X-Men: Apocalypse - From the director of the two best X-movies (X2 and DOFP)

Disappointing

Caught the trailer before Civil War and thought it looked good. Can't even take bad reviews as hope it might end up back with Marvel as I'm sure it will still make a ton.

Thought the film could have gone either way, so not surprised by the reviews, but still disappointed. The X-Men films are just going to continue occupying the gap between Marvel's excellence and Warner Bros/DC's gloomy dirge

The rights don't even have to go back to Marvel, it just needs somebody in charge of it that knows the stories and the characters.

Look at Deadpool in comparison to any of the other X-Men movies. The quality of them are night and day.

BID0 wrote:Look at Deadpool in comparison to any of the other X-Men movies. The quality of them are night and day.

In terms of faithfulness, sure, but I wasn't as in love with Deadpool as most. Still think X2 is the best X-movie Fox has made

Corazon de Leon

Empire, which normally hypes up the most disappointing of superhero movies, has shat all over this.

Still have hopes. Not high hopes, just hopes. Read some positive stuff among all the negative opinions in the GAF thread that were promising. Still gonna go see it.

Good grief, some reviews are tearing it a new one. The Telegraph & Forbes, in particular.

Mafro wrote:Sounds like it's getting poor reviews so far.

It's a Bryan Singer super-hero film.

Memento Mori wrote:
Mafro wrote:Sounds like it's getting poor reviews so far.

It's a Bryan Singer super-hero film.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_d ... Men%20Days

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x2_xmen ... ?search=X2

Memento Mori wrote:
Mafro wrote:Sounds like it's getting poor reviews so far.

It's a Bryan Singer super-hero film.

Most critics and fans alike love X2 and DoFP.

Even the original Xmen was well received at the time. Your hatred of Superman Returns gets in the way of rational thinking at times.

Corazon de Leon wrote:Empire, which normally hypes up the most disappointing of superhero movies, has shat all over this.

A two star review in Empire for a superhero movie means it is utterly cack. :lol:

Moggy wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:Empire, which normally hypes up the most disappointing of superhero movies, has shat all over this.

A two star review in Empire for a superhero movie means it is utterly cack.

Not at all. Helen O' Hara (who reviewed this) recently gave Deadpool a gooseberry fool review while the rest of the office loved it. :slol:

She got a fair amount of slack for it on the podcast. Can't wait to hear the rest of the mag's opinions on it actually.

chalkitdown wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:Empire, which normally hypes up the most disappointing of superhero movies, has shat all over this.

A two star review in Empire for a superhero movie means it is utterly cack.

Not at all. Helen O' Hara recently gave Deadpool a gooseberry fool review while the rest of the office loved it. She got a fair amount of slack for it on the podcast.

Deadpool got 3 stars. Too low I think.

Fantastic Four got 2 stars, Daredevil (Afleck version) got 3 stars, Elektra got 2 stars. :lol:

Catwoman got 1 star though so at least Apocalypse isn't the worst reviewed superhero movie by Empire.

It's almost as if different people review different movies for the magazine. Attack of the Clones was once given a 5 Star review, remember. :lol:

chalkitdown wrote:It's almost as if different people review different movies for the magazine. Attack of the Clones was once given a 5 Star review, remember.

And Superman Returns, which I'm sure Mori remembers

chalkitdown wrote:It's almost as if different people review different movies for the magazine. Attack of the Clones was once given a 5 Star review, remember.

Cool. Empire are hardly alone in thinking this is drivel, though.

As much as I'm dying to see Olivia Munn as Psylocke, I'll probably be giving this a miss in the cinema and just wait till it's out on Blu-ray unless one of my friends is absolutely desperate to see it.

Weirdly my wife can't wait to see this despite the reviews, she has no interest in the comics but has loved the last two movies.

Saw this tonight. While I can see why some might give it a lower score, I thought this was good fun and better than expected. The major flaw is Apocalypse. There's no character to him, and that'd be fine if it drew character development from his horsemen, but he doesn't work as this benevolent force either because the make-up is so terrible it regularly breaks the illusion, and the vocal effects are all over the place. He should have been a seven foot tall CG mo-cap character with a booming voice who just wanted to wreck gooseberry fool. Done. None of the faults are really Oscar Isaac's fault, he does his best.

Otherwise good fun though. It descends into a CGI blurr for the first half of the final fight, but then the characterisation comes through and gives the action more meaning. Once that happens it's pretty good, as has been the case with most of this trilogy.

Decent - ***

Skippy wrote:Saw this tonight. While I can see why some might give it a lower score, I thought this was good fun and better than expected. The major flaw is Apocalypse. There's no character to him, and that'd be fine if it drew character development from his horsemen, but he doesn't work as this benevolent force either because the make-up is so terrible it regularly breaks the illusion, and the vocal effects are all over the place. He should have been a seven foot tall CG mo-cap character with a booming voice who just wanted to wreck gooseberry fool. Done. None of the faults are really Oscar Isaac's fault, he does his best.

Otherwise good fun though. It descends into a CGI blurr for the first half of the final fight, but then the characterisation comes through and gives the action more meaning. Once that happens it's pretty good, as has been the case with most of this trilogy.

Decent - ***

So on a scale of comic book movies in 2016 so far.

Civil War>Deadpool>X-Men>>>>>>>BVS?

X-Men: Apocalypse - From the director of the two best X-movies (X2 and DOFP)

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