I think why Xavier says "I pity the poor soul bla bla bla" is because the X-Men change after the battle. Jean's dark phoenix is dangerous.

Lol you were right about Dark Pheonix!

2:11 There’s a deleted scene with Cyclops, Jean, Jubilee and Nightcrawler at the mall that shows people reacting to Nightcrawler’s appearance. Instead of freaking out, they’re more like ‘huh, neat’, which I guess is because in the new timeline, mutants are more visible to humans and most of them have probably already seen mutants (likely on TV).

I remember Jubilee getting somewhat shafted in the first two films. First she was cut from the film and in the second film, she was a little girl as he is one of the six children captured and then several scenes later she is much older.

When the Vlog is almost as long as the Cinematic Excrement itself :)

I personally think both Quicksilver sequences are amazing.

You know what, you're one of my favorite review channels on this website, what you say is just filled with so much intelligence. You can really tell that you care about movies, and love what you do. These qualities are really amazing to have and honestly youre just so real and fair, I hope one of these days you really blow up because we need more fair judgements out there. Please keep up the good work you've earned a consostant viewer

With the advantage of being in the future from when you recorded this, congratulations on calling the Phoenix saga😀

It was East Germany. They were fighting in east Germany, in the soviet side of Berlin.

There is actually a reason why Apocalypse has so many different powers that he seems to just pull out of no where. In the comics, Apocalypse had none of the tranformation powers you see in the movie, BUT, he had access to VAST amounts of technology left behind by these Alien beings known as the Celestials, and access to highly advanced future technology left behind by the time traveling Avengers villain known as Kang The Conqueror, that technology allowed him to transform himself, and other people into badass super soldiers like you saw in the film. Apocalypse met and fought Kang during his time in Ancient Egypt, when Kang became a pharaoh known as Rama-Tut, he eventually seized most of Kang's technology, which he opted to use himself, being able to transform people into super mutant weapons. He turned himself into a super mutant after implanting vast amounts of Celestial technology into himself. When they adapted Apocalypse to the film, they obviously had to omit A LOT of stuff from his origin in the comics, they had to omit The Celestials and Kang, because for one thing, those characters are part of different marvel properties that Fox doesn't own, and another thing, that would have made his origin, INCREDIBLY hard to follow and digest for audiences not well versed in comic book lore. So instead they basically made him into a video game character on God mode. It was kind of a catch 22 for the filmmakers honestly, they could either spend obscene amounts of screen time making up a new convoluted origin for how Apocalypse gets a lot of his powers, while making him like the comic book version, or just re do him altogether and make him utterly unrecognizable to X-Men fans.

I've always wanted the Marvel Cinematic Universe to get their hands on the X-Men--no doubt they'd do the characters and stories better justice.

When Apocalypse transforms Angel in the comics, he TOTALLY gives him metal wings with daggerlike feathers he can shoot out. He's a badass, and eventually becomes a good guy.

It was ok 6,5/10 Pros: Quicksilver Fassbender and McAvoy Jean Grey Cons: Jennifer Lawrence Psylocke Second act is a mess (That whole segment with Stryker is pointless) Apocalypse was just like Ultron without the lame jokes

The Trilogy Pattern 1st movie: The Classic yet kinda meh one. 2nd movie: The one that convinces you the series is great 3rd movie: The deal breaker: The most terrible one or the most amazing one, depending on how competent the creators are.

"Remember when we were naïve enough to think that (RotJ) was the crappy Star Wars movie?" - Frank Conniff, Cinematic Titanic

To the best of my knowledge Apocalypse is a mutant who is immortal and has the ability to mould and shape his body along technopathy but a lot of his powers come from the possession of celestial super technology. Like anything in comics it subject to change with out notice.

How can it be the NEXT generation If it's a prequel trilogy?

When I saw Tye Sheridan I legit thought he was Freddy from iCarly for a solid 5 seconds. Also, Nightcrawler and Quicksilver were pretty great for me ;v;

I was never actually a reader of comics, either DC or Marvel, so I can go to movies like this without any preconceived ideas of what I do or don't want to see. And honestly, this was actually my favourite X-Men movie ever. I thought it was certainly Casa fricking blanca compared to the Last Stand, but I was at least expecting that.

Did we see the same movie? I liked it. A lot.

Personally, I didn't think it was all that bad.

I think the scarlet witch thing could have been caused by Higher ups in Marvel/Disney who have been doing their best to expunge any titles that are not Marvel Studios controlled property and her appearance in Civil War might be that. Also explains Marvel Studios killing him off in Age of ultron.

It's really sad how these movies just got worse and worse

Very good review Sean. How do you fancy taking on Green Lantern before Suicide Squad or the third/fourth X-Men. Please Sean. I really like to comment on me. Who else agrees with my recommendations?

It doesn't make more sense in the comics because in the comics; Apocalypse doesn't transfer his consciousness into another body. Apocalypse has a prolonged life because he found technology from extraterrestrials known as the Celestials and he uses it but was warned they would collect a debt from him for doing so in the future.

Yeah Marvel and Fox need to make a deal and soft-reboot this through Deadpool Connect Deadpool to the MCU canon easy to do, then spin-off a new X-MEN Franchise

You know what they didn't have the last time they tried the Phoenix Saga? Bryan Singer. Putting him at the helm of an Xmen movie immediately improves its chances of being good, even if it's flawed.

Also the cage fight took place in Germany not Russia.

Although I liked this X-men movie; I felt it tried to rival DOFP. Plus, apocalypse was kind of a let down as a villain. He sounded like every other villain and trying to act like a superior Ultron. Despite this I still enjoyed it. PS: Singer said he's planning on redoing the Phoenix Saga.

It's clear he's never heard of archangel from xmen. His character in the movie is very faithful to the comic version

Yeah, Dark Phoenix flopped. Obviously. The whole Striker/Wolverine part of the film was two part fan-service. They wanted Wolverine because Jackman's contract was running short, they wanted a Quicksilver slow-motion scene, because it worked so well in the first film, so they had to come up with something that satisfied both.

the 3rd movie in trilogy's aren't always the worst Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the best in the Indy series.

well that's Apocalypse he always been overpowered as all hell

He'll Get it right. Afterall Bryan Singer wrote this movie. Also they ripped off Scream 2 with the "3rd film always sucks/ Sequels always suck"

Maybe the reason why no one noticed Nightcrawler is may because they think he's being a cosplayer.

Min: 12:48. WOW!!! You called that one out perfect.

"The third movie is always the worst." Then the Lord of the Rings trilogy came out and that phrase no longer holds a candle.

Wait a minute, when you brought up First Class and Moira's memories was wiped, I realized something. The main character at the end of the movie wiped any memories of the obvious love interest while kissing her from the previous events. OMG, they fucking copied and pasted the memory erasing kiss from from Superman II, one of the stupidest powers of all time!

Pretty much my thoughts as well. I did not hate it as much as I expected to, and actually thought it was a pretty decent movie overall. The fact that the writer is the same from The Last Stand makes SO much sense, now that I think about it, and I absolutely agree about the age thing. There was a line Mystique said on the plane on their way to fight Apocolypse, and I forget exactly what she said, but it had something to do with apparently how old she was, and I looked at her like she hasn't aged more than a day, she cannot be that old. Maybe she keeps herself young with her powers, I don't know. I think she said something like "When I was not much older than you, I used to run around with my friends and we were the XMen." And I'm thinking you are not that much older! Also she was in East Germany when she found Nightcrawler. I think her reason was, and she tells a bit of this to Charles, that she is still out there fighting in the "war," so maybe she came for Nightcrawler but left wanting to stop the cage fighting.

My issue with the "Sweet dreams" scene was that it cut into what should have been a powerful and emotional scene, which was mentioned at 19:30 to 20:14, but before we could really even grasp what had happened we got thrown into the comedy scene. It took away from the weight of the previous scene. I mean, they tried to get back to that weight and emotion after but it felt like it was too late. The moment was gone. Don't get me wrong, "sweet dreams" was still funny, as was mentioned in this video, but the timing could have been a lot better.

Okay first take your brain out and go with the flow, since its a Popcorn Movie. Now I liked Magnetos character in this you have to feel for the guy losing his family with a nice mutant power. And agree keep Phoenix bottled up! And the reason Apocalypse needed the Four Horseman to protect him during transfers since he is vulnerable ,clearly, during that process. The first time it was interrupted by the pyramid falling on him! The second time showed again the need of the Four Horsemen.

Xavier's hair did not fall off during the mind fight. It fell off when Apocalypse was being transferred into Xavier's body.

I think Fox and Disney have an unspoken agreement that while they both have the rights to Peter and Wanda, Fox only gets to use Peter and The MCU only gets to use Wanda. Why else do you think they killed him off in AOU and didn't include her in XMA.

I really wish Bryan Singer would just give up on trying to do Phoenix Saga properly... I mean since when is the Phoenix just Jean's mutant gift anyway? The studio certainly has the right's to take liberties but this is a liberty they really didn't have to take as it's a change that doesn't really add anything to the story. I didn't really think they could make the idea of having mutant powers LESS believable as they were in the comics, but they succeeded! :P

I kinda enjoy the film. It's a guilty pleasure for me.

The deal was that without Wolverine in the film it would have disappointed the "fans."

All the mutants in the future died in Days of Future Past

Quicksilver little sister in the movies is not the Scarlet Witch, this has been confirmed by Singer himself. Also in the Rogue Cut of DOFP, Quicksilvers mother tells his sister to "Go up and bug your sister" and she replies with "She bugs me!". Thats the implication for Scarlet Witch.

What's with Cyclops going all meta in these movies? First, that yellow spandex joke in the first movie, now that stab at The Last Stand? Bryan, if you want to make Deadpool, MAKE DEADPOOL. You would of done a much better job than Origins Wolverine.

+Cinematic Excrement who was the character that had the superpower we hadn't really seen before and was killed in some bullshit way?

hey dude house explosions builds character

After seeing this movie, I thought it wasn't that bad, just alright. You going over it point by point tho? Now I realize, it really didn't make a lot of sense. II especially hated how they didn't properly age the actors. I barely remember the previous two so I was a bit confused by the timeline so the actors looking so young confused tf outta me. Especially, Jennifer Lawrence; she barely looked older than the teenaged mutants who look up to her and she's supposed to be like 20 years older than them. I

They never learn, do they? You can't just 'make' the Phoenix Saga. You need to establish quite a bit first before you can make the Phoenix Trilogy. Well, if you want it to be as epic as it should be. And if you are not going for epic, well, why do you want to do the Phoenix Saga in the first place?

You never heard of Arch Angle?

I'm sorry, but I REALLY want to see a new Phoenix movie so bad!

Ironic they call the 3rd Star Wars movie the worst when you have a Return of the Jedi poster.

The guy who wrote The Last Stand also wrote Apocalypse??!!! That explains everything!!!! That explains why the critics hate it, and why this was not as good as DOFP. Solution: fire that guy and never let him touch anything related to X-men ever again, and maybe we can have a good Phoenix saga in the future.

that is weird because days of furute past was reset wolverine and X3 never happen

Review Dark Phoenix

I want that shirt!

I thought this movie was good.you are being very harsh.

I still questioning how Jubilee was a student back in the 80 when I sure I saw her in the first X-men, is she that bad of a student she got held back 20 years?

Hang on, the Egyptian girl also mention the rough date

It was Germany not Russia.

do the sea of monsters

Last Stand was worse, Apocalypse is Worser.

0:48 The Answer is simple, Smeggy. Movie Magic lol.

Apocalypse can literally write any power into his DNA

I do wish Olivia Munn would choose to do a good movie, I like her

Wow. The guy who wrote Last Stand wrote Apocalypse? That explains everything in a nutshell! Now I know why it sucked.

The third movie is always the worst? *cough* Logan *cough*

I do think this is weakest of the new X-Men

after days of future past the last two films went a bit pete tong mr flibble would not be pleased smag heads

"maybe this time they can do it right"......Nope ;)

I'm not going to pretend to hate everything that ISN'T Marvel Studios when it comes to superheroes, because while it's clear they have the market by the balls at this point, FOX is still able to deliver some good products in that genre... But based on what critics say, this unfortunately IS NOT one of them. I don't work at my local theater anymore, so I can't just get free passes to movies and not worry about spending money on a potentially crappy movies nowadays. Days of Future Past would have been worth some of my money in the box office, but I still ended up buying the DVD. Deadpool got my price of admission AND the Blu-Ray. This movie will get NEITHER of those. And I know it's a long shot, but seeing as it didn't perform as well at the box office as they hoped and Civil War has already grossed over a BILLION in just a month, like Sony and Spider-Man, maybe this will open FOX's eyes to the idea of collaborating with Marvel to salvage their franchise. #UnitetheUniverse

Evan Peters rules.

It was East Germany. And Russia is only small part European. You Americans really have a bad school system

The reason why Stryker came was because the world's missiles were released into the universe after Apocalypse took a hold of Xavier's brain. Stryker said that the source of the mutant energy for this event came from the school. He then captured Moira, Mystique, and Hank because he wanted to get to Xavier. That's why they came to the school in the first place.

Sophie Turner was terrible as Jean. She was a plank that kept falling in and out of her accent. She's proving that Sansa being either moody or depressed all the time is just masking a bad actor. She was almost certainly hired because she's recognisable and... oh yeah, has red hair. I lament that she'll be the main focus if they do dark phoenix.