X-Men Apocalypse Review Thread

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freenudemacusers said:
all of singer's x films a great
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I don't know if I'd say "great".

Well, okay. X2 is legitimately awesome, though I'm not sure I like the Cerebro stuff as the climax of the movie. I don't think the first X-Men movie holds up as well, though it's not bad. I'd say it's on the good side of okay, if that makes any sense. It also definitely plays like a post-Batman, pre-Spider-Man movie, in that it's a superhero movie that feels half ashamed of the source material.

Days of Future Past was a lot of fun, but Quicksilver was just an extended cameo, and the movie suffers from trying to make everything about Mystique because Jennifer Lawrence became a huge star after First Class.
 
Not at all surprised, though I can't say I'm not disappointed. I really do like X-Men but the film series has been anything but consistent. Singer or not.
 
I was happy that it seemed they finally were going to get comic costumes but honestly Brian Singer's X-men films have been awful with the exception of X-2. You've got some of Marvels best female heroes and they're all treated horribly. Then you have Cyclops who is one of the major X-men leaders and he's also ignored.

I don't mind First Class since it tried something different but it also struggles with being faithful. The whole timeline of these films is a mess and I get Brian Singer isn't the main cause of that but it doesn't change the fact that most of these movies just aren't good.
 
Replicant said:
Sounds like the script is awful. It's from the writers of F4ntastic, which doesn't surprise me. I hope at least Singer makes the action scenes fun to watch / cool.

Still, worse than Last Stand?
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Also the same writer as The Last Stand actually

Singer almost had the writers who did X2 back and still decided to let Kinberg be the only one to write the script. Sounds like that was a mistake
 
let's see what everyone is saying-

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will still be there OW
 
Just scanned through the thread. Divorcing all the doom & gloom reactions from posters, and reading the reviews, I'm kinda surprised at the initial reaction, honestly. It's sloppier than DoFP, yeah. Took too long. But it's also the first of these X-Men movies to really embrace the soap opera and melodrama at the core of X-Men, and there's some real enjoyment to be had there.

I mean, yeah, you end up with Oscar Isaac doing not much but letting his eyes glow and spitting portentious, multi-syllable bullshit in stentorian, computer-augmented fashion - but isn't that kinda what Apocalypse is? Isn't that kinda what he does? I dunno. I didn't have much of a problem with it, I think I was more or less just surprised at how willing Singer was to finally stop apologizing for making X-men movies and just make a fuckin' X-Men movie.

It's not as good as First Class or DoFP, no. X2 is still the best thing he's ever done with this series. But this really does seem like he finally got to make the X3 he was hoping to make before Superman came calling and he wandered over to Australia and got lost in a cornfield of his own making.

There are positives and negatives to his having made a bigger, much better X3, of course. But I feel like on this picture, the good outweighs the bad by a wide enough margin that I would recommend it pretty easily.

And like I said. There are more X-men moments in this X-Men movie than most of the other X-Men movies combined. There was some shit I was absolutely not expecting them to handle accurately at all, even as it was happening.
 
Wazzy said:
I was happy that it seemed they finally were going to get comic costumes but honestly Brian Singer's X-men films have been awful with the exception of X-2. You've got some of Marvels best female heroes and they're all treated horribly. Then you have Cyclops who is one of the major X-men leaders and he's also ignored.

I don't mind First Class since it tried something different but it also struggles with being faithful. The whole timeline of these films is a mess and I get Brian Singer isn't the main cause of that but it doesn't change the fact that most of these movies just aren't good.
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comics have a million timelines and alt universes who cares about being doggedly faithful to anything.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Just scanned through the thread. Divorcing all the doom & gloom reactions from posters, and reading the reviews, I'm kinda surprised at the initial reaction, honestly. It's sloppier than DoFP, yeah. Took too long. But it's also the first of these X-Men movies to really embrace the soap opera and melodrama at the core of X-Men, and there's some real enjoyment to be had there.

I mean, yeah, you end up with Oscar Isaac doing not much but letting his eyes glow and spitting portentious, multi-syllable bullshit in stentorian, computer-augmented fashion - but isn't that kinda what Apocalypse is? Isn't that kinda what he does? I dunno. I didn't have much of a problem with it, I think I was more or less just surprised at how willing Singer was to finally stop apologizing for making X-men movies and just make a fuckin' X-Men movie.

It's not as good as First Class or DoFP, no. X2 is still the best thing he's ever done. But this really does seem like he finally got to make the X3 he was hoping to make before Superman came calling and he wandered over to Australia and got lost in a cornfield of his own making.

There are positives and negatives to his having made a bigger, much better X3, of course. But I feel like on this picture, the good outweighs the bad by a wide enough margin that I would recommend it pretty easily.
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Do we see Jubilee use her powers?
 
Bobby Roberts said:
I liked it.

There's more "X-Men!" moments in this X-Men movie than there's probably been in all the previous mainline X-Men movies combined.
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Don't play with me dude.

Is it as bad as they're making it out to be?

This is the blockbuster I've been waiting for.

EDIT: I see your post. Nvm
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Just scanned through the thread. Divorcing all the doom & gloom reactions from posters, and reading the reviews, I'm kinda surprised at the initial reaction, honestly. It's sloppier than DoFP, yeah. Took too long. But it's also the first of these X-Men movies to really embrace the soap opera and melodrama at the core of X-Men, and there's some real enjoyment to be had there.

I mean, yeah, you end up with Oscar Isaac doing not much but letting his eyes glow and spitting portentious, multi-syllable bullshit in stentorian, computer-augmented fashion - but isn't that kinda what Apocalypse is? Isn't that kinda what he does? I dunno. I didn't have much of a problem with it, I think I was more or less just surprised at how willing Singer was to finally stop apologizing for making X-men movies and just make a fuckin' X-Men movie.

It's not as good as First Class or DoFP, no. X2 is still the best thing he's ever done. But this really does seem like he finally got to make the X3 he was hoping to make before Superman came calling and he wandered over to Australia and got lost in a cornfield of his own making.

There are positives and negatives to his having made a bigger, much better X3, of course. But I feel like on this picture, the good outweighs the bad by a wide enough margin that I would recommend it pretty easily.
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Did you see the movie or did you just gather that from the reviews? I'm not hating on you, I'm just honestly curious.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Just scanned through the thread. Divorcing all the doom & gloom reactions from posters, and reading the reviews, I'm kinda surprised at the initial reaction, honestly. It's sloppier than DoFP, yeah. Took too long. But it's also the first of these X-Men movies to really embrace the soap opera and melodrama at the core of X-Men, and there's some real enjoyment to be had there.

I mean, yeah, you end up with Oscar Isaac doing not much but letting his eyes glow and spitting portentious, multi-syllable bullshit in stentorian, computer-augmented fashion - but isn't that kinda what Apocalypse is? Isn't that kinda what he does? I dunno. I didn't have much of a problem with it, I think I was more or less just surprised at how willing Singer was to finally stop apologizing for making X-men movies and just make a fuckin' X-Men movie.

It's not as good as First Class or DoFP, no. X2 is still the best thing he's ever done with this series. But this really does seem like he finally got to make the X3 he was hoping to make before Superman came calling and he wandered over to Australia and got lost in a cornfield of his own making.

There are positives and negatives to his having made a bigger, much better X3, of course. But I feel like on this picture, the good outweighs the bad by a wide enough margin that I would recommend it pretty easily.

And like I said. There are more X-men moments in this X-Men movie than most of the other X-Men movies combined. There was some shit I was absolutely not expecting them to handle accurately at all, even as it was happening.
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I know this isn't what you meant but a lot of that comes off as 'yikes!'.
 
Prompto said:
Also the same writer as The Last Stand actually

Singer almost had the writers who did X2 back and still decided to let Kinberg be the only one to write the script. Sounds like that was a mistake
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Kinberg is the Kevin Feige/Zac Snyder of Fox Marvel. Singer probably didn't have much of a choice over the matter.
 
I don't feel super-comfy dropping spoilers out in the open, even behind tags, considering this film still doesn't come out for a couple weeks. Is there a spoiler thread or something somewhere?
 
It's XMen. I'm going to watch it and most likely enjoy it

But give XMen back to Marvel. Just look at what Marvel did with Spider-Man in the little screen time he had in CW. Already the best version yet. And then there's Black Panther. Marvel nailed his character.
 
freenudemacusers said:
comics have a million timelines and alt universes who cares about being doggedly faithful to anything.
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I care when they're not faithful to the characters at all. I'm not saying they have to follow every comic storyline faithfully and if they want to take it somewhere new that's fine but when you ruin iconic characters with poor writing that's where it's not okay.

I want to see Rogue, Jean and Storm as they are in the comics and we still have yet to get anything like that. I also want to see Cyclops leading but instead they wrote Wolverine in over him.
 
Apparently the mall scene isn't in the final cut.

Unfortunately it looks like the trailers were true and Mystique really is the center point of the movie.


Final battle is supposed to suck too.
 
Jarmel said:
I know this isn't what you meant
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No, that's what I meant to say, and it came out right. It's not intended to elicit a specific response. I'm not trying to engineer a reaction here. If you read that and go "Yikes," that's appropriate. I'm not interested in trying to get people to come to the "correct" conclusion or anything, just give them enough to go on that they can figure out whether or not what I'm saying contains any appeal.

roflwaffles said:
Unfortunately it looks like the trailers were true and Mystique really is the center point of the movie.
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I wouldn't say she's the centerpoint. I don't think she's even really the main character. If anything she's more like Wolverine was in DoFP. He's there, and he's helping push people through the plot, but it's not his movie really, even though he's doing stuff in it.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Just scanned through the thread. Divorcing all the doom & gloom reactions from posters, and reading the reviews, I'm kinda surprised at the initial reaction, honestly. It's sloppier than DoFP, yeah. Took too long. But it's also the first of these X-Men movies to really embrace the soap opera and melodrama at the core of X-Men, and there's some real enjoyment to be had there.

I mean, yeah, you end up with Oscar Isaac doing not much but letting his eyes glow and spitting portentious, multi-syllable bullshit in stentorian, computer-augmented fashion - but isn't that kinda what Apocalypse is? Isn't that kinda what he does? I dunno. I didn't have much of a problem with it, I think I was more or less just surprised at how willing Singer was to finally stop apologizing for making X-men movies and just make a fuckin' X-Men movie.

It's not as good as First Class or DoFP, no. X2 is still the best thing he's ever done with this series. But this really does seem like he finally got to make the X3 he was hoping to make before Superman came calling and he wandered over to Australia and got lost in a cornfield of his own making.

There are positives and negatives to his having made a bigger, much better X3, of course. But I feel like on this picture, the good outweighs the bad by a wide enough margin that I would recommend it pretty easily.

And like I said. There are more X-men moments in this X-Men movie than most of the other X-Men movies combined. There was some shit I was absolutely not expecting them to handle accurately at all, even as it was happening.
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Cool. Watching this regardless, but happy to read something positive.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
I don't feel super-comfy dropping spoilers out in the open, even behind tags, considering this film still doesn't come out for a couple weeks. Is there a spoiler thread or something somewhere?
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Only REAL spoiler I want to know is when do they all don their comic like X-men costumes.
 
LosDaddie said:
But give XMen back to Marvel. Just look at what Marvel did with Spider-Man in the little screen time he had in CW. Already the best version yet.
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Can we wait until we see his solo flick first? Then we can see if it's better than SM2.

And no, don't give it back to Marvel. Let there be some diversity and competition out there
 
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