X-Men: Days of Future Past

[pturtle]

That's because from X-Men Days of Future Past onwards we're in an alternate timeline and all will remember only what's happened in their lives in this timeline, including Wolverine as his body was taken over by Future Wolverine and he doesn't remember the events of DOFP.

But in 2023 (as seen in X-Men Days of Future Past) Wolverine from the original timeline will overwrite the new timeline Logan and he'll remember the events of the OT from the OT timeline

Never thought about that, good stuff Nova.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Basically from now on the movies are now in an alternate timeline. The only thing certain about the future is who'll be at the school in 2023 anything else between 1973 and then is wide-open



Agreed

I agree, it's cruel to the audience, because I don't know WTF is going on, man!!

 

[DiFabio]

I agree, it's cruel to the audience, because I don't know WTF is going on, man!!

Don't bother trying.

The very fact that Kitty was able to go through Logan's mind to change time doesn't make any sense. Just go with it.

 

[jye4ever]

 

[RIDDICK]

The very fact that Kitty was able to go through Logan's mind to change time doesn't make any sense. Just go with it.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Convoluted mess is convoluted

 

[jye4ever]

Convoluted mess for some, masterpiece for others.

I don't wont U future.....

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Convoluted mess is convoluted

Post from Ink in Fox thread is negative. I'm so freezing shocked

 

[jye4ever]

AOU will make DOFP look like an ABC after school special.

 

[pturtle]

AOU will make DOFP look like an ABC after school special.

Maybe the action will be better but thats it!

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Convoluted mess for some, masterpiece for others.

I don't wont U future.....

DOFP is a convoluted messterpiece

 

[jye4ever]

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[RIDDICK]

convoluted messterpiece

 

[Black Knight]

This movie was great for me.
Maybe the best X flick and love the sins of 3 erased

 

[Khev]

I do think DOFP is a great movie. I think you can sit back and pick apart its paradoxes and things (which are mostly related to previous films, not itself) but aside from the first trailer that made it seem like it was going to be the Second Coming I just don't think the movie is pretentious enough to warrant such critical dissection.

I think the concept of Wolverine's mind, not his body, going back in time and the notion that both past and future exist simultaneously until he wakes up is actually pretty freaking brilliant. It sidesteps the common cliche of the future being changed in real time as each past event changes and avoids having to explain away paradoxes with parallel universes and things like that. Just one timeline with actions in the future "helping" the situation in the past (mutants slowing down Sentinel attack so that Logan can remain in 1973) and actions in the past changing the future for the better.

I'm amazed at the cleverness brought to the table and I think that the good guys were worth rooting for, the bad guys were well thought out, and the characters in the middle were understandable in how they toed the line. I'd probably be more critical if I felt that the production had an air of smug superiority (like a couple other movies we've seen the last year or two) but to me it didn't. It seemed like it was genuinely trying to tell a good story and it's one that I'm able to just suspend disbelief and totally enjoy.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I think the concept of Wolverine's mind, not his body, going back in time and the notion that both past and future exist simultaneously until he wakes up is actually pretty freaking brilliant. It sidesteps the common cliche of the future being changed in real time as each past event changes and avoids having to explain away paradoxes with parallel universes and things like that. Just one timeline with actions in the future "helping" the situation in the past (mutants slowing down Sentinel attack so that Logan can remain in 1973) and actions in the past changing the future for the better.

Yeah, the time travel was well done as well. Doesn't it remind you of the Matrix and Inception? With the exception of the time travel element, they (matrix/inception) both had the dual storytelling of two or more situations happening simultaneously in different places, ( matrix world/real future world and different dream levels) and those situations affecting or having a simultaneous effect on each place.

 

[Khev]

Oh it definitely reminded me of those movies, even a little bit of Avatar with sleeping Jake struggling to breath while Na'vi Jake struggled to fight Quaritch I just liked that for DOFP the two "worlds" were simply two different times in the same reality. But yeah its interesting that since The Matrix we've had a number of movies that involve heroes sleeping and then their consciousnesses do amazing things in another world/body/timeline. I wonder what the first story is to do that. Possibly Dreamscape or A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Or would it have just been the comic DOFP? I've never read it so I don't know know close the movie stuck to the source material.

 

[karamazov80]

Prof. X's consciousness would leave his body and do all kinds of wacky things while his body lay dormant going back to the '60s.

 

[Khev]

I wonder if the source of the "sleeping hero/adventuring mind in another body/reality" theme really is the X-Men then. That'd be cool. I guess its just a sci-fi take on an "out of body" experience which there have been hints of going all the way back to the Bible. But the Bible didn't have any dramatic races against time where both the unconscious and awake bodies were in danger at the same time.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I think DOFP also influenced Terminator, although I remember someone in the theater saying, "this X-Men film is like Terminator." I was like, no. The Terminator is like DOFP, and James Cameron also stole "The Terminator" name from DC Comics Deathstroke...that was his name.