But Wolverine growing metal claws out of his hands and regenerating at the speed of plot, Iceman materializing frozen water out of thin air, Storm levitating and calling lighting bolts out of the sky, and Cyclops shooting laser beams out of his eyes is just fine with you?
I don’t mind super powers but Quicksilver listening to music in his headphones is silly, He’d only hear one second of music.
I assume that was indeed Mystique and she figured out a way to free Wolverine then but in the 10 years between movies he was recaptured. That makes more sense to me than they taking 10 years to do what they did to him.
I got that. The part that bothered me was why was his cage in the room with the generator control panels, rather than in an actual part of the base intended for holding prisoners (such as where the other mutants were being kept) or in a part of the base intended for medical research, if that what they were doing. You don’t put dangerous prisoners or science experiments right next to vital base infrastructure unless there’s a really pressing need for it to specifically be right there.
I can deal with that because those people are superheroes and they can do impossible things. But when Quicksilver moves a security guard’s arm at Mach 5 (or whatever) without breaking it or snapping tendons, the security guard isn’t supposed to be a superhero, is he?
Yes, I know it’s illogical at heart.
Let me be the first to note that in the mid-credit scene, it looks like we’ll be getting Mister Sinister as the next villain. Hopefully they do a better job with him than they did with Apocalypse.
I don’t really have any faith in the current production team, but there’s always the possibility the right director/scriptwriter/etc save it. I mean geez, just look at how well Deadpool did things… the Colossus we got in that movie is probably one of the best portrayals of an X-Man ever.
That said,
I think a good move for Sinister would be to work off his portrayal from Kieron Gillen’s run, where he really played up Sinister’s Victorian-era outlook, as well as making him slightly fabulous. British villains are still en vogue, right?
This franchise has for some time just barely been good enough for me to keep watching. With each new X-Men film, I go in thinking, “This’ll probably be the one where they lose me,” but each time it’s just good enough for me to give them another chance.
That’s just the full official X-Men films. I hated the Wolverine solo films (and hated myself for seeing the second one considering how much I hated the first one). On the opposite side of the spectrum, I loved Deadpool but expect that will always kinda be its own franchise only tangentially related to the X-Men film universe.
That’s what I thought.
Oh fucko offo on the Phoenix thing. Do it or don’t. Ooh, give the fans an easter egg about Phoenix but we’re going to rape your childhood memories and never give you Phoenix because we’re way too incompetent to make a movie with that.
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.
Heh. I just watched Gods of Egypt a week or so ago. It’s not horrible for a silly B movie. Don’t expect a blockbuster.
I’m no fan of comic book movies, to me they are all the same plot, but it was 95 out Sunday and I thought why not a nice few hours on a cool movie theater. I really liked it.
I loved the Egyptian backstory.
As for Oscar Issac, the scuttlebutt I heard from geeks is that he was too small to play Apocalypse, I thought he was fine. Apparently he campaigned for the role since he was a comic book geek. He also thought it would be an easy CGI gig but instead was forced to wear the Apocalypse costume in inhumane temperatures.
He’s wasted in Star Wars, but trust me, that role made him one of the biggest stars in Hollywood right now. Ever since my wife is making me rent “A Most Violent Year”, “Ex-Machine” and every other crappy movie the guy has made! :smack::smack::smack:
Neither of those are crappy movies.
Yeah, he’s actually done quite a good job of managing quality projects even without being a household name. I liked this new X-Men movie well enough but I’d actually say it was probably the worst film I’ve ever seen him in.
I kept thinking he sounded like the villain from the last Mission: Impossible.
Heh. I kept hearing little overtones of Will Ferrell doing Megamind doing Space Dad.
So I guess Jennifer Lawrence is now officially typecast as ‘reluctant symbol for repressed social outcast movements’? Sounds like kind of a small niche…
As for the rest, I guess the film was kinda-sorta OK. They could have done worse, but a lot of things just weren’t terribly well handled. Many of the action scenes, for one, were just too abstract: people stretching out their hands and stuff flying through the air, or fights on some sort of mental plane, etc. And in the end, the conflict is resolved solely by the Chosen One realizing the full extent of her powers—there’s no real sense that some conflict needs to be overcome, no character development etc., Jean just had the power all along, and then she uses it, and everyone’s like yay, good job. Kind of fell flat for me.
I also find myself growing weary of Quicksilver, I have to say. He’s a bit too much of a deus ex machina—if he hadn’t been around at just the right time, the mansion would’ve blown up and then that’s that, no more X-Men. Not to say that the scene wasn’t visually gorgeous, though.
I’m not her fan-boy; that role wouldn’t suit me.
Still, if she ever does another “Hunger Games” movie and needs help with her archery?
I Sincerely Hope she’d consider having your quote, in 24 point font, stapled to her targets that are out 50 yards.
I have the funniest feeling that she’d pop more holes in it than a Singer Sewing Machine with a stuck pedal.
I’m honestly not sure what you’re getting at here, but just perhaps to clarify: I merely thought it was odd that her role in this film (as an unwilling hero of mutants worldwide) so closely echoed her previous stint as Katniss (an unwilling hero to the lower social classes).