X-Men: Days of Future Past

[Hector]

Saw it today...Just amazing. Quicksilver's scene was fabulous and had the theater roaring, Hope to see him in future films. Jackman was great again as was the whole cast. This movie is non stop entertainment great job by Singer.

Just saw it today, and yes, Quicksilver nearly stole the show.

But James McAvoy's acting was just Oscar-worthy, and I hope the Academy recognizes him...they probably won't due to being a "comic book" movie...but his performance was that good.

[Dark Shadow]

^Saw it on Saturday...and I agree with you on both points. It seemed to me that Fassbender wasn't quite as committed to his role this time around as he was in First Class, which is why I think I still like First Class just a little bit better.

Absolutely best movie I've seen so far this year though...without a doubt.

[chazz530]

I must have saw a different movie than the rest of you. I felt it was a major disappointment and I left the theater let down. It was plodding and predictable with the only high points being Quicksilver & the cameos at the end. I actually found myself fighting to stay awake several times & my gf did fall asleep. For a story with such a good source of material to feed from it was boring as hell.

[spacecaps]

I had to wait a week or so to get my thoughts in order on exactly how I would describe the fallacies of Future Past. I'm probably getting a reputation as the guy in the Museum that hates every movie since usually my review are pretty brutal. I should start by saying that X-Men 1st Class was so good I actually saw it twice in the theaters. It's my favorite super hero movie next to the Burton Batman and I was digging Future Past right there until the end, then the wheels came off. I'm gonna call the way this movie ended the second worst ending ever. (The Mist still holds that title and nothing can ruin a movie the way the last five minutes of the Mist did.)

From the time Wolverine wakes up in the future or present or whatever just doesn't jive. He walks down the steps and sees Storm and says "Storm..." like he saw her die and now is surprised and grateful to see her back alive (literally the only one in the theater with those feelings) Then he sees all the Xmen cameos that everyone is raving about and Professor X gives him a "welcome back" and Scott is all hands off my girl like it ain't no thing. Even if Prof. X scanned his brain, remembered that time thirty something years ago they stopped the Sentinels and realized Wolverine just regained consciousness from that event none of that makes any goddam sense. If Wolverine just regained his modern day consciousness from the future timeline, who was Wolverine the night before in the now current present timeline? He could not have been the same person. It's kind of like how in Back to the Future when Marty changes the present in 1955 he goes back to the future as Marty from the beginning of the film. While everyone he knows had a different experience from the prom of 55 to October of '85, Marty is the same kid from the original time line. To everyone around him it would look like he had a psychotic break from the time he went to bed the night before to the time he woke up the next morning. His parents, friends and other relatives aren't the same people he knew before he hopped in the Delorean and all the memories he has are totally different from everyone because he's had a completely different experience than every single person alive in the new time line. Marty experienced things that never happened to any one else and the same thing applies to Wolverine here. Now while I don't expect any movie to ever fully get the butterfly effect of time travel right, you've got to at least try. In Back To The Future it's never really a problem because in and of itself the movie is a one shot time traveling film trilogy that makes it's own rules and who cares if it doesn't make any sense and is full of incestuous innuendo. But Xmen is a five and counting multi layered, ensemble casted comic epic film franchise that takes itself so seriously they made a movie centered around a plot that involved undoing an earlier installments terrible plot. (And yes I realize Future Past was a huge deal in the comics and it does make sense to turn it into a movie but if X3 wasn't as bad as it was, does 1st Class even get made in the first place?)

Stopping Mystique from killing Dinklage was key to the plot but how was the way they went about doing it not worse than one rouge assassin mutant killing a scientist. Ok so the Sentinel program doesn't go into action but Magneto destroys a major sports arena, drops it around the White House and has got the President in his cross-hairs with giant murder robots obeying his bidding. Dinklage lives another day and the Sentinels get canceled but Magneto just gave a live televised demonstration to a global audience on just exactly how mutants can be and set the mutant movement back forever. I can't see Jean Gray speaking on mutant rights in x1 and being taken seriously after that because the world got a huge dose of just how dangerous mutants are 27 years earlier. That's exhibit A, B, and C for anyone trying to suppress them. Not to Mention Mystique makes Tricky Dick look like a superhero in his own right. Also in the first Xmen movie it makes it seem like mutants are just being discovered and 1st class shows us they've been around for sometime but everything they've done has been covered up by the government to keep it hidden from the public. Well again....good luck covering up the live television events of 1973. This movie didn't just undo X3, it undid X1, X2 and (thankfully) two godawful Wolverine movies.

About Wolverine and back to the Marty McFly analogy, Logan gets dropped in a river where he's full of steel, gets pulled out but then wakes up in Xaviers school in the present exactly the same. How is Wolverine the same person? From that moment in '73 his entire lineage would have been altered and that where the movie lost me. Did Mystique see to it that every event that happened to Logan after dredging him up played out exactly like it did in the original time line? Is he in Canada to save Rouge from Sabertooth in x1? Does X1 even happen? How is there not some human vs mutant war in the late 70's early 80's. If Magneto get's pulled out of his prisin, teams up with Xavier, does what he doe in the movie, how does anything that he would have done later on had he not been freed at that time ever come to pass. If Logan doesn't go back in time and get Xavier out of his funk when he did, when exactly does Xavier come out (and if you say that's how Xavier becomes himself again than we run right into the other paradox of time travel movies which is no matter what you do the future is set) Earlier in the film we saw what happens when future Wolverine looses touch with past Wolverine. Exactly how did that play out when 1973 Logan went from doin some mob bosses daughter the night before to waking up loaded with steel rods running through him. How does that not change absolutely everything Logan does moving forward? I think everyone got caught up in the "hey they fixed the awfulness of X3 and gosh wasn't that Quicksilver side mission pretty cool" that they over look the way in which they "fixed" the franchise makes no sense.

[Earth 2 Chris]

They said before they sent Wolverine, that he would remember the way things were before his time trip.

Chris