X-Men: Days of Future Past random info dump thread

oh did I mention they were boning in a Hummer?

well i mean obviously

wait why is his SPERM metallic?

wait why am i asking this?

Well now I'm getting an alternate lyric for a Catherine Wheel song and no thank you.

I liked First Class, although it had some boring "hey we're mutants all learning how to be young hip mutants together" moments and needed more pervo Xavier

didn't they establish at some point that his entire body shifts to organic metal, like down to the cellular level? which would obv include his sperm

think of them as little BBs of life

maybe if we make it to 900 x-men movies somebody can do the grant morrison run

xpost lol

really wish this movie was called x-men: second class

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

X-Men: Steerage

how are they going to film the scene where Xavier strangles Cassandra in utero and will that play under the opening credits?

computer-generated, although I demand they graft mcavoy's face on

"theme from 'love story'"

really wish this movie was called x-men: second class

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha same

my hope for first class was that it would be like Blow Up with mutants but they really downplayed the 60s stuff, i guess for fear of making an austin powers movie

lol ya would have been awesome if the super-antics were just a backdrop to '60s stuff

Hope Longshot and Mojo get involved.

And Psylocke and Kwannon. And Joseph. Basically, any character with a hyperconvoluted and nonsensical backstory and whose relevance to the broader universe is highly questionable.

but they really downplayed the 60s stuff, i guess for fear of making an austin powers movie

i dunno man, it was pretty groovy

there's something kind of pathetic about Singer returning to this franchise though. Seems washed up at this point

otm

I don't know that he was ever washed down, really, so to speak. X2 might be his best movie (guess which other obvious contender I don't think much of). He was probably dumb to leave the franchise in the first place, and going back to it is probably the best thing he could do for himself.

Oh i think he's a terrible director (don't even rate X2 that highly) but this seems like a backwards step for everyone concerned. Compared to the excitement surrounding the other Marvel universe, this is all a bit old hat

x-men 2 ('x2'? sheesh) is an awful movie

sorry for calling movie by its name please forgive so sorry

Saw it a few months ago for the first time since theaters and X2 has aged very, very poorly. If Singer wasn't in on the ground floor with this series, I'm sure he'd be looked at in the same way as any other Len Wiseman/John Moore/etc. studio hack

You guys are gross

bruh i just want a movie with rad sentinels and i do not trust Singer to give me that

Sorry Raymund Cummings

That said this movie could be awesome

There's some really good stuff in the second X-Men movie, and I imagine without it and its success we wouldn't have gotten the more successful subsequent Marvel reboots. Then again, you could also say that without the silly failures of Ang Lee's "Hulk" and Singer's "Stuporman" we might not have gotten the more successful reboots, either.

Man, can't believe Singer is almost 50.

I don't think Singer gets the same thing out of comics that I do

x2 sucked

X1 and X2 were close in quality

'90s X-Men cartoon is the only adaptation you need.

I think Ang Lee's Hulk is better than its rep. I'd rather see more comics adaptations by him than anything by Singer.

No.

X1-3 have always felt about the same, quality-wise, to me. I actually like First Class the least.

i havent seen X2 since it came out but i thought it was pretty sick back then.

Compared to the excitement surrounding the other Marvel universe, this is all a bit old hat

Yeah, this is otm. The Marvel Studios movies have done a great job of putting a lot of the fun stuff from the comics on-screen and creating a sense of a shared universe. The X-Men movies, on the other hand, have seemed increasingly like box-ticking exercises to ensure the movie rights didn't revert back to Marvel.

I did enjoy First Class, mainly for Fassbender and McAvoy's performances, but the idea of a flashback movie must surely have come because they had painted themselves into a stupid corner at the end of X3 and couldn't think of an alternative. I have similar reservations about the thinking behind bringing back McKellen and Stewart.

the 3rd x-men movie is like a surprisingly entertaining bill mantlo fill-in after the ponderous len weinesque first two

I liked the first two fine but I always kind of tried too hard to like them because that was as good as it got at the time. Glad that Marvel is finally putting out movies that I enjoy unreservedly (Lee's Hulk was stylistically annoying, and I never got what people saw in the Spider-flicks).

xp Haha, I'd never thought of it like that before but you're right. It certainly has all the Mantlo hallmarks of being hastily hashed-together at the last minute to cover a blown deadline. In fact, wasn't X3 rushed into production to meet a predetermined release date?

I have similar reservations about the thinking behind bringing back McKellen and Stewart.

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 8:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i bet they won't be in it that much

yeah. matthew vaughn was the original director of X3 and he bailed because he didnt like the release date, which is how ratner came to fill in for him.

he didn't like the fact that they didn't have a script or finished production design but that the release date meant that shooting started in a week or three, iirc

I was high on pain medication and sleep deprived when I watched X3 so I remember LOVING it. If I watched it now it would probably be terrible, but at the time it was hilarious and entertaining.

X3 is terrible, but it is also hilarious and entertaining

I did enjoy First Class, mainly for Fassbender and McAvoy's performances, but the idea of a flashback movie must surely have come because they had painted themselves into a stupid corner at the end of X3 and couldn't think of an alternative.

Or... they are taking the second-most popular X-Men story and adapting it for the big screen after taking the most popular X-Men story (Dark Phoenix) and adapting it for the big screen

he means First Class was a flashback movie

what are bairns

baby

children, term used in northern england and most of scotland

Hmm...not sure. We know that they're wee, and occasionally puir, and that their plight sometimes induces an 'och!' in passersby. Beyond that, it's anybody's guess, ye great bloody spaleen.

$250, same as downtown

xp oh ok. so it is a real word and not just something Claremont made up

Claremont would never, you take that back.

Does "bairn" come from Scandinavian languages? The Swedish word for "kid" is "barn".

It does indeed.

new meaning to "couldn't hit the broad side of a barn"