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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 3, 2018, 6:35 pm
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[center]X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
2 1/2 Stars out of 5
Trailer
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jer8XjMrUB4
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Was not impressed with X-Men: Apocalypse at all. As a whole, it
was and is quite boring and for a Superhero flick, it becomes
glaring at just how boring it is. Really bad writing, especially
the dialogue and shockingly, the special FX in a lot of places
looked half-baked. Shoddy work. Seemed like whoever was in
charge just didn't care what they were doing. The story itself
was just dull. Didn't care for it. With that said, there were 3
spots in the movie that were fun and entertaining to see play
out. Any scene with Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver, especially the
first scene with him in full effect, is by far the most
entertaining thing about the movie. Next scene, albeit short,
was Wolverine / Logan being freed from his Weapon X program and
going on to slaughtered everyone in sight. Going into the movie,
I had no idea that Hugh Jackman would make a cameo. So, this was
a nice surprise. The final scene worth checking out is of course
the final showdown between all the characters going up against
Apocalypse . Overkill? Yeah, definitely. But I found it cool at
least. But these moments are few and far between in a 2 1/2 hour
movie. Way too long. Not sure if I would recommend this to the
average movie-goer. Superhero fan may enjoy some of the movie.
Oliva Munn as Psylocke was a disappointment. Under utilized and
underused.
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Re: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
By: Neumatic Date: August 10, 2018, 2:10 pm
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I haven't seen this since it came out, really wasn't nuts about
it and I really felt that the 80s wasn't exploited as much as it
could have been. The one thing I did like is that the school
felt a bit more like a school than it did before (the pizza
eating bulldog? The messy rooms, the kids everywhere? That
totally worked for me).
The biggest thing about the movie is that Apocalypse as a
character doesn't really work for the X-Men movie universe. So
far, they've dealt with threats that come from a human level:
hate, fear, bigotry, etc. Even the time travel from the last
one was about correcting a bad decision made from emotion and
pain. So having a proper supervillain doesn't feel right. It
would have been more interesting if Apocalypse was more of a
force personified, and we saw how people dealt with that. It
would have been perfect for the time it came out as well,
examine the mentality of "just let it all burn down" and why
that's a really bad idea. I would have split it into two movies
too, to REALLY get the most out of the 80s. Have the first
movie end with the missiles and the mansion being destroyed, and
have the sequel be "the age of apocalypse" where everyone is
scrambling.
One thing I want to do is... if you remember when the first
pictures came out, people kept saying that Apocalypse looked
like Ivan Ooze:
HTML https://www.outerplaces.com/media/k2/items/cache/3ec69bb1fef0a0d44adf9d9c0cadfa56_L.jpg
I wanna cut clips together and put Ivan's voice over Apocalypse
(I've been working on that impression) just to see how it comes
out.
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