"When Nightcrawler broke into the White House at the start of 2003’s X2, it was a watershed moment in the history of comic book movies. Here was one of comics’ most fantastical characters - a blue-skinned, three-fingered German demon with a pointy, prehensile tail and teleportation powers - brought to life with all of his outlandish quirks and powers intact, showcased in a sequence that was thrilling and utterly convincing. It was something no one had ever seen before. It was truly uncanny.

It is telling of the state of superhero movies in 2016 that when Nightcrawler returns in the new X-Men: Apocalypse, he’s treated basically as a throw-in background character and his powers are used with little fanfare, mostly…

characters in this movie ranked by how much the makeup and costume dept. hate them:

8-10. sophie turner, michael fassbender, & olivia munn
they showed up, got into costume, & off they went. fassbender just popped on a helmet and his fun purple cape and was home by 6 

7. beast
an extremely off-putting shade of blue, beast is really unbelievably lame. he’s not cool but not exactly repulsive either. they are giving him nothing to work with. and he’s like the 4th weirdest blue person in this movie

6. lucas till (from the hannah montana movie)
they gave him a mullet 

5. my boyfriend scott summers
when he’s not physically blindfolded he has to wear giant goggles PLUS special shoutout to…

I'm not a massive "X-Men" fan as I've expressed in the past.

Sure, I binged on the movies and enjoyed most of them, but it wasn't due to my childhood of growing up with the comics or the cartoons, loving everything about them and playing games pretending to be some with friends.

It was mostly due to the fact that the latest entry was coming out and I wanted to check it out because I figured why not? Part of the reason why I skipped seeing it in theaters was due to negative buzz, and no one wanted to see it with me (I'm a lonely person if you couldn't tell).

Seeing how I had nothing better to do, I…

It's a real shame that First Class was as good as it was and then THIS is what we get for a follow up. Here's my list of grievances with the film:

Apocalypse is easily my least favorite of all the XMen movie villains. He looks like a Power Rangers villain, his plan is really boring and generic, and maybe I missed something but why can he kill all the people in the lumber mill super easily but he never tries that with the X-Men? Did they ever explain that?

I guess the new Cyclops, Jean, and Nightcrawler are okay but they're not really that interesting. Storm is probably the best character but I don't feel she gets enough screen…

악당의 명분보다는 시리즈를 차곡차곡 다시 쌓아가려는 브라이언 싱어 감독의 명분.

-REVIEW
<엑스맨 : 아포칼립스>. 현재를 대표하는 장르 영화는 단연코 슈퍼히어로 무비다. 마블 코믹스를 필두로 현재까지 다양한 슈퍼히어로 만화들이 프랜차이즈화되고 있는데 '엑스맨'도 그 중 하나다. 현재 진행되고 있는 마블 영화 시리즈 중에 최장수 시리즈인데 무엇보다 '엑스맨'은 엄청 독특한 설정이 인상적이다. 주인공이 능력을 우연히 얻게 되는 것이 아니기 때문이다. 되려 태생적으로 얻게 된 능력에 가깝고 하지만 더 아이러니한 것은 고대 신화처럼 우상화되거나 하지는 않고 괴리감과 공포의 대상으로 비춰진다는 것이다. 이러한 내용은 <엑스맨>(X-man, 2000)에서 미국의 사회적 소수자, 차별, 이민 문제를 내세운 슈퍼히어로 무비로 각인시켰다. 지금은 그것과 거리가 좀 멀어지긴 했지만.

1)분명 <엑스맨> 팬들은 이번 신작 <엑스맨 : 아포칼립스>에 대해서 불만을 털어놓을 것이다. 고대 돌연변이라는 설정까지 삽입하면서 기존의 세계관을 뒤엎고 절대적인 전지전능을 표방했지만 ‘아포칼립스’는…