On films and mutant thingies!

[theweaselking]

Day Of Future Past did not disappoint. Reasonably paced, coherently plotted, consistently entertaining, doesn't contain any especially blatant pants-on-head-stupid parts. My only real complaint can be summed up as "a Nixon says what?" which I'm sure you will also see when you get to it, and does not ruin the movie.

As superhero movies go, it is by far the best X-Men movie, it is easily the best non-Marvel-Studios superhero movie ever made, and it is comparable to several of Marvel's own movies. This is high praise.

(Oh, and in the process it fixes most of the stupid parts of the previous, terrible X-Men movies. And it does so in a consistent in-world way, which is nice.)

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Also there is an entire mutant whose power is "now you're thinking with portals"

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

It did feel a bit like Bryan Singer going "Yoink, I'll have my franchise back now kthxbye", In a good way.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

X-Men is Marvel, not DC. Am confused.

[prk.livejournal.com]

SPOILERS:


I'm a bit 'meh' about the "then he woke up and it was all a dream" ending.

I mean, sure, it's a classic comic reset, but why invest time and energy in that world (not to mention angst at all the death scenes) when it's just going to reset and be meaningless?

prk.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Well, since I missed several of the recent X-Men movies, I'm happy to hear about this retconning stuff anyway.