He had the balls to do apocalypse though. Everyone knew critics were going to hate him, but fans love him. He made a film for the fans, so he gets all the cheers i can give.

Ka-pi96 said: With the lack of Hugh Jackman it's not that surprising it flopped. I mean, which other X-Men are worth watching the movie for?

magnito... the best character of them all. personally i watch xmen movies for him. 

Well, X-Men numbers aren't great but that doesn't really help Warner. That's like when Apple has a year lower as expected and you try to say how great it was because LG did also bad.

Not to forget that all the other X-Men movies weren't big either (well, Days of Future Past got a nice revenue bonus for good reviews and word of mouth). You wouldn't really expect this one to be big especially after we had already some superhero movies this year (I mean, many  people don't watch a movie every few weeks in cinema especially all from the same category) and with some other decent sized  releases before and after it. BvS released at a very good time without much other stuff in the cinemas. 

It's at $265m WW right now and has still to release in China and japan. It has to beat $460m to be the second highest grossing X-Men movie. 

And it won't get my money, saw already too much superhero stuff this year.

It underperformed too, doesn't make BvS look any better.

Captain America surpassed $1.1b worldwide already. It reviewed better and has been rewarded.

The x-men movies take themselves too seriously and lack continuality. When they dumb them down to Deadpool / Avengers level, they should become hits again. Same can be said about BVS.

I wanted to go and see it but I missed it 2 weeks in a row, I have to settle for a home show now
X-Men comics and animated comics are among the best I rate, the movies anyway are OK but not as good as comics
As an action director Brian Singer is not among the best, X-Men could really benefit if someone like Christopher Nolan was in charge a well balanced story/ Action movie can bring the best of the X-Men

deadpool is kinda low brow but clever in its own way.  BvS and apocalypse are all flash no substance.  Avengers has popcorn action for the casuals and deeper themes and well-written dialogue for the film fan.

Wait, is this a suggestion that Xmen is bigger as a franchise than both Batman and Superman combined? Oh my.

I liked pretty much all of the X-Men films so far but First Class and DoFP were really well done. I hope I enjoy this one when I eventually see it. The hype just isn't there, though.

So anybody want to make a thread comparing X-Men and suicide squad?

On one hand, X-Men was THE hottest franchise of the 90s but has since died down a lot. On the other hand, Suicide Squad is one of DC's lesser known properties but has The Joker and Batman in it. Which one takes it ?