X-Men: Apocalypse - May 27, 2016

[jye4ever]

well you are a glutten for punishment..now is Ep 7 still ok in your eyes or has it fallen off your good movies list now?

E7 needed another 30 minutes to flesh out some of the characters and plot.

You'll be poking them out later

I am going drunk, hopefully that will ease some of the cringe.

I did skip the last two F4 movies in the theaters but I hear you. And I think there is something to be said for those of us who witnessed not a single decent Marvel superhero film in the 70's, 80's OR 90's. I mean until Blade (who isn't a traditional costumed hero) we had Electric Company Spider-Man, those two crappy Captain Americas, DD on the Hulk show, Lundgren Punisher and Thor from Adventures in Babysitting. We had nothing, NOTHING.

The folks here who saw Batman 89 as little kids were already watching X-Men and Raimi Spider-Man as teenagers. They'll just never get the drought we endured. So a part of me is still surprised that we ever got movies as decent as Affleck Daredevil and Ang Lee's Hulk. The fact that this current MCU is even reality is just surreal. It really is. And with that perspective I really find it easy to be forgiving of the occasional misfire because even the new crap we get still blows away the very best Marvel had to offer back in the day.

Damn that's a good post.

The Bixby show? Well, yeah, one good TV show. No decent movies though.

Bixby sold that show as did the piano walk, his Hulk transformation was bad ass, then Ferrigno would show up and I would laugh.

Aw one single decade of no good superhewoes? How wough it must have been foh you...

Waaa Waaa, I had to wait 2 years from Blade to X-Men 1.

I forget you had to wait for the invention of film and television to enjoy Superheroes.

My beard is white.

 

[jnmx2000]

I did skip the last two F4 movies in the theaters but I hear you. And I think there is something to be said for those of us who witnessed not a single decent Marvel superhero film in the 70's, 80's OR 90's. I mean until Blade (who isn't a traditional costumed hero) we had Electric Company Spider-Man, those two crappy Captain Americas, DD on the Hulk show, Lundgren Punisher and Thor from Adventures in Babysitting. We had nothing, NOTHING.

The folks here who saw Batman 89 as little kids were already watching X-Men and Raimi Spider-Man as teenagers. They'll just never get the drought we endured. So a part of me is still surprised that we ever got movies as decent as Affleck Daredevil and Ang Lee's Hulk. The fact that this current MCU is even reality is just surreal. It really is. And with that perspective I really find it easy to be forgiving of the occasional misfire because even the new crap we get still blows away the very best Marvel had to offer back in the day.

I was one of those kids and as someone who grew up a die hard giant robot fan I get the drought lol I love Pacific Rim but even I know it pales in comparison to what something like Evangelion, Voltron, or Gundam could be. I don't know if I'll ever see those films considering Decapreo can't get Robotech off the ground at WB with him starring in it. All I can say is one day, one day.

 

[jye4ever]

I remember being so excited to watch the original Civil War:

X-Men version

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

X-Men version

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[Sweet Rabbit]

Should have put Apocalypse choking JLaw

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Should have put Apocalypse choking JLaw

He's probably there somewhere, he's just too small for us to see.

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Khev]

The original DOFP:

"zzzzzzzzz"

*squeek squeek*

 

[jye4ever]

 

[kryptonianmutie]

Khev, you forgot Thor on Incredible Hulk.

 

[jye4ever]

Please tell me you noticed that I placed Xavier's hand on his head!

Compare it to the original! Do it do it do it....pleaseeeee.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Please tell me you noticed that I placed Xavier's hand on his head!

Compare it to the original! Do it do it do it....pleaseeeee.

I did Nice attention to detail

 

[kryptonianmutie]

I did Nice attention to detail

I see you've found the perfect gif for jye4ever to say "x men movies are so boring they even put the actors to sleep"

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I see you've found the perfect gif for jye4ever to say "x men movies are so boring they even put the actors to sleep"

Perhaps that was all part of his plan?

 

[Rulk]

T-MINUS 9 hours til showtime

 

[Loki]

Happened to see a copy of this movie yesterday night. Probably just beating a dead horse here, but I was disappointed. There was almost no time to flesh out each of the new characters properly, let alone the ones from the previous installments - we barely learned more about them. There were a couple decent jokes that made me laugh, but aside from that... I'd give this a 4/10, maybe less. I think this is the first X-movie I'd consider to be a waste of time having watched; at least Origins was corny enough to laugh at and enjoy in that manner. Anyways. I'm not coming off the expectations set by DoFP; this just wasn't that good of a film.

 

[Khev]

Looks like Apoc won't be benefiting much from IMAX surcharges. All the large format screens in my area are being devoted to Alice.

 

[jye4ever]

Same here.

doh!

Disney > Fox in Imax bidding war.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Down to 48% now on RT, while Last Stand is at 58%. Yikes.

 

[jye4ever]

****, that's Oscar worthy material next to BvS.

Damn, took the bait.