re: It's impressive how bad XMen Apocalypse was

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Apocalypse the character. Oscar Isaacs acting

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Oscar Isaac had some good comments about the movie a while back. Apocalypse was the last of those characters to be done with makeup. He said it was a nightmare to get made up and getting all that crap taken off was even worse. Whereas Josh Brolin mainly had to put on a spandex suit with a bunch of crap on it to play Thanos.
That movie was terrible. What stinks is that DoFP was so good.

There are some things where practical FX are the way to go. But if you have an actor playing a purple mutant who can change his size, just go with motion capture.

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"That’s one of the reasons I didn’t continue, because they didn’t listen to me. My plan was “First Class,” then second film was new young Wolverine in the 70’s to continue those characters, my version of the X-Men. So you’d really get to know all of them, and my finale was gonna be “Days of Future Past.” That was gonna be my number three where you bring them all… because what’s bigger than bringing in McKellen and Michael and Stewart and James and bringing them all together? When I finished the “Days of Future Past” script with it ready to go I looked at it and said, “I really think it would be fun to cast Tom Hardy or someone as the young Wolverine and then bring it all together at the end.” Fox read “Days of Future Past” and went “Oh, this is too good! We’re doing it now!” And I said, “Well what do you do next? Trust me you’ve got nowhere to go.” Then they did “Apocalypse” and it’s like… If you flip that ’round even it would have been better. Hollywood doesn’t understand pacing. Their executives are driving 100 miles-per-hour looking in the rear-view mirror and not understanding why they crash."

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well good thing its now left Fox's hands, would have been cool to see what Vaughn could have done though.

that's so sad b/c Matthew Vaughn is a legitimate, Grade-A badaass director

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I like apocalypse

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Mystique as the lead XMan?

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The obsession with Mystique in these movies is dumbfounding, as is the refusal to show Colossus. At least Deadpool gave us a great Colossus and Juggernaut. I really don’t under what’s so complicated about portraying the core characters properly. Deadpool and MCU have no problems doing it.