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I can't believe it

posted 9 years ago by LukeLovesFilm28
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A well-made film like X-Men: Apocalypse has a lower RT rating than this amateurish, unfocused crap.

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[–] indysoul 9 years ago

Apocalypse followed one of the best x-men movies ever.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 9 years ago

DOFP is the best crafted superhero film ever made as far as I'm concerned. Still, given its effectiveness in certain scenes, it was inappropriate and unfounded to treat XMA as bad as this crap.

Hell, there was a critic bitching that they made Quicksilver too awesome. Is there any character in TASM films that could be described as "too awesome"??

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[–] ee_dixon 9 years ago

Standards were for some odd reason high for X-Men Apocalypse because of Bryan Singer. The same can't be said about The Amazing Spider-Man 2. TASM1 got a pass because it came after Spider-Man 3 and they retold origin story which is one of the easiest Spider-Man stories you can tell (but yet they still found a way to *beep* it up) and when it came to TASM2, they pulled no punches.

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 9 years ago

Expectations were extraordinarily high for Spider-Man 3 too. BUT they were in fact valid criticisms. But XMA has been met with a lot of personal bias and hostility based on moral sensibilities.

With that kind of stick-in-the-mud attitude, at this rate we'll NEVER get another Godfather-like film.

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[–] Benjatron_Gear_Solid 9 years ago

I still don't know why this movie didn't win any Razzies, it could swept the whole contest!

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 9 years ago

That moment when Peter cornered Gwen in the Oxford registration office (Ha, ha) was so bad, it should've guaranteed Garfield a Razzie.

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