X-Men: Apocalypse - May 27, 2016

[spindrift]

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.

It can nosedive internationally as well and miss $600 milion. It is a pretty big flop considering it's $180-200 million pricetag. Fox has a genuine franchise-freezer
on it's hands , luckily Deadpool a genuine hit.

 

[pturtle]

I forgot about Davy Jones but yea, he was a great villain.

It can nosedive internationally as well and miss $600 milion. It is a pretty big flop considering it's $180-200 million pricetag. Fox has a genuine franchise-freezer
on it's hands , luckily Deadpool a genuine hit.

The budget was 175 million, and Fox put about 63 million in marketing which showed, I thought this was going to flop bad but they’re already making a profit on this even with the bad reviews. I think Fox should be happy if anything, but this is nothing new for the FoX-Men franchise, if the next movie is great people will forget about this like they did X3, and Origins. Fox should start thinking about releasing their X-Men movies not so close to every other summer blockbuster.

 

[jye4ever]

Kingpin Donofrio would've been perfect.

 

[GasparZizou]

Hey wait! Weren't you singing the praises of BVS?!

Ok, makes sense now!

You can't expect me to take you seriously now.

BvS is a ****ing masterpiece of utter and complete perfection compared to this.

Get the **** out of here with that ********

 

[GasparZizou]

I won't blame Issac, but I'll blame the studio for picking him because he's a popular good actor.

This I can agree with.

I don’t see how this movie is pretentious at all, its extremely straightforward and theres not even much emphasis on Apocalypse as a character. I thought for about 2/3 of the movie the character worked, theres a lot of build up for the character and Singer just took the most generic route with him as possible in the end. I always found Apocalypse to be a lame character in the comics, and Singer’s version was actually pretty interesting, but he really needed to focus on Apoc being a cult-like leader. The only time I felt he truly embodied that was when he recruited Magneto. I agree with Gaspar though, Singer’s heart wasn’t into this, or maybe there was some studio meddling. This Apocalypse could have been great, and I don’t think being bigger or having more powers was the problem, its just a lack of backstory and characterization that hurt him. I would have loved seeing him abuse his power like a cult leader, coercing his mutants into recruitment, reaping all the benefits from their work, even sleeping with either Storm or Psylock would have been a perfect way of showing off his cult-like leader mentality.

There you go, made Apocalypse a whole lot more interesting and fitting for the Singerverse, he would take advantage of his physical form to enjoy carnal pleasures and ****. It's just beyond obvious he and more people involved didn't care.

 

[jye4ever]

The leg break and Angel wing sprouting pushed the PG-13 to the edge for a superhero movie, especially that leg break.

Shame they couldn't take the cult stuff to the edge.

 

[Khev]

I don’t see how this movie is pretentious at all, its extremely straightforward and theres not even much emphasis on Apocalypse as a character. I thought for about 2/3 of the movie the character worked, theres a lot of build up for the character and Singer just took the most generic route with him as possible in the end. I always found Apocalypse to be a lame character in the comics, and Singer’s version was actually pretty interesting, but he really needed to focus on Apoc being a cult-like leader. The only time I felt he truly embodied that was when he recruited Magneto. I agree with Gaspar though, Singer’s heart wasn’t into this, or maybe there was some studio meddling. This Apocalypse could have been great, and I don’t think being bigger or having more powers was the problem, its just a lack of backstory and characterization that hurt him. I would have loved seeing him abuse his power like a cult leader, coercing his mutants into recruitment, reaping all the benefits from their work, even sleeping with either Storm or Psylock would have been a perfect way of showing off his cult-like leader mentality.

Yep, and having Psylocke as a concubine would have also been a great "in world" explanation for her comic accurate stripper getup. We were just talking about Conan the Barbarian in the BvS thread. Apoc should have been a PG-13 Thulsa Doom just like Ledger Joker was a PG-13 Hannibal Lecter.

 

[rushmore223]

You can't expect me to take you seriously now.

BvS is a ****ing masterpiece of utter and complete perfection compared to this.

Get the **** out of here with that ********

I can't comment on it, since I have yet to see it, but I find myself doubting that statement. I'll tell you what I think when I can Redbox it for $1 or less.

 

[Khev]

I can't comment on it, since I have yet to see it, but I find myself doubting that statement. I'll tell you what I think when I can Redbox it for $1 or less.

It's playing on some $2 theaters in my area right now. I think the extra dollar is worth seeing it on a screen bigger than your TV.

 

[rushmore223]

It's playing on some $2 theaters in my area right now. I think the extra dollar is worth seeing it on a screen bigger than your TV.

We don't have $2 theaters around here.

 

[GasparZizou]

I can't comment on it, since I have yet to see it, but I find myself doubting that statement. I'll tell you what I think when I can Redbox it for $1 or less.

So you just went and bring up BvS without having seen it, just to defend this movie....

You're not even worthy of BvS.

 

[Khev]

So who do you think had the better embaldening scene? Luthor or Xavier?

 

[GasparZizou]

So who do you think had the better embaldening scene? Luthor or Xavier?

Luthor of course.

Apoc sure is a hell of a hair stylist though, everybody got their new hair by him.

 

[Khev]

Apoc styleth, and Apoc taketh away.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

The last few pages of this thread had better conflict than BvS.

 

[spindrift]

Loved BvS and thought this was pretty bad- but everyone has their own opinion.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

It's playing on some $2 theaters in my area right now. I think the extra dollar is worth seeing it on a screen bigger than your TV.

Mine is $5

 

[crows]

Again, the word pretentious, what was so pretentious about this movie? Nobody ever answers me when I ask this question.




I enjoyed it. I went in expecting it to be bad, but thought it was pretty good. It's no DOFP, but I liked it.

"Only the strong shall survive"sounds pretty pretentious

pretentious because they make you think Psylocke will have a bigger role, Pretentious because they cared more about getting her suit right than they cared about giving her any lines. they pretend she will be more important in the trailers than she was... and even in its own movie they introduce her like she will be important,

Pretentious because apocalypse calls storm his goddess and Angel his...what did he say? when he fixed his wings? that scene was pretty bad, he is building everyone up so much and then in the final fight no one was really that "incredible"
the people behind the movie keep bragging about how Jubilee is a big deal and shes like a cameo. pretentious because they tease wolverine but that scene amounted to nothing, it was not necessary.

I guess the movie is arrogant in the sense that it felt like someone building up a boxing match for weeks and weeks, telling you how it will be the greatest boxing match and promising you this battle of titans
and then you see the fight and its over in like 20 seconds and the guy saying he would deliver this amazing incredible fight goes down like a wimp after 3 punches.

thats what this movie felt like it was doing. Apocalypse is bragging and bragging and talking about new world and bla bla bla, preaching and preaching, just preaching non stop
then at the end hes just another mutant, all he did was just walk around and preach, he might as well be a missionary preaching a gospel. Magneto was the one causing all the havoc.

 

[spindrift]

pretentious because they make you think Psylocke will have a bigger role, Pretentious because they cared more about getting her suit right than they cared about giving her any lines. they pretend she will be more important in the trailers than she was... and even in its own movie they introduce her like she will be important,

Pretentious because apocalypse calls storm his goddess and Angel his...what did he say? when he fixed his wings? that scene was pretty bad, he is building everyone up so much and then in the final fight no one was really that "incredible"
the people behind the movie keep bragging about how Jubilee is a big deal and shes like a cameo. pretentious because they tease wolverine but that scene amounted to nothing, it was not necessary.

I guess the movie is arrogant in the sense that it felt like someone building up a boxing match for weeks and weeks, telling you how it will be the greatest boxing match and promising you this battle of titans
and then you see the fight and its over in like 20 seconds and the guy saying he would deliver this amazing incredible fight goes down like a wimp after 3 punches.

thats what this movie felt like it was doing. Apocalypse is bragging and bragging and talking about new world and bla bla bla, preaching and preaching, just preaching non stop
then at the end hes just another mutant, all he did was just walk around and preach, he might as well be a missionary preaching a gospel. Magneto was the one causing all the havoc.

That sums it up- a build-up to nothing really- more of the same we've seen before but done poorly. What a sham

 

[olbertfrog]

You can't expect me to take you seriously now.

BvS is a ****ing masterpiece of utter and complete perfection compared to this.

Get the **** out of here with that ********

Amen.
Seriously BVS is flawed but this is just one big pile of poop.
Loved first class and had a good time with dofp but this is worst than Ratners.
God Wolverine weapon x...