X-Men: Apocalypse - Nostalgia Critic 

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So Magneto is doing this because he lost his family, quicksilver reveals he is family....AND THEY DONT USE THIS! It’s baffling, why wasn’t that used to motivate him to fight Apocalypse?

Why the hell did quick silver not get thanked he literally saved everyone in the mansion and what is so great about mystige

"As you know" should be replaced with, "For those unaware". Makes far more sense then just repeating obvious information.

I found it insanely cute that Quicksilver took the time to save that one girl's goldfishes in that scene too.

The Quicksilver scene with Sweet Dreams is great. Who am I to disagree?

nostalgia critic: *breaths* every movie studio ever: but the chart says

16:15 there’s actually a deleted scene of them going to the mall, in fact it’s kind of charming. There were a lot of scenes focusing on the young x-men that got cut and honestly I think that’s this movies biggest downfall.

Troubled Production: To what extent isn't fully known, but what is known is that Singer’s habit of being absent from set caused problems on set of X-Men: Apocalypse, meaning Newton Thomas Sigel (the film’s cinematographer) and Simon Kinberg (the writer and producer) had to direct some scenes. Olivia Munn revealed that Singer abruptly left the Montreal set to fly down to LA to deal with a “thyroid problem” (something most on set questioned as to why he didn't treat in Canada), returning after only 10 days while simply texting actors “Keep filming” or “It’s fine. Just keep filming without me” in-between. Sophie Turner revealed that Singer was, in her words, "unpleasant" and implied that the on-set tension between Singer and Rami Malek on Bohemian Rhapsody also happened with her. Oscar Isaac also hated the costume and makeup he had to wear to play Apocalypse, which according to him prevented him from being able to properly move or even turn his head to face the actors due to how restrictive and heavy the full-body suit was. Jennifer Lawrence also described the production as "all chaos, no fun" in an interview and it’s understandably theorized by fans that her experience on this set was the main reason Lawrence decided to leave the franchise, though she came back for Dark Phoenix. Olivia Munn also later complained about Singer's and Kinberg's lack of knowledge of the original comics, revealing that the two knew almost nothing about Psylocke's backstory, and originally wanted the character to wear a generic Movie Superheroes Wear Black outfit, resulting in her having to lobby for something closer to her comic outfit.

Now all he needs to do is First Class, The Wolverine, Days of Future Past, Deadpool, Logan, Dark Phoenix, and New Mutants.

Fassbender's not just trying. He's succeeding. This is definitely a bad movie, but that man just doesn't give bad performances.

An idea I had is that he should do "Shrek month" where every week he reviews each of the Shrek movies. It could be fun.

13:15 “My god, he’s really trying!” “He does realize this is the 9th of these films, right?” I lost my shit laughing at this line, Doug. Perfect execution!

"He's the most hated X-Men, why?" Because all of these movies never got Cyclops' character right and for a lot of people this is their only experience with him.

X-men: Origin of Professor X’s bald head

22:12 For whatever reason, I will never get tired of that Quicksilver slo-mo cliché. I've seen it in X-Men Apocalypse, DoFP, Angry Birds Movie, Sonic the Hedgehog and Space Jam 2 and it's still fun to watch.

Every time I see Scott and Jean together, I always wonder what do they actually see in each other? Even in the animated series I always felt like her being with him had a "only because I was head cheerleader and he was captain of the football team" vibe.

"there's alternate timelines, and then there's just INSANITY!" Fate Franchise: "that's rough, buddy"

Couldn't agree more that Quicksilver's "Sweet Dreams" scene was the most entertaining

6:29 As you know, you must never use the phrase “As you know” when writing exposition in a screenplay. However, I have found that even good movies are guilty of having one instance of this lousy phrase. Here is a list of them: - Chinatown - Enter the Dragon - Isle of Dogs - A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Shawshank Redemption - Life is Beautiful - The Book of Life - Balto

Apocalypse should have a body like Thanos. I was expecting some CGI but no... they had to make a story that he transfers his consciousness into another body which explains why he looks like that.

As you know Doug is the Nostalgia Critic

Quicksilver carried this whole movie with that one scene

"The third one's always the worst"? And out came Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War to disapprove that

It does seem like leaders of superhero teams tend to get hated on: Cyclops, Leonardo, Superman, etc... Hell, I remember the Honest Trailers for Avengers (2012) claiming that Captain America was "no one's favorite character". Perhaps it's b/c they're usually the boy scout type that many find to be bland by default. Though there are lots of exceptions such as Optimus Prime.

"Jubilee - Yellow Enthusiast" that came out wrong

"The third one is always the worst!" Let's see... First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse... yep, she banged that nail right on the head.

17:08 Every time I see that puppet, I think to myself "CYPHER RAAAAAIGE"

To be fair, we don't really get a full explanation of Apocalypse's powers in the comics either. He basically can do anything the writer needs him to do.

I just love Lawrence's delivery on the "what I have left" line. It sounds like she's gonna be like, "I'm gonna go fight for what I have left. Anyone want me to pick up anything on the way back?"

Darwin: I can never die Kevin Bacon: allow me to introduce myself

“Half the worlds a sandbox.” Thanos: “Oh Snap!”

I love bow everyone forgets that when striker pulls wolverine from the river in Days of Future Past, the film makes a point to show that it was actually Mystique who had taken Striker's place which is never acknowledged or explained again.

You can't even imagine how bad this Polish sounds for actual Poles...

You brought the puppet and didn't get him to say "CYPHER RAAAGE" Shame, Doug, shame

I like Nightcrawler's Thriller jacket when they're coming out of the movie. He wears it just as well as Michael did.

"It has to be given to people who can add more things instead of taking them away..." Sorry Critic, X-Men belongs to Disney now...

2:12 I knew I wasn't the only who was pissed about how Darwin died in First Class.

The actors for Jean and Cyclops were so unenthusiastic it ruined a good chunk of the movie

6:35 "You see, madness as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push" - The Joker

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I really wish that they had done the “Age of Apocalypse” storyline from the mid-90’s instead of the direction they went with this film. How cool would it have been to see all the alternate versions of these characters? And it would have followed perfectly from the “Days of Future Past” messing with the timeline story.

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"Meanwhile, on a PureFlix set..." Best line ever!

Jubilee: “There’s alternate timelines, and then there’s insanity! Who’s behind this?” Me: “Good question. Who do we know that likes screwing the timeli-oh, wait...DAMN IT, BARRY!”

Olivia Munn was the best thing about the movie, she fought so hard to get a comic accurate Psylocke costume and would accept nothing less than a purple Jim Lee outfit. For that she has my eternal thanks.

The films never got Scott or Jean right it’s upsetting and their relationship was crazy especially with the psych link

I‘m so glad Oscar Isaac got another chance to proof what a fantastic actor he is in „Moon Knight“ after this disaster.

29:46 Does anyone else notice the green screen aura visible around Jean's hair? How bad are your effects if you can't even remove a green screen correctly. Even amateurs know how to do that.

One of my least favorite parts about this movie is how lazy Apocalypse was included. Imagine this alternative for a second: after the Apocalypse opening scene in Egypt and the credits, we cut to 1973, where Magneto has barricaded the White House, and is announcing the existence of mutants to the public decades before they were in the previous timeline. Watching this on a tv screen is a couple: David and N’Dare Munroe. They had previously agreed they were going to stay in America. But now that mutants were just revealed in a terrorist attack, they fear the backlash their daughter will face, since she’s one of the few mutants who shows signs before puberty (her white hair). They decide to move somewhere that news is slower to reach, in hopes she will be kept safe. Cut a decade later, and we see Ororo, like in the comics, being trapped in a building with her dead parents after a bombing. The fear, anger, and grief all combine to awaken her mutant abilities, and she summons a chaotic storm to free herself. This immense display of power registers on Apocalypse instruments, which are designed to seek out the strongest mutants, and the protocol awakens him. We have a clear illustration of how this is a branch timeline, and rather than Apocalypse apparently having never been woken up in the previous timeline due to extra-vigilant rug-placement, we get a more comics accurate epic scene. (Not to mention it’d give us the chance for Storm to finally have an accent).

I just pretend that Days of Future past was the end of this series.

Militia (not Police) in 80s Poland according to: X-Men: Wooden bows Reality: Rubber batons

Harry: Go to Hogwarts, It's a Better School Luz: You Sure about that Kid?

Actually, Psylocke was meant to have a very different outfit in the movie, the actress is the one who requested for the outfit to be loyal to the comics

14:01: "Yes. They actually think you *don't know* what 'apocalypse' means!" Technically it doesn't mean "the end of the world;" it comes from a Greek word meaning "revelation." It's just that The Apocalypse (the biblical Book of Revelation) spent so much of its time discussing prophecies of the end of the world that the term has become widely misunderstood in pop culture.

20:52 I definitely agree with that issue. 😆 when Tony Stark sees Natasha (Black Widow) & Steve (Captain America) again in Avengers Endgame, they're not happy to see each other again either but that makes more sense, they don't even like each other since their first team up movie.

That quicksilver scene it’s so iconic dude

Nobody:... Cyclops: *"I'VE BEEN DREAMING OF A WOLVERINE'S KISS"*

Was psylocke’s costume really that distracting I remember focusing on the scene just fine.

“Apocalypse” actually means “revelation”.

15:44 Well, Gambit was already an adult in the late 70s, as seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I know that movie has been deemed non-canon, and also contradicts Cyclops being a teen in the 80s now, but that’s the only version of Gambit we got in this series.

My favorite part of the movie was when Angel was becoming one of Apocalypse's horseman you can hear The Four Horsemen by Metallica.

"I'm going to fight for what I have left." Well, shouldn't be a long battle.

"I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you" I wanted that Apocalypse😢

"We already know who survives because of the end of Days of Future Past..." Dark Phoenix: *"Allow me to introduce myself"*

I'm gonna laugh if he reviews Cats for Nostalgiaween

It's like the directors failed to understand that a big reason why Wolverine was so popular was because out of all the characters, he was the one that was most similar in behavior/personality to the animated TV show

Xmen should be a tv show where each episode focuses on the battle between using talents for good, bad or ugly.

"Bryan Singer" and "Sodomize" should not be used in the same paragraph.

Apocalypse in this film his looks reminded me of Ivan Ooze.🤔😆

“AS YOU KNOW” “AS YOU KNOW “ AS YOU KNOW” AS YOU KNOW

They actually hinted that Magneto was Quick Silvers father, remember the line ‘you control Metal? My mom dated a guy like that.”

13:20 "He does know this is the NINTH of these films" X-Men X2 The Last Stand X-Men Origins Wolverine First Class The Wolverine Days of Future Past Deadpool Apocalypse Oh my god it IS the 9th!

When I saw Harry Potter, I thought, "Okay but Deadpool would've been funnier." My wish got granted in 5 seconds.

"Can I go to the bathroom?" "Go to the principal's office."

Hell, even X-Men: Evolution got Jean Grey's character right. Speaking of which, why is that show so underrated? It's the first and only iteration of the X-Men where Cyclops isn't an insufferable asshole.

25:29 Oh, it's the "Ant-Man meeting Falcon" detour.

The Pyramids in the “Revenge of the Fallen” were mostly shots of the real pyramids. The only time they used CGI was when the one pyramid was being destroyed. Hell, the scene where John Turturro was climbing the pyramid was real. Yes, the Egyptian government let an actor climb one of the pyramids.

23:25 As well, Infinity War established that Thanos was the main character, & in Endgame I would say Tony, Cap, & Thor were the main characters for that one.

28:45 "Apocalypse" and "Easy to Kill" together sounds crazy when you realize that, in the comics, if even ONE drop of blood remains, he'd still heal from it.

I was introduced to the 90s show at a very young age and grew up with it. To me, Apocalypse was the ultimate villain, menacing and intimidating, insanely powerful both as a mutant and as an influential leader. He had a detailed plan and consistently worked on it. It took a long time for the team to defeat him, including going to the past and gathering all telepaths together, and even then he wasn't killed for good. Here, he's just some guy who decides to end the world and sets it into motion in a blink of an eye and gets himself killed even faster. I expected something like Thanos, but it was like... who was the ultimate DC villain again? P.S. Really? You didn't get Roger to play the Angel? Come on, it's so obvious.

Deadpool: Which Professor? These timeslines are confusing....

How fitting that Nostalgia critic reviews a movie about the end times XD

Please continue to add to the "As you know" montage every time the line crops up.

Nostalgia Critic: [talking about Quicksilver] "Can we just call this series 'X-MAN' and make it a series all about him?" Honestly, I've never understood why FOX DIDN'T do that. That'd be kinda like if Jackman's Wolverine solo movies, The Netflix version of Punisher, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, Tom Holland's Spider-Man, Black Panther, Hobbs and Shaw, and Lego Batman didn't happen. Oh well, at least we have those tie-in commercials he shot. Those are pretty sweet.

Technically In Days Of Future past Magento being Quicksilver’s dad was hinted at. When he rescues him from prison and asks what he can do And he says he can control metal quicksilver says “You know... My Mom used to know a Guy who could do that” so yes it was hinted at and further expanded in this one so it isn’t really out of nowhere

I just can’t wait for his Logan review

Imagine if the X Mansion blew up while Rogue was in it and when Quicksilver touches her to get her out he can’t run anymore and everybody dies.

Good Things about the Young X-Men trilogy: Jean Grey has a lot better Phoenix saga, the young Scott Summers feels more developed, Storm has a more of background, plus, Beast is more relatable, Quicksilver's speed is one of greatest superpowers used, and we have Xavier's school: good these movies and the first trilogy, the costumes are more colorful, Magneto has a lot scenes with his magnetism, lastly, that couple in the record store in Apocalypse might be Gambit and Rogue, if so, that would be amazing fan-service.

Apocalypse - "A Papa Smurf rendition of King Tut" 🤣🤣

9:54 Cyclops: We’re not going to fall in love, (singing) I’ve not been dreaming of your true loves kiss.

Review Scott Pilgrim vs. The World! I want to see how well it holds up after 10 years 😄 So many people didn’t like it at first but then it grew on them and it was always considered ahead of its time. I’d LOVE to see your take on that!

3:42 That was Matthew Vaughn's exact thought process as well. Fox disagreed, and it's why Vaughn didn't return to direct any other X-men movies.

13:00- How the flying hell- Not even Hawkeye or Green Arrow on their best day could pull off an arrow show that stupid!

24:21 - "Meanwhile, on a PureFlix's set" Bravo, sir👏👏👏🤣

"Please don't come near me. That might put a smile on my face and that would make me sad" The truth in this had me rollin off my chair ngl

17:10 CYPHER RAGE!!!!

Aw yes 2016 that was a year

"Sweet Dreams are made of these "

"I'm going to go fight for what I have left!" Clearly that's not the will to live.