We do understand that humans who have helped the mutants are equally persecuted, but why set up such a dismal bit of future shock and then more or less abandon it for a far off Chinese monastery. We don’t get why the X-Men are the world’s only hope. The problem here is a little something called CONTEXT.
Suddenly, it’s the Me Decade, complete with less than American Hustle level realism and a whole lot of naked Hugh Jackman (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Then jump to the decision to send Wolverine back into the past. Jump to a few of our heroes battling against these shape-shifting fiends. We quickly learn that a horrible event in the ’70s triggered the US to fast track the creation of these murderous machines, and that inventor Boliver Trask used X-Men DNA to make them virtually invincible. There are mass graves, ambiguous gloom, and a ragtag resistance.
#Days of future past movie#
Talk about an expositional dump! When the movie starts, we are immediately shown a dystopian London where darkness rules and flying terminating robots (called “Sentinels” here) destroy both mutants and citizens alike. The funny thing is, many of them go to the main reason the movie was made in the first place.
I won’t address whether they were successful (there are dozens of website picking apart the continuity as we speak) but I will argue over five things I found truly aggravating. You see, XMDOFP wants to be an epic which draws together divergent takes on the classic comic characters to create a permanence within the X-Men universe. It’s far from perfect (frankly, no film is) and when I sit back and think about the plotting, the characters, and the overall idea, I start to get flustered. Then there is the issues I have with the movie itself. But I was angry that the conversation was over before the discussion really began. Good for them (and those in compliance with them). They’re not dicta or dogma and Fox is smart to use its sources to sell its product. By then, the word was already out – this movie was fantastic, when something a bit more complex was the true reality. It seems like, at least two weeks before it opened, XMDOFP was sitting somewhere in the mid 90s, enjoying the raves from those capable of being in the studios good graces (read: trusted to start the early positive buzz) while not opening for us peons until the week of release. First, the film currently has a 91% rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, higher than movies I liked a lot better ( Godzilla, Captain America: The Winter Soldier)…and the weird thing is, that was more or less the number right out of the box. So, you may be asking, why the caveat? If you liked it, what’s the problem? Still, I was entertained, intrigued, and in the end, capable of recommending it to any who still reads film reviews as a reference guide. Why? Well, I liked Matthew Vaughan’s approach more than Bryan Singer’s (still unsure of why this hit or miss filmmaker gets so much fanboy love), I’ve grown tired of the overuse of some characters, and am not sure what I was supposed to get out of the experience except it being a set-up for yet another in a long line of “planned” trilogies. That title goes to its predecessor, First Class. Is it the number one film in the franchise? No. Do I think it stands as one of the best installments in Marvel’s movie mutant mythos? Sure. Yours truly didn’t “hate” X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Let’s get something out of the way right up from.
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