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Movie Review: Same Old Same Old, Less Fun!- X-Men Apocalypse

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***Spoiler Alert!*** I've always seen Bryan Singer as the Father of X-Men Movies Franchise. Overall, he's a great filmmaker with a few set backs. The prime reason he was able to do great X-Men movies seems to be his understanding of the characters. Once 'The Last Stand' flushed all his work down the gutter (Bryan Singer didn't direct that movie) , the call of making prequels worked out perfect for 'First Class' (Still the greatest X-Men movie for me) . Alternate timeline strategy worked out great for 'Days of Future Past'. With the need of bringing in popular X-Men characters (Scott, Storm, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler and Angel) , 'Apocalypse' set up a badass villain against the X-Men. But, did it work out?! 'X-Men Apocalypse' starts off with Apocalypse transforming himself into a mutant (Oscar Isaac) who's got immortality. Certain Egyptian resistance team, which is against the whole process cause an accident and the transformati

Movie Review: A Super Superhero Movie with Sinusoidal Swings!- Captain America: Civil War

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***Spoiler Alert!*** 2016 is crazy! We've 7 Comics based movies in this year and Supervillains are building teams while Superheroes are fighting each other. One of the movies where Superheroes fight each other is out the gone weekend and has some of the most likable Marvel characters ever. Captain America: Civil War stands out in a lot of departments involved in film-making. With one of the longest and well choreographed action sequences, Captain America: Civil War keeps you involved while also questioning you if you're supporting the right (or left) side. Having said that, the movie has it's own flaws. Bucky Barnes (Winter Soldier) remembers Steve Rogers (Captain America) as his long lost childhood best-friend. With all the unforeseen catastrophes that have occurred every time Avengers fought larger threat, Thunderbolt Ross gets a proposal of Avengers being monitored by 117 Countries' joint committee. While the egoistic genius Tony Stark (Ironman) agrees to the