X-Men: Days of Future Past is a nice addition to the series. The themes are consistent, the characters are interesting, and there's some cool stuff going on. Considering all the material they have, it seems like they could keep doing episodes like this forever.
My X-Men exposition feels a little familiar since I just
talked about it for the last Wolverine movie, but I'll say it again. I've never
read the comics, but I liked the X-Men: Evolution animated series, and the
first X-Men movie; I skipped the second one and First Class. I love James
McAvoy, so that's pretty much all I needed to be interested in this one. The
70s kitsch might have seemed novel, too, but in practice it wasn't actually
very interesting.
Mystique really bugged me. I don’t like Jennifer Lawrence,
and I don't get why Mystique has to be naked all the time. It just looks weird.
I don't remember how Mystique looked in X-Men, but in this one it really seemed
like Jennifer was just wearing a nylon suit. Her hands were so obviously
painted, it just didn't work; it made all the wrinkles in her hands stand out
so much. I didn't like her hair, either. I don't like seeing her feet, and her
body looks bizarre. It seems like she wears clothes a lot in the comics, so I
don't see why they couldn't have put some clothes on her.
I have a problem recognizing Michael Fassbender, too. I
feel like I just haven't seen him in anything. I kept thinking, "Am I supposed
to know who that actor is? I know it's not Jude Law." And that was about
as far as I could get with it.
I loved the opening sequence. It brought you right into
what's so cool about the X-Men; all the mutants' powers are so unique, and they
can all do such cool things. I wasn't familiar with any of the characters, but I
liked Blink's look. She had a lot of cool stuff going on. I wish they could've
just stopped and shown us what she looked like. I don't think I like Ellen
Paige as Kitty, but I never seem to like Ellen Paige in much of anything.
