X-Men Apocalypse

[Benton]

(07-17-2015, 01:34 AM)Bryan Wrote: Just curious, why didn't you like X2? It's considered to be the best, my personal favorite is Days of Future Past.

The Nightcrawler scene was outstanding. I remember watching it and thinking "ok, this is the film I wanted from the first one."

And then it just fell flat, partly for the same reason X3 was so friggin horrible. Hodge podging together a bunch of old X-Men storylines around Wolverine isn't really what made the X-Men a good read. And they typically dealt with some really outstanding villains, either because of their complexity or their raw power — Magneto, Juggernaut, Sinister, Sentinels, Dark Phoenix, the Brotherhood, Hellfire, Apocalypse. I honestly can't think of a comic that had a better, more diverse rogues gallery.

And X2 went with a 70 year old man. Mystique and Magnus are in there sorta as pseudo good guys, pseudo bad guys. But the main antagonist is just an old guy.

And they killed Jean in all the wrong ways.

If I had never read any of the comics, I could probably have watched the movie and just chuckled at superheroes vs. a senior citizen. But I did, and it wasn't worth the laugh.