Wednesday 23 November 2016

Hex-Men: Aflopalypse

I think I have had enough. Why do they do these things to us, why? X-Men: Apocalypse, the most recent flop in the X-Men sequels. Why is it so hard to use your imagination to create something unimaginable? By this point I shouldn’t be watching a movie and going ‘they should have done this, they should have done that’ but here we are and now, forced to help you understand what should and shouldn’t have happened!
But before this, the man to shoot is Bryan Singer – Directed X-Men 1&2, X-Men Origins (Wolverine), X-Men: Days of Future past, as well as this recent catastrophe X-Men: Apocalypse. Oh but he is not done making things bad for us, he also intends to Produce X-Men the TV show #SadFace!
 What should/shouldn’t have happened
  • The children, oh the children! When you put so many children into these grownup things and it becomes less of an action movie (that we paid money to see) and more of an adventure fantasy like Narnia or the Never Ending Story! Action level was at 40/100. Sure they can blame it on the PG-13 age rating, but so were the Batman and Bourne sequels, so?
  • How many times is Byran going to raid the X-Men mansion to steal children, seriously? They did it in X-men 2 and again in X-Men Apocalypse! See what I mean by ‘use your imagination to create something unimaginable?’ These people are simply reverting to memory and drawing up ideas from archives. Sad!
  • Apocalypse Midget – Dear owner and management of Hollywood, please take away Bryan’s license to kill movies that we love! Apocalypse, on average, is about 7 feet tall however he can grow to substantially greater heights at will. So who is this midget in oversized boots and outfit? Just tell me this cause I don’t think Frodo or any of the Baggins were ever part of the Marvel Universe. Why?
  • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – The mere sound of this lets you know that these guys are not here to play games. If you remember your bible, these Horsemen where Death, Famine, War & Conquest! So in all honesty what the hell is a guy called Angel doing in this place? Storm and Psylocke should have been left out too for real. From a long range of deadly/frightening characters in Marvel, is this the worst you could come up with? Besides Magneto, the original Badman, here are some Characters that could have played the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!
o   Rogue – Whatever happened to this great character?
o  Gambit – Would have been a perfect time to introduce this character as well as show a little of the on-off romance with Rogue
o   Mimic – although this one might need a short movie of his own.
o   Sabretooth – A beast VS Sabretooth fight would be one to watch. Think revenant but imagine DiCaprio could actually fight back!

·  Wolverine fight scene – I have come to realize that Hollywood does not understand who/what Wolverine is! I mean, this 137 year old guy has been through Hell in his lifetime and even actually been to Hell, yes the real Hell, possessed by demons and what not. In short he is a really pissed off animal – the stuff of horror movies and camp fire stories! I mean, Hugh Jackman was more animal in Van Helsing than we are seeing here. And to top it off, he has military training, a master of virtually all forms of martial arts and will sometimes lapse into a ‘berserker rage’ while in close combat. In this state he lashes out with the intensity and aggression of an enraged animal. Now with some of these pointers on hand, watch those scene again, this guys is slow and just growling around while he slices here and stabs there. Where is the skill, where is the real animal! We shall talk about what Bryan did wrong in the other Wolverine movies another time.

All in all, I think Bryan Singer should stick to drama or quit producing movies all in all. If he chooses to stay in action, get an action director and hire staff that actually read comics!