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Dark Phoenix (2019)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jim and I went to see the latest X-Men flick, Dark Phoenix. It's not as bad as it's Rotten Tomatoes rating would imply, but it's certainly not good. And it's unfortunately because once again a classic X-Men plotline is burnt (refried, in this case) and all-time great Magneto and Professor X performances by Fassbender and MacElvoy are wasted on a script with muddled characters and paper thin villains. Long time fans of the X-Men will enjoy some great stand alone moments with their favorite characters, and the core chemistry of Xavier / Magneto / Mystique work to get the film's emotional heart a brief jump. But ultimately the film folds underneath the weight of apathy and ugly FX work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another bald movies. We're the officially unofficial podcast for movies. I don't ever do this. Sorry. All the movies.

0:08.0

I've forgot how to introduce on these podcasts.

0:11.0

June and I went to see a movie tonight.

0:13.0

Yeah.

0:14.0

It's called Dark Phonics.

0:15.0

Mm-hmm.

0:16.0

It's loosely based on the...

0:17.0

I learned to read by watching this movie.

0:18.0

On the classic X-Men storyline Dark Phoenix and except for it's kind of like fucked up

0:25.1

immediately recognizable but uh... not quite executed to the pursuit it's dark phonics

0:29.8

not dark Phoenix

0:31.3

uh... jim what did you think of this movie?

0:34.0

Uh, I can't remember seeing a more soulless, humorless, pointless movie.

0:41.0

Like, there's nothing good about this movie. It's, it's so one note, it's a million

0:47.0

pounds of vanilla ice cream wrapped under A blanket of special effects.

0:53.0

I had zero interest in this film coming out of it.

0:55.3

Yeah, it's a bummer because this film is getting like 22% on rotten tomatoes.

1:01.7

Yeah, that sounds about right. No one should be overjoyed at seeing this movie. But it's not like a terrible film. It's just as you said a kind of a pointless film. There are moments that, because I have a,

1:13.4

okay, X-Men are my all-time favorite superhero franchise.

1:17.7

I own something like 13 contiguous years

1:21.4

of every X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, X-factor. I fucking love the X-Men.

1:28.0

And I, so there's a lot for me to like as far as like individual character moments and they've got it's kind of like that Pierce Bronson James Bond.

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