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#52 May 24 2014 at 11:30 AM Rating: Good
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How much screentime does Wolverine get?
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#53 May 24 2014 at 1:22 PM Rating: Decent
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Wolverine is in majority, like 80%+ of the movie. Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) gets pretty significant chunks as well. Fox is banking the movie on those two. I said it before but Halle Berry is no longer a box office draw so she has the least screen time in the movie. Clocking close to six minutes I would say... Bishop, Sunfire(spot), Warpath and Blink get more lines and screentime than she does actually.
#54 May 24 2014 at 1:57 PM Rating: Good
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Meeeeeeh, I don't much care for Wolverine as a character, in general. And I've particularly disliked movie!Wolverine. I liked him well enough in the first movie, but not to the point where I wanted to see a whole lot more of him, and not him as a serious, brooding hero guy.

I love Mystique/Jennifer Lawrence... but meh.

How was Kitty? Because I still feel the dead part of my soul from the third film.
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#55 May 24 2014 at 2:15 PM Rating: Good
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Kitty is an important character, but pretty much just background. No real action. Edit: Well, I guess not that important, I suppose they could have used anyone to send Wolverine into the past and had the same results.

I thought it was strange that Anna Paquin got a full screen solo name credit slide in the top 5 characters, (I think, wasn't really counting, but at least top 10) and she had maybe 2 seconds of air time, which could have been reused footage from previous movies. She was ahead of Ellen Page and Ian and Stewart.

As for Jennifer Lawrence... a few scenes of hers could have used some more lighting from beneath, or at least the side. All that time spent on makeup, and they hid most of her body (and ***) in the shadows.

I enjoyed the movie. Was worth the money for the ticket. Curious what the post credit scene means, as I'm not a comic book reader so I have no knowledge of what to expect.

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#56 May 24 2014 at 5:38 PM Rating: Good
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I enjoyed the movie. Was worth the money for the ticket. Curious what the post credit scene means, as I'm not a comic book reader so I have no knowledge of what to expect.


Apocalypse is coming. They were chanting his Egyptian name, En Sabah Nur.
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#57 May 24 2014 at 5:53 PM Rating: Good
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I enjoyed the movie. Was worth the money for the ticket. Curious what the post credit scene means, as I'm not a comic book reader so I have no knowledge of what to expect.


Apocalypse is coming. They were chanting his Egyptian name, En Sabah Nur.


Ah. My knowledge of Apocalypse only comes from from the old x-men cartoon when I was younger. And in the cartoon he was kind of big and in armor, from what I remember. And created a virus that killed mutants and humans, and Cable went back in time to ensure that Wolverine was infected to have his healing abilities cure him, and create a cure for the virus in the process. I'm sure that the actual comic story is different.

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The wiki article on the Days of Future Past explains the Anna Paquin situation. Apparently all her scenes were cut from the movie in post-production. Must not have been important to the story.

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#58 May 24 2014 at 7:27 PM Rating: Good
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Meeeeeeh, I don't much care for Wolverine as a character, in general. And I've particularly disliked movie!Wolverine. I liked him well enough in the first movie, but not to the point where I wanted to see a whole lot more of him, and not him as a serious, brooding hero guy.


He's not very serious & brooding in this one. In fact, besides gathering the X-Men in the past, he isn't even all that effective (bone claws in the past don't work well even against plastic sentinels, & Magneto literally throws him away during the climax.)

Edited, May 24th 2014 10:30pm by Omegavegeta
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#59 May 27 2014 at 7:28 AM Rating: Good
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Do they show Trask's secretary? I'm just kind of curious how a 4'5" white guy from New Jersey has a 6'4" son who is blacker than Wesley Snipes. Also, any sign of the mutant whose power is the ability to evolve to avoid dying who died in the last movie?
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#60 May 27 2014 at 7:44 AM Rating: Good
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Also, any sign of the mutant whose power is the ability to evolve to avoid dying who died in the last movie?


I didn't see anything relating to him.
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#61 May 27 2014 at 9:49 AM Rating: Good
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She was played back a black woman.

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Nope. In fact, Trask dissected most of the throw away First Class characters.
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#62 May 27 2014 at 10:00 AM Rating: Good
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Well, that's one mystery kind of solved. I've heard nothing but good things about this movie, best of which is that it retcons at least X3 out of existence which is nice. Especially about the Quicksilver scenes. Of course, the good things I'm hearing are from comic book forum versions of =10 so I'm still a bit weary, but if you guys are saying it's good then I'll probably pick up a couple tickets when they go on the cheap.

Still a bit irate over Darwin.
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#63 May 27 2014 at 5:04 PM Rating: Good
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A lot of the comic fans I know are worried about Quicksilver. Not in this movie, where he was a showstopper, but they're worried that people are going to expect Marvel to make him the wisecracking show-stealer he was here, when he won't be in the Avengers. He'll be the tortured, irate, gloomy Quicksilver we all love to hate.

I guess the X series had to have SOMETHING going for it.
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#64 May 27 2014 at 5:47 PM Rating: Good
Well I went and saw it, and I found it to be "meh".

I will keep my head up for a decent Apocalypse movie.
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#66 Jun 01 2014 at 8:30 AM Rating: Decent
It wasn't a bad movie. Fun, brutal at times. Might have been more interesting for comic readers than non-comic readers though. The little joke between Quicksilver and Magneto was fun.

The post credit scene was the best part, for me anyway. I always liked En Sabah Nur, apart from his own origins story though. There hasn't been a sign of Sinister in any of the movies I believe? That would be a great character to add to that movie.
#67 Jun 01 2014 at 3:28 PM Rating: Excellent
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The post credit scene was the best part, for me anyway. I always liked En Sabah Nur, apart from his own origins story though. There hasn't been a sign of Sinister in any of the movies I believe? That would be a great character to add to that movie.


The whole Sinister/Cable/Madelyne Pryor deal would be awesome. But maybe too complicated. Or they go the Age of Apocalypse route and we'll see Nate Grey and Holocaust.
#68 Jun 01 2014 at 5:47 PM Rating: Good
So this was on reddit the other day, it made the movies kind still go together in an "order."
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#69 Jun 02 2014 at 7:30 AM Rating: Good
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Baby Colossus is cute. Also, I'd forgotten the Chibirine scene.
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#70 Jun 06 2014 at 3:02 PM Rating: Decent
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The post credit scene was the best part, for me anyway. I always liked En Sabah Nur, apart from his own origins story though. There hasn't been a sign of Sinister in any of the movies I believe? That would be a great character to add to that movie.


The whole Sinister/Cable/Madelyne Pryor deal would be awesome. But maybe too complicated. Or they go the Age of Apocalypse route and we'll see Nate Grey and Holocaust.


Inferno, now that would be great. Impossible to do, way too much backstory required, but that would be great. I'm not sure if they're going to add Cable. It would be interesting to get a new center character apart from Wolverine. Jackmann isn't getting any younger, not sure if people are going to accept a new actor for that part. It's going to be hard to add a really new character and give him an important part. Apart from the villain that is. It might be an entu0irely new story for Apocalypse, I'm really curious to find out what it's going to be.
#71 Jun 09 2014 at 4:02 PM Rating: Decent
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Finally was able to see this. Well worth it IMO. And yes, it retcons x3, which is a good thing all the way around. There were a couple of points where you had to strain to suspend disbelief (even for a superhero film), but all in all a very solid film. The best part is that because of the way they did it, they can now basically go back and cherry pick events post 1973 and change the ones they want changed, while leaving the ones that they want to stay the same. It'll be interesting to see how they do this, and what specific changes they decide to make (and hopefully, they'll think about it a bit more and not write themselves into a corner like last time).

Far and away the scene stealer was Quicksilver during the break out. Freaking awesome! It was like "This is cool", "Ok, this is really cool", "Oh hell, that's funny", "No, that's really funny", "Oh, and awesome too!". Then, it's like "wham!" (followed by insane giggling, which apparently was coming from me). Trust me, if you haven't seen the film yet, it's worth the price of admission just for that one scene. It's what you've always wanted to see in a super speed character scene, but has never been done right before. They got it perfect.

Apparently, they cut a *huge* amount of additional scenes and story, mostly about the lead into the dark future portion. I get why they did it. There's just too much story to tell, and it's more important to tell a complete story about events occurring in the past than about the background bits leading to the future. But it does leave the future portions a bit jarring and empty. You're just "there" and there's very very little info about the characters in that time. I expect the directors cut will be well worth getting though and hopefully, they can add in a bunch of stuff that didn't make the theatrical release cut.

All in all, well worth watching IMO. And the set up for Apocalypse looks to be interesting, so there's more to look forward to.
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Apparently, they cut a *huge* amount of additional scenes and story, mostly about the lead into the dark future portion. I get why they did it. There's just too much story to tell, and it's more important to tell a complete story about events occurring in the past than about the background bits leading to the future. But it does leave the future portions a bit jarring and empty. You're just "there" and there's very very little info about the characters in that time. I expect the directors cut will be well worth getting though and hopefully, they can add in a bunch of stuff that didn't make the theatrical release cut.


The article I found during my Google search into why Paquin got such a big credit when she had less than 2 seconds of airtime that was basically reused footage, said something about those cut scenes with her being put into the DVD/BluRay release.
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Apparently, they cut a *huge* amount of additional scenes and story, mostly about the lead into the dark future portion. I get why they did it. There's just too much story to tell, and it's more important to tell a complete story about events occurring in the past than about the background bits leading to the future. But it does leave the future portions a bit jarring and empty. You're just "there" and there's very very little info about the characters in that time. I expect the directors cut will be well worth getting though and hopefully, they can add in a bunch of stuff that didn't make the theatrical release cut.


The article I found during my Google search into why Paquin got such a big credit when she had less than 2 seconds of airtime that was basically reused footage, said something about those cut scenes with her being put into the DVD/BluRay release.


Yeah. I noticed her name in the pre credit list (which is usually where the main actors appear) and was like "huh?". Makes a lot more sense now (and make me want to get the directors cut that much more). Also, funny bit when watching the scene about Apocalypse. At first my friend and I were like "who the hell was that"? The only character that made sense was Apocalypse, but the actor they used didn't look much like Apocalypse at all. If not for the brief view of the four horsemen I probably wouldn't have even made the connection. And it really was more of a "huh. Four horsemen, like the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Oh....!". Then it kinda clicked into place.
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#74 Jun 10 2014 at 8:29 PM Rating: Default
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I said it before but Halle Berry is no longer a box office draw so she has the least screen time in the movie. Clocking close to six minutes I would say... Bishop, Sunfire(spot), Warpath and Blink get more lines and screentime than she does actually.


Halle Berry is still an "A-list" celebrity that can draw people and she did not have the least amount of time. However, I was disappointed in Bishop's role. I thought he would have had a bigger role.

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Halle Berry is still an "A-list" celebrity that can draw people. However, I was disappointed in Bishop's role. I thought he would have had a bigger role.


When was the last time she did so? Her last successful movie was X3 (I liked Cloud Atlas, but it bombed). I think she's doing TV now.

None of the peripheral movie X characters have ever been fleshed out. Hell, Quicksilver had more development in DoFp than Colossus did in 3 movies. Don't expect that to change as long as Wolverine, either Magneto, either Professor X, new Beast, or Jennifer Laurence's Mystique are around in Apocalypse. Apparently Channing Tatum is going to be Gambit, so he'll get some development (especially if he gets a solo flick first). Hopefully young Cyclops & Jean Grey get introduced in Apocalypse & Angel (only so Archangel Happens). Oh and bring Havok back and actually develop him a bit. (Have him find his long lost younger brother maybe?)

I guess its iffy on whether or not Singer is back for Apocalypse as he has legal issues (Civil allegations of drug fueled buttsecks). Apparently FOX doesn't give a sh*t whether or not he's innocent, cause if it doesn't get settled they're finding another Director. If there's any question that they'll have to push back the release date, he's out.


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#76 Jun 11 2014 at 12:49 AM Rating: Default
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When was the last time she did so? Her last successful movie was X3 (I liked Cloud Atlas, but it bombed). I think she's doing TV now.

Catwoman? I kid, I kid. In any case, according to Wiki, her role was not only reduced but completely changed because she was pregnant and it became more of a hassle.

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Apparently Channing Tatum is going to be Gambit, so he'll get some development (especially if he gets a solo flick first).

Gambit is my favorite character, but I don't see a solo flick happening.

Oh.. I like Rebecca Mystique better..
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