Dark Phoenix wasn't great...but still better than Apocalypse...
Both were terrible.
Sure, both are far from the greatest X-Men movies, but they are also above the worst. I think DP worked overall bettert than Apocalypse.
Both are FAR from perfect, but Apocalypse gets the edge for spectacle
Dark Phoenix absolutely delivers. Anyone saying otherwise has poor taste in film or is simply a moron. Agenda critics and box office be damned.
Apocalypse.
Perhaps I'm too forgiving of the X-Men movies. It's difficult not to channel that child from years back that forged a love for the material. The new quadrilogy, with the exception of Days of Future Past, is so fucking hit and miss. So much shit - so, so much shit - piles on and distracts you from the stuff that's truly brilliant. With reference to the film-off here, flip a fucking coin. Maybe Apocalypse, and maybe only for Magneto and that still dope as fuck cameo scene.
Oh, and how utterly heart-breaking to waste Jessica Chastain's talent like that. Ugh.
Dark Phoenix is such a good finale. No matter what the dumb critics have said, it is damn good.
I was quite enjoying Apocalypse, I can't pinpoint the exact moment it turned but by the final fight scene I was just miserable and annoyed. They really made a complete mess of one of my favourite X-Men villains, introduced way too many characters with very little for them to do and some of the special effects just gave me a headache. Dark Phoenix is boring and completely underwhelming but it's not as bad as Apocalypse.
apocalypse by far, a mediocre movie >>>> a movie worse than x-men origins
No question Dark Phoenix destroys the sloppy prior movie. Dark Phoenix offers quite a bit and is very satisfying. Apocalypse has few cool moments but ultimately is a cop out and a waste of great characters. All we end up getting is very powerful characters making "I'm pooping" faces.
Apocalypse is disappointing, Dark Phoenix is somehow even more disappointing.
That's pretty much the perfect way to put it, but Dark Phoenix is one of the worst movies I have ever watched
on 6/9/2019
I've come to really hate Apocalypse. It's a movie where as I watch it, I find myself enjoying some aspects, but as it goes on, I find myself quickly losing interest. It's third act is way too over the top, the villain was horribly bland and there's a needless amount of characters and sequences added in. So I had low expectations for Dark Phoenix... and I have to say Dark Phoenix is a better movie than Apocalypse. It has some pretty cool sequences and character moments and keeps itself focused enough instead of trying to match Apocalypse's "larger than life" spectacle. The biggest problem is the direction. Simon Kinberg should've just stayed on as a writer because, man, most of the ideas here are seriously misguided. All the ideas are very good and could've made for better character moments and more political subtext- but they don't do anything with them... Charles big ego? Why isn't this explored more? Quiksilver and Magneto's relationship- not only is it not even resolved but it isn't even mentioned (in fact, they wasted Quiksilver's character in general), Jean's backstory is interesting, even with all things considered, but rushed. I hate to say it but Dark Phoenix is high budgeted fan fiction. The dialogue is atrocious, all the characters seem off like all character development from previous films have been forgotten about and even the actors, apart from Nicholas Hoult who is great, seem off. James McAvoy resembles his Split characters more than Professor X. And Apocalypse at least was shot like a high budgeted action movie with wide takes letting us have a since of the location, while in Dark Phoenix there is an overkill of close-ups. It also has a horrible plot thread involving aliens. Why aliens? It was as bad and pointless as that Simpsons episode with the jockey elves. Anyway, despite it's flaws, I still kinda enjoyed the experience and I will take it over Apocalypse!