This is probably going to launch as part of a wider selection than Planet of the Apps did, but I think a computer company doing shows about computers can come off as the sort of inward-looking thing that’s best not to overdo (see also TV about TV, movies about movies, books about books....)

Besides all other things that have been raised about the movie, doesn’t it seem like everyone underreacts to meeting aliens for the first time?

Besides generally not being very good, Apocalypse also wastes the sense from DoFP that the characters have an open future now, by not really finding anything new for its major characters to do, and making several moves that seem to prequel X-Men 1.

He’s a Native American weirdo with a mustache, bossy authoritative posture, with a gym outfit, face leg, and a cane. 

Bit preempted by Domino in Deadpool 2, though.

Wouldn’t mind Mojo if they went with the nightmare-tinged version from very early on, rather than the TV parody stuff that got heavily amped up when it became an X-Men concept.

“You have navigated your characters out of the woods alive. You lose.”

It’s clearly had a rocky production, but it’s rare for a fairly big film like this to be just plain buried.

It’s striking how much the Doomsday Clock pages above are intertwined with the actual publishing history of DC Comics’ characters — when you’re playing to an audience that aware of it, is there that much point in trying to do deck-clearing exercises on the continuity?

Sounds like it might have been One Cut of the Dead?

Apocalypse playing up some prequel-to-the-Singer-films elements rather than a wide-open new timeline probably didn’t help with making the difference here clear.

They might havehad a more subtle, varied set of songs lined up.

The bits to do with Gambit, anyway. Plus some bad phonetic English.

It’s an odd jump from the first one indulging the audience with a thin all-the-big-heroes-fight-all-the-big-villains (which is maybe a bit more forgivable for the first example of its type), to the second indulging Shooter’s “but what would you *really* do with ultimate power?” musings.

Don’t you want people to buy NOS4R2 instead?

Release the Mankiewicz cut! 

The telephone network bit is in the book, making it the mobile network looks like only a small update.

One slight obstacle is that though TV series can do more effects on their budgets than they used to, the superhero series on air do have some obvious beancounting about which powers are expensive to show.

I’d say episode 13 of season 1, which is about where it starts to get better and which gives you a run-up to the first big turning point.

This description of how Kechiche shot the sex scene sounds similar to the one in Blue is the Warmest Colour, except with even more boundaries crossed: