Jump the Gun is a semi-weekly article where two or more HiddenLevel contributors voice their gut reactions to upcoming movies. Their opinions are based solely on what trailers, press releases, and information is available around the internet, oh, and of course their own personal bias towards the source material. None of the opinions are based on actually having watched the movie. Each reviewer retains the right to change their view after having watched the movie, if they ever bother to do so. After all, who wants to waste their money on a movie that looks like it’s going to suck? Unless you’re into that kind of thing.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (May 23, 2014)
Brunpuppies - This is the big one. The “everything and the kitchen sink” X-Men movie. Uniting the original franchise and rebooted/prequel teams of mutants. It looks like it’s going to be quite a spectacle. I’m really very excited to see this one even though I’m not much of a fan of the new character designs. They seem to be too embarassed to do anything other than black costumes even though we live in a world where the Avengers and Spider-Man movies use costumes that seemed ripped right out of the pages of the comics. Oh well, maybe next reboot we’ll get some color. Either way, it’ll be great to see all of Marvel’s Merry Mutants together in one big blowout.
Verdict - Will be there on opening day.
Kevshiro - So the first trailer I saw for this film really didn’t get me excited...at all. Now that they’ve shown a bit more of the film, I’m a lot more excited to see this alternate X-men future come into play. I’m wondering how are they able to get Wolverine into the past? What can be fixed? Is their time travel going to be able to fix anything? Also, I’m kinda excited to see Halle Barry get stabbed too or at least that is what it looks like in the trailer. Also, how did Charles Xavier get back into his body???
Verdict - I’ll be there in the theater.
SolidMike - Something about the last X-men film didn’t excite me. For example, in the comics, Xavier became paralyzed by Satan breaking his back, not by Magento deflecting a bullet that ricochet off something and then hit him.
However, after seeing the trailer for “X-men: Days of Future Past”, I’m more confused than excited. While it does it seems like it’s going to be some serious action scenes in the film, I can’t help but to feel I’m going to be confuse the whole entire movie if I were to go see this film.
Verdict - Undecided
- I'm not the biggest X-Men fan as far as my readings in comics go, I just never got into them for some reason. I did really enjoy the old trilogy of X-Men movies, and First Class is a really good movie so just the fact that so many people from all of those movies are involved is pretty exciting. The trailers seem really good so far, the only worry I have is that it could get bogged down with so much going on. While there is the chance that will happen, I'm not worried too much about it. I'll probably be content seeing all my favorite characters from past movies to care if it does.
Opening in theaters on May 23, the Bryan Singer-directed movie stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Boo Boo Stewart, Adan Canto, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till and Evan Jonigkeit.The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
