GRcade

Cheeky Devlin wrote:

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?

Corazon de Leon wrote:Film Four have been showing the X-Men chronology in preparation for the new film coming out, and I just caught The Wolverine again. Maybe it's just me, but I thought it was really good on repeat viewing. A solid action film and probably the most faithful representation of Wolverine on screen. A shame it came out on the back of it's shitty predecessor and a really good Wolverine-free X-Men film.

Hyperion wrote:Is Wolverine in this or is it the first one he's not?

Lucien wrote:

Dual wrote:How do they explain storm being in this when she's an x woman in the other films?

There's no reason she can't be in this? All it means is that she joins the X-Men before X1. That's assuming you treat this as one big collection of interlinked movies the way they want you to... I treat the prequels as their own thing.

Lucien wrote:Saw it there. It's ok. Not great, not terrible. Jennifer Lawrence didn't take the film over like I feared, though there's too much Magneto Magneto's feelings in it. Apocalypse isn't very bright either.

Not really a spoiler but I might not have seen it it if I'd known they only fight Apocalypse and his pals in the last twenty minutes.

Good bits:

- The start, set in ancient Egypt, was really enjoyable.
- The movie flowed pretty well.
- Cyclops, Jean and Nightcrawler feel like a team.
- Jennifer Lawrence doesn't take over like she did in the last movie.

Bad bits:

- Magneto kills a bunch of people and nobody cares, again.
- Apocalypse looks silly at times and does nonsensical things, like recruiting a girl who doesn't like killing as his first horseman.
- Magneto's/everyone's feels.
- Apocalypse looks at people like he wants to have sex with them for the first hour.