X-Men Apocalypse
So I finally got to see X-Men Apocalypse and I went in with pretty low expectations because
of the not so good reviews that this movie has been getting, and to my surprise
I really like it, it does has a few issues and by no means it isn't as good as
Captain America: Civil War, but this film holds up on its own and it has made
this old school X fan happy.
So first off spoiler alert, let skim over the plot, so
you guys can get an idea what the flick is about, Apocalypse the first mutant and ruler of
Egypt is buried alive by his own people
who seemed to have grown tired of him, and he reawakes in the 80's and he is
pist by the fact that the modern world is
being ruled by the weak, so he puts together his 4 horse and goes all Ultron on the whole population of
Earth and tries destroy everything to restart civilization, to get things right,
and after kidnapping Xavier for a new host body, the X-men jump in and save the
day and basically this is the whole movie.
Characters:
Heroes:
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Professor X/Charles Xavier (James McAvoy): McAvoy
does a great job with Xavier, he really humanizes the character, you actually
feel for the guy at moments, and this is
a stark contrast for how I feel for the comic book Xavier, that most of the
time comes off as a A-hole. He has a couple of interesting interactions with
Apocalypse.
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Mystic (Jennifer Lawrence): Please kill this
character off, Jennifer Lawrence is one of my biggest issues with this film.
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Beast
(Nicholas Hoult): 80's Beast should be
more witty, not a insecure nerd.
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Moira Mac Taggert (Ross Bryne): Happy to see her
back, and thinking about it she should have been the one that saved
Nightcrawler not Mystic, it would have been interesting to have a human going
into the underground saving mutants.
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Quicksilver (Evan Peters): I just loved the
character and his characterization, that is nothing like the comics, but he
does it so well, that it's just fine for me, he has the best seen in the movie
again.
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Cyclops (Tye
Sheridan): They do a much better job with this character, than in the other X
movies, now Cyclops has potential.
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Jean Grey ( Sophie Turner): Turner's acting at the begging
of the movie is just terrible but as it
progress she gets better and at the end she kicks ass.
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Havok (Lucas Till): Happy to see my favorite Summer's
brother back, rocking a 80's haircut.
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Wolverine
(Hugh Jackman): Claws and Slashing, just perfect.
Nightcrawler: Just loved Kurt.
Antagonist:
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Magneto (Michael Fassbender): Magneto is the best
thing going in this series of X films, he really drives the film.
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Storm (Alexandra Shipp): She needs more screen
time, but I appreciate the accent.
Villains:
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Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac): Look Apocalypse is my
favorite Marvel villain ever and the movie leaves a couple core motivation of
En Sadah Nur out, so he comes off like a more powerful Ultron. With one or two
lines the move could have fix this, maybe mentioning that he serves the
celestial and their interests or not
mention them, and just a saying that some alien force are coming to judge Earth, and only the strong can protect it and
you leave the door open for the Shi'ar, with something like this you give the
character more motivation to go around killing everyone.
·
Psylocke (Olivia Munn): Meh, just a minion, but I
don't care much for in the comics or in this movie.
·
William Stryker ( Josh Helman): I have no idea why
he's in the movie.
·
Angel (Ben Hardy): They wasted the potential of
this character, he's just a basic minion in the flick.
Supporting Cast:
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Jubilee: Happy to see that her role is just a
cameo.
·
Caliban: Surprised to see this dude, he's a pretty
obscure character.
Issue Summary:
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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Phoenix is coming.
·
¿Is Mr. Sinister behind Weapon
X?
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Wolvy is running around.
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Quicksilver joins the X-Men.
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Magneto and Mystic return to
the X-Men.
The Bad:
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Apocalypse should have been
taller and more bulky, the way he looks in the movie doesn't provoke that much
intimidation.
·
Movie can't balance so many
characters like Civil War did.
·
Jennifer Lawrence's acting was
stall as hell, please kill Mystic in the next movie.
·
The Horse men just stand around
half the movie, should should be wrecking havoc during the whole movie.
The Good:
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The 80's look of the movie was
fantastic from the cars, the shoulder pads and some of the haircuts, and since
I grew up during this decade it really brought back some memories.
·
Please make a movie in slow mo
with Quicksilver.
·
They shoe horned Wolverine in
the movie, the whole part of the movie that he appears in is totally irrelevant
to the plot, but it was great to see him go on a claw fest.
·
The big metal X.
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The battles were great.
Cold war context seems to work well for the X-men
Overall: I'll give the flick 7.5 out of 10.
OK Apocalypse is my favorite Marvel villain of all time, and I tripping
that in the next X-Men Movie he's
going to be the one in charge to making thing miserable for Marvel's merry mutants. So in anticipation of this
movie I put together my ranking of my Top Ten Apocalypse Horse Men and
Associates:
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10 Harbinger: This character
appeared on the pages of Cable, his arrival marked the beginning of the 12 story arc, he
almost destroyed Manhattan, and Nathan needed the help of the Avengers to take this
guy down.
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| I must note this is the Mutant X War |
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9 War Abraham Lincoln Kieros:
He's an old school Horseman, from the
old X-Factor days, he has explosive claps.
8 Sunfire/Famine: Marvel found a way to get Sunfire to
use his super cool body armor form the Age of Apocalypse, they made him
a horseman of Apocalypse and for some reason he dropped the armor for a time but he had to use it again after his battle with Kang.
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7 The Dark Riders: For some
reason Apocalypse decided not to work with his Horsemen during the last days of X-Factor original team line up, so he upgraded a bunch
of renegade Inhumans, and they ended up becoming the Dark Rider.
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6 Ahab/Famine: I have the TPB
of Days of the Future Present, where Ahab is the main villain to that
story, I thought he was super interesting, but Marvel never really used him
much, so it was great to see him gracing the pages Uncanny Avengers working
with the Red Skull and with Kang.
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5 Holocaust/Nemesis: He's
Apocalypse's son from the Age of Apocalypse that actually crossed over into
Marvel 616 for a time.
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4 The Apocalypse Twins: They
are Archangels children that have been kidnapped and brought up by Kang, so these kids have
issues, and they gave the Avenger a run for their money in Uncanny Avengers.
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3 Caliban/Death/Plague: I
really love Caliban I always felt bad for the guy, seeking power to avenge his
fellow Morlocks, because his mutant powers were no good against the likes of
Sabertooth, and surprisingly Apocalypse takes him in, and years latter out of
clemency, something Apocalypse doesn't demonstrate very often set him free because
he had served him well.
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2 Sentry: Even though he was
actually a horseman for the Apocalypse twins, he was freaking cool, and super
hardcore while battling Thor he ripped open his own head to unleash hell on
him.
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1 Archangel/Death: Hands down
is my favorite character that Apocalypse has modified, with those Techno Organic wings are cool as
hell and oddly I really like his 80's
costume. And I must add he has a complicated relationship with Apocalypse that always
make things interesting for the story.
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