X-Men: Apocalypse

[Rosgakori]

...has a trailer.

Personally, I love it. Apocalypse looks better than in the pictures and he sounds cool.

Next year is going to be a good year in movies for me.

[Hama]

Eh, Apocalypse looks silly.

The rest seems ok.

No sign of Wolverine. Which may be a good thing, even though he's my favorite.

[Imbicatus]

I loved First Class, and thought Days of Future Past was decent, but nothing special. Not sure about this. Looks like it will have a lot of Storm and Cyclops, who are the two most boring characters in the X-men.

The trailer left me with a solid "meh".

[Sissyl]

Apocalypse ALWAYS looked goofy. Then again, when thousands of years old you be, look as good, you will not, eh?

[Imbicatus]

Bryan Singer breaks down the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer.

It's more interesting in this format.

[baron arem heshvaun]

This gif has some of the characters

[baron arem heshvaun]

I read a funny post that clearly stated what I was thinking.

"Welcome to Movie Big Bad Villain Academy. We're excited you came for this interview, but before we even begin, what are your views on bridges?"

"Bridges? F&$&kinn hate them!"

"My God, you're hired!"

[ShinHakkaider]

The more that I think about it the more that I realize that my era of the X-men was from Giant Sized #1 to about #175. That's when I was most excited about that book and for me that's when the book was at it's best.

Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, The Reavers, The Marauders, Gambit, Jubilee and the million other X-men who came afterwards I'm not as familiar with and I dont have a connection to them.

I also HATED Mohawk Storm for reasons that I wont go into here and really thought they were diluting her character. I didnt start liking or caring about Archangel until Remender's run on UNCANNY X-FORCE.

So this movie, much like Batman v Superman is definitely NOT for me. And that's okay. I'll be waiting for Captain America: Civil War.

[Caineach]

X-men for me was the 90s tv show.

[Lord Snow]

So as one who hated the previous XMen movie I didn't exactly approach this trailer with high hopes, but...

why were the exact same shots shown 2-3 times in this trailer? What's the point?

Also, they're giving lots of face time to Jennifer Laurance in the trailer in her human form (not the blue one). Hopefully this is just a marketing choice (more Lawrence in your trailer = moar moneys) and not an indication that she will mostly appear human in the movie.

Honestly? Probably just gonna skip going to the movies for this one. I'll catch it later in a stream or something.

[JoelF847]

Not really familiar with Apocalypse either, but from the trailer I'm guessing he has the power to permanently affect hair growth, and used it on Professor X.

[Sissyl]

My era was from 86 (brood yay!) or so to... well, some time ago. Civil war broke most of the interest I had in Marvel.

[baron arem heshvaun]

Alas poor Xavier, I knew him!

[memorax]

I'm willing to give it a chance. Though I am getting tired of Magneto poor life choices. It's like the character never learns anything. Though a Mystique led X-team should be interesting IMO.

[Hama]

Hey once Apocalypse makes you one of his riders, you're not really yourself any more. Just a puppet.

[memorax]

Good point. But you have to also accept the offer. It just seems like Magneto keeps making dumb mistakes IMO. "Accepting the offer of a mutant old enough to have been around since the creation of the pyramids. Nah nothing can go wrong."

[Rosgakori]

Just saw it. I liked it! It's not near the level of MCU movies but it's not as bad as BvS. Not perfect, it has multiple scenes that don't work and some of the new characters (care to quess which ones...) are left sideline. But Apocalypse himself is uber cool and menacing and it has a fun 80's Claremont-vibe going on. I recommend!

[Thomas Seitz]

As long as En Saban Nur/Apocalypse showcases his powers and proves to be as menacing as usual, then I'm down for it.

I'm not expecting this to be the Avengers. I'm expecting it to be newish type X-men meeting some of the 90s X-men with a dash of 80s nostalgia tossed in for fun.

[Rosgakori]

Oscar Isaacs is menacing. And I like that he is wearing practical makeup insted of CGi. He seems more real. And he delivers some very cruel fates to some people...

[Pan]

Saw it last night.

spoiler:

I enjoyed the movie. It wasn't spectacular but wasn't bad either. The 80's stuff was subtle and neat, but not over done. The tone was serious, but not depressingly dark for an epic story. Overall a solid B, the film takes care not to fall into any traps but doesn't do much to set it self apart from standard comic book hero stories of the day either.

The only thing that made me go "meh" was the wolverine stuff, which thankfully is a really insignificant part of the film. Its just the promises to come of more wolverine films that make me go...

[memorax]

It's just sad to see how the movie version of Mystique is the complete opposite of the comic and imo the better version. The comic version is a sociopathic, psychotic clown. Versus the movie version who has her faults but has more personality.

[archmagi1]

Eh, that's just X-Verse keeping Jennifer Lawrence a heroine / anti-hero instead of villain. Which is a shame, because I think she'd ham up a villain better than blandly emote a poorly written anti-hero. Rebecca Romijn has never been considered a great actress, but her Mystique was a lot more fun than DoFP's and Apoc's take.

[Alceste008]

Rosgakori wrote:

Just saw it. I liked it! It's not near the level of MCU movies but it's not as bad as BvS. Not perfect, it has multiple scenes that don't work and some of the new characters (care to quess which ones...) are left sideline. But Apocalypse himself is uber cool and menacing and it has a fun 80's Claremont-vibe going on. I recommend!

Yeah, I would place this above BvS and quite a bit below Civil War as well. I also enjoyed the movie but there were a lot of things that simply did not work.

[Freehold DM]

memorax wrote:

It's just sad to see how the movie version of Mystique is the complete opposite of the comic and imo the better version. The comic version is a sociopathic, psychotic clown. Versus the movie version who has her faults but has more personality.

I would strongly recommend you check out the mystique series. It was amazing. Wife loved it.

[Dragon78]

I saw it Saturday and loved it. I really hope they do a good job with Mr. Sinister, He is one of my favorite X-men villains.

[Marc Radle]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but it is certainly performing WAY below expectations. I'm seeing the word 'bomb' used quite a bit when discussing the movie...

[EileenProphetofIstus]

I just finished watching it. I like the plot concept but didn't feel like it told the story very well. I would have kept the very basic plot of the villain and rewrote the rest of the movie. Very meh....reaction, my least favorite of the X-Men movie so far. The Wolverine addition was terrible, just an excuse for a cameo. I won't rent or buy it. For those that haven't seen it, its a rental at best.

I am a fan of Jennifer Lawrence however.

[Cylyria]

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I thought the Phoenix stuff was pretty cool, much better then X3, though that isn't saying much.)

I am hopeful that the final scene leads to the female wolverine, so we can just make Hugh Jackman go away. I've liked him in the roll, but its time to let go.

Quicksilver was once again awesome, though the song playing during the scene was imo a poor choice.

[captain yesterday]

Does Deadpool, Colossus, or Negasonic Teenage Warhead make an appearance. :-)

I'm guessing not, still never hurts to ask. :-)

[Cylyria]

captain yesterday wrote:

Does Deadpool, Colossus, or Negasonic Teenage Warhead make an appearance. :-)

I'm guessing not, still never hurts to ask. :-)

Nope. Colossus and Negasonic wouldn't be alive yet.

[Captain Deadpool]

All these timelines are confusing!

[samerandomhero]

captain yesterday wrote:

Does Deadpool, Colossus, or Negasonic Teenage Warhead make an appearance. :-)

I'm guessing not, still never hurts to ask. :-)

deadpool trio:

No they do not. However the after credits scene shows the Essex company, which is tied heavily to Cable which is tied heavily to Deadpool. Also Deadpool talked about cable possibly being in his next movie. Not sure if they will connect but interesting none the less :)

[Cole Deschain]

Saw it. Liked it.

The plot is tissue-paper thin, many of the characters are little more than name-dropping background, and there are very, very few surprises for a savvy viewer (like...none) but it's a fun flick.

Fassbender-neto is always a joy, and they deal with some past events which is nice.

Might be my second-favorite X-Men movie, not including Deadpool (which is apples and oranges different in many ways). Not that the competition is all that stiff, but I didn't feel burned on my ticket purchase.

[Tacticslion]

Wife and I saw it. Highly enjoyed it!

Solid film, and I enjoy the way the new timelines are playing out.

[Feral]

I saw it last night. I enjoyed it enough but there was definitely parts that felt slow and other parts that felt wholly unnecessary in what was already a very busy movie.

thing that bugged me the most at the end:

I understand Magneto switching sides turned the tide and allowed the heroes to save the world but he was still responsible for casualties (I'm guessing in the millions?). Is there really no accountability for that?

[Cole Deschain]

Feral wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

I like to think that's why he left at the end- because he IS guilty of almost everything he's accused of.

[Feral]

Spoiler:

Isn't he wanted by the world's governments or something?

[Cole Deschain]

Spoiler:

Probably, but since they all just had their pants yanked down by Apocalypse, they're probably taking their time about it.

[Caineach]

Spoiler:

Not to mention he has handed world governments their ass multiple times, so they probably don't want to go after him too much

[Thomas Seitz]

Did Apocalypse at least kill more than 20 people? That's kind of my gold standard for "bad ass villainy".

[Cylyria]

Thomas Seitz wrote:

Did Apocalypse at least kill more than 20 people? That's kind of my gold standard for "bad ass villainy".

I'd say yes.

[Cole Deschain]

Cylyria wrote:

Thomas Seitz wrote:

Did Apocalypse at least kill more than 20 people? That's kind of my gold standard for "bad ass villainy".

I'd say yes.

I think he topped that in under a second in Poland...

[Norman Osborne]

Apocalypse basically destroyed an entire populated city in Egypt to create his pyramid. I'm pretty sure the death toll was WAY north of 20.

Although for me, in works of fiction, WHO is killed matters more to me more than sheer numbers in making someone a villain. One Gwen Stacy is worth 1000 nameless faceless Genosha mutants.

[Grey Lensman]

So, Poccy managed to hit the 'One is a tragedy, one million is a statistic' level of deaths?

[Thomas Seitz]

Norman Osborne wrote:

Apocalypse basically destroyed an entire populated city in Egypt to create his pyramid. I'm pretty sure the death toll was WAY north of 20.

Although for me, in works of fiction, WHO is killed matters more to me more than sheer numbers in making someone a villain. One Gwen Stacy is worth 1000 nameless faceless Genosha mutants.

Really?! I think Magneto and some other mutants might disagree....

Glad to know he topped out well over a million then.

[Sissyl]

You really call him Pocky?

[Grey Lensman]

Sissyl wrote:

You really call him Pocky?

Too much time on the CBR X-Boards. Although the full fan nickname over there is Poccy-Lips, or more comonly, Poccy for short.

[GreyWolfLord]

Just saw this. Did anyone else get a rather strange pre-movie announcement that basically had the actor who played Storm thanking you for watching the movie?

I did...wondered what that was all about. They just feel happy that I went to see the movie...that's a first...or at least actually putting a prefilm commercial/trailer to that effect, at least for me.

[Tectorman]

GreyWolfLord wrote:

Just saw this. Did anyone else get a rather strange pre-movie announcement that basically had the actor who played Storm thanking you for watching the movie?

I did...wondered what that was all about. They just feel happy that I went to see the movie...that's a first...or at least actually putting a prefilm commercial/trailer to that effect, at least for me.

I think it was supposed to be their way of reminding the audience of all the people who made the film and how much effort they put into it. You know, as an attempt to guilt-trip all the movie pirates into not making bootleg copies of the film.

[Radavel]

Sweet dreams (are made of these) ;-)