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X-Men: Apocalypse RT Watch Thread (58%)
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:17 pm
Reviews flowing in now.
59 reviews counted: 34 fresh, 25 rotten
59 reviews counted: 34 fresh, 25 rotten
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Tom Huddleston (Time Out): There are no surprises or switcheroos here, just a seen-it-before world domination plot carried out by a petulant Pharaoh with a head like a chewed pencil, and resisted by a bunch of interchangeable, Lycra-clad goody-goodies.
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Greg Wakeman (CinemaBlend): Apocalypse includes everything you'd want in an X-Men movie, including two of the best superhero set pieces ever. But after Days Of Future Past, it feels a tad underwhelming.
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Perri Nemiroff (Collider): Starts off strong with highly enjoyable introductions and a fun "getting the band (back) together" kind of feel, but then it fizzles out and turns into a mind-numbing montage of poorly choreographed combat and outrageous, widespread destruction.
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Edward Douglas (New York Daily News): Unlike some of the cheesier remnants of the '80s, we'll probably want to see more of these new X-Men.
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david ehrlich ?@davidehrlich 20m20 minutes ago
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is one of the most audacious superhero movies ever (but it's still boring)
david ehrlich ?@davidehrlich 11m11 minutes ago
APOCALYPSE isn't great, but its boldest ideas offer a Stark contrast from the cowardice and compromise that make the MCU movies so dull.
david ehrlich ?@davidehrlich 4m4 minutes ago
whatever its faults, X-MEN APOCALYPSE boasts the most insane moment i've ever seen in a superhero movie. by far. so that's something.
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Steven Weintraub ?@colliderfrosty 16m16 minutes ago
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is between good and really good. The Quicksilver scene is insane. Cast awesome. Some amazing stuff. Just not a homerun.
Steven Weintraub ?@colliderfrosty 14m14 minutes ago
I also wonder what I'd think about X-MEN: APOCALYPSE if it came out a bit further down the road after CIVIL WAR.
Steven Weintraub ?@colliderfrosty 13m13 minutes ago
If you read X-MEN comics growing up you're going to see some really cool stuff in APOCALYPSE. Don't want to spoil surprises just trust me.
Steven Weintraub ?@colliderfrosty 11m11 minutes ago
They haven't shown it yet but I can confirm X-MEN: APOCALYPSE has a post credits scene. More about that on Collider soon..
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ErikDavis ?@ErikDavis 3m3 minutes ago
Best parts of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE are the newbies - especially Summers, Nightcrawler and Jean Grey. Some creatively gnarly kills, too.
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Amirose Eisenbach ?@Amirosie 3m3 minutes ago
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE has some issues & could have been tighter but my fellow X-Men fans will still enjoy it. Some solid character moments (1/2)
Amirose Eisenbach ?@Amirosie 3m3 minutes ago
action & effects. @SophieT is an incredible Jean Grey. Isaac delivers. Hard to follow the amazing DOFP. They just tried to do too much (2/2
This post was edited on 5/13/16 at 6:42 pm
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Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:23 pm to jackwoods4
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There are no surprises or switcheroos here, just a seen-it-before world domination plot carried out by a petulant Pharaoh with a head like a chewed pencil, and resisted by a bunch of interchangeable, Lycra-clad goody-goodies.
I understand if you don't like a movie, but this shite is excessive. I'm not sure how a review like this brings any value to a conversation.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:30 pm to jackwoods4
This movie probably won't set the world on fire, but I bet the expectations after what Civil War just delivered will doom it.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:35 pm to jackwoods4
DOFP was boring. If this is underwhelming by comparison, then that's not a good sign.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:40 pm to Brosef Stalin
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DOFP was boring.
You're suspect.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:41 pm to Brosef Stalin
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DOFP was boring.
Shut up.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:44 pm to Sentrius
First class and DOFP were both very good. I had a feeling this was going to be a bit of a let down. I think the X-Men movies have been at their best in dealing with the "life sized" threats like Magneto and registration. The Phoenix Force and Apocalypse are hard to do in film.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 4:59 pm to jackwoods4
but singer made the two best x-men films ever.....
Posted on 5/9/16 at 5:08 pm to jeff5891
SPOILERS.....
Geek site review.
Geek site review.
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The Four Horsemen are essentially non-factors, with Olivia Munn, Ben Hardy, and Alexandra Shipp having probably a combined 10 lines in the film
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There's a scene in which Apocalypse and the Horseman have one of the X-Men on a mountain overlooking the city, and it's shocking how much it looks like they're all just standing around on a sound stage surrounded by green screens. It doesn't help that the film devolves into a massive CGI crapfest of floating debris and global landmarks being demolished for no good reason. I'm sure it was very expensive, and those are the kinds of Transformers-esque images that international audiences still gobble up, but haven't we moved beyond scenes like that at this point? That kind of thing might have been cool or novel fifteen years ago, but when Magneto just floats there with metal spinning around him and it A) doesn't do anything to further illuminate the characters, or B) is something we've seen countless times before, I just feel like the filmmakers missed an opportunity to do something special and interesting. I counted ten different VFX vendors in the film's end credits, so maybe that had something to do with it.
This post was edited on 5/9/16 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 5/9/16 at 5:13 pm to jackwoods4
DOFP has grown on me over time. I did not like it when I first saw it.
This may do the same.
And....
I did like the Sheridan casting. I still don't like the lack of a real Scott story though.
This may do the same.
And....
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Best parts of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE are the newbies - especially Summers,
I did like the Sheridan casting. I still don't like the lack of a real Scott story though.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 5:15 pm to Freauxzen
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I did like the Sheridan casting. I still don't like the lack of a real Scott story though.
Neither Singer nor Fox are a fans of Scott Summers.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 5:18 pm to RonBurgundy
Harry Knowles liked it. But that ginger gastropod raves about everything. Give him a Hefty bag of day-old popcorn and some meaningless prop from the movie and you'll get a great review.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:03 pm to RonBurgundy
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Neither Singer nor Fox are a fans of Scott Summers.
They don't see the value or the point of Scott, which sucks. Maybe Sheridan causes them to think differently is my hope.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:13 pm to Freauxzen
Nerdist just dropped their review and
SPOILER!!!!!!!!
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. After the surprise success of X-Men: Days of Future Past, could Bryan Singer live up to his own hype? Well, no. I also don’t think he’s trying to.
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The X-Men franchise has always had a ton of characters–that’s part of the fun–but the movies are only really successful when there’s a reason for each of them to be there, or at least a general “we’re on a team” thing.
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Aside from a few visual gags and references to music and movies, the movie could take place whenever
SPOILER!!!!!!!!
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Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), meanwhile, is traveling around the globe as a freedom fighter
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here are many moving pieces in this movie, but weirdly not that much happens
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The inevitable Quicksilver scene is excellent, even if it does come out of nowhere tonally.
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But ultimately the major fault of the movie is that the script is so unbelievably arch. People talk very dramatically all the time and much more like a comic book (in a bad way) than I remember the other X films doing. There are moments of levity, but those only serve to accentuate when the opposite is true. People speak like it’s a Greek tragedy or something. Apocalypse talking like that is fine, but nobody else should
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I will, however, say that this feels like exactly the movie, massive cuts aside, that Singer and writer-producer Simon Kinberg wanted to make, and they’re completely unencumbered by expectation or trends in superhero movies. I think this movie is for fans of the franchise or characters only
This post was edited on 5/9/16 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:20 pm to jackwoods4
quote:WTF
david ehrlich ?@davidehrlich 11m11 minutes ago
APOCALYPSE isn't great, but its boldest ideas offer a Stark contrast from the cowardice and compromise that make the MCU movies so dull.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:25 pm to Hoodoo Man
I know exactly what he's talking about, and I like his message
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:32 pm to RonBurgundy
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The X-Men franchise has always had a ton of characters–that’s part of the fun–but the movies are only really successful when there’s a reason for each of them to be there, or at least a general “we’re on a team” thing.
There's has never been a reason for anyone outside of Jean, Logan, Professor X, Magneto, and Mystique(JLaw version) to be in the film. The majority of X-Men characters are superfluous, with many serving as simple plot points-Rogue and Beast mainly.
Heck, Multiple Man was more of an important character in X3 than anyone not above and that's horrifying to think about. He was more important than Iceman, Angel, Scott, Colossus, Storm - Some seriously major X characters.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:33 pm to Freauxzen
This thread gave me a sad. I was looking forward to this movie
Posted on 5/9/16 at 6:56 pm to jackwoods4
I have a feeling I'm going to like this almost regardless. Next to Batman, the X-Men has always been my favorite comic mythos. I don't doubt it's worse than DoFP and First Class, but I think it will be fun to see the old gang as younger versions of themselves.
I do have a problem with Mystique leading the X-Men though. It just about makes me cringe, and I don't think there's anyway they would have done this if Jennifer Lawrence wasn't in the part. She was well utilized as an assassin who would kill someone without thinking the overall ramifications through, but not as a leader of the X-Men.
I do have a problem with Mystique leading the X-Men though. It just about makes me cringe, and I don't think there's anyway they would have done this if Jennifer Lawrence wasn't in the part. She was well utilized as an assassin who would kill someone without thinking the overall ramifications through, but not as a leader of the X-Men.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 7:27 pm to OMLandshark
Apocalypse sounds like Will Ferrell doing sketch comedy. This one major oversight tells me how much the producers really cared about the quality of this movie
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