X-Men: Apocalypse - May 27, 2016

[karamazov80]

Apoc's whole schtick is survival of the fittest. Also, probably not all that new, but maybe a slightly different spin on the typical egomaniacal super villain. Maybe that was Ultron's motivation, but who can remember with all the **** going on in that movie??

But really, what can you do that we haven't already seen done? We've got greedy *******s/gangs/career criminals, genocidal nuts/wacky ideologues, the purely insane, emo revenge seekers, and corrupted good guys out the wazoo already. Unless you want a post-modern villain from the pages of the Invisibles or X-Statix or something. And I don't think producers or audiences would care much for that.

 

[Khev]

Isn't that the plan of almost every villain in superhero movies?

Yep. Which is one of the reasons I liked Ant-Man so much. Marvel really shouldn't have followed Alexander Pierce with Ultron. It's just too freaking much. And then there was Zod and now Apocalypse. I don't mind villains being evil, or wanting to kill everyone, or even making speeches but for the love of God don't have every one of them make the exact SAME speech.

 

[karamazov80]

How was Ant-Man different than other villains? He's basically the same as Obadiah Stane.

 

[Khev]

How was Ant-Man different than other villains?

Umm, by being good?

If you mean Yellow-Jacket then he was more like Obadiah Stane as you said or even **** Jones from RoboCop. Much more interesting than the "tear the world down and build it back up" villain of the week.

 

[karamazov80]

You liked the Ant-Man villain more than others? I thought the consensus was that he was generic and forgettable. I thought he was fine personally, but nothing that stood out. But I was probably inclined to like him more than others since I'm a big House of Cards fan.

 

[Khev]

He wasn't as good as Pierce or Winter Soldier himself obviously but I'd probably rank him as one of the top villains in the MCU. He was one of the few MCU villains where I know I genuinely wouldn't want to be in the same room as him. Even Red Skull and Ultron seemed to be decent enough fellows to have a conversation with as long as you didn't openly oppose them.

 

[karamazov80]

As far as guys who want to commit large-scale acts of genocide go, I guess they were decent enough fellows.

 

[pturtle]

I still think Obadiah Stane is the best villain Marvel has produced so far, even though by the third act he went full retard as a villain

Yellow Jacket was pretty forgettable in my opinion, I can't remember a single memorable moment involving him. Basically each superhero movie has the villain who wants to take over the world, do horrible things out of ego, or are just psychotic. The FoX-Men, MCU, and DC films all have them.

Batman Begins and TDK were the rare exceptions in the villain department in my opinion.


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[RIDDICK]

Which is one of the reasons I liked Ant-Man so much.

It was the same nonsensical crap as Donovan from DOA.
And even then Victor was played by Eric ****ing Roberts who fought several martial arts champions.

 

[Khev]

It was the same nonsensical crap as Donovan from DOA.

Are you talking about the Dennis Quaid movie or is this some kind of cryptic millennial reference?

 

[Rulk]

new trailer out on Thursday?

 

[EVILFACE]

Umm, by being good?

If you mean Yellow-Jacket then he was more like Obadiah Stane as you said or even **** Jones from RoboCop. Much more interesting than the "tear the world down and build it back up" villain of the week.

Why do villains want to take over the world anyway? Seems like it would be too much to keep track of.

 

[Khev]

Why do villains want to take over the world anyway? Seems like it would be too much to keep track of.

Yeah, the one decent thing Steve Sommers said about Cobra Commander was "if you have a trillion dollars to build these underwater super bases why are you bothering with a global war. Just have fun being the richest man in the world and call it a day."

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Yeah, the one decent thing Steve Sommers said about Cobra Commander was "if you have a trillion dollars to build these underwater super bases why are you bothering with a global war. Just have fun being the richest man in the world and call it a day."

That's hilarious! Did he really say that about the movie he himself made?!? What was the context? Was he bad mouthing his own movie?

 

[Khev]

That's hilarious! Did he really say that about the movie he himself made?!? What was the context? Was he bad mouthing his own movie?

Yeah he said that about his own movie. I did own the Rise of Cobra blu-ray for about five minutes and he said it on the commentary track as a tongue in cheek side comment when the movie started showing Cobra Commander's massive underwater armada.

 

[jye4ever]

So that's why Sommers, Trank and Sally Fields were seen hanging out together.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Can't wait for the new trailer

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Cyclops there looks like a young Roy Orbison.

 

[YoNoSe]

Yikes, that artwork. Do you have to go to the Young Adult section to buy the movie novelization?

 

[YoNoSe]

Are you talking about the Dennis Quaid movie or is this some kind of cryptic millennial reference?

Must spread reps.