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DOTP is fantastic but there are legitimate issues with the Fox X-Men series as a whole that are hard to look past for some people.
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X-Men Days of Future Past is so damn good
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The world is an MCU fanboy forum. Because they set the bar.
DOTP is fantastic but there are legitimate issues with the Fox X-Men series as a whole that are hard to look past for some people.
After a rewatch I wasn't as high on it. Mystique at the fore front is wack and it's another Wolverine, Magneto, Xavier show.
This I can agree with, it was much cleaner. Endgame's just felt like a copout.
Quicksilver was absent since he wasn't originally in the script. They only had him because MCU was going to bring the twins into Avengers Age of Ultron. Originally it was supposed to be Juggernaut who breaks Magneto out.
They probably didn't want to change the rest of the plot so Quicksilver has to exit the film.
My favourite Marvel movie of that year (2014). It kind of came from nowhere, got hyped for it and DOFP just blew me away (especially the ending).
In contrast I was over hyped for Winter Soldier (TFA being my fav MCU film with my fav Marvel character). ... saw it and felt extremely let down.
In contrast I was over hyped for Winter Soldier (TFA being my fav MCU film with my fav Marvel character). ... saw it and felt extremely let down.
It's okay. Nothing particularly special to me to be honest.
First Class is the movie that I really enjoyed more than I thought I would
First Class is the movie that I really enjoyed more than I thought I would
Making up a time travel power that a character doesnt have until its convenient for the story isn't a copout?
Using an established interdimensional time travel method that was described in detail as having relevance to time travel, like 10 movies ago, is a copout?
Actually curious how you came to this conclusion. The time travel in DOFP is the definition of an undeveloped ass-pull.
I actually really like the movie. Despite its heavy focus on Wolverine, I found the scenes with McAvoy and Fassbender to be the best - the scene in the plane was beautiful because it reinforced how they had both let each other down, but while Xavier drowned in his sorrows Erik did as Xavier once taught him and used that anger to save other mutants.
Plus McAvoy saying he doesn't want the older Xavier's pain or future was nuts. It's a shame they put it in the trailer because that was powerful, an older Xavier trying to show his younger self how to avoid the future he's in and the younger Xavier rejecting that because he doesn't believe in his own ideals any more.
Plus McAvoy saying he doesn't want the older Xavier's pain or future was nuts. It's a shame they put it in the trailer because that was powerful, an older Xavier trying to show his younger self how to avoid the future he's in and the younger Xavier rejecting that because he doesn't believe in his own ideals any more.
It hasn't held up as well as I thought when I rewatched it recently.
It has some great moments, but then it has some bad stuff. Outside of the future scenes with the Sentinels, most of the action is pretty mediocre oike Beast going after Magneto when he attacks Mystique, or Magneto lifting a stadium to trap (?) the president (they love to have Magneto lift big things in these movies).
Worst of all (not really DOFP's fault) I hate that it never led to another modern day movie (Logan was more future than modern day and only had Wolverine and Xavier if I remember right) with the original cast even though it ended perfectly to set that up.
It has some great moments, but then it has some bad stuff. Outside of the future scenes with the Sentinels, most of the action is pretty mediocre oike Beast going after Magneto when he attacks Mystique, or Magneto lifting a stadium to trap (?) the president (they love to have Magneto lift big things in these movies).
Worst of all (not really DOFP's fault) I hate that it never led to another modern day movie (Logan was more future than modern day and only had Wolverine and Xavier if I remember right) with the original cast even though it ended perfectly to set that up.
I don't know why people are hating against Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique in this. I thought she did a great job then again I'm also a huge fan of both her and the character, plus I was tired of the focus of the X-Men movies being mostly Wolverine besides First Class (which is also one of the better X-Men movies).
Overall, I found it a bit of a disappointment after First Class. First Class gave a real good look at the complexity of a Xavier/Magneto relationship. I just thought it got too simplified in the sequels.
Also, since the story involved time-jumping, it came across too scattershot for me.
Definitely much better than Apocalypse at least! And I liked Quicksilver's scenes.
Also, since the story involved time-jumping, it came across too scattershot for me.
Definitely much better than Apocalypse at least! And I liked Quicksilver's scenes.
If the movie had just been two hours of Magneto hunting Nazis, it would have been the greatest movie of all time.
the mutant team up version of inglorious basterds? I'm here for it
Absolutely. The time travel stuff in Endgame kinda sucked. Also, watching Sentinels murkin' mutants left and right in the future was pretty wild and jarring on the first watch.
Colossus getting ripped in half!
It sounds like this guy is to credit for DOFP being great, and everyone else to blame for the other movies.
I agree with all of this, especially the bolded. Sentinels are supposed to be skyscraper sized robots, and that's what I wanted to see the X-Men fight in DoFP, not the cheap plastic toys that we got.
Future Sentinels were pretty cool, though. Damn ruthless.
The X-Men movies that failed, failed because they didn't focus on the X-Men as an actual team. Look at all the mainline X-Men movies that people generally hate (X3, Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, sometimes First Class) and you'll see that those movies have a focus on one or two characters. X3 was Wolverine/Jean focused, Dark Phoenix was all about Jean, First Class was all about Magneto/Prof X, and Apocalypse was just all over the place.
Now, if you look at the other ones that did great, like DoFP, then you'll see there's more of a broad focus on mutants in general and their combined struggle. It's plainly just better writing.
Marvel has gotten this down to a science, so hopefully they can do a better job bringing the mutants to the big screen.
Now, if you look at the other ones that did great, like DoFP, then you'll see there's more of a broad focus on mutants in general and their combined struggle. It's plainly just better writing.
Marvel has gotten this down to a science, so hopefully they can do a better job bringing the mutants to the big screen.
It's decent enough for what it is, but it presumes something approaching Infinity War/Endgame levels of audience investment in the previous Singerverse films. Which I guess is a good thing if you actually are that invested in X1, X2, and First Class, but I certainly wasn't.
I mainly think of DoFP as the movie that had the perfect setup to do a clean reboot of the Singerverse continuity (which was already past its prime in 2014), but which Fox squandered in favor of doing a half-assed quasi-reboot.
I mainly think of DoFP as the movie that had the perfect setup to do a clean reboot of the Singerverse continuity (which was already past its prime in 2014), but which Fox squandered in favor of doing a half-assed quasi-reboot.
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