10 Things Fans Don't Want To Accept About Fox's X-Men Movies
2. When It Comes To Casting, The X-Men Movies Ruled
Ask some fans about the X-Men movies, and they'll happily tell you all about Hugh Jackman being too tall to play Wolverine, while declaring that Jennifer Lawrence was just plain ungrateful for not wanting to spend hours in the makeup chair to play a blue Mystique. Famke Janssen as Jean Grey? Not sexy enough. Halle Berry? She's no Goddess! Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool? He's just playing himself...
The point is, the X-Men cast have endlessly come under fire for not perfectly lining up with the comic books in terms of casting, but Marvel Studios has taken just as many liberties. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man has a vastly different personality to his comic book counterpart's prior to 2008, while Thor isn't a wise-cracking doofus in the source material last time we checked.
The X-Men movies actually did such a tremendous job with casting that any reboot will struggle to compete with them. How can Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, or James Marsden ever truly be topped?
Oscar Isaac may have looked daft as En Sabah Nur in X-Men: Apocalypse, but behind the makeup, he delivered a powerful performance with the material he was given. Many fans frequently overlook this, though, and instead focus on the negatives rather than praising a cast of actors any franchise would kill to put the spotlight on.