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X-Men: Apocalypse a substandard addition to an otherwise improving franchise
Steven James @StevenLeeJames X-Men: Apocalypse isn’t a terrible film, but I wish it did not exist. En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), the world’s first mutant, was born in Egypt and worked his way to the status of living god. The movie … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #b movie, #days of future past, #deadpool, #game of thrones, #hugh jackman, #james mcavoy, #jennifer lawrence, #michael fassbender, #olivia munn, #onelasttime, #Oscar Isaac, #wolverine, #X-Men, #x-men: apocalypse, #xmenapocalypse, age of apocalypse, anal sex, evan peters, first class, mr sinister, olivia munn's internalized sexism, re-writes, Rose Byrne, sophie turner, terrible visual effects, why you waste my time, wolverine 3, x-men apocalypse wastes so much time
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Deadpool is everything you ever wanted
There were so many ways Deadpool could have gone wrong, but it doesn’t. It hits the spot and hits it hard. If you know what I mean. The plot, easily the film’s worst feature but also its least important, starts when Wade Wilson … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #20th Century Fox, #cancer, #cantaloupe, #david goyer, #deadpool, #ed skrein, #fifty shades of grey, #gina carano, #glory hole, #green lantern, #hi max!, #jed reeds, #leak, #morena baccarin, #paul wernick, #poop, #rhett reece, #ryan reynolds, #self-check, #test footage, #the dark knight, #the hangover, #tim miller, #wolverine, #X-Men, #x-men origins, The Avengers
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Beta decay: Rogue Cut a disappointment
X-Men: Days of Future Past, with its cyclone of conflicts and powerful, emotional rejection of violence quickly became one of my favorite superhero movies last May, but it is far from a perfect film. There are bad pacing problems in the … Continue reading
Posted in Beta Decay
Tagged #anna paquin, #colossus, #days of future past, #hugh jackman, #ian mckellan, #iceman, #james mcavoy, #jennifer lawrence, #magneto, #michael fassbender, #mystique, #nicholas hoult, #patrick stewart, #professor X, #rebecca romijn, #rogue, #shadowcat, #shawn ashmore, #the rogue cut, #wolverine, #X-Men, #x-men: days of future past -- the rogue cut, X-men: Days of Future Past
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