X-Men: Days of Future Past
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dhampyresaI went to see it on Wednesday, but I'm only posting about it now, because I was busy with things.
Non-spoilery review: I liked it and Mystique was great.
Peter was my favourite thing about the movie! He was so happy and fun and totally unlike comics!Pietro. His parts were the funnest of the movie. He makes people punch themselves/each other in the face! He looks delighted to ducttape people to walls and vibrate glass to breaking frequencies. Also, Pink Floyd: the boy has taste. Clearly he's not based on comics!Pietro at all. (I would have liked it even better if Wanda had been in the movie, but this is my favourite Quicksilver, so that softens the blow a little.) (I headcanon that the girl in his arms during the speech is Wanda and they're the same age, because Reasons and I am writing shortfic to that effect that has me doing maths, hahaha lol wat.)
I was really worried it would be terrible in its treatment of France/French, because lol Hollywood, but the French was spoken was pretty much all good! Like to the point where I was "??? Where did the subtitles go? Oh, they're speaking French, that explains that" so props to everyone involved! (I wonder if Omar Sy helped any? It's not like he had a lot of lines in English.) I was also pleasantly surprised by the fact that the crowd of onlookers when Mystique almost shot Trask was not 100% as is so often the case in Hollywood!Paris (which, no. I'm sorry, but no).
Speaking of Mystique, I loved how much the movie focused on her. The whole plot revolves around her and her actions, from her freeing the mutants that were headed to Trask's lab in Vietnam (loved the callback here to Hank's scene about how most of the staff and elder students were drafted, hi Havok and the callback to the very first scene of the movie where we saw a grown man in the mutant camps with the same tattoo around his eye as one of the boys) to her investigating Trask based on that, seeing a threat and reacting to it, right up until the end when she's the one who saves the day, by showing the world that not all mutants are bad and getting Wolverine out of the water. She's better at Erik's thing than Erik is! (I did wonder how Mystique stole Stryker's face and given the earlier scene between her and the Vietnamese military man (general?), I think I might be shipping Mystique/Stryker a little, what.)
Erik look surprisingly good and healthy for having spend ten years in the secret prison below the Pentagon. I loved how Peter treated him like an idiot by repeating whiplash slower. Also, Erik's fashion sense is still terrible: asymmetrical capes, really? White was totaly your colour, dude!
I'm not touching the whole science!fail with Charles being able to walk again, because seriously fail.
I loved how proud Hank was of his apparatus that could scan all three channels and PBS! And his remark on having a phonebook was spot-on.
I wanted a lot more female characters and I really really could have done with Angel and Emma not being killed off-screen, seriously. There was even a moment when the old lady talked to blode!Mystique in the airport where I thought she was going to be Destiny, but no :(.
Kitty was totally awesome with her plan to escape the Sentinels! It worked like a charm. I loved her dedication and her determination at keeping Wolverine in the past even when he was having PTSD flashbacks (flashforwards?) and cutting holes into her. They really should have restrained him earlier.
I liked Wolverine's constant surprise at his claws not being made of metal: first when he wakes up in the past and then when he walks through the metal detector.
Blink's portals were pretty cool, but I seem to remember her having long-range teleportation in the comics, here it looked like it was only short-range? Idk. Bobby went Omega! That was pretty badass and I don't think the Sentinels should have defeated him that easily. I missed Rogue a hell of a lot (I ♥ Rogue), so I really hope she had scenes in the DVD extras. I was happy to see her briefly at the end there, though, and Jean as well. (And the kid from the beginning, too. Nice callback.) Warpath! When he showed up I was like 'omg is that Warpath?' and it was! I know nothing about Warpath, but I was quite happy to recognise him anyway. And is it me or was the tech in the new timeline further along than the tech in X-3 (lol forever that they retconned their own movies, srsly).
I wonder if the plot of W1 still happened? Rogue's got her white streak, but idk how that fits in the new timeline. Also, the future!Sentinels' powers were closer to her powers than to Mystique's, i thought.
I didn't stay for the post credit scene, but going by spoilers and stuff, it involves Apocalypse, so heh. I'm not a big Apocalypse fan.
TL;DR: It was great, but it needed more Rogue and Wanda.
Non-spoilery review: I liked it and Mystique was great.
Peter was my favourite thing about the movie! He was so happy and fun and totally unlike comics!Pietro. His parts were the funnest of the movie. He makes people punch themselves/each other in the face! He looks delighted to ducttape people to walls and vibrate glass to breaking frequencies. Also, Pink Floyd: the boy has taste. Clearly he's not based on comics!Pietro at all. (I would have liked it even better if Wanda had been in the movie, but this is my favourite Quicksilver, so that softens the blow a little.) (I headcanon that the girl in his arms during the speech is Wanda and they're the same age, because Reasons and I am writing shortfic to that effect that has me doing maths, hahaha lol wat.)
I was really worried it would be terrible in its treatment of France/French, because lol Hollywood, but the French was spoken was pretty much all good! Like to the point where I was "??? Where did the subtitles go? Oh, they're speaking French, that explains that" so props to everyone involved! (I wonder if Omar Sy helped any? It's not like he had a lot of lines in English.) I was also pleasantly surprised by the fact that the crowd of onlookers when Mystique almost shot Trask was not 100% as is so often the case in Hollywood!Paris (which, no. I'm sorry, but no).
Speaking of Mystique, I loved how much the movie focused on her. The whole plot revolves around her and her actions, from her freeing the mutants that were headed to Trask's lab in Vietnam (loved the callback here to Hank's scene about how most of the staff and elder students were drafted, hi Havok and the callback to the very first scene of the movie where we saw a grown man in the mutant camps with the same tattoo around his eye as one of the boys) to her investigating Trask based on that, seeing a threat and reacting to it, right up until the end when she's the one who saves the day, by showing the world that not all mutants are bad and getting Wolverine out of the water. She's better at Erik's thing than Erik is! (I did wonder how Mystique stole Stryker's face and given the earlier scene between her and the Vietnamese military man (general?), I think I might be shipping Mystique/Stryker a little, what.)
Erik look surprisingly good and healthy for having spend ten years in the secret prison below the Pentagon. I loved how Peter treated him like an idiot by repeating whiplash slower. Also, Erik's fashion sense is still terrible: asymmetrical capes, really? White was totaly your colour, dude!
I'm not touching the whole science!fail with Charles being able to walk again, because seriously fail.
I loved how proud Hank was of his apparatus that could scan all three channels and PBS! And his remark on having a phonebook was spot-on.
I wanted a lot more female characters and I really really could have done with Angel and Emma not being killed off-screen, seriously. There was even a moment when the old lady talked to blode!Mystique in the airport where I thought she was going to be Destiny, but no :(.
Kitty was totally awesome with her plan to escape the Sentinels! It worked like a charm. I loved her dedication and her determination at keeping Wolverine in the past even when he was having PTSD flashbacks (flashforwards?) and cutting holes into her. They really should have restrained him earlier.
I liked Wolverine's constant surprise at his claws not being made of metal: first when he wakes up in the past and then when he walks through the metal detector.
Blink's portals were pretty cool, but I seem to remember her having long-range teleportation in the comics, here it looked like it was only short-range? Idk. Bobby went Omega! That was pretty badass and I don't think the Sentinels should have defeated him that easily. I missed Rogue a hell of a lot (I ♥ Rogue), so I really hope she had scenes in the DVD extras. I was happy to see her briefly at the end there, though, and Jean as well. (And the kid from the beginning, too. Nice callback.) Warpath! When he showed up I was like 'omg is that Warpath?' and it was! I know nothing about Warpath, but I was quite happy to recognise him anyway. And is it me or was the tech in the new timeline further along than the tech in X-3 (lol forever that they retconned their own movies, srsly).
I wonder if the plot of W1 still happened? Rogue's got her white streak, but idk how that fits in the new timeline. Also, the future!Sentinels' powers were closer to her powers than to Mystique's, i thought.
I didn't stay for the post credit scene, but going by spoilers and stuff, it involves Apocalypse, so heh. I'm not a big Apocalypse fan.
TL;DR: It was great, but it needed more Rogue and Wanda.
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