Dvader said:robio said:
Good solid suspense movie. Liam Neeson was great. I think its a little overrated, and did not warrant a sequel.This. Very enjoyable, watch it.
Yikes, I was watching far superior Korean revenge movies at the time so I could not see why it was suppossed to be good.
gamingeek said:Yikes, I was watching far superior Korean revenge movies at the time so I could not see why it was suppossed to be good.
Cause it has Liam neeson and they don't. 
I thought Unknown was far better than Taken.
I enjoyed both Taken films.
I'll make two posts on X-Men Days of Future Past, the spoiler free review which will be this one and then the spoiler filled extravaganza where I can really explain why I felt the way I did.
This is a great movie, I think in general crowds will greatly enjoy it. I feel like this movie has moments that match some of the best moments of X2. I think it has some very good character moments as well. I personalty don't feel that the whole movie flows as well as X2 or even First Class. I think it was the lack of a central villain character, as well as a few choices that I will get into in the other post.
I loved almost everything that took place in the future. Quicksilver is the new Nightcrawler, he steals the show and has the best scene in the movie. This movie has the spirit of X2 far more than the more loose comic booky First Class, it is Singer through and through. I am split with Lawrence in this film, there are parts where she nails the mystique of the old movies, and other times,,.. Fassbender wow. McAvoy great as well.
Of course Jackman is Wolverine, he does everything the movie needs him to do. If he needs to be badass no one is more badass. If he needs to be the heart of the film he can carry the emotional weight. If he needs to be funny he gets some of the funniest lines. I have watched most of the movies back to back and what we have with Jackman is so special, no actor in movie history has put more into any comic book character than he has, and he still finds ways to excite and surprise us.
The movie has all the elements of a great film it just didn't fit all together as I would have liked and I will get into that in the next post. I feel there will be a split between those that think this is the best one and those that think X2 is. For me X2 is still the standard and I am not sure where I place this one with respect to First Class which I loved, I may need to watch it again before I decide which I like more, probably Days.
Spoiler time
As I said everything in the future I loved, it was mutant power porn and I eat that shit up. I felt First Class got the whole team mutant battle better than any of the Singer films did, well singer stepped up his action game as this stuff is the best mutant fights I have ever seen. Iceman making the bridge, blink making crazy portals for Colossus, Bishop using his absorbing powers. It was all so badass. And the sentinels, holy shit they were scary as hell. Absorbing the mutants powers was a great idea as the sentinels as is are pretty easy to kill, but these things, DAMN. The kills were crazy, Colossus ripped in half. Warpath's head melted. Iceman beheaded. Crazy stuff, loved it all.
The stuff in the 70s started off great and hilarious as you get a bit of the comedy that comes with the man out of time scenario. Quicksilver breaking out Magneto is the best scene in the film, the entire theater was going nuts, what a way to make a memorable character. I liked most everything up through the assassination attempt which was a pretty dramatic epic scene.
After that it dragged for me, I am not a fan of the whole "super hero losing their powers for a chunk of the movie cause of emotional distress" storylines. The whole melodrama with Professor X did nothing for me, you are Xavier, snap of this stupid shit and get on with it. It did give us a great moment between Wolverine and Xavier where he explains what he means to the X-Men that I loved, the rest was just padding to me. Even the old to young Xavier talk didn't do much for me.
The focus on Mystique didn't fit right to me. The first time you see her in the movie she is doing her best Romiin impression and it worked, she was badass. Then they started to play on the whole you can still be good garbage, and oh should she or shouldn't she. Lawrence wasn't handling the emotional scenes that well at all. It bothers me that Mystique is this swing vote for the Xavier side and the Magneto side when that isn't what her character is about at all.
Magneto was excellent in this movie as he goes full on evil bastard mode. Straight up trying to murder Mystique as if she means nothing to him was pretty brutal. He finally takes his role as the true villain as he is supposed to. So here we have Magneto in all his glory, the scene we have been waiting for since these movies were created BUT no X-Men to fight him. And that to me is probably why the movie fell sort of flat at the end to me.
Here he is with Sentinels, carrying an entire stadium, about to kill the president and what do we have, Wolverine and Beast. That's it. That is not the X-Men, that is just Wolverine and Beast and they get their asses whopped as they should. The Wolverine scene was brutal, a nice nod to the Fatal Attractions moment, wow. Then what stops him, Mystique, come on. There was no true X-Men presence in the past, it was simply scattered characters on a crazy Mystique chase. I think for others they will love this whole sequence, I think part of my disappointment is my expectations for seeing a classic X-men versus Magneto battle.
At least the payoff for it all was epic. The final scenes of this movie are PERFECT. I will admit I got emotional. When he sees Beast and its Kelsey Grammar it's like wow they got him back! Then you see Rogue! And Storm! Omg omg omg and there she is... wow what a moment. Jean Grey and then the big reveal CYCLOPS! The theater went NUTS!
They are all back! The entire point of this movie was basically to erase Xmen 3 from existence. Finally Singer can make the epic grand finale he always wanted to, with all the best characters...well if stays out of jail.
The final shot of Apocalypse was perfect! Ancient pyramids, four horsemen! I just hope the kid look was just for the tease, he better be much bigger in the next one.
Seeing this tomorrow.
SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:
- SMB Mix-Up! (1AB2-0000-0047-5A7D)
- Storm the Castle (77BD-0000-00E0-A9C0)
Saw more agents of shield, I need to brush up on my Deathlok history. This is screwing with my mind.
By the way if anyone is looking forward to The Order, you might want to start watching Penny Dreadful. Same era, same city, thought less steampunk (but there is fun with electricity). The best way to describe is is League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with classic horror character. Oh and it doesn't suck ass like the LXG movie. Two episdoes in and I'm totally into it.
I'm losing Showtime in a week, so I'll check it out later. Though I must say that Eva Green is divine.
I just watched the premiere of Halt and Catch Fire on AMC's website. It premieres on Sunday at 10.
It is basically the story of Compaq how in 1982 they became the first company to reverse-engineer the IBM PC.
But it is a fictionalized version of that story so the names are changed the company is different.
I liked the first episode so I would definitely watch the second episode.
SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:
- SMB Mix-Up! (1AB2-0000-0047-5A7D)
- Storm the Castle (77BD-0000-00E0-A9C0)
Saw 12 years a Slave. Like D said it could be called 12 days a slave, no progression of time is shown. It's an okay movie but I don't see why it won the oscar.
Just got back from seeing the new X-Men. Cool film, but I'm very confused, I don't think this is any kind of spoiler, but I'll black it out just in case. how Xavier is alive in that distant bleak future. Didn't he die in X3? It's been a very long time since I had seen any of those films.
Ravenprose said:Just got back from seeing the new X-Men. Cool film, but I'm very confused, I don't think this is any kind of spoiler, but I'll black it out just in case. how Xavier is alive in that distant bleak future. Didn't he die in X3? It's been a very long time since I had seen any of those films.
Screw X3. Truth is there was some stupid final clip in that movie where Xavier transferred his consiousness to his comatose twin brother or some shit. That movie SUCKS.
There was? Was it post credits?
Dvader said:Screw X3. Truth is there was some stupid final clip in that movie where Xavier transferred his consiousness to his comatose twin brother or some shit. That movie SUCKS.
Agreed that it sucked. The new film kept referencing X3, so him being alive didn't make sense. I didn't know about that extra scene.
I just preordered Arrow Season 2 Blu-ray DVD combo pack through Amazon.
I have no idea when it will arrive probably September since that is when it released last year.
SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:
- SMB Mix-Up! (1AB2-0000-0047-5A7D)
- Storm the Castle (77BD-0000-00E0-A9C0)
Any idea what the Hong Kong angle is about at the end of s2?
This. Very enjoyable, watch it.