X-Men: Apocalypse - May 27, 2016
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And just when they perfected their routine.
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I'll Netflix it...
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Trying not to let these reviews get me down. Since the very first X-Men movie, I have been dreaming of an epic battle with Apocalypse. This should have been the ultimate for me. Now I've got "worse than Last Stand" to look forward to?
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Awww, too bad that guy never got to play Superman. Looks like he would've been a good one.
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Well, you can't go by a-dev's review because his viewings usually involve some form of torture.
Riddick you can skip as well because there really is no just one Riddick, he is comprised of a hive algorithm consisting of 143 milion simultaneous virtual thought patterns within a quantum field of narrative reduction into a force wave of probability review outcomes.
That being said, they're probably right.
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Well, you can't go by a-dev's review because his viewings usually involve some form of torture.
Riddick you can skip as well because there really is no just one Riddick, he is comprised of a hive algorithm consisting of 143 milion simultaneous virtual thought patterns within a quantum field of narrative reduction into a force wave of probability review outcomes.
That being said, they're probably right.
Anyway here's my (disjointed) commentary:
It's a slow film, huge swathes of set-up.
Mystique, well, it's not so much J-Laws performance for me as I just don't rate that character highly enough to see her basically have Wolverine's role from DOFP, right down to uselessly getting her @$$ kicked at the finale.
Even Apocalypse underwhelms. He kills a smattering of people here and there, then he erects a new temple in Cairo, killing some CGI there. After that it's all Magneto. And I find it problematic because Magneto surely kills many thousands in this film yet at the end it seems he has gotten away with it scot-free, no one blaming him at all, even crediting him with aiding in the defeat of Apocalypse. I didn't get the impression Apocalypse took over his mind, he just influenced him - as Xavier himself says - he tapped into Magneto's rage (which was already there, he kills a few people even before he meets Apocalypse) - so how in the hell is Magneto not accountable for the death and destruction he causes in this film? How is Xavier having his usual banter with him at the end of the movie? How was this not the last straw in their relationship? Makes no sense, this should have changed things from both their perspectives. It apparently doesn't. At the end everything is the same, the same as we've seen in all the films prior - Xavier looking for hope and seeing the good in Magneto. Magneto smirking and distancing himself again while talking about the humans ''coming for'' the mutants. He still has neither gone full villain or full hero. The cycle seems set to repeat next time out and while it's been good and it's provided the real meaty stuff in the previous films, it's all getting a bit repetitious at this point.
Despite the movie title and despite the destruction the film feels remarkably low-stakes. As I read earlier in the thread the world feels 'empty'. The only human element we see while the destruction and presumed death is going on is the usual scenes of military guys in a briefing room talking about casualty projections like in a Roland Emmerich film. The rest is long distance shots of the city being ripped up. Not even particularly good CGI, hard to feel connected with any of it. That's the problem when they keep upping the scales, eventually it's just visual noise on screen - nothing like the sea-confrontation at Cuba in First Class or even that tense future/70s juxtaposition finale of DOFP. I mean sure, when the X-men finally arrive to tackle Apocalypse there's a bit more one-on-one stuff but it's all still taking place in an empty la-la CGI land at that point.
The Wolverine scene felt really unnecessary - it had no bearing on anything in this film - presumably just set-up for his final solo film.
The main Quicksilver scene was good, although even that threatened to go on too long.
Mystique, well, it's not so much J-Laws performance for me as I just don't rate that character highly enough to see her basically have Wolverine's role from DOFP, right down to uselessly getting her @$$ kicked at the finale.
Even Apocalypse underwhelms. He kills a smattering of people here and there, then he erects a new temple in Cairo, killing some CGI there. After that it's all Magneto. And I find it problematic because Magneto surely kills many thousands in this film yet at the end it seems he has gotten away with it scot-free, no one blaming him at all, even crediting him with aiding in the defeat of Apocalypse. I didn't get the impression Apocalypse took over his mind, he just influenced him - as Xavier himself says - he tapped into Magneto's rage (which was already there, he kills a few people even before he meets Apocalypse) - so how in the hell is Magneto not accountable for the death and destruction he causes in this film? How is Xavier having his usual banter with him at the end of the movie? How was this not the last straw in their relationship? Makes no sense, this should have changed things from both their perspectives. It apparently doesn't. At the end everything is the same, the same as we've seen in all the films prior - Xavier looking for hope and seeing the good in Magneto. Magneto smirking and distancing himself again while talking about the humans ''coming for'' the mutants. He still has neither gone full villain or full hero. The cycle seems set to repeat next time out and while it's been good and it's provided the real meaty stuff in the previous films, it's all getting a bit repetitious at this point.
Despite the movie title and despite the destruction the film feels remarkably low-stakes. As I read earlier in the thread the world feels 'empty'. The only human element we see while the destruction and presumed death is going on is the usual scenes of military guys in a briefing room talking about casualty projections like in a Roland Emmerich film. The rest is long distance shots of the city being ripped up. Not even particularly good CGI, hard to feel connected with any of it. That's the problem when they keep upping the scales, eventually it's just visual noise on screen - nothing like the sea-confrontation at Cuba in First Class or even that tense future/70s juxtaposition finale of DOFP. I mean sure, when the X-men finally arrive to tackle Apocalypse there's a bit more one-on-one stuff but it's all still taking place in an empty la-la CGI land at that point.
The Wolverine scene felt really unnecessary - it had no bearing on anything in this film - presumably just set-up for his final solo film.
The main Quicksilver scene was good, although even that threatened to go on too long.
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That's not true. He randomly likes some weird ****. I think he's got a shot at Best Millennial at this year's Khevvies.
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