It was him, but I wondered if he were in actual makeup, or if it was a CGI job.
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Discussion Thread - SPOILERS
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Did anyone else notice how the footage from "The naked time" they used in the film was from the remastered episode? The new chronometer is a dead giveaway that this must be from the remastered episode, which, of course, wasn't around in 1973... ;-)
But those themes aren't new to the X-Men film series, they were used in the first film.
I would rate the likes of First Class and DOFP about the same, in some respects First Class had a tighter story, something I think DOFP past, perhaps because it was juggling so many actors at times the stroy seemed to drag a shade.
Yeah, or Captain Stryker at best.
Agreed. I definately wanted more Havok & Banshee!
I hadn't read any spoilers and even I saw that ending coming from a mile away.
Dinklage also had a plasma/laptop display in his briefcase when presenting his ideas.
I was also expecting a reveal that Dinklage was mutant as well, and ywah his short stature played into that.
I saw the film twice. On second viewing, this was not a screen.. it was just blue tile like paper. It loos like a screen but it isn't.
That would suck for him, he would always be setting off his own detector!
Was there a cut scene about his sister, because that painting of the two of them was odd.
It's nice that they just hired Peter because he's awesome.
Tom Cruise is still short.
It was some kind of slide projector - it made that sound when the picture changed. It wasn't a flatscreen.
Unless he programed the device to ignore his own X-gene. I know we sorta have to accept that in the X-Men universe technology progressed a lot faster than it did in ours. Also of note there's a lot of talk about DNA, extracting and making use of genes and such, all stuff of myths and magic in the 1970s. Certainly not known enough to target genesand splice them into new organisms.
Also, the Oval Office, and thus any bunker under it, isn't under the White House proper. It's under one of the expansion s off to the side, known ast the West Wing. But the movie has the extracted bunker coming out of the main building of The White House.
Yes and no. Lawrence's stardom will definitely keep elevating the character, but Mystique was already written as one of the franchise leads in First Class, which was released before Lawrence became of the biggest movie stars in the world.
Yes, "hope" & "being the better person" were already themes in the earlier films. I'm just saying that the best X-Men movies have been able to combine that with a profound sense of personal loss & alienation. Days of Future Past felt a bit emotionally distant to me in comparison.
None of XMO is set in 1975, despite what that graphic says. The finale of XMO takes place in 1979, and there is on-screen text earlier that says Six Years Later which places the early scenes in 1973. Not that it helps explain why Logan was sleeping with the boss' daughter in '73 instead of being sentenced to firing squad in 'Nam. Better movie takes precedent in my book.
The finale of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set in the late 1980s, not 1979. In both X-Men (2000) & X2, various characters from Professor Xavier to Col. Stryker say that Wolverine's memory loss happened 15 years ago. Those movies took place, presumably, some time in the early 2000s, 2000 A.D. at the earliest. 15 years prior to that would be 1985.
People keep misinterpreting where the Three Mile Island of 1979 occurs in the X-Men timeline. I got the impression that the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island was a hoax perpetrated by Col. Stryker & the U.S. Military to scare curious people way from Col. Stryker's secret mutant testing facility on the island.
It's also possible that Col. Stryker was unaware of Emma Frost's powers. Or that Kayla's sister's powers were unique because her diamond skin had a totally different look from Emma Frost's diamond skin. Or that Col. Stryker was lying to Kayla. (He's pretty much lying to everyone all the time in that movie as it is.)
But, yeah, I agree that Emma Frost from X-Men: First Class is a completely different person from Kayla's sister in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Similarly, I believe that, in the movies, Victor Creed & Sabretooth are not the same person. At no point is either character referred to by the other's name, not even in the closing credits, which usually list real names side-by-side with their superhero names.
Probably, but he might have called in the X-Men to back him up when he lost his powers. Charles would be the logical contact to find out what happened to him.
That story might have made a pretty short movie.
Perhaps. Although, Wolverine is such a loner by nature anyway that I can see him not wanting to contact anyone. And if he & Mariko were trying to stay off the grid, that's another reason for him not to call the other X-Men for back-up. The more I think about it, the more I see The Wolverine as still having largely happened in the new timeline.
BTW, was anyone else disappointed that Yukio wasn't still traveling with Wolverine in the future? I loved her and I hope she comes back at some point!
Maybe sometime in the early 1980s Xavier hit rock bottom and Hank forced him to join Narcotics Anonymous. As part of the "making amends" step of the program, he briefly reconciles with Magneto, which explains why they're working together when trying to recruit Jean Grey in the late 1980s in X-Men: The Last Stand.
You can be proud to be a mutant AND be a shitty mother! They're not mutually exclusive!
BTW, do we know for sure that any of them are dead besides Angel? I remember seeing Angel's autopsy photo in Trask's files but it went by too fast for me to catch any others. (It's comic books, so they're not really dead if we didn't see the bodies. I'm kinda hoping that Azazel teleported himself & Emma Frost away from whatever impending doom was headed their way at the last moment.)
Other than Wolverine getting some gray around the temples & Professor Xavier getting a few more wrinkles, EVERYONE seems remarkably unaged considering the 10+ years between X-Men: The Last Stand & X-Men: Days of Future Past.
That's an ex post facto excuse. There are ways of accomplishing things in films that you otherwise wouldn't be able to for budget reasons. Chiefly (and cheapest) among them are script and dialogue.
1: A scene in X2 where Stryker/whoever says "Send 20 special forces and 4 Sentinels!" would have done the trick. Problem solved.
2: If you wanted to take it a step further, Have Logan look out the window of the mansion and shine a bright light into the window, and play some kind of sound effect, and have him exclaim, "Ahh! Sentinels!".
3: Taken even further to really nail home the point, actually show on screen a diagram or schematic of sentinels, rattle off a list of their abilities, and then when they attack the mansion only show a H.U.D. of the sentinels attacking (but never actually show a sentinel).
These techniques have been around forever, and are all practically free to execute. Jaws used them to great effect, where we barely ever see the shark in the film, but there were scenes from the shark's "point of view".
I think the real reason sentinels didn't appear in X2 is because no one thought to have sentinels in X2.
Some stuff has had to be retconned, certainly. Like Professor Xavier saying in X-Men that he was 17 when he first met Magneto. But why retcon something when you don't have to?
One little physics nitpick I had about X-Men: Days of Future Past-- I don't think it would be possible for Magneto to drag Mystique's entire body across the plaza when the only piece of metal on her was the bullet in her leg. No matter how much force Magneto applies to it, all it would do is rip the bullet out of her.
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