As I sat there watching Dark Phoenix, I started wondering why I decided to even give this movie a chance. Before even seeing it, the potential problems that it might have were obvious, plus I haven’t liked an X-Men movie since First Class (not including Deadpool and Deadpool 2). Yeah, it ended up being atrocious overall, but I can’t say …

In artistic ventures, it can rarely be considered a good thing to ignore the sensible and the logical. It’s something that many can appreciate even in a movie as unrealistic as X-Men: Apocalypse.

As you’ll see in just about every movie ever made, the journey is almost always the most important feature. It has the ability to attract audiences, hold their attention and leave them wanting more while making them ask questions when it’s good enough. If done correctly, it can even supersede a film’s climax in its final act. That’s most films, …