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So fuck rotten tomatoes?
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>>70327025
Was it good?
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>>70327459
It was ok.
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Deleting all the bloggers and other idiots who don't know shit about movies would help but the top critics thingy is pretty correct often enough.
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>>70327025
But it was fresh!
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>>70327025
RT is an aggregator. If you want to cry about your capeshit movies getting bad reviews, go after the critics who publish them.
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>>70327459
it was good if you had low expectations
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I just wish they showed more apocalypse and crew wrecking shit
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>>70327459
It was better than half the X-Men movies.
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Who needs story or dialogue when you have character after character after character?
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My Ranking

1. X2
2. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
3. Deadpool
4. X-Men: First Class
5. X-Men
6. The Wolverine
7. X-Men: The Last Stand
8. X-Men: Apocalypse
9. Wolverine: Origins
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>>70327459
RLM loved it
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>>70327798
Objectively correct.

Bravo.
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>>70327025
this movie is fucking horrendous. what the fuck is wrong with you people.
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>>70327459
not at all
its just as bad as age of ultron
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>>70327798
1. FC
2. DofP
3. X2
4. Apocalypse
5. Deadpool
6. X1
7. X3
8. Wolverine
9. Origins
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fucking loved it.

Finally got to see Mags in all his glory on film.

Wish I got to see him wreck more shit though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQoEEr-63KU
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>>70327025

Yes the movie was fucking awesome and my favorite comic book movie of the year easily.

To me it really felt like I was turning the pages of a comic and the story was just getting better and better and then of course as the end was amazing it ends..to make me buy the next damn issue. Except the next issue will be the next movie and I have to wait like 3 years ugh.
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>>70327888
It's /tv/

This place has become some sort shit combination of /pol/ & /b/ and no one talks about anything other than blockbusters any more and you have to be contrarian as possible when discussing them.

/L O S T/ was the last time this board was worth a damn.
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>>70327025
>MUH BOOGIEMAN

is Tomatoes this generation's Reddit?
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The rating is as follows buttchuggers

1, 2, and 3, are in Order FC, DoFP, AoA as really AoA if the best but you need the other 2 to enjoy it to the fullest.

4 is X2
5 is X1
6 is The Wolverine
7 is X3
8 is Origins


I have no idea why you faggots are including Deadpool in your ratings he's not an X-Man
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>>70327798
>ranking Deadpool over First Class

your opinion belongs in the fucking trash
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>symphony no 7 movement 2 starts playing
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>>70327025
Don't fuck RT. It makes movies like this look bad, only because it counts all mixed reviews as rotten.

119 ppl still left positive review for this movie.
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>>70328103
>There's a hole in your right wing.
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>>70328215
>thats the last we've seen of that guy
>the third one is always bad
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>>70327798

1. X2
2. Days Of Future Past
3. First Class
4. Apocalypse
5. X-Men
6. Redditpool
7. X-Men: The Last Stand
8. The Wolverine
9. Origins: Wolverine

ftfy
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FUCK RT.
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SWEET MEMES ARE MADE OF THESE
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>>70327025
No, fuck mouthbreathers like you who actually enjoy capeshit.
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>>70327798
>>70327933
>origins last

plebs
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>>70327459
It was pretty good.
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>>70327798
>>70327933
>>70328345
>stupid niggers putting Deadpool in a ranking of XMEN movies
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>>70328469

>From the same studio as the X-Men movies
>Features X-Men characters
>Explicitly takes place in the same universe as the X-Men movies
>"I-IT D-DOESN'T COUNT BECAUSE THE TITLE DOESN'T HAVE THE WORD X-MEN IN IT! C-CHECKMATE ATHEISTS!"

t. butthurt MCUck
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>>70328382
Best scene in the movie senpai.

1. DoFP
2. FC
3. X2
4. Deadpool
5. Apocalypse
6. X-men
7. The Wolverine
8. The Last Stand
9. Wolverine Origins
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>>70328469
Deadpool is more of an X-Men movie than either Wolverine movie.
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>>70327798
X2 > First Class > Days of Future Past > The Wolverine > X-Men > Apocalypse > Deadpool > The Last Stand > Wolverine Origins

None are exceptional, most are really uneven. X2 is probably the most consistent, but First Class nails the Xavier/Magneto dynamic and has the scenes of Magneto hunting Nazis, which are probably the best in the series.
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I loved how well done the writing was.
So emotional and deep.
Too bad MCU cucks could never hope to achieve such in depth writing and character development.
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Apocalypse > Days of Future Past > First Class > X2 > The Wolverine > X-Men > The Last Stand > Wolverine Origins
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>>70328937
The writing here was objectively worse than pretty much any Marvel Studios movie. It was incoherent, nonsensical and cliched. The film kind of worked anyways, but it wasn't on account of the dreadful writing.
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>>70328469
deadpool is in a wolverine movie

Even ryan reynols is that deadpool...
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>>70328995

There was more emotional depth in the two scenes with Magneto's family than there was throughout the entire running time of Civil Snore.
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>>70328398
Only on /tv/ you'll find people who unironically like the gigantic piece of shit that Origins was.
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>>70328937
There was no depth whatsoever in this entire flick.
It's obvious Singer phoned in this one to get a budget for 20 leagues under the sea.
It's projected to make less than 500 million, and honestly, it deserves it.
Blandest, most boring capeshit since The Wolverine.
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>>70327798
agree
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>>70328995
There was no writing in this movie.
Apocalypse is a bad guy because
>hurr back then we weren't like this
and the X-Men have to stop him.

Watch the Quicksilver scene in youtube and save yourself $7.
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>>70329170
No, there wasn't.
In fact, Fassbender's ''NOOOO'' was fucking hilarious.
At least Singer did the right thing and jumped ship.
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>>70327025
This time they are 100% right.
It was a 5/10.

They got rid in one movie of probably the most powerful X-Men villain.
If they cared, they would have done this a 2 part movie, but there was barely any story in this one, so I don't know.
Maybe they should have gotten different writers.
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>>70327798

1. First Class
2. X2
3. DoFP
4. Apocalypse
5. X-Men
6. Wolverine
7. Deadpool
8. Origins
9. X3
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>>70327798

How was Days of Future Past even good and why is that opinion so consensual here wtf? Watched it yesterday and I thought First Class was a much better constructed movie. Would never rewatch, its the blandest shit ever.
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1. X-Men: Days of Future Past
2. X2
3. X-Men: First Class

POWER GAP

4. X-Men
5. X-Men Apocalypse
6. The Wolverine

POWER GAP

7. X-Men The Last Stand
8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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so it looks like all of dc is dead, fantastic four is dead, and xmen is dead. is the avengers and deadpool the only capeshit that will ever matter?
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>>70329688
>>70329568
>>70328685
>>70328345
>>70327933


You have tremendous shit taste but please explain how DoFP did anything better than other X Men movies. Youre just parroting the mainstream media consensus lmao.
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>>70329877
>>70329672
Sorry you didn't like DOFP pham, i'm afraid we have different opinions.
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>>70327798
Correct ranking
>1. X2
>2. X-Men: Apocalypse
>3. Deadpool
>4. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
>5. X-Men: First Class
>6. The Wolverine
>7. X-Men
>8. Wolverine: Origins
>9. X-Men: The Last Stand
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>>70327459

Yes.

First time I disagree with a RT score. It doesn't deserve such a low score.
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>>70329170
this.
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It was the most comic book event movie I have ever seen.

>more characters than the Brady Bunch
>WORLD ALTERING CONSEQUENCES
>Magneto switched sides repeatedly, regardless of body count
>Character being dead for less than thirty seconds
>Big bad getting his ass kicked by the power of friendship

Plus, the CGI was pretty and the writing was a mess.

It was alright, I just want muh Uncanny X-Force, but they'd probably force Mystique in there somewhere.
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First Class is a piece of shit, I can't believe so many people like it. The dialogue is so terrible I laughed out loud at least a dozen times
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>>70330082
Magneto literally did nothing wrong.
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>>70327798

IMO Dead Pool doesn't count

#1 X2 9/10
#2 Days Of Future Past 8.5/10
#3 First Class 8.0/10

#4 Xmen 6.5
#5 The Wolverine 6.5
#6 Apocalypse 6.0
#7 The Last Stand 5.5

#8 Origins 3.5
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>>70330267
I never said anything about inherent wrong, I said body count. That part is undeniable, he knocked down hundreds of buildings during the finale.
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Putting apocalypse anything below the top 3 of all superhero movies makes your opinion null and void for all movies past and present.

You're simply a contrarian with no real actual opinions except to want to be viewed as different.

This post isn't directed to a specific person but to anyone that shares that opinion.
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>>70327459
YES
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>>70327798
Man, going back and watching the original movies is kinda rough. They have that cheesy 00's feel to them
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>>70330536
>cheesy 00's [and 90s] feel
I'm glad that shit finally died.
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I'm glad that Xmen Origins Wolverine is no longer canon
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Was this movie red-pilled?
I felt like I was watching Hitlers rise to power but made it so Hitler looked like the good guy 90% of the movie.
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>>70330536
>>70330567
yeah, now we just have the cheesy 10s feel

fucking children
>anything more than a few years old is corny
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>>70327459

Better than civil war
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>>70330535
Autism.
http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/WG-HUfpMJ135Y_j5PC2FNg/
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1. X-Men Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut
2. X2
3. Deadpool
4. X-Men: First Class
5. X-Men: Apocalypse
6. X-Men
7. The Wolverine: Unleashed Extended Edition

POWER GAP

9001: The Last Stand

NOT EVEN CANON POWER GAP

0. Origins
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>>70331374
SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS
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>>70331374
Yup.
Excessive repetition beyond OCD levels is a very bright red flag for autism.
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X2
Apocalypse
X1
Deadpool
First Class
Days of Future Past
Last Stand
The Wolverine
Origins

X-Men Apocalypse had moments of greatness and is better than anything Marvel has shat out. People are mindlessly parroting critics here or just suffering superhero fatigue.
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They hated "American Ultra" but I thought it was very fun to watch.
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>>70332046
What?
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>>70332066
he's talking about RT
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>>70327798
>Not putting the leaked Wolverine movie with unfinished special effects in your list
Into the trash...
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>>70327798
I haven't seen the wolverine. But everything else is perfect.
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>>70332598
You should. It's not perfect, but if you want to see a movie where Wolverine fucks around in Japan then it's a good time. The ending is absolutely ridiculous, tho.
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>>70332752
I find the ending shlockly fun.

8/10, it's a fun movie.
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>>70330322

Deadpool counts as much as Wolverine
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lol you guys remember that hilarious scene where quicksilver's running around making funny faces and doing silly things with the students and then Cyclops' brother dies

that was awesome
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>>70333874
Yup emotional roller coasters are great.
It's impressive when a capeshit that supposed to appeal to kids can actually give you a full range of emotions.
Which really is what movies should strive to do, no matter what genre.
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>>70327025
>>70327459
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>>70332852
The end was a.blast
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>>70333874

At least Singer didn't kill off Scott ten minutes into the movie
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>>70333874
These sort of weird tonal shifts are what X-Men is all about, and made the film interesting. I suppose people would prefer more formuliac Marvel spreadsheet filmmaking though.
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First Class> everything else pales in comparison.
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>mfw the writing fucks up an emotional Magneto with his family scene
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Why are all the Marvel movies so mediocre?

I could watch Terminator 2 50 times and not be bored, but these movies are total snoozefests.
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>>70336650
Except that most of Singer's films are better.
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>>70336821
Top kek. Maybe if you're a pleb.
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>>70329447
Thats not what an RT score means, dumbass. Its a percetange of criticis that liked or disliked it, it can't be "right" or wrong.
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>>70336667
Which one, there were 12 emotional magneto with his family scenes.
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>>70327459
Lots of plot holes which is probably what brought the score down but is somehow still really satisfying and enjoyable, more so than the souless, grey scale civil war.
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>>70336912
I've seen Vaughn do some pretty impressive action scenes, but they're not in First Class. First Class is just a bunch of butchered character backstories, filled with on-the-nose dialogue, and bad villains.
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>>70337923
At the time though FC was a breath of fresh air from X3.
I was praising FC just because I was glad it was similar in quality to X2.
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>>70336389

I don't even remember the ending.
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>>70327459
Average rating of around 5/10 and I believe it is quite accurate.

First act: 4/10 boring as FUCK
Second act: 5/10 at least things are happening
Third Act: 7/10 neat fighting, but could be done better and Magneto once again is cliched.

Overall: 16/30 which is quite bad for a movie.
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>>70327459
It had a bunch of really enjoyable scenes.
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>Hearing apocalypses portal without seeing it
Based AF
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>>70327459
for an x-men movie yeah, for a post first class and sequel to future past fuck no
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>>70339423
It was honestly the best x-men movie in all history currently.
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>>70339453
imo this shit is no where near as good as x2, first class or days of future past, just because of how forced mystique was and how angel and psylock have no good reason to be there other than they enhanced their powers or how underused the main x-men were used
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>>70339583
All your complaints are things I didn't give a shit about anyway so it makes sense that I would consider it the best x-men movie of all time.
All the scenes flowed nicely.
All the characters meshed together nicely.
The writers Bryan singer is using are top tier and probably too good for superhero movies anyway.
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>>70327025
>expecting a movie which destroys the jewish slavery camp to be well received by jews
Think again
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>>70327798
>>70327888
So, people actually liked First Class?

I watched it and found it to be an amazing disappointment. Had a great time with the first half, I recall some excellent scenes characterizing Magneto, Xavier, and Mystique.

Then there was the second half, which seemed like a sloppy, rushed mess.

And I'm far from a SJW, but it seemed racist and sexist. Mystique seemed like she lost all of her independent character motivation, the black guy died first and no one really seemed to care for more than 40 seconds, the only other nonwhite character promptly turned traitor, and then there was the treatment of the FBI woman a romance interest with like no set up, and that fucking tacky 'I only remember...a kiss...' shit. I'm generally the first to say that things are appropriate to the story, even if they don't suit a progressive agenda, but I have never been so taken aback by what seemed like blatantly bigoted plot.

Magneto-Xavier relationship seemed strong throughout.
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>First Class (I don't really remember it, but I really liked it when it came out)
>X2 (I get why most people put this first)
>X-Men
>Days of Future Past
>The Wolverine
>X-men Origins: Wolverine
>X-men Apocalypse.
>X-men Last Stand
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>>70337961

>it's racist to rate new Roots anything less than perfect

muh struggle movies/shows can not, repeat CAN NOT fail this decade. the smart thing would be to start scouting for black actors and capital immediately. You know that after last years "white out", the Academy will be forced to award a nigga picture.
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>>70339941
I don't really remember it, but considering it was following Last Stand and Origins, I went in with expecting it to be complete shit. Left thinking it was really good. I should re-watch it some time.
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>>70328067
>I have no idea why you faggots are including Deadpool in your ratings he's not an X-Man
Yes he is
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How has this mediocre franchise still going?

Only two of the movies are really any good.
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>>70327843

Not quite. One of the guys loved it and one of them didn't.
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>>70339941
>the black guy died first

It bugged me not because he died first, but because that character's mutation is literally to instantaneously adapt to survive literally anything, to the point that he becomes godlike in one of the stories involving him in the comics.

Darwin is an insanely OP character, so they should have just not included him in the movie, but instead they killed him off in a bullshit way, so now he can't ever be in another film.
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wer da cams at
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>>70339971
Apocalypse was miles better than Origins.
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>>70340160
>muh comics
Anyone who uses this excuse doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
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>>70340338
>Comic book movie
>With comic book characters
>Ignores their powers

>But it isn't supposed to be based on comics, it's just a comic book movie!

What? Them killing Darwin would be like making Magneto a fucking waterbender.
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>>70339941
>"I'm far from a SJW"
>complains about a movie seeming racist and sexist

Pick one and ONLY one.
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>>70339941
>I have never been so taken aback by what seemed like blatantly bigoted plot

Have I entered an alternate universe where 4chan is actually reddit?
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>>70340381
No, it wouldn't. It'd be like making Magneto not able to lift every piece of metal on earth at the same time.
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>>70340263
Nope, just as shit, but Origins was at least entertaining. A good movie to watch with mates and drinks, much like The Room.
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>>70340433
I haven't seen a film past First Class to know how many powerful feats Magneto has shown in the movies.

Still, they just changed or rather dismissed Darwin's mutation for plot convenience when there are dozens of other mutants they could pick if they just wanted to kill one off to show how evil the bad guy is. Why specifically pick the one that cannot die?
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>>70340530
hohohohoho no fucking way, that movie is a complete bore.
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>>70340564
Nah, it's stupidly done, so poorly made, it's good for a laugh. A great comedy.
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>>70340532
Because having the power to never die is retarded. And so they correctly lowered his power level to more reasonable levels.
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>>70327459
It was entertaining, this movies always have action and a good tempo, you will not get bored.
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>>70340413
I'm sorry that I want my comic book movies to not conduct their plots like women and minorities only exist in relation to white men, I guess?

Dang anon. I'm a moderate liberal, sure, but not a SJW. Doesn't take a tumblrista to not like a movie showing such bizarre disrespect in their betrayal. PARTICULARLY after an excellent first half. Mystique was interesting and her own person, until she abruptly was a sex object who couldn't form her own opinions, no longer had anything interesting about her own character, and was used to further the Magneto-Xavier relationship.

>>70340427
Diversity of opinion is good for discussion, anon.
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>>70340704
>betrayal
excuse me, portrayal
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>>70340624
>And so they correctly lowered his power level to more reasonable levels.

What? That's the retarded thing. Why bring up a character that could be used for something else just to kill them, and justify it as "Oh, they were too strong if we were faithful to the character, so we went out of our way to nerf them and write them out of the franchise."

Jean Grey is just as immortal, but she's in far more than the first half of only one movie. Why don't they kill her off, too? If it's an issue of strong characters needing to die so they can be reasonable.
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>>70340748
Are you retarded? The issue is not that strong characters need to die. The issue is that a character who can't die is retarded. Bitching about a character's power level being reduced to a sensible level is retarded.

Darwin wasn't killed because he was too powerful. He was killed to establish Shaw as a threat.
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>>70340832
But it's flawed to use Darwin as that device. If Shaw could kill Darwin, he should have bodied everybody else in that movie without any issues. It would have made more sense to just use a different mutant than botch one that could have made for a decent antagonist in a completely different movie.
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>>70340832
One might say he was killed because it was useful to the plot, hm?

Because they needed a character who was unimportant, expendable. They went down the list and thought, "what characters can we discard to show that the situation is serious?"

And the conclusion they came to was that the only black character was appropriately unimportant to be casually killed and forgotten.

Like, anon, I'd write it off as not a biggy if this behavior wasn't persistent across their treatment of multiple characters. The writers clearly felt in the second half that women and minority characters were not particularly important or worthy of interest, and could be used in any way to further the plot of the 2 main characters, a pair of white dudes. It's jarring to me because they did it again and again over 30 minutes.
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>>70327557
I had no expectations and enjoyed it.
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>>70340955
>If Shaw could kill Darwin, he should have bodied everybody else in that movie without any issues.
That doesn't follow at all. Do you seriously need me to explain this to you?

>It would have made more sense to just use a different mutant than botch one that could have made for a decent antagonist in a completely different movie.
Why would you expect a good guy to be used as an antagonist in some hypothetical future movie? What does this have to do with your original complaint regarding his power level?
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>>70340704
for fucks sake, give it a rest
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>>70341181
>That doesn't follow at all. Do you seriously need me to explain this to you?

Please do explain how killing the canonically virtually-immortal character doesn't make losing to anyone else feel like a total jobbing.

>And so they correctly lowered his power level to more reasonable levels.

Darwin becomes an antagonist by way of doing the wrong things for the right intentions. Having to outsmart a survival-based mutation would make for an interesting plot/battle. This is the guy that, when facing the Hulk just got teleported away because it was the most effective means of survival. As far as my original complaint, it's because making him job to Shaw is not only betraying the magnitude of his abilities, but completely wasting his character by writing him out of the franchise.
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>>70341218
?

I just have strong reservations about a film that many professed to enjoy. Do we not discuss films on this board?
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>>70340961
Oh for fucks sake...
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>>70327645
It's because of deadpool, made people finally realize how they've been missing out and how shit xmen movies actually are
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>>70341289
ebin trolling m80
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>>70341232
>Please do explain how killing the canonically virtually-immortal character doesn't make losing to anyone else feel like a total jobbing.
It's like you literally haven't been paying any attention at all. Darwin isn't immortal. You think you'd have figured that out when he fucking died.

>making him job to Shaw is not only betraying the magnitude of his abilities
Which is the correct thing to do. Impervious characters are boring as shit. Once again, try to keep up. Character's to whom nothing poses a threat are retarded.

All of your supposition about what might have been could apply to literally any character. There's nothing worth bitching about here. If Shaw killed someone else, then you'd just be missing out on the potential that character would have had had they not died and been reused in some future film. Unless your position is that no characters should ever die, then this will always be the case.
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>>70341346
I am not trolling. I made a joking rhetorical question, but really, I just want to discuss this aspect of the movie.

Nobody is addressing anything I said as invalid. I just wanted to know if people were either enjoying the movie in spite of these flaws, or if they disagree with my perspective.

If you think what I'm saying is wrong, by all means explain.

Posting memes instead of answers seems a lot more like trolling to me.
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>>70329688
THIS GUY GETS IT

X2 is #1 though.
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>>70341467
Nobody's interpretation can be wrong. But refusing to leave your politics at the door and even more so expecting movies to go out of their way to make sure they're being as absolutely forward thinking and progressive as possible, making it the number one priority over everything else, is ridiculous. What your pointing out isn't a flaw in narrative or storytelling.
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>>70341380
>no characters should ever die, then this will always be the case.

Not characters whose entire writing is based on their adaptive abilities. Just because it takes some clever writing to defeat a character doesn't mean you should brute force it with stupidity and just kill them off because hard-to-write characters should get steamrolled.
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>>70341607
There's nothing clever at all about a guy who adapts to anything. There's nothing hard to write about asspulling a solution for whenever you need it. Character's who's entire persona is just their powers are boring as shit and best avoided at all possible opportunities.

If your criteria for who can appropriately be killed and who can't be to serve the narrative is based entirely on whether they belong in your imaginary fanwank sequel, then I guess it was the wrong call. For literally anyone else, it doesn't fucking matter in the least.
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>>70339941
I'm pissed off because the black guy had a cool power, and he died in the most anti-climactic way possible.
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Days of Future Past is so good it's not just the best X-Men movie, it's easily one of the top 5 capeshit films ever
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1. X2
2. Days
3. First Class
4. Apocalypse
5. Deadpool
6. X-Men 2000
7. The Wolverine
8. X-Men Origins Wolverine
9. Last Stand
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>>70341770
>I'll defend this shitty writing because nobody else seems to mind it.

Use in another film aside, it's bad writing to kill Darwin. It's inattentive to the character at best and an insult at worst.
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>>70327025
This just in...
The movie that broke Rotten Tomatoes.
Story at eleven, nigger.
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>>70339941
>And I'm far from a SJW
Really doesn't seem like it
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>>70341534
I feel like it was a real drag on the storytelling. It well and truly took me out of the film. Four characters were robbed of satisfying conclusions because the writers sacrificed their development to play on cheap cliches.

Mystique, up until then a thoughtful character, immediately had her mind made for her by Magneto and flaunted her sexuality as a testament to his victory over Charles' point of view. She then proceeded to have no particular agency of interest for the rest of the film.

Flying hispanic chick didn't have much development up to that point, but she easily turned traitor despite the death of a friend, a dramatically interesting choice that received no examination.

Darwin died like a chump, despite being a powerful survivor, and his death was barely noticed in the narrative; they hardly mentioned it, making it seem more than a little unnecessary. He died for a minute of cheap emotional impact.

The FBI woman, up until then an intelligent and capable agent, acted like a lovestruck schoolgirl with no buildup, evidently because they REALLY wanted to Charles to have a love interest.

This kind of weak characterization seemed like it really hurt the movie. The fact that it happened particularly to the women and minorities of the fairly large ensemble simply made it more crass. I don't need every woman or minority to be portrayed positively, but I'd like every character to be treated like a person, and not a lame device. The choice to make caricatures and not characters of them really hurt the film for me.
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>>70341913
Killing a character isn't shitty writing. It's a pretty standard method of establishing a threat.

You're only bitching because your obnoxiously overpowered comic book character bit it. More writers should be inattentive to characters if it means depowering them from the ridiculous bullshit comics pull.
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>X-Men -- It hasn't aged well and wasn't that good when it first came out. I'd say, overall, it's a little below average. 4/10

>X2 -- The best of the series. 9/10

>Last Stand -- Just about the worst of the series. 1/10

>X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- Tied with Last Stand for worst. 1/10

>X-Men: First Class -- This took what had become total shit and made it good again. Not the best, but it's up there. 7/10

>The Wolverine -- Better than the first Wolverine film, but still lousy. 3/10

>X-Men: Days of Future Past -- A great movie only surpassed by X2. 8/10

>Deadpool -- It's a really fun film. 6/10

>X-Men: Apocalypse -- Like Deadpool, it's fun and doesn't take itself too seriously. 6/10
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>>70341534
This is absolutely right.
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>>70342065
good job
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>>70342013
>You're only bitching because your obnoxiously overpowered comic book character bit it.

He bit it in a Death Battle tier level of bullshit, though. There's no reason to even have him in the film if they aren't going to put any effort into writing his character correctly.
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>>70341868
Not only was it a pretty good movie, but it actually wrote other shitty movies out of continuity!
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>>70342161
He adapts, that was established in the movie. You're only bitching because they didn't make his adaptation powers so extreme that he couldn't die.

Are you pissed that they don't have Superman reverse time in any of the new movies, too?
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>>70342144
Thanks.
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>>70342203
It's not like the quality of writing is beyond him suddenly reappearing at some point and claiming to have 'adapted' to death or whatever. After all, this is a comic book franchise we're talking about.
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>>70327992
Be more obvious, Fox.
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>>70329387
Gingers will be gingers
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>>70327529
found the autist
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X2
First class
Days of future past
Deadpool
Apocalypse
X-men
The Wolverine
Last stand
Origins
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>>70327025
Fuck the critics. The movie was OK, classic and comfy capeshit with not too much quips and not too much Martha.
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>>70327557
Yeah, I guess this is true too.

After reading Armand's review I almost thought not to go, but decided to spend the evening with friends. Was pleasantly surprised, have to disagree with Armand on this one.
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>>70327459
If you liked First Class, you'll like it. It's a "classic" capeshit comapred to the likes of Disney and DC. It was nice seeing characters who trusted each other and didn't hide necessary information, so all the conflicts were fueled by true emotion, instead of being made just to make two groups fight, like in its two main rivals.
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>>70328469
You are stupid. Deadpool movie specifically ends with him joining the X-Men team.
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>>70333874
I liked it. Mood whiplash.
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>>70327798
1. X2
2. DoFP
3. First class+Apocalypse
4. Last stand + X1
5. Wolverine spin offs.
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>>70341994
You raise good points. I agree that it was pretty stereotypical in nature with the way these guys were portrayed.
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>>70340704
>white men
Your mistake is making the argument a dichotomy of "white men VS everyone else". Of course you'll get called an SJW.
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>>70329170
>his daughter just happens to have the power to control birds and she just happens to get shot with an arrow by complete accident WHILE her mother is holding her for an epic double noscope kill and magneto kills all the cops and then all his co-workers and then millions of innocent people because hes sad and then Xavier's like whatever bro we need someone to help rebuild the house it's cool senpai

ah yes, kino at it's finest and real genuine emotions
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>>70327025
>Magneto saves a guys life
>faggots tattle anyway
>Egyptian Reptilian Nigger Steals his kills

>That hilarious scene with the locket flying through their necks with silly "Shink" sound effects
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>>70344381
that locket part was stupid af
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>>70340427
you wish
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>>70327025

BvS > Civil War, and I'll say no more
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>>70340532
I remember Darwin being kind of a fucking jobber as it was, the only time I recall him doing anything that would qualify as godlike would be when he tried to fight hulk in WWH and got the ability to drain gamma radiation only to realize that he couldn't make a dent in hulk and then he gained "teleportation" powers and teleported half a world away to safety. Oh and that one time a sentinel fell on him, lol.
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>>70327843
Mike "loved it" ironically
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>>70327843
Mike liked it because it was bad and entertained him with how silly it was.

Jay didn't like it.

Why do people keep saying "RLM LOVED IT." Are you incapable of watching a review and actually listening to what the reviewers say?
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>>70327459
Haven't seen it.
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>>70341994

Your criticisms are fair and valid, well done anon.
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