X-Men

[Del Murder]

Saw it yesterday. Dragged the twins out to the drive in just to see this movie. I was not disappointed. It was pretty good. Not better than X2 or First Class, but still pretty good (X2 is still the best X-Men movie). It was really cool to see the future X-Men fight it out with old favorites like Storm, Iceman and Colossus along with new faces like Kitty Pryde and Psylocke. I wish the movie had more of the future in it rather than taking place mostly in the past.

While the movie was good, there were some big flaws:

1. Lack of mutants. It was great to see a full X-Men team going at it in the future, but where were the mutants in the past? Other than the obvious quartet of Xavier/Magneto/Wolverine/Mystique, the only other X-Men was Beast and the only other mutant was (SPOILER)Quicksilver and he was only in it for one part. First Class had a nice array of mutants both good and bad and it was pretty dumb that it was just briefly mentioned that (SPOILER)they all died! Even Banshee . There was a brief cameo at the start with the soldiers but they weren't really a part of the film. I would have liked to see more mutants involved in the final action scene rather than just Beast and Wolverine. They're great and all but even they can't take down 8 sentinels on their own.

2. Magneto's character. Magneto has always been a little crazy in his ideals, but he was inconsistent in this movie and went waaay off the deep end. (SPOILER)In the beginning, he was perfectly willing to kill Mystique to prevent the war, which is already against his character because he would never sacrifice a mutant to preserve the relationship with humans. Then, he does a complete 180 and decides to drop RFK stadium on top of the White House and murder the president and his cabinet in front of everyone. It's almost like we saw two extremes of Magneto's personality without any sense of transition. Also, it makes sense that Charles would believe Wolverine is from the past pretty easily but I don't know why Magneto bought into it so quickly, especially since it was leading down the path of murdering a mutant he shares ideals with.

3. Mystique changing into her real self at inopportune times. Hello? If you are going to (SPOILER)infiltrate Trask's office then why would you change back to your blue self once you are in there? And if you are going to assassinate a guy, why make sure everyone sees you are a mutant after you kill him? Are you trying to get caught? Makes no sense.

But obviously the best part was that (SPOILER)they retconned the entire third movie which is what I've wanted this entire time. Now only poor Wolverine has to remember that atrocity. If this movie did nothing else, doing that made it worthwhile. Dinklage as Trask was great too.

Heavy heaaaavy Days of Future Past spoilers, you've been warned It was so awesome seeing Scott and Jean again! One thing I wondered throughout the movie was when it actually took place. The future part of it. How was Xavier still alive? Also, I wonder who that was building the pyramid after the credits rolled? Guess I should google these things.

(SPOILER)That was Apocalypse. The four horsemen in the background gave it away for me.