X-Men, Days of Future Past
This was actually one of the very first X-Men comics I ever read (which I can tell you is a really confusing way to enter the Marvel universe!!). So when I heard about this movie let's just say I was both elated and fearful given some of the horrors wreaked on the X-Men continuity in X-Men 3/Last Stand.
Then I heard what they were doing - using the central conceit of DoFP, that of sending the consciousness of a future X-Man back in time to prevent a dystopian future. Only doing it using Wolverine instead of Kitty in order to link the X-Men and First Class movies. Which I must confess I thought an absolute genius of a idea - but could they possibly pull it off and do it justice?
They could. They did. Granted as noted above I'm a longtime X-Men fan, for all I haven't read them in years, but this was just done so very right. I absolutely loved it!
I won't say it's better than Avengers, because it's a very different movie. It's not about spectacle or wise-cracks. Avengers was that movie, and a fun one. No, this is an X-Men movie, and whilst it has some spectacular scenes - the shootout in the Pentagon kitchen is a simply magical piece of cinema; more I won't spoil! - it's far more about the people, and it is just so well done.
(And the references to a certain original-series Star Trek episode? Brilliant and so very appropriate!)
Forget X-Men 3, this puts it all right again.
So... any chance of an X-Men/Avengers movie? Granted the licensing would be a tangle (since Marvel leased X-Men rights to 20th Century Fox) but where there's a potential pot of money this large at stake, surely there's a way...? :-)
Then I heard what they were doing - using the central conceit of DoFP, that of sending the consciousness of a future X-Man back in time to prevent a dystopian future. Only doing it using Wolverine instead of Kitty in order to link the X-Men and First Class movies. Which I must confess I thought an absolute genius of a idea - but could they possibly pull it off and do it justice?
They could. They did. Granted as noted above I'm a longtime X-Men fan, for all I haven't read them in years, but this was just done so very right. I absolutely loved it!
I won't say it's better than Avengers, because it's a very different movie. It's not about spectacle or wise-cracks. Avengers was that movie, and a fun one. No, this is an X-Men movie, and whilst it has some spectacular scenes - the shootout in the Pentagon kitchen is a simply magical piece of cinema; more I won't spoil! - it's far more about the people, and it is just so well done.
(And the references to a certain original-series Star Trek episode? Brilliant and so very appropriate!)
Forget X-Men 3, this puts it all right again.
So... any chance of an X-Men/Avengers movie? Granted the licensing would be a tangle (since Marvel leased X-Men rights to 20th Century Fox) but where there's a potential pot of money this large at stake, surely there's a way...? :-)