Half in the Bag Episode 110: X-Men: Apocalypse

After watching this movie again it was better than most comic book movies nowadays.

Oh snap Brian singer is a rapest. Go and look at dreading psychology and crime look at the episode on this evil rapest, a serial rapest that drugged his twinks

This was my favorite X-men movie. It may not be a shred as good as Logan, but this was so much fun.

it came on table, Mike has to watch The Expanse

FUN FACT: John Colicos voices the 90s cartoon Apocalypse, whom Mike would know well as Kor, warrior of the Klingon Empire (TOS, DS9). everything comes back to star trek

Fuck all the reviews, I’m just here for the acting.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN 7 YEARS AGO

Jays true personality comes through when he overthinks stuff like the concentration camp beginning... :

Thanks for introducing me to Flo Rida and his house. it's dope

Beast ages slowly because he had tried to cure himself with mystics genes

Storm may be boring in the movies, but in the comics she's an underutilized badass. The movies just never knew what to do with her, she it was always "She zaps people!"

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X-Men: Oscar Isaac is Ivan Ooze.

They called the next movie

"Well Jay, this was the best xmen film since Wolverine xmen origins.".... XMEN DARK PHOENIX: "Hah! Hold my beer."

Aschlockalypse

How can any screenwriter type out "Forget everything you think you know" with a straight face, and not immediately delete it? And THEN some editor puts the line in a trailer, even? Were they trolling us?! Dammit, I hated this movie. 🤣

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Never have I been so entertained by people I couldn’t disagree with more. Love these guys.

Watching this 6 years later and "Bryan Singer makes weird decisions" is one hell of an understatement.

They did psylocke dirty in this film.

Singers name was a jumpscare

I can’t believe it’s been 6 years since this deuce dropped. Time flies

Wait, that was Oscar Isaac? As an Egyptian themed comic book character? An Egyptian themed MARVEL comic book character?

The magneto scene at the beginning really reminds me of Logan. Had somewhat of the same tone

I sometimes rewatch this entire review just to hear Mike call Oscar Isaac a "schlock clown"

You guys suck

I'm what would be considered a star wars super collector (can easily prove it) and I had to pause for a second then Google "poe dameron" of course it hit instantly but the fact I had to Google it shows how worthless of a character he was.

As an origin storm was terrible there’s no way she would be poor living in Egypt she was a queen of a tribe in Africa and worshiped as the weather sorceress so she would not be stealing food in Egypt from commoners which is why her character personality has always spoken with a voice of superiority and royalty like Thor she doesn’t just throw lightning bolts she summons gods thunder and Unleashes lightning fire she would not be some scared little girl looking for a handout from some blue guy

Why does mike know about flo rida

I’m just now watching this first time on Disney+ I liked “Days of Future Past”

i think apocalypse was WEAK AF!!! In the cartoons, he can increase his size 100 times, turn into anything.

The only thing a remember about this movie was Psylock..for obvious reasons

Well at least we got some X-Men movies. Today it's an impossible franchise to produce because they are called x-MEN. I'm pretty sure Hollywood in 2022 won't even touch that.

Mike says"days of future pants"

I agree that Apocalypse (at least the vision of him exemplified by the animated series) would have been better much served by CGI than a live actor, just like CGI Beast looked so much better than shaggy fursuit and cosmetics Beast. Some characters are just so over the top that pure realism runs the risk of turning them into schlock clowns.

It's strange to watch a HTIB where the guys seem to genuinely like a superhero movie. It's like time travel or an alternate universe.

EVERYTHING THEY BUILT WILL FALL

Jubilee is always a missed opportunity in all the X-Men movies to end the movie with an awesome happy fireworks display

Olivia Munn and Jennifer Lawrence have the exact same face on the poster

Men of culture will appreciate Lifeforce

Is it weird how much emotion Jay puts in his voice when he’s describing Wolverine stabbing people…

Apocalypse's "motivation" was quite simple: unquestioned rule and control over the world, the way he once had in the ancient times. In his mind, in the days when he ruled the world, people were civilized and peaceful, before they betrayed his "benevolent" rule. By re-awakening in the modern era, seeing all the problems of the world (on TV), he is motivated to reclaim his rule over the world, eradicate all the new "suffering" that he sees, and destroy any who will question his vision and rule. It's quite a SIMPLE premise, and motivation, for an "all-knowing, all-powerful" mutant character like Apocalypse, one who is able, and willing, remake the world as he sees fit. It took a TEAM of (free-thinking, not-easily-controlled) mutants to stop him at the end, but just meeting that new, all-powerful "Phoenix" was sufficient for Apocalypse to give up his motivation as well!

In meeting "Phoenix", Apocalypse meets the modern era's (mutant) response to the modern era's problems. He realizes that Phoenix can rule over this new world, hidden, out of sight, and that his (overt style) reign over the world is truly over.