Half in the Bag Episode 110: X-Men: Apocalypse

Moira is there to show Professor X has the not-gays

I love how you can tell Mike is genuinely impressed by Jay's pun but also obviously jealous he didn't come up with it.

In Moira Mactaggert's defence, her presence as a love interest in X-Men: First Class was rather overshadowed by the intense sexual tension between Erik and Charles.

Time to watch another review for a movie that I'll never watch.

Watching this 6 years later and "Bryan Singer makes weird decisions" is one hell of an understatement.

"whats after that? ahh he'll just relax" is literally thanos's story

Not only does Olivia Munn say nothing throughout the movie, her final scene is her staring at Magneto silently while walking backwards out of the frame.

Magneto trashes the whole world, and then at the end, Charles is like, ''Good to see you, old friend." Hahaha

"I loved it in a way where Bryan Singer thought he was making something dark and serious and it turned out to be the shlock that I love" LOL that phrase kills me every time!

Mike, admit your man-crush on Oscar Isaac allready.

They joke about Apocalypse wiping out the earth, cleansing humanity, then sitting on a beach watching the sunset. They literally predicted Infinity War.

I found the whole "Apocalypse's magic turns Charles Xavier bald" thing quite silly - like, can any famously bald characters just go bald naturally these days? Young Lex Luthor goes bald in BVS because of Kyrptonite poisoning or something (which I know has been done in some comic storylines, but still). It's like baldness can only happen in films by some crazy freak accident. I guarantee you that if JJ Abrams reboots the Next Generation as a trilogy of movies, young Captain Picard is going to lose all his hair in some freak space accident that drives the plot forward.

To be fair to the "we can all agree the 3rd one is always the worse" can also be taken to mean Apocalypse. Its the 3rd in the rebooted franchise.

Finally! Now I can know how to feel about this movie!

"Bryan Singer makes such weird decisions" Jay Bauman, 2016

Apocalypse is the key to all of this. If we can just get him working, because hes a scarier villain than we've had before.

Psylocke puts the mute in mutant

Three things that bugged me about the movie: 1. They show Apocalypse building the pyramid with his mind powers, yet his enemies were able to incorporate an intricate booby trap mechanism into the foundations to bring down the whole structure and trap/kill him. 2. The sun shining on the capstone seems to be what initiates Apocalypse's resurrection, seeing as how the worshippers have been going down there a lot but this has never happened before. But the rug covering the hole was left off by Moira; the worshippers were always good about recovering the hole after they went down. So it was Moira who caused this whole thing, but they never acknowledge that in the rest of the movie and she's completely fine with it, like "wow, this is totally happening now, gosh.." 3. Mystique's speech at the end about how they aren't students anymore, they're X-Men, is given only in the presence of Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Jean Gray, Storm, and maybe Quicksilver. Basically all the people who just saved the world together and almost died and stuff. Only one or two of them had ever been to the school before, so they weren't students to begin with. So how do they need this pep talk? I give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she's just workshopping that speech with the others, for when she has to give it to the kids who actually haven't seen any action yet.

Olivia Munn-dane

It is weird that this movie has a scene where he see a little girl and her mother impaled by a sharpened stick, and then later a kid with silver hair is moonwalking around an exploding mansion in slow motion set to "Sweet dreams are made of this".