Saturday, June 7, 2014

X-Men: Days of future past

I'm going to be lazy and just link to another review that I think does a nice job covering the big issues in this film. I don't have a lot more to say so I'll continue my trend of laziness and just do bulletpoints.

1) The film is essentially the 2009 Star Trek, using time travel to completely wipe away everything that happened before. It was entertaining enough, but you can't help that feel the whole thing is a little pointless. I'm not sure if I prefer this approach, or the Spider Man tactic of just recasting and starting over (since I haven't watched either of the new Spidey films I guess its this one), but it does get a little tiresome.

2) Whatever enjoyment I get from the X-men films is the exact opposite of what I get from the Marvel Universe. In the Marvel films I really like the main characters, but usually find the plot and action sequences to be a bit tedious. In X-men I don't find the characters to be that interesting on their own (maybe because the films try to hard to make them walking metaphors) so my enjoyment has to come from the plot. Here I'd say it was about 70% successful. Good enough, but not anything I'm going to revisit anytime soon.

3) Most of the auditorium clapped at the end of my screening. I will never understand this.