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26 Nov 2008, 11:15 pm

Does anyone else feel like the mutants in the X-Men movies? The "normal" people want us cured, but we are NOT a disease. being "different" doesn't mean we're going to attack people or rob a bank. Some of us want to get along with the "normal" people. Some want us to educate each other on living in a "normal" person's world. Some want to eradicate the "normal" people (I felt this way some days).

What do you guys and gals think? Do you feel like that kid trying to cut off his angel wings some days? How about Magneto?



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27 Nov 2008, 3:12 am

ForsakenEagle wrote:
Does anyone else feel like the mutants in the X-Men movies? The "normal" people want us cured, but we are NOT a disease. being "different" doesn't mean we're going to attack people or rob a bank. Some of us want to get along with the "normal" people. Some want us to educate each other on living in a "normal" person's world. Some want to eradicate the "normal" people (I felt this way some days).

What do you guys and gals think? Do you feel like that kid trying to cut off his angel wings some days? How about Magneto?


Remember, it's just a movie.



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27 Nov 2008, 12:10 pm

Its funny how often this topic comes up, I think one of the last times I was quoting Magneto, and some of the people just go "Its only a movie" sort of thing, but I feel it is relevant, I sure feel like a mutant some times.


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27 Nov 2008, 1:05 pm

mutie and Aspie rhyme! :roll:


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27 Nov 2008, 5:07 pm

slowmutant wrote:
Remember, it's just a movie.


Yeah, as if I was taking a movie seriously. :roll:

I was making a comparison. Move along.



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27 Nov 2008, 8:02 pm

I like Rogue.

Magneto sounds an interesting villain. I actually have not seen any of the films in full.


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28 Nov 2008, 9:11 am

Bradleigh wrote:
Its funny how often this topic comes up, I think one of the last times I was quoting Magneto, and some of the people just go "Its only a movie" sort of thing, but I feel it is relevant, I sure feel like a mutant some times.


It's just a movie. Stay in touch with reality.



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28 Nov 2008, 9:53 am

slowmutant wrote:
Bradleigh wrote:
Its funny how often this topic comes up, I think one of the last times I was quoting Magneto, and some of the people just go "Its only a movie" sort of thing, but I feel it is relevant, I sure feel like a mutant some times.


It's just a movie. Stay in touch with reality.

The bibles only a book, and no Xmen has been in a lot more media then just a movie. :P


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28 Nov 2008, 10:27 am

Bradleigh wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
Bradleigh wrote:
Its funny how often this topic comes up, I think one of the last times I was quoting Magneto, and some of the people just go "Its only a movie" sort of thing, but I feel it is relevant, I sure feel like a mutant some times.


It's just a movie. Stay in touch with reality.

The bibles only a book, and no Xmen has been in a lot more media then just a movie. :P


Touche.



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28 Nov 2008, 4:48 pm

I never though about that when I watched the films. I guess you can say that there's a comparison. 8)



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28 Nov 2008, 6:39 pm

You know I sometimes wish I had adamantium claws like Wolverine



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29 Nov 2008, 7:03 am

Me too.

Wolverine is my favourite. I really enjoyed how Hugh Jackman played him in the X-Men movies. Although there was one ealy scene in Part I of the trilogy, Logan as shirtless
cage-fighter in a bar in was supposed to be Canada ... a very un-Canadian setting. It was a really awesome scene, though. Has anyone wondered exactly how Wolverine extends and retracts his claws? What makes them go in and out of his forearms?



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29 Nov 2008, 7:03 am

I really like the X-men.


Maybe it's because I can associate with them for not feeling like everyone else in the world and not being completely like everyone esle.



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29 Nov 2008, 7:46 am

slowmutant wrote:
Me too.

Wolverine is my favourite. I really enjoyed how Hugh Jackman played him in the X-Men movies. Although there was one ealy scene in Part I of the trilogy, Logan as shirtless
cage-fighter in a bar in was supposed to be Canada ... a very un-Canadian setting. It was a really awesome scene, though. Has anyone wondered exactly how Wolverine extends and retracts his claws? What makes them go in and out of his forearms?

Well acording to a game I got which was suposed to be about Wolverine his original powers wer not just regeneration and animal instincts but also but also the ability to make bone claws come out of his hands, so it is part of his power and when he got metal grafted to his bones his claws got it aswell. Though there is going to be Wolverine movie being released which will show mutants like Sabertooth, the Blob, and one I have been looking forward to Gambit.


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29 Nov 2008, 8:53 am

ForsakenEagle, im pretty sure that has been one of the biggest selling points of the franchise, i have seen many articles about how the frictions between mutants and humans in x-men reflect real life problems such as racism, sexism and other social problems and know that many of the fans relate to such problems... that and x-men is awesome xD

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slowmutant wrote:
Me too.

Wolverine is my favourite. I really enjoyed how Hugh Jackman played him in the X-Men movies. Although there was one ealy scene in Part I of the trilogy, Logan as shirtless
cage-fighter in a bar in was supposed to be Canada ... a very un-Canadian setting. It was a really awesome scene, though. Has anyone wondered exactly how Wolverine extends and retracts his claws? What makes them go in and out of his forearms?

Well acording to a game I got which was suposed to be about Wolverine his original powers wer not just regeneration and animal instincts but also but also the ability to make bone claws come out of his hands, so it is part of his power and when he got metal grafted to his bones his claws got it aswell. Though there is going to be Wolverine movie being released which will show mutants like Sabertooth, the Blob, and one I have been looking forward to Gambit.


yeah it should be early next year if i remember right, i can hardly wait :D there's a magneto film planned aswell which should be really interesting.



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29 Nov 2008, 9:04 am

slowmutant wrote:
It's just a movie. Stay in touch with reality.


slowmutant, nobody is taking the movie seriously. Stop trying to correct people who are only making comparisons to their own lives (which, I might add, are about the discrimination of the mutants, and not about actually being a mutant).