X-Men 12: Dark Phoenix (2019) :
While this wasn't the absolute shit show of terrible that Apocalypse was (imo, up there with the worst comic book movie of all time, one of the worst big budget movies in general that I've ever seen), this was possibly worse in that it was just incredibly boring. At least with Apocalypse you could laugh at how awful it was. This just bored me, almost literally, to sleep, despite watching it at 9AM. I nodded off more than a few times. I suppose it's a combination of a lot of things:
The Dark Phoenix thing has been done in every fucking X-Men adaptation since the early 1990s. Every cartoon, every movie series, every game. It's been done to death.
All the young actors who started in Apocalypse are fucking terrible. The scenes where it was Hoult/McAvoy/Fassbender interacting with each other were good. The scenes with Sansa/Cyclops/Storm/Nightcrawler/even Mystique are fucking terrible. Just awful. You can't have a role like this with a bad actress and expect the movie not to be bad. Even Jessica Chastain, who is traditionally excellent in any role she's in, is cast as as character that doesn't emote in any way and instead of coming off like the weirdo alien the character was, she instead came off as bored and sleepy.
The continuity of this franchise is so utterly fucked and nonsense. Forget that the prequel series erased (some but not all?) the original trilogy continuity even though you only care about these characters because you're familiar with what they become in the first 3 movies that now never happen despite the time travel movie that was only possible with all those events happening exactly the way they happened , didn't the last fucking movie have Jean tap into the Phoenix to kill Apocalypse? Let's not even take into consideration the Deadpool and Wolverine movies which also don't fit into continuity despite trading in X-Men movie continuity. Charles Xavier's character has been completely assassinated in the prequel series into being a self serving, scummy, shady, boozy dickhead who uses the X-Men for his personal gratification to the point of willingly putting them at risk of death so he can get awards from the president and then uses his mind tricks to brainwash the people around him to be on his side. But also feel bad for him when old Patrick Stewart is shitting himself and dying in a different movie.
It feels like the movie at some stage was a horror movie, a sci-fi movie, and a straight action movie, then got cut up and a bunch of shit got changed in post-production. The tone is off and inconsistent the entire movie, at some points it's a full bore Michael Bay knock off, at other points it's serious character drama (attempted, it's hard to be serious character drama with such fine actors as Sophie Turner), other times some wild cosmic thing, other times sad and mopey. It's just a mess, and usually there's some entertainment value in such a mess, but all these pieces were jammed together and sanded down so it's just a dull mess. The music especially is horror music throughout the whole movie, even in the action scenes, and it never fits with any scene.
The action is incredibly dull. 90% of the characters powers are standing (or sitting) and touching their temples or otherwise just putting their hands up and grimacing. The few times there is actual physical action, it also looks like shit due to either janky CGI or awkward wire work in the case of Beast, so it's really a lose-lose situation.
All in all this feels like a movie that was completely changed 2-3 times in post-production and none of the possible versions seem like good movies. #DontReleaseTheKinbergCut
