>>87980162My pasta:
X-men apocalypse was just plain bad, I watched it with low expectations and still didn't enjoy it. Half of the cast can't act, with jlaw seemingly not acting on purpose. Apocalypse was a terrible villain, his speeches were uninspired and lacked charisma, the director was clearly relying on the sound affects rather than the words. Not only does he not use his power to his actual potential, but he's not imposing or threatening at all, he's a complete manlet rather than a giga nigga. He's the thanos equivalent for X-men, a character that they cannot possibly beat alone. The intro scene shows apocalypse getting beaten by humans fairly easily, if he's so powerful how come he couldn't prevent this? Why was he only in Egypt? They should have done a lotr style intro showing him as the god of several religions.
Magneto as a subordinate of Apocalypse doesn't work, it doesn't fit his character, and the rest of the horsemen were useless, they didn't even show them being good people beforehand. Apocalypse didn't even call Warren Archangel for fucks sake. Hell, he doesn't NAME ANY OF HIS HORSEMEN. The fight choreography in the finale was terrible, there's no sense danger or tension, It could have ended if Jean just used her powers at the beginning. True that would be bad film wise, but what we got instead isn't any better. The wolverine and quicksilver scenes were good, although the latter clearly doesn't hold some peoples heads during his gottagofast phase.
