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

[kedrell]

The post credit scene Is prologue of X-Men:Apocalypse.

Yes, and what does it add to the movie it's attached to?

 

[danoyse]

By bigger picture I mean a bigger story that is being told. This stinger has NOTHING to do with the events that just went on in DoFP.

And the bigger story is that DOFP will continue with Apocalypse. Hence, here's a tease for what's coming. The story isn't over.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Why put Collecter In Thor;The dark world mid credit scene?

Why put Banner In Iron Man 3 post credit scene?

was the avengers post credit scene of them eating sandwichs really necsary?

What did the midcredit scene of the amazing spider-man accomplise after seeing ASm2

We all know APocalypse Is next film so they did

 

[Figs]

After thinking about what I just typed...my head would explode if there was a cameo appearance from Cable in X-men: Apocalypse. t:

 

[kedrell]

And the bigger story is that DOFP will continue with Apocalypse. Hence, here's a tease for what's coming. The story isn't over.

And what did the Thanos stinger after TA mean? Thanos was behind what Loki was doing in the film whilst having his own agenda. It altered the perception of what happened in that film as well as alluding to what was to come. That's what I mean.

With Apocalypse it's just "hey, we're making another X-Men movie". Wow, I'm shocked. Didn't see that one coming.

That's not what Marvel/Disney is doing and since it's obvious that Fox wants to copy their formula then they should learn how to tell two stories at once with it's films.

 

[JP]

And what did the Thanos stinger after TA mean? Thanos was behind what Loki was doing in the film whilst having his own agenda. It altered the perception of what happened in that film as well as alluding to what was to come. That's what I mean.

With Apocalypse it's just "hey, we're making another X-Men movie". Wow, I'm shocked. Didn't see that one coming.

That's not what Marvel/Disney is doing and since it's obvious that Fox wants to copy their formula then they should learn how to tell two stories at once with it's films.

X3 had a post credit scene long before the MCU was even created.


And we all know the Pheonix at the end of X2 started it all. Previewing what's next.

 

[kedrell]

Why put Collecter In Thor;The dark world mid credit scene?

Because the Aether is in the scene as well as Sif and Volstagg and it expands upon what you already saw in the film as well as setting stuff up for a future film.

Why put Banner In Iron Man 3 post credit scene?

Because it calls back to the fact that Tony is talking to someone at the beginning of the film as well as informing on both of their characters slightly and how they interact. Admittedly this is the weakest of the MCU stingers because it doesn't allude to anything much in the future, at least as far as we know right now.

was the avengers post credit scene of them eating sandwichs really necsary?

No, that was just an extra joke because they'd already dropped the stinger that mattered regarding stories ahead. And even here it at least did call back to the movie that had just been watched. What does the Apocalypse stinger call back to in ANY of the previous 7 X-Men films? Nada.

What did the midcredit scene of the amazing spider-man accomplise after seeing ASm2

I don't even remember it. TASM2 is not a MCU film and I only saw it once since I didn't like it.

We all know APocalypse Is next film so they did

Again, what does the stinger add that we didn't already know? Nothing much.

 

[Son of Coul]

Solid movie - still doesn't reach X2 heights (which is on TV now t, has some hazy moments of tension (For example I felt like Magneto turning the Sentinels on humans would take out the confidence in Trask and thereby erase the future destruction that was going on "simultaneously," so I felt mixed about whether it seemed like **** was going down or if Magneto was actually repairing things in his own ****ed up way), some inconsistent character motivations/personalities, but it's a fun ride and felt like an appropriate return to form for the series with that injection of new style that FC brought.

I liked it. I'm interested to see where they take things from here - and how they'll have the FC team (presumably with Wolverine) take on Apocalypse in the past when we already know about the happy ending they'll now inevitably have.

Also the continuity for the "Timeline A" of these is ironically extra ****ed , but that's ok - comes with the territory in time travel movies and at least they've basically wiped a clean slate for the future.

 

[kedrell]

X3 had a post credit scene long before the MCU was even created.

Yeah, I know that. What's your point? I'd say the X3 stinger is much better than the Apocalypse one since it further's a story.

And we all know the Pheonix at the end of X2 started it all. Previewing what's next.

That was actually IN the movie proper rather than a stinger and even there it called back to the movie just seen and altered the perception of what had been watched. Now we knew what Jean's problems during the film were leading to.

Nothing like the Apocalypse stinger.

 

[JP]

Whatever you say, man.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I think the post credits sequence was great. This movie established that a new future was created in the 70s, and now we get our first hint at what is to come in this new timeline. I think it was great. Out with the old, in with the new. It fits like a glove.

 

[warhorse78]

Meh, f**** this movie. And I went in with low expectations because I just cannot find the X-Men movies interesting except for X-2, and parts of the first X-Men. In the end, I was bored, and also realized this movie pretty much craps on the stuff that I did like about the previous X-Men. I found most of the characters boring, and I could really care less who lived or died. I give it a three out of 10. Fassbender's characterization and the fight scenes with Mysique are the only things that interested me. But, with that, I guess I am just not an X-Men lover, and my favorite character that I did like from the first X-Men, Rogue, is pretty much just a fart in the wind now.

Until I hear that an X-Men movie has Rogue as a major character, I'm pretty much just going to forget about even wasting my time. And, it's sad, because she could have been in this, Anna Paquin's name was one of the main people in the end credits, ahead of Ellen Page for crying out loud.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I just saw this tonight and I liked it a lot!! Bryan Singer has done an amazing job with connecting both the original trilogy and the new cast. The story is great and seeing James journey and eventual turn into Patrick's Professor X is extremely well done and believable. The same goes for Fassbender and Ian but sadly Ian doesn't really have much to do. Hugh is great as always as Wolverine but I had a huge grin on my face seeing Bobby, Kitty, Colossus, Storm, and of course Patarick and Ian. Jennifer Lawrence also stands out as Raven. The only cast member that was meh was Peter Dinklage. Trask needed more character development as the movie never gave him a strong motivation as to why he hated mutants so much.

My only real gripes with this movie is that the movie could have used a bit more action and I wish we got more time in the future. The final fight was kinda underwhelming, I expected it to be way more epic. But I still could help but have a HUGE grin on my face during the end of the movie. I never forgot to mention how good Qouicksilver is in this movie. His big scene worth the price of admission alone!

Looking forward to future X men movies like never before.

9/10

 

[See Cap Run]

This was my favorite X-Men film, definite 9/10 and my second favorite CBM of the year after Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

That being said, I'd agree with Kendrell that the stinger would have been even more effective if it had been set up by the events of the film even in a small way. [the fact of Apocolypse being a mutant not withstanding]

JP, I don't think Kedrell's the point Kedrell was attempting to make had less to do with which film had the first ever stinger and more to do with the relevance of the respective stingers to said films Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong Kedrell!

And to address the following questions from marvelrobbins:

Why put Collecter In Thor;The dark world mid credit scene? TDW stinger had characters from the movie itself (Lady Sif and Volstaag) artifacts (The Ether) and a reference to the Tesseract as well as Infinity Stones. [Odin mentioned something along the lines of many powerful objects appearing as stones earlier in the movie].

Why put Banner In Iron Man 3 post credit scene? (The stinger was connected to all the events in the movie as the entire film was Stark communicating his experiences to Banner which also tied into their friendship developed in The Avengers and the fact of them driving off together at the end of it.)

was the avengers post credit scene of them eating sandwichs really necsary? It tied into Stark having mentioned trying the schwarma joint earlier in the film.

What did the midcredit scene of the amazing spider-man accomplise after seeing ASm2: Absolutely nothing

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Meh, f**** this movie. And I went in with low expectations because I just cannot find the X-Men movies interesting except for X-2, and parts of the first X-Men. In the end, I was bored, and also realized this movie pretty much craps on the stuff that I did like about the previous X-Men. I found most of the characters boring, and I could really care less who lived or died. I give it a three out of 10. Fassbender's characterization and the fight scenes with Mysique are the only things that interested me. But, with that, I guess I am just not an X-Men lover, and my favorite character that I did like from the first X-Men, Rogue, is pretty much just a fart in the wind now.

Until I hear that an X-Men movie has Rogue as a major character, I'm pretty much just going to forget about even wasting my time. And, it's sad, because she could have been in this, Anna Paquin's name was one of the main people in the end credits, ahead of Ellen Page for crying out loud.

Yea if your looking for a X-Men movie to soley focus on Rouge you will be dispointed. X1 was pretty much as close you are gonna get to a Rouge centric X men movie. Also, you say the movie craps on the things you liked about the previous original movies but you don't explain. This movie fixes a lot of the mistakes the crap movies X-Men 3 and X Men Origins screwed up. But yea, it just seems X-Men simply isn't for you.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Oh, man this movie.

Haven't walked out a movie theater this giddy since The Avengers. It took the fun spirit of Vaughn's film with the weight and gravitas of the original two and combined it into something incredibly satisfying in every way.

Any anger and hate I've had this past month over ASM2 has subsided.

Singer, you bastard you did it again.

 

[CapLover]

Spoiler

I was particularly interested as to how the post-credits scene from "The Wolverine" seemed totally unable to fit in to this movie.

Old Xavier and Old Magneto were fighting with Old Logan in the future and Logan volunteered to go back in time because his body could handle it.

So HOW does the airport scene at the end credits of "The Wolverine" fit in, where a suddenly ALIVE Xavier and Magneto approach Logan to warm him of the coming Sentinel disaster and request his help.

It now seems like a throwaway "tease" that never really happened as part of DOFP, especially given the fact that the airport scene takes place just two years after Wolverine's Japan adventure.

This really puzzled me for the first 1/3 of the film or so, as I was trying to figure out when the airport encounter actually took place, or IF it did. Now I just shrugged it off and feel that it was basically just a scene staged to give audiences a little taste of what was coming next.

 

[Son of Coul]

Spoiler

I was particularly interested as to how the post-credits scene from "The Wolverine" seemed totally unable to fit in to this movie.

Old Xavier and Old Magneto were fighting with Old Logan in the future and Logan volunteered to go back in time because his body could handle it.

So HOW does the airport scene at the end credits of "The Wolverine" fit in, where a suddenly ALIVE Xavier and Magneto approach Logan to warm him of the coming Sentinel disaster and request his help.

It now seems like a throwaway "tease" that never really happened as part of DOFP, especially given the fact that the airport scene takes place just two years after Wolverine's Japan adventure.

This really puzzled me for the first 1/3 of the film or so, as I was trying to figure out when the airport encounter actually took place, or IF it did. Now I just shrugged it off and feel that it was basically just a scene staged to give audiences a little taste of what was coming next.

Yeah, it pretty much makes no sense - but I don't put much stake into post-credit teasers. They don't always add up to something so perfectly so much as do just that - tease an idea/concept/character (see: Thor post-credit bit for example).

 

[Mrs Vimes]

Saw DoFP again today; I've spent so many months looking forward to the movie that I thought it would be unfair to judge it from just one viewing.

Liked it a bit better second time around. The first half (minus the eye-rolling exposition in the future) is really enjoyable, with some fantastic scenes. Unfortunately, the movie loses its mojo some time after the second plane conversation between Erik and Charles, and never recovers. There are way too many contrivances and narrative problems, and the movie's 70s climax is even more stupid on the second viewing. The character stuff, even for the movie's leads, has nothing on the best in the previous movies, particularly First Class.

6/10

 

[Matt.S99]

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[danoyse]

Spoiler

I was particularly interested as to how the post-credits scene from "The Wolverine" seemed totally unable to fit in to this movie.

Old Xavier and Old Magneto were fighting with Old Logan in the future and Logan volunteered to go back in time because his body could handle it.

So HOW does the airport scene at the end credits of "The Wolverine" fit in, where a suddenly ALIVE Xavier and Magneto approach Logan to warm him of the coming Sentinel disaster and request his help.

It now seems like a throwaway "tease" that never really happened as part of DOFP, especially given the fact that the airport scene takes place just two years after Wolverine's Japan adventure.

This really puzzled me for the first 1/3 of the film or so, as I was trying to figure out when the airport encounter actually took place, or IF it did. Now I just shrugged it off and feel that it was basically just a scene staged to give audiences a little taste of what was coming next.

It's not a throwaway. It took place two years after The Wolverine, and several years before the Sentinel program destroyed everything.

It was also awhile after the events of X3, so by then Xaiver had returned and Magneto had his powers back. They saw what was coming, and sought out Wolverine (and presumably, other X-Men as well) because they wanted to try and stop it from happening.

In the end, they just weren't able to stop the war from happening. The plan to send Logan back came about years later.

It makes total sense.

 

[Saint]

The best and most rewarding part is the way it took X3 and burned it to the ground and scattered the ashes to the wind!

Ahhh, that is such a wonderful feeling. Vindication.

Aside from that it was a pretty killer film, solidifying the new cast and giving them the space they needed to breathe and grow--that is to say, a fresh, unknown future to create.

The fact that they've positioned Mystique as the centerpiece of this new era--the way Wolverine was the centerpiece of the old one--is incredibly interesting, and ripe with potential for some really unexpected films.

X-Men: First Class was a great film, but I didn't walk out of it excited for the future because there wasn't one there, at the time. The idea of seeing a series of films leading up to a future we'd already seen (and that had already gone sour, and ruined the potential of many, many X-Men) wasn't super appealing.

The idea of seeing a new generation of X-Men films, though, informed by the older films but not beholden to them, is incredibly appealing. A chance to correct the mistakes of the past and tread new ground.

And maybe fix Cyclops, please.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Spoiler

I was particularly interested as to how the post-credits scene from "The Wolverine" seemed totally unable to fit in to this movie.

Old Xavier and Old Magneto were fighting with Old Logan in the future and Logan volunteered to go back in time because his body could handle it.

So HOW does the airport scene at the end credits of "The Wolverine" fit in, where a suddenly ALIVE Xavier and Magneto approach Logan to warm him of the coming Sentinel disaster and request his help.

It now seems like a throwaway "tease" that never really happened as part of DOFP, especially given the fact that the airport scene takes place just two years after Wolverine's Japan adventure.

This really puzzled me for the first 1/3 of the film or so, as I was trying to figure out when the airport encounter actually took place, or IF it did. Now I just shrugged it off and feel that it was basically just a scene staged to give audiences a little taste of what was coming next.

DOFP doesn't immediately happen nor are the events occurring during this credits sequence. Magneto told Logan that there are powers that are getting ready to endanger mutantkind. I'm guessing during this time the Sentinels are starting to do what they're suppose to do and taking out mutants. DOFP starts off years after this credits sequence.

 

[Son of Coul]

Question - it's explained that as soon as Mystique kills Trask in the '70s that the Sentinels are officially commissioned and are improved over time, implying that **** hits the fan with the release of 70s Sentinels, but wouldn't that mean the Sentinels would be around for all those decades before their mega-upgrade with Mystique's DNA? Was that explained, or are we left to assume that the Sentinels were never really commissioned/a real threat until their future upgrade?

 

[danoyse]

Question - it's explained that as soon as Mystique kills Trask in the '70s that the Sentinels are officially commissioned and are improved over time, implying that **** hits the fan with the release of 70s Sentinels, but wouldn't that mean the Sentinels would be around for all those decades before their mega-upgrade with Mystique's DNA? Was that explained, or are we left to assume that the Sentinels were never really commissioned/a real threat until their future upgrade?

The Sentinels were commissioned and fast-tracked in the 70s because of the stuff that happened in Paris when they tried to stop Mystique. In the original timeline, Trask wasn't able to get them commissioned, but his work continued after his death and Sentinels ultimately came later.