[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

I kind of feel sorry for Ratner since he got handed a pile when Singer jumped ship to go to the Superman movie. Then once he ruined that, Marvel decided to bring him back to the X franchise. The funny thing is in hindsight, you can really see just how bad his X movies really were. I am curious to see how convoluted Apocalypse is with Singer once again involved in the script and Vaughn not there to fix it.

Haha I did not expect the TMNT2 trailer to be so good but it amused me a lot.

I really don't think Singer has done all that terrible of a job with the films honestly...and while I don't work in Hollywood or behind the scenes, I really don't think that what Ratner gave us was entirely Singer's fault. I feel that Singer was trying to give us something along the lines of what Marvel is doing with the Infinity War story arc, something that would have taken time to build to eventual climax, while it seemed that FOX was was obsessed and in a hurry to crank out that Phoenix Saga in a clean 90 minutes so they could finally crank out that Wolverine spin-off that they had been talking about for years. The fault with Ratner, was that the movie just got so bloated with characters who's sole purpose was to just simply be there, or to make comic nerds nod their head and say..."holy crap...it's such and such" that it just became a bloated, hard to follow mess (or...a 90 minute long episode of Gotham...lol.)

In hindsight, I still see Singer's films as pretty good. The first X-men film was what it was....not a great film, but it was a pleasant surprise that said..."Hey...it IS possible to make a superhero film that could survive on the big screen for a change, and is not straight to video material." Flashing forward...it's pretty cringe-worthy, but who knew that 20 years later, we wouldn't be able to imagine anyone OTHER than Hugh Jackman as Wolverine?

X-2 is one of my favorite superhero movies to this very day. I remember sitting in the movie theater thinking, "holy crap...this movie is bad ass." and it still resonates some of that feeling with me whenever I watch it.

DoFP is probably my favorite film of Singer's, just barely edging out X-2 and First Class (which are interchangeable in my eyes.) simply because it gave us something I'd never thought we'd see, Sentinels, and it made them work. They were terrifying to watch in both the future and the past, and for the first time I think, I was actually able to empathize and vicariously understand just why mutants feared them so much, which was something that's much more difficult to convey in the comics when Rogue and Wolverine are routinely tearing them limb from limb without sustaining so much as a scratch in between the panels. Add in Singers pretty ingenious retcon to correct both his and Ratner's previous sins, and it gives me faith that despite the naysayers, Apocalypse will be just fine.

The CGI on Bebop and Rocksteady is a bit rough, but then again it was on the turtles last year when that movie's first trailer debuted. There's plenty of time for them to clean it up. Hearing Bebop talk trash back at the turtles though, oh man did that give me a nerd-gasm that I had been waiting for since Secret of the Ooze disappointed me as a child so many years ago.