![]() ![]() ![]() Jean first died by using her powers to save the crew of a spaceship (including the other X-Men). The story of Jean Grey-Phoenix, and then Dark Phoenix-is one peak of that long effort. And sometimes it stood for gender and sexuality: The X-Men were, if not always purposefully feminist, at least compatible with feminism, one of the first mainstream comics where multiple women could wield tremendous power without becoming wicked stepmothers, temptresses, or impediments to some guy’s heroic journey. Sometimes the mutant metaphor stood for disability less often, and less successfully, for race. “ Hated and feared,” they represented out-groups, people who might be shunned or derided or persecuted no matter what they could do. The X-Men became the most successful superhero comics of the 1980s not just because writer Chris Claremont and his collaborators told exciting stories, but also because these mutant outcasts meant something. Writer and director Simon Kinberg’s second attempt to bring the influential comics storyline to the screen, after the widely derided X-Men: The Last Stand, the new movie falters in ways that show what’s great about the original, why these 40-year-old comics resonate today. The world-beating first Avengers movie did all sorts of numbers on the fun, but stiff and shallow, 1960s comic where those heroes first teamed up.ĭark Phoenix proves the point from the other direction. Nobody thinks Everybody Comes to Rick’s as good as Casablanca, or Mario Puzo’s Godfather the equal of Coppola’s. ![]() It’s tempting-not always accurate, but tempting-to say that mediocre source material makes for the best movie adaptations. The Hit Netflix Movie That Plays a Real-Life Tragedy as a Twist The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in August The Best Part of Oppenheimer? Definitely the Guy From The Santa Clause. Ī Controversial New Movie Got One of the First NC-17 Ratings in Years, and Boy Did It Earn It This article contains spoilers for Dark Phoenix. ![]()
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