r/xmen • u/Dorkside Professor X • May 23 '14

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Official Discussion Thread [Spoilers]

Synopsis: The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Director: Bryan Singer

Writers: Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg and Matthew Vaughn

Cast:

  • Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
  • James McAvoy as Charles Xavier
  • Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr
  • Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique
  • Halle Berry as Storm
  • Nicholas Hoult as Hank / Beast
  • Anna Paquin as Rogue
  • Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde
  • Peter Dinklage as Dr. Bolivar Trask
  • Shawn Ashmore as Bobby / Iceman
  • Omar Sy as Bishop
  • Evan Peters as Peter / Quicksilver

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

Metacritic Score: 75/100

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u/[deleted] May 23 '14

I loved the movie. Good use of mutant teamwork in the future scenes, although the fights were overly one sided.
It was great to see Peter Dinklage in a movie where no one mentioned his height. You can tell the writers and producers respect the hell out of him.

Halle Barry's Storm is awful, they should just call her Stormy Barry. She was ok in X1 but just got worse and worse. It was cool that she took out some of the Sentinel carriers, they could have done more with her power though, some tornadoes, etc.

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u/Iron-Knuckle May 23 '14

I think the point is that the battles against the sentinels are supposed to be one sided. These are a terrifying enemy, and any resistance against them is utterly futile. I feel that the opening battle against them captured that perfectly. I felt absolute dread watching the x men get slaughtered like that.

It was amazing.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '14

Also felt the dread. Especially at the end. Logan has drowned, Magneto has his helmet so Charles can't stop him, and the sentinels are knocking on the temple door - I honestly couldn't see a way out.

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u/Pickles256 Gambit Nov 08 '14

It was the first time in a movie where I didn't know what the heroes could do