X-Men: Days of Future Past

[Maxximus 353]

I'm going sometime this week. I've heard good news all around even from die hard X Men comic fans like myself so I'm really interested to see how one of the best comic book storylines plays out on film. If Rachel Summers doesn't show up, I'll be bummed but it won't ruin the over all experience for me.

[Guest ScottyB]

I loved it.

 

Really solid film that's provided a pretty good platform for future films.

 

Even marked out a little at:

 

*comic spoiler?*

 

 

Then nod to Magneto being Quicksilvers Dad "My mum knew a guy like that.."

 

 

Thought the Senitels had some pretty brutal kills considering it was only a 12a.

[Maxximus 353]

*comic spoiler?*

 

Pretty well known to all comic fans. The regular movie goers wouldn't know about it, I don't think.

 

Awesome! Another good review. I'm definitely going to see this sometime this week. Super excited!

[DC 536]

I'm off to see it tomorrow with Becky, John and Josh (Orange Wednesday will save me the cost of two tickets into the bargain).

[etz 78]

Saw this back to back with Godzilla. Godzilla was great, I thought this was even better. Needless to say, they dug themselves out of the hole of Last Stand, storywise. Going forward, I'd love to see alternating movies in the past and future timelines, though just the past timeline would be fine too.

[The Fury 65]

Saw this tonight. Hands down best one out of all of them. Everyone did their part perfectly

[Guest John Hancock]

X-Men: Days of Future Past. It was a whole bunch o' fun. It was good to see a superhero movie not go DC-dark or Marvel-frivolous. As I've said, they can make as many superhero movies as they want if they're different tones and dynamics. A slow paced-period drama about a disabled drug addict and his Jewish ex-boyfriend being bought back together by a time travelling Canadian to hunt down a dwarf-murdering minority-extremist who comes dangerously close to being a legitimate female lead in an action movie, and who manages to spend most of the movie completely nude without ever looking cheap or needlessly sexualised. Take note Game of Thrones.

 

The dudes making Avengers 2 must be shitting themselves over their Quicksilver, because there's no way they're topping this one, he was absolutely perfect. That action sequence he has is probably the best action set piece of the decade so far. Inventive, funny, escapist, exciting. Really a 10/10 character, and a real surprise for me, because I've never liked Evan Peters in anything else, but he completely steals the film, Boba Fett style. He comes in, he does something cool, he leaves. That's how you do it. He doesn't even fall in a mouth like a retard.

 

The plot is really, really stupid, but, somehow, you never really notice or care. They take something really wacky and over-complicated and melt it down to "We have to go to X and do Y", and it just works. They make no attempt to really explain the time travelling, or how it works, or what the repercussions are, or how Shadowcat can even do that, and they really don't need to, because you just buy the characters, and you buy the situation, it's never an issue.

 

One negative is that the CGI was terrible. Not in a Transformers/Star Wars way, it didn't both define and ruin the film in a really visually offensive way like those pieces of shit, it was just super cheap. I've no idea what the budget was, but I assume it was spent entirely on steroids for Hugh Jackman, because the visual effects department looked like they had a pirated copy of Movie Player+ and a long weekend. Even the blue screen was terrible, how do you f*ck up blue screen in 2014!? So strange, but, honestly, it didn't really matter, because it's not an important part of the film. It's not like the Avengers, where the entire film is just bad special effects and nothing else, this is bad special effects behind a good story, and some great characters.

 

One thing, did anyone else watch both this, and season one of Homeland? Anyone who did will know why I'm asking.

[DC 536]

Michael Egan (the guy who filed the allegations against Bryan Singer) has dropped lawsuit against Garth Ancier, a television executive he claimed had raped him numerous times. This is the second lawsuit he has dropped this month as the charges brought against David Neuman (who works for Disney).

 

Of course, that isn't enough for Mr. Egan, so he has also filed another three lawsuits against unnamed defendants and his lawyer has stated that they still maintain the allegations are correct, but these suits have been dropped for "strategic reasons".

 

Whether the allegations are true or not, his repeated dropping suits and filing new ones comes across as a desperate act of seeing which ones will settle out of court. If it looks like they will be defended to the hilt and Egan's stories looked into too deeply (one of the suits was dropped due to the fact his version of events had numerous contradictions), the suit gets dropped.

 

He's not helping himself in any way.

 

Credit: various news stories on Google.

[Guest Yodahew]

Saw this last saturday and thought it was amazing. Finally a decent xmen film. Me and my mates were the only ones who stayed for the post credits scene as well! Loves the pietro line and magnetos face. Also loved the image of pietro with his little sister.

[DC 536]

Also loved the image of pietro with his little sister.

Who is definitely not Scarlet Witch, just for clarification.

[Guest Yodahew]

Why not DC? I kinda just assumed it was her?

[DC 536]

Why not DC? I kinda just assumed it was her?

Because the director said it wasn't, which is good enough for me. :lol

 

Also, a scene was cut where Quicksilver's mum tells the little girl to go upstairs to her sister, which was to be an allusion to Scarlet Witch without actually having her appear on screen.

 

There's also the issue of them Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch being twins (thus the same age), while the girl in the scene is a lot younger.

Edited June 27, 2014 by DC

[Guest pheadley]

watched x men days of future past last night really enjoyed it

[BRM 220]

One thing, did anyone else watch both this, and season one of Homeland? Anyone who did will know why I'm asking.

 

I presume you're referring to the White House bunker scene, yes very similar.

[Guest John Hancock]

Yeah, that scene, there's even identical shots, it's so similar.

[DC 536]

Michael Egan (the guy who filed the allegations against Bryan Singer) has dropped lawsuit against Garth Ancier, a television executive he claimed had raped him numerous times. This is the second lawsuit he has dropped this month as the charges brought against David Neuman (who works for Disney).

 

Of course, that isn't enough for Mr. Egan, so he has also filed another three lawsuits against unnamed defendants and his lawyer has stated that they still maintain the allegations are correct, but these suits have been dropped for "strategic reasons".

 

Whether the allegations are true or not, his repeated dropping suits and filing new ones comes across as a desperate act of seeing which ones will settle out of court. If it looks like they will be defended to the hilt and Egan's stories looked into too deeply (one of the suits was dropped due to the fact his version of events had numerous contradictions), the suit gets dropped.

 

He's not helping himself in any way.

 

Credit: various news stories on Google.

Following on from this, Michael Egan has now asked the court to drop the case against Singer.

[Guest Dazzberry]

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