X-Men: Apocalypse. Very disappointing.

[JEDI]

a little bit of trivia.

Opening credits:
as you see history flash b4 you, the Asian release of the movie is missing Christ carrying the wooden cross.
you see the candles and the camera pans 180 degrees but Christ is nowhere to be found.

(the next shot is of the Mono Lisa, if that helps.)

 

[OverVolt]

I liked it. In fact, if you didn't like it, you are probably easily entertained by stupid stuff. A type of person I don't particularly enjoy hanging around anyway.

Asking if someone liked this movie or not has been a great way to filter out people I don't want to hang around.

 

[waggy]

Meh. It's disappointing eh? so it goes along with the series.

I will buy it. I have all the other X-men movies. I will also be entertained! it seems the type of movie that you just relax and enjoy. You try NOT to think to much when watching.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Is there still a lame time-traveling element to this one? Is that super-fast mutant who could probably do whatever is needed to save the day not used for some lame reason again?

 

[Skel]

Is there still a lame time-traveling element to this one? Is that super-fast mutant who could probably do whatever is needed to save the day not used for some lame reason again?

Not so much a time travel story.. more like a removed from the timeline story. Yes, Quicksilver is in the movie again, and has one of the more interesting parts. He does however get schooled when he attempts to take on the big bad of the movie and it almost costs him his life.

Spoiler

I was a bit confused how Apocalypse was able to target him as he was moving at top speed. It would have made more sense if he just up up a wall or something, but to grab his leg like he did was a little huh? Would have made more sense for him to put up some bar or something that would have caused him to trip.. and at the speeds he was going prob would have broken his leg saving Apocalypse the need to do it himself.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Ok so I decided to see the movie and it wasn't that bad, much better than Future's Past which I hated with passion.

Spoiler

Some small eye-rolling things like the fact that if Quicksilver wasn't just in time (which he says in the movie he "never" is) pretty much everyone but those who went to see a movie would have been killed. Convenient. Also, Sophie "Sansa" Turner bugged me, not because I hate her character in GoT but she looks NOTHING like a young Jean Gray should based on the "future" character, NOTHING like her and it bugged me to no end. And what is it with Wolverine? I thought he was freed back in First Class (1960s?) but in this movie (the 80s?) Striker has him in captivity? Is this because of the "time-line change" from the last movie? Great... *insert Jackie Chan head-asplode macro* these writers have some mutant abilities too I tell you what.

But, all in all it wasn't bad, I just can't separate other movies in the franchise especially when the director here is close to them as well, it comes off as sloppy and pandering to me.

 

[Skel]

Ok so I decided to see the movie and it wasn't that bad, much better than Future's Past which I hated with passion.

Spoiler

Some small eye-rolling things like the fact that if Quicksilver wasn't just in time (which he says in the movie he "never" is) pretty much everyone but those who went to see a movie would have been killed. Convenient. Also, Sophie "Sansa" Turner bugged me, not because I hate her character in GoT but she looks NOTHING like a young Jean Gray should based on the "future" character, NOTHING like her and it bugged me to no end. And what is it with Wolverine? I thought he was freed back in First Class (1960s?) but in this movie (the 80s?) Striker has him in captivity? Is this because of the "time-line change" from the last movie? Great... *insert Jackie Chan head-asplode macro* these writers have some mutant abilities too I tell you what.

But, all in all it wasn't bad, I just can't separate other movies in the franchise especially when the director here is close to them as well, it comes off as sloppy and pandering to me.

In DoFP, which was set in the 70s (they even make a ref to Wolverine about him telling Prof X to fuck off) Wolverine gets captured by Striker at the end...

 

[TheELF]

In DoFP, which was set in the 70s (they even make a ref to Wolverine about him telling Prof X to fuck off) Wolverine gets captured by Striker at the end...

But wasn't that glowy eyes striker? aka mystique.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I think the Wolverine part worked well when you take into account just the X-Men movies, but not when you take into account the Wolverine specific movies. More than anything I see this movie as Bryan Singer wanting to wrap a little bow on his time with the X-Men franchise, as it references almost all of it and ignores the parts he didn't have a part in (except a small reference to X Men 3).

I am ready for Singer to leave this franchise alone. His original thesis for the X-Men movies- make them good movies anyone can enjoy and forget about the comic book nerds- was great in 2000 before we had a comic book movie boom but in 2016 seems very antiquated. The week after I saw this movie I went to see Civil War, a movie PACKED with nods to comic nerds (like the Captain America speech as a eulogy, or Ant Man riding on a Hawkeye arrow, etc.) that made the movie BETTER for those who know the material but still fun for those that don't. All he needed to do was give us nerds one throw away scene (like have Apocalypse lecture the first person who sees him after he wakes up and asks if he is a mutant that "I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you!") and I would have been a lot more forgiving of this movie, but he didn't and that is why I would be glad if he never made another X Men movie.

I feel like that the only time we got to see Apocalypse as he should have been represented was when he and Prof X fought in the mental world and Apocalypse grew in size and starting crushing Prof X. That was the Apocalypse that should have been in the real world of the movie, not the regular sized blue freak that was trotted out as Apocalypse.

 

[waggy]

watched it last night. ok..it was fucking bad.

only good part was with wolverine.

man it sure seems like the X-men movies are getting worse with each one..

 

[BrokenVisage]

watched it last night. ok..it was fucking bad.

only good part was with wolverine.

man it sure seems like the X-men movies are getting worse with each one..

To be fair, the first few were very good. X-Men 1/2 and First Class would be hard to top.

 

[Sonikku]

Was kind of meh. Thought the villain was really going to leave his mark on the world but he sends all these nukes up and does dick all. It never felt like he was "doing" anything.

 

[Linux23]

watched it last night. ok..it was fucking bad.

only good part was with wolverine.

man it sure seems like the X-men movies are getting worse with each one..

bad or fucking bad?

 

[RPD]

I saw it last night, I felt like they don't develop the characters enough. Like we literally got ZERO, none on 2 of the horsemen (Psylocke and Arch Angel) and like what, 90s for Storm? Definitely the worst out of the 3 new ones. CGI was solid, following Magneto trying to live a normal life was good (

Spoiler

When they killed his daughter and wife I was like welp, you done fucked up now, wanted to see how he was going to kill the factory workers, I was thinking something like making the enough building collapse into a cube on them or something...

)

They could have expanded more on the cult that was trying to find/locate Apocalypse.

 

[futurefields]

Director: Matthew Vaughn

not Singer

and DOFP sucked monkey teets.

Derp

Singer directed DOFP