x men age of a apocalypse
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quick question(s)
1. Anyone know what time th trailer is coming out today?
2. Has the look for Apocalypse been changed? i'm really hoping he doesnt look like Ivan ooze any more haha.
1. Anyone know what time th trailer is coming out today?
2. Has the look for Apocalypse been changed? i'm really hoping he doesnt look like Ivan ooze any more haha.
Replies
- What do you like about it? I was excited until I saw a few things in this trailer. What are your thoughts?
@FUIOSG
- I think any bigger person would do, however this may be a fantastic apocalypse. I mean look at how ole ledger did the Joker. that turned out pretty ok
story seems interesting, characters look pretty cool overall (love that storm)
much more interested in this than before.
Summer is going to be great
The hype is real!
Fuck I'm excited!! Also your dreams come true at the end;)
A few quirky things I noticed at the start were cool little tweaks to the 20th century Fox logo scene, where the music has an x-men themed tweak at the end and the "X" is the last to fade out. I also got a very Dr Who vibe from the intro (you'll see what I mean).
Bottom line, imagine the most generic take on the character of apocalypse, and the most generic solution for the X-Men to deal with that character. That's the movie in a nut-shell. For someone who is wholly unfamiliar with the X-Men, this might not be much of an issue. For me, it made the entire movie quite predictable. Almost painfully so. There were no clever re-imaginings or interesting takes on the characters.
That said, I did like some of the actual performances. Despite having a fairly uninteresting version of Apocalypse to play, I felt that Oscar Isaacs did a fine job with the material he was working with. The returning cast was generally good. The new up-and-coming young actors were considerably more hit-and-miss. Sansa-Grey was decent, but not great. Young Cyclops started off well enough, but got progressively more irritating as the film wore on.
One of the more by-the-numbers X-Men entries. Not completely without merit, but also not rising to the heights of some of the series better entries.
The opening sequence of the film is very puzzling for me. Taken on its own, the sequence is immensely entertaining. Honestly, it's one of the better parts of the film. But where the opening sequence ends up is actually rather disappointing, and doesn't do the character of apocalypse any favours. So you have this very entertaining sequence that unfortunately ends up making the primary antagonist seem like a bit of a punk. Changing up how that resolved itself would have probably been a good idea.
Apocalypse is a villain in the x-men universe almost on the same scale as Thanos is to the avengers universe. Thanos however has had the benefit of what 4 cameos, one more direct appearance, and almost every (12 in total now?) film hinting at his involvement in some way behind the scenes as the big bad. So when it finally comes to the infinity war, people will at least understand "oh shit this is the guy".
But Apocalypse has none of that. we have a post credits scene from one movie with a bunch of people in egypt worshipping him and then it's straight on to the main event. For a villain on this scale, that doesn't make much sense. To me it reeks of the same failing that X3 had with the Phoenix plotline. A brief glimmer of Phoenix power at the end of the second film, then straight on to "oh jean is back and she's suddenly able to disintegrate planets".
I've heard quicksilver is the best part of the movie, unsurprisingly...
If you like the previous versions of this generation, you'll like this one. I feel like it was on par with them. Not terrible, but nothing really outstanding. It was all pretty standard/cliche XMen. A large part of the movie was really slow/boring. They also seem to have really screwed up ages/timelines. For instance, as they showed in the trailer (and we already knew), quicksilver is Magnetos dad. Maybe it's just me, but Magneto seems too young to be quicksilver's dad. Same goes for Mystique and Nightcrawler, although they never reference it, we know she's his mother.... well she was in the comics.
There were definitely some good moments, and a sprinkling of humor, but overall, I didn't walk away excited. The conclusion I've come to is, Bryan Singer just isn't a great director. From now on, if I see his name attached to a project, I'll probably just wait for the video release.