#poor directing

[arashimaru]

That fight was pretty brutal. I just wish the extras' reactions are more realistic. They're way to chill standing around the street where cars flipped, the pavement cracked, and supergirl lost against a supervillain.

And why the heck the fight took place and ended on the same street where they can literally fly everywhere around National City.

[shrapnelstars]

I just saw X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Can we get rid of Bryan Singer, please? He doesn’t know how to balance mood in a film at all. It was pretty good, but it was a serious downer, even with the happy ending. His casting choices suck, too. Ellen Page as Kitty Pride? Kitty is a sweetheart and is a little bit shy. Ellen Page always looks like she hates whatever she’s doing and can’t be bothered to give a shit, and that definitely showed in this movie, just like every movie she’s in. I also didn’t appreciate that Apocalypse, a burly African character in the comics, was played by waifish, pretty, white boy in the stinger.

Even if Singer is taken out of the equation, as a matter of personal preference, I’m not interested in seeing any more X-Men movies without Nightcrawler. He’s my absolute favorite character, and he has been in only one of the many films.

Even in the one he was in, he was completely sidelined because of issue number one: these directors and writers can’t get off of angst, angst, angst. That’s why Quicksilver played a minor role in DoFP. He’s cheery, sassy, and always making jokes, much like Nightcrawler (who also holds the bonus of being canonically adorkable). For some reason, these devs hate levity, and it makes the movies a bit of a chore to watch.