X-Men Apocalypse: 10 Comic Book Mistakes The Film Should Avoid
5. Really Terrible Costumes
Whilst the first X-Men film is mostly po-faced to a fault, it does have a couple of zingers (mainly attributed to Joss Whedon's script doctoring, although he is the man responsible for Storm's toad struck by lightning clunker). One was full meta, with Wolverine complaining about their costumes and Cyclops asking if her preferred yellow spandex. Scott Summers' reference to the more colourful comic book costumes came full circle in First Class, where the sixties movie team did put on some brighter outfits. Since then, though, the films have stuck with the Matrix-inspired black leather, which work a lot better on the big screen than the comic get-ups. Hopefully that trend will continue in X-Men: Apocalypse, because the comic book source material is chocka with fashion disasters. Cyclops has long hair and is missing a sleeve, Wolverine is missing an arm and has replaced it with a metal stub, and Colossus dons a Ninja Turtle headband. The eighties fashions are far preferable to any of that.
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