re: New Xmen Apocalypse Trailer (New Footage)

Much better trailer than the last. I think they changed Apocalypse's voice again as well. I wonder if they go in search of Wolverine to help fight Apocalypse.

My guess is that they have the fight in the destroyed city and realize they are completely outmatched and go in search of help. Thus leading to the final act in Cairo.

damn, I mean it's a good trailer, but I'm mad I watched it.

Too much info and spoiled the cameo rumor at the end. arggh.

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So did Jennifer Lawrence threaten to walk if she wasn't more relevant in these movies? I don't recall Mystique ever being at the forefront like this.

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Have you not seen the last 2 movies?

Apocalypses' voice reminds me if Will Ferrell in his Garth Brooks Skit.

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I know i am in the minority here but this movie just looks terrible.

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You're not. This looks, as someone already said, way too cartoony. I believe Singer's heart is in the right place, but he just cannot make a good X-Men movie.

Should have dropped J-Law when she started making demands. Katniss now leads the X-Men. smh.

What the hell are you talking about? Days of Future Past was awesome

Was nobody else totally thrown off by the clear chopped and collage dialogue?

"For""thousands of years" "he has been" "amassing mutants."

This is how I would run the X-Men franchise:

1 core team that sticks together for multiple movies. No solo movies, no changing up the team. The X-Men were always a team. Present them as a team. Don't wrap it around Xavier or Magneto.

Cyclops
Jean Grey
Wolverine
Storm
Colossus
Kitty Pryde
NIghtcrawler

The team isn't perfect, but it's basically the heavy hitter lineup from their most popular period.

Instead of doing trilogies, do two-movie arcs. One arc every two years, skip a year, do another one. Do one arc with Magneto, one with Shi'ar/Dark Phoenix, one with Apocalypse. Then end the series after you have six good, solid movies with continuity, and characters you care about. The breakout stars can move on, and you can re-boot with a new team, or let one of the side teams take the spotlight for their own series of movies.

The problem with the X-Men is that there's a lot of canon characters and a lot of HUGE stories. I say whittle that down to the core, simplify things. Let the team members and their personalities drive the tension on the team and the dynamics of team's effectiveness.

I think an even better option would be to set the X-Men Franchise up on television, Star Trek-style, eventually leading up to movies.

The original core X-Men team, IIRC, was Beast, Storm, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Cyclops, and Angel.

Oh, they weren't total crap. And I'm willing to concede that perhaps a lot of corners were cut due to the material and the uncertainty of it. Perhaps the studio wasn't prepared to shell out given the untried material. Perhaps that is why, when you put them next to First Class and DOFP they come across as even worse.

Prof X and Wolverine were perfectly cast and conceived. I liked Storm and I wanted to like Magneto, but he always seemed too frail in spite of his power. Everything else was patchwork to me. Too many compromises, especially in light of the success of First Class and DOFP.