X-Men: Apocalypse

[SSJPhenom]

It takes a lot for me (I'm a comic book nerd) to not like a comic book movie adaptation. I think the last one that really disappointed me was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Well, we can add X-Men: Apocalypse to that list. This movie just sucks. It has a good cast and some good performances, but it's nowhere near as exciting as it should be and Apocalypse (the X-Men's most powerful/dangerous enemy) is nowhere near as threatening or imposing as he should be. He's almost served as an also ran in this movie. Like he's just there or something. Really, really didn't like this movie at all. It had one good scene and for those of you who've seen it you know what I'm talking about. It was just so uneventful.

What do you guys think?

 

[Shocky]

I'll assume people have watched this movie if they are coming in here. I understand why critics don't like it, but Apocalypse was given more than enough props. He jump started both Xavier and Magneto's powers, and fought both of them at the same time. He fought Xavier in the Astral Plane, Magneto in the physical realm, all while swatting off QS, Beast, and Cyclops. It took all of that, and then "some" to finally defeat Apocalypse. He over powers his Horsemen, easily dispatches of the team at the Mansion, disarms the world of nukes, tears cities down with his hands, and almost becomes an omnipotent being, I'm not sure what else he could have done in this movie.

This series is damned if they do, damned if they don't. They have made spectacular movies (see First Class, X2, and DOFP), but that wasn't good enough because "black leather, comic book accuracy" or whatever bad argument has been used against the Fox-Men. This was the first time an X-Movie felt like a comic book movie. Is it as good as the movies I previously stated, no, but it is far better than the rest of the movies in the franchise.

 

[JGlass]

I have an X-Men logo tattooed to my arm, so that should speak to how much I like the X-Men.

I fucking hated that movie. Felt like any other generic action movie. Fast and Furious 8, Transformers 5, 300 3... no soul, nothing special, just another corny film with terrible dialogue and a shitty plot and some pretty impressive action sequences.

I hate Brian Singer. Every time he makes another movie, he proves how unimaginative he is.

 

[JGlass]

Is it as good as the movies I previously stated, no, but it is far better than the rest of the movies in the franchise.

Yeah, but X3 and the Wolverine movies are some of the worst super hero movies ever made.

And I'd say it's closer to those movies than they are to X2 and First Class (I don't consider DOFP to be nearly as good as either of those).

It boggles my mind how both Avengers and Guardians managed to build team chemistry seamlessly, and the X-Men haven't been able to do it across six movies.

 

[SSJPhenom]

I'll assume people have watched this movie if they are coming in here. I understand why critics don't like it, but Apocalypse was given more than enough props. He jump started both Xavier and Magneto's powers, and fought both of them at the same time. He fought Xavier in the Astral Plane, Magneto in the physical realm, all while swatting off QS, Beast, and Cyclops. It took all of that, and then "some" to finally defeat Apocalypse. He over powers his Horsemen, easily dispatches of the team at the Mansion, disarms the world of nukes, tears cities down with his hands, and almost becomes an omnipotent being, I'm not sure what else he could have done in this movie.

This series is damned if they do, damned if they don't. They have made spectacular movies (see First Class, X2, and DOFP), but that wasn't good enough because "black leather, comic book accuracy" or whatever bad argument has been used against the Fox-Men. This was the first time an X-Movie felt like a comic book movie. Is it as good as the movies I previously stated, no, but it is far better than the rest of the movies in the franchise.

It was nowhere near X2 or First Class. Also, that last fight was horrible. You have Apocalypse standing in one spot with a shield up while Magneto, Cyclopse, and Beast are trying to break it. Then he's fighting Xavier in the astral plane in a very unspectacular fashion. Also, Apocalypse doesn't 'convince' his horsemen to join him or give them a choice. He brain washes then and forces them to do his bidding. This movie was just unexciting. The only scene that was fun and worthwhile was when Quicksilver saved everyone in the mansion.

 

[JGlass]

The only scene that was fun and worthwhile was when Quicksilver saved everyone in the mansion.

I hated that scene, because it further illustrated how lazy Singer is. It was essentially the same thing as the Quicksilver scene in DOFP. We get it, he moves fast, he changes things, and he's whimsical about it. It was cute in DOFP, but now it's just tired.

 

[Kodo Sawaki]

It was OK movie. Much better then BatmanvsSuperman. Apocalypse was a threat, for example you could bet that he could hurt somebody. In Civil War you have all that heroes fighting eachother and you knew nothing threataning is gona happen. Flaw is that he is just some generic bad guy. Aside of being strong and wanting to destroy the world there is nothing special about him. And there is too much destruction for my taste. You dont need it in order to establish somebody as a threat.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

When review sites are saying "if only they could have gotten this right, like Superman did" you are probably in for a rough go

 

[JGlass]

It was OK movie. Much better then BatmanvsSuperman. Apocalypse was a threat, for example you could bet that he could hurt somebody. In Civil War you have all that heroes fighting eachother and you knew nothing threataning is gona happen. Flaw is that he is just some generic bad guy. Aside of being strong and wanting to destroy the world there is nothing special about him. And there is too much destruction for my taste. You dont need it in order to establish somebody as a threat.

I thought he was a bullshit villain. They never properly explained his powers, just that he absorbed a bunch of other people's powers over the centuries he had been active.

Here is some praise: I thought the opening scene was fantastic. I felt like I was watching a real ceremony in Ancient Egypt. Then the weird transference thing happens between Apocalypse and that other dude, and all the weird technology stuff is happening... and I loved it. Not only was it a cool visual, but it also paid homage to the art of the comic books.

But then they never address the fact that can basically create this crazy high level technology from nothingness. They don't explain how anything works. They're just like, "The audience didn't come here for a story, they came here to see people beat the shit out of each other and disaster porn," which is demonstrably false.

Two spoilery things, though they aren't really spoilers.

Spoiler

You KNOW the screenwriter was at full mast when he came up with the line where Moira is showing Professor X and Havoc (or was it Beast? I can't remember) the four horsemen, and one of them says, "He got that from the bible," and she says, "Or the bible got that from him. How would the bible get that from him? He was buried under a giant pile of rocks for the last four thousand years or so.

One of the things that REALLY pissed me off about the movie was that when Apocalypse wakes up from his nap, he walks through the market and is baffled by modern technology. Then he sees a TV and somehow knows how to use satellites to learn everything there is to know about the 20th century.

Action movie bullshit.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

It was a case of having seen it all before and done better.

And will they ever make Storm a compelling character?

 

[Navdeep]

Boring movie, it was a let down after two good movies( first class and DOFP ) , it was like wolverine origin , a torture.

 

[justinsayne]

I thought it was great & had a blast watching it. I approach these kind of movies the same way I approach wresting, as long as I can shut my brain off for a couple hours, escape the bullshit of real life & sit back see some of my favorite characters battle some of my favorite villains I'm good.

 

[Coco]

Mostly inoffensive. Equally forgettable.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Anybody else feel that Olivia Munn's outfit wasn't very practical, but at the same time one of the only redeeming features of the film?

 

[JGlass]

I thought that they generally did a pretty good job with the art direction for the mutants and sets.

Though I did find it somewhat obnoxious that the X-Men accidentally discovered their uniforms when they grabbed flight suits from the black-ops team.

 

[Dan Severn's Moustache]

Fassbender is an amazing Magneto. I never liked Mckellen in the role, always felt he looked a little too frail and vulnerable. Obviously, Mckellen is a fantastic actor, I just felt he was cast for the sake of it being "Mckellen vs Stewart".

 

[klunderbunker]

Anybody else feel that Olivia Munn's outfit wasn't very practical, but at the same time one of the only redeeming features of the film?

Well that goes for a ton of female superheroes.

Did she have more than five lines in this?

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Who cares, man.

 

[klunderbunker]

I can kind of get behind the idea of a movie just throwing someone out there and basically saying "yeah she's eye candy."

 

[JGlass]

She wasn't just eye candy. She was a cool character too. Underdeveloped, but cool.

The outfit, on the other hand, was purely for the lady lovers.

 

[ABMorales787]

Meh. Average superhero movie. Felt like a very stretched one parter from the cartoons. Some of the characters are portrayed very interestingly and they left tons of things they can go for in future movies.

 

[SSJPhenom]

Will somebody help here. I always thought that Magneto could only fly in the movies if he had metal to either attract himself to so he could stay airborne or to repel himself from to land. At the end of Apocalypse though, when they're rebuilding the mansion, he's just floating in the middle of a field with metal far away from him. Wtf. I know he can't fly freely because in X2 he had to create a hover board to escape prison.

 

[justinsayne]

Will somebody help here. I always thought that Magneto could only fly in the movies if he had metal to either attract himself to so he could stay airborne or to repel himself from to land. At the end of Apocalypse though, when they're rebuilding the mansion, he's just floating in the middle of a field with metal far away from him. Wtf. I know he can't fly freely because in X2 he had to create a hover board to escape prison.

Apocalypse enhanced his powers

 

[Navdeep]

Apocalypse enhanced his powers

I thought about this, it means Magneto is unstoppable as he can virtually control everything because of enhanced power so now he can destroy part or whole earth in few hours.

 

[Alex]

Will somebody help here. I always thought that Magneto could only fly in the movies if he had metal to either attract himself to so he could stay airborne or to repel himself from to land. At the end of Apocalypse though, when they're rebuilding the mansion, he's just floating in the middle of a field with metal far away from him. Wtf. I know he can't fly freely because in X2 he had to create a hover board to escape prison.

I always thought it was due to the Earth's magnetic fields