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Post by andrew8798 on May 12, 2016 15:59:18 GMT -5
At 55% on RT
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 12, 2016 17:18:51 GMT -5
That damn Disney, when will they stop buying off critics!? ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 12, 2016 20:14:10 GMT -5
I'm hopin I feel about this one how I did DoFP where I wasn't that excited about it, but ended up pleasantly surprised by liking it quite a bit.
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Post by Hakumental on May 13, 2016 12:08:11 GMT -5
A recurring comment I'm seeing in reviews is that Apocalypse's character is done very poorly. (One guy compared him to Ultron in Avengers 2: a great actor cast in a part that the writers hype up as "complex and compelling" but ultimately produces a character that would embarrass a fanfic.)
Poc is one of my favorites, so I hope I end up disagreeing, but that's worrying.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 13, 2016 12:19:35 GMT -5
someone should create a film series where every entry is a reboot S'kinda what they're doing with the Godzilla series - out of the last 9 films made in the franchise, 8 of them were reboots. I do like how the Godzilla movies do all call back to the original. This might sound really stupid, but it makes the movies feel more like a bunch of "what if's (some spanning multiple movies)" instead of a bunch of reboots. Somehow that makes it feel less... forced? I dunno. I'm delving into strange territory; but it doesn't feel like Godzilla has to keep spending an hour every movie showing how Uncle Ben gets killed or how Spiderman is made, where Superman came from, Batman's parents got waxed. They show a quick flashback to the old movie and BOOM, they move on to the threat at hand.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 14:53:43 GMT -5
A recurring comment I'm seeing in reviews is that Apocalypse's character is done very poorly. (One guy compared him to Ultron in Avengers 2: a great actor cast in a part that the writers hype up as "complex and compelling" but ultimately produces a character that would embarrass a fanfic.) Poc is one of my favorites, so I hope I end up disagreeing, but that's worrying. I dunno, while I thought AoU was mostly just kind of meh, decent but unremarkable, I liked Ultron. More for what a raving psychotic loon he is than anything, and he wasn't a remotely credible threat, but did enjoy him.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on May 16, 2016 14:30:42 GMT -5
To be fair to the critics, Apocalypse himself looks way too comic book-y in my opinion. To the point where the costume they've put Oscar Issac in looks like really bad cosplay. Some characters are way too OTT to just put a garb on some person and say "Hey. Go out there and play the world's first ever mutant."
Motion capture might have worked better here.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 19:29:10 GMT -5
While nowhere near perfect, I've yet to be completely disappointed by an X-Men film. I have my tickets for next Thursday already...
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Post by Sparvid on May 16, 2016 20:15:25 GMT -5
According to Bleeding Cool, the movie ends (maybe in a mid/post-credits scene) with {Spoiler}teasing Mr. Sinister as the next bad guy
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Post by sternrogers01 on May 17, 2016 4:16:45 GMT -5
Seeing it tomorrow afternoon.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 14:05:02 GMT -5
I won't lie; the way they showcase Quicksilver's ability is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. I know it's an obvious green screen effect, but could you have at least tried to not make Quicksilver look like an idiot when speeding around?
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Post by Savage Gambino on May 17, 2016 14:23:56 GMT -5
I won't lie; the way they showcase Quicksilver's ability is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. I know it's an obvious green screen effect, but could you have at least tried to not make Quicksilver look like an idiot when speeding around? It really is a shame the way FOX has handled Quicksilver. IMO, it says something that, despite being clearly slower than DOFP's Quicksilver, AoU's Quicksilver still looked more impressive. The fact that Evan Peters basically plays him like comic relief doesn't help matters.
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Post by sternrogers01 on May 17, 2016 14:37:19 GMT -5
AOU's Quicksilver was a boring arse with no personality. One of that movie's many misfires.
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Post by Fade on May 17, 2016 15:14:03 GMT -5
According to Bleeding Cool, the movie ends (maybe in a mid/post-credits scene) with teasing Mr. Sinister as the next bad guy If that's the case, I will begin the one and only petition to get Nate Grey on the big screen.
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on May 17, 2016 15:19:34 GMT -5
AOU's Quicksilver was a boring arse with no personality. One of that movie's many misfires. Hell no, you take that back. Quicksilver was awesome in Age of Ultron. No personality? "Get off your asses.", "Keep up old man!", along with stealing a piece of candy from Klaw, and his first introduction with Hawkeye "You didn't see that coming?" Quicksilver had plenty of personality and there were times where he didn't need to say anything. I personally found him more exciting, unique, and interesting in Age of Ultron than in Days of Future Past.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on May 17, 2016 17:30:41 GMT -5
AOU's Quicksilver was a boring arse with no personality. One of that movie's many misfires. Hell no, you take that back. Quicksilver was awesome in Age of Ultron. No personality? "Get off your asses.", "Keep up old man!", along with stealing a piece of candy from Klaw, and his first introduction with Hawkeye "You didn't see that coming?" Quicksilver had plenty of personality and there were times where he didn't need to say anything. I personally found him more exciting, unique, and interesting in Age of Ultron than in Days of Future Past. The saddest part is that his biggest character moment was in a damned deleted scene. One that made the entire movie work better.
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Post by sternrogers01 on May 18, 2016 9:41:23 GMT -5
Just saw it. It's a passable film, I can see where the critics are coming from with it, and it feels a lot of times like it's more Magneto's movie than Apocalypse's time to shine, which really hurt it. For all the complaints about Lawrence not being blue for too long, I feel she was blue enough times in the movie to let her preferences pass. She doesn't do a whole lot in the film besides lecture though, and she doesn't make a lot of her powers until a crucial scene in the final battle. On to the nitpicks {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Scott has a promising start, and I liked he and Jean's initial meeting and destroying Xavier's favourite tree. Sadly that's all the good stuff you get from him as becomes the fairly generic X-leader he's always been in these movies afterwards. Havoc has more range, as was expected, but unfortunately he gets blown up at the end of the first act.
I love the little touch of Nina unleashing her powers over the birds when Eric's about to be taken away, it's a callback, without using flashbacks, to how Eric unleashed his powers in the camps when his parents were taken. Unfortunately, Nina and her mother are cut down to give Eric motivation to join with Apocalypse of his own vocation. That forest scene is perhaps the best part of the movie and has some great acting in it from Fasbender.
Just how in the hell did Quicksilver know the mansion was going to blow up?
Don't bother with Jubilee folks. She barely has any lines and stands there. No powers on display either.
Archangel looked pretty dead when the jet struck the Earth. They did show a body, I don't think it was breathing.
I don't think there was any reason for Moira to be in this other than the info-dump she gives Charles and Alex when they arrive at CIA. We do get the neccersary mentions of her failed marriage and a photo of her son. Knowing how important he is to later Storylines, I hope we get more of him. Charles waits until the end of the movie to awaken Moria's memories from First Class.
Also did'nt think Stryker needed to be in this, the whole thing seemed a pretty contrived manner of getting everyone to the base for a Wolverine cameo.
So Psylocke is going to be a bad guy going forward? Storm and Magneto turned on Apocalypse, but Warren and her did'nt, and the look she gives the X-Men as she gets away hints at vengeance down the line.
The way Xavier loses his hair makes sense for what it was (Apocalypse transferring himself into his body and trying to shape it in his image), I just found it a bit lazy
"All is revealed"....YAY, PHOENIX POWERS. Blow the ineffective villain away like paper.
Logan's rampage was pretty gruesome. Blood splattering everywhere.
I was expecting Mystique to die or something, but it ends with her now mentoring the team alongside Charles, with Eric as ever undecided. Even if this might be the last Lawrence plays the character, there's some optimistic closure to her journey
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Post by sternrogers01 on May 18, 2016 13:57:59 GMT -5
According to Bleeding Cool, the movie ends (maybe in a mid/post-credits scene) with {Spoiler}teasing Mr. Sinister as the next bad guy This is accurate
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Post by Bub (BLM) on May 18, 2016 14:01:52 GMT -5
I think I'm going to check this one out. I've really enjoyed all the X-Men films since First Class, as I think they've done a remarkable job getting the series back on track. Most of the negative reviews I'm seeing are coming from critics nitpicking it as a movie, but the people who are judging it as an X-Men story are saying it's the best job Singer's ever done capturing the tone of the comics. So I'll probably enjoy it a lot.
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Post by sternrogers01 on May 18, 2016 14:10:09 GMT -5
I think I'm going to check this one out. I've really enjoyed all the X-Men films since First Class, as I think they've done a remarkable job getting the series back on track. Most of the negative reviews I'm seeing are coming from critics nitpicking it as a movie, but the people who are judging it as an X-Men story are saying it's the best job Singer's ever done capturing the tone of the comics. So I'll probably enjoy it a lot. I'm a bit nitpicky about it, but yeah, he does a good job nailing Apocalypse's character and he's note-perfect on Storm's origin background
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