JamieSage said:

What we need is:

A real story
Good dialogue
Creative action sequences, not just fights with a movie built around them.

In short, a good film. It could be like Nolan's Batman was to those old horrid Batman films.

Biglou19 said:

- MORE BEAST!!!

- Absolutely NO Gambit, or any mention of what happened in Wolverine Origins or what happens in any future sequels of it.
Except some Liev Schreiber Sabretooth, I enjoyed that because he seemed to have a butt-load of fun being the worst person on earth.

- Unless they reboot and make it a little more fantastic/out-there/sci-f
i, no insanely over the top villains like Apocalypse, Sinister, etc. None of those can possibly mesh with the more realistic feel of the first few and be anywhere close to what they are in the books, appearance or character-wise.

- Another good human villain. Trask, Lang, Hodge, someone to even out the "mutants are a minority, but can still jet around the world and do whatever the hell they want" vibe that 2 and 3 gave me. Heck, even Pierce and the Reavers as a bunch of people maimed/wounded in mutant attacks/battles would be good.

- Less obvious "Wolverine is the main character, everyone else is here to help make him look good" stuff. You can't make a movie about a team without giving other members something to do occasionally.

- MORE BEAST!!!!

- Less/little/no students, the majority of child actors are just annoying. The majority of the last what, 40+ years of X-men have had the school devoid of students (not counting the team itself) except for the meh Grant Morrison run. They and their whiny drama take away from the main characters, who don't get enough time to begin with. Drop them, or keep them in the background.

- Some kind of compromise Sentinels. Not 80 foot death machines, but 10-15 ft. like the originals, or the enhance-human-Nimrod kind from stories like Operation Zero Tolerance.

- Magneto re-powered

- A good take on the Morlocks. They should all look like Leech if they choose to live underground, I never quite believed that Callisto, Annabelle, or any of the more human ones had any reason beside being poor to be down there with the obviously mutated ones.

- Professor X should stay dead/in seclusion on Muir Island with Moira, have Cyclops come back (somehow) and really lead the team.

- I wouldn't be totally against seeing Wolverine be sent on some kind of X-Force/black-ops mission to whack someone who's a major threat to the team.

- Nightcrawler with another X2 opening kind of scene.

- Storm played well.

- Some mention/cameo of other teams that have been inspired by the X-men, like Excalibur. Maybe even show X-Factor being headed up by Val Cooper and/or Forge.

- Probably not possible story-wise (and certainly not acting-wise based on X3), but Archangel would make for a bad-ass visual on screen, I think.

- MORE BEAST!!!!!

Obviously not all things I think should be in one movie, or all done together, just things that would make a new movie(s) interesting to me.

Darth Ravenous said:

I like the idea of Appocolipis or Sinister. Gambit could be caught and captured by Sinister then frozen like striker's son (a fix for the age issue). Angel becomes Archangle after having been one of the horsemen. All good stuff!

Biglou19 said:

I've been reading the books since he was introduced, and Gambit has, since he first showed up, struck me as a redundant character. I have no idea what Chris Claremont's plans for him were originally, since he wasn't writing the book for too long after he came up with him, but everything done since then seemed to be random writers trying to make him some kind of bad@$$, when he's really just a compilation of character traits other people on the team already had, mostly Wolverine. The "bang, you dead" scene is one of the most ridiculous things I've read in the book, which is saying a lot when you look at some of the things they've come up with over the years. If his story had ended with the trial at the North Pole, I would actually kind of like his whole progression as a character. Past that, people keep cramming him into books just to have him there and trying to give him his own series when he can't carry one alone. Him being included in the movies (if they continue without a reboot of some kind) certainly wouldn't be the only turd in the punchbowl, but it was one of the things I severely disliked about Wolverine.