Picoreview: Days of Future Past

[mizkit]

Picoreview: Days of Future Past: YAY

There was not a moment of completely suspended disbelief the way Nightcrawler’s opening scene in X2 took me in, but that was a thoroughly enjoyable film and had a moment *almost* that good. I want to see it again!

Spoilers right through the end of the movie behind the cut, so don’t click through if you don’t

Comments

[brienze]

Forgive me for being a bit slow, but is this Quicksilver the same one that's going to be in Age of Ultron? Have they connected the universes, even though Fox has a stranglehold on the X-Men rights?

Also, the bit at the very end with not!Stryker... doesn't that mean Logan never gets the adamantium, if Raven rescued him? I guess they figured two standalone Wolvie movies were enough.

I'm not as dedicated a fan of X-Men as I am the rest of the MCU, so I was pleased to catch a lot of the in jokes. And the scene on the plane when Charles and Erik first start talking, the one that's filmed a bit from below, their jawlines were lit perfectly for me to really believe those guys would turn into the Sirs when they got older.

[mizkit]

Aheh. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are Complicated, in terms of the X-Men/Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff.

See, Fox owns the rights to develop the X-Men/mutants, among whom number Quicksilver and his sister Scarlet Witch. HOWEVER, Marvel owns the rights to develop the Avengers...among whom number Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. So they *are* the same characters, but they'll be played by different people in Age of Ultron, and apparently they get their powers in a different way (ie, are Marvels (ppl whose powers are more or less thrust upon them or are gods or whatever) rather than mutants)--the suggestion at the end of Winter Soldier is that they've made them with Loki's staff, whereas they're clearly Magneto's kids and mutants in DOFP, as is canon in the comics

[90scartoonman]

::crosses fingers for Irene Adler in the Apocalypse movie::