The greatest superhero movie of all time
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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. -
LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 01:20 PM)
Good list but here's mine:
- X-Men: DOFP
- Spider-Man 2
- The Dark Knight
- X2
- Superman: The Movie
- Iron Man
- Spider-Man
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- The Avengers
- Batman
I just thought of another one but I don't know if it count. Would The Incredibles count?
Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 02:34 PM)
I just thought of another one but I don't know if it count. Would The Incredibles count?
I just pulled the DVD for that movie out of a storage space I have in another city, forgot that I owned it and really looking forward to watching it again! It's excellent, my favourite Pixar film.
I think you can count it as a superhero movie yeah, although it wasn't based on a previous comic book (Fantastic Four I suppose, very loosely). -
manchof1 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 09:02 PM)
- Spider-Man 2
- Batman Returns
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Spider-Man
- Batman (1989)
- Batman Begins
- Superman Returns
- The Wolverine
- X-Men 2
I thought this movie was fantastic and can't wait to get the Blu-Ray.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 07:37 PM)
I thought this movie was fantastic and can't wait to get the Blu-Ray
Me too, I'm going to hunt it down this weekend and try to pick up a copy of
The Hateful Eight
and
Hail, Caesar!
with it. I can't wait! It's time for some new great stuff to add to my collection. I'm especially interested in the special features for
X-Men Apocalypse
, I hope they go into detail about how they filmed the Quicksilver mansion sequence, it was an incredible cinematic feat.
I haven't added my top 10 superhero list, so here it is, mutable and subject to change!- X-Men: Apocalypse
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Spider-Man 2 (still the most perfectly crafted superhero movie ever made, but not my personal favourite any more)
- The Dark Knight
- X2
- Batman Begins
- Superman: The Movie
- Spider-Man
- Batman '89
- X-Men First Class
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hafabee — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 10:06 PM)
It is. If there is a masterpiece of the comic book movie genre aside from this film, it's Sam Raimi's
Spider-Man 2
, and I say that as neither a big fan of the director or the character, but as a fan of good story telling and good film-making. I would say that
X-Men Apocalypse
is probably the greater endeavour given the size and scope of the movie, the pacing is absolutely perfect for such a long film, as is the balancing of a huge cast of characters, and it was a hell of a lot of fun! Especially Oscar Isaac's performance.
Spider-Man 2
had it a bit easier with a tighter, smaller cast and story, and was not as ambitious of an enterprise as
X-Men Apocalypse
, but nevertheless it's an exceptionally well written and well directed movie. I would call it near perfect. -
durandwhit30 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 09:44 PM)
I know, I know, there's always someone claiming that a movie they liked is the greatest, well, now it's my turn!
You say that like you haven't been posting for the last month about how much you loved this movie. You're just going overboard now. Too each his own, I suppose.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 10:18 PM)
Hey, I like all of the lists given thus far, those are all excellent movies and I'm not arguing against them, I'm saying that this is the best superhero movie that I've ever seen. Personal preference, and it wasn't one that I came to easily, there's a lot of tremendously good superhero movies out there, going all the way back to the 70's
Superman
film. What a soundtrack, it might be John Williams' best and it's hard to see any other actor other than Christopher Reeve in the role, he defined it, for me.
But the jump-starter for the modern superhero era is
X-Men
, and Bryan Singer did a good job bringing it all full circle with a complicated filming involving some of the best actors in the business in
X-Men Apocalypse
. I've had a fun time every time I've seen it, and that's a rarity. -
thevully5789 — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 12:53 AM)
This is no different than a Roland Emmerich film. From a pure film-making and storytelling perspective it's awful. The fact that you think this is better than The Dark Knight, Civil War, The Winter Soldier, DOFP, X2, Iron Man, GOTG, Watchmenis just wrong
If you like it cause ur a comic fan, ok fine, but from a FILM perspective, not thinking about the source material, all the films above are clearly much better films. Saying it's the best of all time is just being a tad too much of a fanboy -
LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 03:51 PM)
Roland Emmerich could NEVER hook people to the story and characters so much that they forget a HUGE spoiler alert like the end of DOFP. Singer showed epic destruction because that's who Apocalypse is. He doesn't care about all the humans he's slaughtering in his schemes. It's made quite clear in the film that Apocalypse does care about all of his "children" / mutant brothers and sisters at least until they defy him.
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hafabee — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 11:50 AM)
Yeah I'm really looking forward to watching it again (for the 1st time since the theatres) over the Christmas holidays. I'm going to write up character studies for all of the major characters shortly thereafter as they're all well defined and worth taking a look at. I'm also halfway through writing an article on filming techniques throughout the decades and how each of the X-Men movies in the recent trilogy employ the cinematic techniques of the decades they're suppose to take place in, which was a really nice artistic choice and adds another dimension of visual flavour to these already rich films.
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 02:58 PM)
Agreed. Just looking at the deleted mall scene from Apocalypse, it really does have the look and feel of movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.