Are you guys ready for me to cry and get all yelly about mutants? If yes, then read on, because this week's Movie Monday is about X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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| [intense sobbing heard in the distance] |
Okay, so for those of you who have never seen any of the x-men movies, then I would recommend you either skip this week, or get your butt down to the dvd store and buy all previous movies and get on it.
But if you're somewhat familiar with the mutants and their adventures, then I can tell you this new movie is about the X-Men sending Wolverine back into the past to desperate panic to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
I guess before getting more into the movie, I'll just say that if you liked the previous X-Men movies, or just X-Men: First Class, then please do go see this movie. It is totally worth it. Really.
The rest of this review will be filled with spoilers for the movie and the old x-men movies. Because I can't talk about anything in this movie without spoiling it. So you've been warned.
SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!
Still with me? Good.
Now, I've only read about half of the
comic that this movie is based on, and so far I've already found several changes. And the changes from the comics to the movie are for me fine, but then again I didn't read the comic back in 1981, so I don't feel any protection towards the storyline or anything. And the first major change I noticed was that they choose to put Wolverine as the person to go back into the past, and not Kitty Pryde like in the comic. And I totally understand why. First of all Kitty was portrayed by three different actors in the first three movies, and therefore was not a very prominent character and one that the regular movie goer would remember. So to suddenly make her the lead, and having to reintroduce her would just take up too much time. And time is a thing they don't have much of in the future timeline. So it was much easier - from a movie maker prospective - to go with the fan favourite Wolverine. And even with that they managed to make Kitty an important character as she's the one with the powers to send Wolverine back in time (in the comic, it's a mutant named Rachel Summers (daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers) that sends her back).
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| From left to right; Sunspot, Kitty Pryde, Iceman & Colossus. |
But enough about the comic and it's changes because the movie works just fine on it's own without you having read it.First things first, I'll say about this movie is that I had not expected to cry that much over it. I mean, I had expected to cry, because let's be real, I'm a major crybaby when it comes to movies (especially movies about mutants), so I wasn't
that surprised. And the trailers did warn me about the emotional sea I would be diving into
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"I don't want your suffering! I don't want your future!" haha no thanks). But hot damn on a tomato! It only took like the first opening lines about the humans slaughtering all the mutants and hunting them for me to shed my first tear. And then it was just downhill from there. I mean, every character basically had me crying over one thing or another? That autopsy picture of Angel? Yeah, no thanks I didn't need to see that. And then later her wing on display? Like how did they get it? Just ripped it off her? After she was killed? Before?
Yeah, just the whole thing about Charles and Erik accusing each other of abandoning the mutant race and each other was just too much. And do you know how hard it is to hide the fact that you're crying when you just want to lie down in foetal position and howl like a dying wolf? Not easy I tell you!
So I had kinda a hard time. But enough of me crying at everything, let's talk about Mister Bolivar Trask!
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| Played by the lovely Peter Dinklage. |
I actually liked this character even though he was supposed to be the "villain". But then again, I have a history of liking villains. Nevertheless, he was a great character, because he both feared and admired the mutants. Like, he wanted to study them to learn more about them (although his method of studying them would be better, if he just left them alive and did them no harm), and he appreciated them in a way. But at the same time he wanted to contain them and suppress them and keep them away from the humans. He's like those scientists who wants to keep the monster alive to study it, but also wants to kill it, so it won't hurt people. It's a complicated thing to want, but I think it makes for interesting characters. Because the whole ~conflicting morals~ is a favourite trait in characters for me. Which brings me to Erik and Raven (Mystique).
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| Erik & Raven |
Oh these two. Both of them constantly going through emotional turmoil and change. Erik wanting not to necessarily do evil, but willing to do it if it helps the mutants. And Raven just wanting revenge over her dead mutant brothers and sisters, while still trying to maintain her slowly dwindling innocence due to her getting more and more reckless and violent in her methods. Or at least that's how I see these two characters in this movie. And I god damn love it.
Okay, right now at the moment my mind is pretty blank on other stuff in the movie, because it's still trying to repair the emotional damage it received while watching it. So for now, this will be the review, until I've seen the movie again this Friday. Then I'll come back to this review and finish it off properly.
Deal? Okay, great.
