- Stan lee has way too many cameos. He gets constant sole recognition for creations that often had dual creators.
- I find it very lazy that Jennifer Lawrence didn't want to wear her full body make up for most of the film.
- Geez the chick with the purple hand sword is wearing skanky clothes. Pssh. Her sword became a whip. How kinky.
- I hate pointless sexual appeal
- I think most Marvel moviegoers like playing "Where's Waldo" with Stan Lee. Yes, he does get too much credit.
- I thought it was odd that Mystique was rarely herself in this film, but it didn't really bug me. "Oh, time and budget reasons," I thought to myself.
- Psylocke was a bit oversexualised, but that's not inaccurate from the comic books.
- (See above)
For me the flaws in this movie are MUCH bigger. The writing is bad. The movie never picked a protagonist (it waffled between Mystique, Jean, Scott, and Professor X), it kept taking detours (Quicksilver, Wolverine) just to show off popular X-Men. It reused a lot of old stuff, and less effectively than before (Quicksilver!).
Huge problem: it never stays consistent with its portrayal of powers. Apocalypse can melt people into walls and disintegrate them with a thought. Why does anybody in eyesight of him ever survive longer than three seconds? Cyclops' beam can cut a tree in half, but doesn't really hurt Storm? What?
Overall, I thought the action was boring, the characters dull, and the scripting/writing bad.
Oh, and I almost forgot! I thought the scene at Auschwitz was handled badly and came off as disrespectful.
shareThey reused a lot of old stuff because it was a time travel movie.
And Apocalypse can only disintegrate non-organic matter.
That's not what I meant by "reused old stuff". I was thinking, for instance, of the Quicksilver X-Mansion rescue scene which was (basically) a re-tread of his action scene in Days of Future Past. They weren't being creative, just recycling old material. Time traveling and seeing the past and such is not really what I meant.
Apocalypse could still have disintegrated Scott's visor or melted the ground and suffocated everyone. He is shown to be godlike when the movie wants to impress me, but much less capable of destruction when it needs to protect heroes from death.
You posted the same thread twice.
For me, the biggest flaw was the 1980s setting, since I can't stand the 1980s. For this same reason, I could never get very far into "Halt and Catch Fire" or "Stranger Things." And I barely got through "Super 8," even though it takes place in 1979. Way too close to the 80s for me!
The 80s had some of the best movies though! The Shining, Raiders of the Lost Ark, First Blood, Gremlins, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, Commando, Predator, Twins, Robo Cop, the Back to the Future movies, Die Hard, Who framed Roger Rabbit, Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, and 3, the Friday the 13th movies, and Return of the Jedi.
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