thecouncil
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Eh. I dunno. I'd want to see Jackman Wolverine fighting Hulk, at least. But X-Men doesn't have to go back to Marvel to do that. GIVE HULK TO FOX!
X-Men Apocalypse Review Thread
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Eh. I dunno. I'd want to see Jackman Wolverine fighting Hulk, at least. But X-Men doesn't have to go back to Marvel to do that. GIVE HULK TO FOX!
MisterHero
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They're authentic to Ultimate Marvel.
Remember when Marvel thought black costumes were the bomb?
Bobby Roberts
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Everyone forgets X1!
I mean, I'm less than a couple hours off seeing it for the first time, but I did enjoy it, thought it was overall a good movie. I don't think it's as good as X2, or First Class. I can see arguments for it being just as good or narrowly missing the mark set by Days of Future Past. It's easily better than X-Men, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wolverine Origins, and the Wolverine.
CloudyTuba
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This has been my main complaint about Singer's X-men movies for years so that's good to hear.
Unfortunately based on your rankings it sounds like I won't actually enjoy this movie much anyway.
TMNT2 looks gr8
Almost choked on my brekkie reading this.
Who on Earth thought this was a great idea?!!! FFS.
I hope she signs up for another movie and is in the next Wolverine film too.
Hopefully it isn't all about April this time.
But Days of Future Past is a much better movie than First Class, so now I'm confused.
Guess the mainstream won't appreciate a completely comic-book accurate X-Men movie
Discotheque
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Forreal. Outside of dc Ottman is the only one doing gods work for comic book stuff right now
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I was hoping for the best, but nothing I saw of this movie looked promising. Shame, I generally really liked this franchise.
I always omit X1 because some people love it, some people hate it :3
Well you got me convinced. But so help me God, if you've led me astray on this one, there's nothing I can do about it.
ABSOLUTELY.
NOTHING.
Almost choked on my brekkie reading this.
Who on Earth thought this was a great idea?!!! FFS.
Simon Kinberg also wrote Days of Future Past, but he was also a writer on the new Fantastic 4 film. Guy doesn't have consistency.
Vault Dweller 111
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Oh damn. That's surprising. Bummer
Pop-O-Matic
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Ultimate Marvel launched after X-Men 1. That was them following the success of Singer.
roflwaffles
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I'm a gigantic fan of the X-Men movies, and I think First Class, X2, and DOFP are in the upper echelon of comic book movies.
It's hugely disappointing that his movie is getting panned especially after DOFP reset everything - what was the point in that if this movie is bad.
It's hugely disappointing that his movie is getting panned especially after DOFP reset everything - what was the point in that if this movie is bad.
Have you not seen the trailers?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Guess the mainstream won't appreciate a completely comic-book accurate X-Men movie
It's not completely comic book accurate. But it's more accurate than a lot of X-movies have ever really attempted - and I think they got Kinberg beating the press drum today specifically because the way this movie ends seems to suggest that when he says "The next one's in the 90s" he means "We're really trying to get back to that Animated Series vibe."
Yeezus H. Christ
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Ugh, I knew this was happening. Seems like the only studio that can produce good films is Marvel Studios.
Give X-Men back to the MCU and bring them home.
Give X-Men back to the MCU and bring them home.
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or am i
AquaWateria
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IM NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT TILL I SEE IT.
Please have mercy on my soul.
Please have mercy on my soul.
It's not gonna be better than two of the best comicbook movies ever tho.
Nah, Deadpool's success may ward off such a scenario for a while. As long as Deadpool 2 & Wolverine 3 don't end up sucking, Fox will be fine.
Whose coffin exactly?
I wasn't wowed by any of the trailers, but I would've never expected anything less than a 80% from a Singer X-Men flick.
"Did Cap just say language?"
Age of Ultron was a mistake. Joss Whedon was a mistake. The Russos should've took over sooner.
"Did Cap just say language?"
Age of Ultron was a mistake. Joss Whedon was a mistake. The Russos should've took over sooner.
Beat me to it.
Tertullian
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Called this when I saw the trailer.
The first DoFP trailer was awesome. It suggested the movie would have some seriously great character moments. "Please. We need you to hope again."
The Apocalypse trailer was like "All these guys get together to fight a big purple guy. He's, like, really powerful." Nothing interesting. Seemingly just a piece of product.
The first DoFP trailer was awesome. It suggested the movie would have some seriously great character moments. "Please. We need you to hope again."
The Apocalypse trailer was like "All these guys get together to fight a big purple guy. He's, like, really powerful." Nothing interesting. Seemingly just a piece of product.
could be
Why does that gag bug people so much? Cap even says "it just slipped out" and them all being friends, make it a point to bug him about it.
Discotheque
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I did. Superman vs Batman was clearly a rushed job in playing catch up to Marvel and X-men Apocalyse didn't impress me with the trailers, which is a shame as I liked First Class, Day of Future Past and Deadpool.
The next few weeks won't be fun, X-Men fans.
Well at least they had Scarlet Witch being in Civil War to soften the blow.
Well Spider-Man in civil war was the best movie version of Spider-Man so chances are that it will be good if not better.
Hulk rights are already a mess, lets not make it worse.
Freeza Under The Shower
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* sad loss trumpet *
Fuck. I had hoped Apocalypse would be on par with DofP, even if the main villain always did have a 'hammier' aspect to him, in the 90's cartoon anyway. There's no good reason that should have lead to being "messy" though, which is an odd descriptor to read in what is a very straightforward storyline (in the 90's cartoon that is supposedly pretty faithful to the comic line, so yeah, simple). But that's also true of Age of Ultron I suppose. Or more to the point: should have been.
Black Republican
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still gonna watch it, loved the previous 2 xmen films too much to skip this one completely
the shitty X movies fox keeps making coffin.
Discotheque
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This is where I'm at. The premise alone was less interesting than dofp and X2 for me. But I was hoping singer would counter that with the usual character stuff he's good at. Bobby's review sounds fairly positive at least. Curious how this turns out
I'm sure it would probably involve spoilers if you went too far into details (I don't care, but the Sculli Plague has taken an entire generation at this point), but would you attribute the film's problems to what Kinberg wrote or to how Singer approached the script?
Kinberg is hardly a master craftsman, but I've found that Singer can have a tendency to push things in a little too hard when they needed to be pulled back.
WadiumArcadium
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Blimey. The trailers felt off but I was expecting better reviews than that after DOFP.
roflwaffles
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Agreed.
I'm not expecting any of the super big-bad centered movies to be good (Darkseid, Thanos, etc) but they need good character stuff to make it not a stupid movie.
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