X-Men: Days of Future Past - Discussion Thread - SPOILERS
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that's why I posted it.... natch
I thought that was a review for DOFP. Damn, those people need to stop posting reviews from other critics on Ebert's site.
Actually it seems Singer is going with the multi timeline thing as he mentioned in a recent interview (although done a while back) with Empire Magazine.
I tried to read the reactions of Byrne (one of the authors of the original comics saga) about the movie on his forum and, oh man, this guy is rancorous
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45738&PN=1&totPosts=529
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45738&PN=1&totPosts=529
Just from the movie, it seems like a combination of both. Wolverine still remembers the old timeline, so in some respect those events still occurred. However, if we adhere to that theory, then it means that the Sentinel-verse still exists somewhere and everything Wolverine did was pointless.
It's Tasha Yar and the Enterprise-C all over again.
and 2009 too.
But alternate Universes might be something that X-Men Apocalypse could be dealing with.
You realize that "statue" is just outside one of the more populated cities in the world and the incident occurred during a world-wide summit. right?
Sorry, but as a San Franciscan, the notion that the locals would stand for a major part of Alcatraz being repurposed for corporate use (even with the Feds' blessing) just makes my rear end hurt.
Then, as the Red Letter Media gang pointed out in their DOFP review, the whole thing with moving the Bridge was total crap. It would split apart in a quarter-second without its support structures, so Mags must have been holding it up with his mind the whole time... even after being depowered and knocked out. How that in any way qualifies as a "real world"-set battle is... well, it doesn't, simple as that.
Sure, the statue is in a large city, but it all "felt" so confined. X-M:TLS seemed different in it's feel, showing mutants out there in the world in the midst of the cure lines and riots, and agents with cure guns.. there was something about that film that felt different than the others.
I think y'all are forgetting the fact that the X-Men movie universe is part of the Marvel multiverse. And I think we can safely assume from all the magic present in the comics and throughout the Marvel franchise that Marvel-affiliated people can use whatever physics they want. For my part I interpret that Days of Future Past changed its own history in the X-Men movie universe alone.
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Well, of course they "still occurred"; that wouldn't be a violation of single-timeline theory, as those events were simply part of the single timeline before it was altered.
Oh God, that thread. What a bunch of miserable douches.
The trailer was "embarrassingly awful"? Please.
And of course they were proven so, so wrong. I suspect a circus somewhere is missing its clowns.
Oh God, that thread. What a bunch of miserable douches.
The trailer was "embarrassingly awful"? Please.
You know they all went and saw it, too.
Eh, it depends. Several characters didn't return from X-Men to X2 (including Sabretooth, Toad, etc) and many characters didn't return from X2 to X-Men: The Last Stand (Nightcrawler, Stryker, etc). The X-Men series has always had a juggling roaster of characters. That's why Wolverine can be a leading character in X-Men: Days of Future Past even though he appeared in a cameo role in X-Men: First Class.
Really, focusing so much on Wolverine was, IMO, a mistake. After the first film there was little need to have him be in-focus so much. He was the gateway character for the first film, but after that they could easily have just made the series more of an ensemble and not revolve around him so much.
Having Nathanial Essex as the Weapon X scientist in the second film who wants Scott and Jean while still working on some anti-Mutant weapon for the Government, but not caring that much over Wolverine, would've worked out just as fine as a plot. Him capturing Xavier would've just been to neutralize him as a threat.
Having Nathanial Essex as the Weapon X scientist in the second film who wants Scott and Jean while still working on some anti-Mutant weapon for the Government, but not caring that much over Wolverine, would've worked out just as fine as a plot. Him capturing Xavier would've just been to neutralize him as a threat.
Oh God, that thread. What a bunch of miserable douches.
The trailer was "embarrassingly awful"? Please.
And of course they were proven so, so wrong. I suspect a circus somewhere is missing its clowns.
They seem a caricature of the angry nerd. I understand that this is the Byrne's forum and everyone is trying to please him, but this is ridiculous.
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