X-men Apocalypse

Watched it a few hours ago and might as well post a thread since it was released today or tomorrow for everyone.

>For Jennifer Lawrence, this was just a paycheck movie, and her leading role should've ended with DoFP. But the character's role in this movie is not entirely illogical. She serves as a role model to mutants around the globe which does impact the plot in a way
>Mcavoy and Fassbender carry the franchise yet again
>A bit too much crying in the movie. Jean cries, Mcavoy cries twice, Fassbender cries, Moira cries, Scott cries etc.
>Fight scenes are underwhelming
>Disappointing third act
>Is there some kind of running joke to reference Star Wars? Civil War references Empire Strikes Back and most of the Marvel movies have someone's arm hand getting chopped off. Apocalypse references Return of the Jedi
>Stan Lee cameo
>What was the point of casting Oscar Isaac. I was a fan of him in Ex Machina. In this movie he could've been replaced by almost anyone, as his voice is modified, face is unrecognizable, and very little to show off acting talent
>The critics who say this is the worst X-men movie including the Wolverine movies are truly retarded
>DofP did better in making the audience care about the minor characters

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>Stan Lee cameo
Spill it.

It somewhat irks me that an actor of Oscar Isaac's caliber chose to perform in this retarded role. I feel cheated out of a real movie with him.

>>The critics who say this is the worst X-men movie including the Wolverine movies are truly retarded
assblasted contrarian DCuck please go lmao

He sold out with SW already.

How was Scott?

>jlaw doesnt care
noticed that in the trailers
>every character cries
i think this will be the first x-men movie im not going to pay money to see.

Disney social engineer pls go.

Why is Apocalypse referencing RotJ? Or is his dialogue just the same?

He just hugs his character wife outside when missiles launch. This happened because Apo telepathically connects with Xavier while he's using Cerebro to look for Magneto, then he's able to access every human and mutant globally.

I'll take the bait but i hate BvS. MoS was average. And you're retarded too if you think Last Stand or Origins was a better movie than Apocalypse.

No not Apocalypse himself, the movie. I believe it's a conversation Scott and Jean have early on about third movies always sucking. I gather it's also supposed to be a dig at Last Stand.

DOFP was good but Singer's a bit embarrassing these days.

>DofP did better in making the audience care about the minor characters

Seriously? Because DofP did fuck all to make you care about anyone but JLaw.

Not OP but, when Apocalypse launched controlled the cerebrum and made the world's nations launch the nukes, Stan Lee can be seen looking up the launched nukes with his wife like helpless people accepting death.

Not THE Apocalypse. I meant the movie. Jean, Scott, Nightcrawler and Jubilee go to the mall, and they come of the the theaters after watching RotJ.

Thanks anons.

Oh yeah. The only reason Apocalypse is awoken is because Moira forgot to close the door.

There's another thread up.

feltch my asshole nigger

>>Is there some kind of running joke to reference Star Wars? Civil War references Empire Strikes Back and most of the Marvel movies have someone's arm hand getting chopped off. Apocalypse references Return of the Jedi

The Rotj comment was meant as a jab at X3. How ironic...

>For Jennifer Lawrence, her leading role should've ended with DoFP.

Possibly. A better director would have given her something worthwhile to do.

>this was just a paycheck movie

I very much doubt the money she made from this will be worth her time. The amount she normally makes now is much larger, but this is an old contract signed before she was big. For the time she's had to invest in making and marketing it she's probably not doing very well at all - not just because she could have been making more on something people actually wanted to see, but because when you've been at the top a few years you tend to have large outgoings. After all those are worked out she's probably losing money here.

You'd be pretty unengaged if you were losing money just going to work.

Saw it last night. Liked it more than any other capeflick this year. SO fucking hype. There are so many scrumptious little details and cues too.
I'm actually hype for more Singer now, even after all the bullshit he's been spouting over the past few months about MUH PHOENIX and AYY LMAOs. Nigga won a ton of benefit of the doubt off me.

I thought it was a preemptive dig at Apocalypse's own reviews.
Stupid in retrospect, I know.
Still: MEME MAGIC

Just saw it. Way better than I expected. On par with DOFP. Solid 7/10.
People got excited for quicksilver scene in DOFP but in apocalypse, it's literally another level.

>character wife
I thought it was his legit wife? Looked like her.

Check on end credits, that was his wife

it's Roz Kirby according to imdb

Ha.

Wow, that's some shitty writing.

>Scott cries
Are they Punch Tears?

No, his brother, Havok dies.

What are the chances of Jennifer Lawrence returning in the next X-Men?

She's squad commander with a more comic-accurate suit now so reasonably high.

We lost Quicksilver to this bullshit. I swear every installment is "We'll make a real X Men movie next time!".

So, whats the meaning of the end credit

Mister Sinister

>entering the 90s
>The Soviet era has ended
>Still no Omega Red


This is lame.

>>The critics who say this is the worst X-men movie including the Wolverine movies are truly retarded
If you took Wolverine Origins out of the equation would it still not be the worst?

Next to nothing. Her contract is up, so if they want her back they have to pay her current rate, not the rate she could get seven years ago (which was little better than scale).

Fox probably want Sophie Turner to be the next big thing; Munn is Too Old (she'll be 40 by the time they could get her on screen again, assuming general reaction was that she should come back), Shipp is Too Black and No Oscars. There is nobody else. Well, if some background actress gets big in the next few years they might try and force whoever her character had been, but otherwise they're banking on Game of JEAAAAAAAAN to bring people in. She's young, she might get a bigger following. This film might even push her toward being a bigger star.

It's a tie-in to the next Wolverine movie.

So Apocalypse just has the tech armor with no rhyme or reason as to WHY. We really going to defend this one?

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>We really going to defend this one?
It depends on if Armond White recants his review lambasting it or not.

They don't own the Celestials so they can't include any of that.

He's basically the Shadow King in this movie anyway, but with Horsemen (two of whom are Horsewomen and four of whom are extras) and a pointless ancient origin. It feels like they didn't dare make a non-Egyptian Apocalypse but didn't want to make something else because they really liked the name.

I would say that DOFP was better, but I also rate Apoca's lips 7/10

That would be The Last Stand.
And if you took Last Stand Out of equation, then X1 would be the worst

>Third movies always sucking
But this is the third movie

Can we at least give TLS props for Kelsey Grammer Beast? I friggin hate current Beast

Obligatory critics TV spot:
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To be honest friend and mate, every X-Men movie had some redeeming quality.

Origins had Liev Schreiber and Reynols.
Last Stand had Juggernaut, bitch

Essex Corporation = Nathaniel Essex, aka Mister Sinister, cloning specialist
They got vials of Wolverine's blood.
Figure it out.

He's a matter manipulator, and the armor's got nothing inherently tech-y about it. He whipped it up himself out of skin flakes & smashed badger.

And yet he can only grow in size within a mental projection. Well at least we got Giant Man this summer

I just came from watching it.

Slightly worse than DoFP, miles ahead of both CW and BvS.

The MCU shills tried really hard to convince me not to watch it. Thanks Satan for Singer and his gay-men franchise.

>We lost Hulk and Spider-man to this bullshit. I swear every installment is "We'll make a real film next time and not just a casual platform to sell toys and t-shirts!".

We will never have a good film about Hulk, Blade and SM again now that Disney own them. At most we will have fun with the new flicks, but a good film? never.

Argentine xfag here. Just watched it.

I think it was a very entertaining movie but a little stupid, and the worst one of the new trilogy.

I liked it more than Jurassic World, which I consider a piece of shit, BvS, Age of Ultron and the last 2 James Bond movies.

The worst thing about the movie is that the Phoenix is not something Jean caught in space, but something growing inside her just because. And Apocalypse is defeated by "unleash your true power Jean, let go, dont be afraid"

It makes me think that if we ever get a Phoenix saga movie we will not have Mastermind mindraping her.

I also didnt like much Magneto as a factory worker in Soviet Block Poland; I cant imagine a retired Magneto doing that. There were less retarded options, make him work in the mining industry making a lo of cash, an accident happens, and he has to decide between saving hundreds of miners but outing himself as Magneto, or not.
Then his family can be killed by any mutant hating group.

Nightcrawler was very good btw, and I prefer the way they handled his difficulty to teleport many people in the movie to how it is in the comics.

Psylocke has few lines but she does look like the xforce character and her pink telekinetic weapons were very well done.

>Call Xavier's School telephone number from the last viral video
>Stan Lee takes your phone number and name
And they said X-men movies werent fun. Literally the best Stan Lee cameo ever.

Im about to watch it too, did you check the X-men art exposition at the Abasto theatre?

Continuing

Also, the Wolverine scene was bad for 2 reasons. It has the youngest wolverine with the oldest looking Hugh Jackman, and it was shoehorned more for Wolverine 3 than the X Men movie.

No I went to the Dot shopping mall

Do we see them killing people at least?

God fuck we need a quicksilver/nightcrawler scene for Wolverine before he retires.

I dont want to risk spoil anything badly since I am in a taxi with a shitty celphone but I can tell you Nightcrawler fuck ups Angel twice and there is a reason why he couldnt teleport outside the cage.

This is also the third installment of the prequel trilogy, so it could be that, too

What would it be like watching the X-Men movies in chronological order?

no. i mean his voice is fine, but should have been a cgi beast.

Wow, this movie sucked donkey balls in so many places.

You can't because of the time travel.

Thanks for your deep insight Mr Shekelberg. You are truly our greatest ally.

Protip: Tell your masters that instead of complaining and being butthurt about X-men movies and their rights you might as well make a videogame-atic universe with all those franchises you dont have the rights and get as much money (or more) than you would do with movies.

There is literally nothing stopping Marvel from making a quality videogame universe with the F4 and X-men. Spider-man and Hulk. And get 100% of the profit and merchandising.

>most of the Marvel movies have someone's arm hand getting chopped off
wut?

>There is literally nothing stopping Marvel from making a quality videogame universe with the F4 and X-men. Spider-man and Hulk. And get 100% of the profit and merchandising.

Except that if they did make such a universe, FOX, Sony and Universal would all sue for a cut of the proceeds on the grounds that their interpretations of the characters were now better known than the originals. So even if Marvel got the decision or a settlement in their favor in the end, it wouldn't be 100% of the profits and merchandising, or even close to that. Lawyers are expensive.

It was a phase 2 thing, I think.

But it did suck donkey balls. DoFP was supposed to be a semi-clean slate and they end up making the sequel messy as fuck.

>Favoring CGI over good practical effects
Kill yourself

Dude you're joking...the first blade is a popcorn classic.

>Mystique has literally turned into Katniss
Nope. That's it. I don't need to read anything else. Fuck this movie. Fuck JLaw. Fuck Synger and his twink trafficking ring. Fuck Fox. Fuck it all.

>A bit too much crying in the movie. Jean cries, Mcavoy cries twice, Fassbender cries, Moira cries, Scott cries etc.
I'M SAAAAAAAAAD

Mexibeaner here, just came back from the cinema. Saw it in 3D because I haven't seen a "real 3D" movie since Dredd.

I liked it:

Definitely not the worst X-Men movie. Not as good as DoFP, but I enjoyed it just like First Class.
Scott, Jean and Storm are all okay. I kinda miss the original actors, except the Scott one because he was a bitch.
Apocalypse talks and acts menacing, but he looks funny, I laughed a couple of times just by looking at him.
Psylocke sucked, but they setted her up for a future villian, just like Stryker
Wolverine's cameo was good (lots of blood and violence); but not great. It was unnnecesary IMO
J.Law still fucking sucks and Fassbender is still the best actor on the movie.
Super dissappointed that Jubilee is practically only a cameo. I really wanted to see her powers on screen
Quicksilver scene was fucking fantastic just like in DoFP (don't know if better, but definitely funnier)
THE SUITS AT THE END HNNNNG

7/10 for me, hope they get rid of J.Law for future movies.

>his twink trafficking ring.

Did anything come of that, or did they just sweep it under the rug like they do everything else?

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Including Phil Coulson in AoS

Omega Red is lame

Oh God please someone switch Phoenix with the CIA posing. Apocalypse will see the real truth.

Nightcrawler was cute

>>Is there some kind of running joke to reference Star Wars? Civil War references Empire Strikes Back and most of the Marvel movies have someone's arm hand getting chopped off. Apocalypse references Return of the Jedi
The guy that played Apocalypse( Oscar Isaac) plays Poe Dameron in TFA, so I would assume Fox wanted to make a jab at Disney or something about it. 20th Century Fox did own Star Wars for some time.

FAG!(?)

He was right.

What's the in-movie explanation for why Mystique isn't a naked blue lady all the time, given that was what she had become in Days of Future Past?

My initial guess was that Apocalypse stripped her of her powers in an early encounter or something, but that seems to not be the case.

There was a countersuit and I think some legal-team changes, then I think the original accuser dropped the suit without an official settlement.

Whether there were breaches of the Mann Act to investigate, you'd have to ask the FBI.

Look, it's like this: there's fewer than a million people buying comics now. The population of the country keeps increasing but the number of readers stays roughly the same, and it's too few people to sustain a movie about a comic book.

So if something isn't popular within comics - and Mystique isn't really - then ofc they're going to do whatever they can to make it better.

That's why she never had the weird white dress - naked chicks sell more tickets. You're 16 years too late to complain that they changed her without a second thought to make the movie more mainstream and get a larger audience; the fact they're just blatantly milking Katniss for all they can get isn't surprising at all, and you really shouldn't have waited so long if you were going to condemn it.

Now I'm not saying watch this movie, but user, you're slow. Slow in the head. That means you're stupid.

She's

>Undercover
>Not about that life anymore
>Doesn't want to get anyone hurt

You're lame

Speaking Last Stand did you catch that moment when they were shitting on it in the movie?

>casually scroll by post
Oh, so they are rebooting X-Play?
>inspects image
So Apocalypse, who is literally suppose to represent the apocalypse, is just some pasty, bitter, old white guy painted blue?

Of course, Sup Forums would never judge a movie by it's cover.

Jubilee is supposed to be a teenager when the rest of them are adults.

She considers the "that thing in 1973 totally solved mutant/non-mutant relations guys and made everyone loveydoveygumdrops!" rhetoric that spun out of her actions to be bullshit and doesn't want to nurture the lie. Which going around in her normal appearance would do, since she's like a Che inspirational figure to downtrodden mutant kiddies now.

Would you prefer a CGI cloud?

Has anyone tried to call the number?

>So Apocalypse, who is literally suppose to represent the apocalypse

Where the fuck did you get that? He's just your run of the mill baddie villain with delusions of grandeur, with "muh survival of the fittest" as his schtick.

Lol, so he never amounted to anything then? That's poor writing.

Nah he kinda evolved into the x-men endgame boss. He's their thanos or darkseid. In his very first showing he was a little cornball, but after that he was the bas guy of legend

Mostly only because the only other "endgame boss" of the X-men did a fucking heelturn.

>Critic are retard
Well, they've always been a bunch of retards, the problem is they're the beginning of WoM and one of the main factor to decided the movie's fate these day.

Very funny, user.

I wrote this and just remembered another thing I found stupid that irritated me.

The cult of Apocalypse worshipped his undergound pyramid for milleniums.

Apocalypse is awaken because Moira beats a guy, leaves the door to the tunnel open, and sunlight hits the pyramid.
No one in those milleniums thought of leaving the entrance open.


but I consider it a good movie and I dont like super hero movies much. 6.5/10 entertaining but a bit stupid.