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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archetype" data-source="post: 2851673" data-attributes="member: 40688">Read the comic, ignore the movie...Well, you won't get a better understanding of the character from the new X-Men III movie, that's for sure...The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of my better comic-book-reading-days memories.  Maybe it was just the time period  (Early 80's), before many risks were being taken with firmly established characters in comics.  But the story arc of corrupting, then losing a "main character" was unheard of at the time.   And quite a good read.  Of course, it was filled with a lot of silly comic-book trappings that bogged  down the plausablility of the story (setting the final confrontation on the moon,  Dark Phoenix consuming a whole star system to satiate her lust, etc), so I was hoping the movie would  pare this mythic story down to it's essentials.  And it does this to some extent.  The idea of Jean Grey being a super-powerful "Class Five" mutant from the moment her powers manifested,  but Professor X clamping them down with "psychic circuit breakers"  to supress that power was  a clever device (adapted differently from a  later comic plotline).  It threw out the need for Claremont's whole "universal Dark/Light Phoenix Lifeforce avatar " gobbledigook.  If the movie had actually followed thru on the new premise that "Phoenix" was the name of the split personality which Jean Grey created to handle and personify the untamable power she possesed, it would have been an excellent movie device.  Instead they blew all their creative "efforts" on making sure that Dark Phoenix had a scary FX-heavy appearance to try and illustrate her "corruption."  Bleh.  Doesn't anyone in Hollywood know how to *write* a script anymore...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Why didn't Phoenix have any real dialogue about her transformation?  Ok, Claremont's "I am Life, I am Fire, I am Phoenix!"  overwriting would not have worked as movie-quality lines, but we should have had *something* spoken from the "Dark Phoenix" perspective that indicated she was a separate, barely-contained emotional tigress, drunk with the limitless scope of her power.Instead, we got Famke Jannsen standing around the set,  seeming uncomfortable in her red dominatrix-inspired costume,  placed well for the blue-screen effects but looking lost, as if she is trying to find the teleprompter for her lines.  What  a waste.</blockquote>

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