{"id":8412,"date":"2016-06-12T20:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2016-06-20T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T22:57:30","slug":"x-men-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/x-men-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Those with the greatest power&#8230; protect those without. That&#8217;s my message to the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/strong>, released in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Charles is happily running his school for mutants. Erik is happily married and has a daughter in Poland, living a normal life. When Erik reveals his power to save a coworker, things go badly. When a cult reawakens Apocalypse, the first mutant who ruled Egypt thousands of years ago, he intends to destroy the world &#8212; and build a new one that only the worthy will inherit.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd <strong>X-Men<\/strong> trilogy is one of the most consistently great trilogies ever. Of course, it&#8217;s not done &#8212; there will be another movie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about friendship, working together, and accepting yourself for who you are.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also about fighting and destruction, but at least the fight sequences are interesting with the mutants using their various powers.<\/p>\n<p>As in <strong>Days of Future Past<\/strong>, when Quicksilver enters the movie he makes a grand entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The story takes place in 1983 &#8212; some characters go see <strong>Return of the Jedi<\/strong> in the theatre.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a large cast, but the story does a terrific job of giving each character something interesting to do.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Oscar Isaac, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Directed by Bryan Singer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/x-men-days-of-future-past\/\"><strong>X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/strong><\/a>). The music by John Ottman makes lots of use of his theme originally from <strong>X2: X-Men United<\/strong> but it&#8217;s a great theme.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/x-men-first-class\/\"><strong>X-Men: First Class<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Those with the greatest power&#8230; protect those without. That&#8217;s my message to the world.&#8221; X-Men: Apocalypse, released in 2016 Charles is happily running his school for mutants. Erik is happily married and has a daughter in Poland, living a normal life. When Erik reveals his power to save a coworker, things go badly. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-8412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}