Yeah I don't see what's "80s" about this at all.

I mean in that it lays out the films premise rather than merely presents a load of random meaningless out of context quotes.

FROM BRYAN SINGER, director of X-Men, X2 and X-men Days of Future Past and no other Superhero movies ever!

Yeah DoFP was pretty good, and had a lot of memorable scenes. Next to Wolverine it was probably my favorite X-Men film. How's Apocalypse fit in here though? I'm no expert on the comics but I don't remember Apocalypse being in the X-Men Junior timeline.

Feels like a continuation.

By continuation I mean the gradual crippling and aging of prof x

Yeah, on second viewing Jubilee's 90s outfit and the twin towers more-or-less puts it in the right universe from what I remember. But still, that's going to require a lot of quick ageing to make Mcavoy and Fassbender into the age of Stewart and McKellen.

Agreed about the X-Men cartoons, although Apocalypse reminds me of Skeletor.

He looks like a giant blue baby wearing lipstick.

Or Ivan Ooze from Power Rangers.

It's hard to make a comic book villain threatening or human in only 90 minutes. I think the Netflix series have a huge advantage over regular movies for that reason.

I can actually only think of 3 this year, maybe 4 if you count Kingsmen: Ant Man, Fantastic Four and Avengers 2. It's just that the trailers are released so far in advance now to throw off your attention from the other ones that they all blend together. 2016 will have a few more, but so far I think it's just Batman v. Superman, this, Deadpool and Suicide Squad.

Oh and Captain America

X Men-First Class is pretty much the only live action superhero movie I've actually seen in the last five years. I haven't even seen the Avengers. Most of them look boring. This looks...meh.

I'm just sad that James Mcavoy shaved his head in real life for this. :(

Days of Future Past was a lot better than First Class.

Hollywood pumps out the super hero movies because it's what sells in China right now. Low production costs, no intricate plot, easy to translate. You're not the audience.

This is what my friends in the film industry are saying at any rate.

Makes sense, but Days of Future Past did have a pretty intricate plot, and having not seen First Class I was pretty much in the dark, going mostly on what I remembered from the X-Men cartoon as a kid. But yeah mostly it was me tuning out for 2 hours and watching hot Magneto and Xavier and Wolfie's butt.

Super hero movies equals low production costs? The fuck?

I must prefess, I look forward to seeing more of young Quicksilver.

Why didn't Quicksilver help them out the rest of the movie? I guess that would've been kind of anti-climactic but he could've fixed everything really quickly. Every time Magneto fucks around bending things around for 3 minutes he could've stopped in under a second.

I always hated Flash/Quicksilver. Their powers are theoretically limitless, and are either unstoppable and invincible, or are taken out by the villain throwing a banana peel on the ground, depending on the whim of the writer.

The fun of super hero powers is strictly defining them then watching them come up with creative uses of them. If you make it so they can effortlessly do anything, then what's the point? You're just there free of suspense waiting for the writers to throw out the banana peel.

X-men movies have always had a tradition of introducing an overpowered character and having to get rid of them early on so there could be a plot. It was Professor X in the original trilogy, and Quicksilver in the latest. I he had to go now his home planet needs him!

A Roman Polanski X-men movie would be awesome!

Also it's really fucking hard to look at the facts and say Singer is a pedo rapist.

1997: An extra on Apt Pupil said he was asking him and a bunch of other minors to film a shower scene for the movie. Lawsuit dismissed for insufficient evidence.

2014: Actor/model claims Singer drugged and raped him. Evidence is presented that neither of them were in the state at the time the alleged rape took place. Less than 2 weeks later, the accuser withdraws the lawsuit.

2014: One month after the 2nd lawsuit was filed, an anonymous man filed his own lawsuit stating that Singer and Masters of the Universe Director Gary Goddard arranged for a threesome hookup to celebrate the premiere of Superman Returns, only to beat him up and rape him when they met. At the accuser's request, the charge against Singer was dismissed.


The 1st sounds very iffy, the 2nd had pretty conclusive evidence it never happened, and the 3rd sounds like Ralph fucking Wiggum filed the lawsuit.

You must be really fun to watch movies with.

The old X-movies timeline still exists, but Days gave them an excuse to resurrect Jean, Cyclops, and Prof X.

Fox must've realized they couldn't do anything with half the characters since the X3 basically butchered the X-teams anyway, and decided to just soft reboot everything. Honestly, it fits right in with what the X-Men books do anyway since those are a convoluted mess of retcons anyway.

Agree.

Also I love that she has basically .5 lines before she is murdered it comes off as scornful and I love it.

Storm is one of the best characters of Marvel and Halle Berry just wasn't working.

Also, no, I don't think the old timeline still exists. Days completely retconned it which was another meta scornful fuck you to how the franchise has been handled.

That one was pointed at Brett Ratner.

I remember a quote where they said some bullshit on how it "does and doesn't" still exist. All because Singer basically wants to ignore the Wolverine movies, since those films still have things that still haven't been explained or retconned away (like his claws being still metal in DOFP.)

It only really "exists" because they don't know if they want to make more of the modern X-cast movies, and the fact that Jackman has one more Wolverine movie to do.

I was going to defend Singer as an action director, but then I realized that it's because I only have Brett fucking Ratner as a comparison.

I don't think there's a worse director in hollywood right now. He has never done a not total shit movie. Not even Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich has that kind of track record.

They've met already, he told them to "fuck off" when they met him the first time in the First Class movie.

Yeah but in Days of Future Past they didn't tell him to fuck off.

Or did they just forget about him after he altered the timeline?

Or am I just giving Marvel too much credit when I assume they put minimal effort into continuity?