X-Men: Days of Future Past

[Khev]

I want an Evans, ScarJo, Jackman team-up movie with them posed in their Jim Lee positions as the move poster.

 

[Kibagami]

I want an Evans, ScarJo, Jackman team-up movie with them posed in their Jim Lee positions as the move poster.

That would be a win, sir. A true victory.

 

[karamazov80]

Win Jim Lee's art was so pure. So innocent. So amazing.

I've never had issue with Lee's art personally, though like most comic artists he did have a peak (during the early '90s). It's his damn character designs that I can't stand. All the way from pouch-o-plenty, leg belt fiend, unnecessary leather jacket wearing Cyclops and pals to the lines, lines, and more lines of the nu-52ers.

 

[Kibagami]

I've never had issue with Lee's art personally, though like most comic artists he did have a peak (during the early '90s). It's his damn character designs that I can't stand. All the way from pouch-o-plenty, leg belt fiend, unnecessary leather jacket wearing Cyclops and pals to the lines, lines, and more lines of the nu-52ers.

Yeah, I would say his peak was when he stopped drawing for uncanny x-men. Anything afterward is meh. But you have to remember he did design Asian ninja Psylocke and Gambit. And that Genoshan army in extinction agenda was cool. That's when it was okay to have a pouch-o-plenty design. But that still doesn't excuse pouch-o-plenty cyclops. I have no idea what he was thinking.

 

[Silrian]

They should redo a proper Weapon X movie with Sabertooth, Omega Red and the real Deadpool. I don't even care if it doesn't fit into the franchise. Everyone here has been saying to take them as stand alones right? So do it.

Sabretooth definitely needs to come back. I wouldn't be surprised if Omega Red was in the next Wolverine sequel.

Finally saw the film. Gotta back track and scan through what has been said, but catching the two comments above, DoFP pretty much brilliantly makes a Wolverine weapon X prequel possible. With Omega, Deadpool, Sabretooth, the whole lot. He needs his adamantium again, there's a new Stryker, seems brilliant and honestly, it seems intentional to me.

Not sure if spoilers are allowed already so I tagged my reaction to the film:

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On the film itself overall I thought it was excellent, and a brilliant obviously unprecedented tie-in of the whole franchise. My biggest gripe honestly is that it was too short. Normally I applaud keeping running times efficiently low, but this was too lean imo. Pretty much all characters got about 1 epic moment (except Mystique and Magneto I guess) and that's unnecessarily low considering it's a 2 hour film now. I highly hope for an extended cut.

Quicksilver was great, yes, I geeked out of my mind about a lot of the references, cameos etc and after having rewatched X1 and 2, I'm honestly content with this franchise again. It still lacks a lot of what I love, but the content in the major 4 good films (we all know which ones) is imo still some of the best of the entire genre and that finally outweighs the lack of some smaller signature x-men things again. The Future stuff was more brutal then I had expected, the moment especially where storm gets caught is freakin epic. The meeting between past and future charles also really got to me, to my surprise it nearly teared me up. No other marvel property based film can touch X1,2,FC and DoFP for me. And I do think X1 and 2 highly hold up, when I rewatched them lately I was honestly still impressed and also feel Nolan has stolen a bit of Singer's glory in making CB films a serious genre. I'm also fully on board with Jackman again, especially after realising he had more accuracy to him in the first 2 films then I remembered. Hell, I even enjoyed Marsters as Cyclops. I had forgotten mostly X3 and Origins ruined everything.

Really, really glad with this film. Pretty much all of it worked. Yeah I do kinda disliked there was no 90s TAS style towering sentinels with tentacles being cut down, but so be it, I can see why these sentinels fitted better and they were pretty damn horrifying to me. I guess my ultimate main gripe is that the film just isn't as worked out as I'd hoped. We see little of the future or who's controlling them, sadly no Mastermold. So apart from an overall 'too less of [a lot of stuff]' I loved the film.

And now I'll stop and scan back through the thread a bit to gauge what others think.

Oh also, pretty much zero issues with the time travel mechanic. I think it's a smart move from a storytelling POV, and it intrigues me as there's plenty of theory on how time only exists if it's being observed. Yes at first sight it's a weird and seems impossible, but they handle it very consistently, internally, and I'm honestly still pondering whether it truly is impossible, theoretically. I've always loved coupling time to consciousness so, very glad it didn't take me out of the film at the very least. Even if it is ludicrous on a meta level, they handled it consistently logical within the film's premise of the core rule, and that's enough for me.

 

[Frank]

Jim Lee's style disintegrated almost as soon as the switched to a different print method. But despite it all he hadn't quite lost it completely. He was in my mind one of the best cover artists ever back in his heyday and X-Tinction Agenda was my favorite of his and Claremont's run.

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[a-dev]

Ask a-dev. He apparently has every single frame of his beloved X3 bookmarked so that he can cross reference it against every single moment in DOFP.

In fairness, it isn't because he likes the movie or anything. He's just obsessed with continuity stuff. . .being a bit time T2 fan does strange things to people

 

[Mr. Green]

great movie, was there a scene at the end? I stayed but the credit kept rolling n rolling n rolling. so I left.

 

[pturtle]

Finally saw the film. Gotta back track and scan through what has been said, but catching the two comments above, DoFP pretty much brilliantly makes a Wolverine weapon X prequel possible. With Omega, Deadpool, Sabretooth, the whole lot. He needs his adamantium again, there's a new Stryker, seems brilliant and honestly, it seems intentional to me.

Not sure if spoilers are allowed already so I tagged my reaction to the film:

Spoiler

On the film itself overall I thought it was excellent, and a brilliant obviously unprecedented tie-in of the whole franchise. My biggest gripe honestly is that it was too short. Normally I applaud keeping running times efficiently low, but this was too lean imo. Pretty much all characters got about 1 epic moment (except Mystique and Magneto I guess) and that's unnecessarily low considering it's a 2 hour film now. I highly hope for an extended cut.

Quicksilver was great, yes, I geeked out of my mind about a lot of the references, cameos etc and after having rewatched X1 and 2, I'm honestly content with this franchise again. It still lacks a lot of what I love, but the content in the major 4 good films (we all know which ones) is imo still some of the best of the entire genre and that finally outweighs the lack of some smaller signature x-men things again. The Future stuff was more brutal then I had expected, the moment especially where storm gets caught is freakin epic. The meeting between past and future charles also really got to me, to my surprise it nearly teared me up. No other marvel property based film can touch X1,2,FC and DoFP for me. And I do think X1 and 2 highly hold up, when I rewatched them lately I was honestly still impressed and also feel Nolan has stolen a bit of Singer's glory in making CB films a serious genre. I'm also fully on board with Jackman again, especially after realising he had more accuracy to him in the first 2 films then I remembered. Hell, I even enjoyed Marsters as Cyclops. I had forgotten mostly X3 and Origins ruined everything.

Really, really glad with this film. Pretty much all of it worked. Yeah I do kinda disliked there was no 90s TAS style towering sentinels with tentacles being cut down, but so be it, I can see why these sentinels fitted better and they were pretty damn horrifying to me. I guess my ultimate main gripe is that the film just isn't as worked out as I'd hoped. We see little of the future or who's controlling them, sadly no Mastermold. So apart from an overall 'too less of [a lot of stuff]' I loved the film.

And now I'll stop and scan back through the thread a bit to gauge what others think.

Oh also, pretty much zero issues with the time travel mechanic. I think it's a smart move from a storytelling POV, and it intrigues me as there's plenty of theory on how time only exists if it's being observed. Yes at first sight it's a weird and seems impossible, but they handle it very consistently, internally, and I'm honestly still pondering whether it truly is impossible, theoretically. I've always loved coupling time to consciousness so, very glad it didn't take me out of the film at the very least. Even if it is ludicrous on a meta level, they handled it consistently logical within the film's premise of the core rule, and that's enough for me.

Glad you enjoyed it man!

The Schrödinger's cat like time travel really works for the film, and is a nice new take on time travel.

Not only are you right about Nolan being inspired by Singer's X films, but Hugh Jackman has stated plenty of times that Nolan told him when he saw the first X film he was upset because he wanted to do something like that with Batman, and gives Singer all the credit in with world.

I'm really glad Singer is returning to direct Apocalypse.

great movie, was there a scene at the end? I stayed but the credit kept rolling n rolling n rolling. so I left.

Yup, you get your first glimpse of Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen.


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[Kibagami]

Jim Lee's style disintegrated almost as soon as the switched to a different print method. But despite it all he hadn't quite lost it completely. He was in my mind one of the best cover artists ever back in his heyday and X-Tinction Agenda was my favorite of his and Claremont's run.

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Agreed on all points.

 

[Mr. Green]

Glad you enjoyed it man!

The Schrödinger's cat like time travel really works for the film, and is a nice new take on time travel.

Not only are you right about Nolan being inspired by Singer's X films, but Hugh Jackman has stated plenty of times that Nolan told him when he saw the first X film he was upset because he wanted to do something like that with Batman, and gives Singer all the credit in with world.

I'm really glad Singer is returning to direct Apocalypse.



Yup, you get your first glimpse of Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen.


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nice, thanks to utube, I've just seen it.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Hard to believe X1 was 14 years ago.

 

[pturtle]

Hard to believe X1 was 14 years ago.

I still remember going to see it, I was 10 or 11 at the time. I'm pretty sure I bought the horrible one on one fighting game on PS1 shortly after and I loved it haha.


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[Snake Plissken]

I still remember going to see it, I was 10 or 11 at the time. I'm pretty sure I bought the horrible one on one fighting game on PS1 shortly after and I loved it haha.


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You mean Mutant Academy? I actually liked it

 

[pturtle]

Yup, that was it!

I loved it, i think it got terrible reviews though.


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[Silrian]

Glad you enjoyed it man!

The Schrödinger's cat like time travel really works for the film, and is a nice new take on time travel.

Not only are you right about Nolan being inspired by Singer's X films, but Hugh Jackman has stated plenty of times that Nolan told him when he saw the first X film he was upset because he wanted to do something like that with Batman, and gives Singer all the credit in with world.

I'm really glad Singer is returning to direct Apocalypse.

Me too man, if things go into the right direction, I think Apocalypse will be the best X-men film yet. There are a bunch of weird continuity errors, which honestly I'll just except, whatever, but the time travel itself I actually really dug and up front I'd said that would make or break the film for me, and thank god it worked for me. Even the meeting of the two charles was pretty logical to me via Wolverine's mind as essentially a meeting arena. LOT of moments to love. I also had the idea McAvoy did somewhat emulate Stewart as well, like Fass clearly emulated McKellon which was great. I completely bought them both as younger versions, really well cast and executed.

Also, apart from quicksilver, I loved Blink man, I hope she gets a role in a film or series, to actually become a real character. I just want more frosty iceman daaamnit, damnit I want an extended cut!

Cool to hear about Jackman mentioning what Nolan said. Singer, Nolan and Snyder definitely have everything I want from these films between them, especially if Snyder delivers with BvS.

 

[Silrian]

Also one of my fav post credits clips ever, because it did exactly what a clip like that should: basically be one shot teasing the next threat. Apocalypse is also my favorite x-men villain so, god damnit I hope that's gonna be the best x-men **** ever in cinema.

 

[Silrian]

My biggest let down with the film in terms of entertainment is that

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all good sentinel action is stuff where the x-men lose.... That kinda bums me out...

So yeah, I've decided to just appreciate what I get instead of moaning what I don't, so, what we got is great imo but we still don't have the pinnacle of x-men action yet.

 

[Snake Plissken]

 

[batfan08]

Also one of my fav post credits clips ever, because it did exactly what a clip like that should: basically be one shot teasing the next threat. Apocalypse is also my favorite x-men villain so, god damnit I hope that's gonna be the best x-men **** ever in cinema.

I actually wonder if they didn't tease more than that.

-Angel Salvador
-Banshee
-Azazel
-Emma Frost

Four dead X-Men. Could they be our horsemen?