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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 15:26:18 GMT -5
I saw it today with some friends and I had a hard time enjoying it and felt numb after watching it. Started good and gradually got worse and I had high hopes for Sophia Turner and she did not answer the call. I wished I could had stayed home and trying my best to forget about seeing this movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 12:33:56 GMT -5
Ugh. Saw it. Soooooo much worse than I expected. (Very minor spoilers follow) The beginning had so much potential. Loved how the X-Men's status had changed in the wake of Age of Apocalypse and what that meant for Xavier and for the X-Men, really liked that they stayed somewhat loyal to the source material when the X-Men took off in a space shuttle during a solar storm, and then the whole thing fell apart after with logic gaps, terrible dialogue, single-dimensional villains, questionable directing, editing, and cinematography, and little to no understanding of any character in this film who wasn't Charles, Jean, Scott, or Hank. And Sophie Turner was just WRONG for the role. I honestly consider this the dumbest superhero film I've ever watched, even moreso than Last Stand. It had almost no redeeming qualities after the first ten minutes. I'd honestly rather watch Roger Cormen's Fantastic Four again or the 1997 Batman and Robin film because those at least didn't take themselves too seriously. This film tries so hard to sell you depth and darkness, and that just makes the stupid stand out even more glaringly. Just watched it, and yeah, to all of this. Well, other than being worse than expected, as I was expecting it to be pretty awful.
It's just dull as dishwater most of the time, and the set piece fights are just terrible - with the exception of the first one, all done in "DC-dark" scenes, as though that hadn't been disastrous for DC/WB. Amazing how big fight scenes can be made so boring. I thought the acting was pretty terrible across the board, but Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain were especially awful, though I'm not sure how much is them and how much is the direction - they seem to be deliberately playing impassive, invulnerable, unaffected by everything around them but unfortunately, most of the time this comes over as staring dead-eyed into the middle distance with an expression like a stunned heffer, which makes me wonder if they'd been directed to act that way.
(Having said that, I think Apocalypse and the first Wolverine film are actually worse. It's not as much of a plotting mess as Last Stand, but it doesn't have any of the good bits of that fillm either - Kelsey Grammar as Beast, a few other bits. It's more a pudding of a film, with nothing rising above utter mediocrity)
Ah well, take a breath - at last the nightmare is over, there's not going to be another one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 18:00:47 GMT -5
it opens tomorrow in our $4 discount movie theater.
shocked how quickly it showed up.
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Post by badwolf on Dec 31, 2020 22:00:16 GMT -5
I finally got to see this on HBO Max (which I signed up for just so I could watch the WW film.)
After all I had heard about it, it was surprisingly...okay. There was some terrible dialogue (like the ridiculous "X-women" line that was in the trailer) but for the rest I pretty much went along with it.
It was better than The Last Stand. At least it didn't try to do too much.
I do wish they'd come up with more interesting characters for Magneto's flunkies. Were hair-whip guy and knife girl (who can also control minds at a convenient moment) the best they could do?
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Post by badwolf on Jan 4, 2021 12:21:54 GMT -5
I forgot to mention my favorite bit: DAZZLER! In her original costume!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 2, 2021 15:57:36 GMT -5
I finally got to see this on HBO Max (which I signed up for just so I could watch the WW film.) After all I had heard about it, it was surprisingly...okay. There was some terrible dialogue (like the ridiculous "X-women" line that was in the trailer) but for the rest I pretty much went along with it. It was better than The Last Stand. At least it didn't try to do too much. I do wish they'd come up with more interesting characters for Magneto's flunkies. Were hair-whip guy and knife girl (who can also control minds at a convenient moment) the best they could do? I just saw it for the first time and agree completely. The action scenes were pretty impressive, actually, what with Magneto and Jean crumpling whole trains with but a flick of the wrist. Where I think the movie suffered is in not offering much by way of emotions, except for anger and guilt. That makes for pretty gloomy viewing, especially for a superhero film. Killing Raven was pretty dark, too, although the plot demanded some credible reason for characters to want to kill Jean. (I still would have found something else). The ending was also lacking in terms of emotional pay-off; killing the annoying villain was sort of cathartic, but Jean's "ascension" was something of a let-down. "Character turns into a glowing energy thingie and goes away into space" is a theme that was already getting old in Space:1999! Nevertheless... I don't get why this movie gets such bad reviews. I thought it was all right for what it was, a last attempt to milk a franchise before it's rebooted again. |
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Post by tonebone on Sept 30, 2021 7:53:14 GMT -5
I forgot to mention my favorite bit: DAZZLER! In her original costume! Absolutely the highlight of the movie. Which is sad. |
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