X-Men: Apocalypse - May 27, 2016

[CeltyPredator]

X-23 could actually be a neat way to keep Wolverine without having Wolverine. I say Jane Levy should be her. She was the best part of the the Evil Dead remake.

 

[rushmore223]

The guy with the suitcase works for Essex Corp. He took a vial of Logan's blood.

In the comics, Nathaniel Essex is the name of Mr. Sinister, a master geneticist from the 1800s who has a fascination with the Summers bloodline. By teaming up with Apocalypse, he managed to stay alive and well all these years (alien upgrades FTW). He doesn't own a company in the books, but an orphanage where Scott Summers grew up. He's a very creepy villain.

The vial probably has to do with X-23, a female, teenage clone of Wolverine. Or maybe they'll involve Romulus and Daken, who knows?

Thanks for the info!


Just looked him up online, think I've seen images of the character before.

 

[SNIKT1950]

Could somebody explain the after credits scene?

They're basically doing what The Wolverine did for DOFP & what DOFP did for Apocalypse which is setting up the next film.

A month ago a rumor broke that Richard E. Grant was playing "a mad scientist" in Wolverine 3 and that X-23 (Wolverine's female clone) would have a supporting role.

The stinger in Apocalypse shows ESSEX goons recovering Wolvie's blood. This both confirms Grant will be playing Sinister and that X-23 is indeed in the film (Sinister's a cloner).

 

[rushmore223]

They're basically doing what The Wolverine did for DOFP & what DOFP did for Apocalypse which is setting up the next film.

A month ago a rumor broke that Richard E. Grant was playing "a mad scientist" in Wolverine 3 and that X-23 (Wolverine's female clone) would have a supporting role.

The stinger in Apocalypse shows ESSEX goons recovering Wolvie's blood. This both confirms Grant will be playing Sinister and that X-23 is indeed in the film (Sinister's a cloner).

Thank you!

I'm somewhere in between with the audience, I don't read comics, but I know more about this stuff than the general audience, usually. But this, I knew nothing about.

 

[jye4ever]

Just returned from my 2nd viewing this time in 3D.

3D not worth the extra cost, it is not one of those super great conversion jobs. Some ok scenes in 3D, that's all.

Regarding the movie.

After my 1st viewing I gave it a 7 rating. (TWS 9 / CW 9.5).

5 things that bugged me the most after 1st viewing were:

1. Magneto's turn to good
2. Magneto walking away at the end after the destruction
3. Wolverine's silly helmet, weak Berserker Rage (again)
4. QS scene not as good as DOFP
5. Static Action

After my 2nd viewing I now give the movie an 8 rating, it went up because of that very thrilling ending that starts when Magneto throws down the steel frames to form that giant X, good exciting stuff followed up with a nice emotional scene between X and Moira followed up with another cool closing team formation scene , so a triple wammy hat trick of cool ending scenes that stirred the emotions.

Enough for me to feel comfortable giving it an 8!

I will wait until BvS Extended to give it my final rating.

Deadpool was a 5 for me.

 

[bboy]

I thought the movie was shot in 3d? the 3d was damn beautiful to me. hmm yeah I just did a quick google, looks like it was shot in native 3d. I'm surprised you didn't like it, its one of the first movies in a while where I thought the whole movie was improved with 3d. (I honestly wasn't even that impressed with jungle book)

 

[Victοr]

Thanks for the info!


Just looked him up online, think I've seen images of the character before.

No problem mate.

Yeah, Sinister is very cool looking, though his 90s get-up can be too corny. In Gillen's run he got a nice, Victorian-era look, which I certainly wouldn't mind seeing on the big screen:

There's no way they're ever going to adapt Sinister London, but it was very, very cool looking. As for what the stinger means for the future, nobody really has a clue. There has been no confirmation whatsoever about anything, just rumours, so take everything you hear with a grain of salt, at least until we get some news from the studio. There are tons of "mad scientists" in comics, and Sinister is very much a Cyclops villain. Could he be added to a Wolverine story? Sure, but Wolverine aleady has his own villains. We'll see what the future holds is what I'm saying...

 

[jye4ever]

I thought the movie was shot in 3d? the 3d was damn beautiful to me. hmm yeah I just did a quick google, looks like it was shot in native 3d. I'm surprised you didn't like it, its one of the first movies in a while where I thought the whole movie was improved with 3d. (I honestly wasn't even that impressed with jungle book)

There were some decent 3D scenes no doubt but i'm actually surprised if this was shot with a 3D camera because it falls well below the quality of other movies actually shot in 3D like Dredd and Step Up 3D, you should really see the 3D in those and compare it to XMA.

 

[YoNoSe]

Just returned from my 2nd viewing this time in 3D.

3D not worth the extra cost, it is not one of those super great conversion jobs. Some ok scenes in 3D, that's all.

Regarding the movie.

After my 1st viewing I gave it a 7 rating. (TWS 9 / CW 9.5).

5 things that bugged me the most after 1st viewing were:

1. Magneto's turn to good
2. Magneto walking away at the end after the destruction
3. Wolverine's silly helmet, weak Berserker Rage (again)
4. QS scene not as good as DOFP
5. Static Action

After my 2nd viewing I now give the movie an 8 rating, it went up because of that very thrilling ending that starts when Magneto throws down the steel frames to form that giant X, good exciting stuff followed up with a nice emotional scene between X and Moira followed up with another cool closing team formation scene , so a triple wammy hat trick of cool ending scenes that stirred the emotions.

Enough for me to feel comfortable giving it an 8!

I will wait until BvS Extended to give it my final rating.

Deadpool was a 5 for me.

Jeezus. If this is an 8 TFA better be an 11. At least.

 

[jye4ever]

Yeah I know, 8 does seem high for it but the heroic moments really resonated with me especially since all the best moments occurred so close together towards the climax.

Without those moments the movie easily would remain an average 6.5 - 7.

TFA as in The First Avenger or The Force Awakens!

 

[YoNoSe]

Yeah I know, 8 does seem high for it but the heroic moments really resonated with me especially since all the best moments occurred so close together toeards the climax.

Without those moments the movie easily would remain an average 6.5 - 7.

TFA as in The First Avenger or The Force Awakens!

They're close together because there are only about 11 minutes of good movie in there.

Force Awakens motheplucker!

 

[jye4ever]

Ouch:

X-Men: Apocalypse finished in second with an estimated $22.3 million, a 66% drop from its opening weekend, much steeper than expected and is now likely to find the film finishing somewhere in the range of $160-165 million domestically. For some perspective, that's just over where the first X-Men film finished back in 2000, is right around where X-Men: Days of Future Past was after just ten days in release, where Deadpool was at after just five days and less than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice made in its opening weekend.


Internationally, however, X-Men: Apocalypse is delivering. The film brought in an estimated $84.4 million this weekend, which includes an estimated $59 million in China, the second largest Fox opening in China behind only the Titanic re-release and $20 million more than Days of Future Past opened with. The film's international total is now up to $286 million, bringing its global cume to just over $400 million, currently placing it within the top ten for 2016. Should this trend continue, Apocalypse would end somewhere around $650 million globally, which is about $100 million less than Days of Future Past.

 

[CeltyPredator]

We've had a superhero film for every month since February. I think people are just a bit fatigued. Gotta spread that out.

 

[jye4ever]

They're close together because there are only about 11 minutes of good movie in there.

Force Awakens motheplucker!

Then I give 136 minutes a 7 and those 11 minutes an 8.

 

[crows]

this movie was terrible

it was so boring..... it was all set up, I HATE set up movies... an hour and a half setting up everything but just one big dumb fight.

Magneto was retarded. What would happen if his family was alive and some crazy mutant was trying to destroy the world with them in it.... omg that was so stupid.

Psylocke was literally a red shirt, Didn't die but, might as well. shes NOTHING, SHE DOES NOTHING. SHE A N0THING PERSON, Olivia Munn was barely an extra in this

Angel was stupid, Storm for me was terrible, trying too hard, trying to look too edgy, i did not buy her as a villain at all, it was laughable.

the kids, (Cyclops and company) were wasted, Jubilee was another extra, no real connection to any of them.

This was dull, most of it was boring. it felt like a series of scenes put together that do not rhyme of are coherent. I hated watching it because of how boring it was.

Apocalypse was kinda cool when he talked but he felt as cheesy as Ultron, not shutting up about cleaning the earth and building a better one with the strongest people... omg SHUT UP. that was so cheesy and forced.

this is such a terrible waste

 

[karamazov80]

Jeezus. If this is an 8 TFA better be an 11. At least.

 

[jye4ever]

this movie was terrible

it was so boring..... it was all set up, I HATE set up movies... an hour and a half setting up everything but just one big dumb fight.

Magneto was retarded. What would happen if his family was alive and some crazy mutant was trying to destroy the world with them in it.... omg that was so stupid.

Psylocke was literally a red shirt, Didn't die but, might as well. shes NOTHING, SHE DOES NOTHING. SHE A N0THING PERSON, Olivia Munn was barely an extra in this

Angel was stupid, Storm for me was terrible, trying too hard, trying to look too edgy, i did not buy her as a villain at all, it was laughable.

the kids, (Cyclops and company) were wasted, Jubilee was another extra, no real connection to any of them.

This was dull, most of it was boring. it felt like a series of scenes put together that do not rhyme of are coherent. I hated watching it because of how boring it was.

Apocalypse was kinda cool when he talked but he felt as cheesy as Ultron, not shutting up about cleaning the earth and building a better one with the strongest people... omg SHUT UP. that was so cheesy and forced.

this is such a terrible waste

See, I can easily go that way as well.

Yet there were parts that moved me so that has to count for something I guess.

Oh, kara and nova are going to kick your ass.

 

[crows]

See, I can easily go that way as well.

Yet there were parts that moved me so that has to count for something I guess.

Oh, kara and nova are going to kick your ass.

what parts?

the wife getting shot? Charles getting bald? what were the moving parts for you? just wondering

 

[bboy]

Yeah I know, 8 does seem high for it but the heroic moments really resonated with me especially since all the best moments occurred so close together towards the climax.

Without those moments the movie easily would remain an average 6.5 - 7.

TFA as in The First Avenger or The Force Awakens!

agreed, loved the heroic moments I got chills a couple of times. Very superhoery. I also think the x-men always does a great job of telling a self contained story I didn't feel it was all a set up. We had first class the first almost xmen, days of futures past had a kind of dis assembled xmen feel, and apocalypse was like the first glimpse of the real x-men

 

[karamazov80]

Of course, the acting and drama worked here, as they always do in a Singer joint, even when there are other issues. Doesn't bother me that others don't have as refined a taste in film as myself, JYE.