X-Men Days of Future Past

May 25, 2014 14:00

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.

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fandom: x-men, review

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nel_ani May 25 2014, 15:15:15 UTC
Awww, awesome! I knew about Peter Dinklage, because tumblr and trailer. Yes, I agree, that scene was amazing. Banshee seemed really random, though, whatever happened to Riptide? I suppose it's good that one POC didn't die.

The Charles/Charles scene, and that conversation between Charles and Erik... <333333

I will never understand the timeline though. I mean, seriously, Mystique gets killed for research bt Trask and co. to make the Sentinels, yet she's in X1 to X3. Charles gets killed in X3 but shows up in the Wolverine and here and Logan looses the adamantium IN HIS CLAWS in the same movie, but here they are coated again. WTF. WTF?!?!

Well, I think they didn't say that Mystique died, just that she was captured? I just assumed that she escaped at some point and that's why she was so firmly anti-human later on.

Yeah, Charles coming back to life was just weird to skip over explaining. I know there was that end-scene in X3 where he inhabits that comatose man's body, but that doesn't explain him having his old body. They probably don't know how he got back, so again, lazy writing.

Did we see him have his adamantium claws in the end, though? I'm assuming that if he has them, that would mean that despite what happens he somehow ends up with Stryker anyway, though the fact that Raven picked him up at the end seems to suggest that the timeline has changed when it comes to that.

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not_sally May 25 2014, 16:43:12 UTC
Yeah, those are the 3 greatest continuity errors:

When they are telling the story about how they made the sentinels they say they captured Mystique the day she killed Trask, experimented on her AND KILLED HER.
so, error 1.

Charles being dead/not dead. Schrödinger's professor.

And in The Wolverine, present-time Logan (post X3) gets his adamantium claws chopped off by the villain (because sure, the strongest, only unbreakable metal on earth can be broken by that same material plot-hole that they had previously used in Wolverine Origins, whatever)
Anyway, he loses the adamantium claws, but his natural bone-claws regenerate. He still has an adamantium skeleton (which is why in the after-credits scene he chooses the pat-down at the airport, instead of going through the metal detector) but he no longer has the claws.
Flash-forward to the future, and his adamantium claws are back!!
Miraculously, as if the writers had tried to forget the Wolverine movies existed (as we, the fans, often try)

So, I repeat: WTF.

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nel_ani May 25 2014, 17:00:58 UTC
I still haven't seen the latest Wolvie move, it's on my to-do list. :D

Well, I suppose one could argue that this is actually an alternate time-line altogether (because I still can't quite accept that the Raven and Charles of XMFC are the same people as in X1, where Mystique basically poisons Charles). I know the movie tries really hard to marry them together, but it doesn't quite jive with me. XMFC always came across as a reboot, and trying to tie them together only partly works for me.

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not_sally May 25 2014, 17:02:23 UTC
OMG NO I TOTALLY SPOILED YOU!
I'm so, so sorry!! I assumed you had seen all of them, I'm sorry!!

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nel_ani May 25 2014, 17:11:28 UTC
Haha, no worries, I feel the movie has been out for so long that I expect to see spoilers around.

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not_sally May 25 2014, 19:30:11 UTC
I suck

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nel_ani May 25 2014, 21:41:21 UTC
*pets you* Really, it's fine, if I didn't wanna be spoiled, I woulda watched the movie at the cinema.

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