Days of Future Past The Rotten Tomatoes Score Prediction Thread

[Tehmeh]

Yes, really. I don't check out any of those. Damn, looks like I'm becoming more and more of a hipster.

 

[def28]

Yes, really. I don't check out any of those. Damn, looks like I'm becoming more and more of a hipster.

Then what ones are you paying attention to for DOFP? The 3 top critic reviews out of 27?

 

[Tehmeh]

Then what ones are you paying attention to for DOFP? The 3 top critic reviews out of 30?

That one guy whose name I can't remember but I know his face, then Roeper and the boys at RedLetterMedia. If Ebert was alive, then him. So right now zero for DOFP, but that doesn't mean I don't find the amount of good reviews encouraging.

Of course I decided after trailer 1 I'm going to see this movie no matter what.

 

[def28]

I think if people are to go by critics then you should go with the ones you ultimately agree with the most. So to each their own I guess.

People like Drew from Hitfix or Steven from Collider are just as credible as the "top critics" imo. They know their films. I read critics like Roeper as well. But I wouldn't discredit all these sites.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Eh, it's doing ok.

 

[Malik]

Review from the vine was added 26 fresh 2 rotten.

 

[Onslaught-]

Another review up on RT, 3 more fresh reviews and it goes up to 94%

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

It's amazing that despite all of the new reviews, the film is still holding in at 93%! I wonder if it will plummet into the 80s after the vast majority of critics weigh in or are we seeing a definite sign of things to come?

 

[Mr.T]

The early reviews I've read are really promising. I'm expecting it to drop a little but not a whole lot. Probably settles into the mid to high 80's, which isn't too shabby, IMO. Can't wait for Friday!!!

 

[Raiden]

It's amazing that despite all of the new reviews, the film is still holding in at 93%! I wonder if it will plummet into the 80s after the vast majority of critics weigh in or are we seeing a definite sign of things to come?

I think it will settle in the high 80's once the majority of the reviews are in. It will probably add another 200 reviews after Friday and I seriously doubt it can maintain its 94% RT by then.

 

[psylockolussus]

YAS! Still 93%, I hope the rating goes higher (if thats possible LOL).

I would have love this movie to get a certified fresh rating. Isn't it amazing that all X-Men movies that Bryan had an input will get a certified fresh rating.

 

[SAUspartan]

Here's a negative review from an hour ago. Don't see this guy on the critics list at rotten tomatoes though.

"Why Godzilla Destroys The New X-Men Movie"

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2014/05/20/why-godzilla-destroys-the-new-x-men-movie/

The guy obviously knows little about the comics. lol. Gave it a 2 out of 4. Dude was complaining about the name Mystique. lol.

 

[JP]

What a moron.

 

[SAUspartan]

What a moron.

Yeah, I'm fine with people who don't like the movie. But some of the things he complained about. The name of a character, The end credit scene he had no idea what is was about. haha. If you don't like a movie..don't mock characters names or give a half a** effort of a review. Seems like he enjoyed Quicksilver tho. I think. Can't tell with how the dude writes.

I do see RT allows some Austrailain reviews. But this dude isn't on the lists.

 

[Samarus]

Usually I'm very worried when a new negative review comes in, but this guy is just a mad man who doesn't even know what he is writing about.
Btw: if you want to have a good laugh check out the "reviews" posted on the imdb message board. They say they haven't seen it but they know it's ****, so they can already review it.

 

[psylockolussus]

Here's a negative review from an hour ago. Don't see this guy on the critics list at rotten tomatoes though.

"Why Godzilla Destroys The New X-Men Movie"

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2014/05/20/why-godzilla-destroys-the-new-x-men-movie/

The guy obviously knows little about the comics. lol. Gave it a 2 out of 4. Dude was complaining about the name Mystique. lol.

I hope RT doesn't count his negative review.

Less negative reviews, the better!

 

[Rike]

If the great promise of science-fiction is to imagine the unimaginable, then X-Men: Days Of Future Past fails dismally. Granted the opportunity of creating a dystopian distant-future, Bryan Singer can only cobble together the most shopworn clichés.

"The future! A dark and desolate place..." Gandalf grandly intones, and viewers are plunged, past the ranks of barcoded slaves trudging in file, into something resembling my own personal comic-book-movie hell: a bunch of cut-out caricatures in silly costumes each superpowering about -there's a dude with ice, some silver guy, a fire bro, a Mandingo cliché with dreads, a woman whooshing about through portals, a sexy psychic healer who just walked outta Juno, and, worst of all, a 'warrior' savage in warpaint and shampoo-commercial tresses - in the eternal shadows, whilst an army of evil robots try and smite them unto oblivion. Remember how bad all the future-rave-cave stuff in the Matrix sequels was? It's like that by way of The Last Airbender, with Singer's digital "camera" hurtling through walls so many times that the fact that it's a godawful CGI pixel-swam is verily rubbed in your face.

Yet, where Days Of Future Past fails dismally at conjuring the unknowable, it fares far better at a more-earthly task: summoning 1973. From Richard Nixon's curls to Super 8's ratio to bellbottomed hems, the distant past is far more evocative than the distant future. After Captain Picard fills in viewers with some expository back-story, Hugh Jackman's box-office-staple Wolverine - who, with his *****e-chills facial hair and cigar-chomping makes a superpower out of being a total tool - is sent half-a-century back in time, to theoretically 'align' Singer's early-'00s X-Men movies with Matthew Vaughn’s 2011 origins-tale X-Men: First Class, a College Years vision of fledgling mutantry given unexpected gravity by the presence of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, acting their asses off whilst dealing with dialogue punched out by the tired simian fingers of that millionth chimp at the millionth Marvel typewriter.

It also means we get more of high-kickin' heroine Jennifer Lawrence as some semi-nude blue shapeshifter named Mystique, a name so hilariously-bad it sounds like a budget celebrity fragrance line you can buy in K-Mart. Every time she morphs back-and-forth into various figures is, frankly, embarrassing; yet another eyesore of eyerolling CGI. Far from the mania of O. Russell, Lawrence is pretty awful, and if all her screentime was given over to Evan Peters' budding blur - a figure of manic hilarity who stars in an ultra-slow-motion, bullet-time set-piece that feels like a high-end Vodka commercial, yet comes off like a Buster Keaton set-piece - then Days Of Future Past would be exponentially more enjoyable. Instead we're left with much mediocre moral handwringing, and lots of Fassbender levitating whilst commanding bits of metal to whoosh around like some maestro conducting a fleet of invisible digital-effects-artists to do his bidding.

Given the opportunity to create the future, Singer fails badly; and given the opportunity to meld together two separate cinematic takes on the franchise, well, how he does depends on how you felt about X-Men and X2. The time-travel gambit could've let him lock in the storylines from the 'future' of the movies he's already made, but instead he detonates a retcon bomb: the action, here, wipes the slate so clean that the distant-future goes from dystopia by utopia in a blink, and old, dead heroes are let rise from the grave. It positions the franchise as free to jag off in any direction, and with any contracted actors, it pleases. Though only the nerds being fan-serviced will 'get' whatever Egyptian-clichés villainy the obligatory post-credits teaser is foreshadowing.

 

[JP]

New review added that reads negative, but the critic gave the film 3/5 and a "fresh" score.

He's also another person complaining about Lawrence being naked.. She's not naked, she's wearing a suit... also... SHE'S PLAYING MYSTIQUE.

 

[kasjan]

Just another guy with ridiculous negative, like one of those earlier who didn't like Warpath having no super power just being strong.

 

[Takato]

Can't quite grasp how ridiculous that review is, it's a far cry from the quality of the film and considering how bad Godzilla was, they rated it higher? But his opinion and all

 

[antonydelfini]

I voted 86-90. All the positive reviews are really positive and there is hardly a mixed review. Good vibes.

 

[Ms. Marvel]

To be honest there are a lot of "ridiculous" positive reviews around as well.

 

[danoyse]

The future! A dark and desolate place..." Gandalf grandly intones...

OK, if you can't figure out the difference between Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, your review is useless right there.

 

[psylockolussus]

To be honest there are a lot of "ridiculous" positive reviews around as well.

Care to post some of it?

 

[Ms. Marvel]

Care to post some of it?

Not particularly (although a couple were mentioned earlier on in one of the threads). TWS got some ridiculous positive reviews as well. I was just pointing out that it goes both ways just because I generally see negative reviews attacked a lot more than positive ones. Not just for this movie.