The greatest superhero movie of all time
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:40 PM)
It was all wonderfully crafted to hook the audience, make them forget the end of DOFP and thrill the hell out of us. But I feel like there wasn't enough payoff for my investment.
Or maybe I'm paying too much attention to what the critics are saying.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:46 PM)
I seriously doubt that the critics' opinions affected you that much!
You just like other superhero movies better. To each their own, I've just been loving this movie more and more over time, and I went in pretty hyped for it too so it certainly had some large expectations of mine to overcome. I think it's a little bit more shallow than most of the X-Men movies have been, and I can understand that as being a complaint, but it's all so well performed and crafted that in my opinion, it still manages to upstage the likes of
X-Men Days of Future Past
and
X2
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:50 PM)
Stop treating me like I'm not a fan. I'm here trying to defend this movie against incredibly backlash and it's all due to these peoples' lazy misunderstanding of the film's craftsmanship. As a novice filmmaker, getting to know his own skills with cinematography, that gets so frustrating for me.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:58 PM)
Oh I know you're a fan, I didn't mean anything by it, it's just that I have my doubts that critics affected your opinion on the movie much, you're a smart guy and know what you like and write well about your opinions too. Just because it's not your favourite doesn't mean you didn't like it! You so plainly did.
I don't know why the critics turned their noses up at this movie, to me it doesn't make any sense but it doesn't matter, I liked it! I'm just glad I didn't pay them much mind, most of them were way off on
X-Men Apocalypse
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 01:14 PM)
Again, I don't think they fcking realize what Singer had to do here and succeed at with this movie. He set up the fact that this universe has a bright happy future at the end of DOFP. I didn't think of the end of DOFP once while watching Apocalypse. In fact, I was so invested with what was going on in this film, it was hard to remember that Mystique saved Wolverine in the end of DOFP too. So, I had to put two and two together and realize that it's been 10 years since the events of DOFP and so much could've happened in that time.
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samhmd-7489 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 06:40 PM)
Again, I don't think they fcking realize what Singer had to do here and succeed at with this movie. He set up the fact that this universe has a bright happy future at the end of DOFP.
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 06:56 PM)
It's not a problem. The craftsmanship in Apocalypse and DOFP has just gone over your head like it went over the heads of those stupid critics.
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 23, 2016 04:00 AM)
LMAO. That's the new and "great" filmmaking style?? World-building?? Audiences have to see a bunch of mediocre separate films to fully get to know the characters in The Avengers and that's a good thing?? You fanboys really sound like idiots sometimes.
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iLikemovingimages — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 06:59 PM)
Foresight like Disney has right?
That's why they hired the same actor to play two different roles in the same universe?
Excellent foresight
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iLikemovingimages — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:34 PM)
I think it's my favorite too. TDK is great but IMO it's not really a superhero movie so I have to give it to this one. It really has everything, and I find myself enjoying it more the more times I watch it. That's the sign of a good movie.
If you go into this film with a clear mindset, you will really enjoy yourself. If you are to obsessed with the rights and Disney you won't like it, and if you are too obsessed with getting source material perfect you won't like it. If you take it for what it is, a movie ADAPTATION, then this movie is amazing. It nails some of the characters and everyone, yes even Jennifer Lawrence, gave great performances.
The story is generic, but it's a comic book movie. ALL stories are generic. You can't sit there and knock the Apocalypse story and in the next sentence mention how (x CBM has a great story). It just makes you look stupid and biased. This movie had drama, action and comedy. And they blended it together better then any Disney (too family friendly) or DC(too dark and bleak) comic book movie.
Excellent movie, will see it again.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:53 PM)
The Dark Knight
is excellent and I love that whole series of Batman movies, but you're right in saying that they're not really superhero movies so much as they are crime dramas. They just happen to have a detective that dresses up in a bat suit and kicks the ever loving beep out of people!
What I mean is there aren't any superpowers in those movies, so they're quite a different flavour than most films from that genre.
Seeing
The Dark Knight
for the first time was a mind-blowing experience, I actually shook hands with the guy sitting next to me after the movie! Like we'd been through something together haha, but I found that the movie didn't hold up quite as well in subsequent viewings. Still great, but it couldn't recapture that feeling the first time watching it, and some of the plot contrivances started sticking out like a sore thumb too. Not so with
X-Men Apocalypse
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charzhino — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 01:01 PM)
- Xmen DOFP
- Dark Knight Rises
- The Avengers
- X2
- Spiderman 2
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- Winter Soldier
- XMEN APOCALYPSE
- Iron Man
It wasn't the greatest story and underdeveloped the Villain but still more enjoyably than First Class and X3.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 01:07 PM)
Big fan of
The Dark Knight Rises
eh? I loved that movie too, but I was the only one of the group I went with to really like it, everyone after the movie were complaining about this and that, I think they just failed to get into the spirit of the thing. Like Bane for instance, no one seemed to like him, which I don't get because I thought that Tom Hardy was fantastic! So intimidating and powerful, and like Apocalypse I found him to be quite funny as well, in a over-the-top way which didn't sacrifice the intimidation and suspense for laughs. Great characterization for Bruce Wayne in the movie too, I loved his character arc in it.