# X-Men Apocalypse. Seen it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289 "2016-05-21T09:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/81 "2016-06-14T14:16:15Z")
Maybe he has time powers, and can make the music play as fast as he moves? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/82 "2016-06-14T14:22:53Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Maybe he has time powers, and can make the music play as fast as he moves? Ohhh…right! Actually, that makes a lot of sense, that everything on his person is in a kind of bubble that operates on a different time scale while he’s “running”. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/83 "2016-06-14T15:09:01Z")
I liked it better when he moved at normal speed while everyone else was frozen, this time he moved at super speed while everyone else was frozen and it looked kinda silly. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/84 "2016-06-14T15:19:20Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > The opening scene made the rest of the movie look bad. I wish we would have gotten a whole movie about that instead. Call it Gods of Egypt or something. Amen. I thought the opening to this movie was the best moment in any X-men movie. Awesome, mind-blowing, and when the opening credits started showing, I was ready to stand up and cheer. The rest? I liked it. It’s not great, but definitely not terrible. I don’t mind the total lack of continuity. I think they know the continuity is gone at this point. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/85 "2016-06-15T22:57:15Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Ohhh…right! Actually, that makes a lot of sense, that everything on his person is in a kind of bubble that operates on a different time scale while he’s “running”. Speed force! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/86 "2016-06-15T23:34:19Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I think too that they need to recast Logan in the future. It’s weird having him be the same actor from the original cast while everyone else is different. Oscar Isaac would probably be a good replacement for Jackman, ironically enough. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/87 "2016-06-15T23:50:16Z")
> [@DeptfordX](#): > > Speed force! Canonically, he doesn’t, but he has more or less overclocked his electronics (…somehow) so he can use them as extreme speed. The difference between him and, say, the Flash is that Quicksilver’s powerset comes more from impossible physical adaptations than an external force. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/88 "2016-06-19T12:44:34Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > Canonically, he doesn’t, but he has more or less overclocked his electronics (…somehow) so he can use them as extreme speed. Yes, see him play Pong in DoFP. They don’t explain it, and it doesn’t make sense, but the target audience doesn’t care about such nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/89 "2016-09-01T20:46:16Z")
I finally got around to watching X-Men: Apocalypse. Sweet xombie jesus did it suck!!! How can Singer do both the best (X2) and this turd? It’s like they basically said “we have some X-characters so let’s make a movie! We saw them on the cover of a book, crap out a screenplay and call it a day!” I know they’ve been trying to set up Dark Phoenix but since they’ve already crapped on both Apocalypse and Days of Future Past, I’ve had enough. I’ll stick to the MCU from now on. Well, except for Deadpool. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/90 "2016-09-01T23:47:43Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I know they’ve been trying to set up Dark Phoenix but since they’ve already crapped on both Apocalypse and Days of Future Past, I’ve had enough. I’ll stick to the MCU from now on. Well, except for Deadpool. They already did Dark Phoenix in the third movie (The Last Stand) so I don’t think it’ll be coming back any time soon. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289/91 "2016-09-02T16:19:43Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > They already did Dark Phoenix in the third movie (The Last Stand) so I don’t think it’ll be coming back any time soon. I’d forgotten about that crapfest. Well nothing of value lost. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-apocalypse-seen-it/755289.md?page=4)