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

[roach]

I understand he used that as an example. What I'm saying is how does using that analogy suddenly coerce the world's most powerful country to declare war? It's unjustified in my opinion at that point in the movie.

After Eric moves half of RFK stadium? OK I could see it then .... but the cart came before the horse in this movie.

a mutant attacked a peace conference...which means they could attack anywhere they wanted and no one could stop them...

...kind of like how terrorists attacked buildings on 9/11 and some people declared war on all muslims.

 

[Rock Sexton]

a mutant attacked a peace conference...which means they could attack anywhere they wanted and no one could stop them...

...kind of like how terrorists attacked buildings on 9/11 and some people declared war on all muslims.

Planes flying into building and killing thousands? That's not what happened in Paris.

Btw, the war was declared on terrorists like Al-Queda, not all Muslims.

 

[NJCaliboi]

My thoughts after finally seeing this on Monday .....

There are a lot of convenient things that happen in this movie, with very little explanation ..... they either just are or just happen, with little to no prior development (some of it because of Singer's intent to retcon):

• Kitty Pryde suddenly being able to manipulate time.
• Eric and Mystique conveniently showing up in important locations midway thru the 2nd act and into the 3rd, one of which was one Eric was aboard the train merging metal into the Sentinels. Actually for most of the movie they're easily getting whisked around to where the plot needed them.
• I still don't understand how Eric was able to command the Sentinels' artificial intelligence, technically he should've only had control over their bodies.
• Beast conveniently having set up a newsroom taping all three networks and then his gizmo for messing with the security systems at the Pentagon. The most well-guarded building on the planet sure seemed easy-breezy for the group to waltz into.
• Beasts formula sure did a damn good job restricting Charle's powers, but such a poor job of his own, which was why it was made in the first place
• Trasks grudge with the Mutants just happens. There was no real reason to fear them and become "the new war" ...... until that scene in Paris, but even then was that situation so becoming of declaring war on this new sub-species?
• The future sentinels being able to replicate mutant powers even though Mystique is not able to do that and it's her DNA that gave them that ability.

Surprisingly this movie didn't have quite the amount of "throwaway" characters I initially thought it might. The nostalgia of the 70's was fun. The movie has a slightly rocky shift from jokes to dead-on serious once Wolverine locates Charles and they break Eric out, but the exchanges between Eric and Charles are what drive the emotions of this film .... especially that scene on the plane. The Quicksilver scene was fun, but makes literally no sense why a mutant with that kind of power wouldn't have been taken a long for the rest of the ride. I thought the end scene when Wolverine wakes up was perfectly sentimental in all the right ways. It's the kind of thing most people have day dreamt about at one time or another when it comes to changing their pasts.

I'm quite bored of the war on mutants story though. I thought the future Sentinels designs were poor compared to their 70's counterparts (would've preferred to see much more of them). Speaking of the future, can they please stop suiting these guys up in that ugly black pleather? While this movie takes off emotionally, the action scenes were lackluster, most of which consisted of Mystique beating up on defenseless extras. For being the only guy who could travel back in time, Wolverine essentially became an onlooker for most of the movie.

I give it a 7.0 - 7.5 ..... The first trailer that came out wasn't lying, this movie was attempting to show a more emotional side of the franchise. The issue for me is it became a little too brooding, which caused some of the movie to drag for me. I'm actually more interested to see what happens with Apocalypse, because it's a fresher story to tell.

For me your points are mostly valid and I do agree that there was far more that the audience had to just accept than was fleshed out properly- with that said, i would still rate the movie slightly higher 8.5ish (flirting with a 9).

I love 'smart' movies and there's lots of ways a movie can be smartly done. In explaining things and being logical and true to the universe they created they werent too smart IMO- way too many flaws and you didn't bother even mentioning Xavier's body in the future. (I heard people behind me saying, "i thought he was dead") The post credit scenes in X3 and The wolverine dont do enough to fully explain. So again in that definiton of smart the movie falls flat.

Now when it comes to constructing a compelling story and properly fleshing out internal motivations and taking the audience on an exciting ride, they were really successfully in smartly doing that. Despite the flaws the movie achieved everything I believe it wanted, all the while pleasing most fans which is no small feat.

They got the fan-base excited again and the general public seems to be responding positively, although we will get a better since of that over the next few weeks. I think the franchise has to be pleased and there's finally some excitement now for whats to come.

 

[Snow Queen]

While I really loved both TASM2 and CA:TWS, this blew both of them out of the water for me. I haven't come out of a CBM this satisfied in two years. I'd give it a 9.5 personally, though I'll round it to a 9 for the poll.

 

[addison81]

I thought this was great. Gripping story that put character over action. But the action is really good as well. This edges out First Class as my favorite X-Men film. Only downside was the film was shot kind of ugly. Not sure if it was the digital photography or what.

 

[Sun_Down]

I'll need a second viewing before I can put a number to it, but it's definitely 8+.

X2 was such a huge part of my teenage years and this is the closest I've come to recapturing that feeling. The OT stuff was amazing, but McAvoy really deserves a lot of credit for giving a virtuoso performance. Stewart was also amazing. And the very end - there simply are no words.

 

[speno94]

I thought this was great. Gripping story that put character over action. But the action is really good as well. This edges out First Class as my favorite X-Men film. Only downside was the film was shot kind of ugly. Not sure if it was the digital photography or what.

I didn't think the film was shot ugly at all...

 

[addison81]

It had a cheap look in my opinion. I still loved the film. Just a nitpick from me.

 

[psylockolussus]

It had a cheap look in my opinion. I still loved the film. Just a nitpick from me.

Thats a not cheap look, but more like a camera filter for the 70 scenes. If you compare the 70s scenes to the future scenes you can really see the difference. I personally didn't like especially the 4:3 scenes, but I understood what they did it.

 

[croboy82]

I actually loved the 70's filter

 

[Human Torch]

Well,I just got back from seeing it and it was a phenomenal movie!

First off,it opened with Prof X's narration and the original X-men music and X Door which is a very cool touch that hearkens back to Singer's first two films.I loved that.

The first thing that grabbed me is the visuals of the "future".It seemed a good representation of the original comic.I was somewhat taken aback at how much older Kitty and Bobby looked.It's only been 8 years or so since their last movie,but they really seemed to have matured.

I mean,in a nut shell,everybody was top of their game.Don't want to leave anyone out.Great performances all around.Hugh Jackman-God love him-may he play this role forever!It was naturally a treat to see Patrick & Ian back as Charles & Eric.I think the MVP has to go to James Mcavoy as young Charles.He brought about a wealth of pain and loss that the character had endured,that we never really imagine the stoic elder statesman version of Stewart's Xavier had ever faced.

To me,the story seems actually to be the battle to save one woman's soul-Mystique-who,without Charles loving guidance or even Magneto's radical determination,has become something of a loose canon that's waiting to go off and unwittingly bring about the destruction of all mankind with her.Jennifer Lawrence has really taken this role and made it her own.

A lot of people have undoubtedly heaped praise on Quicksilver,and truthfully the character and his prison break was a glorious show stopper.I was prepared to hate him,since I figured they cut his ties to Magneto,but one line put it all into hilarious perspective.t:

And the ending.Oh-ho-that ending! What a thing of joy to behold!I felt like a kid watching the animated series again,watching Logan going through the mansion and hoping to see all the faces he in fact saw!(Well,all except my man Nightcrawler.What do they have against him anyway? ) Cyclops is back! Loved seeing Grammer's cameo as adult Beast!(I thought his "beast-outs" were very impressive in the past).

It was very moving to see the whole gang together again.To sum up my overall feelings,I'll quote Kirk from one of my all time favorites Wrath of Khan: "We've been through death...and life together."It's an apt description of this series,which fortunately after 14 years,still seems to have it's best days ahead.

 

[Mrs Vimes]

And then Mystique publically saved the President of the United States and the White House staff by shooting Magneto. A Mutant shot another Mutant to save the President, the WH staff, and the guy who created the Sentinels in the first place. And the entire world saw it. So the point was that while they're were dangerous Mutants, they're were also good ones and now the world knows it (the newspaper headline at the end).

Wouldn't the entire world also see that, 1) Mystique was clearly pointing a gun at the group of humans she supposedly saved, and 2) instead of turning Magneto in when they had him, they just let him escape?

Besides, even if her actions somehow influenced the opinion, I can't see why anyone would argue that humans still need serious security measures against dangerous mutants, after what Magneto had done. No one in the movie was proposing to use Sentinels for an attack on all mutants - Sentinels were meant to be demonstrated as measures of protection, to make humans feel safe after the events in Paris.

What actually would make more sense is that, after Magneto used the Sentinels, they got such terrible publicity and were so discredited in the eyes of the public that the project got shut down. But of course the movie was hellbent on making everything hinge on Mystique's choice, whether it made much sense or not.

 

[Human Torch]

Wouldn't the entire world also see that, 1) Mystique was clearly pointing a gun at the group of humans she supposedly saved, and 2) instead of turning Magneto in when they had him, they just let him escape?

.

1.I don't think she could be blamed for being momentarily afraid for her safety by people who were just responsible for creating mutant killing machines.That's why they'd think she held the gun on them.I doubt they thought she saved them from Mags just to kill them herself.

2.It wasn't really in any of their power to stop him,as far as the 'White House' party knew.Hank had no power,Charles is paralyzed & Mystique left him defenseless.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

I thought this was great. Gripping story that put character over action. But the action is really good as well. This edges out First Class as my favorite X-Men film. Only downside was the film was shot kind of ugly. Not sure if it was the digital photography or what.

I felt the same way.

It didn't look 24 fps to me.

 

[dark_b]

one day later. i still can not belive how good this movie is . 9/10.

 

[JP]

We got dark_b's stamp of approval? Awesome.

 

[spark627]

I didn't love the movie as I had hoped. I thought the first half hour and last half hour were pretty great, the middle was very slow and boring. As per all of Bryan Singer's movies, there was not enough action and the fight scenes didn't feel epic enough. I wish they had kept in the Rogue storyline as that would've perked up the middle (which deperately needed another action sequence). I will say, the acting was great and I loved Blink, her powers were awesome.

 

[Golgo-13]

To each his own, I find the film over rated. It was even a little boring at times. I don't get where people are getting best CBM film ever from. It was okay. I'd place X2 and the first Wolverine movie above it.

Interesting. I found that there was never a time when the movie dragged, even during the non action scenes. I had to use the bathroom (too much soda) but was scared to get up and go incase i missed something.

 

[Travesty]

The first Wolverine movie? So he liked Wolverine Origins more than DOFP? Hell, I think B&R is better than WO.

 

[Hamill-Joker]

That's not how the story told it. From what I watched they needed Mystique's DNA as the missing sequence to obtain powers. Regardless, even by your explanation it doesn't make any sense. How can they just create powers by killing mutants?

Hank, using a serum derived from Mystique's blood, turned himself into Beast. He was also able to create another serum from the same base that not only suppressed powers, but allowed Xavier to walk again. It shows the miraculous abilities that could comes from using her DNA.

Mystique also showed in X1 that she could make metal claws, sure she wasn't able to reproduce adamantium claws, so Wolverine's were able to cut through her claws. But they were still metal claws.

Mystique can also create clothes, glasses, hats, etc...

She can create not organic things from her organic material. I don't see why scientists couldn't simply be able to make her mutation more focused that the transformation would actually be to what it was meant to be rather than a lesser copy.

Using her DNA is about that ability to change and adapt to your surroundings, like a chameleon. The sentinels do not use powers, they simply have the ability to mimic physical powers. And when they encounter a new foe, they can learn and adapt based on their opponents power.

It isn't as if the sentinels ever use anything beyond physical powers. They can't control metal or make portals. Fire and Ice count as physical powers because it is plausible for a machine to be able to project fire and ice.

 

[John-An]

THE BEST MARVEL COMICS MOVIE YET!!!
The best superhero team from the comics yet!!!
I need to see it again to see more things I may got passed by the good experience I had but IMO this is the movie of 2014 in the cmb genre.

 

[John-An]

Some quick thoughts.

Magneto was awesome (Fassbander)
Charles (both were great, especially the 70's)
Mystique was priceless!!!
Quicksilver was great and awesome (the other QS need to do almost perfection to surpass this QS)
Wolverine great also.
Bolivar Trask pretty good and the sentinels!!!!!! Wow the future sentinels are the worst villains and the most difficult and DANGEROUS THREAT OF ALL MARVEL MOVIES TO DATE!!! pretty impressive!!!

 

[ThanosOfTitans]

My thoughts after finally seeing this on Monday .....

There are a lot of convenient things that happen in this movie, with very little explanation ..... they either just are or just happen, with little to no prior development (some of it because of Singer's intent to retcon):

• Kitty Pryde suddenly being able to manipulate time.
• Eric and Mystique conveniently showing up in important locations midway thru the 2nd act and into the 3rd, one of which was one Eric was aboard the train merging metal into the Sentinels. Actually for most of the movie they're easily getting whisked around to where the plot needed them.
• I still don't understand how Eric was able to command the Sentinels' artificial intelligence, technically he should've only had control over their bodies.
• Beast conveniently having set up a newsroom taping all three networks and then his gizmo for messing with the security systems at the Pentagon. The most well-guarded building on the planet sure seemed easy-breezy for the group to waltz into.
• Beasts formula sure did a damn good job restricting Charle's powers, but such a poor job of his own, which was why it was made in the first place
• Trasks grudge with the Mutants just happens. There was no real reason to fear them and become "the new war" ...... until that scene in Paris, but even then was that situation so becoming of declaring war on this new sub-species?
• The future sentinels being able to replicate mutant powers even though Mystique is not able to do that and it's her DNA that gave them that ability.

Surprisingly this movie didn't have quite the amount of "throwaway" characters I initially thought it might. The nostalgia of the 70's was fun. The movie has a slightly rocky shift from jokes to dead-on serious once Wolverine locates Charles and they break Eric out, but the exchanges between Eric and Charles are what drive the emotions of this film .... especially that scene on the plane. The Quicksilver scene was fun, but makes literally no sense why a mutant with that kind of power wouldn't have been taken a long for the rest of the ride. I thought the end scene when Wolverine wakes up was perfectly sentimental in all the right ways. It's the kind of thing most people have day dreamt about at one time or another when it comes to changing their pasts.

I'm quite bored of the war on mutants story though. I thought the future Sentinels designs were poor compared to their 70's counterparts (would've preferred to see much more of them). Speaking of the future, can they please stop suiting these guys up in that ugly black pleather? While this movie takes off emotionally, the action scenes were lackluster, most of which consisted of Mystique beating up on defenseless extras. For being the only guy who could travel back in time, Wolverine essentially became an onlooker for most of the movie.

I give it a 7.0 - 7.5 ..... The first trailer that came out wasn't lying, this movie was attempting to show a more emotional side of the franchise. The issue for me is it became a little too brooding, which caused some of the movie to drag for me. I'm actually more interested to see what happens with Apocalypse, because it's a fresher story to tell.

I agree with your points. I'm hoping AOA really steps things up in the right direction.

Before making the next film, the entire team involved with the process needs to watch the entire X-Men the animated series from the 90s. It's still by far the best portrayal of the X-Men other than the comics. The movies seem to be missing something...I can't put my finger on it, but here's to hoping next time they knock it out of the park.

 

[Travesty]

It's been a long time since I've watched the cartoon. Hopefully it's still up on Netflix.

Edit: Bahhhh, it's been taken down.

 

[Loki882]

Actually, Singer has watched the entire show. It's one of the things that convince him to take the job directing the first movie (he'd turned it down repeatedly beforehand). And let's be honest, as cool as TAS was, it is FAR from flawless. There's is stuff in it that REALLY worked but there's also stuff that REALLY didn't work. There's a lot of things that the movies have done better quite frankly.