It's finally happened! We as a Geek Community have won. We got the movie we always envisioned in our heads. Can we stop now?
Full disclosure; I've never been a fan of the X-Men in comics.
Besides being a DC guy, I could still read stories about Spidey or Cap and enjoy them. The X-Men though always struck me as whiny and unprofessional. They'd stop in the middle of a fight to discuss their feelings and whether they should be fighting for the other side and on and on and on . . .
Superman would have been done already, filed the story with Perry White and be inventing a cure for cancer in the Fortress while they were still deciding to fight.
The X-Men movies have left me similarly cold. The first three seemed to be saying "Don't tell anybody we're a comic book movie." I liked First Class just fine and thought Days of Future Past was a good way to kill a Saturday afternoon.
X-Men Apocalypse is what happens when you give comic book fans way too much power in the moviemaking process. I don't know how someone who hasn't read X-Men comics for the past 30 years would even understand this movie. Every scene and plot point seems to be put there simply for a theatre full of comic book fans to scream in recognition.
"Here's your favorite X-Man in the movie for five minutes for no other reason than that you want to see him!"
"Here's a convoluted explanation for why Prof. X is bald, even though we could've just said he lost his hair!"
"Here's a tease that we're going to do that legendary comic book storyline that we tried to do 4 movies ago but screwed up so badly we're hoping you won't remember! And now Sansa Stark is in it too!"
It must be great to do one of these X-Men movies if you're Michael Fassbender or Jennifer Lawrence. You just show up at a green screen studio for like two weeks, grimace and then walk home with several million bucks!
Not a terrible movie, but just empty.
Still better than Batman V Superman though.
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