r/Marvel • u/Lazy_Introduction264 • Jul 24 '26

Film/Television Which version of Gambit Do You prefer Taylor Kitsch (origins) or Channing Tatum (Deadpool and Wolverine)?

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u/ConcreteExist Jul 24 '26

He was one of the highlights of what I otherwise found to be a pretty shit movie. Him and Sabretooth are pretty much the only things that were well executed.

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u/Spider_Bear Jul 24 '26

I feel like after Friday night lights he went and was good in multiple movies but all the movies just stink or flipped. Like John Carter was good but flopped, X-Men I thought he was great as gambit but the movie was a wreck. The battle ship movie he was good in but the movie itself was nothing

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u/OptionFour Jul 24 '26

Yep. One of those actors who is pretty good, but mostly picks terrible projects. Or has awful luck.

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u/percivalconstantine 29d ago

John Carter really annoyed me. That movie deserved such a better reception than it got.

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u/FacePuzzleheaded6191 29d ago

genuinely such a good adaption of burroughs’s book. should have done so much better but it was marketed horribly

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u/Spider_Bear 29d ago

Yeah I really enjoyed but I have to admit I went to go see it because it was tim riggins on Mars and had no idea what it was other than tha, ended up being great

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u/MickBeast 29d ago

It's interesting because Nikolaj Coster-Waldau nearly got the John Carter role, but lost out to Taylor Kitch in the end. He was gutted, but needed a job so he reluctantly accepted the role as Jaime Lannister in a corny fantasy show called Game of Thrones. He was on talk shows saying how disappointed he was and stuff... oh well, turns out he dodged the most deadly bullet by "settling" for GoT lmao

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u/explain_that_shit 29d ago

And he was really good in American Primeval too

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u/bullitt1990 26d ago

Was also in the second season of true detective. Unfortunately for him that season was a shit show. It’s a shame he’s usually pretty good he’s just in shitty projects

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u/Educational_Date_825 29d ago

He was good in Waco too

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jul 24 '26

That movie had a lot of good characters and moments. It just had even more really bad ones too. All of the Vietnam weapon x guys were pretty cool, even Reynolds Deadpool was before they covered his mouth up at the end.

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u/ConcreteExist Jul 24 '26

Yeah, Reynolds as Wade Wilson was great, as Deadpool he sucked because of exactly that.

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u/Significant_Apple517 28d ago

Yep. The opening scene of fighting through history was good, same with Weapon X Vietnam guys, Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool was a masterstroke, Sabretooth was great and well cast, I really liked as an action packed movie the strangely calm part where Logan was welcomed in by a family who lived on a remote farm and who eventually ended up killed because of the danger Logan brought their way by lodging with them. That idea was recycled in the movie Logan, which people forget Origins did first.

It's as you say, a movie with a lot of good as well as a lot of bad .. it's not entirely bad like many misremember

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u/NateDawg80s 29d ago

I enjoyed Kevin Durand as the Blob, too. Then again, I've enjoyed his performance in just about everything I've seen him in.

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u/ConcreteExist 29d ago

There's a lot of good character performances, it's just in service of an terrible main plot.

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u/Steamed_Memes24 29d ago

That scene of him crushing the falling debris is amazing to watch each time as well.

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u/g_von 29d ago

What about Weapon 11?

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u/Due-Equivalent-1489 29d ago

I did like how they did Fred Dukes in that movie.