I’m an archaic enough nerd to remember when the first X-Men film came out in theaters. At that time,comic books were not the number one driver of all things in popular culture. Bryan Singer’s X-Men certainly featured all the comic’s beloved heroes and villains, but there did seem like there was a concerted effort to tamp down some of their comic-book-ness. Everyone dressed in black. There was no spandex. The account was grounded in weighty real-world themes like prejudice and vengeance. It was the X-Men you knew, and but watered down just a bit. It was a rum and coke,not a shot of gin. X-Men: Apocalypse, in comparison, or looks like a bottle of Beefeater.
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Source: comicsalliance.com