19:14 that is the best scene transition in the entire franchise IMO. From magneto first learning he can control his power to him unlocking his full potential.
Yeah, same here. I thought it was the best when I first watched it. And even though it isn't as good on repeat viewings, I think it's still a really solid movie, if maybe a bit formulaic.
Same, I enjoyed all the young actors and I thought they were well cast. The story.. not that great but everyone put 110% into their roles. Oscar Isaac was great as Apocalypse as well.
So true. Stan and Joan had a long and apparently happy marriage, and she was a great strength to him. According to legend, she encouraged him to "go for it" with Spider-Man in the final issue of Amazing Fantasy, and the rest is history. They were together until the end. It's so cool they were able to share that cameo, and they were holding each other. Great moment in Marvel history, even though it wasn't Marvel Studios.
Oscar Isaac was phenomenal in this... such a great actor, man! I was frankly shocked to learn after watching the film that this guy was Poe Dameron in star wars! He deserves all the big roles he's getting in literally every famous franchise now with those acting skills. To name some of them... Apocalypse in X-Men movies Moon Knight in Marvel Universe Poe Dameron in Star Wars Spider-Man 2099 in the Spiderverse films Leto Atreides in Dune films
Still a pity that he had such an intensely uncomfortable (and by uncomfortable, I mean almost PAINFULLY so) experience with the make up and costuming he had to wear for the role…
@@mattschliemann9683100%. Just look up Oscar Isaac Apocalypse costume, Oscar Isaac Apocalypse makeup, or any similar variation, and you’ll find sources talking about it. Hell, the man himself has admitted to how utterly miserable he was in wearing that costume and makeup.
I thought Wanda still was technically but the utilization of magic AND the experimentations with the mind stone enhanced and unlocked her powers. She’s just called a Witch because she uses magic more than her natural powers at this point, it’s basically a combination of both. Same with Pietro/ Peter ( Quicksilver I guess), he already has powers and was experimented on.
@@dylancole1910 Initially Scarlet Witch was just name for Wanda because her telekinesis was so powerful (like jean) that that she could've manipulated her surroundings and everything however later on they wanted to expand her lore and made her have chaos magic this is the pre OG concept around X men Evo. In later adaptations aka mcu Wanda is random person with this power/In X men its explained why she has them but you're right Wanda is technically Alpha level mutant 1 level below Jean (idk if u know the classifications) but her chaos magic makes her on omega level. There is common misconception that Wanda is omega lv however this ain't the case since Wanda was held back by Xavier (another alpha class in MOM) she won due to the enhancements the Darkhold provided if she was Omega Xavier wouldn't even be able to penetrate her mind and block her movements it would look like what happened here with apocalypse however keep in mind that by cannon Apocalypse is also considered Alpha level aka lv 4 if u watched X men trilogy instead of comics or 97.
Because the whole mutant theme is a metaphor about change and growing up, not being accepted, like reaching puberty and realize you're gay or that you're not going to follow your parents steps. X-Men is based on that
Oscar Isaac, Apocalypse himself, was asked at a Q&A session while promoting his MARVEL Series Moon Knight, and one interviewer asked what was the one film he regrets doing, and it was X MEN Apocalypse, as he didn't like the suit or the makeup and the suit felt very bulky and couldn't find a place to sit down. He went on to say that Apocalypse is cool on paper, but in film, not so much.
they could have made him cool on film. They just failed, spectacularly, to do that here. I mean... they pulled off Thanos pretty brilliantly in the MCU. Apocalypse is a pretty similar character. But good god did they manage to f* it up...
That end scene, with the Essex Corp briefcase still makes me inordinately sad. It was a tease for the character of Mr Sinister, probably one of the most interesting villains in X-Men history, and I was SO looking forward to seeing him, but it went absolutely nowhere. They also kind of wasted Apocalypse just putting him in one movie, he is to the X-Men what Thanos was to the Avengers in the MCU movies. The scene with Quicksilver saving everyone at the mansion to the tune of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is iconic af and I'll never get sick of watching it.
Addie, you truly make re-watching a film better than it should be!! Your reactions are so honest and I love watching your thought process as they progress!! Much love!
The Phoenix force is compared with Scarlet Witch and in the comics. She is so powerful that only One above all (the supreme entity of marvel comics) can calm her down. And speaking of Scarlet witch, Wanda and Quicksilver are his children in the comics too.
The "let it go Jean" moment always brings tears into my eyes. Else what i really like in this movie was especially the Psylocke costume, so comic accurate without beeing cringe. And some of the actions from Magneto just look so great.
Comic book movies that are embarrassed to be like comic books are where a lot of the worst things in comic book movies comes from, especially the overabundance of bathos. Comic-accurate suits always look better than the generic, grey-black suits studios use to make the heroes look "cool" and edgy.
The reason for Mystique coming to the fighting arena for Kurt is because she's his mother. Basically she got it on with the red teleportation devil from First Class wasn't explained but comics say they're related
@@craigime it was otherwise Nightcrawler wouldn't exist remember Mystique is older than she looks so her being a mother to a teenager kind of makes sense given what we saw in Days and Apocalypse
@@solrachernandez3389 nightcrawler was also in X2.. but he wasn't Mystique's son then. that's just an assumption. that's how it is in the comics, but the movies don't always follow the comics- especially these X men movies
There’s not really a way to prepare you for “Logan”, Addie. All that can really be said is that it’s one of the greatest comic films of all time, but also probably one of the hardest to watch because it won’t break your heart… it’ll gut you. But it truly is an incredible piece of filmmaking.
Apocalypse is a cool character he wasn't done justice in this movie would've been better as a full on CG character like Thanos. or a better story... Hopefully in the future we get an alternate variant of Apocalypse in the MCU ... I think my favorite version of Apocalypse is the one for the animated series in the 90s.. Also I'm a pretty big fan of Psylocke She would've been better to introduce along with wolverine , somehow Could still happen Olivia Munn I thought was the perfect Psylocke.. I even thought so years and years before this movie came out , Yeah they didn't utilize her much ... And mutant powers usually come out in there teens, After all it was written for comic books And cartoons something to relate to For the target audience
@@passionsquietrage well then she needed to hit the gym because she looked like a little plush pillow with that pooch. Psylocke is a hardbody NINJA. Ms Munn was NOT the right fit.
this movie was a little weird to me but it wasnt terrible and watching with Addie was so much fun. Edit: Also the scene with the explosion and Quicksilver was SICC
it was pretty terrible. And that scene with Quicksilver, in addition to being obviously derivative and just an attempt to recreate the far superior scene from DoFP and try (and fail) to one-up it.... kinda should have resulted in QS killing everyone in the X-Mansion. In DoFP they take the time to explain he has to hold Magneto's neck when he moves him so fast or else he gets whiplash, and he clearly does not feel well after being moved at such speed... so it's established that QS's powers don't protect those he touches from the effects of rapid velocity changes... but in this... they totally ignore that. He goes around grabbing everyone in the mansion, accelerates them from standing still to moving at near the speed of light in an instant, the decelerates them all the same way... if this actually happened every single person he touched would have had their insides turned to mush. They would all be very, very, very dead. It's not like getting touched by the flames of an explosion is what kills you... it's the rapid acceleration from the blast wave hitting you breaking and damaging your insides. Quicksilver wasn't saving anyone from that, he was doing it to them but worse, moving them even faster and more abruptly than the explosion would have.
I feel like NoOne expects this comic book movie to be Oscar worthy and has never seen a movie sequel before. It's literally what half the sequels in the world do, reference or recreate a scene/joke from a previous movie, in the new story.
Apocalypse aka the main villain is a class 5 mutant since he was among the first mutant just like Jean is a class 5. Those two are the strongest yet Jean manages to destroy the livin heck out of him.
In the comics, mutations cone about at puberty....oh and Scott and Havoc's father is a space Pirate..I also seem to recall that Gambit and Nightcrawler are distant relatives as well. Nightcrawler's mother being Mystique. Apocalypse is considered the first mutant.
I don't remember gambit and night crawler being related, but it has been a long time since I read a comic, haven't really heard much about what Gambits been doing since I last read comics so I assumed he hasn't been in them haha
For me, I never found the fight between Xavier and APOCALYPSE Cheesy. I love how he fights him in his house because the mansion is so iconic for the series.
Idk what people expect from Charles in there. He was half dead by that point, but he still went in to fight and saved Mystique. Held on the fight and finally managed to invoke Jean's powers. Who could have done that, if not Charles btw?
Wolverine created a nexus event in "x men days of future past " by changing the past of an absolute point. So he created a new time line buy he stucked in that time line. So we saw him in this movie 😅😊
I don't get why people say this movie sucks when it's not that bad. Thr story is great, Apocolypse looked awesome as did all the other characters. And Addie, mutants are born with the X gene that makes them mutants but their abilities usually manifest during puberty(Nightcrawler and Mystique being exceptions to this). So they have to deal emerging superpowers and puberty at the same time. Also, in the comics Scott is the older brother to Alex but it's reversed in the movies. This js because the writers and producers of First Class wanted to have characters and powers we hadn't seen before for the most part.
37:52 It took them five movies to introduce the Danger room and we have yet to have all of the core X-men (Wolverine, Cyclops, Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler) at the same team. As much as I like these movies, I still hope we can finally have the definitive X-men movie in the near future.
Great reaction Addie. I see that most people miss the point of door scene with Chales and Jean. Remember everything is symbolism in the mind. Jean is a more powerful psychic then Charles and remember Apocalypse wanted this power specifically. Charles kept this memory LOCKED because he knew if he couldn't get Charles who would be next..Jean. While powerful was still young and inexperienced. Sophie hats off to her played this well. Charles and Jean are like Father / Daughter. While Jean was more powerful, she was still young and learning from Charles. Jean watching the man she basically called father was being beating to death mentally. She had to watch and Sophie played this so well..the tears in her eyes. Jean was gaining focus here. Giving her will to do what needed to be done. Charles "Unlocking" that door was Jean's que to do as he said unleash her power. One this surprised Apocalypse as he had no clue about Jean of what Jean potential was or abilities until that specific moment. Jean was protecting those she loved...and she knew Charles needed her. I love the daughter protecting her basically father figure. Also just think at how power Charles was to be battling him and STILL able to keep this memory locked from him! Crazy.
Addie at 1714, there is a movie called Iron Man, and when that character is flying near a ferris wheel in the beginning, he asks his computer, Jarvis, what is the record for going into space , and Jarvis shows him the Blackbird, that plane
5:53 'This is my brother Scott...I'm about 20 years older than him, but also, we're roughly the same age, somehow.' 😂 This is where it becomes ridiculous that they started setting every movie ten years after the last one. We're supposed to believe that 20 years from this movie, these characters, who've barely aged since the 1960s, are suddenly going to rapid-age and become Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, etc. And we have to make sense of the fact that Havoc and Cyclops are obviously only a few years apart in age, despite the fact that Xavier recruited Alex 20 years ago.
I know a lot of people would disagree with me. But I enjoy this film quite a bit. Sure, the hero shots are a little campy, when compared to the MCU franchise. But, this really captivates some of the early 90s-2000s X-men storylines. Magneto's limited storybeing folded into the film plot was perfect. And, even Apocalypse's campy villain monologs reminded me of not only his superior self perspective, but also a little bit of the Sinister Mauraders from the 80s. Plus, we finally got a decent looking Angel, turned Archangel, even if his character was brought down to Sabertooth level from X1. Plus, who would have anticipated Psylocke, one of the most s3xualized heroines from the Xmen comics. And Sophie as Jean, we could definitely use more of her.
Honestly Addie, the way you said Apocalypse. instead of it sounding threatening it sounded more like a little child having a tantrum xD I don't know it just sounded so adorable
Addie, Apocalypse said at around 18 min that he was there at the beginning to fan the flames of humanity, he is an ugly blue humanoid, so is Thanos, he is purple, in the comic book , the Eternals, they fought a group of multi colored ugly humanoids that have been around for thousands of years, they were called the Deviants. one was red, one was yellow, one was green , and they lived underground and tried to take over the world. if you want you can read Jack Kirby's run of comic books, the Eternals, from the 1970s, it was good.
Bryan Singer should've left the franchise after DOFP Because he already gave everything he had with DOFP, so it was a lot harder for him to outdo himself again
Caliban was in Logan. He was the one caring for Professor X and sacrificed himself with a grenade. Storm's real name is Ororo Monroe. Storm is her X Name.
This is another of the Marvel-related movies that is much more enjoyable for viewers who know nothing about the comics. It has some good moments, and overall, I enjoy it. But my dad did give me an hours-long overview of all the things it got "wrong" compared to the comics, so I get why comic book fans didn't like it so much. I must have misremembered the release order. I thought that "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" was the next movie. But I won't complain about getting "Logan" a little sooner than I expected. Watching your reaction to it will be awesome. I already know it. And I personally am looking forward to "The New Mutants" reaction, though I am definitely in the minority on that one. Maybe I'm biased, but I enjoyed it. In any case, lots to look forward to! ✌🤓
Hey, Addie! Halle Berry was cast for her status as a high profile actress but was never thought appropriate for the role of Storm by fandom. Whether they even bothered with the accent to be comic accurate or whether she had difficulty affecting one is unknown. Alexandra Shipp has a British accent normally but affected a generic African accent for the role. The upbringing as a Cairo street urchin is true. She picks Xavier's pocket when he discovers her. She was never a villain in the comics. Psylocke has a complex back story. Fangirl Olivia Munn insisted on the strappy Kwannon look when she inhabits a Japanese body but, initially, she is Betsy Braddock, the sister of Brian Braddock aka Captain Britain. Wolverine's electronic attachments were probably sensors but were included on film to be comic accurate to Barry Windsor-Smith's illustrations for the "Weapon X" storyline. This franchise wasn't made with a cohesive plan which is why there are so many continuity errors explained as variances in multiple timelines. No one knew the first film would be successful or as impactful on superhero cinema as it was. Once the train left the station, the filmmakers just kept laying down track and the audience went along with it. Characters meet for the first time at different points in the two timelines. Essex Corp. refers to Nathaniel Essex aka Mr. Sinister, an end-credit scene that pays off somewhat in "New Mutants". I have a soft spot for the X franchise and am willing to overlook its flaws. The biggest detriment to this film is that Apocalypse doesn't come across as terrifyingly formidable despite his insidious plan to enslave humanity telepathically by co-opting Charles' mind. Apocalypse always seems invincible in the comics and cartoon. His Darwinian philosophy isn't made explicit to those who know nothing about the character; he just seems like your typical megalomaniac. The highlights are: -- the Egyptian opening -- the Magneto family tragedy -- the introduction of Psylocke -- the Quicksilver sequence -- the Weapon X cameo -- the battle in Cairo using powers in concert (a staple that's always handled well) -- the psychic avatar duel -- the new line-up with a bald Charles at the end I loved how they made Logan look just like the Barry Windsor-Smith illustrations from the "Weapon X" comic. I also really liked the portrayals of Storm by Alexandra Shipp and Nightcrawler by Kodi Smit-McPhee. The guy who played Caliban was also great! The duality of Charles and Erik continues to remain the affecting core of the franchise. I hated that they started to go down the same Phoenix path they trod before in "X3" but, fortunately, they course-correct in the next movie by making a significant change. The '90s are next with "DARK PHOENIX"!!!! X-MEN TIMELINES: Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP --> Origins ------------------------------------------------> X1 --> X2 --> X3 --> Wolverine -------> New Mutants ----------------------> Logan Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP ----------------> Apocalypse --> Dark Phoenix ------------------------------------------------> Deadpool --> Deadpool 2 -----> DOFP Utopia Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> DOFP Dystopia DO NOT WATCH THE FILMS IN RELEASE ORDER!!!!! FOLLOW THIS RECOMMENDED ORDER!!!!! It keeps the multiple timelines orderly. RECOMMENDED VIEWING ORDER: X-Men X2: X-Men United X3: The Last Stand X-Men Origins: Wolverine X-Men: First Class The Wolverine: Extended Cut X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Dark Phoenix Deadpool New Mutants Logan Deadpool 2
Can someone explain how Stryker got Wolverine if at the end of the last movie it showed that Mystique was pretending to be Stryker when they got him out of the water… I never figured that out and I’m not sure if it’s a mistake or if I missed something
@@reynaldolorenzo8409 Nah, man. It's all crap besides the Quicksilver scene. And even in that one there's the very dumb flaw of Havok dying off screen and everybody immediately forgetting about him after two lines of dialogue.
@@happyslapsgiving5421 Nah, it’s not all crap. Like I said, yes the writing is trash and I agree the movie has a lot of lazy written scenes and flaws like the scene you mentioned, but still doesn’t take away that the actors did the best they could with the awful writing, Fassbender has an amazing performance, and some of the other actors, it has good VFX and the cinematography is not bad, definitely not all crap. It is a below average movie like a 4.5/10 but if it was all crap it would be 1-3/10, the movie did fulfilled a few filmmaking aspect which is why it’s a below average film. All crap would be Catwoman, Ghost Rider 1-2, Green Lantern, etc.
In most cases, mutants aren't born with their powers, and manifest them during puberty. There are a few exceptions, but they tend to have special circumstances (like Nightcrawler, who is part demon in the comics).
Hi Addie! Thanks for another terrific reaction. This was nobody's favorite X-Man movie but there were still a lot of things to like about it. The absolute best part of the film was "Quicksilver Saves Everyone". That was such a great scene I have watched it many times. However I would personally rate this movie, half as much without that scene. Three minutes of Quicksilver > 2 hours of the rest of the film. Really looking forward to your reaction to Logan!
"Logan" is a hard "R" rating without Deadpool's sexual humor (so just graphic violence and serious content), plus in an interview the director and producer said "We aren't making a movie to sell Happy Meals". 'Nuff said.
I hope when they introduce The X-Men & The Fantastic 4 in the MCU in the future they start at the very beginning again w/ Professor X showing how his entire household, parents included, pretty much regularly left him abandoned in the mansion alone because of his freaky and inexplicable powers leaving Charles to think he was insane. Then he can get himself committed as a young adult, meet and wake-up his future wife Gabrielle Xavier. Then they can introduce their son, David Haller, into the MCU. For those that do not know, David is an Omega level mutant and is the most powerful mutant of the MCU. Sometimes he’s good and sometimes he’s bad because of what the parasitic mutant, Amahl Farouk the Shadow King, who used his powers while he was just a baby. The Shadow King began to manipulate David's memories and his perception of the world. He disguised himself as a beagle named King which would follow David around as a kid, however only David could see King. Farouk also disguised himself as one of David's childhood nightmares, The Angry Boy. A character from a book that Mr. Haller may have read to him called The World's Angriest Boy in the World. It is unsure if Mr. Haller actually read the book or if this is another memory trick from the Shadow King. Over time the psychological damage from having the Shadow King manipulate his memories took its toll on David's mental health. He became violent punching a peer at prom, he committed petty crimes, and was often publicly intoxicated. Around this time, David's mutant abilities also began to grow in power, shattering the windows of a police vehicle during one such incident. Sometime after this, he is diagnosed with schizophrenia. While working in an Israeli psychiatric facility, Charles Xavier met a patient named Gabrielle Haller. The two had an affair which ended amicably. Gabrielle became pregnant with David, but did not tell Charles.[2] David, at a young age, was living with his mother and stepfather in Paris when his home was attacked by terrorists and his stepfather was killed. The trauma of the situation caused an initial manifestation of David's mutant powers, as David incinerated the minds of the terrorists. In the process, he unintentionally absorbed the mind of the terrorist leader, Jemail Karami, into his own. Being linked to so many others at their time of death, David was rendered catatonic for years. As he slowly recovered, he was moved to the care of Moira MacTaggert at the Muir Island mutant research facility. The trauma (possibly in conjunction with the nature of his reality-altering powers) caused David's mind to dissociate chronically until it became Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), each alter manifesting different mutant abilities.[3] The Karami alter, which manifested telepathic abilities, struggled for years to separate his consciousness from David's. In the process, Karami tried to unify as many alters as he could, trying to end David's catatonic state. Some of the alters resisted Karami, most notably Jack Wayne, a swaggering adventurer who was telekinetic, and Cyndi, a temperamental, rebellious girl who was pyrokinetic. Ultimately Karami, Wayne, and Cyndi continued to exist as David's most prominent alters. During his time at Muir Island, David saved Moira and Wolfsbane from a fatal accident by accessing the telekinetic abilities of his Jack Wayne alter. However, this allowed Jack Wayne to take control of David's body, and he left the island. The New Mutants tracked him down and, after a struggle, convinced Wayne to allow David to again assume control. Soon after, David was possessed by the Shadow King. While under the Shadow King's influence, David killed the mutant Destiny and destroyed 2/3 of the island. When the X-Men and X-Factor defeated the Shadow King, David was again left in a coma. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was the most logical for David, not knowing about his mutant heritage. He often heard voices (people's thoughts) and saw things that weren't there (visions caused by Farouk). A psychiatrists prescribed David medicine which would help with schizophrenic symptoms and inadvertently dampened his abilities. Although David believed he could move things with his mind (something that he could achieve) he wrote this off as a delusion and a symptom of schizophrenia thus he never explored his powers. David’s dissociative identity disorder means he's also wrestled with a variety of personalities that accompany his thousands of powers; each with their own abilities and dispositions, hence his nickname, “Legion”. David can sometimes kill mutants in a rage or on accident and have no idea he’s done it, can consume people and mutants and trap them in one of the numerous universes he has in his mind.
So the end credits scene so far goes unanswered, it's a reference to Nathaniel Essex. Who is in reality Mr Sinister, who in the comics has ties to Apocalypse. Sinister is deep into DNA and (as best as my memory serves) gets involved in engineering the Summers/Grey coupling to bioengineer a powerful being. This leads to the creation of someone you will meet in a couple Xmen movies from now (in which they will ignore or at least not mention any of this). I dunno if they had plans to use Sinister in the next movie or after that even, but then Dark Phoenix didn't do so hot and Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, ect... which pretty much ended all previous plans.
Yes, the timeline is all screwed up now. One thing that bugged me about these later movies is that they're still using the younger cast, even though the time period of the movies is catching up to the time period of the original movies. Remember the flashback showing Charles and Erik going to visit Jean as a child? It was a de-aged Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. But here Jean is already in her late teens, or early 20s and the roles are still being played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. To me, that says that they didn't really care much about continuity with the original movies, they just wanted an excuse to use younger actors. And again, I encourage you to watch the Deadpool 2 teaser. It doesn't spoil anything about that movie or anything else. It's a funny little, stand-alone Deadpool scene.
It was just a let down in the sense of them rushing/being lazy with the story to try to make it all "fit"..it could have been WAY better, but it is what it is. Still worth the watch IMO
Oscar Isaac is a great actor (even when Star Wars is messed up). I always wanted a much more intimidating Apocalypse villain. Sophie Turner was magnificent for this movie.
I don't actually think it would hurt to watch X-Men Dark Phoenix next, and finish up with Logan, go out on a high note. I don't know how much you know about the plot of Logan, so I won't spoil you with why it's ok to finish in that order.
@@leonardolonghi3472 that's questionable, since it was released after Disney got the X-Men rights back when they bought Fox, and put in some scenes tying it to the MCU instead of Fox's X-Men universe.
@@JakkFrost1 not, it's not it's the last "Foxverse" movie, Disney simply decided to let the director do what he wanted with the stuff he already had and released it (had it been WB, they would have secured it in the same bunker Batgirl is now) and NO, Disney NEVER added MCU content to that movie, it's 100% pure X-Men universe, don't know where you got that massive lie from...
19:14 that is the best scene transition in the entire franchise IMO. From magneto first learning he can control his power to him unlocking his full potential.
Still has the best "speedster" scene in any movie ever. What an amazing scene.
Honestly, I enjoyed this movie. It's not as strong as some of the others, but there are some truly amazing moments in it.
Yeah, same here. I thought it was the best when I first watched it. And even though it isn't as good on repeat viewings, I think it's still a really solid movie, if maybe a bit formulaic.
Same, I enjoyed all the young actors and I thought they were well cast. The story.. not that great but everyone put 110% into their roles. Oscar Isaac was great as Apocalypse as well.
Brace yourself for Logan..it's extremely violent..but it is my all time favorite film.
She's watched Deadpool....
Have tissues ready
X-men apocalypse is a mixed bag of a film but i love that quicksilver sequence
Stan Lee & Wolverine, Best cameos in my opinion. Also that was Stan Lee's wife Joan that was her first cameo in her entire life.
So true. Stan and Joan had a long and apparently happy marriage, and she was a great strength to him. According to legend, she encouraged him to "go for it" with Spider-Man in the final issue of Amazing Fantasy, and the rest is history. They were together until the end. It's so cool they were able to share that cameo, and they were holding each other. Great moment in Marvel history, even though it wasn't Marvel Studios.
Did you catch what Jean said when she came out of the movie theater. "The third movie is always the worst." X3?? 😂😂
But this is also the third of this trilogy 😫
And yet I still love X3 and this movie
@@seantds619 I hated that they had to kill jean cuse she did not deserve it.
#IBlameAviArad
Oscar Isaac was phenomenal in this... such a great actor, man! I was frankly shocked to learn after watching the film that this guy was Poe Dameron in star wars! He deserves all the big roles he's getting in literally every famous franchise now with those acting skills. To name some of them...
Apocalypse in X-Men movies
Moon Knight in Marvel Universe
Poe Dameron in Star Wars
Spider-Man 2099 in the Spiderverse films
Leto Atreides in Dune films
YES... YES... & YES !!! I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE !!! 👍💖😀😍
Still a pity that he had such an intensely uncomfortable (and by uncomfortable, I mean almost PAINFULLY so) experience with the make up and costuming he had to wear for the role…
The vastly underrated, Inside Llewyn Davis. A Coen Brothers film.
@@austingillum4807 is there a place I can find info on this?
@@mattschliemann9683100%. Just look up Oscar Isaac Apocalypse costume, Oscar Isaac Apocalypse makeup, or any similar variation, and you’ll find sources talking about it. Hell, the man himself has admitted to how utterly miserable he was in wearing that costume and makeup.
Peter and Wanda were Erik's kids in the comics but their origin has been retconned several times. Currently, they aren't even mutants anymore.
I thought Wanda still was technically but the utilization of magic AND the experimentations with the mind stone enhanced and unlocked her powers. She’s just called a Witch because she uses magic more than her natural powers at this point, it’s basically a combination of both. Same with Pietro/ Peter ( Quicksilver I guess), he already has powers and was experimented on.
@@dylancole1910 Initially Scarlet Witch was just name for Wanda because her telekinesis was so powerful (like jean) that that she could've manipulated her surroundings and everything however later on they wanted to expand her lore and made her have chaos magic this is the pre OG concept around X men Evo. In later adaptations aka mcu Wanda is random person with this power/In X men its explained why she has them but you're right Wanda is technically Alpha level mutant 1 level below Jean (idk if u know the classifications) but her chaos magic makes her on omega level. There is common misconception that Wanda is omega lv however this ain't the case since Wanda was held back by Xavier (another alpha class in MOM) she won due to the enhancements the Darkhold provided if she was Omega Xavier wouldn't even be able to penetrate her mind and block her movements it would look like what happened here with apocalypse however keep in mind that by cannon Apocalypse is also considered Alpha level aka lv 4 if u watched X men trilogy instead of comics or 97.
Apocalypse out here giving mutants glow-ups.
Mutant powers don't usually manifest until puberty. Commonly triggered by trauma or a heightened emotional state.
Was coming to post the same thing
Not enough people really know about mutants, I think.
Because the whole mutant theme is a metaphor about change and growing up, not being accepted, like reaching puberty and realize you're gay or that you're not going to follow your parents steps. X-Men is based on that
Prolly more so on race back when Xmen comics started.
37:20 You nailed it. It was the final line from the first X-men when Charles and Erik were playing chess.
Oscar Isaac, Apocalypse himself, was asked at a Q&A session while promoting his MARVEL Series Moon Knight, and one interviewer asked what was the one film he regrets doing, and it was X MEN Apocalypse, as he didn't like the suit or the makeup and the suit felt very bulky and couldn't find a place to sit down. He went on to say that Apocalypse is cool on paper, but in film, not so much.
Apocalypse's most villainous-felt moment is when he launches all the nukes into space, but does that even count as a villain action?
On the plus side, the Psylocke costume was maybe the most comic accurate costume, that didn't looked cringe, i ever saw in a live action movie.
That's ok , he got paid plenty, I'm sure
Because he has to be done as a CGI character on the level of Hulk and Thanos.
they could have made him cool on film. They just failed, spectacularly, to do that here. I mean... they pulled off Thanos pretty brilliantly in the MCU. Apocalypse is a pretty similar character. But good god did they manage to f* it up...
That end scene, with the Essex Corp briefcase still makes me inordinately sad. It was a tease for the character of Mr Sinister, probably one of the most interesting villains in X-Men history, and I was SO looking forward to seeing him, but it went absolutely nowhere. They also kind of wasted Apocalypse just putting him in one movie, he is to the X-Men what Thanos was to the Avengers in the MCU movies.
The scene with Quicksilver saving everyone at the mansion to the tune of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is iconic af and I'll never get sick of watching it.
Addie, you truly make re-watching a film better than it should be!! Your reactions are so honest and I love watching your thought process as they progress!! Much love!
after the impact of DOFP, it was really hard to follow-up with something as satisfying
The Phoenix force is compared with Scarlet Witch and in the comics. She is so powerful that only One above all (the supreme entity of marvel comics) can calm her down. And speaking of Scarlet witch, Wanda and Quicksilver are his children in the comics too.
The "let it go Jean" moment always brings tears into my eyes.
Else what i really like in this movie was especially the Psylocke costume, so comic accurate without beeing cringe. And some of the actions from Magneto just look so great.
Olivia Munn refused to do the role without a comic-accurate outfit
Olivia Munn made that outfit work
@@thedrizzle06925 Yeah, great job from Olivia and also the team who did that outfit. I just wished she had more screentime.
Comic book movies that are embarrassed to be like comic books are where a lot of the worst things in comic book movies comes from, especially the overabundance of bathos. Comic-accurate suits always look better than the generic, grey-black suits studios use to make the heroes look "cool" and edgy.
@@DragonbIaze052 While I think the MCU has a real bathos problem, the costumes have been at least fine.
As much as I appreciate the X-men series for what it is.. "Logan" is something that transcends the series entirely. Get ready.
22:30 "Wreak, Havok." is one of the coldest Xmen lines in the movies.
Fun fact, this was Stan Lee’s favorite cameo out of all of them cuz it was the only one with his wife.
This movie gets so much unnecessary hate, Oscar Isaac was excellent as En Sabah Nur.
The reason Quicksilver didn't Magneto that he is his son because he didn't want to get his heart broken again if he dies too.
Or maybe because he didn't want to be associated with a worldwide-known terrorist.
The most underrated X-MEN film bar none.
The cartoon TV series did Apocalypse so much better. Thanks, for your reaction, Addie.
Loooved that version
He wasn't done that badly though, but I agree he could have been better.
The reason for Mystique coming to the fighting arena for Kurt is because she's his mother. Basically she got it on with the red teleportation devil from First Class wasn't explained but comics say they're related
just for the record: Azazel was the red guy's name
pretty sure that's not the case here
@@craigime it was otherwise Nightcrawler wouldn't exist remember Mystique is older than she looks so her being a mother to a teenager kind of makes sense given what we saw in Days and Apocalypse
@@leonardolonghi3472 thank you for that I forgot the name
@@solrachernandez3389 nightcrawler was also in X2.. but he wasn't Mystique's son then. that's just an assumption. that's how it is in the comics, but the movies don't always follow the comics- especially these X men movies
That finale always gives me the chills, i love watching the comic accurate suits so much! Prepare your napkins for Logan, like, a lot of napkins
Watching Wolverine in action as Weapon X was my favorite thing about the whole film.
There’s not really a way to prepare you for “Logan”, Addie. All that can really be said is that it’s one of the greatest comic films of all time, but also probably one of the hardest to watch because it won’t break your heart… it’ll gut you. But it truly is an incredible piece of filmmaking.
Id say watch the Black and White version. It hits you in the feels more.
I think prefacing the word 'films' with comic (and I do love comics) does Logan a disservice. It's a great film, period. But there will be tears.
Freaking LOVE that villain monologue
Apocalypse is a cool character he wasn't done justice in this movie would've been better as a full on CG character like Thanos. or a better story... Hopefully in the future we get an alternate variant of Apocalypse in the MCU ... I think my favorite version of Apocalypse is the one for the animated series in the 90s.. Also I'm a pretty big fan of Psylocke She would've been better to introduce along with wolverine , somehow Could still happen Olivia Munn I thought was the perfect Psylocke.. I even thought so years and years before this movie came out , Yeah they didn't utilize her much ... And mutant powers usually come out in there teens, After all it was written for comic books And cartoons something to relate to For the target audience
LOL Olivia Munn in that ridiculous cosplay outfit was terrible.
The story wasn't that bad.
@@mkocelThat was the only way she would do the movie, she demanded a comic accurate outfit and she got it.
@@passionsquietrage well then she needed to hit the gym because she looked like a little plush pillow with that pooch. Psylocke is a hardbody NINJA. Ms Munn was NOT the right fit.
I really, really, really like these three prequel X-Men movies.
btw Addie it was just recently announced that Deadpool 3 has been moved to May 3rd 2024, and it's gonna be part of the MCU phase 5, so get excited :)
@C-MC Official The only live action movie of the MCU in 2024 that is worth watching
@@RM-qj8cs Thunderbolts had me very hyped... until they revealed the team
lamest team possible, filled with a bunch of copy-pastes
this movie was a little weird to me but it wasnt terrible and watching with Addie was so much fun. Edit: Also the scene with the explosion and Quicksilver was SICC
it was pretty terrible. And that scene with Quicksilver, in addition to being obviously derivative and just an attempt to recreate the far superior scene from DoFP and try (and fail) to one-up it.... kinda should have resulted in QS killing everyone in the X-Mansion. In DoFP they take the time to explain he has to hold Magneto's neck when he moves him so fast or else he gets whiplash, and he clearly does not feel well after being moved at such speed... so it's established that QS's powers don't protect those he touches from the effects of rapid velocity changes... but in this... they totally ignore that. He goes around grabbing everyone in the mansion, accelerates them from standing still to moving at near the speed of light in an instant, the decelerates them all the same way... if this actually happened every single person he touched would have had their insides turned to mush. They would all be very, very, very dead. It's not like getting touched by the flames of an explosion is what kills you... it's the rapid acceleration from the blast wave hitting you breaking and damaging your insides. Quicksilver wasn't saving anyone from that, he was doing it to them but worse, moving them even faster and more abruptly than the explosion would have.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 It's a comic book movie about mutants with powers, you don't need to dissect it all scientific like that 😂
@@MyronZhao not to mention is a wrong dissection anyway, based on the need to shit on the scene
Wolverine felt more shoehorned in to me, at least quicksilver has the familial reason to be in the movie, and he's in more than just one scene.
I feel like NoOne expects this comic book movie to be Oscar worthy and has never seen a movie sequel before. It's literally what half the sequels in the world do, reference or recreate a scene/joke from a previous movie, in the new story.
Apocalypse aka the main villain is a class 5 mutant since he was among the first mutant just like Jean is a class 5. Those two are the strongest yet Jean manages to destroy the livin heck out of him.
In the comics, mutations cone about at puberty....oh and Scott and Havoc's father is a space Pirate..I also seem to recall that Gambit and Nightcrawler are distant relatives as well. Nightcrawler's mother being Mystique.
Apocalypse is considered the first mutant.
Also, in comics, Scott is the older brother
I don't remember gambit and night crawler being related, but it has been a long time since I read a comic, haven't really heard much about what Gambits been doing since I last read comics so I assumed he hasn't been in them haha
Maybe you're thinking of Rogue and Nightcrawler in the comics. Mystique is Nightcrawler's biological mother and Rogue's adoptive mother.
Prepare your tears when you watch Logan (2017)
These last two X-men movies are so goofy. Cant wait for Logan though. That one is a masterpiece
For me, I never found the fight between Xavier and APOCALYPSE Cheesy. I love how he fights him in his house because the mansion is so iconic for the series.
Idk what people expect from Charles in there. He was half dead by that point, but he still went in to fight and saved Mystique. Held on the fight and finally managed to invoke Jean's powers. Who could have done that, if not Charles btw?
Wolverine created a nexus event in "x men days of future past " by changing the past of an absolute point. So he created a new time line buy he stucked in that time line. So we saw him in this movie 😅😊
I don't get why people say this movie sucks when it's not that bad. Thr story is great, Apocolypse looked awesome as did all the other characters. And Addie, mutants are born with the X gene that makes them mutants but their abilities usually manifest during puberty(Nightcrawler and Mystique being exceptions to this). So they have to deal emerging superpowers and puberty at the same time. Also, in the comics Scott is the older brother to Alex but it's reversed in the movies. This js because the writers and producers of First Class wanted to have characters and powers we hadn't seen before for the most part.
37:52 It took them five movies to introduce the Danger room and we have yet to have all of the core X-men (Wolverine, Cyclops, Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler) at the same team. As much as I like these movies, I still hope we can finally have the definitive X-men movie in the near future.
Great reaction Addie. I see that most people miss the point of door scene with Chales and Jean. Remember everything is symbolism in the mind. Jean is a more powerful psychic then Charles and remember Apocalypse wanted this power specifically. Charles kept this memory LOCKED because he knew if he couldn't get Charles who would be next..Jean. While powerful was still young and inexperienced. Sophie hats off to her played this well. Charles and Jean are like Father / Daughter. While Jean was more powerful, she was still young and learning from Charles. Jean watching the man she basically called father was being beating to death mentally. She had to watch and Sophie played this so well..the tears in her eyes. Jean was gaining focus here. Giving her will to do what needed to be done. Charles "Unlocking" that door was Jean's que to do as he said unleash her power. One this surprised Apocalypse as he had no clue about Jean of what Jean potential was or abilities until that specific moment. Jean was protecting those she loved...and she knew Charles needed her. I love the daughter protecting her basically father figure. Also just think at how power Charles was to be battling him and STILL able to keep this memory locked from him! Crazy.
In the comics, Charles and Moira have a child. The show Legion is based on him as an adult. Charles appears briefly in the final season.
Addie at 1714, there is a movie called Iron Man, and when that character is flying near a ferris wheel in the beginning, he asks his computer, Jarvis, what is the record for going into space , and Jarvis shows him the Blackbird, that plane
" it would be terrifying if you had a baby shooting laser out of it's eyes.." - needs to watch The Boys.
Or "Incredibles 2" 🤣
@@ortizmo yeah that one too.
5:53 'This is my brother Scott...I'm about 20 years older than him, but also, we're roughly the same age, somehow.' 😂
This is where it becomes ridiculous that they started setting every movie ten years after the last one. We're supposed to believe that 20 years from this movie, these characters, who've barely aged since the 1960s, are suddenly going to rapid-age and become Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, etc. And we have to make sense of the fact that Havoc and Cyclops are obviously only a few years apart in age, despite the fact that Xavier recruited Alex 20 years ago.
A fun popcorn flick 🍿
I wonder if she’ll watch ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ in preparation for the ‘X-Men ‘97’ series that’s coming up, because that would be awesome!
Yes! At least a few select episodes or even just the first two.
That's Stan Lee with his wife in that seen. R.I.P to both of them 😢
x-men apocalypse is my favorite x-men movie!!
I know a lot of people would disagree with me. But I enjoy this film quite a bit. Sure, the hero shots are a little campy, when compared to the MCU franchise. But, this really captivates some of the early 90s-2000s X-men storylines. Magneto's limited storybeing folded into the film plot was perfect. And, even Apocalypse's campy villain monologs reminded me of not only his superior self perspective, but also a little bit of the Sinister Mauraders from the 80s.
Plus, we finally got a decent looking Angel, turned Archangel, even if his character was brought down to Sabertooth level from X1. Plus, who would have anticipated Psylocke, one of the most s3xualized heroines from the Xmen comics.
And Sophie as Jean, we could definitely use more of her.
Honestly Addie, the way you said Apocalypse. instead of it sounding threatening
it sounded more like a little child having a tantrum xD I don't know it just sounded so adorable
Addie, Apocalypse said at around 18 min that he was there at the beginning to fan the flames of humanity, he is an ugly blue humanoid, so is Thanos, he is purple, in the comic book , the Eternals, they fought a group of multi colored ugly humanoids that have been around for thousands of years, they were called the Deviants. one was red, one was yellow, one was green , and they lived underground and tried to take over the world. if you want you can read Jack Kirby's run of comic books, the Eternals, from the 1970s, it was good.
Bryan Singer should've left the franchise after DOFP
Because he already gave everything he had with DOFP, so it was a lot harder for him to outdo himself again
@Leonardo Klotz Should have left it to matthew vaughn
Well, in the end he left for Simon Kinberg to replace him. Have things got better? 😉
I loved Magneto in this movie
Also, this portrayal of wolverine is the closest they came to showing Logan’s TRUE brutality potential… UNTIL LOGAN…
Caliban was in Logan. He was the one caring for Professor X and sacrificed himself with a grenade. Storm's real name is Ororo Monroe. Storm is her X Name.
This is another of the Marvel-related movies that is much more enjoyable for viewers who know nothing about the comics. It has some good moments, and overall, I enjoy it. But my dad did give me an hours-long overview of all the things it got "wrong" compared to the comics, so I get why comic book fans didn't like it so much.
I must have misremembered the release order. I thought that "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" was the next movie. But I won't complain about getting "Logan" a little sooner than I expected. Watching your reaction to it will be awesome. I already know it. And I personally am looking forward to "The New Mutants" reaction, though I am definitely in the minority on that one. Maybe I'm biased, but I enjoyed it. In any case, lots to look forward to! ✌🤓
Hey, Addie! Halle Berry was cast for her status as a high profile actress but was never thought appropriate for the role of Storm by fandom. Whether they even bothered with the accent to be comic accurate or whether she had difficulty affecting one is unknown. Alexandra Shipp has a British accent normally but affected a generic African accent for the role. The upbringing as a Cairo street urchin is true. She picks Xavier's pocket when he discovers her. She was never a villain in the comics.
Psylocke has a complex back story. Fangirl Olivia Munn insisted on the strappy Kwannon look when she inhabits a Japanese body but, initially, she is Betsy Braddock, the sister of Brian Braddock aka Captain Britain.
Wolverine's electronic attachments were probably sensors but were included on film to be comic accurate to Barry Windsor-Smith's illustrations for the "Weapon X" storyline.
This franchise wasn't made with a cohesive plan which is why there are so many continuity errors explained as variances in multiple timelines. No one knew the first film would be successful or as impactful on superhero cinema as it was. Once the train left the station, the filmmakers just kept laying down track and the audience went along with it. Characters meet for the first time at different points in the two timelines.
Essex Corp. refers to Nathaniel Essex aka Mr. Sinister, an end-credit scene that pays off somewhat in "New Mutants".
I have a soft spot for the X franchise and am willing to overlook its flaws. The biggest detriment to this film is that Apocalypse doesn't come across as terrifyingly formidable despite his insidious plan to enslave humanity telepathically by co-opting Charles' mind. Apocalypse always seems invincible in the comics and cartoon. His Darwinian philosophy isn't made explicit to those who know nothing about the character; he just seems like your typical megalomaniac.
The highlights are:
-- the Egyptian opening
-- the Magneto family tragedy
-- the introduction of Psylocke
-- the Quicksilver sequence
-- the Weapon X cameo
-- the battle in Cairo using powers in concert (a staple that's always handled well)
-- the psychic avatar duel
-- the new line-up with a bald Charles at the end
I loved how they made Logan look just like the Barry Windsor-Smith illustrations from the "Weapon X" comic. I also really liked the portrayals of Storm by Alexandra Shipp and Nightcrawler by Kodi Smit-McPhee. The guy who played Caliban was also great! The duality of Charles and Erik continues to remain the affecting core of the franchise.
I hated that they started to go down the same Phoenix path they trod before in "X3" but, fortunately, they course-correct in the next movie by making a significant change. The '90s are next with "DARK PHOENIX"!!!!
X-MEN TIMELINES:
Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP --> Origins ------------------------------------------------> X1 --> X2 --> X3 --> Wolverine -------> New Mutants ----------------------> Logan
Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP ----------------> Apocalypse --> Dark Phoenix ------------------------------------------------> Deadpool --> Deadpool 2 -----> DOFP Utopia
Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> DOFP Dystopia
DO NOT WATCH THE FILMS IN RELEASE ORDER!!!!! FOLLOW THIS RECOMMENDED ORDER!!!!! It keeps the multiple timelines orderly.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING ORDER:
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X3: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: First Class
The Wolverine: Extended Cut
X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut
X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Deadpool
New Mutants
Logan
Deadpool 2
In days of future past in the end, when they were chatting on Sabah nur its apocalyps' real name
28:10 that's what she said
Logan Next!!!
Yes, that is Ororo Munroe. 😊
Peter not telling Magneto he has kids, was the worst decision.
In regards to Cyclops not being born with his crimson eye blasts, mutants are born with the mutant gene but it usually doesnt activate until puberty
27:20 my cat makes those noises 😸
Can someone explain how Stryker got Wolverine if at the end of the last movie it showed that Mystique was pretending to be Stryker when they got him out of the water… I never figured that out and I’m not sure if it’s a mistake or if I missed something
Ya...they never went anywhere with that
Writers retconned it into being the actual Stryker, classic Fox plot hole
Love the quicksilver scene so freaking much…only good part lol
Disagree, there is some good visuals and acted scenes. The writing is trash but there is a few good thing about this film, not only Quicksilver scene.
@@reynaldolorenzo8409
Nah, man.
It's all crap besides the Quicksilver scene.
And even in that one there's the very dumb flaw of Havok dying off screen and everybody immediately forgetting about him after two lines of dialogue.
@@happyslapsgiving5421 Nah, it’s not all crap. Like I said, yes the writing is trash and I agree the movie has a lot of lazy written scenes and flaws like the scene you mentioned, but still doesn’t take away that the actors did the best they could with the awful writing, Fassbender has an amazing performance, and some of the other actors, it has good VFX and the cinematography is not bad, definitely not all crap. It is a below average movie like a 4.5/10 but if it was all crap it would be 1-3/10, the movie did fulfilled a few filmmaking aspect which is why it’s a below average film. All crap would be Catwoman, Ghost Rider 1-2, Green Lantern, etc.
Mutant powers manifest during puberty.
I always tear up for Erik losing his family because he tried so hard to live a normal life and he couldn’t even have that
Hi Addie, you know what? MCU & XCU are all about Wanda's family. Parents, sister, brother, boyfriend, husband, kids 😂
Logan is the best X-Man Movie and there's no reason to even think about second place! I saw it four times in theaters, I loved it so much!
In most cases, mutants aren't born with their powers, and manifest them during puberty. There are a few exceptions, but they tend to have special circumstances (like Nightcrawler, who is part demon in the comics).
Hi Addie! Thanks for another terrific reaction. This was nobody's favorite X-Man movie but there were still a lot of things to like about it. The absolute best part of the film was "Quicksilver Saves Everyone". That was such a great scene I have watched it many times. However I would personally rate this movie, half as much without that scene. Three minutes of Quicksilver > 2 hours of the rest of the film.
Really looking forward to your reaction to Logan!
Excited to see this one because I know which movie is next 😈
Only 4 movies remain in the X-Men saga. Next stop, Logan (2017).
To be fair, she should just stop after Logan and Deadpool 2.
"Logan" is a hard "R" rating without Deadpool's sexual humor (so just graphic violence and serious content), plus in an interview the director and producer said "We aren't making a movie to sell Happy Meals". 'Nuff said.
I hope when they introduce The X-Men & The Fantastic 4 in the MCU in the future they start at the very beginning again w/ Professor X showing how his entire household, parents included, pretty much regularly left him abandoned in the mansion alone because of his freaky and inexplicable powers leaving Charles to think he was insane. Then he can get himself committed as a young adult, meet and wake-up his future wife Gabrielle Xavier. Then they can introduce their son, David Haller, into the MCU. For those that do not know, David is an Omega level mutant and is the most powerful mutant of the MCU. Sometimes he’s good and sometimes he’s bad because of what the parasitic mutant, Amahl Farouk the Shadow King, who used his powers while he was just a baby. The Shadow King began to manipulate David's memories and his perception of the world. He disguised himself as a beagle named King which would follow David around as a kid, however only David could see King. Farouk also disguised himself as one of David's childhood nightmares, The Angry Boy. A character from a book that Mr. Haller may have read to him called The World's Angriest Boy in the World. It is unsure if Mr. Haller actually read the book or if this is another memory trick from the Shadow King.
Over time the psychological damage from having the Shadow King manipulate his memories took its toll on David's mental health. He became violent punching a peer at prom, he committed petty crimes, and was often publicly intoxicated. Around this time, David's mutant abilities also began to grow in power, shattering the windows of a police vehicle during one such incident. Sometime after this, he is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
While working in an Israeli psychiatric facility, Charles Xavier met a patient named Gabrielle Haller. The two had an affair which ended amicably. Gabrielle became pregnant with David, but did not tell Charles.[2]
David, at a young age, was living with his mother and stepfather in Paris when his home was attacked by terrorists and his stepfather was killed. The trauma of the situation caused an initial manifestation of David's mutant powers, as David incinerated the minds of the terrorists. In the process, he unintentionally absorbed the mind of the terrorist leader, Jemail Karami, into his own. Being linked to so many others at their time of death, David was rendered catatonic for years. As he slowly recovered, he was moved to the care of Moira MacTaggert at the Muir Island mutant research facility. The trauma (possibly in conjunction with the nature of his reality-altering powers) caused David's mind to dissociate chronically until it became Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), each alter manifesting different mutant abilities.[3]
The Karami alter, which manifested telepathic abilities, struggled for years to separate his consciousness from David's. In the process, Karami tried to unify as many alters as he could, trying to end David's catatonic state. Some of the alters resisted Karami, most notably Jack Wayne, a swaggering adventurer who was telekinetic, and Cyndi, a temperamental, rebellious girl who was pyrokinetic. Ultimately Karami, Wayne, and Cyndi continued to exist as David's most prominent alters.
During his time at Muir Island, David saved Moira and Wolfsbane from a fatal accident by accessing the telekinetic abilities of his Jack Wayne alter. However, this allowed Jack Wayne to take control of David's body, and he left the island. The New Mutants tracked him down and, after a struggle, convinced Wayne to allow David to again assume control. Soon after, David was possessed by the Shadow King. While under the Shadow King's influence, David killed the mutant Destiny and destroyed 2/3 of the island. When the X-Men and X-Factor defeated the Shadow King, David was again left in a coma.
The diagnosis of schizophrenia was the most logical for David, not knowing about his mutant heritage. He often heard voices (people's thoughts) and saw things that weren't there (visions caused by Farouk). A psychiatrists prescribed David medicine which would help with schizophrenic symptoms and inadvertently dampened his abilities. Although David believed he could move things with his mind (something that he could achieve) he wrote this off as a delusion and a symptom of schizophrenia thus he never explored his powers.
David’s dissociative identity disorder means he's also wrestled with a variety of personalities that accompany his thousands of powers; each with their own abilities and dispositions, hence his nickname, “Legion”. David can sometimes kill mutants in a rage or on accident and have no idea he’s done it, can consume people and mutants and trap them in one of the numerous universes he has in his mind.
So the end credits scene so far goes unanswered, it's a reference to Nathaniel Essex. Who is in reality Mr Sinister, who in the comics has ties to Apocalypse.
Sinister is deep into DNA and (as best as my memory serves) gets involved in engineering the Summers/Grey coupling to bioengineer a powerful being. This leads to the creation of someone you will meet in a couple Xmen movies from now (in which they will ignore or at least not mention any of this).
I dunno if they had plans to use Sinister in the next movie or after that even, but then Dark Phoenix didn't do so hot and Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, ect... which pretty much ended all previous plans.
love that we get Wolverine Nightcrawler, Angel/Archangel and all the classics in this movie. :D
At comics and marvel universe, Magnetto is Pietro Maximoff (Quick Silver) And (Scarlett Witch) Wanda Maximoff's dad..
Yes, the timeline is all screwed up now.
One thing that bugged me about these later movies is that they're still using the younger cast, even though the time period of the movies is catching up to the time period of the original movies. Remember the flashback showing Charles and Erik going to visit Jean as a child? It was a de-aged Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. But here Jean is already in her late teens, or early 20s and the roles are still being played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. To me, that says that they didn't really care much about continuity with the original movies, they just wanted an excuse to use younger actors.
And again, I encourage you to watch the Deadpool 2 teaser. It doesn't spoil anything about that movie or anything else. It's a funny little, stand-alone Deadpool scene.
I know a lot of people dislike this one, but I rather enjoyed it.
Mystique is Nightcrawlers mother and that devil looking guy in xmen first class was his father. In the comics of course
shes not ready for logan
In the comics scot power had a off switch but as a teen he was in a car acident which damaged either his eyes or brain so he couldnt turn it off
So excited for Logan!!!
Now we wait for LOGAN
Yes she is storm she is a younger storm
The beginning of the end for X-Men movies.
It was just a let down in the sense of them rushing/being lazy with the story to try to make it all "fit"..it could have been WAY better, but it is what it is. Still worth the watch IMO
Oscar Isaac is a great actor (even when Star Wars is messed up). I always wanted a much more intimidating Apocalypse villain. Sophie Turner was magnificent for this movie.
All in all... 11:41
I really enjoyed this movie when I saw in the theater, another cool reaction
The very end of this movie had the most accurate xmen costumes we've seen before, and they just don't use them again afterwards for some reason lol.
I don't actually think it would hurt to watch X-Men Dark Phoenix next, and finish up with Logan, go out on a high note. I don't know how much you know about the plot of Logan, so I won't spoil you with why it's ok to finish in that order.
you do know New Mutants is last, right?
@@leonardolonghi3472 that's questionable, since it was released after Disney got the X-Men rights back when they bought Fox, and put in some scenes tying it to the MCU instead of Fox's X-Men universe.
@@JakkFrost1 not, it's not
it's the last "Foxverse" movie, Disney simply decided to let the director do what he wanted with the stuff he already had and released it (had it been WB, they would have secured it in the same bunker Batgirl is now)
and NO, Disney NEVER added MCU content to that movie, it's 100% pure X-Men universe, don't know where you got that massive lie from...
It was interesting seeing Nightcrawler not being Angel and Mystique’s son.😅
Mutant powers often don't express itself until teen years, often under times of extreme stress
Full Circle: Apocalypse = Oscar Isaac = Moon Knight !!!