Re: X-Men: Apocalypse
I saw it and enjoyed it a lot, at least for a summer blockbuster. I wasn't very high on Days of Future Past, either because too much Wolverine or too much Mystique... not sure.
Anyway, I think I'd have a lot to say about this movie, though a lot of it would be wrapped up in spoilers, and I'm probably just going to wait for the discussion to start about it. The main issues with this movie, for me at least, stem with the very confusing timeline. I don't know if I'm expecting anything from X1-X3 to be considered canon at all, or even at the end of DOFP! I'm talking future scenes and the Stryker scene! I am just so confused.
Apocalypse was pretty cool, though his recruiting scenes dragged a little in the beginning. It all reminded me a bit of Avengers: Age of Ultron, since he saw the world he was in and made up his mind that the human race was the cause of doom and gloom on earth (though his motives for overtaking it were far different, more on the Transformers: Dark of the Moon end of things like Sentinel Prime).
I like how some things came full circle though, and I thought it hit some of the right emotional marks. Speaking of emotion, there were maybe two or three moments where I found myself laughing at the screen but nobody else was. They weren't even clever subliminal moments, but rather they were right in our face. Kind of strange.
The one problem this film kind of has though, and this does go back to the X1-X3 series as well as any films hereon out, is the escalation is tough to top from here. I liked the X1-X2 run when most people's powers kind of felt "equal" in a way. But now, when you get dudes like Apocalypse and the like, it kind of throws things out of whack. I also think Bryan Singer's action scenes still are a bit drab or too cartoony, but that seems like that's how all of the X-Men movies have been, really. As much as I praise First Class, even some of their guys (Emma Frost, Banshee, Angel, and Riptide) are really not my favorites either. Oh well. Great Quicksilver scenes, of course. Even tops the kitchen scene in DOFP. Loved it.
Not sure where this one sits overall, but it certainly wasn't bad. Then again, I didn't hate X3 either (and with these ones "making up" for what X3 did wrong, I think people should be more tolerating of it). I was getting a feeling early on though that this one was like the X3 of the new series, and that's probably how it's being felt by the masses. But this film was no slouch, not in the least. I recommend it for sure if you have been attuned with all of the X-Men films thus far.
I saw it and enjoyed it a lot, at least for a summer blockbuster. I wasn't very high on Days of Future Past, either because too much Wolverine or too much Mystique... not sure.
Anyway, I think I'd have a lot to say about this movie, though a lot of it would be wrapped up in spoilers, and I'm probably just going to wait for the discussion to start about it. The main issues with this movie, for me at least, stem with the very confusing timeline. I don't know if I'm expecting anything from X1-X3 to be considered canon at all, or even at the end of DOFP! I'm talking future scenes and the Stryker scene! I am just so confused.
Apocalypse was pretty cool, though his recruiting scenes dragged a little in the beginning. It all reminded me a bit of Avengers: Age of Ultron, since he saw the world he was in and made up his mind that the human race was the cause of doom and gloom on earth (though his motives for overtaking it were far different, more on the Transformers: Dark of the Moon end of things like Sentinel Prime).
I like how some things came full circle though, and I thought it hit some of the right emotional marks. Speaking of emotion, there were maybe two or three moments where I found myself laughing at the screen but nobody else was. They weren't even clever subliminal moments, but rather they were right in our face. Kind of strange.
The one problem this film kind of has though, and this does go back to the X1-X3 series as well as any films hereon out, is the escalation is tough to top from here. I liked the X1-X2 run when most people's powers kind of felt "equal" in a way. But now, when you get dudes like Apocalypse and the like, it kind of throws things out of whack. I also think Bryan Singer's action scenes still are a bit drab or too cartoony, but that seems like that's how all of the X-Men movies have been, really. As much as I praise First Class, even some of their guys (Emma Frost, Banshee, Angel, and Riptide) are really not my favorites either. Oh well. Great Quicksilver scenes, of course. Even tops the kitchen scene in DOFP. Loved it.
Not sure where this one sits overall, but it certainly wasn't bad. Then again, I didn't hate X3 either (and with these ones "making up" for what X3 did wrong, I think people should be more tolerating of it). I was getting a feeling early on though that this one was like the X3 of the new series, and that's probably how it's being felt by the masses. But this film was no slouch, not in the least. I recommend it for sure if you have been attuned with all of the X-Men films thus far.
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