@knocturnalzen10 - I haven't either but my roommate did and said its just BLAND. It just exists and is emblematic of the very epitome of mediocrity.

it made him want a break from the X-Men for a while.

@knocturnalzen10 - My roommate said The Last Stand was at least never boring. You knew those characters, had connected to a good amount of them.

He didn't care about the kids in DP at all. The movie as a whole just meandered along. I'll Kodi this or wait for it on tv.

@knocturnalzen10 - In my opinion, it wasn’t as bad as everyone says it is. The final battle was well done, but the first two acts were a complete bore that I almost fell asleep from. I can see what the film was trying to do, but it failed completely in its goal. Magneto is the best character in the film in my opinion.

@realDonaldDuck - Fassbender did a terrific job. McAvoy too.

@knocturnalzen10 - That's probably the right way to sum it up.

@DnA - looks like they're about to dance

@BlackBeltJones - Yeah, I had just read that... the industry post-mortem reports have begun.

One interesting bit in there pins some blame on James Cameron:

“At first, the movie had a release date of Nov. 2, 2018. With more work needed on the movie, it was pushed to Feb. 14, 2019. Then, with marketing already underway, Fox pushed the release date to June 3, 2019. Initially, the studio messaged that the move was to take advantage of a Chinese release and hopes for a strong global performance.

However, insiders tell THR that the move was to placate James Cameron, Fox’s most important filmmaker, and his concerns for his movie, Alita: Battle Angel. According to one source, Cameron felt Alita would lose horribly when facing a December opening weekend that included Aquaman and Bumblebee, with Mary Poppins Returns opening up two days earlier. He wanted his expensive movie shifted. Stacey Snider, according to this source, obliged, giving Alita the February date and moving Dark Phoenix to June. “Emma, Hutch and Simon begged her not do it,” says this source.”

@BlackBeltJones - sounds ironic that Cameron may really like to "SINK SHIPS"

@BlackBeltJones - The new X-men cast Series was weirdly managed, that is true. The decade jumps made everything feel disjointed, and nothing naturally lead to follow ups.

Another thing I found interesting in that article was the report of meetings within the company to figure out what had gone wrong with Apocalypse leading to it making $200m less than Days of Future Past. One big thing that stands out to me is that DoFP made $400m more than First Class, and I personally would pin most of that on the return of the original cast, especially, Stewart, McKellan and Jackman. *That* felt like an event... plus seeing the original Jean Grey, and Cyclops, and Beast at the end... having the timeline fixed so that the s**t version of the Phoenix stuff from the Last Stand never happened.

And then... they ignored that restored future instead of following up on it. We went back to the less exciting cast in the past, and stayed there, likely for budget reasons (the all new cast was far cheaper, I’m sure.). Audiences would have cared had they gone back and done a new film with the restored cast... Jean and Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Storm... maybe be smart and add Deadpool’s Colossus and NTW, and that was the cast that took on Apocalypse in 2016...

What might have been. Ah well.

@KWilly - I think it was supposed to be 2 movies originally