Regarding continuity, I haven’t seen “Apocalypse” yet, but “X-Men,” “X2,” and “Days of Future Past” make a nice, coherent little trilogy that allows you to forget the other films.

I haven’t seen Apocalypse yet, but I think that Tony Black makes some of the continuity issues for the franchise more complicated than they need to be (as some of the commenters for his piece explain).

No interest at all in this movie. Go see THE NICE GUYS for a fun time at the movies!

I liked X3, and considering that Brett Rattner was wheeled in at the last minute because Brian Singer got the Primadonnas and left, he did a helluva job!

Just wanted to get that out there.

Yeah that Tony Black is tying himself in knots creating problems that don’t exist.
If you can understand what happens in Back to the Future you can understand what happens in the X-men continuity.

Yeah George, I’m finally catching The Nice Guys tomorrow after an extended vacation. Excited to see it! I also recommend The Lobster.

And Brendan, honestly, the most inscrutable thing about these X-Men movies (beyond their varying quality) are the character ages as this Vulture piece points out: http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/how-old-is-everyone-in-x-men-apocalypse.html

“Go see THE NICE GUYS for a fun time at the movies!”

This, times 1977.

Wait, is this where all the cool kids talk about how good THE NICE GUYS was?

It was really good, you guys.

and I liked how the storm continuity was kept together… BUT, ha! geekn out… after FIVE X-MEN MOVIES NOW, not counting the other spin offs…, yo man, wtf! Pietro was the best opportunity to have Magneto form his Brotherhood in that movie, and the whole lack of confidence telling him he was his son… F()c^ that…! No way, so lame… the ending as a SIXTH installment in the sage GLOBAL franchise: dud. I agree w/other reviews that say the whole ‘getting the band together again’s was using up the gist of the span of the film, the ending could had EASILY culminated in several kick ass battles, and the whole geek satisfaction w/your normal ‘consumer’ leaving the theater going -“Wow, Apocalypse is the S+!+, I want to go read comics about him…!” but no dice, and Magneto should had assembled some Brotherhood out of nowhere at one point w/Blob, Mystique, her oracle girlfriend, and Pyro w/Rouge… The fourth Horseman instead of Magneto could had easily been Kitty Pryde, or even Jean Grey -yeah, Jean: point being = regardless of who the fourth horse man could had been besides Magneto, You Do Not Have That Much Destruction And Then Think Just Ending That Guy Apocalypse Is Just Going To Lead To Anything Remotely Resembling Their `90s And Whatever Else Era B.S. -cities were disintegrating, and Nightcrawler is made out to be a ‘b!+(+, still with his ridiculous scars, and meek self pity praying -the comics, the REAL Nightcrawler always had grace, and class, and style, and he had confidence, and was never ever really able to get over people freaking out at him, this actually very civilized person -kind a decent extreme example how how someone from Europe would generally be considered ‘different’, and at the very least ‘alienated’ in most towns and suburbs where most ‘Americans’/consumers live. So, good job on the intro though for Jean and Scott -Scott Summers though should had been in a school for the blind when they first showed him, as he was hiding his ‘disability’/power after he and his brother fell from that plane, stick with the original plot(!) its easy -see how much cooler I could had made this movie… The ending was too ‘ephemeral’ and extreme with the level of destruction that it was anticlimactic -and there should had been Farouk there -maybe he could had been the fourth horseman, and he could had had the class psychic battle vs.. Xavier at the end -w/Jean Grey backing him up channeling the P-force…

So the best thing about these new era pieces is the way they can show the parts of history that had never been part of the comics; Xavier and Eric’s history, and Hand, and Raven’s background… So this could had been a great way to have had the story of Magneto’s kid, Polaris, or even Wanda, and Pietro, and have him freak out about his baby’s’ mamma’s death and some similar shtick that would still work the with sequential mythos =because Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chris Claremont, Join Byrne, and so on are all really THAT GREAT, and the movies should flow w/them, their story, OUR Mythos… Not a ‘brand’, or some set of metrics, and contract and marketing patter analysis crap weak over destructive ending -the world would still be in the dark ages, especially considering the oil crisis at that time in early 80s we were all coming out of, and everyone was fleeing the decay of the cities into sprawl and then this movie’s level of destruction made the dialog at the end with their ‘required’ levels of dialog completed to ‘tie up emotional and other b.s. plot threads’….

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Magnets was SERIOUSLY an act of God in this movie to an extent where everything else made no sense… Like him suddenly joining everyone at the end, and they are all like smiling and ‘meh, let help eachother’… it was just too tie things up that make no sense. After what Magneto did, AND HE IS LIKE ONE OF MY FAV’S YO, like geeking out and all, but PUT A BULLET IN THAT MO’FO’S H E A D yesterday, NOW -he needs to go, he just devastated the entire world, w/ no nukes it is middle ages,… sorry, I GET IT, this is a movie, but after all those movies there could had been character moments that were not just regurgitating the same plot threads and brand images that actors have required in their contracts and the producers will make money of the merchandising and licensing so the ending was just ‘fill’…

FOX: It is OK to build upon past stories now, you have enough movies and merchandising crap that you can have your plots and characters flow into NEW STORIES AND BETTER MOVIE ENDINGS now… PLEASE

Boycott all Fox X-Men movies, the ending of this was lame for something this ‘Epic’, and Moira or whatever her name is, should had always been from Europe, and a geneticist, and had a kid w/Xavier, and he never should had wiped her mind -he is not a coward, but MacAvoys over dramatic voice is also anti-climatic at the end… Sorry @$$ ending for something that is now only ‘epic’ as a merchandising / licensing franchise, and something movie stars use as a global stepping stone branding campaign -yeah, REWARD YOUR FANS, don’t f()^ w/out wallets and time while jobs are outsourced and automated, and everything is made to bread down and take money, and traffic, and asphalt, and Apocalypse movies that after SIX X-MEN movies turns out to ALMOST work =ME LIKE STORM SO MUCH, that gal his so amazing= Alexandra Shipp is about to EXPLODE, that white mohawk n her face is totally worth seeing the movie alone, I have to say… See that Alexandra Shipp movie that has the blue guy with the rebar sticking out his neck, and some guy that gets bald… List to Chemical Brothers during the movie n ‘chill “=)

OK, – Age of Apocalypse has just f()ck!ng aswsome graphics, and I liked how the storm continuity was kept together… BUT, ha! geekn out… after FIVE X-MEN MOVIES NOW, not counting the other spin offs…, yo man, wtf! Pietro was the best opportunity to have Magneto form his Brotherhood in that movie, and the whole lack of confidence telling him he was his son… F()c^ that…! No way, so lame… the ending as a SIXTH installment in the saga GLOBAL franchise: dud. I agree w/other reviews that say the whole ‘getting the band together again’s was using up the gist of the span of the film, the ending could had EASILY culminated in several kick ass battles, and the whole geek satisfaction w/your normal ‘consumer’ leaving the theater going -“Wow, Apocalypse is the S+!+, I want to go read comics about him…!” but no dice, and Magneto should had assembled some Brotherhood out of nowhere at one point w/Blob, Mystique, her oracle girlfriend, and Pyro w/Rouge… The fourth Horseman instead of Magneto could had easily been Kitty Pryde, or even Jean Grey -yeah, Jean: point being = regardless of who the fourth horse man could had been besides Magneto, You Do Not Have That Much Destruction And Then Think Just Ending That Guy Apocalypse Is Just Going To Lead To Anything Remotely Resembling Their `90s And Whatever Else Era B.S. -cities were disintegrating, and Nightcrawler is made out to be a ‘b!+(+, still with his ridiculous scars, and meek self pity praying -the comics, the REAL Nightcrawler always had grace, and class, and style, and he had confidence, and was never ever really able to get over people freaking out at him, this actually very civilized person -kind a decent extreme example how how someone from Europe would generally be considered ‘different’, and at the very least ‘alienated’ in most towns and suburbs where most ‘Americans’/consumers live. So, good job on the intro though for Jean and Scott -Scott Summers though should had been in a school for the blind when they first showed him, as he was hiding his ‘disability’/power after he and his brother fell from that plane, stick with the original plot(!) its easy -see how much cooler I could had made this movie… The ending was too ‘ephemeral’ and extreme with the level of destruction that it was anticlimactic -and there should had been Farouk there -maybe he could had been the fourth horseman, and he could had had the class psycic battle vs.. Xavier at the end -w/Jean Grey backing him up channeling the P-force…

So the best thing about these new era pieces is the way they can show the parts of history that had never been part of the comics; Xavier and Eric’s history, and Hand, and Raven’s background… So this could had been a great way to have had the story of Magneto’s kid, Polaris, or even Wanda, and Pietro, and have him freak out about his baby’s’ mamma’s death and some similar shtick that would still work the with sequential mythos =because Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chris Claremont, Join Byrne, and so on are all really THAT GREAT, and the movies should flow w/them, their story, OUR Mythos… Not a ‘brand’, or some set of metrics, and contract and marketing patter analysis crap weak over destructive ending -the world would still be in the dark ages, especially considering the oil crisis at that time in early 80s we were all coming out of, and everyone was fleeing the decay of the cities into sprawl and then this movie’s level of destruction made the dialog at the end with their ‘required’ levels of dialog completed to ‘tie up emotional and other b.s. plot threads’….

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Magnets was SERIOUSLY an act of God in this movie to an extent where everything else made no sense… Like him suddenly joining everyone at the end, and they are all like smiling and ‘meh, lets help eachother now, there were people in all those THOUSANDS of building that were going down every ten SECONDS, but Magneto is on our side now…yaaaay, so all you consumers dont get it and we dont care’… it was just too tie things up that make no sense. After what Magneto did, AND HE IS LIKE ONE OF MY FAV’S YO, like geeking out and all, but PUT A BULLET IN THAT MO’FO’S H E A D yesterday, NOW -he needs to go, he just devastated the entire world, w/ no nukes it is middle ages,… sorry, I GET IT, this is a movie, but after all those movies there could had been character moments that were not just regurgitating the same plot threads and brand images that actors have required in their contracts and the producers will make money of the merchandising and licensing so the ending was just ‘fill’…

FOX: It is OK to build upon past stories now, you have enough movies and merchandising crap that you can have your plots and characters flow into NEW STORIES AND BETTER MOVIE ENDINGS now… PLEASE

Boycott all Fox X-Men movies, the ending of this was lame for something this ‘Epic’, and Moira or whatever her name is, should had always been from Europe, and a geneticist, and had a kid w/Xavier, and he never should had wiped her mind -he is not a coward, but MacAvoys over dramatic voice is also anti-climatic at the end… Sorry @$$ ending for something that is now only ‘epic’ as a merchandising / licensing franchise, and something movie stars use as a global stepping stone branding campaign -yeah, REWARD YOUR FANS, don’t f()^ w/our wallets and time while jobs are outsourced and automated, and everything is made to break down and take money, and traffic, and asphalt, and Apocalypse movies that after SIX X-MEN movies turns out to ALMOST work =ME LIKE STORM SO MUCH, that gal is so amazing= Alexandra Shipp is about to EXPLODE, that white mohawk n her face is totally worth seeing the movie alone, I have to say… See that Alexandra Shipp movie that has the blue guy with the rebar sticking out his neck, and some guy that gets bald… List to Chemical Brothers during the movie n ‘chill “=)

BOYCOTT ALL FOX MOVIES OR I WILL KEEP POSTING THIS… (sorry-hahahhHAAAHaaaHaaa -seriously this movie is full of special effects that will look nice after you wait and watch it eventually on your own home flat screen…