X-Men: Days of Future Past

[Sweet Rabbit]

We'll see it on Amazon for that price around Christmas

That and a few others

 

[Khev]

Can't wait until this goes on sale for $5 so I can see it again!

Do you buy movie collectibles? Like HT figures and PF's and things? Serious question. I've got to assume that you don't anymore if $6 prices you out of the movie that the collectible is based on.

 

[Michael Crawford]

Is any of the Rogue deleted scenes on there? I picked up the steelbook this week but haven't had time to check it out.

 

[karamazov80]

Do you buy movie collectibles? Like HT figures and PF's and things? Serious question. I've got to assume that you don't anymore if $6 prices you out of the movie that the collectible is based on.

I just paid $400 for a doll suit

How, you may ask, can I afford it? Being a cheapskate with things like DVDs! One advantage I have is that I rarely feel in a rush to rewatch something. I'll see it eventually, and it will be all the more enjoyable for the length of time I waited between screenings. But my entire Marvel Studios/Dark Knight/X-Men/Spider-Man blu ray collection probably ran me $70 or so, and that was buying a couple of them new.

 

[Khev]

I just paid $400 for a doll suit

How, you may ask, can I afford it? Being a cheapskate with things like DVDs! One advantage I have is that I rarely feel in a rush to rewatch something. I'll see it eventually, and it will be all the more enjoyable for the length of time I waited between screenings. But my entire Marvel Studios/Dark Knight/X-Men/Spider-Man blu ray collection probably ran me $70 or so, and that was buying a couple of them new.

Okay now that makes sense. More of a movie-watching philosophy that has positive impacts on your finances than a budgetary philosophy that hampers your movie watching. There's only a few movies that I deliberatly space out like that. LOTR I don't watch more than once a year, sometimes I wait two years, and there are a few others like that. Things like SW and Marvel I pretty much watch over and over. I did watch the SE of ALIENS for the first time in about 10 years a few days ago and it was awesome having a couple of the scenes actually take me by surprise.

But otherwise I love movies too much and life is too short for me to delay gratification too much.

 

[karamazov80]

And for me, there are so many great things out there that I haven't even discovered yet, that I don't want to spend too much time going back to the same well. The vast majority of what I watch is stuff on Netflix or Amazon Prime that I've never seen before.

 

[Khev]

And for me, there are so many great things out there that I haven't even discovered yet, that I don't want to spend too much time going back to the same well. The vast majority of what I watch is stuff on Netflix or Amazon Prime that I've never seen before.

I can understand that but how often do you watch movies? I probably average 4 or 5 a week (new or old.) So that gives me enough viewings to rewatch old favorites and catch a couple new ones each week. In the last week for instance I saw The Bourne Legacy and Edge of Tomorrow for the first time but also watched ALIENS SE, took my son to see GOTG again while its still in theaters and then DOFP again last night. I tried watching Hostel Part II as a fun Halloween movie but even edited on SyFy just had to turn it off once the nasty stuff started happening. So I don't really feel like I have to choose to watch a new movie at the expense of an old favorite. There's time for both.

 

[karamazov80]

I maybe watch 1 or 2 movies a week on average. I usually watch TV shows, documentary series, comedy acts, things like that on Netflix and whatnot while I'm doing other things at night. I'm in the middle of a documentary of the history of film that reminds me how much classic film history I have little to no familiarity with like Carl Dreyer and Erich von Stroheim, or Japanese films in the 1920s and '30s. There's a lot out there.

 

[Khev]

I watch almost no TV (pretty much TWD and SW Rebels and that's it) so that frees up a LOT of time.

Getting back to DOFP, I really was bummed at noticing just how much Wolverine is a bystander throughout pretty much the whole movie. You guys were right about him taking out the mob guys and that's it. He does nothing (action-wise) in the future, nothing during the Pentagon breakout, nothing in Paris when Mystique is trying to kill Trask, and at the White House finale he starts to advance on a Sentinel and then Beast jumps on it and does all the fighting. Which just leaves him vs. Magneto which was again, another non-event for Wolverine. It all fits with the story but as a fan of the character I couldn't help but feel frustrated at him only being able to cut loose for about 11 seconds in a 131 minute X-Men movie.

I will say this though, Singer is a VERY accomplished director for this type of movie. I was surprised that he didn't share a Story or Screenplay credit. I thought that a year or two ago it was pretty much him sitting around for weeks on end concocting the movie adaptation in his head. Wasn't he doing all these public tweets about "hey I finished the first draft!" and things like that? Anyway if you take this particular story as THE story and free Singer from the responsibility of doing a different narrative in any way then its hard to imagine anyone doing a better job of presenting this particular script on screen.

 

[karamazov80]

Nam should be happy, since he seemed to be complaining for years about how this franchise was nothing but Wolverine movie followed by Wolverine movie.

 

[Khev]

Do you see the addendum to my post above? I did give props to your boy Singer.

 

[karamazov80]

Singer gets credit for this one, for sure. Or blame if you dislike it. This was his baby all the way as far as I can tell. I also would have liked to see more Wolvie action, but it wouldn't have served the greater story, and just shoehorning something in for the purpose of fan service isn't good filmmaking (despite the fact that this seems to be Zach Snyder's filmmaking philosophy). So, it doesn't really bother me.

 

[Niltusk]

I just paid $400 for a doll suit

How, you may ask, can I afford it? Being a cheapskate with things like DVDs! One advantage I have is that I rarely feel in a rush to rewatch something. I'll see it eventually, and it will be all the more enjoyable for the length of time I waited between screenings. But my entire Marvel Studios/Dark Knight/X-Men/Spider-Man blu ray collection probably ran me $70 or so, and that was buying a couple of them new.

I get this. Except for comic movies and a few others like Tolkien stuff, I won't buy things that I just 'like' unless it's rock bottom pricing. That 'thrift' is probably part of the reason I can get by spending money on toys and not feel broke all the time.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Nam should be happy, since he seemed to be complaining for years about how this franchise was nothing but Wolverine movie followed by Wolverine movie.

Nah, he just views the movies story being about Wolverine sleeping

 

[jye4ever]

No, that's me.

 

[Khev]

I also would have liked to see more Wolvie action, but it wouldn't have served the greater story, and just shoehorning something in for the purpose of fan service isn't good filmmaking (despite the fact that this seems to be Zach Snyder's filmmaking philosophy). So, it doesn't really bother me.

See I actually think a sweet Wolverine battle being counterproductive to the story is a misnomer. Singer didn't *have* to give him bone claws. I'm guessing he only did it to pay the loosest of lip service to "The Wolverine." But all it did was neuter him in *this* story. If he had metal claws in 1973 he still would have kicked ass against the mob and the only things lost would have been Magneto's line "imagine if they were metal" (which I think itself was just a fan service comment) and Logan not setting off the metal detectors. None of those were critical to the story.

But if he HAD his metal claws in 1973 then we could have had one truly kick-ass comic booky fight where he just shreds that one Sentinel from head to toe. Its not like the bones allowed him to advance on Magneto afterward anyway. He still just got tangled up in metal and thrown away. Might as well have just had Magneto manipulate his skeleton and toss him away just the same.

 

[DiFabio]

I hope in the next one, Wolverine goes berserk and finally rips out Fassneto's heart.

 

[Khev]

Or his throat!

 

[DiFabio]

Eh, then they'll just go back in time and retcon it.

NEVER MIND.

 

[jye4ever]

Yeah, FOX cheats.