X-Men Days of Future Past
Haha, I was checking on LJ to see if anyone had commented with thoughts when I realized I never actually posted, I just thought about it.
I'm...not really sure how I feel about it, to be honest. Always had a hard time with movies where everything has to go wrong until the end.
I think my main issue was the same issues I had with XMFC, which is characters doing things not because you think that's how the character ought to act, but because the plot demands it. In XMFC it was Angel's abrupt side-change, seeming okay with joining a guy who just slaughtered a hundred guys, as well as Raven leaving Charles bleeding on a beach in the middle of nowhere.
In this one, it was Erik, doing stupid shit. I know he's all about the cause, but every decision he made from seeing Raven again was NOT helping his cause. And him suddenly being okay with killing mutants with the "good for the many" kind of reasoning felt weird. I suppose it's supported by later canon, in X1 Erik was willing to sacrifice Rogue for the greater good, but I don't know. I had major issues with him doing dumb shit to drive the plot forward, it's lazy writing.
However, I did love that Raven was in a way redeemed in this one. In XMFC, there was not only the beach wtfuckery, it was also her sudden rebellion toward Charles. I understand her frustration with his cluelessness on why she'd be concerned about being blue, but it was badly paced. In this one, she's got more history under her belt, and her stubbornness makes sense. She also got to kick a hell of a lot of ass, and her trying to save the president at the end (because after all, she was after Trask) and ultimately kicking Erik's ass and getting to turn the tide at the end... UGH FEELS.
Logan, being Logan, was as always amazing. My favorite parts were probably his scenes with Charles, both the deeper ones and the more light-hearted ones ("Someone gave you bad LSD, okay?"). I dunno what to say really, Logan is always flawless. ♥
If Charles had been played by anyone other than McAvoy, I would probably have wanted to smack him, and the movie did feel like it served like one big therapy session for him. In the end, though, James McAvoy acted the SHIT out of it and sold me, and it makes me really emotional to think that Charles knew Logan the first time Logan met him in XM1, and that when Logan met him at the end, he was all "it's good to see you again, Logan" because he knew Logan but Logan didn't remember him because they hadn't met yet. *rereads the last sentence* Sounds legit.
On that note, I had a lot of feelings about Jean and Scott not being dead. \o/ I didn't hate X3 the way some people did, I even liked it, but I don't mind things not going to shit. That explains why Prof X would be alive in the final timeline, though, not how he was alive to send Logan back in the first place, something the movie conveniently never addressed.
I was a little sad that we didn't get more of Alex, though it was good to see him. Hank being able to control his ability to a degree is...actually kind of happy-making, because it means that in the future he's accepted himself and doesn't see the need for hiding himself.
Then there's Quicksilver, oh my god so happy-making! While I would have wanted Wanda as well (awesome powerful lady characters FTW!) I understood why she couldn't be in it, and Peter just stole the show. That scene in the Pentagon's kitchen, flawless. I hope this was a setup for him to show up in the next movie.
Finally, Logan being found at the end by Raven, what does it meeeeeean? What's gonna happen? How will Logan get his adamantium claws if Stryker doesn't get him? (sidenote: I did like how they wove the previous movies into this one via flashbacks, but I'm not 100% sure it worked? Kinda like the ending with everyone alive made me happy, but also felt like trying to force the XMFC-universe into the old XM-universe. I dunno, I need to think about it.)
So to sum up: I enjoyed it, but was annoyed by lazy writing that lead to characters doing stupid stuff for plot-reasons, and am unsure how it worked at marrying the two different X-Men universes together.
So, did you see it? What were your thoughts?
I'm...not really sure how I feel about it, to be honest. Always had a hard time with movies where everything has to go wrong until the end.
I think my main issue was the same issues I had with XMFC, which is characters doing things not because you think that's how the character ought to act, but because the plot demands it. In XMFC it was Angel's abrupt side-change, seeming okay with joining a guy who just slaughtered a hundred guys, as well as Raven leaving Charles bleeding on a beach in the middle of nowhere.
In this one, it was Erik, doing stupid shit. I know he's all about the cause, but every decision he made from seeing Raven again was NOT helping his cause. And him suddenly being okay with killing mutants with the "good for the many" kind of reasoning felt weird. I suppose it's supported by later canon, in X1 Erik was willing to sacrifice Rogue for the greater good, but I don't know. I had major issues with him doing dumb shit to drive the plot forward, it's lazy writing.
However, I did love that Raven was in a way redeemed in this one. In XMFC, there was not only the beach wtfuckery, it was also her sudden rebellion toward Charles. I understand her frustration with his cluelessness on why she'd be concerned about being blue, but it was badly paced. In this one, she's got more history under her belt, and her stubbornness makes sense. She also got to kick a hell of a lot of ass, and her trying to save the president at the end (because after all, she was after Trask) and ultimately kicking Erik's ass and getting to turn the tide at the end... UGH FEELS.
Logan, being Logan, was as always amazing. My favorite parts were probably his scenes with Charles, both the deeper ones and the more light-hearted ones ("Someone gave you bad LSD, okay?"). I dunno what to say really, Logan is always flawless. ♥
If Charles had been played by anyone other than McAvoy, I would probably have wanted to smack him, and the movie did feel like it served like one big therapy session for him. In the end, though, James McAvoy acted the SHIT out of it and sold me, and it makes me really emotional to think that Charles knew Logan the first time Logan met him in XM1, and that when Logan met him at the end, he was all "it's good to see you again, Logan" because he knew Logan but Logan didn't remember him because they hadn't met yet. *rereads the last sentence* Sounds legit.
On that note, I had a lot of feelings about Jean and Scott not being dead. \o/ I didn't hate X3 the way some people did, I even liked it, but I don't mind things not going to shit. That explains why Prof X would be alive in the final timeline, though, not how he was alive to send Logan back in the first place, something the movie conveniently never addressed.
I was a little sad that we didn't get more of Alex, though it was good to see him. Hank being able to control his ability to a degree is...actually kind of happy-making, because it means that in the future he's accepted himself and doesn't see the need for hiding himself.
Then there's Quicksilver, oh my god so happy-making! While I would have wanted Wanda as well (awesome powerful lady characters FTW!) I understood why she couldn't be in it, and Peter just stole the show. That scene in the Pentagon's kitchen, flawless. I hope this was a setup for him to show up in the next movie.
Finally, Logan being found at the end by Raven, what does it meeeeeean? What's gonna happen? How will Logan get his adamantium claws if Stryker doesn't get him? (sidenote: I did like how they wove the previous movies into this one via flashbacks, but I'm not 100% sure it worked? Kinda like the ending with everyone alive made me happy, but also felt like trying to force the XMFC-universe into the old XM-universe. I dunno, I need to think about it.)
So to sum up: I enjoyed it, but was annoyed by lazy writing that lead to characters doing stupid stuff for plot-reasons, and am unsure how it worked at marrying the two different X-Men universes together.
So, did you see it? What were your thoughts?