the second reviewer from Forbes is totally shading the first one from his colleague
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As it stands, however, it is a film with much promise that it cannot quite live up to. It isn’t the worst X-Men movie by a long shot, and I’m surprised so many reviews say it is. It’s better than Origins, better than The Last Stand, and actually almost (but not quite) on par with the first X-Men outing (a film I like, but which over time has been surpassed by most of the rest of the series, in my estimation). It’s a 3-star movie, with potential to have earned 3.5 stars if not for some glaring mistakes and editing issues.
The key is, X-Men is a great series, so even a mid-range average entry is still entertaining. I think a lot of the criticisms of this film feel a little extreme and hyperbolic, and are perhaps a problem of perception — Captain America: Civil War is so damn good, and our expectations of the genre so heightened, that a film like X-Men: Apocalypse gets trashed and called the worst of the franchise or a total failure when a few years ago it would’ve probably been perceived as an average, acceptable but not great entry in the genre. Our ability to recognize and judge average fare is, I fear, atrophying and our tendency toward “it’s great or it’s awful, it’s the best or the worst” judgments leave no room for anything in between. Maybe I’m mistaken, but looking at the field of critical analysis lately, it sure seems to lack a measured and balanced eye for anything existing outside of narrow pass/fail parameters.
the first review by the other hack had a headline calling X:A a franchise-killing disaster and made X3 look like FC
All you guys are a damn mess acting like the film is tragic. The score keeps raising with every review. Watch it get to the 90, then everyone will be saying how amazing it is.
The first day reviewers where def fans of the superhero genre. The biasism is real.
the second reviewer from Forbes is totally shading the first one from his colleague
the first review by the other hack had a headline calling X:A a franchise-killing disaster and made X3 look like FC
Yes, at forbes coming through! What a mess!
[quotw]extreme and hyperbolic, and are perhaps a problem of perception — Captain America: Civil War is so damn good, and our expectations of the genre so heightened, [/quote]
All you guys are a damn mess acting like the film is tragic. The score keeps raising with every review. Watch it get to the 90, then everyone will be saying how amazing it is.
The first day reviewers where def fans of the superhero genre. The biasism is real.
It was easier to get a decent score when The Last Stand was out. Now with every studio having 2 or more comic book movies per year anything that's less than great will get slammed. My guess atm is 55.
Fox should fire Kingberg and hire Joss Whedon who has actually written X-Men comics and who loves female characters, get someone else to direct like Brad Bird or someone like that.
he's still young and he can't do anything else so he'll cling to Xmen for a long time
the second reviewer from Forbes is totally shading the first one from his colleague
