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

[nightwing06]

Going in to X-Men: Days of Future Past my question was,can director Bryan Singer return to the X-Men
franchise as a director and produce an entertaining film,with a time tripping story taken from a 1981 Marvel Comic?
The answer is:YES !!!!

Jumping back and forth between a bleak future in which robots called Sentinels,hunt down and jail in concentration
camps mutants,humans that may produce mutants,and mutant sympathisers,and the past 1973 to be exact,in which a climatic event lead to the aforementioned future.

Singer wisely uses the time travel theme to rev up the suspense,but it's always tricky to use time travel in any genre.
In this film it does lead to some plot holes and unanswered questions.
Another wise move by Singer is carrying over the
Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto dynamic from X-Men First Class.Each role in the film is well acted by the primary players,but with a cast this big and a running time of 130 minutes,some characters get short changed.

Sometimes it's a good thing to be proven wrong.Case and point:the character Quicksilver .At first glance a few months ago i thought the look of the character was terrible and cheesy...well he still looked cheesy but fortunately the character actually steals every scene that he's in which are quite fun and amusing.

From some reports it sounds like the next X-Men big screen adventure will be one of the biggest and most ambitious yet,and with my faith in Singer restored i say: Bring it on !!!!

Scale of 1-10 an 8½

 

[JJmelo]

http://otlnews.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/x-men-days-of-future-past-review/

Loved the film, I gave it a 9 (check out my review if ur interested ). Like Nightwing said, Quicksilver was one of the best parts of the movie.

I liked how this wasn't a Wolverine movie, everyone got a chance to strut their stuff an the movie was all the better for it.

 

[Mister J]

I loved when Logan's younger self briefly resurfaced in Paris, and his reaction when he saw Beast: "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?!"

That one quick line brought to mind some of the Wolverine/Beast interaction caused by Cassandra Nova during Whedon's run on Astonishing. I had a good laugh after that.

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[ss3walkman]

I like the idea of Mystique working for Apocalypse all along and delivering Wolverine to her master.

Thanks. I was in bed watching Apocalypse debut on TAS when he had Mystique proclaiming a fake cure. Just like she delivered Warrington and those others, I'm thinking she delivers Wolverine. And just like Angel was upgraded, I figure they'd upgrade Wolverine and that's how he gets the adamantium this time around, making him a horseman of Apocalypse.

The whole ripple effect Beast was talking about in DOFP would come true, not for everyone's future, but just Wolverine. Kind of like that's the price he has to pay for saving the world deal. He'll never escape the adamantium bonding.

 

[X-Maniac]

Yes, and in addition to that, Origins told us adamantium was derived in part from the metal found on a meteorite in Nigeria.

If Apocalypse is given cosmic connections, to explain his powers and appearance, then the unearthly nature of adamantium fits with that too.

 

[Minus Shock]

All I can say this. This movie proves that when done right the X-men franchise will give any comic property a run for it's money. Admittedly I went in with guarded, low expectations but the movie hit every note it needed to. I will go more in depth at a later time but I was so happy with the movie. I loved Winter Soldier but Days knocked it out of the water for me. What a great time to be a comic nerd.

 

[Green Goblin]

Why is Trask a black guy in X3 but a white dwarf in DOFP?

 

[coluanprime]

I'm really curios how on earth this film got a PG-13 rating. I know that for the avengers to get down to a PG-13 from R, they couldn't actually show Coulson getting stabbed but this movie had

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Blink and Storm

stabbed through without hiding anything and the rest of the future died pretty violently too. They also had a fairly long semi-sexual shot of Wolverines bare ass.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It wasn't bloody and ass shots are pretty tame nowadays

Why is Trask a black guy in X3 but a white dwarf in DOFP?

Different writers/directors. Singer brought it up and just asked people to ignore TLS Trask.

 

[X-Maniac]

Why is Trask a black guy in X3 but a white dwarf in DOFP?

I already devised a workaround for that. Dinklage Trask dies in 1996 (when Sentinel production stopped according to viral website), he had no heirs so company was mothballed.

Later, after the devastation of X3 and the further tensions outlined in 25 Moments, the distant relative who inherited the company (Bill Duke Trask) restarted Sentinel production.

Alternatively, you just forget X3 altogether, which some on here would gladly do.

 

[Feenix]

I already devised a workaround for that. Dinklage Trask dies in 1996 (when Sentinel production stopped according to viral website), he had no heirs so company was mothballed.

Later, after the devastation of X3 and the further tensions outlined in 25 Moments, the distant relative who inherited the company (Bill Duke Trask) restarted Sentinel production.

Alternatively, you just forget X3 altogether, which some on here would gladly do.

Dinklage Trask died in 1973 because Mystique kills him. X3 happens according to this original timeline, not the new one that was just created.

 

[X-Maniac]

But Dinklage Trask died in 1973 because Mystique kills him.

Well, in spite of that, Sentinel production stopped in 1996 (maybe Trask's heir died then?), and the Bill Duke Trask picked it up again in 2015.

You're quite right that Trask was killed in the original unaltered timeline, but my point was that a descendant/relative restarted his work later on. Maybe Larry Bolivar Trask was the Bill Duke version? Just a fanboy workaround, I know, but someone was alive and around to get it started again in 2015.

 

[squeekness]

That one quick line brought to mind some of the Wolverine/Beast interaction caused by Cassandra Nova during Whedon's run on Astonishing. I had a good laugh after that.

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Ha ha Still funny even after all these years.

 

[Feenix]

Well, in spite of that, Sentinel production stopped in 1996 (maybe Trask's heir died then?), and the Bill Duke Trask picked it up again in 2015.

You're quite right that Trask was killed in the original unaltered timeline, but my point was that a descendant/relative restarted his work later on. Maybe Larry Bolivar Trask was the Bill Duke version? Just a fanboy workaround, I know, but someone was alive and around to get it started again in 2015.

Oh, absolutely. It doesn't make a difference when Trask died, just that he did and another Trask picked up where he left off.

A very very distantly related Trask

 

[kasjan]

Why is Trask a black guy in X3 but a white dwarf in DOFP?

In X3 it could be Bolivar Lawrence Trask, or nephew ob Bolivar Trask. There were few Trasks in comic.

 

[X-Maniac]

Oh, absolutely. It doesn't make a difference when Trask died, just that he did and another Trask picked up where he left off.

A very very distantly related Trask

Indeed. But look, for instance, at President Obama. Descended somehow from the Ireland-based O'Bama family who definitely weren't black.

 

[Feenix]

Indeed. But look, for instance, at President Obama. Descended somehow from the Ireland-based O'Bama family who definitely weren't black.

Good point.

 

[danoyse]

That one quick line brought to mind some of the Wolverine/Beast interaction caused by Cassandra Nova during Whedon's run on Astonishing. I had a good laugh after that.

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We've never been able to unsee that...

 

[steven120989]

how can people vote 1....this movie was beyond amazing

 

[Kaleb]

We've never been able to unsee that...

I wish I never clicked on that.

 

[squeekness]

how can people vote 1....this movie was beyond amazing

Some folks are just never happy with things.

 

[Kaleb]

Ive seen one person on here who preferred X3 over the latest one

 

[danoyse]

My friend from high school who hated the first three movies (and tends to post long-winded, ranting "because I'm a purist!" comments on anything X-Men related on my Facebook page) saw DOFP yesterday.

His review was "All I can say is....WOW! 'EFFIN WOW!!!!"

 

[danoyse]

Ive seen one person on here who preferred X3 over the latest one

We had one person who absolutely hated The Wolverine last year. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but since this was the same person who complained about the lack of rape scenes in the trailer for the fourth season of The Walking Dead, I decided his opinion on anything is pretty much irrelevant.

 

[X-Maniac]

how can people vote 1....this movie was beyond amazing

Even one of the worst movies I've seen in years (Noah) didn't get a 1 from me. That person must have an agenda (studio wars etc).