DARK PHOENIX FULL MOVIE MOVIE

She was Xavier’s protegee, Cyclops’s girlfriend, by turns nursemaid and muse to the rest of the team. In the X-Men comics, Jean Grey is a complex and frustrating character, one whose Silver-Age origin under the pen of Stan Lee mean she spent her formative years defined almost entirely by her relationships to the men with whom she shared the page. But Jean - or what was later retconned to be the Phoenix wearing Jean’s face and memories - is the story’s core. It’s also about the X-Men, about friendship and family, about power and corruption. I want to tell you how, at the end of its convoluted life, the lumbering half-rotted behemoth that is the X-Men cinematic franchise caught a spark and rose blazing into the night sky and all of what I had thought was dead weight fueled something bright and brilliant and new.Īt its heart, The Dark Phoenix Saga - the legendary comics arc on which Dark Phoenix is based - is a story about Jean Grey. I want this to be a story about second chances.

DARK PHOENIX FULL MOVIE MOVIE

Even in a line full of retcons and reboots, second chances as literal as this one - the same source material as a previous movie in the same series, revisited by the same writer - are virtually unheard of. The whole show is a study in the grinding mundanity of disappointment, which made it an ideal chaser to Dark Phoenix.Īfter 19 years of Fox’s X-Men, I’ve gotten very good at managing my own expectations - but I so desperately wanted this movie to be good.

I’m a latecomer to the Bojack zeitgeist - I’m just now making my way through the third season - and there’s something about its bleakness that I find profoundly reassuring. On Monday, I went to the press screening of Dark Phoenix and then I came home and watched three hours of Bojack Horseman.

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