X-Men: Days of Future Past
May. 27th, 2014 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThe first X-Men film with Bryan Singer back at the helm, since X:2, so I had high hopes.
I won't say it disappointed, because I didn't dislike it at all, and bit of it were very funny and/or clever. The cast was great, though several key people were woefully under-used due to the split-time structure.
I did find it amusing that Singer basically wiped out everything that happened while he wasn't directing (apart from First Class), but the time travel, fixing the past so the future doesn't happen plot line caused my biggest issue with the film. Since everything was going to be reset anyway, it meant the writers slaughtered all the future characters with impunity (twice) in what I thought was an unnecessary and overly violent way.
Bits of it made no sense, and overall I didn't feel it was a huge amount of fun, but there were several great moments (they really pushed the relationship between Charles and Eric - in whatever way you would want to interpret it, and the conflict within Raven was very well drawn), plus Peter Dinklage remained undeterred by an awful 70s moustache (can he do no wrong?).
So, mixed feelings about this. As I say, I didn't dislike it, but I can't see myself adding it to my movie library for repeat viewings.
I won't say it disappointed, because I didn't dislike it at all, and bit of it were very funny and/or clever. The cast was great, though several key people were woefully under-used due to the split-time structure.
I did find it amusing that Singer basically wiped out everything that happened while he wasn't directing (apart from First Class), but the time travel, fixing the past so the future doesn't happen plot line caused my biggest issue with the film. Since everything was going to be reset anyway, it meant the writers slaughtered all the future characters with impunity (twice) in what I thought was an unnecessary and overly violent way.
Bits of it made no sense, and overall I didn't feel it was a huge amount of fun, but there were several great moments (they really pushed the relationship between Charles and Eric - in whatever way you would want to interpret it, and the conflict within Raven was very well drawn), plus Peter Dinklage remained undeterred by an awful 70s moustache (can he do no wrong?).
So, mixed feelings about this. As I say, I didn't dislike it, but I can't see myself adding it to my movie library for repeat viewings.
