Well, sonofabitch. I assumed the movie was taking an odd swipe at Uri Geller.
Most of the stories involving Apocalypse involve Time Travel because of the involvement of Cable (not to mention the Age of Apocalypse event). But it’s not necessary that an Apocalypse story be a time-travel story. He is, at his core, a very old mutant with very extreme views on survival of the fittest/eugenics. You don’t need any of the future stuff for that to work, especially if you focus on comparing and contrasting Apocalypse’s motives with those of Magneto.
Actually Quicksilver didn’t say his mother “knew” someone who could control metal .
He said she “dated” someone who could control metal which is an even stronger suggestion that he’s Magneto’s son.
I also love the possibilities it opens up for further movies. For example as noted, Wolverine may never have gotten his bones laced with Adamantium.
And yes, obvious Apocslypse at the end.
But the one I liked was the blink and you missed it reveal about JFK.
Logan and Xavier assume a Magneto did kill JFK, but it turns out he didn’t, but actually tried to save JFK because JFK was a mutant and “they”(never explained) stopped him. So there might be some other really powerful group out there involved in conspiracies that we may learn about in future movies.
AHHHH!! I did too!
Just got out of the theater. Incredible. Couldn’t have been better. Except for adding another two or three hours!
I never thought Jim Croce would fit in a superhero movie… 
And there was a quick double take from Fassbender.
Is there an site where I could read (for free) the original comic story? I could always read my original copy. But it’s still sitting in a filing cabinet in my mother’s house.
Is it even possible for a movie with
Jennifer Lawrence
Michael Fassbender
Patrick Stewart
Ellen Page
Ian McKellen
…to be bad?
There were a couple not-so-subtle things to seemingly ‘remind’ viewers what the characters went through, whos-who-
They really beat the ‘Stryker’ angle pretty heavily. The moment I saw his dog tag I remembered who he was, but I guess they had to throw in two or three more references; mentioning his son (that later drives his contempt for mutants), being closely involved with Trask, et cetera. Whats funny is in each movie we see the character progressively younger and younger; in X2 he’s an old man, in Wolverine Origins he’s in his 40s, and in this movie he’s in his 20s. I also got confused at the discontinuity (where was Sabertooth?).
When Erik offers to play a game of chess with Charles, the camera is centered on his concentration camp tattoo. I was also looking at the chess boards and wondering if there was some reference hidden in the positions- in many movies Erik is shown playing chess, and there was a chess board in Charles’ run down mansion as well.
From the trailers I didn’t realize it was Peter Dinklage, so my wife and I were quite surprised to see this megalomaniac developing giant killer robots ends up being this very articulate, deep voiced midget (dwarf? little person?).
Blink had really nifty powers but what bugged me was of all the mutants that were fighting the uber sentinels you’d think she’d be the best off since the sentinels didn’t explicitly ‘counter’ her powers unlike Iceman and Human Torch which got hard-countered pretty badly. I don’t see why she couldn’t just portal the sentinels directly into each other. I also had no idea Kitty Pryde had this time-travelling mind meld power; I thought she just could pass through solid matter? And with that in mind, why even get scratched by wolverine in the first place?
She was concentrating on keeping Wolverine in the past so the claws got her by surprise.
You quoted them in reverse order of political acceptability. Little person is accurate and generally politically correct. Most little people are that way because of various types of dwarfism. In the “Ask the dwarf (or little person, or almost any other term you want to use)” thread whiterabbit equated “midget” with “nigger”:
In Dinkledge’s case, I just think of him as an actor. He’s the Morgan Freeman of little people, an actor who embodies a role which such authority that you don’t think that a black actor or a short actor is playing it.
One thing I loved about him in this movie was that as far as I noticed, nobody ever mentioned his height at any point. It’s not a plot point, nobody insults him by calling him a midget or a dwarf or makes a joke about it.
No human torch in this movie. That was Sunspot.
According to comic book canon, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are Magneto’s children. Hubby thought the girl in the hood after the credits was her.
Bishop.
She didn’t. She never did. Until now. And the other guy could have been Sunspot.
Bishop was the guy with the gun and the dreadlocks.
No. Bishop was the black guy with the gun. In the first scene Sunspot hit him with his power to charge him up. Later storm did it.
After the credits? That was a dude. And it was Apocalypse creating the pyramids thousands of years ago. You can see the Four Horsemen in the background.
When Quicksilver was watching the tv there is a little girl in his lap. Singer has said that was his younger sister but not Scarlet Witch. Quicksilver and the witch are twins.
The Scarlet Witch will be in Avengers 2 and was in the end credits of Winter Soldier along with Quicksilver.
That was a guy. Apocalypse. The next film is X-Men: Apocalypse.
I saw it tonight with the family and loved it. It was probably the best X Men movie yet and Quicksilver stole the movie. The whole audience was applauding by the end of the jailbreak scene.