Days of Future Past What you didn't like about X-Men:DOFP - Flaws/Critiques

[Lord]

-The main Xavier/Mystique/Magneto dynamic/story. The climax wasn't very interesting from a character/thematic pov, and there was no real resolution with young Charles. I get that we can infer it from seeing new Old Charles, but I think I needed to Young Charles back in his status quo to get more of a sense of catharsis. Instead, we get that with Wolverine (who didn't have much of a character struggle in the movie).

-The Stadium climax wasn't terribly satisfying from a 'setpiece'/action standpoint. He moves a stadium and commands the sentinels and nothing really happens. Magneto just leaves and there isn't a huge sense of triumph. I was really expecting to see some mutants throwing down with sentinels in that stadium battle-ground. Xavier is all about his positive influence on groups of mutants, so it would have been nice to see him command a group during that scene, using his telepathy powers which he learned to embrace again in order to successfully guide them. When mutants fall in the line of battle, Xavier, having grown as a character, manages to deal other mutants' pain and continues on.

I disagree about those 2, the film didn't end in an epic mutant battle, it ended on a grounded dynamic between Charles/ Erik/ Raven, it was definitelly a highlight when it comes to a character/ thematic POV

 

[X-Maniac]

It actually made a refreshing change for a climax that wasn't about skyscrapers falling over, cars exploding, or any other form of explosionfest.

Instead, the tensions were created by flipping back and forth between past and future, with some clever mirroring in the shots.

 

[Havok83]

there wasn't enough flipping back to the future stuff for me personally

 

[Venus]

No Stan Lee cameo!

 

[X-Maniac]

No Stan Lee cameo!

Thank God.

It always takes me right out of the movie when he shows up.

We had a Chris Claremont cameo instead.

 

[kevork89]

I'm glad there was no Stan Lee cameo. Yes they are fun, but are becoming too forced now. It was fun when it was subtle like in the first X-Men.

 

[BlackFox]

No Stan Lee cameo!

Not needed in this film, fine in MCU flicks but not here anymore.

 

[Eddie]

Rockslide

I thought it looked an awful lot like Rockslide as well.

 

[Golgo-13]

A line or two about how Prof.X was alive after the events of X3 would have been nice.

 

[Travesty]

No Stan Lee cameo!

Yeah, I noticed. I enjoy them too.

 

[merbass]

Hate that they kill off Banshee and Emma. Killing Angel and Azazel was sufficient

 

[gdw]

My main "gripe" is that they never explained where the hell the Sentinels were between the 70's and the future when they'd taken over.

Xavier says that, after Mystique killed Trask, they green-lit the Sentinel program, and we see in DOFP that he already had the 70's prototypes ready to go.

So, where the hell were they during the rest of the original trilogy?

 

[Golgo-13]

Thank God.

It always takes me right out of the movie when he shows up.

We had a Chris Claremont cameo instead.

I thought i was the only person that thought this.

 

[JLMHodge]

I've never really liked the whole Xavier and Mystique knowing each other as children thing, to be honest. I miss Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, I personally don't like Jennifer Lawrence as the character.

 

[wampa1]

My main "gripe" is that they never explained where the hell the Sentinels were between the 70's and the future when they'd taken over.

Xavier says that, after Mystique killed Trask, they green-lit the Sentinel program, and we see in DOFP that he already had the 70's prototypes ready to go.

So, where the hell were they during the rest of the original trilogy?

I imagine the mutants beat them so the military or whoever retired them pre-X-Men 1 and then rolled them back out post-Last Stand; the 'weapon' referred to in The Wolverine post-credits.

There is the Sentinel head in the Last Stand, remember, albeit in the Danger Room.

 

[Havok83]

My main "gripe" is that they never explained where the hell the Sentinels were between the 70's and the future when they'd taken over.

Xavier says that, after Mystique killed Trask, they green-lit the Sentinel program, and we see in DOFP that he already had the 70's prototypes ready to go.

So, where the hell were they during the rest of the original trilogy?

There was no need for the sentinel program. There was no big mutant threat prior to the OT as far as we know. What Magneto did in the first film and TLS probably helped serve as a catalyst to finally bring them into use. The prototypes were likely just sitting in a government facility until then

 

[Spiderine]

I've never really liked the whole Xavier and Mystique knowing each other as children thing, to be honest. I miss Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, I personally don't like Jennifer Lawrence as the character.

I never liked it either.

 

[Spiderine]

There was no need for the sentinel program. There was no big mutant threat prior to the OT as far as we know. What Magneto did in the first film and TLS probably helped serve as a catalyst to finally bring them into use. The prototypes were likely just sitting in a government facility until then

In the original trilogy it just feels like they never existed in that Xmen world as a threat to them and an advantageous weapon of the government after the drastic acts and atrocities Magneto took in those films. They made such a big issue of a murder that Mystigue committed in 1973 and those Sentinels were ready to roll yet years later we got nothing. Thats a long time to work out some kinks.

 

[Travesty]

Yeah, it is kind of a flaw in the timeline.

 

[Lord]

I imagine the mutants beat them so the military or whoever retired them pre-X-Men 1 and then rolled them back out post-Last Stand; the 'weapon' referred to in The Wolverine post-credits.

There is the Sentinel head in the Last Stand, remember, albeit in the Danger Room.

There is actually an in-universe reason for why that was there, as long as you count X-Men: The Official Video Game as canon

 

[Havok83]

Yeah, it is kind of a flaw in the timeline.

not really

 

[gdw]

There was no need for the sentinel program. There was no big mutant threat prior to the OT as far as we know. What Magneto did in the first film and TLS probably helped serve as a catalyst to finally bring them into use. The prototypes were likely just sitting in a government facility until then

Except that there WAS a "need," as that was why they approved the program after Trask's death. Mystique assassinated him, and that pushed them over the edge into approving the Sentinels.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

My only real "flaw" was the stadium.
I didn't really get what Magnetos plan was until he set it down and then I was like "cool! he's made a battle dome/ring to contain them to fight him. But then he just did a lot of posturing and there wasn't a load of fighting in it so it seemed a bit pointless overall.

 

[The Endless]

To fight who though? A few secret service agents? I thought he was just isolating them so he could do what he had to do uninterrupted.

 

[gdw]

There is actually an in-universe reason for why that was there, as long as you count X-Men: The Official Video Game as canon

Care to elaborate? Never played it myself, though I highly doubt they'd be relying on it as an explanation. They played fast and loose with a bunch of minor details, but this is a big thing.