Just a general response. I might have said some of this before. I thought the SFX were okay. Good enough, even for a blockbuster. What I mean is I didn't cringe at any point during the movie. It looked real enough to me, but as I think I said, I'm an easy sell for movies. It doesn't take much for me to be entertained, and I get the sense that I forgive more mistakes than the average person.
Shreiber was great. I wasn't actively rating all the performances, so I don't really remember if I would say he's best or not, but for me, he fit and pulled off the part as well as any other. I didn't even mind the running on all fours. No complaints whatsoever. Not from him and frankly anyone else. Yeah, even Jackman. I didn't mind him at any part, even if he was phoning it in.
Yeah, Deadpool was mangled, but Maverick was more than mangled. And they made Deadpool fun enough that I liked what they did. I'm not a hardcore DP fan, though, so I don't have the reaction of having one of my favourites misrepresented. I'm also not a Maverick fan, but... yikes. They REALLY trashed him. And Bolt, but he was in it for ten minutes at most.
My only complaint was Gambit. His inclusion just seemed like someone said, "We couldn't fit him in X-Men, so let's shoehorn him in here. It's our last chance." He was never a "Wolverine" character, never had as much connection to him as any other X-character. Why him and not... I dunno... anyone more important to Wolverine's history? Have even a member of Alpha Flight help out to some capacity. They just needed a fill-in-the-blank to get Wolverine from point A to point B, but why Gambit?
I didn't think anything was missing, nor would I have added anything. I thought the part with Sabretooth's and Wolverine's shared past was covered enough. I liked the opening credit montage sequence, and thought it covered things well. Well enough anyway.
Yup, a Cyclops origin story would be more boring than an origin story about a phone book. I think, out of Marvel's movies, only the Elektra movie would be worse.... Still, I survived Elektra. Storm slightly less boring. I'm not sure if they could really make an origin story for anyone else from X-Men, save maybe Magneto or Iceman. And even Iceman's a bit of a stretch. He just doesn't have enough backstory in the movies. Professor X maybe? Colossus or Nightcrawler I'd love, but they weren't important enough to the movies to warrant one.
I think I covered everything I meant to.