Tag: StuffIveDone

Longtime X-Men fans have bemoaned the fact this summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past sends Wolverine back in time to prevent a particularly dystopian future instead of Kitty Pryde, who served that role in the original comic version of the story. But what if there’s more going on than people suspected?

And on the other side of the spectrum from Amazing Spider-Man 2, has Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past managed to keep a major plot point entirely secret all this time, only to reveal it a couple of months before release?

Me at Hollywood Reporter.

Six weeks ahead of release, all the big Amazing Spider-Man 2 reveals appear to have been spoiled by Sony’s promotion for the film. How many pre-release previews of a movie is too many?

Me at Time.

Worth noting: I mixed Harry and Norman Osborn up, I know. I need to email editors to fix.

Veronica Mars might have been a better movie if it didn’t pay so much attention to catering to fans’ wishes.

Again from last week, as I took aim at the level of fan service in the Veronica Mars movie.

Everyone remembers the 1970s Muppet Show with Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy—but what about the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s revivals? Here’s what you missed.

From last week, back when people were interested in the new Muppet movie – how innocent we were! – I wrote about the three attempts to revive The Muppet Show that people don’t remember.

As the latest trailer makes clear, there’s a lot at stake for X-Men: Days of Future Past. “We now find ourselves on the edge of extinction,” one character tells the audience. “We’ve been given a second chance,” says another. As suitably melodramatic as that sounds as the core of a time-travel movie, there’s a meta-commentary to such dialogue, pointing to the future of the X-Men movie franchise itself and the possibility to re-imagine its future in the wake of this summer’s installment.

From yesterday, from me at THR: Can X-Men: Days of Future Past help Fox remake the X-Men movie franchise to lose the dead weight of those first three films?

New pictures from the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron have given us the first chance to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen in costume as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, respectively, as well as a glimpse at a proto Ultron himself — or, at least, a stand-in for the final version. But what do these pictures actually reveal about the second Avengers movie? Here are four potential takeaways.

In which I complain about Quicksilver’s hair, speculate on the lack of any Avengers outside of Hawkeye on set and pre-emptively bitch about Ultron looking like a robot man.