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David
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 Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past If the film were faithful to the comics, Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) would be the time traveler.
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Algren
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Shack wrote: Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. GOOD!!! Why does every film have to be about Wolverine???!! There are hundreds of other superheroes. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Very entertaining from start to finish and if the Charles/Mystique relationship would have been more fleshed out, this could have been even better. It's not the epic I expected but it's good enough.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Algren wrote: Shack wrote: Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. GOOD!!! Why does every film have to be about Wolverine???!! There are hundreds of other superheroes. Further proof that Algren can't read. Here's Shack's full post for comparison... Shack wrote: The good: X-Men's most unique strength among superhero movies, is it can pull off intensity and brooding and it does that well here. Scenes like the Charles to Charles were great and Fassbender's intensity F-ing everyone up is just great.
The bad: Very disappointing screenplay. Other than clunky dialog half the time, how Charles-Eric-Mystique plot mixes with Wolverine, does not work. Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. This is the most boring he's ever been used and they could've sent back someone like Storm or old Charles/Magneto to mix it up from another fk'ing Wolverine movie. As for Charles and company, that back from quitting arc and stopping the Mystique-Trask clash, could've been the First Class sequel's plot without time travel. The end result of Wolverine being put in this movie is there's not enough time or energy spent on maximizing the Charles, Eric and Mystique emotional conflict.
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Brian
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past According to the film's main plot, Wolverine was the only one able to be the time traveler due to his healing powers, so He was needed Algren wrote: I am going to see X-Men: Days of Future Past again tonight. I enjoyed it very much and would like to go over it one more time. So am I, so excited 
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past I actually agree with Algren to a certain extent (which might be a first). Considering how many characters there are to keep track of in this film, making Wolverine purely a driver of the plot worked perfectly fine for me. How much more soul-searching can he do after being the focal point of three X-Men movies and having two movies to himself? I'm sure the studio wanted to send him back instead of Kitty Pryde since he is the franchise star, but I like how Singer does that while keeping the emotional focus almost purely on the new cast, especially since McAvoy and Fassbender are such a delight to watch.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Absolutely crushed it IMO! Loved about every second of it. McAvoy and Fassbender were outstanding. I'm loving Hoult as Beast and Quicksilver was definitely a highlight for me. Usually I am skeptical of time travel stuff but this didn't bother me in the least (probably because I am biased to my love of X-Men). Everything worked for me and I cannot wait to see how they move forward. A+Some thoughts I got a little teary-eyed when Cyclops showed up. I was so happy to see that smug douche once again after such a terrible send-off.
And I may have just imagined this but I swear I saw Mystique get especially sad when she saw Azazel's autopsy photo like "Oh no! My baby daddy!" Am I right? And as always, LIST: 1. X-Men: Days of Future Past 2. X2: X-Men United 3. X-Men: First Class 4. X-Men 5. The Wolverine 6. X-Men: The Last Stand 7. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Thanks for inviting me to the movie.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Would you have driven up to Arrowhead for a 4 o'clock showing only to have to wait for the 6 o'clock one because they were sold out? I bet you wouldn't have!
But go see it. tis good.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past A+
Young Eric & Charles make this movie. Can't wait for the next one.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Chippy wrote: Thanks for inviting me to the movie. You're invited to every movie I see from here on out.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Also I saw DAYS OF FUTURE PAST again and liked it better the second time.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Also I saw DAYS OF FUTURE PAST again and liked it equally the second time.
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Algren
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Bradley Witherberry wrote: Algren wrote: Shack wrote: Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. GOOD!!! Why does every film have to be about Wolverine???!! There are hundreds of other superheroes. Further proof that Algren can't read. Here's Shack's full post for comparison... Shack wrote: The good: X-Men's most unique strength among superhero movies, is it can pull off intensity and brooding and it does that well here. Scenes like the Charles to Charles were great and Fassbender's intensity F-ing everyone up is just great.
The bad: Very disappointing screenplay. Other than clunky dialog half the time, how Charles-Eric-Mystique plot mixes with Wolverine, does not work. Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. This is the most boring he's ever been used and they could've sent back someone like Storm or old Charles/Magneto to mix it up from another fk'ing Wolverine movie. As for Charles and company, that back from quitting arc and stopping the Mystique-Trask clash, could've been the First Class sequel's plot without time travel. The end result of Wolverine being put in this movie is there's not enough time or energy spent on maximizing the Charles, Eric and Mystique emotional conflict. You're the one that has reading problems, dickhead. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Algren
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past I saw the film again last night and it was still good. My feeling on it is that it's visually spectacular, but it just has no emotional connection for me.
Also, it's a little silly how they sent Wolverine's conscious back 50 years to THREE DAYS before the Paris conference. Wouldn't it have been better if they sent it back to when Mystique was a teenager and just killed her? or 3 months before the Paris conference? or ya'know, ANY TIME BEFORE THE CONFERENCE THAT IS MORE THAN 3 FUCKING DAYS!!!? It's stupid to limit yourself to only 3 days, which is why they failed and still managed to give Trask the DNA in Mystique's blood.
Plus, when Ellen Page says that she can only send someone back 1 month, but then she sends Wolverine back 50 years, I can forget that oversight, but she could have sent anyone back, not just Wolverine. He has tissue regeneration abilities, but only the consciousness is being sent, so it could have been any of them.
Still a B+ for the visuals and 90% of the story.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Well pretty much all of the mutants wouldn't have been alive in 1973. Even Storm as second oldest would have only been maybe 10. Wolverine worked best as without FC being as popular as it was, the normal DOFP would have been the original cast as well.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Algren wrote: Bradley Witherberry wrote: Algren wrote: Shack wrote: Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. GOOD!!! Why does every film have to be about Wolverine???!! There are hundreds of other superheroes. Further proof that Algren can't read. Here's Shack's full post for comparison... Shack wrote: The good: X-Men's most unique strength among superhero movies, is it can pull off intensity and brooding and it does that well here. Scenes like the Charles to Charles were great and Fassbender's intensity F-ing everyone up is just great.
The bad: Very disappointing screenplay. Other than clunky dialog half the time, how Charles-Eric-Mystique plot mixes with Wolverine, does not work. Wolverine is a henchman in this movie, he barely has any personal journey or reflection at all. This is the most boring he's ever been used and they could've sent back someone like Storm or old Charles/Magneto to mix it up from another fk'ing Wolverine movie. As for Charles and company, that back from quitting arc and stopping the Mystique-Trask clash, could've been the First Class sequel's plot without time travel. The end result of Wolverine being put in this movie is there's not enough time or energy spent on maximizing the Charles, Eric and Mystique emotional conflict. You're the one that has reading problems, dickhead. Perhaps it was rude of me to point out your comprehension problem, but there's no need for name calling.
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Re: Re: Algren wrote: I saw the film again last night and it was still good. My feeling on it is that it's visually spectacular, but it just has no emotional connection for me.
Also, it's a little silly how they sent Wolverine's conscious back 50 years to THREE DAYS before the Paris conference. Wouldn't it have been better if they sent it back to when Mystique was a teenager and just killed her? or 3 months before the Paris conference? or ya'know, ANY TIME BEFORE THE CONFERENCE THAT IS MORE THAN 3 FUCKING DAYS!!!? It's stupid to limit yourself to only 3 days, which is why they failed and still managed to give Trask the DNA in Mystique's blood.
Plus, when Ellen Page says that she can only send someone back 1 month, but then she sends Wolverine back 50 years, I can forget that oversight, but she could have sent anyone back, not just Wolverine. He has tissue regeneration abilities, but only the consciousness is being sent, so it could have been any of them.. Algren wrote: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Mostly everything is explained and understood
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past nonsensical. why even bother breaking magneto out of prison?
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past trixster wrote: nonsensical. why even bother breaking magneto out of prison? Duh! Without breaking Magneto out of the Pentagon, we would never have seen that brilliant Quicksilver slow motion sequence - - it was by far the best thing in the movie!
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past agreed, but they could've used him in any action sequence. magneto helps for about five minutes before going off to do his own thing. they'd have been better off leaving him to rot.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past trixster wrote: agreed, but they could've used him in any action sequence. magneto helps for about five minutes before going off to do his own thing. they'd have been better off leaving him to rot. I was just teasing, I also agree with you story logic wise.
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past I'd be more interested in "They" that knew of JFK being a mutant and killed him, How Magneto could tell he was one, and how they caught him and kept it secret for 10 years. I know it was mostly just a throwaway line and a fun one at that. But that could have been an entire movie on its own.
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Algren
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Re: Re: Brian wrote: Algren wrote: I saw the film again last night and it was still good. My feeling on it is that it's visually spectacular, but it just has no emotional connection for me.
Also, it's a little silly how they sent Wolverine's conscious back 50 years to THREE DAYS before the Paris conference. Wouldn't it have been better if they sent it back to when Mystique was a teenager and just killed her? or 3 months before the Paris conference? or ya'know, ANY TIME BEFORE THE CONFERENCE THAT IS MORE THAN 3 FUCKING DAYS!!!? It's stupid to limit yourself to only 3 days, which is why they failed and still managed to give Trask the DNA in Mystique's blood.
Plus, when Ellen Page says that she can only send someone back 1 month, but then she sends Wolverine back 50 years, I can forget that oversight, but she could have sent anyone back, not just Wolverine. He has tissue regeneration abilities, but only the consciousness is being sent, so it could have been any of them.. Algren wrote: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Mostly everything is explained and understood
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Brian
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Re: X-Men: Days of Future Past Algren wrote: Brian wrote: Algren wrote: I saw the film again last night and it was still good. My feeling on it is that it's visually spectacular, but it just has no emotional connection for me.
Also, it's a little silly how they sent Wolverine's conscious back 50 years to THREE DAYS before the Paris conference. Wouldn't it have been better if they sent it back to when Mystique was a teenager and just killed her? or 3 months before the Paris conference? or ya'know, ANY TIME BEFORE THE CONFERENCE THAT IS MORE THAN 3 FUCKING DAYS!!!? It's stupid to limit yourself to only 3 days, which is why they failed and still managed to give Trask the DNA in Mystique's blood.
Plus, when Ellen Page says that she can only send someone back 1 month, but then she sends Wolverine back 50 years, I can forget that oversight, but she could have sent anyone back, not just Wolverine. He has tissue regeneration abilities, but only the consciousness is being sent, so it could have been any of them.. Algren wrote: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Mostly everything is explained and understood
B+ Mostly everything ... then I saw it for a second time. You fucking moron. 
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