The latest trailer for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse doesn’t have any mind-blowingly new developments, but it does fill in some character details with glimpses of Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) before he becomes the fearsome, godlike mutant; Quicksilver joining the fray; and Nightcrawler!
“You are all my children,” Apocalypse intones, “and you’re all lost, because you follow blind leaders. No more false gods.” Just this ancient mutant and his four horsemen, looking to cleanse the earth so that only the strong survive. Too bad they didn’t realize that Charles Xavier’s students are ready to wage war:
X-Men: Apocalypse comes to theaters May 27.
Where’s Jubilee? Did she die on the way back to her home planet?!?
@1: The trailer seems to be focused more on the villains and on the established X-Men characters. True, I don’t see Jubilee in any of the team shots of the X-Men, but maybe her role in the story is as a civilian who gets drawn into the conflict and ends up joining Xavier’s school at the end. Or something like that.
Why don’t these movies excite me anymore. It’s like they’re all the same. The rockets going up are probably a dream sequence, or will be changed by time travel via the main villains defeat. So predictable. Of course, maybe I should watch the first one with the stupid young X-men that look nothing like their older selves. People don’t change that much in that amount of time….sheesh.
Looks as boring as an alien attack from a wormhole over NYC where NOBODY gets killed…..yeah, in NYC, a city of 50 billion people…..and nobody dies. Weird.
BTW, blue chicks are NOT sexy. That is the sign of a bad infection.
This looks like it’ll be fun, at least.
@3/aiki76: “People don’t change that much in that amount of time….sheesh.”
It would be unrealistic to expect actors cast to play younger versions of existing characters to look exactly like the original actors did at the same age. Only on very rare occasions do you get such a fortuitous resemblance, e.g. River Phoenix and Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones or Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy for Spock. Most of the time, we accept the inevitability of a more imperfect resemblance, like Chris Pine and William Shatner or Ewan McGregor and Alec Guinness. Sometimes prosthetic makeup is used to increase the resemblance, as with Tom Hardy in Star Trek: Nemesis or Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper, but usually we just suspend disbelief.
@3: Ease up on the hyperbole. Your estimate of New York City’s population is several orders of magnitude off (Seriously, NYC isn’t seven times more populated than Earth!), and the idea that no civilian died in that battle is completely unsupported by every film and series that followed.
@7/Erkhyan: Specifically, the trailer for Captain America: Civil War shows that the death toll in the Battle of New York was 74 people. Which goes to show how much better the Avengers were at their job than Man of Steel‘s Superman, considering that the invasion of Metropolis had a death toll in the thousands according to a newly released Batman v Superman clip. (Although 177 people died in Ultron’s attack on Sokovia.)
Are we not suppose to notice that Mystique is now wearing a costume over her natural blue nudity? I get that she often just morphs clothing as part of her disguises but its also been established that she’s actually not wearing anything (although her genitals and nipples are concealed somehow). I suspect that Jennifer Lawrence has finally had enough.