X-Men: Days Of Future Past (Trailer #1) Review

Before I start reviewing the trailer I want to say that I know the story arc and how mad it gets, and I was pretty sure Bryan Singer couldn’t handle it. Looking at the trailer I now know he cannot handle it, but he can strip it of most of its parts and drop a steaming pile on a brilliant adaptation opportunity. At this point I wouldn’t even watch this film, hope they show a better trailer or make a better movie. There are some good points to the trailer and I will give my views on both sides of the coin but I have a great deal of disappointment with the way the film looks so far. I really hope come next year that I will eat my own words but it would have to be a different film then advertised. Enjoy the review and please tell me your initial reactions to this new trailer, more so if you disagree.

“I don’t want your suffering, I don’t want your future!”

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My Score: C-

Release date: 23^rd May 2014

Plot:

The X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in a battle that must change the past – to save their future.

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What I liked

#4. Old Man Wolverine

Well at least he adapted the white streaks properly. Haha my nit-picking can go both ways. Wolverine is clearly taking a bigger part in this story than in the original run but that isn’t surprising, however it does rub me up the wrong way in some respects. I am glad that they changed it from Kitty Pryde going back because I don’t like Bryan’s interpretation of her, and so Wolverine will do since we are going back to the 60/70’s to fit with the First Class timeline.

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#3. Nixon – Hater of The Mutants

Ha gotta love some villainous Nixon in office. I mean if you need a president to look like the bad guy he’s an easy pick. I really want him to sound like the Nixon from Futurama, it would so funny! “Send out those Sentinels and slay those filthy mutants” in the voice below.

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#2. New Beast Looks Pretty Good

I wasn’t a big fan of the look Beast had in the First Class film but I think this one’s looks pretty kick ass. Might even say he looks a little scary. Won’t help with Human-mutant relations but can scare some baddies.

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#1. The Meeting of New & Old

This is what we all really want from a film of this kind, meeting of old and new. Both Xavier and Magneto where cast brilliantly with old and young actors so if time travel was involved in a plot at all they both have to meet. Clearly they will not meet but the idea is still being teased. Most likely this scene is a memory planted in Logan’s mind to show to Xavier’s younger self to convince him to help.

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What I Didn’t Like

#4. The Future Looks Incredible Fake

I don’t get the future in this, it’s so cheesy set looking. The only way I can really describe it is having a Mortal Kombat movie feel to it. I clearly know it’s a set with a green screen but where the hell is that supposed to be? The Himalayas? Apparently high altitudes help mutants fight Sentinels.

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#3. Don’t Trust That Music

“John Murphy – The Surface Of The Sun” is used in this trailer, not a problem with that many films have used this brilliant score from the film Sunshine. However it does distract the viewer from actually analysing the trailer (got me). I am sure this will fit with the theme of the film but the trailer isn’t actually put together very well, even if you ignored the stuff I didn’t like it’s a pretty rough cut out of a film coming out in a few months.

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#2. Young Xavier Having a Little Cry

If more than 10 minutes of this film is dedicated to Xavier being a little bitch I will leave the cinema. I get that after First Class he had lost the use of his legs and had lost a good friend and in doing so gained a new enemy, but that film ended with him starting a new life in which he would start the school for Mutants, he had a goal and a reason to carry on. I really don’t see the need in a film with so much going on to then back pedal on characters that need no interfering with.

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#1. The Future Has No Grit

In the comic the future was a dark and desperate place with endless fighting and running in cites from these giant robots, which will either kill you or send you to a work camp. Very much like the future in the Terminator film but with mutants. In this though there so clean! There isn’t a spec of dirt or a scratch on their face. The feeling just isn’t right at all they don’t look like they are fighting for survival. This is one of the bigger disappointments of the trailer.

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Well that’s my views. Now what do you think about this newest trailer?