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Man, I know I really shouldn't care about Hollywood's lack of originality by now, but this is literally the same plot as Very Bad Things.

Been on a bit of an X-Men binge after Logan, and watched this yesterday. It was pretty good, though I think I made a mistake watching the Rogue cut — it felt about 20 minutes too long, which is how much I gather was added on. Singer's good at incorporating emotion into his action scenes, and I liked that it was really about Xavier rather than Wolverine. That said, I don't feel compelled to watch Apocalypse anytime soon.

A leaked synopsis is out: "Assuring people that absolutely nothing will go wrong, they try to open the park just one more time."

[reads last few pages] Happy International Women's Day!

In its best moments, you see flashes of the director who went on to make Logan. Sadly those moments are few and far between, and completely absent from the finale, which abruptly decides the movie isn't serious anymore and will instead be goofy as hell.

Snyder isn't a storyteller. He just creates trailer content.

Great for Logan, and good for Fox. When you put real faith in a storyteller to do what they want, wonderful things can happen.

One seemingly trivial shot in the movie that's really stuck with me is when Logan's driving the bacholrette party. One of the girls shows her tits and he gives a polite but half-hearted smile. In that moment he looks so fucking empty, devoid of any real joy his life, and the years of suffering and torment are suddenly painfully apparent. Superheroes aren't meant to be portrayed like this. It hits really hard.

Nah, he had to die because Jackman knew he wouldn't be able to resist returning to the character again otherwise.

The Shack sounds terrible, but you can't underestimate that Christian dollar I guess.

I think the point of that scene was that he intended to kill Logan too (he justvran out of bullets). It's a bleak moment, he in no way sees Logan as a hero.

I got the trailer to Spider-Man before Logan. Whatever the movie ends up being like, it's a crap promo and the audience seemed nonplussed.

Liked it a lot, and I may even come to love it. For about the first half hour I was just bathing in the delight that a CBM like this exists, that they got away with it. All the Marvel and DCU bullshit will feel so much more tame and shallow after this. Jackman was brilliant, and it shouldn't be underestimated how difficult it is to keep such a dour performance compelling for over 2 hours. The R rating worked for this because Logan has an R rated personality. I also loved how palpable the violence was - at least at first. There's no sense of victory when he slaughters people, just destructive emptiness. I could have done without the clone, admittedly. Works as a metaphor I guess, but felt a bit deus ex machina to suddenly appear that late in the story. Having Charles die in the middle of an intense action scene may have been a mistake too, but after so many good moments between him and Logan that's perhaps a nitpick. I dont know know how soon it'll be before I watch this again, but it's absolutely among the best of the genre. And no fucking obnoxious universe/sequel setup!

Just got out. Yup, really good. In fact it's fucking surreal to see a SH movie that plays out the way it does. Jackman probably gives the best superhero performance yet. Comparing it with TDK feels futile though, like comparing No Country For Old Men with Heat.

The Shack sounds amusingly awful from some of the reviews I read. Based on a novel written by three people.

Snyder seemed to get away with turning Batman into a nihilistic, murderous dickhead for a PG-13 movie, so I'm not sure how much the character needs an R-rated movie anyway.

It's definitely interesting that of all the big studios, Fox is the one taking the most creative risks with its SH movies. Fox! Sure, you could argue they have the least to lose, but that's not how execs usually see things.

The only thing I've ever watched by Stuckmann was a video on 'how to make action movies better'. It was such unprofound, heard it a million times before garbage — " action films need good characters, just look at Die Hard" — but the comments section seemed to eat it up.

My guess is this was partly course correction for Godzilla's supposed lack of big monster action. Characters didn't get much of a look-in (even though you can have both!).

*Checks Jurassic World RT score* God, I forgot what an easy time that film had with critics...

About as good a start as could be expected. Will probably finish in the high 60s/low 70s.

Franchise wars are indeed awful, but they seem to fuel about 90% of the conversation on this forum.

It looks expensive to me. I know Lucy was a freak hit but I'm sure they're aiming for at least somewhere around there.

That's pretty much all the first and second movies were.