So what do I think about it?
It's good.
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...Want me to expand upon my thoughts?
Well without spoilers, these are my thoughts -
In a future that is bleak with destruction of everything, Super Sentinels are destroying the last of the mutants. A small group involving Bishop, Kitty Pride (Shadowcat), Blink, Iceman, and some others, are shown surviving by doing some time jumps to survive the Sentinel attacks. They are soon met by Xavier, Magneto, Storm, and Logan.
They come to an idea with Kitty's power to send someone back to the 70's and stop the Sentinels from being created to save themselves and others from this future. Because of the pain and hardships, they send Logan to his past self (before his metal skeleton) to get Xavier and Magneto to work together to stop Mystique from killing Trask (the creator of the Sentinels) and starting a domino effect that will end with a future they will die in.
It is the best X-Men movie out right now. And it's good because of the previous movies building up characters that we already know. This is basically the X-men version of Avengers, we already have stories from previous movies that we know of these characters and they are both funny and touching because we know them. It's a perfect blend of the first movie (which I didn't like too much) and of First Class (which I liked a lot better), with a sprinkle of Wolverine (the second one, which even though I hear people complain about it, I still liked).
But where this really shines is also the new characters. Even though Bishop and Blink (the teleporting girl) rarely talk, they do make it interesting enough for you to feel the struggles of the characters.
Not to mention Quicksilver, who steals the movie for like 10 minutes. But I'll go over him in spoilers.
Other than that, there is the surprising blend of both future and past. It works as a movie and as a comic book story.
I also want to point out that for a PG-13 movie... this was pretty violent. Like people ripping heads off and splitting them in half and melting their faces off... Yikes. I mean it was awesome, but man, give some warning there, even though there wasn't any blood, it was still violent.
The moral of the story is also pretty nice. It's a feeling that people can change if helped by choices.
Other than that, the action is really good and amazing graphics.
But what's my problem? Well...
It has nitpicks that bug me.
Now don't get me wrong, I will recommend to go see this movie, because it IS AMAZING! But I can see the problems and it's just gnawing at me.
I don't know... I can't explain without spoilers.
SENTINEL DOES NOT APPROVE! YOU MUST EXPLAIN!
...Don't give me that look. Alright, now for spoilers-
~~~ Spoilers Below ~~~
I have to say that the fight scene with Blink in it was awesome. The whole time I was thinking, "NOW YOU'RE FIGHTING WITH PORTALS!" and enjoyed it.
But we also get to the first nitpick... Kitty Pride sending people back in time.
...Why? How does someone who can phase through matter send people back in time? Besides never getting an explanation, why Kitty? I mean, I can see Rouge getting it from another mutant, or Xavier mastering his technique to expand his mental powers to send someone back in time... Like he did in Wolverine and the X-Men. That's what I was expecting.... but Kitty? Not a good choice.
We go back in time, get a funny scene with the 70's Logan, and go back to the Mutant School to see a walking powerless Xavier...
What?
Now, it is explained better in the movie that it's a walking medicine that suppresses his powers... but still, it's kinda an elephant in the room. It feels out of place, and only an excuse to show a struggling Xavier.
I wasn't happy with the Beast's effect in First Class, and it is still used in this... but I allowed it because the other scenes were just jaw dropping.
Mystique's scenes were intense and touching, while Magneto's scene's were threatening and unexpected.
And then we get to Peter.
Quicksilver, or as I know him to be Pietro Maximoff, steals the movie with just a few scenes. The above scene is easily one of the best scenes in the movie. I'm going to watch that part over and over again when I can.
I did groan at the scene where he talks to Magneto. "My mom knew a guy who could do that..."
Sigh... to those who don't know, it's a funny joke.
To the comic guys... that's a slap in the face. I don't know if that was a hint or not, but just *groan*.
But Evan Peters did a great job. Energetic and he just captured the character.
I'm curious to see how Aaron Talyor-Johnson (that KickAss guy) will do in Avengers 2... but I don't think he will pull it off as well as Peters did.
And then we go to the other Peter, Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask (who I swear has died in every comic variation). He pulls off a good acting performance, and even someone who is thinking he is doing the right thing... but it's underplayed.
And that's mostly because of Fassbender's Magneto.
Who is a giant dick.
... no pun intended.
Now, I've had a problem with every incarnation with Magneto's powers in EVERY movie. Even the first movie where he uses his powers to pull away every gun and aim it at people. But this movie takes the cake, with him taking steel railways and shredding them into wire to implant and reprogram the Sentinels.
Just... sigh. What? I allow the X2 liquid metal blood, but this is...
Sigh... it was still awesome though.
But man, what a dick. I mean, I understand they needed him to talk to Mystique, but as soon as he could he's like "Nope, I see a chance for world domination, screw the future!"
Sigh... but that's Magneto for you.
The movie ends well. I was happy with the ending and won't spoil that part.
But I will say 2 other things.
1. Another problem is that with all the changes, they have Retcon the shit out of the other movies. That's kinda a good thing. I'm happy that fixes some things from the 3rd Movie that really bugged me. But it also leads me to my main problem...
What the hell happened then? Wolverine loses all his new memories, he can only remember the past ones that no longer exist, and what happened? Did Phoenix happen? Did the first movie? What happened?!
Will we ever know?
2. The last scene at the end. That's what I've been waiting for years to see. My favorite mutant badguy-
The first mutant, and the most powerful one.
Apocalypse has total control over the molecules of his body, enabling him to alter his form as it suits him, such as allowing his body to become extremely malleable and flexible or change its size, enhance his physical abilities, transform his limbs into weapons, wings, or jets, regenerate from fatal injuries, adapt his body to apparently any disease or hostile environment, and give himself virtually any physical superhuman power. The character is also able to project and absorb energy, and has displayed telepathy and telekinesis. Apocalypse is as well capable of technopathy, able to directly interface with the various technologies he has at his disposal.
However immortal they say Wolverine is, is nothing compared to Apocalypse, who is well over 5000 years old.
I should also point out that his blood can heal mutants.
And he uses it to make his Horsemen, his 4 generals of his control. Each variation of the Horsemen are a different mutant, (From Magneto, Xavier, Mystique, Cyclops, Storm, and even Hulk), but I can also see him using his powers to resurrect fallen mutants. Think about it. Someone awakens him in a government facility that is studying mutants and their corpses, and then Apocalypse is found, awakens the corpses as his new Horsemen, and then absorbs the technology into himself.
I wrote it here first. Note that now
You can see more below for his origin if you need to be caught up.
Other than that, I have a hard time not recommending this to people.
It is the best X-Men movie out now, and I did like it a lot...
But the major complaint I have is this-
They didn't have Space Age Plastic in the 70's to prevent Magneto from using his powers...
I don't care if they just tried to blow that away with a simple explanation, it didn't happen, they wouldn't have known.
SO SENTINEL! You shouldn't have been created.
No excuse.
Later~
Will
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