Wow I actually forgot X-Men Apocalypse came out

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It's definitely one of the weakest X-Men movies but still entertaining enough. The generic bad guy and being released after DoFP certainly contributed to the filler feeling.

I did felt the cast were moving though the motions, and Xavier and Magneto's chemistry was somewhat missing.
 
Ushojax said:
Like most recent superhero films, it threw way too much shit at the screen. I don't know that the story was or why I was supposed to care about what was happening. Non-comic fans want a good story first and foremost, that's why they liked X2, TDK, Spider-Man 2 etc. They told stories that always came back to the humanity of the main characters, stories that the general audience could relate to, the stakes never left the audience behind.

Nowadays they jam in as many characters as they can and call it a day. Movies like BvS, Apocalypse, Suicide Squad, Age of Ultron, they have no story and are just a series of stupid events that culminate in some dumb CGI ending with a hundred different heroes that nobody cares about. They can be entertaining on a purely visual level but I never feel any tension or emotion, quips and action set-pieces have replaced actual character work.
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Agree. Too many comic book films nowadays go for that fan pleasing quota of random character cameos and those crazy CGI endings. They're really all becoming the same nowadays and forgettable.
 
I liked it, even if it was a bit meandering.

The original Four Horseman in the prologue were really cool, it's a shame they were nameless and unimportant.
 
This may be one of the most forgettable summers for blockbusters for me. Idk if there's been a lack of really fun movies to watch or that I'm just uninterested, but I'm forgetting everything that came out.
 
There hasn't been a good X-Men movie yet, so I can see why you'd forget. They have had a few decent sci-fi movies with the names of characters from a popular franchise attached to characters in the movies, but they haven't captured the source material on film yet. Apocalypse wasn't even a decent sci-fi movie, let alone comic book film.
 
Anth0ny said:
the x-men films in general feel so irrelevant at the moment. apocalypse's box office reflected that.

did you know there's a new wolverine movie coming in less than a year?
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It grossed over half a billion.... hardly irrelevant.
 
I don't think it was very good

better than X3 I suppose, but DOFP casts a pretty big shadow over it
 
It's the only superhero film I didn't see and I liked First Class and Days of Future Past a ton.
 
Killer Queen said:
Why don't we have a quicksilver film instead of fucking Channing Tatum gambit.
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Problem is, while his isolated scenes are impressive as anything, I don't think they'd actually be able to carry an entire film on his own. He's either too unstoppable with his borderline effortless power, or they have to avoid action scenes for the most part. He kinda works better as the nuclear option, even if that does mean they write scenes specifically for him, like the mansion or being the only person to be able to do anything to apocalypse (well, and phoenix jean)

Not that I think Gambit could carry a film either.
 
It's getting ridiculous how much Xavier has forgiven Magneto for. I mean they act all happy at the end even though he destroyed things all over the world. Probably killed thousands.
 
Linkstrikesback said:
Problem is, while his isolated scenes are impressive as anything, I don't think they'd actually be able to carry an entire film on his own. He's either too unstoppable with his borderline effortless power, or they have to avoid action scenes for the most part. He kinda works better as the nuclear option, even if that does mean they write scenes specifically for him, like the mansion or being the only person to be able to do anything to apocalypse (well, and phoenix jean)

Not that I think Gambit could carry a film either.
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It doesn't even have to be a serious action film, just him fucking around being himself and seeing what he gets up to with his powers and the ridiculous shit he could do in the mundane world. That would be fun and the actor could pull it off.
 
PeskyToaster said:
It's getting ridiculous how much Xavier has forgiven Magneto for. I mean they act all happy at the end even though he destroyed things all over the world. Probably killed thousands.
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I haven't seen Apoc yet, it didn't make any sense to me why Xavier let Magneto go at the end of DOFP after he brought a stadium crashing down, unleashed Sentinels on a bunch of people, and tried to kill the president.
 
It wasn't a very good film, but it had some redeeming qualities - Psylocke looked cool, Magneto had a less worse costume than the previous film, there was less of a focus on Jennifer Lawrence than the last 2 or 3 films.
God, she really fucked these last few movies up.
 
Strangelove77 said:
It wasn't a very good film, but it had some redeeming qualities - Psylocke looked cool, Magneto had a less worse costume than the previous film, there was less of a focus on Jennifer Lawrence than the last 2 or 3 films.
God, she really fucked these last few movies up.
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How are those redeeming qualities.
 
Blader said:
I haven't seen Apoc yet, it didn't make any sense to me why Xavier let Magneto go at the end of DOFP after he brought a stadium crashing down, unleashed Sentinels on a bunch of people, and tried to kill the president.
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Because humans did the same? They created the sentinels to kill mutants and their President went on Live TV to declare war on mutants. Xavier didnt kill humans for making a mistake, why would he kill his own kind for self defense?
 
I forgot it came out too. I saw the Suicide Squad opening numbers compared to other comic movies this year and thought "Numbers can't be that great. They're lower than a movie I forgot existed"
 
I was pretty disappointed especially going
from DoFP.

Edit: I liked the Fassbender stuff and the Wolverine scene was pretty great.

Really what they should make is Prof X, Wolverine, Magneto buddy flick or go through with the solo Magneto movie. The problem with the Xmen movies has always been too many characters IMO.

The Havoc scene was laughable.


Protome said:
At least Enchantress knew her sidekick. Apocalypse chose the strongest 4 mutants from the first 4 mutants he met.
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Sounds like how I choose my girlfriend's.
 
Didn't want to bother seeing it when it came out. Only when a friend mentioned it recently that I remembered it existed.
 
Killer Queen said:
Suicide Squad>>>>>X men Apocalypse. Shitty version of Apocalypse and the only good part of that movie was Fassbender. Pretty much all the performance were bad outside of Quicksilver and nothing notable happened, equally as bad CGI fest ending. At least Suicide Squad had Margot Robbie, Will Smith and Viola Davis.
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Nah, Suicide Squad was worse. Neither are good movies at all though.


Can we have an actual Magneto vs X-Men fight for once
 
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