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X-Men: Apocalypse announced for May 2016

I've long been frustrated at how the X-men proper has played second fiddle to Wolverine or other 'external' characters. So Mystique and Quicksilver are popular and cool - lets place them front and centre in preference to other characters who have been actual X-men in the comics... The movies are hugely enjoyable but only X3, often considered the weakest in the franchise, has featured a proper, full-on, X-men team (Dofp featured a hybrid team of X-men. X-force, and age of Apocalypse).
 
First review I've seen:

The idea of an apocalypse means every dial has to be turned up to 11 and this film certainly provides bangs for your buck, although there is less space for the surreal strangeness of the X-Men to breathe, less dialogue interest, and they do not have the looser, wittier joy of the Avengers. But the more playful episodes with Cyclops and Quicksilver are welcome and everything hangs together. But in the future X-Men films have to mutate into something with fewer characters and more characterisation.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/201...e-review-marvel-jennifer-lawrence-oscar-isaac
 
Ive seen several reviews pop up this evening on the Facebook pages of Collider, Variety, Den of Geek and Empire. All are lukewarm at best - Empire gave it 2 stars, the rest Cs. Inevitable negative comparisons to Civil War. (I would link to them but my iPad tends to act up when flicking between an app and safari, this site in particular).
 
Damn, son! Hearing Apocalypse is getting the BvS treatment of being dragged by critics, makes me sad.
 
Can we just get rid of critics and sites like Rotten Tomatoes? I think the world would be a much better place if we could.
 
I find Rotten Tomatoes to be correct more often then not, and I like hearing from critics. They aren't required to like all the movies you like, and vice versa. The world would definitely not be a better place without RT or critics.
 
This film is less than 3 weeks out. It was torture waiting less than a week with all the bad press BvS was getting in March. How will we make it to May 24th in tact?
 
Based on what I've seen so far (and what I think of BvS) if this thing really is getting bad press I might have to start suspecting some general "if it's not Civil War (or Disney's Marvel in general) it sucks!" attitude.
 
Kestrel said:
Based on what I've seen so far (and what I think of BvS) if this thing really is getting bad press I might have to start suspecting some general "if it's not Civil War (or Disney's Marvel in general) it sucks!" attitude.
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Also, critics loved Deadpool and allegedly, WB owns RT.

What I think it is, is that critics (mostly men and women on the internet now) have realized they have a lot of power and are exercising it. Keep in mind, most reviews don't go into the specifics of film making, diagesis or non diagesis, director intent, borrowed and lifted elements from previous installments or similar works etc. They go for their own experience in watching the film. What the film is saying vs what the film is saying to me, a critic. And the common thread I've noticed is critics want their fiction movies to be fun or entertain them with a good time.
 
*sigh* It's painful seeing all these bad reviews. X-Men is my favorite superhero movie series, and I've seen every one in the theater since X2, but I may very well just wait and rent this one.
 
As with everything else that I was going to see anyway, I'm just gonna skip the reviews and hope that I enjoy the film. It wouldn't be the first bad X-Men film, but at this stage I'm still expecting to like it more than the reviewers do. If not, bummer.
 
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