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CS: As far as the previous film, X-Men: Apocalypse, there seems to have been a split, in that the people who love the comic books really appreciated it and the people who are fans of the more grounded movies thought it went a little too far in the comic book direction. What lessons did you learn from Apocalypse?
Kinberg: As the writer of it, I thought when we started the movie and when I wrote the movie that we were telling the story of a family splitting apart and coming back together. In the final movie its in there, but its a little buried, and the movie on the surface became about a guy who wanted to destroy the world. The guy that wanted to destroy the world is a superhero movie from 25, 30 years ago. Todays superhero movies that we love the most the Dark Knight movies, Guardians of the Galaxy, the first Iron Man movie, those are movies about human beings in relatable circumstances that happen to have super powers. I think Apocalypse became more about global stakes than human stakes. Thats the lesson I learned from the movie, that human and personal stakes always trump global stakes. Its something that Bryan did, if you go back to the first X-Men movie, what Magnetos trying to do is something global in scale, but ultimately its about saving Rogue. The movie is about Wolverine and Rogue, a guy who doesnt want to be connected to anybody and a girl whos lost. They find each other, and in finding each other they find each other with the X-Men. It was a brilliant way of telling that story. I think with Apocalypse we got away from that a little bit. Maybe we all got a little enamored in the possibility of seeing the world get destroyed and do some things in terms of scale and scope that we havent done in the X-Men movies. Scale and scope dont matter. Audiences today know its fake, theyve seen the world blow up a million times in video games and movies.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...directing-x-men-supernova#8jwfWQswp6ddqB60.99
i do like that he is owning up to his mistakes and i agree a big turn off to XMA especially in the trailers was it felt generic with i want to destroy the world narrative which has been done way too many times and not just in super hero films