Days of Future Past Days of Future Past News and Discussion - - - - - - - - - - - Part 43

[Malik]

The cinematography in the future fits very weell with the setting imo.

 

[Rike]

http://xavierstea.tumblr.com/post/84460191612
http://xavierstea.tumblr.com/post/84460106132

 

[Takato]

And the very first time I wore them:

Spoiler

Nice shoes. Also good luck at the NYC premiere, hope you get in!

 

[Figs]

I love how in that one line from Magneto it lets us know that those other mutants from First Class are either captured or killed. Singer said he was going to try and fix continuity as much as possible and that one line was enough for me to be like "ok, let's move on" t:. A lot better than not mentioning them at all.

 

[Iceman]

I'm never going to get over that...

I'm just glad you didn't stuff it up. Would have been embarrassed for you. t: You actually did very well!

 

[Iceman]

The cinematography in the future fits very weell with the setting imo.

I love the look and vibe of the future.

I love the look and vibe of the past.

 

[Rike]

http://xavierstea.tumblr.com/post/84343923357/collateral-damage

 

[xrs13]

I love the look and vibe of the future.

I love the look and vibe of the past.

This! I am so far loving the way the two are so different yet work so well together even just in the trailers. Really sets the two tones well.

I have never been so nervous for a film review in my life

 

[Loganbabe]

The BB site mentions "the summer of hate" where mutants were being killed and Erik bringing them up isn't placing their specific deaths (or capture) on Charles but how Charles who (in Erik's view) is the most powerful and influential mutant has done nothing but become a reclusive drunk feeling sorry for himself while their people are being slaughtered.

Erik is quite obviously trying to blame Charles for not helping the others. To shake him up, make him react? Maybe, but still incredibly unfair.

And I find Erik's total disinterest when he finally knows what the bullet did to Charles really disturbing. A "reclusive drunk feeling sorry for himself"? No, Charles wasn't only that. He tried to help young mutants until his school was closed. And being paralysed from the waist down isn't just a flesh wound, something you can just brush off as something minor. In many ways Charles was in a prison like Erik, maybe even a worse type of prison. Actually, he had all the right to feel sorry for himself.

 

[Iceman]

Erik will become full on Magneto one day. At some point his logic will start getting a bit more dubious.

 

[Iceman]

This! I am so far loving the way the two are so different yet work so well together even just in the trailers. Really sets the two tones well.

I have never been so nervous for a film review in my life

They've done a great job of establishing both in the limited time and material that they've had to show us so far.

I don't get nervous for this **** any more. What will be will be.

 

[Rike]

Erik will become full on Magneto one day. At some point his logic will start getting a bit more dubious.

It's already getting IMO.

 

[Smilodon]

Were my ears deceiving me or was Hugh channeling Steve Blum for a second when he said "Come on Beastie..."? What a nice little surprise.

On another note, who else loves the cinematography in this film? Not a fan of the supersaturated future, but the past is so rich and diverse with color, yet sombre and moody at the same time. I especially love how the cinematographer emphasizes the actor's emotions by placing the right amount of shadow on their face at the right time. i always admired that about Singer's DP.

This. I didn't really think Singer's first two X-Men movies were all that cinematographically. Of course, times were different back then and he wanted a lot more of that gritty, muted feel to the movie but Singer and Newton have definitely amped up their game in order to compete with the caliber of comic book movies that come out today. The set pieces, the lighting, the costumes, the vibrancy of the past and the bleakness of the future looks superb and I can already sense tumblr folk salivating over the prospects of making 3x2 gifsets out of the work in the film. I'm salivating over the Magneto escape sequence actually. From seeing Quicksilver to the scene where the glass roof is falling in slow motion (I wonder if that shot that scene with the same FPS as he shot Evan Peter's running scene), it just looks like it has such awesome cinematography.

I think it's also good that it connects visually with how First Class looked. First Class was also really vibrant and saturated so I'm glad that it doesn't look drastically different and maintains some semblance of visual continuity.

Hugh's 70's hair and 2023 hair is glorious, and his dialogue! It's so classic Wolverine. Judging by just the clips released, Wolverine's characterization in the film is top notch. He doesn't have to be brooding over Jean anymore since we ended that story in The Wolverine, and now we just get tons of Wolverine having fun in the past where it is a little less bleak.

JLaw's scene with Dinklage was pretty good. Edited to hell though so it just looks choppy but it's good to see that Mystique back. (But with an actual backstory!)

I'm really excited for Fassy again too. I actually enjoyed his Irish-German accent in FC near the end of the film but it wasn't that jarring to me when he switched back to evoke McKellen. He articulates and ends his word very similar to McKellen, and the more I focus the more I hear Ian's voice in Fassy's voice. I'm loving the interactions between Charles and Erik though, I think McAvoy and Fassbender might be the best casting choices in a superhero film since RDJ/Ledger in '08.

 

[rory]

I think McAvoy and Fassbender might be the best casting choices in a superhero film since RDJ/Ledger in '08.

This. One thousand times this.

 

[xrs13]

They got THE best 4 people to play young and old. I remember being scepticle of McAvoy before FC. But I was won over.

 

[rory]

Wolverine isn't going to meet himself in the past because his future mind is in his past body.

But this brings up the question of what happens to the mind of 1973 Logan during this time...

 

[Figs]

They got THE best 4 people to play young and old. I remember being scepticle of McAvoy before FC. But I was won over.

Personally I say 3.

After all these years, I still don't love McKellan's Magneto. I like McKellan as an actor but he kind of played the character a bit too soft, if that makes sense. Well, actually that could be blamed on the scripts as well.

 

[Smilodon]

Yeah, Magneto in the comics is a much more physically imposing man and had a bit more ferocity to him (which Fassbender conveys by the bucketload), but I think most people let that slide because McKellan portrays him with such gravitas that you don't necessarily think about what he lacks compared to the comic version. I think that's a testament to Ian's ability as an actor. I love Ian as Magneto and can't imagine anyone but him and Fassbender doing it currently, but I can understand what you mean.

 

[Morti]

Personally I say 3.

After all these years, I still don't love McKellan's Magneto. I like McKellan as an actor but he kind of played the character a bit too soft, if that makes sense. Well, actually that could be blamed on the scripts as well.

I see what you're saying, but then I just remembered Magneto's very last encounter with Stryker in X2 (he gets kind of vicious and ruthless) - it's a nice call back to how Magneto acts in First Class - very cut throat.

 

[Iceman]

Personally I say 3.

After all these years, I still don't love McKellan's Magneto. I like McKellan as an actor but he kind of played the character a bit too soft, if that makes sense. Well, actually that could be blamed on the scripts as well.

I think of the 4 he comes in last, which is no big defeat. Even though he was good, McKellen's Gandalf for eg is much more iconic than his Magneto. I definitely prefer Fassbender's version.

 

[xrs13]

Personally I say 3.

After all these years, I still don't love McKellan's Magneto. I like McKellan as an actor but he kind of played the character a bit too soft, if that makes sense. Well, actually that could be blamed on the scripts as well.

Really? I loved his performance in X2. And the Chess scenes opposite Stewart were intense. X3 not so much but thats another matter because I didnt really like anyone in that film.

I think individually both McAvoy and Mckellen are the weaker two in relation to their individual scenes but when they are in their two's I think they ooze character.

McKellans magneto was never cut and dry bad guy which is what I loved. Even when telling rogue he was going to kill her you sort of think " he raises a good point" and in X2 when saying goodbye to Xavier after turning dark cerebro.

I just thought they were quite powerful moments that made you think "The humans really do deserve it" haha

 

[Figs]

McKellans magneto was never cut and dry bad guy which is what I loved. Even when telling rogue he was going to kill her you sort of think " he raises a good point" and in X2 when saying goodbye to Xavier after turning dark cerebro.

I just thought they were quite powerful moments that made you think "The humans really do deserve it" haha

It's not that I wanted him to be a cut and dry bad guy, he just didn't have that anger like in a lot of the comics.

I will say that his scenes and dialogue with Xavier were damn good.

 

[xrs13]

It's not that I wanted him to be a cut and dry bad guy, he just didn't have that anger like in a lot of the comics.

I will say that his scenes and dialogue with Xavier were damn good.

Ahhh I getcha , Yeah it would have been cool to see him be a bit more ferocious sometimes. Take X3, the comic/fassbender magneto would have dropped the bridge on alcatraz haha.

 

[Rike]

McKellen > Fassbender.

Yes, I said it.

 

[xrs13]

McKellen > Fassbender.

Yes, I said it.

Based on FC - yes. (No Actor should lose their accent part way through, no excuses )
Based on what we have seen of this - it's close.

I think a lot of people prefer what Fassbender got to do as Magneto over McKellan. He attacked a boat with its anchor, killed two guys in a bar, lifted a sub and murdered Shaw... Kinda beats lifting a bridge.

(Nothing will ever top the killing of Mr. Laurio though)