X-Men: Apocalypse

[mestevo]

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Anyone expecting a reboot after X-Men: Apocalypse?

X-Men: Apocalypse's Jennifer Lawrence Reveals Why Fox Should Be Terrified

After Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence are done promoting X-Men: Apocalypse, their contractual obligations with 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise will be complete. All three have expressed interest in re-upping their contracts, but now Lawrence says they are a package deal. If the studio wants them back, they'll have to re-sign all three.

[Beantown]

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As they should - their acting as a trio is the best part of the movies.

[mestevo]

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I think the series as-is needs a break from Magneto and Mystique, let Charles move forward without all the baggage they bring. He's reportedly going to be in New Mutants so I guess maybe that's what we'll get there.

[daflyboys]

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Ok, but don't call it "New Mutants".... that works in comic books but not for a movie title. And, of course, let Marvel have it back.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I've had enough of the Mystique focal point. She's already more played out than Wolverine.

[Blzer]

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Ouch, tough start with reviews.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_apocalypse/

Not terrible, but this is getting pretty much what the movie looks like: overcrowded.

I like what First Class was able to do in scaling it down (until the end, that is). X2 is right behind it for me.

[RockinDaMike]

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I thought it entertaining. It had its issues but enjoyed it. It needed more time to flesh out the many new characters so having it made into two movies would have worked a lot better. There was a lot of figuring out where the motivation lied with a lot of characters. The 4 horsemen where pretty much useless.

It probably had to do with three main characters contracts ending this movie, so they had to get it all in on this one before introducing the new squad. I like all the new X-men though, they casted them well.

Days of Future Past was still better. It's definitely not as bad what critics are saying though.



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[daflyboys]

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I thought it entertaining. It had its issues but enjoyed it. It needed more time to flesh out the many new characters so having it made into two movies would have worked a lot better. There was a lot of figuring out where the motivation lied with a lot of characters. The 4 horsemen where pretty much useless.

It probably had to do with three main characters contracts ending this movie, so they had to get it all in on this one before introducing the new squad. I like all the new X-men though, they casted them well.

Days of Future Past was still better. It's definitely not as bad what critics are saying though.



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i.e., wait for it to come to my local discount theater.

[RockinDaMike]

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Yeah its definitely not must see like Civil War and Deadpool. I did like it more than BvS though

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[RockinDaMike]

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Crazy how the rest of the world see's the big blockbuster movies a week before the states and that's where the film it. Anyway, saw it again and I have the same feelings. The special effects were great which I didn't mention earlier. It had a lot of great moments in it like the Quichsilver scene. Love the new Cyclops and Jean Grey


I wasn't disappointed in this movie like I was with Batman V Superman. I give this a solid B, where Deadpool and Civil War get an A+, BvS is a C.

This is how I rank the X-Men movies:
Days of Future Past
First Class
X2
Apocalypse
X1
X3

[Leon]

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Saw it a couple of days ago and thought it was alright. Apocalypse ended up being very "ho-hum" for a villain. Some great set-pieces, namely anything with Quicksilver. He's (the effects) definitely the gold-standard when it comes to portraying speedsters on screen. It's really unfortunate that aside from Magneto (with the help of 2 films), none of the Horsemen are developed. They just join Apocalypse because it's cool. On the other side, we do get to know Cyclops, Jean Grey and a little bit about Nightcrawler and they also get to show off.

Out of the new X Trilogy, I'd probably rank it: 1) Days of Future Past, 2)First Class, 3)Apocalypse.

[DieHardYankee26]

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I didn't like it. I'll spoiler my thoughts as this will be long but it wasn't any good.

Spoiler

I hadn't seen the newest movies recently so when I got my ticket for this I planned to rewatch them, First Class Tuesday, Days of Future Past Wednesday, Apocalypse last night.

I don't see what people see in First Class but I originally thought I didn't like it because it deviates so far from the comic team origin, but I just think it's really an awful movie. Fassbinder as Magneto absolutely carries it. The dialogue and writing in some of the scenes with the newer mutants was truly awful, but I'll get to that with Apocalypse.

I liked Days of Future Past a lot the first time I saw it, but mostly because I despised First Class. I feel more or less the same, this movie isn't great but it looks great because First Class is so terrible. Mystique having the role she has makes no sense and that leads into why Apocalypse wasn't very good.

After Last Stand sucked, First Class came out, cool we are starting again. But wait, lets truly erase the old ones and confuse the timeline of events with Days of Future Past to erase them to truly start over. Dope, lets get going with Apocalypse. At the end of the movie, they're rebuilding the institute...TO BASICALLY START OVER AGAIN.

This ****, to me even more than Batman vs. Superman, needed to be two movies. They added in a whole new cast of characters and none of them are really fleshed out past the bare minimum necessary to move the movie forward. New Mutants should've came out first to introduce the characters, then maybe even another threat before but regardless, there was way too many new characters in this movie and then trying to explain a threat as cataclysmic as Apocalypse.

A lot rides on caring about the characters, for example we find out Magneto has been living a peaceful life, very similar to Wolverine in The Wolverine. Because we don't know who these people are, and we do know Magneto is not this docile guy, their fate is beyond obvious. Poor writing. I wasn't sad for him, I was excited because I knew these people needed to die to give me the Magneto I wanted.

Some of the dialogue really jumped out as being corny and just awful. At one point they walk out of a movie theater seeing Return of the Jedi. Sansa says something like "At least we can agree the 3rd onw is the worst one..i assume this is a shot at Last Stand right? But this movie is the 3rd in its own series in my mind so I was laughing for a completely different reason. "Now you've got your war plane, lets go to war", almost any lesson or speech Mystique tries to give is beyond forced. The moment I think I was ready to walk out of the theater was when Magneto switched against Apocalypse, and threw 2 metal bars to impede his path...in the shape of an X. Give me a break. Rewatching the series this week made me realize these movies just aren't very goof, and it's more noticeable because Civil War was so amazing. As a big X-Men fan, this gets a big thumbs down. Give the mutants to Marvel...but wait. The funny part is now that they're restarting AGAIN, i feel pretty comfortable about where they an go. If I look back at First Class, DoFP,and now Apocalypse essentially prequels for the team they're finally ready to kick off with the next movie, I think they can do well. The new cast has pretty good chemistry and played their characters well and outside of Sansa's rough American accent, I'm all in for the new movies. Quiksilver was great again, he was basically the Spider-Man of this movie, or himself again as he did in DoFP. Even though his powers are ridiculous and completely OP, it looks great and theyre putting a lot of pressure on thr guys making the flash movie. I thought Xavier was good again and once again, nothing new, Michael Fassbender, the acting god, gives more to this movie than they deserve, almost like he's acting in a different movie than everyone else. Amazing.

[mestevo]

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Exceeded very low expectations. Not bad, better movie than BvS but that's a pretty low bar.

Sophie Turner was underwhelming at first but by the end of the film became a fan of her Jean.

These movies really need to get out from under Mystique and Magneto. Ready for a couple movies without them.

I think, having just walked out of the theater (end credits scene is worthless to 99% of viewers btw) I'd put it ahead of DOFP.

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[DieHardYankee26]

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End credit scene is especially useless because they will more than likely not even bother following it for the new movie. What about the DoFP post credit scene where we see Stryker get Wolvie's body but Stryker is actually Mystique? They seem to have forgotten that in this movie.

[daflyboys]

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What about the DoFP post credit scene where we see Stryker get Wolvie's body but Stryker is actually Mystique?

I never understood that as Stryker gets his mitts on Wolverine any way.