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

[chaseter]

He had the ability to sleep with Marilyn Monroe.

 

[SAUspartan]

I wonder if the reason Mystique was crying for Azazel in the past is because she slept with him before he was killed? Nightcrawler in Apocalypse!!! lol.

 

[croboy82]

I wonder if the reason Mystique was crying for Azazel in the past is because she slept with him before he was killed? Nightcrawler in Apocalypse!!! lol.

I don't think it was a coincidence

 

[psylockolussus]

I wonder if the reason Mystique was crying for Azazel in the past is because she slept with him before he was killed? Nightcrawler in Apocalypse!!! lol.

Hmm I don't think so.

 

[SAUspartan]

Hmm I don't think so.

Me either, but the thought crossed my mind..if say Apocalypse takes place in the Late 80s...Kurt could be 17. It could work. But as you said, not likely.

 

[titansupes]

Alright, just saw the movie a few hours ago.

It's ****ing scary how happy I am. I'm speechless. I need to sleep on it to get my thoughts together. Amazing work.

 

[Daywalker89]

Saw it twice and gave it a 9. Easily one of the best CBM and the best xmen movie. Great job to all involved.

Spoiler

Daywalker's stand out scenes : Magneto flying (with the stadium) then the sentinels join him with a badass pose, I lost my ****. All i felt was dread. The score in the future scene when the future sentinels are being released/coming was perfection. i just felt a Terminator vibe coming , the sense of being scared when i saw those sentinels being released from there pods. I just smh and thought no way are they surviving this, i knew what was coming. So i had a feeling the kill moments would tug a nerve but those metal mofo's were relentless and sick. There killing methods were straight up nasty. I was abit disturbed i ain't gonna lie.

 

[Micromind]

Just saw this, liked it !

It is better than Cap America The Winter Soldier !

My Score 9 / 10.

 

[Comic_Figgs]

I know Im a few days late. lol.



This Movie was just amazing


Bryan Singer crafted an amazing story. Juggled all those characters brilliantly. It really was as they were all saying The Avengers type movie for the X-men Universe.
The way they had it so that it wolverine going to the past and that the mind can take so much and that his healing factor was able to sustain the amount of time he was in the past was really well thought of my opinion.
One thing I wasn't too impressed with was the fact the Sentinels were to advanced in the future. With the adapting ability of their mutant powers. It gave to me that Terminator T-1000 feeling. haha. But overall it was still done well. The Sentinels in the past were really awesome! If only they had the voice and saying " Mutant Identified. Destroy " Like from the X-Men TAS. Would of geeked out large!


The way they had Charles be addicted to the serum because he couldn't take hearing the people's voices was written so well. Quicksilver's scenes stole the show with his wit and high energy speed. That breakout scene was so amazing!


I loved how the characters were all used. Wolverine wasn't the frontrunner here and the Lead. Just the Glue like Coulson was for the avengers. McCovey, Lawrence and Fassbender steal the film with their brilliant acting and showing how their motives are all so different but yet in the end want the same goal for mutants.


Great film. Would pay to see it twice for sure.


9 / 10.


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[P Supreme]

Best X-men movie to date

Things I loved:

Xavier's are very moving and emotional James knocked it out
J. Lawrence was great as Mystique loved her
Magneto's speech to charles in the plane EPIC STUFF
Magneto in general I LOVE THAT CHARACTER he owns
Future sentinels were very manacing and a true threat
Power Displays were breathtaking

Minor Nitpick:
I hated the "hulk Beast" just didn't care for it

9.5/10

 

[X-Maniac]

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[Shikamaru]

Spoiler

Saw the film last night. Well, time for my review. I don't usually like to write reviews - I usually prefer to discuss films back and forth as they are, but this is an exception. Mainly because I'm rarely in the X-Men boards and I have a lot to say regarding the continuity and future of the franchise. Even in this review though, I won't go as in-depth into things like themes and character arcs as much as I will in the things that specifically impressed me.

First I'll give a general overview on what I thought of every film in the franchise.

X-Men - It's an alright/average film. Not much to say. I do think it's overrated. I've been hearing it get so much praise over the years, when I think it's just ok.

X2: X-Men United - I'd love to give it a 5/5, because I freakin' loved this movie. It was one of my favorite CBM's. The problem is that I haven't seen it in almost a decade (last time I saw it was probably in 2005), so I don't know how it holds up today. Hopefully I don't go back and be disappointed by it like I was with Spider-Man 2 (although I still think it's a good movie, it wasn't the masterpiece I remembered from childhood).

X-Men: The Last Stand -

Spoiler

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - I had fun while watching it, but didn't really think about it much. It's another one I have to go back to.

X-Men: First Class - Loved this film. It has some huge continuity issues (which I now don’t mind as much due to DOFP) and a bit of gaps in logic, but it works great as a stand-alone film. More specifically, it works great as an Xavier/Magneto story. The period piece setting is also used incredibly well and offers great social commentary.

The Wolverine – A good solid movie. It’s a classic and fun-yet-gritty Wolverine adventure brought to life. I think that sums it up very well. It also has the perfect Wolverine characterization that I was waiting for in the movies.

My opinion on these films may overall seem generally positive, but there were still specific trends that bugged me about them. Trends that I mostly associate with Bryan Singer, thus not really being thrilled with his return. Those trends are: making Wolverine the protagonist, underdeveloping other X-Men or reducing them to glorified cameos, generic black leather costumes, and screwing up the continuity further and further. Going in, I expected a great stand-alone film but for those trends to continue.

And to my surprise, those trends either weren’t there or were present but totally worked. This film REALLY puts the X-franchise not just back on the right back, but on the best track it’s ever been on IMO.

Much like First Class, this is a Xavier/Magneto story and character study, despite having X-Men in the title. And it is a fantastic at being just that. This really is Xavier and Magneto’s movie, though much more Xavier’s. This is the best usage I’ve seen of Wolverine in all the X-Men films. I’ve seen people describe him as the film’s Han Solo while the other films tried to have him be both Han and Luke, and I couldn’t agree any more with that. The film still has Wolverine in the spotlight as a protagonist, but the spotlight is entirely on Xavier. I wish the original trilogy could have incorporated him in this same style.

As I said, this is a Xavier/Magneto story. But unlike First Class which was a Xavier/Magneto story that still had the X-Men in the background, this is literally just a Xavier/Magneto story. There are no X-Men here other than Beast, which plays into Xavier’s character arc, his dynamic with Erik and even the time period. You could argue the future X-Men still get shafted and turned into glorified cameos, and that’s a totally fair point, but I was fine with it due to them having already appeared in a film trilogy. It wasn’t like when they introduced characters in the OT or in First Class, where it was the first time we were introduced to them and they got the shaft nevertheless. Speaking of Xavier, I freakin’ loved him in this. McAvoy plays a pitch-perfect beaten, hopeless, broken, burned out Xavier and I can totally see his take on the character grow into Patrick Stewart’s portrayal.
The future scenes were incredible. I love how bleak and horrifying it looked. The way the Sentinels adapt and kill mutants – characters we’ve spent multiple films with – was very disturbing. It actually felt like there was no place to hide. Like there was no hope. Complete despair. The black suits worked well with that, so I didn’t mind them as much in this film. One of my complaints going in was there were no good costumes in the 70’s, but as I said, it works because there’s no X-Men in the 70’s.

Finally, to my surprise, the continuity is actually fixed. I really wasn’t expecting that going in. I doubted it over and over again. Now to be fair, the film continuously screws with the continuity up until the very end. There’s no explanation how Xavier is back, how Wolverine got his adamantium back, how Trask can exist in both present time and the 70’s, etc. That annoyed me throughout the film. However, none of that matters by the end because every previous film save for First Class is erased from continuity and since nothing in here contradicts First Class, it works. Also things like Xavier being alive and Wolverine having adamantium work fine if you look at it as just a sequel to First Class. Not fixing the continuity was my biggest beef with this franchise and I’m glad to see Fox & Singer have acknowledged and fixed it.

This is something I said in another thread, but First Class and DOFP feel like a two-part prequel to an X-Men reboot to me. First, they're both more of an Xavier/Magneto centered film as opposed to X-Men films, about them during their younger years, which took place before Xavier formed the X-Men as we know them. Second, First Class spent its entire screentime contradicting the previous films and establishing a different world. Then DOFP comes out and actually makes it a different world with different events, given the ending. Third and finally, the final scene is clearly meant to pay a tribute to the original trilogy and cast, and we know the next film will be a sequel to the Past events with a young Scott/Jean/Storm, which is how you would generally start an X-Men reboot.

My biggest criticism with the film is with some of the gaps in logic and science. I get this is a comic book movie, but there’s a LOT of things that I just don’t buy. First Class had that problem too, but this has it just as much or even more. How exactly can Kitty send people back in time? How did Wolverine survive in the water so long when I was pretty sure his healing factor couldn’t help him with drowning? Where did Magneto get the Sentinel blueprints and how did he know where to find them? Most importantly, how does Trask’s plan work? Mystique can’t mimic powers, she can only mimic shapes and forms. That absolutely made no sense to me. I would love to hear some explanations regarding what I missed.
Overall, this is a great movie. I think I’d rank it a bit over First Class as the best X-Men film. Again, I’m not sure how it holds up X2 since I haven’t seen X2 in almost a decade.

This is a fantastic year for superhero films. All three films this year for a 5/5 from me. Last time I gave three CBM’s a 5/5 was in 2008. I hate to compare them since they’re all good IMO, but I think they were all roughly around the same ballpark and had the same amount of effort put in them. Guardians has a lot to live up to.

 

[roach]

How Kitty Sends people through time: Kitty's powers are that she can phase through solid objects. With training Kitty probably learned to phase through time.

 

[Micromind]

How Kitty Sends people through time: Kitty's powers are that she can phase through solid objects. With training Kitty probably learned to phase through time.

Good point.

Space - time fabric of cosmos. [Physics 101.]

 

[Shikamaru]

How Kitty Sends people through time: Kitty's powers are that she can phase through solid objects. With training Kitty probably learned to phase through time.

That's a good point.

 

[roach]

I had a longer post about Quantum tunneling and wave theory but I decided against it.

 

[X Knight]

what was the deal with Bishop's power?

he absorbed energy, then "channeled" it through his gun??

 

[GremlinZilla89]

what was the deal with Bishop's power?

he absorbed energy, then "channeled" it through his gun??

Obviously.

 

[djsunyc]

the film was well done but they ask us just to accept so many things that were not in the comics. and basically wiping away the first 3 xmen movies in one shot too doesn't sit well with me. they have now introduced a way where anything that happens in a movie can unhappen and make any "death" lose alot of it's importance.

 

[X-Maniac]

what was the deal with Bishop's power?

he absorbed energy, then "channeled" it through his gun??

Yep. They probably tried to make it different from Shaw's energy rechannelling, and from Havok's red energy blasts fired from his body/hands.

 

[X Knight]

Obviously.

Yep. They probably tried to make it different from Shaw's energy rechannelling, and from Havok's red energy blasts fired from his body/hands.

ah. ok.

 

[Super Jim]

Um... SPOILERS!...

Saw the movie yesterday and wow, it was great!

There were some things I absolutely LOVED! Some things I didn't like, and some that were questionable.

I'm going to attempt to list the main ones:

What I liked:

- Quicksilver! The way they handled his character and powers was perfect. The scene where he runs around the room taking out all of the bad guys... perfection! Also loved how he was shown with a younger sister AND how he mentioned that his mom "once knew a guy who could do that" (control metal).
- Blink's look and powers. Again, perfect! Loved, loved, loved how they had her use her powers along with the other X-Men to battle. Even when she was battling alone, creating portals so the Sentinal's energy beams hit other Sentinals was so good.
- Warpath's look.
- Bishop's look.
- Beast's look.
- Iceman riding an ice sled. Been wanting that for a while.
- Liked the nod of it being Bishop that Kitty kept sending back.
- Liked how they showed us young Havok's special suit and Dragonfly's, I mean Angel's (not Angel's) wing, when Magneto went to go get his helmet back.
- That Rogue was shown with Bobby at the end, and also that Kitty and Piotr were "together", even though they were just teaching.
- That Bret Ratner can go suck it since his legacy is now that everything he did has been undone!
- Peter Dinklage is amazing! But, more on that in the other list.
- Cool how they killed some of the X-Men. For example, pulling Colossus in half was pretty good!
- They killed Storm!!!! Yay!!! That was something I've wanted since her "you know what happens to a toad" story.

What I didn't like:

- The main premise. The whole movie is wrapped around this idea that the government can take Mystique blood (and stuff), get some DNA (and stuff) and create super-duper power altering mega-anti-mutant robots. Cool and all, but, um, Mytique only has the ability to look like someone else. Um, she can't, like, steal their powers, and stuff. So the whole premise is crap. I know, JLaw is big right now so they had to focus on her and all, but come on...
- Kitty's new power. This should not have been her's. It should have been Professor X. We're talking about sending the mind back in time into the body of a younger self, and how that has anything to do with a phasing ability is beyond me. At a minimum it should have been Professor X and Kitty. Yes, it would have made the "talk" between young and old Prof. more difficult, but it still could have happened. He's Prof. X and should be able to multi-task. Also, it would have forced a change to the concept of how they dealt with the Sentinals, but I'm sure that could have been worked out as well. Maybe just have Professor X have to help Kitty since she's sending Wolvie back so far.
- We didn't get to see Kitty fight. All she got to do was run away and use some power she shouldn't have to send someone back in time. Would have loved to see her phase Colossus into one of the Sentinals and they have him blow it up from the inside out.
- Beast's serum used to let Professor X walk, but causes him to lose his powers. Not a fan. Seemed so unecessary. Yes, helps the "Professor X must choose to get his powers back" storyline, but that wasn't needed.
- Beast being able to control his powers. Why was this needed? They could have just had Professor X use his powers so everyone saw Beast as normal.
- Why would Magneto decide to just kill Mystique when the obvious choice was to kill Trask and keep Mystique safe. Keep them from getting her and the Sentinals would never become unstoppable.
- Would have liked to have seen Kitty and Piotr being romantic (kissing or something) at the end. Maybe him painting a picture of her and them being all flirty.
- That they want us to believe that Mystique dropping the gun would have changed the future to the point where everything is wonderful. I know that part of this story is that the dystopian future is fixed, but everything was just too perfect at the end, if you know what I mean.
- How could they leave out a scene where Wolverine intervenes in a Sentinal attack down on street level, saving Kitty or some other young female character???
- How could they leave out the X-Cemetary? That is such a pivitol Days of Future Past thing.
- The future X-Men just disappearing right after Mystique decided to not shoot Trask. Actually, by timeline pysics, the moment that Wolvie was sent back everything in the future would have instantaneously changed since the past has already happened. So if they wanted to go with the concept of the existing timeline changes around things, then it should have happened instantaneously, but that would have been boring...
- So now Wolverine can't drown? Has that ever happened in canon? Look, he's got a crazy healing factor, but he can still die. Take away his ability to breathe for a significant amount of time and he should be dead, forever!
- What's this thing about how all of the other First Class X-Dudes (excelpt Havok) have been killed off? No real explanation, just some indignation from Mystique and Erik.
- The pysics of Quicksilver's walkman would be that he likely heard a couple of micro-seconds of one notes, not that just because he's wearing the walkman that all of a sudden sound physics warp around him. It's not like he's freezing time so his walkman would still operate. Sounded cool, but come on.
- Peter Dinklage is amazing, which means what a waste of a great actor. There was no reason at all (other than Peter Dinklage is amazing) to make Trask a little person. And how much cooler would it have been to one day see Peter Dinkage as either Alpha Flight's Puck or one of the others that would fit his look?
- Couldn't they have made Iceman's powers a bit stronger? Yes, cool, we had his ice bridge, but how about him using ice to grow physically larger, or create spikes, or an ice shield, or blow apart a Sentinal from inside, etc?
- The way the Sentinals killed Bishop. Overloading his energy absorbtion until he blows up doesn't make sense since he would just redirect that energy. Really, he's the one that should have been impaled.
- Mags looked pretty good for some guy that has been locked up in a cell a hundred feet underground. Clean shaven, nice tan, good health. Hey, guess he has a secondary mutant ability of not having to defacate or urinate, since there was no sign of an appliance that would be used for that purpose.
- How exactly did those metal rebars fall out of Wolvie? Those things were in there twisted every which way. It seemed as if they just fell out as I didn;t see anyone cutting them.
- How would Magneto splitting railroad ties give him complete control of the Sentinals? We're not talking about him being able to just make them move, which would have made sense (they don't have metal, but now they do), but to actually programmatically control them. It almost looked like he turned those railroad ties into fiberoptic cables, which would be just plain stupid, so there must be some other explaination.
- Wouldn't future Magneto have known that breaking his young self out of prison would have likely resulted in his younger self going all rogue, picking up a stadium, dropping it around the White House, trying to kill Mystique and the President, effectively making that prison break the worst move ever?
- How do you have a movie with Nixon and not have him use the "I am not a crook" line? Also, how do you not use the "X-Envelope" (a real life, Nixon related thing) as a story point?
- If the idea is that future Professor X put his mind into his comatose twin brother's body (the only reasonable explanation) then he should be able to walk. And don't try to tell me that the most powerful mind has a mental block causing him to think he's paralyzed.
- Couldn't they have at least had futue Mags or future Wolvie make some statement about having his claws back. Maybe Wolvie is forced to use his claws and says to Mags "Thanks", to which Magneto responds "you're welcome"?
- No Stan Lee? Come on!

But in the end, are these mostly nitpicking issues? Sure, I'll go with that, for the most part.

Plus overall, this movie was the bext X-Men movie yet!

 

[Figs]

Some of those are nitpicks are on a ridiculous level. L...O...L

 

[Jplaya2023]

Can someone provide an updated timeline on all Xmen movies now?

Also will wolvy be keeping his boneclaws now

Why did they bring cyclops back?!?!? He should've stayed dead, no one really likes him and he's not popular like that. I know he's the leader but meh.

And how in the movie did he and Jean come back alive? Did the professor tell them they were going to die and had them do something else or in Jean's case did he just raise her differently and let her use her powers instead of trying to control her?

Xmen the last stand was one of the best movies in the franchise, I hate how it's been retconned. Retcon the first 2 they sucked. Not enough chars or fights in those.

Also is morph going to be in the next one? They need to develop him and Wolvy's friendship like they did in the OG cartoon. He can get brainwashed and join Sinister's team as he teams up with Apoc.

They can have that guy that played mcluvin play morph

 

[Duran Man]

I think Super Film is being facetious.