33.) X-Men: Apocalypse [5/27/2016 - 3D]

The previews for this film have been running for so long, I honestly thought I might have seen it already. When I did see it, I found myself missing the more coherent trailer. There have been few movies which so profoundly misunderstand the characters and the team at the core of the film. The only really enjoyable action sequence featured the a brief appearance of Wolverine. Most of the movie involved people standing around with arms raised and inanimate objects flying around, for no good reason. Magneto was a bad guy until, for no reason, he wasn't. Mystique just walked around talking the whole time, working from a credibility she never validated. Quicksilver was funny, but served no purpose except to remind the viewer of the exact same scene he was in from the last movie. The movie was full of great mutants, and none of them amounted to anything, until Jean Grey, without any struggles whatsoever, went beast-mode on Apocalypse, before returning to normal. Psyloche was under-used, Nightcrawler played only a small part, and Jubilee might as well have been a piece of furniture. Things just seemed to happen until, without much reason, they stopped.

The theater was packed, and people applauded at the end. I wept for the X-Men.