Anja Taylor-Joy's brilliant play of the Soul Blade. The special effects are even more like a page game with a level of 999 explosive equipment. The emotional lines of boys and girls are also chaotic and abrupt, and they want everything but make themselves into four different things.
If Hollywood is to select the most ill-fated movies, "New Mutants" must be among the best. The film crew's crude intervention in the creation is just the tip of the iceberg. From writing the script to casting to filming and re-shooting, there have been twists and turns. There was even news that "New Mutants" would be hidden in the snow.
Later, Foss was acquired by the wealthy Disney. Although the copyright of the X-Men can be regarded as returning to the arms of Marvel, the X-Men movie universe that had not had time to unfold before was slashed.
Of course, "The New Mutants", which is an important branch of the mountain, is even worse. The originally planned "Trilogy of New Mutants" was killed when the news of the acquisition just came out, and other titles such as "The King of Cards" and "X Commando" were also cut after the copyright changed to Disney.
Because of the change of owner and the global epidemic, "New Mutants" has gone through five shifts. From April 2017 to August of this year, it also experienced a long time of streaming media and repeated horizontal jumps between theaters, and it was not easy to meet the audience in the end.
All kinds of epic-level horse-grabbing and embarrassment outside the film also gave people a hint of sympathy while being responded to by this "New Mutants": After all, "X The "Men" movie universe will always be remembered by fans and fans, and the new X-Men movie that will return to Marvel in the future is also highly anticipated.
Only the "New Mutants", which was in the cracks between the time and the place, became the target of the audience to spit out the fire. After that, except for occasionally being pulled out to support "X-Men: Black Phoenix", most of the time it was destined to be Was slowly forgotten.
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