THEY keep coming in waves — and the latest superhero movie (Apocalypse for short) will lure all die-hard fans, not quite me among them, to fork out tons of cash to cover budgets. The genre is as much part of the millennial currency as film noir a half-century ago. Those who simply see what’s on are surely by now as accustomed to the vast screens, 3-D and Dolby sound as any tween geek.Distinguishing between Marvel and DC (and many derivatives) is probably puzzling in telling who is who, and what their back stories, rooted in the graphic art of comics (or comix), reveal about each separately. Apocalypse is the eighth X-Men movie — and they flicker between different eras in the collective life of the featured “mutants” — so some knowledge of recent cinematic history is essential. Some characters here take time off to see a Star Wars diversion, which seems so self-referential as to be inbred.It’s the computer imagery that stuns: the sensory immersion in catastrophe echoing what could be...
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