J-LawForever

Slapping.

That's a great group photo and the Mother's Day thing.

Tati_SwanJones

jen looks great!!!

can't wait for tomorrow!!

Violent Delights

thanks for starting, Tony

and all the updates

J-LawForever

What's up with this here? Making it a main focal point of their advertising. Who are they advertising this movie toward? Men who hate woman? or Internet fanboys who don't like her? Either way. It's really strange. I mean sure one thing. But to keep using this image is a bit unsettling.







No one else is being assaulted. So I just find this really, really odd. Or maybe its just me. :p

totally_0bsessed

I find the strangling pic being used in promotions unsettling too. They probably wanted to show how threatening Apocalypse is but I think they could've used another shot instead, like the one with the disintegrating background or something.


QUEEN

I'm really excited for the cast interviews.

J-LawForever

Okay. glad to see i'm not the only one. I said this on another board and they said I was being a bit crazy by saying this. Mainly cause of my feelings towards her.

I would say this if it were any female character really.

Yes. #QUEEN. And I can't either! I can't wait for the TV appearances. They should be starting up soon.

mlkj13

Tati_SwanJones

Im gonna miss that thing but I'll be waiting for the videos

TPF1138

There's been a few reactions on twitter since the London press screenings yesterday, all of them positive, but this is the first from a source that I trust...



Ben Cook's a smart guy, and he knows story, so this is encouraging.







I do think that's the intent though; to unsettle. All those billboards are about making the villains (the Horsemen) look formidable. Having the eponymous villain, the big bad, threatening the life of a main character, and Jennifer Lawrence to boot, is about making people think, 'Oh ****, this one's for keeps!'

It's about selling the stakes involved, and using the movie's biggest star to do it. In that respect, it's a very effective image.

That said, I get how it could be interpreted as you say. There are certainly unfortunate connotations that can be drawn from what is in effect an image of a large man strangling a woman, but I think this is a case of the promoters innocently failing to see any such connotations. Their intentions were just to showcase an arresting image that illustrates the crisis level really quite starkly.

sunworshipper

I don't mind it because I don't believe that it is gratuitous. It seems to me that Fox is saying that this event is not only very important but possibly the pivotal moment of the film. That Apocalypse is on the brink of crushing the X-Men and winning everything. I have my guesses about what immediately follows.

TPF1138

BTW Simon Kinberg has apparently confirmed the next X-flick to be set in the 90's. No more info than that, but just FYI.

I'm calling Mutant Massacre and Nathaniel Essex aka. Mr. Sinister. The Onslaught story though, would be great for McAvoy, and Phoenix is sure to factor in there somewhere...



Yeah, nor do I.


I suppose we'll see on that score. For the moment though, I'm just reading it as 'things are BAD, and they could get worse'! Duhn duhn DUHN!!!!

If McAvoy was as big a star as Lawrence for instance, I suspect they'd have turned Apocalypse beating him around the mansion into a poster.

In fact they should have done that anyway...

sunworshipper

Fan trailer. Nice sense of tension.

Violent Delights

TPF1138

Violent Delights

I posted them in as many threads as possible