The Artisan
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tl;dr at the bottom
I recently bought the prequel trilogy pack and rewatched First Class and Days of Future Past, and saw Apocalypse for the first time.
First Class after watching it again, I thought it was cool, I thought it was okay. James McAvoy is a good actor but I'm not totally sold on him being X. I think Christian Coulson would've been better in the role.
Also, JLaw is of course at the top of Hollywood right now but I don't think she was the best choice for the young Mystique. She's not as intimidating as the actress in the previous trilogy. But First Class overall was okay.
Days of Future past imo is the best movie out of the 3, and the best X-Men ensemble movie. Some of the stuff that happened in the movie was pretty goddamn ridiculous though; Magneto moving an entire stadium over to the White House; I get that this is a movie and it's all spectacle but it's hard to suspend belief in this fictional universe. How does a city recover from that...
And yeah, I was warned about this and Apocalypse sucked. There were numerous things about this; how they made mutants more historic, I don't know if this was planned or a retcon because First Class established that mutants began evolving because of nuclear warfare. What explanation is there for the emergence of En Sabah Nur?
The other thing about this movie is that it very strangely felt like there was a lack of urgency in all of the characters. Although the world is in peril, it seemed like they did not feel as concerned as they should have. It was weird to watch, like as a viewer, I'm more worried than the characters themselves.
Also I didn't like how they didn't establish Nightcrawler as Mystique's son. Like they didn't even hint at it. Then Havok's death (btw aren't the brothers reversed in the comics? Why'd they flip it around in the movie) seemed so inconsequential, like it did not hit Cyclops as hard as it should have. Once he got to the wreckage I expected him to go berserk and unleash his eye rage even more.
On top of that though while the Quicksilver scenes were cool, they were pretty overpowered. He didn't seem all that overpowered in DoFP, but he certainly seemed so in Apocalypse; I get that they wanted to have a nice moment of him saving everyone but the movie made it look like there's almost no difference in his superspeed versus Nightcrawler's teleporting powers; X even thought that's what he was when he met him in DoFP.
It had me thinking in that scene in DoFP where Quicksilver was watching the news, how long would it have taken him to get up from where he was sitting, and run his ass over to D.C to help the X-Men? Also, where was Scarlet Witch?
Off the top of my head the only other question I have is how did Stryker get a hold of Wolverine if the ending of DoFP established that he wasn't found by him?
I can't say I'm all that excited about the next Phoenix film; I became a Thrones fan in the middle of last year so it was cool to see Sansa Stark as Jean, but I feel like there's so much more they can do with X-Men lore right now rather than having to go straight to that.
tl;dr
DoFP > First Class > Apocalypse
What do you think?
I recently bought the prequel trilogy pack and rewatched First Class and Days of Future Past, and saw Apocalypse for the first time.
First Class after watching it again, I thought it was cool, I thought it was okay. James McAvoy is a good actor but I'm not totally sold on him being X. I think Christian Coulson would've been better in the role.
Also, JLaw is of course at the top of Hollywood right now but I don't think she was the best choice for the young Mystique. She's not as intimidating as the actress in the previous trilogy. But First Class overall was okay.
Days of Future past imo is the best movie out of the 3, and the best X-Men ensemble movie. Some of the stuff that happened in the movie was pretty goddamn ridiculous though; Magneto moving an entire stadium over to the White House; I get that this is a movie and it's all spectacle but it's hard to suspend belief in this fictional universe. How does a city recover from that...
And yeah, I was warned about this and Apocalypse sucked. There were numerous things about this; how they made mutants more historic, I don't know if this was planned or a retcon because First Class established that mutants began evolving because of nuclear warfare. What explanation is there for the emergence of En Sabah Nur?
The other thing about this movie is that it very strangely felt like there was a lack of urgency in all of the characters. Although the world is in peril, it seemed like they did not feel as concerned as they should have. It was weird to watch, like as a viewer, I'm more worried than the characters themselves.
Also I didn't like how they didn't establish Nightcrawler as Mystique's son. Like they didn't even hint at it. Then Havok's death (btw aren't the brothers reversed in the comics? Why'd they flip it around in the movie) seemed so inconsequential, like it did not hit Cyclops as hard as it should have. Once he got to the wreckage I expected him to go berserk and unleash his eye rage even more.
On top of that though while the Quicksilver scenes were cool, they were pretty overpowered. He didn't seem all that overpowered in DoFP, but he certainly seemed so in Apocalypse; I get that they wanted to have a nice moment of him saving everyone but the movie made it look like there's almost no difference in his superspeed versus Nightcrawler's teleporting powers; X even thought that's what he was when he met him in DoFP.
It had me thinking in that scene in DoFP where Quicksilver was watching the news, how long would it have taken him to get up from where he was sitting, and run his ass over to D.C to help the X-Men? Also, where was Scarlet Witch?
Off the top of my head the only other question I have is how did Stryker get a hold of Wolverine if the ending of DoFP established that he wasn't found by him?
I can't say I'm all that excited about the next Phoenix film; I became a Thrones fan in the middle of last year so it was cool to see Sansa Stark as Jean, but I feel like there's so much more they can do with X-Men lore right now rather than having to go straight to that.
tl;dr
DoFP > First Class > Apocalypse
What do you think?