I saw "X-Men: Apocalypse" in theaters not to long ago, and when I left I was...confused. I love superhero movies (enough that I've written extensively about superpowers and superheroes, as a quick glance through my article archives will show you), but this one...I have to be honest, I just didn't get it. Maybe it's just because I haven't read enough actual comics or something, but the whole thing didn't really make sense to me. But maybe it made sense to some of you, and you can enlighten me in the comments? So without further ado here is a (not exhaustive) list of questions I had after walking out of this movie. (Don't read if you don't want spoilers, but honestly I wouldn't worry about it too much. This movie didn't make a lot of sense).
1. I get that Moira had to stumble across the new Big Bad's secret tomb so he could be unleashed, but what about that group of chanting people that led her to him? Who are they? Where did they come from?
2. Where did all the people in every city they destroyed disappear to? During the whole movie they kept talking about severe losses of human life, but all the action sequences took places in pretty much deserted cities.
3. Why did the sketchy military people leave dozens of mutants unconscious in the grass after the school was destroyed?
4. On that note, how was Wolverine still being held captive there? In "Days of Future Past" Wolverine went back in time to change history, so that they mutants would end up being hated and hunted to near extinction by the humans and the sentinels...and then at the end of that movie he went back to the new present and everything was fine and dandy, and Scott survived to adulthood and everything. But then this one went back in time again, to the eighties I think. Which brings us to...
5. Why on earth did this movie take place in the eighties? We went through all this trouble in the last movie to alter history in order for there to be peace between mutants and humans, so why undo all of that with this one? Was it just so it would be the same characters we're all used to? But X-men has a ton of characters at its disposal, surely they could have used some different ones.
6. Speaking of changing history, at the end of the movie the new X-Men start training for future battles by fighting sentinel robots. But Wolverine changed the history so that the sentinels never existed, so how could they have known they would be an eventual threat? The sentinels should have ceased to exist in the past, present, future, and in everyone's memories since the last movie.
I'm so confused. This is what happens when they time travel too much. Learn from their mistakes people; changing history just makes a big mess. I think. Because by this movie's logic I could be writing this article in an alternate timeline that exists inexplicably after it's supposed to have been completely altered. Who knows.
