A lot of people are helicoptered whining babies who expect the media to censor anything that might trigger their various personal issues.
Apocalypse is... wait for it... the villain.
Also known as "the bad guy".
What was he supposed to be doing in the image, having brunch with her? Maybe giving her a high-five?
He's the bad guy, that means he does bad things. Get it?
Agreed. Also, the poster doesn't have anything to do with real-world violence issues because it's an image of 2 super-powered characters fighting. The 2 characters are fighting an apocalyptic battle to save/destroy the world. Gender has nothing to do with it. Also, the image is intended to be intimidating & scary, not titillating.
Furthermore, suggesting that you can't show a bit from a fight scene in an action movie poster because the person losing the fight is a woman is the real sexism here. It suggests that women are always helpless victims, something which certainly doesn't apply to Mystique. Time after time, we've seen her hold her own in fights with men, often taking out multiple men in a matter of seconds. She also fared pretty well against Wolverine in the original
X-Men, which is no mean feat.
Ask yourself: If he were strangling Professor Xavier or Nightcrawler or one of the other male X-Men in this poster, would anyone care? (That's always the question I start with in these situations: If you switched the roles, would we still be having the same discussion?)
Too many attempts at "moments" or "bits" at the expense of telling a real story.
Basically, Simon Kinberg is not a good writer.
You may be right. It's hard to gauge because a lot of the movies he's written have also had other writers. But there are at least 3 really shitty movies on his CV--
Fantastic Four (2015), Jumper, and
xXx: State of the Union. X-Men: The Last Stand is also a pretty dubious entry. He's written a few decent movies like
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, This Means War, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and
X-Men: Apocalypse. But the only truly great movie to have his name on it is
Sherlock Holmes.
BTW, I'm so happy to hear some other people agreeing with me that
X-Men: First Class is the best movie of the series (or at least the best of the current round of prequels).
Sounds like most superhero costumes. Designed to look good on camera but never comfortable or easy to put on.
Reminds me of the original
X-Men, when most of the joints of the suits got torn up really bad just by trying to do something as simple as hop over a 3-foot wall.
So now Nightcrawler is moved up the timeline...clearly then NOT Mystique's son as he could've been from X2 but I suppose Azazel is still likely his dad.
I don't think Nightcrawler is moved up the timeline at all. He looked more or less middle aged in X2, so could easily have been a teenager in the 80s. Plus, if you thought Azazel was always supposed to be his dad, then he always had to be born somewhere in the mid to late 60s (early 70s at the latest) , because Bolivar Trask killed and dissected Azazel sometime between First Class and DoFP.
IMO, there's pretty much nothing (other than her overall indifference) to rule out the possibility of Mystique being Nightcrawler's mother. Considering we've gone long stretches between movies, there's plenty of time for that to have happened. The more difficult part to reconcile is Azazel's role in the timeline. But then, there's a lot that we don't know about exactly how things happened between
First Class in 1962 and
Days of Future Past in 1973. We know that Azazel & Angel were both killed & dissected by Trask sometime between those 2 films. Since Magneto seemed to already know about it, it would be logical to assume that it happened before he went to prison after the JFK assassination in November 1963. But I suppose one of his prison interrogators might have mentioned it.
So, I guess my point is: I dunno.
