X-Men: Apocalypse (Freebie)

Friends From Work: An Unofficial Marvel Podcast

Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines. You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel, but you can never strike god! (Apocalypse). Oh boy… Here we go. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/friends-from-work-an-unofficial-marvel-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	All right.
0:15.5	Welcome to the end of the world.
0:18.2	Welcome back to Friends from Work, a podcast about all things in the Marvel
0:22.2	Cinematic Universe hosted by me, Kyle Sconiwell, and my friend Robbie Earl. But if you're
0:28.1	listening to this, it means you are a subscriber to Friends from Work Plus. And so you already
0:32.3	know all of that. We've been on a journey going through the entire Fox universe, specifically at this point, the X-Men universe from the early 2000s and now mid-2000s.
0:44.9	And last week, we officially had a lot of the X-Men timeline reset with days of future past.
0:54.1	And so in a lot of ways, X-Men Apocalypse is the first new entry into what this
1:01.2	days of future past, Logan's actions, what it looks like now in this new universe,
1:08.5	where really only first class is the film that has kind of in a way
1:12.6	happened now outside of some memories.
1:14.9	Yeah.
1:15.1	And so, Robbie, this is an interesting film because we have been kind of teasing this one for a while
1:22.1	just in that we have now hit the threshold where these films are truly new to both of us,
1:29.9	including, I think, next time with Dark Phoenix, a film that truly we both have not seen
1:36.8	at all.
1:37.2	Right.
1:37.7	So welcome to Oscar Isaac and X-Men Apocalypse, Rob.
1:43.9	Man, I had not, I've said this.
1:46.7	I think I've seen a lot of this, and like most of the scenes seemed vaguely familiar, but I really, like, this was essentially a first watch for me, especially in the context of this ongoing journey.
2:05.3	And I do think, like, you know, looking back at the time when this came out, we've always talked about kind of what was going on in other superhero worlds.
2:15.8	This was 2016, right?
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