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

[x-er]

Is not really a critique but more of a question, why does Quicksilver put his headphones in the kitchen scene? What can he listen to in just one second?

LOL, he has a fast version of that song they played... "Time in a bottle"? and who knows how the heck he does.
Otherwise, he just looks cool wearing them.

 

[CB Fan]

I find it a true crime that they killed off many of the mutants from FC. They could have had quite the epic ending showing the FC mutants fighting the Sentinels of their time and the future mutants fighting the Sentinels of theirs.

 

[EnDz0n3]

I would agree with this sentiment if a majority of those characters were interesting, but save for Emma, Banshee, and Havok, they really weren't IMO.

 

[xrs13]

I would agree with this sentiment if a majority of those characters were interesting, but save for Emma, Banshee, and Havok, they really weren't IMO.

The way they could have worked it would have been to have them replace the no mark mutants in the vietnam scene and so we could have seen them get killed then with Havok living and being saved by Mystique.

Still they weren't really fleshed out enough for me to care haha

 

[GuestStar2004]

problem with the FC characters is that by the end of FC they pretty much were like the X-Men and the brotherhood and i don't think thats what they wanted for the FC sequel, so they took these characters out so magneto couldn't just run to emma to help him or azazel, and xavier couldn't get banshee and havok to help so they had to sort out the problem alone and it gave them more reason to team up for abit since they had no one else

i don't think it was important to kill them off so xavier had a reason to be depressed as i don't that was needed since he already had good enough reason to be depressed, but the mystique wanting revenge for what happened to them probably works abit

but i don't think they needed to die i think it was used purely as a plot device which sadly through away 2 good characters

 

[Sweetchuck]

The monitor could have been some advanced technology from trask industries. I mean for god's sake if you can accept Shaw's super advanced sumbarine in first class I don't see why you can't accept this.

No, I wont accept that a flat screen monitor was just some advanced tech from Trask Industries. They didnt even have monitors that small and thin untill the mid 2000's. That was a total mistake by the film makers. Maybe they could have also had Trask using a iphone and comminucating on a non-existant cellular network that must have been built in secret by 73?
Its just plain lazy writing and shows the lack of talent. Im sure they had alot of things to keep track of what with the convoluted and overly complex story they "tried" to pull off. Tried and failed. They should have instead stuck to telling one movie in each decade... FC in the 60's. DOFP in the 70's and Apocalypse in the 80's.

 

[xrs13]

Well clearly they did put effort into the monitor thing because hank was using the 70's style tv's in another scene so maybe Trask did somehow manage to make this monitor. Don't forget there are lots of things that come out way before the mass market gets them. Even things like 8K will be around for years before TV actually output things in 8K

 

[GuestStar2004]

the sentinels being as advanced as they were in the 70s is abit of a stretch also since it breaks the progression ground of the decades

 

[xrs13]

Some level of reality has to be suspended surely!

 

[mabromov]

No, I wont accept that a flat screen monitor was just some advanced tech from Trask Industries. They didnt even have monitors that small and thin untill the mid 2000's. That was a total mistake by the film makers. Maybe they could have also had Trask using a iphone and comminucating on a non-existant cellular network that must have been built in secret by 73?
Its just plain lazy writing and shows the lack of talent. Im sure they had alot of things to keep track of what with the convoluted and overly complex story they "tried" to pull off. Tried and failed. They should have instead stuck to telling one movie in each decade... FC in the 60's. DOFP in the 70's and Apocalypse in the 80's.

I copied this comment from someone else because you obviously didn't read it.

It was a projector.
It was a back-lit projector that was shining on essentially a blank piece of glass. He was using FILM SLIDES. A roll of film that Magneto takes with him as he pursues Mystique and then later watches as he stitches his head. He uses an empty glass jar and a flashlight to project the film.

A lot of complaints in this thread are answered just from upping your movie IQ and paying attention.

 

[BMM]

No, I wont accept that a flat screen monitor was just some advanced tech from Trask Industries. They didnt even have monitors that small and thin untill the mid 2000's. That was a total mistake by the film makers. Maybe they could have also had Trask using a iphone and comminucating on a non-existant cellular network that must have been built in secret by 73?

Its just plain lazy writing and shows the lack of talent. Im sure they had alot of things to keep track of what with the convoluted and overly complex story they "tried" to pull off. Tried and failed. They should have instead stuck to telling one movie in each decade... FC in the 60's. DOFP in the 70's and Apocalypse in the 80's.

Have you ever been to a movie theater and not confused the large projection screen in front of you with a giant LED TV from the future? It's like that, but smaller. It's a miniature, although farfetched, projector, housed in a large briefcase. Granted, to my knowledge, those didn't exist in the 1970s, but neither did sentinels or Cerebro. Regardless, it's not like production suddenly forgot what decade in which the movie takes place and thoughtlessly plopped down 15" of Sony's best, like you would have us believe.

 

[EnDz0n3]

No, I wont accept that a flat screen monitor was just some advanced tech from Trask Industries. They didnt even have monitors that small and thin untill the mid 2000's. That was a total mistake by the film makers. Maybe they could have also had Trask using a iphone and comminucating on a non-existant cellular network that must have been built in secret by 73?
Its just plain lazy writing and shows the lack of talent. Im sure they had alot of things to keep track of what with the convoluted and overly complex story they "tried" to pull off. Tried and failed. They should have instead stuck to telling one movie in each decade... FC in the 60's. DOFP in the 70's and Apocalypse in the 80's.

It's called an anachronism. Shakespeare famously uses them in his plays. Maybe you should call him a hack too

 

[HauntedKnight]

No, I wont accept that a flat screen monitor was just some advanced tech from Trask Industries. They didnt even have monitors that small and thin untill the mid 2000's. That was a total mistake by the film makers. Maybe they could have also had Trask using a iphone and comminucating on a non-existant cellular network that must have been built in secret by 73?
Its just plain lazy writing and shows the lack of talent. Im sure they had alot of things to keep track of what with the convoluted and overly complex story they "tried" to pull off. Tried and failed. They should have instead stuck to telling one movie in each decade... FC in the 60's. DOFP in the 70's and Apocalypse in the 80's.

I know I was too busy worrying about this too. So lazy. At least the Sentinels resembled what they did in the real 1970s

 

[danoyse]

No, I wont accept that a flat screen monitor was just some advanced tech from Trask Industries. They didnt even have monitors that small and thin untill the mid 2000's. That was a total mistake by the film makers. Maybe they could have also had Trask using a iphone and comminucating on a non-existant cellular network that must have been built in secret by 73?
Its just plain lazy writing and shows the lack of talent. Im sure they had alot of things to keep track of what with the convoluted and overly complex story they "tried" to pull off. Tried and failed. They should have instead stuck to telling one movie in each decade... FC in the 60's. DOFP in the 70's and Apocalypse in the 80's.

We'll have them flogged later. We promise.

 

[Hellion]

In a film about mutants with superpowers and time travel, yeah I can let that slide...but the wrong monitors...heads will roll...

 

[psylockolussus]

The monitors didn't bother me, obviously Trask Industries were very advanced with technology, they were ahead of time.

 

[Hellion]

The monitors didn't bother me, obviously Trask Industries were very advanced with technology, they were ahead of time.

I agree with psy...Trask Industries were obviously ahead of the times...LOL, I just realized I just reworded exactly what you said...

...so I'll keep it short and just say I agree with your post.

 

[Schlosser85]

I don't know that I buy them stopping the Sentinel program or something similar.

I mean, yea they stopped Mystique from killing Trask, Trask got arrested for hawking his wares to the Soviets and North Vietnamese, and Magneto turned his big day into a fiasco, but if Mystique assassinating Trask was enough to convince the government of the need for such an anti-mutant program, how is Magneto destroying RFK Stadium and the White House, and trying to assassinate President Nixon not enough?

I mean, I can see how the Sentinel program itself would be scrapped, but all that and the government didn't put any other anti-mutant programs into action?

 

[Schlosser85]

Another plot hole regarding the hotel fight scene at the peace summit.

IIRC, Magneto knows by that point that the Sentinels get their adaptation powers from Mystique's DNA...but his plan to prevent this is to just blow her brains out in a hotel room filled with Trask, Stryker, and tons of other army people? How would splattering her blood all over the floor stop them from getting her DNA?

 

[titansupes]

^ IIRC, he does at least admit that he wasn't thinking clearly when Mystique confronts him later. They say something like-

"It's too late, they already have a sample of your blood from Paris."
"Yeah, well whose fault was that?"
"... Mine."

 

[BMM]

Magneto's logic is probably that if Mystique is dead, she doesn't kill Trask, and the sentinel program never gets approval regardless of what Trask has at his disposal. Plus, Trask says her blood isn't enough. He says he needs further tissue samples, which, unlike the humans in the original timeline, he would not have access to. Or, yeah, what titansupes said.

 

[Schlosser85]

He says he needs further tissue samples, which, unlike the humans in the original timeline, he would not have access to.

He would have if Magneto shot her in the room like he tried. The only reason he didn't get her whole body to research was because Mystique got away. Just seems like a dumb move on Erik's part.

 

[myra]

He would have if Magneto shot her in the room like he tried. The only reason he didn't get her whole body to research was because Mystique got away. Just seems like a dumb move on Erik's part

I don't think Mystique was the only person he planned to kill in that room. No way was he gonna let Trask live and anyone and everyone associated with Trask Industries and the Sentinels were probably also on his "To Kill" list. She was just the one on top of that list and then it all went pear-shaped and next thing you know a stadium crashes through the White House. It's not like he was going to shoot her and then walk away and leave thinking his work was done.

 

[BMM]

He would have if Magneto shot her in the room like he tried. The only reason he didn't get her whole body to research was because Mystique got away. Just seems like a dumb move on Erik's part.

Magneto was furious at the experimentation and deaths of Angel, Azazel, Banshee, etc., so I doubt he would have left the body of one his kind behind to be experimented on by humans, especially Mystique's.

 

[KidxMikexMcfly]

the sentinels being as advanced as they were in the 70s is abit of a stretch also since it breaks the progression ground of the decades

Well if you think about it that's what Trask was all about creating innovative technology, especially since he talked about the future mutants setting them ahead decades.