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Post #1549742

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rajdmc
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X-Men: The Dark Stand (released)
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Date created
6-Aug-2023, 6:30 PM

Hey Cameron Samurai, just wanted to give you props too for another great edit…on paper its a crazy idea to try and stitch together two/three films made nearly 15 years apart, but you found the common threads, and somehow it works!

A couple of thoughts I had while watching…

  • to give more weight to Scott & Jean’s relationship and their reunion at the end where they look into each other’s eyes, I would’ve liked to see more young Scott/Jean earlier on…after opening credits, maybe have the scene I think from Apocalypse where Scott’s brother has brought him to the School and he bumps into Jean in the hallway where they have a heated discussion, followed by later when they’re outside and Hank gives Scott the glasses he made, and Scott sees Jean for the first time and they talk about both being outsiders…nice to see where they started, and where they end up

  • this intro could then be followed by a short montage of training / team-building before the X-Men are called upon to go into space [nicely echoed by the Danger Room training bit later in the edit with the next gen X-Men]…in my mind, this montage could possibly replace the flash-forward, though elements could be brought in later…rather than have this ‘flash’ this early in the film, echoing AhsokatheChosenOne’s comments, perhaps add a scene of Logan waking up from a nightmare at the Mansion later in the edit (utilising the Weapon X experiment scenes from Origins / X-Men 1, inserting a flash of Jean calming his mind)…so the fragmented sequence is from his perspective, not Jean’s…maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t…

  • I’d almost forgotten the Logan forest fight scene in X3, but seeing he’s running in a white vest, I thought there’s gotta be a way of editing in the forest Beserker scenes from the Logan film, where he’s running in a white vest! It may not be the cleanest AND I know he’s aged AND his vest is more bloody in Logan…but with some quick clever editing, I’m sure there’s a way of punching up your edit to a R rating!

Really appreciate your efforts dude. Thank you!