X-Men: Days Of Future Past

[clonmult]

GrumpyTwig said:

Thought it was good, probably better than the previous films tbh simply because of the humour.
Better than Godzilla anyway (which isn't terrible just not great...).

The more I've thought about the film, the less I like it.

Main positives are the initial scene, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence and Jennifer Lawrence. Humour was virtually non existent.

Whilst I enjoyed the film (went with my 12 year old son, we had a lads day out, gym, film, bike ride), the whole rebooting of the franchise and bringing back the dead just felt lazy. Ooh eck, we want to keep making these, best do a magical reboot.

Much prefer the avengers films, humour in those tends to be brilliantly executed.

[mike-r]

Little behind the curve but managed to watch this at the weekend. Feel like it should've been a bit more tongue-in-cheek with some of the ridiculous characters.

I'm not really one for poking holes in the realism of films like this, but what struck me is that surely the kid that could run really fast could've just put an end to the whole final act quite easily? Yet they seemed to let him go from their crew about halfway through the flick.

Edited by mike-r on Monday 15th September 22:10

[JonRB]

mike-r said:

Little behind the curve but managed to watch this at the weekend. Feel like it should've been a bit more tongue-in-cheek with some of the ridiculous characters.

I'm not really one for poking holes in the realism of films like this, but what struck me is ... SPOILERS DELETED.

You could have put that in spoiler tags, you know. It may not be much of a spoiler, but it *is* a spoiler.

[mike-r]

Apologies, thought we'd all seen it by now, although not what I'd call spoiler material

[Murph7355]

clonmult said:

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Much prefer the avengers films, humour in those tends to be brilliantly executed.

Which, of course, don't reboot stuff

It seems to be the way with comics. And hence the films based on them.

(Not seen the latest X-Men yet. Sounds like a 7 quid DVD purchase ).