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TM2YC said:I watched X-M:A this morning and thought it was damn good. A few flaws here and there but nothing major. Kodi Smit-McPhee was fantastic as young Nightcrawler. Fassbender gave it his all as per usual, heartbreaking stuff. Quicksilver stole the show again!
Random flaws...
- I could imagine anybody who had not watched and re-watched the other X-Men films being totally lost with all the characters, plots and time-period references. It worked perfectly for me.
- Quite a few surprisingly ropey FX shots sprinkled amongst the vast amount of FX in the movie and a couple that were on the "What the f*ck, is this a fan film?" level .
- Quicksilver not telling Magneto he was his son just at the crucial moment when Magneto really needed a solid reason to do a u-turn was very odd.
- The Apocalypse costume/makeup was indeed rubbish, as it looked in the promotional photos. It was largely saved by Isaac's performance though.
- A guy with Angel wings and no other superpower is one of the four best mutants Apocalypse could have recruited? He deserved to lose on that basis alone.
- Rose Byrne's performance wasn't as jaw droppingly terrible as it was in X-M:FC but it wasn't great either.
I think it's the kind of movie that it's easy to pick little holes in but is still a terrific piece of entertainment nonetheless
Neosmith said:For anyone who has already seen the film, can you describe the context of Apocalypse's "Everything they've built will fall" speech?
Judging from the trailers, it was changed around - in the first trailer, he says this against a blue/dark-cloud background.
In the latest one, he states this against a bright-orange bg, where buildings start to collapse in the back.
Also, was Isaac's voice modulated at all during this speech?