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Did we need it? No, did we need Spider-Mans introduction in civil war? Again no, it was just just a cool way to get wolverine in the movie, perhaps yes it took you out of the apocalypse story to perhaps set up his own next movie but that's the only real big issue with it.
But Spider Man didn't hijack an entire second act. He was merely there as a participant of a battle that was crucial to the story of the 'civil war', and his solo intro scene involved dialogue with a character that was actually important to the story, Tony.
Wolverine's cameo in contrast, necessitated the entire cast to be transplanted to a different story altogether, and then needed an extended fight sequence focusing solely on him. It's an awesome sequence, but it's time wasted when it could have developed the Horsemen. That's the issue, and it's only an issue because the Horsemen are so underdeveloped.
So should hey just skipped his origin and had him apart of the school, chances are you would have learnt even less about him that way just like X1, no matter how the origin was handled it was still a good starting point for the character to see his powers manifest to him being part of the school and meetin Jean.
Ok tell me, what did we actually learn about Cyclops from that scene? He went to school I guess? You get the same effect if we already had Cyclops entering Xavier's, blindfolded, and meeting Jean, and then we see dangerous his power is when he splits the tree in half.
Now if the opening scene was set in an orphanage, that would be a different story.
Well see to do it like that might not actually have given them more development, it would just glue them together as a couple and all we would know is that they are a couple, a couple who apparently decided to help apocalypse together
Maybe if they had shown that they knew each other in apocalypse that could have been something.
Yeah I guess with Kinberg writing it, introducing them as a couple would not have improved things. I was thinking along the lines of the script having a better writer when I suggested this.
Apocalypse did not do great numbers, but it came out better than many of its competitors in a summer of scorched earth. Ironically, this will make Fox more inclined to double down on making more movies in this series. Again though, hopefully better ones too.
Agreed totally with everything you said. I wonder why this summer was so bad though? Has the hyped films like Deadpool, BvS and Civil War being released early in the year burned everyone out?
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