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[Pie and Beans]

First Class and Deadpool are the only good X-Men movies. The Wolverine wasn't bad either.

Can't wait for Singer to be gone. Failing to reboot well after being given a clear chance to do something different is embarrassing.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Well, it does kinda change context given you ignored that and focused on me 'being a big meanie to the MCU.'

It doesn't change that it's always deflection tactics and comparisons to other movies when people criticise Singer's X-Men.

Also, what? The first film started with a scene showing the Nazi persecution of Jewish people in a concentration camp. Then leaped to a scene consisting of two great actors trading political and social ideologies. We're not talking great art, but ignoring how brave X-Men was for starting with some heavy shit is doing a disservice to how X-Men dragged comic-book films into something meaningful.

Yes, the film started with a super heavy-handed scene linking anti-semitism to the discrimination of mutants and never did anything else with it. Your point?

 

[Messypandas]

Yes, the film started with a super heavy-handed scene linking anti-semitism to the discrimination of mutants and never did anything else with it. Your point?

You mean a brilliant scene that makes Magneto both sympathetic and his vile actions and distrust of all humanity somewhat understandable? What do you mean "did nothing with it" did you want a mutant villain modelled after Hitler to show up?

 

[Ahasverus]

People throwing shade at the only running Marvel franchise that tries to address social, political and humane topics. All because they don't wear the bright spandex from the comics. Smh.

 

[Glass Rebel]

You mean a brilliant scene that makes Magneto both sympathetic and his vile actions and distrust of all humanity somewhat understandable? What do you mean "did nothing with it" did you want a mutant villain modelled after Hitler to show up?

People throwing shade at the only running Marvel franchise that tries to address social, political and humane topics. All because they don't wear the bright spandex from the comics. Smh.

I was pointing out that the themes people like to mention when it comes to X-Men aren't explored to such an extent as people are trying to make it sound. X-Men deals as much with social issues as Winter Soldier dealt with the conflict between freedom, security and control. As in, very lightly. And that is fine. But don't try to make it sound like it's more than that.

 

[Ahasverus]

I was pointing out that the themes people like to mention when it comes to X-Men aren't explored to such an extent as people are trying to make it sound. X-Men deals as much with social issues as Winter Soldier dealt with the conflict between freedom, security and control. As in, very lightly. And that is fine. But don't try to make it sound like it's more than that.

Yeah no. Besides government corruption what else did TWS address? Homophobia? Antisemitism? Political radicalism? Post traumatic stress? Self reclusiveness? No it didn't, while the Xmen series do, repeatedly, and as a main focus. Besides, TWS is the best Marvel CU movie by far and only, maybe, Ironman and TFA even try to adress seirous themes. Barely. Meanwhile the Xmen movies are based on such conflicts, all of them sans Wolverine which was a very personal low stales drama. The Xmen series is awesome. If anything, it's Apocalypse with its comicbookness what could ruin the series tone.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Yeah no. Besides government corruption what else did TWS address? Homophobia? Antisemitism? Political radicalism? Post traumatic stress? Self reclusiveness? No it didn't, while the Xmen series do, repeatedly, and as a main focus. Besides, TWS is the best Marvel CU movie by far and only, maybe, Ironman and TFA even try to adress seirous themes. Barely.

Man, you guys are hilarious. Mentioning something in passing isn't "addressing" something. That's why I said that the themes in all of these movies are paper-thin.

 

[Toxa]

This thread leads nowhere anyway X-men series is above any mcu movies

 

[Ahasverus]

Man, you guys are hilarious. Mentioning something in passing isn't "addressing" something. That's why I said that the themes in all of these movies are paper-thin.

Black laughing floating heads. Thanks for your eloquent argumentation. Bottom line, at least they try, and don't make me feel insulted by a villain dancing off. I rest my case.

 

[IHaveIce]

Since we don't have a production thread for this movie, figured this was the best place to post the new pic I found on Twitter

BAhahahah

Man Psylocke is the only one looking really fantastic in this movie.

The ones designing the Negasonic costume should take the reigns from Singer's leather fetish

 

[bengraven]

You guys realize we've been laughing about X-men costumes since 2000 right? lol

I remember the first shitty polaroids of Cyclops and Wolverine's X1 costumes were released with shitty lighting and I never expected the movie to be half decent after seeing them.

Then we laughed at First Class, the shitty marketing and costumes of DoFP, it's all a cycle.

Its not even that hard.


Though 90's Rogue is the costume I most want to see in live action.

Fox...well now just Singer...is the only one still clinging to the "it must be black!" costume idea. DC and MCU are using actual color that makes the costumes look awesome and yet similar to their comic counter parts.

ZERO reason we can't see that in the X-men movies.

Pretty sad when Deadpool has the most accurate X-men costumes on it's X-men.

 

[Primethius]

Black laughing floating heads. Thanks for your eloquent argumentation. Bottom line, at least they try, and don't make me feel insulted by a villain dancing off. I rest my case.

Surprisingly, this is how I felt about DoTFPs ending, somewhat of an insult to logic and intelligence.

"Mutants save the president" despite Magneto literally being a gigantic floating threat who flys away. It's like they forgot to write an actual ending and hoped people would accept whatever was thrown thier way.

I realize this is different then the discussion you were having, it just reminded me of Dotfp is all.

 

[Magwik]

Oh nice to see people are back to pretending that Singer X-Men movies aren't good

 

[Lokimaru]

So what do you think will be Cyclops' total screen time? I'm thinking 15 min, 10 lines of dialogue and No chemistry with Jean Grey.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

Fox...well now just Singer...is the only one still clinging to the "it must be black!" costume idea. DC and MCU are using actual color that makes the costumes look awesome and yet similar to their comic counter parts.

ZERO reason we can't see that in the X-men movies.

Pretty sad when Deadpool has the most accurate X-men costumes on it's X-men.

Pretty much. I mean, DC and Marvel moved on. The AUDIENCE moved on(where the majority once found it hard to swallow colorful, costumed heroes, the majority now accept it). There are a few stragglers holding on to that ghost. Now, if one doesn't care for costumed characters, so be it, but these are super hero movies. They aren't being limited by narrow perception like they were in the late 90s-early 00s. While they aren't where they could be, they ARE more liberated to be MORE like their source material than they were more than a decade ago. To me, that's beautiful.I mean, Vision is the freakin' colors of an Astro Pop!! Fuck yeah!

 

[Sub_Level]

So what do you think will be Cyclops' total screen time? I'm thinking 15 min, 10 lines of dialogue and No chemistry with Jean Grey.

Singer couldn't put him in DoFP much because he died in 3. Maybe he will get more time here.

But there's no doubt that the main characters in this movie are Xavier, Mystique, and Magneto. Out of the kids, Jean will get the most screentime if the trailer is anything to go by.

 

[Octavianus]

Oh nice to see people are back to pretending that Singer X-Men movies aren't good

There's no pretending involved there.

 

[Mighty Chin]

Sad that the original 5 have never really been see as a group on film. Cyclops, Jean, Angel, Beast and Iceman not strong enough to carry a movie.

 

[enzo_gt]

Since we don't have a production thread for this movie, figured this was the best place to post the new pic I found on Twitter

good god what will it take for Fox to get better costume designers

The Singer effect continues.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Yes

The costume is fine, it is the horrible X shaped visor that is awful.

The best Cyclops costume though?

I was never a fan of the full hood. Always liked the hair out look.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Pretty much. I mean, DC and Marvel moved on. The AUDIENCE moved on(where the majority once found it hard to swallow colorful, costumed heroes, the majority now accept it). There are a few stragglers holding on to that ghost. Now, if one doesn't care for costumed characters, so be it, but these are super hero movies. They aren't being limited by narrow perception like they were in the late 90s-early 00s. While they aren't where they could be, they ARE more liberated to be MORE like their source material than they were more than a decade ago. To me, that's beautiful.I mean, Vision is the freakin' colors of an Astro Pop!! Fuck yeah!

I honestly don't believe audiences ever minded as much as film execs thought they would and I don't think there's any evidence whatsoever that supports the theory that colourful costumes were unappealing to audiences.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

good god what will it take for Fox to get better costume designers

The Singer effect continues.

It 100% has to be Singer.
First Class had decent costumes
Deadpool had great costumes
The Wolverine even used his costume as a tease
And now Olivia Munn had to argue to keep Psylocke purple.

 

[Ahasverus]

It 100% has to be Singer.
First Class had decent costumes
Deadpool had great costumes
The Wolverine even used his costume as a tease
And now Olivia Munn had to argue to keep Psylocke purple.

The thought that Singer is inherently the one pressing for having a bunch of barely legal kids in tight black leather makes me tremble.

 

[Pie and Beans]

I honestly don't believe audiences ever minded as much as film execs thought they would and I don't think there's any evidence whatsoever that supports the theory that colourful costumes were unappealing to audiences.

It was an issue with doing colourful costumes 'well' and not the horrendous stuff on show in the 90's Captain America or Fantastic Four movies that probably gave plenty of movie studios pause for thought. Intelligent colourful costume design is the difference between the terrible Cap in Avengers 1 compare to all his other outfits since. You're right in that colour was never distasteful to audiences as Spider-Man did fine with red and blue and didn't have to go red and black like concept art suggested.

Negasonic is a perfect example of doing the X-Men yellow 'leotard' well in an earthy, functional looking manner. By comparison the best costume in Apocalypse is going to be purple latex fetish fare but because its not terrible shit black boring costumes, it stands out and matches up with the comics this is all supposed to be a celebration of.

Honestly I'm more pissed with this movie than any other because it was given the free license to go crazy with costumes and colour due to the 80's setting. Instead we're right back to the boring 00's black and silver.

 

[inm8num2]

 

[BKatastrophe]

Not the worst poster I've seen

 

[Dalek]

That's a pretty good poster. I saw a similar standee at the theater this weekend.

 

[Scorpion Soldier]

Given some of the posters we've had for First Class and Days of Future Past this isn't half bad.

 

[Blade30]

looking good and surprisingly with color

 

[Omok]

Amazing how close they recreated Psylocke's costume

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Pretty good.
Looks like the marketing guys are trying to put in as much colour on this thing as possible despite the material they have been presented with LOL.

 

[Shanlei91]

Now if this was being done by the First Class marketing department...

 

[Discotheque]

Lol get over it already plasma.

One of the best posters this franchise has ever had, that's not saying much tho considering how terrible marketing usually is for the xmen

But its legitimately nice imo

 

[Himynameischris]

Wow that's a good poster...we sure this is an X-Men movie?

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Nice poster

 

[overcast]

Pretty damn good poster. We'll be getting the good guys version soon I'm sure

 

[Messypandas]

Awesome poster! Nice use of chiaroscuro.

 

[Discotheque]

Pretty damn good poster. We'll be getting the good guys version soon I'm sure

Fuck the xbrats.

Only way the good guy poster is cooler is if they are wearing their civilian clothes. Michael Jackson thriller jacket and denim jackets everywhere...

 

[ferr]

Are they supposed to be the four horsemen?

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Are they supposed to be the four horsemen?

Yes

 

[BKatastrophe]

It's be cool if they did an Egyptian hieroglyphic variant. Archangel in front of Apocalypse gave me that vibe. Dunno how they'd do it, but it'd be cool

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Lol get over it already plasma.

One of the best posters this franchise has ever had, that's not saying much tho considering how terrible marketing usually is for the xmen

But its legitimately nice imo

Neverrr.

 

[Rastafarian42]

That's a legitimately good poster

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

That's an alright poster.

 

[roflwaffles]

This is the best X-Men poster they've ever made. That being said, it is just decent and not amazing. The good guys' poster is going to look lame in comparison if they're sticking with the black armor outfits.

 

[pixelation]

Sooo... Ivan Ooze is the main baddie in this?

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Sooo... Ivan Ooze is the main baddie in this?

How do you come up with this stuff? Another original hit.

 

[broncobuster]

Whatever's going on with Apocalypse's eyes, when they're white it brings the design together.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Sooo... Ivan Ooze is the main baddie in this?

ORIGINAL CONTENT

 

[cacildo]

Now if this was being done by the First Class marketing department...

Ahah!

But first class is the best super hero movie ever.... and had horrible posters

(Wasnt DOFP the same deal? Bad posters/Great movie?)

This first apoc poster is pretty good... now i fear for the movie quality