Last weekend, I thought it was the BEST X-MEN MOVIE I've ever seen! Really blew the previous 6 films away! An excellent redemption in the X-Men movie franchise! Officially the second best Marvel movie after The Avengers! I am so happy that it erased X-Men: The Last Stand and/or X-Men Origins: Wolverine from the original timeline besides stopping the creation of the Sentinels! At least the Days of Future Past storyline in this latest blockbuster movie isn't all messed up like the Dark Phoenix Saga in The Last Stand! The performances in Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence (*whistles*), and Hugh Jackman were outstanding! So proud that X-Men 1-2's Bryan Singer is back at the helm after departing the X-Men series to direct the overrated financially-disappointing Superman Returns. This movie really went back to the roots of the 1st two X-Men films thanks to the amazing dark tone and better writing compared to the lackluster direction of Brett Ratner in X3!
The time-traveling is one of the interesting, yet dangerous or convoluted, concepts in movie history. Having experienced time-traveling in Back to the Future and Men in Black 3, never knew what it would be like in X-Men: Days of Future Past. So Ellen Page's Kitty Pryde was able to send the future Logan/Wolverine's consciousness straight back to the year 1973 where Logan would wake up in his younger body to meet up with the young Charles Xavier in the time period set a decade after X-Men: First Class, and that their main goal is to stop Mystique from killing Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask which could only cause full retaliation from the U.S. government and immediately fast-track the development of the giant mutant-hunting robots that could cause total extinction to every last mutant on Earth.
Yes, the Quicksilver scene is certainly one of the biggest highlights in X-Men: Days of Future Past! The song "Time in the Bottle" made it so darn hilarious! Love that he's casually altering everything in slow-motion! Sure wish that he IS the "son of Magneto" if Fox would at least take the entire concept of X-Men a bit more seriously! Let's see if Kick-Ass and Godzilla's Aaron Taylor-Johnson can handle the other Quicksilver in next summer's Avengers: Age of Ultron!
Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique is awesome the way she fights! Like she has the same fighting skills as Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow! I think she handled it as good as Rebecca Romijn's before Rebecca made her anti-climatic exit as our favorite blue shape-shifting, cunning mutant in X3! She is just so hot and beautiful! I am glad that I recognized her completely since X-Men: First Class and The Hunger Games!
The ending sure had me on the edge! Sentinels killing Storm, Colossus, Iceman, Bishop, Blink, Warpath, and Sunspot in cold blood was brutal and sad! Love how the young Magneto would lift up an entire football stadium to surround the White House with the reprogrammed Sentinels at his command! Wow! Amazingly awesome! Guess that's where they got the $200 million budget! By the time the movie comes to a close end, Logan would wake up in the future where there never was a war with the Sentinels. Every mutant that were killed by the Sentinels are all alive again. However, the events that occur after The Last Stand were changed as well, since they, along with The Wolverine, all count as events that lead to the dystopian future war. So that means that… Jean Grey is back from the dead! So the young Xavier did become aware of what would happen when he recruits Jean into the X-Men. That means we'll finally reimagine the Dark Phoenix event anytime we want, an event that should have been exactly like in the comic book unlike how it was handled on the big screen! But when Logan finally sees the resurrected Jean Grey (who appeared as a ghost to him in last summer's The Wolverine), a hand came to stop Logan from touching her face. And there it was! drumroll… Scott Summers, A.K.A. Cyclops, is alive! YES! Just what I have been expecting for 8 years after his upsetting abrupt death in X-Men: The Last Stand! It's never X-Men without the REAL LEADER at the top of chain of command! So this oughta be a lesson to James Marsden that he will NEVER agree to sign up for Superman Returns, making his underrated X-Men character's appearance in the threequel short-lived! It was the happiest moment that I have ever seen! With everything after 1973 in X-Men Origins: Wolverine supposedly altered, I hope this means that we'll finally have the proper Wolverine origin story told exactly the way it should be for us fans, this time remaining faithful to the dark and violent tone in the X2 Weapon X flashbacks! Even so, no more of that Weapon XI fiasco and say hello to the REAL Deadpool! I hope Ryan Reynolds would be happy, if his own Deadpool movie is already happening! Wonder what's gonna happen to the past Logan if Stryker, actually Mystique in disguise, will "take it from here"? Is this gonna lead to the Weapon X procedure already, when it shouldn't have happened until like the early to mid-1980s? Is that what the 3rd Wolverine movie (out until March 3rd, 2017) is going to be about? Or something else, rather?
I'd say that X-Men: Days of Future Past is the REAL X-Men 3 after leaving us hanging on with the way X3 ended by releasing 3 standalone prequels/spin-offs! It's good to see that Fox is getting the 14-year-old X-Men movie franchise back on track and made a movie that will truly relieve us of our bad tastes to X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine! Can't say the same for the Fantastic Four reboot films, as I only wish that Fox did gave their rights back to Marvel already like it did with Daredevil. I am so pumped up for X-Men: Apocalypse, coming May 27th, 2016! Let's see what the Age of Apocalypse looks like in a movie after we never get to see it in the abruptly-cancelled Wolverine and the X-Men (which only ran for one season and 26 episodes on the NickToons channel) except in a comic book. But nothing will absolutely top the original X-Men animated TV series, as well as Kids' WB's X-Men: Evolution, in terms of very faithful treatments to our favorite mutants and better storytelling compared to the movies!
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