Then I hope the deal never happens. For me 'Despecialised' Star Wars OT =
. At least for me. After you've tried the special editions you never want to go back.
News FOX selling out to Disney?
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. At least for me. After you've tried the special editions you never want to go back.
My friend at work is a huge X-Men fan and she can't wait for Fox to lose the movie rights.
I don't mind the Fox movies, but would be very happy for Marvel to get everything back.
Sounds like the Federal Trade Commission still has antitrust laws that would keep Disney from swallowing up everything:
https://www.cbr.com/antitrust-laws-disney-fox-deal/
But there might still be a possibility of Disney getting some Fox properties, like the Marvel characters and the Star Wars distribution rights, while the rest of the film studio could be sold off to somebody else.
https://www.cbr.com/antitrust-laws-disney-fox-deal/
But there might still be a possibility of Disney getting some Fox properties, like the Marvel characters and the Star Wars distribution rights, while the rest of the film studio could be sold off to somebody else.
Then I hope the deal never happens. For me 'Despecialised' Star Wars OT =
You might literally be the first person who has said this in the history of the internet. Also your opinion makes no sense. Release the movies in their original form will not make the newer edited versions disappear.
I'd like the original material reinserted to the new versions, but renovated to the same standard.
Problem is, I actually LIKE a few of the revisions. Could we have a branching version whereby you can pick your own scenes ?
Oh please, this excuse gets hurled around too much. If they were combined the big difference for X-Men would be that the portrayal of prejudice would now have be nuanced instead of the 1-D portrayal it usually gets.
The X-Men movies are almost all one note affairs. They can't move past Magneto and Mystique. They're almost as bad as the first 5 Spider-Man movies in their repetitiveness.
I agree traditionally, but I do think recent movies such as Logan and potentially with New Mutants suggest that Fox is learning.
^ Despite my criticism of the X-Men movies in the post above the post above, I do agree with what Alidar Jarok is saying here. Logan and Deadpool were absolutely changes of pace for the genre, and New Mutants looks to be doing something different as well. However, the main X-Men series itself is, has been, and looks like it's going to continue to be stagnating around Magneto and Mystique.
Hopefully these laws are enforced. Regardless of the fanboys, this new cycle of corporate media consolidation can't be good.
I'm basing it on the fact that the revised editions seem to be thoroughly reviled by many fans and I fear that what apparently happened with 'ET' could happen to them. For those who don't know, apparently a few years ago there was a screening of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' attended by Stephen Spielberg & Harrison Ford and during a Q & A, questions turned to what George Lucas had done with the 'Star Wars' OT in particular the Han shooting Greedo scene and from there to what Spielberg himself did with 'ET' in 2004, substituting 'walkie-talkies' for guns etc. As a result he put it to the audience what to do about 'ET' when it eventually came time to release it on Blu-Ray and the audience were overwhelmingly in favour of releasing the theatrical cut. Spielberg allegedly replied to the audience, saying something like 'Okay'. Instead of releasing both versions of 'ET' using seamless branching and leaving it up to the viewer as to which version you may like to watch which is what you can do for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' which exists in three different versions on Blu-Ray and is what Relayer1 suggests should be done with the 'Star Wars' OT. I would be fine with that by the way.
Then there's the director's cut of 'ST:TMP'. I know that there's a different reason behind that not being released on Blu-Ray but I still think that CBS/Paramount are held back by the perception that fans of the films don't like the newer cut based on part on their reaction to the 'Star Wars' special editions.
I think what it is is that I've seen the theatrical cuts of films like 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek TMP' and my personal favourite 'Superman-the-Movie' not to mention the broadcast version of 'Star Trek TOS' episodes so many times that watching them with extra scenes and/or enhanced special effects just makes them better for me. I can't remember the last time I watched the theatrical/broadcast versions of any of the examples I just named. I hope I didn't offend any OT fans with my comment, I just feel its all one way traffic when it comes to theatrical versions of films that have been given the extended/special edition treatment.
As for the topic at hand, were the merger to go ahead I'd welcome integrating the 'Fantastic Four' & 'X-Men' into the MCU.
I prefer a Han Solo that, not only shoots first, but is the only one who shoots. I also prefer him not to have a rubber neck like Mr. Fantastic or Plastic Man.Then I hope the deal never happens. For me 'Despecialised' Star Wars OT =
I wouldn't hold my breath on this happening, even if FOX did end up selling everything to Disney.
Well, since FOX is just sputtering with the X-Men films, I'd love for Marvel to get them. then, we could have a main X-Men movie that doesn't just forget its an ensemble film to focus on one actor/character over everyone else. It did ok when that actor was Hugh jackman, but Mystique/Jennifer Lawrence leading Apocalypse was one of the biggest problems with that movie. Let the MCU get it, then reboot that whole series completely (outside of Deadpool, but he's so disconnected that he wouldn't need to be changed, plus a reboot could make his version of Colossus, who is actually russian and interesting, canon to the X-Men universe).
As for Star Wars, the unmodified OT is, in my opinion based off seeing it on pre-special edition VHS copies, inferior. Its missing too much of the stuff I like about the OT (mostly small things like Biggs/Luke meewting before they go into space, but the little things add up) and it doesn't look as good (say what you want about that terrible Jabba the hutt scene, most of the visual changes were improvements, like making bewspin actually look impressive). that said, I'd be fine with the unmodified OT being available for those who want it.
I'd actually like to see all the versions get released, so I could get my personal favorite version (the first special edition) and not have to have things like hearing Vader yell "NOOOO" in RotJ or see R2's magic rock trick in ANH. Avatar had a Blu Ray release with a bunch of different versions, so have a few other movies. It would probably print a good amount of money for Disney, so if they could do it I think it would be cool.
As for Star Wars, the unmodified OT is, in my opinion based off seeing it on pre-special edition VHS copies, inferior. Its missing too much of the stuff I like about the OT (mostly small things like Biggs/Luke meewting before they go into space, but the little things add up) and it doesn't look as good (say what you want about that terrible Jabba the hutt scene, most of the visual changes were improvements, like making bewspin actually look impressive). that said, I'd be fine with the unmodified OT being available for those who want it.
I'd actually like to see all the versions get released, so I could get my personal favorite version (the first special edition) and not have to have things like hearing Vader yell "NOOOO" in RotJ or see R2's magic rock trick in ANH. Avatar had a Blu Ray release with a bunch of different versions, so have a few other movies. It would probably print a good amount of money for Disney, so if they could do it I think it would be cool.
The Multiverse is the only way I can see X-Men fitting into the larger MCU going forward and to be fair the multiverse helps the Netflix shows too IMO.
I think this will depend on how Disney brands them, as long as they keep the FX/Fox names, or at least something that isn't explicitly Disney they'll probably be safe. Remember, Disney own Miramax for almost 20 years and in that time released a lot of very, very R rated movies including stuff by people like Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. If Disney was comfortable releasing things like Clerks, Pulp Fiction, and From Dusk 'Til Dawn through Miramax, I'm pretty sure they'll be fine with things like American Horror Story, Atlanta, and Baskets.