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| X-Men Days of Future Past; My Review... | |
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| Topic Started: May 29, 2014, 5:54 pm (106 Views) | |
| LightSlayer | May 29, 2014, 5:54 pm Post #1 |
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My 15 year old daughter and I went and saw X-men Days of Future Past this past Saturday night at the 10 o'clock show. We both really enjoyed the movie, it was a good combination of the X-men First Class cast and the original X-men movie cast. I fully recommend this movie if your an X-men fan. Anybody else see it yet? |
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| Blue Phoenix | May 29, 2014, 8:44 pm Post #2 |
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NO, I HAVEN'T, darn it! My son, age 23, gave me a few clues about it and can't wait till I see it too. He's a big tease. We talked over some ideas of what the movie might focus on before he saw it. Now that he's seen it and I haven't, he's driving me crazy with his teases! He said it goes off in a different direction from the previous movies, and that a friend who is knowledgeable in comic lore had to explain part of it to him (the scene after the credits, I think). Is it really that good? |
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| LightSlayer | May 30, 2014, 7:57 pm Post #3 |
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Yeah, we really liked it. |
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| Blue Phoenix | May 31, 2014, 2:14 pm Post #4 |
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Did you understand the scene after the end credits? |
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| LightSlayer | May 31, 2014, 10:04 pm Post #5 |
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Oh yeah, it got me really excited about the next movie. |
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| Blue Phoenix | June 1, 2014, 9:16 pm Post #6 |
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Do we know when the next one comes out? And is there a third after that? |
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| LightSlayer | June 1, 2014, 10:08 pm Post #7 |
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It'll be a couple of year probably. |
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| Blue Phoenix | June 6, 2014, 3:16 pm Post #8 |
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WOW Just saw the movie yesterday. Interesting! ...weird, that new power that Kitty Pride has. Was that referenced anywhere else, or is that an invention for this movie? ...Okay, someone explain the scene after the credits. That was a comic character? |
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| LightSlayer | June 6, 2014, 10:00 pm Post #9 |
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The scene after the credits was... Spoiler: click to toggle Its the set up for the next movie.
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| LightSlayer | June 6, 2014, 10:01 pm Post #10 |
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Oh and Kitty Pride having that power is new to me. In the original source material it was actually Kitty Pride that went back in time not Wolverine, so I think they just used her like this to keep her involved. |
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| Verser Wallace | June 8, 2014, 8:14 pm Post #11 |
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Which power did they give her? Shorting machinery she phases through? |
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| Blue Phoenix | June 9, 2014, 6:50 am Post #12 |
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"original source material"? Was this story told in comics first? Spoiler: click to toggle Of course, in a crisis, that power could be stretched incredibly far without warning or practice. For the storyline! *eyes cross* |
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| Dr Archeville | September 28, 2014, 10:33 pm Post #13 |
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My (Very Silly) Description of X-Men: Days of Future Past. I had a lot of problems with this movie (and the X-Men movies in general). Which is not to say I hated it, there were certainly parts I enjoyed -- the speed effects for Quicksilver were beautiful -- but some of the changes from the source material makes no sense to me. My biggest problem was sending Wolverine back. In the original comics -- "Days of Future Past" is a storyline in The Uncanny X-Men comic, issues #141-142, published in 1981 -- it was Kitty Pryde who went back, mentally sent back by Rachel Grey so her 'future' mind (from the Sentinel-controlled Bad Future of 2013!) inhabited her 'present' body (in 1980). (And Wolverine was killed fairly early in the story!) "Days of Future Past" was a really important story in the comics for the X-Men, and as one of the few Jewish superheroines around, having Kitty be a major player in a story -- one with massive parallels to the Holocaust, no less -- was pretty frackin' important. But instead they send Wolverine back, because Hugh Jackman, turning it into another Wolverine-centric storyline. Which shrinks the remaining pools of female-lead stories that could become films (and Cthulhu knows they'd never do the opposite and take a story with a male-focused story arc and give it a female lead). One way to let Kitty be the central character: have the Bad Future be 2015, have Ellen Page in old age makeup to look in her mid-50s, early 60s, and have her send her own mind back, so she can run around as her younger (actual) self in the 1970s. Or have someone else send her back, as in the comics -- Magneto builds a machine that amps up Mutants powers (as in the first X-Men movie), uses it on Blink so her portals can cut through time and space, but they're not quite stable enough to allow matter through, only energy, so Xavier uses his powers to send Kitty's mind through to her younger self. My other problem was how it ties to the other X-Men films. All seven of Fox's X-Men films are supposed to be in the same continuity/universe, but things were already muddled in X-Men: First Class (Xavier's paralyzed and h & Eric are enemies at the end of X-M:DoFP, but he's walking and they're friends in the flashback of X3 when they first meet Jean Grey), and got more muddled here (Havok and Toad are Vietnam Vets?). In the movie, the Sentinel-controlled Bad Future was in the 2030s, and Kitty sent Wolverine back to the 1970s. (How? Never explained. My theory: her phasing power has evolved to the point where she can put herself or someone else she's touching out of phase with not just matter but the entire spacetime continuum, sending someone to any point in the past of future, but going back is easier than going forward, and sticking within someone's own timeline, a la Quantum Leap, is easier still.) But that means in their original timeline, the Sentinels had been active in the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s (and 2010s and 2020s), so the first few X-Men movies can't have happened. (Speaking of Vietnam Vets, and the Mutants Mystique freed, another one seen in that scene was Ink, whose powers always seemed weird to me, even by comic book standards, which the comments section in that first link go into detail on.) Another continuity hiccup: in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Peter Dinklage portrayed Bolivar Trask, designer of the Sentinels. (Kudos to no mention being made of his size and being treated like any other defense contractor.) But this is not the first time we've seen Bolivar Trask in an X-Men film. He was in X-Men: The Last Stand, helping develop anti-mutant weapons... and was portrayed by Bill Duke (Mac "Gonna Have Me Some Fun" Eliot from Predator). So if the seven X-Men films are all supposed to be tied together, did Trask go into some weird Witness Protection program using a form-altering serum based on the one McCoy made? X-Men: Apocalypse is due out in May 2016 (filming begins April 2015), and will take place in 1983. |
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