I heard the star of it that plays Sansa Stark was saying she wouldn’t work in Georgia because of the abortion law. Hopefully after this she won’t work again and she will do some soul searching.
Movie was about on par with most of the recent XMen fair... Nothing fantastic, pretty meh... again, like most of the more recent XMEN movies..
Honestly, it hasn’t been marketed nearly enough or well...
IF you weren’t around in the 90s when the Dark Phoenix storyline originally was written, you probably would have no idea what it was...
They shoved it into Xmen 3... terribly.. it should have been an entire movie of its own back then...
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The whole Marvel superhero thing is getting over cooked. X-men are getting beaten to a pulp trying to squeeze more money out of the franchise.
I’m old, but I enjoyed the comic books when I was a kid. The superhero movies in the first wave were fascinating, I loved them. The Christian Bale Batman movies, the first Spiderman, the original X-men, Iron Man, Thor, great stuff.
X-men epitomizes what is going wrong with all of them. The story wanders, the alternate timelines are confusing, and replacement actors dilute the product. I just watched X-men Apocalypse the other evening. It was terrible, I mean really bad.
Hollywood has no ideas, and their cash cow is starting to go dry.
Saw it and can definitely see why it will be a loser for MCU. All of the acting was fine, but the story line left a considerable amount to be desired.
IMHO MCU has been in decline with regard to film quality when they released Black Panther. Infinity Wars, End Game, Captain Marvel, Dead Pool 2, and even Guardians of the Galaxy 2 were all poorly written and lacked the ingenuity that the story line deserved. DP2 was a rehash of the original and GotG2 displayed none of the hallmarks that made the original a classic.
She’s destroying them.
Marvel lost me as a fan when they killed off Wolverine and Iron Man.
It was my birthday this past weekend and we wanted to see a movie.
It came down to one of three - Dark Phoenix, John Wick 3, or Godzilla.
Checked out the reviews on all of them. That killed Dark Phoenix.
While we liked John Wick 1 and 2, many people were saying that Godzilla was best experienced on a big screen.
We went for the mindless-but-fun Godzilla.
I read that Dark Phoenix, Rocketman and another movie were not doing well.
The review of Rocketman said the movie focused on his homosexuality instead of his music and that’s why the movie is disappointing audiences.
I had Rocketman in my Netflix queue. Took it out.
Watched Vice (about Cheney) yesterday. The f-word was in the introductory writing that scrolled by. Unbelievable.
Personally, I’ve tuned out of most of the super-duper hero movies of late. Only went to “End Game” because my niece and nephew wanted to go. And it was, as I suspected, meh! I’ve already told my movie-going friends to count me OUT of “Star Wars 666: The SJW Fiasco” tripe that Disney has waiting for us the end of the year.
The problem with these movies is that every one is the same. Super Heroes meet Super Baddies, lots of CGI explosions and people on both sides getting blown up, killed, whatever. At the end, the Heroes APPEAR to win, but usually the Baddies just sneak away to plot their next movie destruction. Rinse, lather, repeat.
I think the last “Super Hero” movie I really enjoyed was the first “Guardians of the Galaxy”. Probably because it didn’t take itself too seriously, and wasn’t afraid to indulge in self-deprecating groaners and WTF characters. The sequel was okay, but not as good, IMHO.
The only comic book movie that improved in sequels is Ironman. Credit goes to it’s conservative Star actor.
The only super hero movie I liked was Guardians of the Galaxy, and that was because it had a talking raccoon. Not even a talking raccoon could save Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Maisie Williams (Arya) will be the 2nd GOT actress to portray a mutant when the movie The New Mutants comes out next year.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4682266/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2
Sophie’s SJW antics aside, maybe Avengers End Game just gave everyone a satisfying end to the superhero genre. Another X-Men was ruin the denoument.
Wow, do we think the reviewers crashed the audience attendance?