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I remember it being well regarded, but I never see anyone talk about it now. I’m doing a rewatch of all the X-men movies prior to Deadpool and Wolverine, and I feel like this should be in the upper echelon of comic book movies, but never gets rated that high.
Bringing together the old and new characters. Great storylines for both timelines. Good character work, great dialogue. The action is so creative and the set pieces are unique. It’s never a boring 1:1 fight, there’s always interesting uses of everyone’s powers. What does everyone think of the movie now?
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I think about this movie on a daily basis 10 years after it came out and it is still my favorite xmen movie. I cry every time I watch it. It's held up so well and did the whole "old and new cast" thing before a lot of other big movies did it.
I absolutely loved the movie and it was everything I could've asked for in an X-Men film... back in 2014 when I was still in high school, and before I read any real comics. For whatever reason, the film refused to develop any characters in meaningful ways aside from Xavier, which was a weird arc for him to go on anyways. I definitely understand that disillusioned to empowered mentor figure is a traditional arc, but it felt too extreme to have him be this junkie that gave 0 damns about mutant world just because his one buddy left (Eric). Also is Beast Xavier's man-servant? I don't understand their relationship because they do not seem to be friends at all, just around each other constantly.
The Magneto stuff was legitimately good. Disappointing to send Wolverine back without the metal claws. The Sentinel stuff was very very good. But every other character besides Magneto got no character development and so many key figure (Colossus, Iceman, Sunspot, Bishop, Shadowcat) got maybe 10 lines total? The Stryker stuff was completely unnecessary and had no payoff even in the next movie.
The original plan was to do a soft reboot with First Class, another movie in that continuity, and then do the third movie as the combination between the Stewart-McKellan cast and the McAvoy-Fassbender cast. I can't remember if they ever said what that second movie would've been about, but I hope they would've done some sort of adaptation of Giant-Size. I think that would've helped things, since you have a whole extra movie to flesh out characters.
It's not talked about because it's maybe the one arc that there is nothing to criticize. Those who would criticize know they would be attacked by those who love it so they probably say, "Eh, it's two issues, don't stir them up." lol. Oh, wait, I see you are talking about the movie, not the comics. THAT Days of Future Past is not talked about I think because people have forgotten it, as well they should have. Now I'll sit back and collect my downvotes in a leisurely fashion, knowing I have spoken truth and no one can take that from me.
I’m curious your issues with the movie!
It did not entertain me. It wasn't interesting to me. It's my favorite storyline, I was really wanting to love it, I saw it on opening night. The bar was low, for me. But it still didn't match it. The people I was with were not comics readers, and they loved it, so I realize mine is not the only valid opinion. I just found myself glancing at my watch and forcing myself to focus. I can't intellectualize myself out of that response.
It would not surprise me to find out that you gave yourself a downvote once you realized no one was bothered by your opinion, no matter how much you wished they were.
And yet you were bothered not only enough to down vote me but to go ahead and make a comment about it. My God, it was just a funny clip about days of future past.
I adore your cliche response that ironically makes you seem bothered.
Hahaha downvote you? What a weird and false assumption to make. The fact that you even brought it up (Again) tells me you give far too much importance to meaningless internet points.
Ohhhhhh, so you’re the one. You’re the one who put in that weird report. I must’ve inadvertently intimidated you or you felt slighted or something on another thread. Well, thanks for solving that mystery for me.