Days of Future Past Official Rate and Review DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - Part 1

[Snikt]

Just wanted to share my thoughts on DOFP/this franchise in general after my 3rd and final viewing:

I literally grew up with the original trilogy: I was 12, 15, and 18 when those movies came out. They reignited my love of comics, and in a small but significant way, helped shape my life. I "came out as a nerd." I resolved to keep my imagination alive.

I fondly remember going to TLS at midnight opening night with one of my best friends. We graduated high school a few weeks prior, and life took us in different directions, as it is wont to do. We kept in touch, often calling each other up to discuss the latest X-film. Through a little luck and planning, we found a way to get together and see DOFP on midnight opening night. It may sound corny, but I'll always be truly thankful for these films and the memories associated with them.

My life has changed drastically since X-Men first hit theaters in 2000, in good and bad ways. There are definitely parts of my history I wish I could change. So this movie spoke to me, sometimes painfully so. Learning from your mistakes. Appreciating the time you have with your loved ones. Believing in people. All of this hit home for me. I cried or teared up at every viewing. And it felt good. It felt like closure.

The ending of this movie felt for me a lot like it felt for Logan: like coming home. DOFP was the movie I needed in 2014, just like X-Men was the movie I needed in 2000.

Glad you deeply enjoyed the movie. I was actually the same age you were when the X-Men trilogy came out; 12, 15 and 18 years-old. Crazy to think about now.

 

[xrs13]

Okay so I have been in mexico for the past 2 weeks with no wifi so someone please tell me any news, gossip, whatever that has happened whilst I havent been here

 

[JEM]

The interesting thing about ur comment is that I actually did think of Jean when referencing how the women characters have been portrayed in the movies in stark contrast to their portrayals in the comics. Jean in the comics had a hard time controlling a cosmic force which is a lot different than the inability to handle her own power- to me this isn't a good example of strength it's rather the opposite. Its that old adage about women not being able to handle great power. Sure in the comics tons of characters have problems controlling their powers (thats why Charles is there to help them) but it's women and men and boys and girls. In the movies Jean is basically a schizophrenic with dual personality dis- order whose inability to control her power creates a PMS psychotic crazed woman who needs to be rescued by a man. And I wont even get into the stereotypical powerful woman being sex crazed- as was played out when she tried to seduce Wolverine.

Then there's the de-powered Rogue who is virtually vulnerable- true she has her full mutant power in tact but its just an example of the women characters being weaker versions of their comic counterparts.

Storm doesnt display any of her strong leadership skills that are well portrayed in the comics.

Women strength and women in leadership roles within the Xbooks was something that I felt they did better than any other comic. Sure the women in the comics dealt with tons of issues but there was always a balance cuz the men right along side them were going through similar issues. I noted Mystique as a semi-exception cuz theres a ton of things I can site that weaken the character in the movies as well.

So this is just one example of me not getting the feeling, heart, and essence of what I get from the comics.

Hum, the schizophrenic with dual personality is only from X3 if i remember. Jean in X1 and X2 was perfect, a strong women and i can't understand how someone don't see that .

She wasn't damsels in distress and she was strong with Logan and Scott.
When Logan wanted her she said no.
Scott was jealous when she said calm down .

In addition, she saved everyone in X2 . If it isn't a strong woman ....
For the hard time controlling a cosmic force , Jean in X1 and X2 was the pre-phoenix mode, so it was logic .

 

[TWayneP]

Just wanted to share my thoughts on DOFP/this franchise in general after my 3rd and final viewing:

I literally grew up with the original trilogy: I was 12, 15, and 18 when those movies came out. They reignited my love of comics, and in a small but significant way, helped shape my life. I "came out as a nerd." I resolved to keep my imagination alive.

I fondly remember going to TLS at midnight opening night with one of my best friends. We graduated high school a few weeks prior, and life took us in different directions, as it is wont to do. We kept in touch, often calling each other up to discuss the latest X-film. Through a little luck and planning, we found a way to get together and see DOFP on midnight opening night. It may sound corny, but I'll always be truly thankful for these films and the memories associated with them.

My life has changed drastically since X-Men first hit theaters in 2000, in good and bad ways. There are definitely parts of my history I wish I could change. So this movie spoke to me, sometimes painfully so. Learning from your mistakes. Appreciating the time you have with your loved ones. Believing in people. All of this hit home for me. I cried or teared up at every viewing. And it felt good. It felt like closure.

The ending of this movie felt for me a lot like it felt for Logan: like coming home. DOFP was the movie I needed in 2014, just like X-Men was the movie I needed in 2000.

Beautiful

I have similar thoughts and feelings. These films mean a great deal to me in personal ways.

 

[Karelia]

Sun Down's review sums it up really nicely for me as well. I grew up with these films, although what got me really reading comic books again is when Iron Man came out. But I've always loved the animated stuff since I was a child. The film really got me as well.

It's easily my favorite CBM. It had everything in it I would want out of a movie.

 

[BlackFox]

I think thats why it worked so well for me as well, brought back so many happy childhood memories and things I'd always wanted to see on the big screen, the Sentinels flying in with Magneto was just a pure joy to watch and there were many moments like that.

 

[psylockolussus]

Sun Down's review sums it up really nicely for me as well. I grew up with these films.

Same here!

I was in elementary school when X1 came out.
Then I was in high school when X2 came out.
And I just graduated from high school when X3 came out.

So seeing the original cast after all these years was just awesome! I really can't believe it took them a while to bring them back.

 

[PunyGod]

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[Smilodon]

I heard there was a bit of Powell's X3 theme used somewhere but listening to the soundtrack I couldn't find it at all.

In the future though I hope Ottman uses Powell's Phoenix-related music from X3. X3 had a lot wrong with it but Powell is an excellent composer and the X3 soundtrack was great (besides not having the iconic X2 theme). I'd also want Kamen's 'Logan and Rogue' theme back. I think it'd be really cool if that became like the love theme for the whole X-Men saga, be it used for Charles/Erik, Rogue/Logan, Scott/Jean etc.

 

[PunyGod]

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[speno94]

Just realized when Beast injected himself with all those syringes at the end it was to turn into "Hank" and not the opposite as I originally thought. And that's why the Sentinel leaves him. Although isn't he still considered a mutant when he is "Hank"? Are his feet normal now?

I didn't get some things with Hank too. I don't think he was 'wasted' in the film, but he was just sort of 'there' for most scenes and he Beasts out when the action needs him to.

He didn't get any emotional arc of his own and he shared a few glances with Raven at some points, but it didn't go anywhere. He's the same character at the end of the film as he was at the start, they didn't go anywhere with his arc. Sure he used the serum at the end so the Sentinal couldn't kill him, but you don't know if Hank learnt anything from the events of the film from Charles etc, even if he learnt anything from the whole 'Mutant and Proud' theme in First Class. That's when you know a character didn't get a satisfying character arc.

I hope he gets more of an arc in Apocalypse and I think Dark Beast is the way to go.

 

[squeekness]

Just realized when Beast injected himself with all those syringes at the end it was to turn into "Hank" and not the opposite as I originally thought. And that's why the Sentinel leaves him. Although isn't he still considered a mutant when he is "Hank"? Are his feet normal now?

Thanks for this. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was the point of him injecting himself with so much serum. I didn't catch that it as to evade a sentinel.

 

[MarvelU]

Yeah he did it to stop the Sentinel from attacking him, I guess the fact that he injected himself with about 10 syringes, it altered his x-gene enough for it to be hard to detect by the Sentinel. That is my guess.

 

[Mask&Cape]

Hank clearly was still using it in the scene in X2 where he is seen in human form on the TV, where Mystique is about to seduce the prison guard. But after the government set up a Dept of Mutant Affairs he evidently decided to 'come out' as a mutant and stop using it when appointed Secretary of that department. It makes sense.

I don't think that is what the writers were thinking at the time.

The Hank McCoy in X-Men 2 was just an easter egg - they probably just stuck it in thinking it was clever and never considered that they'd ever use Beast.

Yeah he did it to stop the Sentinel from attacking him, I guess the fact that he injected himself with about 10 syringes, it altered his x-gene enough for it to be hard to detect by the Sentinel. That is my guess.

It completely eradicated Charles abilities while he was juiced up so it makes sense that the amount Hank did the same to him.

I actually really enjoyed the movie. I had intended to give it a miss - First Class was the only enjoyable and fun movie in the series and when Singer took over, I figured it was just going to go back to being a movie where nothing happened.

There was far too many cameos and flashbacks though and Stewart & McKellan look nothing like McAvoy & Fassbender - to be honest make and effects are good enough that the younger actors could play their older selves - or even set the future scenes in the late '80's or early '90's.

However, they didn't. Good movie, lots of fun.

I would have liked to a good explanation for why Trask hated mutants.

 

[Guard82]

Same here!

I was in elementary school when X1 came out.
Then I was in high school when X2 came out.
And I just graduated from high school when X3 came out.

So seeing the original cast after all these years was just awesome! I really can't believe it took them a while to bring them back.

Cool! It's neat to know where different people were when the different movies came out. I was a senior in high school when X1 came out, I was in college when X2 came out, and I was a recent college graduate when X3 came out. I agree that it was quite a joy to see the whole cast back again!

 

[Keeria Logan]

Polled is closed. However I would picked a 5/10.

Maybe it's because I am a comic geek and the X-Men movies never live up to what I expect. Maybe also it's because there are too many plot holes that make my eyes twitch.

I get they wanted to use Kitty to send Wolvie's mind back in time because they had to pick someone who was alive back then. I don't get why they still couldn't use Rachel. They had not problem putting in other mutants that haven't been shown before that only the comic book fan would know off. My daughter thought Sunspot was Pyro and really wants to know more about Blink now (I'll have to dig out those comics for her).Also if memory serves me, Rachel was actually from a different timeline which she found out when she went back in time herself and found out her mom Jean was dead. She couldn't then be born. But then I don't know if that was ever changed since I have collected comics since the late 90s.

I wanted more team ups. The "future" just disappointed me in that. Blink was there to get others to where they needed to go but that was it. I wanted more of the "future". I wanted bigger battles. The X-Men comics in the past at least have always found a way to give a good balance to character development, battles and talk on social concerns of the day. I felt this move fell felt on this.

I have struggled with the change in characters throughout the whole movie series. I loved Rogue in the comics. I got to experience her first appearance and her change of character when she joined the X-Men. I remember her long absence and when she came back. I remember her complicated relationship with Remy. Instead in the X Movies she's turned into Wolvie's sidekick. Sigh.

Then to the more recent Mystique in FC. Was there something in the comics since I read them where she grew up with Charles?!? I thought she was old like Wolvie and aged slowly and wouldn't even had been a child when Charles was? I loved the Mystique character from the comics. Complicated. Complicated with every relationship she ever had. The movies totally ignored the relationship with Rogue. We only had a little tease when she met Nightcrawler. I just don't like these character changes that are so far left of who and what made those characters so great in the comic books.

Havok, Cyclops little brother somehow part of FC. Spike, Storm's son shows up in DOFP. Pyslocke used to be a white british chick turned into Asian weirdness and gets a throw away cameo role. Charles never acknowlegdes his half brother Juggernaut. And so many others.

And really this should not bother me so much. With the movies I try to see them as a different universe. Then the movies themselves develop big plot holes. Since FC, it's gotten worse. DOFP just makes my head spin.

I actually gave the movie a higher rating than I was going to because well at least I get to see something on the big screen. There were things I did like.

I do like the fact that my daughter has become a big X-men fan. She got to see the movie early since it's out now. And I will be making an X-Men cake for her 10th birthday. Her friend however gave her a graphic novel that includes Uncanny X-Men #141-142.She has read the "Days of Future Past" now and said to me that she now understands why I mutter so much when I watch X-Men movies! t:

 

[PunyGod]

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[Paradox1]

I concur with both post

 

[Hamill-Joker]

Movies that are adaptations of other media like novels, video games, and comic books should be judged on their own merits rather than how faithful they are.

 

[Nicky]

As someone who has despised the X Men cinematic universe for its horrible mishandling of any character that isn't Wolverine I have to admit that DOFP was amazing. For me, it accomplished what Captain America 2 tried to do which was be a superhero film that didn't necessarily feel like a superhero film. Singer really outdid himself and managed to deliver a perfect balance of heart and intimate character moments with awe and spectacle within a genuinely deep story. 9/10 for me.

 

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[blksuperman2]

Finally got around to seeing this w/ my sons. Reading some of the posts here on how many of you grew up w/ the movie franchise is interesting. My boys were 1 & 2 when the first movie came out and we've watched all the films off/on since. Now that they're 15 & 16 it's refreshing that they are still excited about the X-movies and CBMs in general.

Above all other comics The Uncanny X-men has been my favorite book. The first comic I ever got was Uncanny X-men 202. This movie really tied the franchise together and I feel like this should've been the end. This is a franchise that really needs to be rebooted.

Anyway, I'll start w/ what I liked. The Cast - was all top-notch. There's really not one person that I didn't like in their roles. I said after First Class that I'd love a 2hr movie of Fassbender hunting down Nazis and now I need to see what he was up to between 1973 - 2000. Quicksilver was surprisingly awesome and it felt like a waste to leave him. Blinks powers were really done well too.

What I didn't like was it felt like it was pandering to a middle school audience. I grew up in the 80s so my 70s knowledge is limited but I'm pretty sure most of the technology that was depicted didn't exist and it kept taking me out of film. I'm not gonna harp on it but if we could've had Giant non-metallic robots in the 70s then I doubt there'd be any chance for mutants in 2000.

So Kitty Pryde can now send brains to the past? Magneto is imprisoned? How, exactly? For 10 yrs? How did he escape in the normal timeline and that not be common knowledge? If Mystique is also captured in the normal timeline how on Earth could she have escaped w/o the aid of Magneto?

There were other minor problems I had but all in all I really enjoyed the movie. I give it 8/10.

 

[redmarvel]

I loved this movie. My favourite movie of the year so far.

Quicksilver's scene was amazing and funny, which put it over the top for me.

I'm giving it a 10 for plot, action and humour.

 

[X-Maniac]

What I didn't like was it felt like it was pandering to a middle school audience. I grew up in the 80s so my 70s knowledge is limited but I'm pretty sure most of the technology that was depicted didn't exist and it kept taking me out of film. I'm not gonna harp on it but if we could've had Giant non-metallic robots in the 70s then I doubt there'd be any chance for mutants in 2000.

You mean there wasn't actually a Cerebro in the 1970s?!

LOL... seriously though, this is clearly an alternate/fantasy/sci-fi version of history where Cerebro exists, Magneto is implicated in the Kennedy assassination, a man called Trask is developing anti-mutant technology, and Beast develops a serum that can overcome spinal paralysis. None of that is real!

The important thing is capturing a flavour of the era through fashions etc. The rest is sci-fi.

There's one website that looked at Quicksilver's gadgets and found that the utility belt was accurate, as was the existence of portable stereos and cassette tapes. The design of his headphones is not accurate, the site decided. But still, three out of four ain't bad!

What I didn't like was it felt like it was So Kitty Pryde can now send brains to the past? Magneto is imprisoned? How, exactly? For 10 yrs? How did he escape in the normal timeline and that not be common knowledge? If Mystique is also captured in the normal timeline how on Earth could she have escaped w/o the aid of Magneto?

Yep, Kitty developed a secondary mutation that can phase things through time as well as space. Her power evolved from three dimensions to four. In physics, it's feasible. The movement of particles through a solid barrier (as happens through her 'phasing') is called quantum tunnelling and during that process it is possible for particles to go faster than light and thus backwards in time.

All we know is that Magneto was imprisoned for much longer in the original timeline and somehow escaped (or served his sentence). Mystique was captured and experimented on but was still alive and also somehow escaped - not too difficult for a metamorph like her who we've seen sneaking in and out of top-secret facilities. Neither of these is a stretch, in my view.