X-men: Days of Future Past [4K Ultra HD] [Blu-ray]

This movie was great - while it differed a bit with the original story line in the comics - it was still extremely well done and very entertaining. In the comics of course Kitty is the one to go back instead of Wolverine - but obviously in the world we live in today - people are more interested in seeing Hugh Jackman as Wolverine on screen than they are in seeing Ellen Page. Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique is great, having a lot of the old cast members from previous movies showing up is a great bonus as well. With Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart back again as well - just feels great watching them on screen again. The sentinels are just down right amazing creations in a pretty scary world envisioned for us in the future. Able to change and adapt to whatever powers they are facing - they are very adept at hunting down and killing mutants and basically exterminating them. One of the best scenes / parts of the movie is with Quicksilver freeing Magneto. I could watch the scene time after time - it's just so well done and so amazing. While they did a good job with the movie - I think that Marvel Studios would have done a better job with it if it was in their hands instead of with 20th Century Fox. Marvel even told their comic book creators to stop creating new characters since those characters also become the property of the movie studios instead of Marvel. Sad - very sad. They were so stupid to sell the characters off for money back when they were cash strapped. Hopefully some day they will get the rights back to their own characters or be able to afford to just buy them back. Just doesn't seem right to have all these different studios with control of some of the most famous characters and also constantly messing up the movies. Sony had no business in rebooting the Spider Man franchise. The Wolverine Origins movie was horrible with what they did to Deadpool. The Fantastic Four movies were Meh. The Silver Surfer movie was bleh. This movie though is very entertaining, I'm looking forward to future X-Men adventures on the big screen. I could definitely see Mystique, Rogue, Quicksilver, and many others all getting solo movies or at least - movies focused on them with additional 'extras' thrown in to support them.

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Right off, let me say, I don't think this was a perfect movie, but my goodness what a wonderful showing by all involved. Sometimes a movie comes along and just kills a franchise, a movie like X-Men 3: Last Stand, or Superman IV. In fact, it's kind of what we expect. I was grieved when Brian Singer was taken off the Superman franchise (I, for one, really, liked his vision of Superman), but I don't think this masterpiece could have been orchestrated by anyone but Singer. This is one of the best super-hero films since Singer himself ushered in the new age with the original X-Men film in 2000. One can compare the two virtuoso scenes in DoFP and X2 (another of the greatest superhero films to come out of this craze). The way Nightcrawler fought his way into the oval office was stunning, from a cinematic viewpoint. The same is true of Quicksilver's scene in this film when he neutralizes the guards while breaking Magneto out of prison (the opening escape from the sentinels is impressive too). I also applaud the "big" actors for taking small roles in order to make this film as great as it is. As great as X2 was, however, this film has a lyrical, kind of progressive view of the genre that goes in bold new directions in imagining what a super-hero film can be. I think the wave of belief that "The Dark Knight" was the first genre film with "artistic" merit has subsided somewhat (I saw many glaring problems in that film, even though I thought it was a good movie by a great director), so that I can say credibly that this film equals or surpasses TDK in its artistry. Nolan's films had grittiness, while Singer's film has fantasy, but both directors have successfully done it "dark." Slowly we see that fantasy and imagination can be as important and serious as any other part of our lives. We need not load these films with wisecracks and pratfalls anymore because we have learned that though these films may not be, in the traditional sense, "realistic," they speak to something real and serious inside us.

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良い品物でした。

Nel futuro l'astio degli umani verso i mutanti è sfociato in una grande guerra che ha portato l'homo sapiens a vincere grazie a delle Sentinelle robotiche tre volte grandi rispetto a un uomo normale, costruite con il DNA di tutti i mutanti e sopratutto con quello di Mystica. Le Sentinelle sono creature progettate al fine di distruggere qualunque mutante e incarcerarlo nei campi di concentramento istituiti a Central Park. Nel passato (dieci anni dopo gli eventi del First Class), Mystica uccise Boliviar Trask, inventore delle Sentinelle, colpevole della morte di quasi tutti i mutanti visti in precedenza (Emma Frost, Azazel, Angel, ecc.) dai quali ha prelevato il DNA dopo aver fatto i suoi macabri esperimenti. Subito dopo l'assassinio Mystica viene catturata e martoriata, anche lei sottoposta a esperimenti scientifici estremamente violenti alla fine dei quali i suoi geni vengono prelevati. In un qualche modo scappa prima di essere uccisa ed hanno luogo gli eventi descritti nei primi film sugli X-Men. Per sventare la guerra e la deportazione dei mutanti, Wolverine viene mandato nel passato da Kitty Pride, la quale sembra aver scoperto un nuovo potere ovvero quello di poter spedire le coscienze delle persone nel passato per un lasso di tempo limitato. Così Wolverine negli anni 70 deve trovare il modo di riunire gli X-Men, convincere Charles e Magneto a collaborare e impedire a Mystica di uccidere Boliviar, quest'ultimo evento viene considerato la causa principale del futuro distopico creatosi successivamente. E' una storia densa che raccoglie tanti aspetti che caratterizzano la fantascienza contemporanea come i viaggi nel tempo e la mutazione. Tornano anche i temi filosofici che caratterizzano la serie come quello sulla diversità e non mancano effetti speciali magnifici. Oltretutto vediamo nuovi mutanti su entrambe le linee temporali, Blink, Alfiere e tanti altri sul futuro, Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) sul passato. E' un capolavoro senza dubbio quello che prosegue la nuova trilogia basata sul passato e lo consiglio a tutti gli appassionati di X-Men ma anche a tutto il resto per il semplice fatto che, a mio parere, è una perla del cinema contemporaneo. Sono già in trepidazione per il prossimo capitolo: X-Men Apocalypse.

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This will be free of the spoilers so fear not. The "Intelligent Blockbuster" as they say has a new addition to the list. Ramping up both the Mutants as "pick-a-minority" allegory / metaphor, AND the action & effects, the film manages to make spectacular use of two amazing casts in a way that, for example, The Amazing Spider-man 2, failed to do with just one. As producer of X-Men: First Class, Bryan Singer folded the Origins Magneto script into that film, which is why that film often plays like his Origin story. As director of Days of Future Past he's made a film that could described as Origins Professor X & Mystique: as Wolverine tries to drag Charles Xavier into his position as founder and soul of the X-Men, whilst, Young Magneto& Charles compete to see whether we will end up with Raven or Mystique by the end of the film. The future of the human race also happens to hang on her path. The impression you may have gotten from the trailers is that in adapting one of the comic book industry's most famous stories the film would start in our near future and then switch to the past think again. The film masterfully switches the action back and forth between 1973 and the future, largely because the method of time travel means that those in the future remain connected, in real time, to poor old/young Wolverine as he struggles not only to change history for the better, but to undo the damage that is being caused simply because he is there and giving people knowledge of the future. What pays off here for 20th Century Fox is what paid off for Marvel in their Avengers Universe, excellent casting of the separate films. So here we get the return of the peerless Sirs Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen, & Hugh Jackman, et al alongside the quite superb Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence. Both past and future sets of X-Men are a joy to watch seeing their differences and similarities in the same film is a real plus. Of the new additions Fan Bingbing's Blink is the best realised and the way her powers are used gives the White house attack by Nightcrawler at the start of X-Men 2 a real run for its money. Speaking of running, American Horror Story's Evan Peters' turn as Quicksilver is extremely memorable and I think Joss Whedon maybe watching this film and wondering if the Marvel Cinematic Universe's version of Quicksilver in Avenger: Age of Ultron (and the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier) will stack up; I promise you the Quicksilver prison break scene will be many people's favourite part of this film! Peter Dinklage is, as always, excellent, with his character another in that long list of people whose vision of a peaceful future for mankind includes squashing segments of society he doesn't care for. Like Stalin & Co he doesn't do evil laughs, because he truly sees himself as a hero Good news If you hated X-Men Origins Wolverine, as this film pretty much seems to rubber stamp the consigning of that to a "What If" story, in other words it never really happened. Bad News, If you loved X-Men Origins Wolverine as this film pretty much seems to rubber stamp the consigning of that to a "What If" story, in other words it never really happened. If you are one of those people than runs out as soon the first words appear at the end of a film (Shame on you) then you need to make sure you hang around until the very end here as the X-Men's biggest nemesis (no it is not Magneto) makes a very regal appearance 1-2-3... It's been interesting so far in 2014 as with 5 Super hero films due this year (Captain America 2, Amazing Spider-man 2, X-Men, Guardians of The Galaxy & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) we had one of the best ever in the MCU elevating Captain America: The Winter Soldier gave invasion of Privacy, Edward Snowden & political thrillers the Super Hero treatment. This was followed by a firm reminder of why so many comic book fans wish Sony would just let Spider-man die and return to Marvel Studios, with a duller than dishwater sequel to an already average film. Well X-Men Days of Future past, may upset those same comic book fans as Fox look to have secured their rights to Marvel's X-Men for some time to come, with their best Super hero film yet and, for my money, one of the top 5 Super hero films ever made. Over to you Guardians of The Galaxy...