video X-Men: Apocalypse and the Absence of the Mundane

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Late Night Ponderings is a series of mini-editorials that covers a wide range of subjects. In this episode I discuss X-Men: Apocalypse's deleted scenes, and how stories could be improved by including the mundane and benign. 

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Yeah, do agree with you. That's something I've noticed alot in today's media is that they seem to care more lately about being flashy & throwing as much as they can at their audience in a vain attempt to catch your attention. That's one complaint I've heard about that Batman versus Superman movie, how they just kept throwing in side stories to make it seem more epic. There's no shame in having silent parts to a movie where we can just watch the characters reactions.

 

Though, what you said about the comedy parts of X-men might very well be the mundane, everyday parts of their lives. They all are, more or less, a group of teenagers and in that part of life everything is overdramatic anyway which is why we rarely see anyone over thirty in most movies these days.

 

Also, one last thing... dear lard is that owl in the end credits creepy as all get out!! I can't even tell if it DOES have eyes!

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Yeah, do agree with you. That's something I've noticed alot in today's media is that they seem to care more lately about being flashy & throwing as much as they can at their audience in a vain attempt to catch your attention. That's one complaint I've heard about that Batman versus Superman movie, how they just kept throwing in side stories to make it seem more epic. There's no shame in having silent parts to a movie where we can just watch the characters reactions.

 

Though, what you said about the comedy parts of X-men might very well be the mundane, everyday parts of their lives. They all are, more or less, a group of teenagers and in that part of life everything is overdramatic anyway which is why we rarely see anyone over thirty in most movies these days.

 

Also, one last thing... dear lard is that owl in the end credits creepy as all get out!! I can't even tell if it DOES have eyes!

I'm glad to get feedback on this, since I noticed I wasn't alone in the "You can give these characters humanizing moments" camp. Especially considering the X-Men's Themes, characters and symbolism. 

 

X-Men has had some great comedy moments and also some rather terrible ones depending on the writer. I noticed when the movies had those moments of levity, it humanized the characters and gave them some depth. Which is why Storm was one of the worst ones in the films since she maybe had one scene like that in the entire franchise. It was my big complaint against Batman V Superman since it was just mostly Bombast and not a lot of small character moments other than the whole "Martha" thing. 

 

Thank you so much for watching though, that really means a lot. I'll be covering other things like this at points.