X-Men Apocalypse
Saw it, mostly enjoyed doing so! Although there were many flaws, and two moments really pissed me off at the director and all parties involved namely the truly spectacularly brazen fridging of Magneto's wife and child--really? you're going to kill them both with a single arrow? through both their hearts? shot accidentally by a guy who wasn't even looking because he was being dive-bombed by birds? also magneto doesn't like have a zloty or two in his pockets that he could just have taken out and said "hey how about you all run away now before I kill you all with my loose change"?--and then having Magneto destroy Auschwitz.
I could try to articulate what bothered me about that, but honestly I think it's just, this was a purely ephemeral popcorn movie that didn't actually say anything and mostly reduced Magneto to a woobied sidekick for an overpowered big bad. It didn't earn using the camps.
Magneto was the biggest problem overall with the movie because I didn't believe in or for that matter WANT any part of his story basically. Living an ordinary life in Poland, this being the first time a safety issue had arisen in his big industrial factory where his powers could have helped, him using the powers in the context of living an ordinary life with a wife and child to protect, the fridging. I didn't even really believe in him joining Apocalypse, who seemed to have literally no plan beyond "hey let's destroy the world for good times" or letting Apocalypse take over Charles' body, except if I handwave it with Apocalypse having some kind of partial mind control. I was happy when he finally changed sides, but other than that, it just felt all wrong for the character.
It was also just too many characters so none of them got enough time, too, and it managed its too-large cast way worse than Civil War did. Storm was great, I wanted more; Jean and Scott and Nightcrawler were great, I wanted more. Pietro was also great yet again.
The disaster porn was also just bizarrely disconnected. We had Magneto in a set of random shots apparently in Egypt somewhere floating in a sphere of tiny metal bits and then we have the bridge swaying--I am not even 100% sure where that was although I think it was NYC?--and miscellaneous other shots of disaster all around the world. It was just not connected enough at all and felt dull and without any emotion attached.
Oh and the Wolverine cameo was great except IDK, I think they didn't focus-test that last scene where he runs off into the forest enough, because the soundtrack tried to make it all pathos and drama, but everyone in the theater cracked up and it felt to me like it should have been a completely hilarious comic relief moment.
What saved the movie was basically just that all the performances were really good. These actors were all able somehow to inhabit their characters so even when you did have just like 1 minute of screentime from Storm she came alive for me in a way that lasted after the movie was over. And the movie flowed, I mostly didn't feel the length of it, so it was easy to watch overall.
Anyway, that's all I got! I would totally go for some Charles/Erik, but that's not new. :>
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I could try to articulate what bothered me about that, but honestly I think it's just, this was a purely ephemeral popcorn movie that didn't actually say anything and mostly reduced Magneto to a woobied sidekick for an overpowered big bad. It didn't earn using the camps.
Magneto was the biggest problem overall with the movie because I didn't believe in or for that matter WANT any part of his story basically. Living an ordinary life in Poland, this being the first time a safety issue had arisen in his big industrial factory where his powers could have helped, him using the powers in the context of living an ordinary life with a wife and child to protect, the fridging. I didn't even really believe in him joining Apocalypse, who seemed to have literally no plan beyond "hey let's destroy the world for good times" or letting Apocalypse take over Charles' body, except if I handwave it with Apocalypse having some kind of partial mind control. I was happy when he finally changed sides, but other than that, it just felt all wrong for the character.
It was also just too many characters so none of them got enough time, too, and it managed its too-large cast way worse than Civil War did. Storm was great, I wanted more; Jean and Scott and Nightcrawler were great, I wanted more. Pietro was also great yet again.
The disaster porn was also just bizarrely disconnected. We had Magneto in a set of random shots apparently in Egypt somewhere floating in a sphere of tiny metal bits and then we have the bridge swaying--I am not even 100% sure where that was although I think it was NYC?--and miscellaneous other shots of disaster all around the world. It was just not connected enough at all and felt dull and without any emotion attached.
Oh and the Wolverine cameo was great except IDK, I think they didn't focus-test that last scene where he runs off into the forest enough, because the soundtrack tried to make it all pathos and drama, but everyone in the theater cracked up and it felt to me like it should have been a completely hilarious comic relief moment.
What saved the movie was basically just that all the performances were really good. These actors were all able somehow to inhabit their characters so even when you did have just like 1 minute of screentime from Storm she came alive for me in a way that lasted after the movie was over. And the movie flowed, I mostly didn't feel the length of it, so it was easy to watch overall.
Anyway, that's all I got! I would totally go for some Charles/Erik, but that's not new. :>
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