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When time speeds back up, the guards are on the floor and the main characters stand there shocked. He stole the show in one particularly amusing and time-bending scene set in a kitchen where everything slows to a crawl as the super-quick mutant accelerates, allowing him to disarm and knock out several guards and deflect bullets as everyone stood still. Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) completely ices out and ice-slides for the first time in a movie, and new mutant Blink (Bingbing Fan) makes creative use of her dizzying ability to cast portal after portal, sometimes transporting herself, her teammates, and the Sentinels themselves.Īnother star who made the most of his limited time was Evan Peters as Quicksilver.

There's enough action and visual treats for the casual audience member, with standouts including the opening and climatic scenes set in the future, where a mix of older and newer mutants face off against a squadron of next-generation Sentinels. Yes, that means some of the more controversial elements from 'Last Stand' are erased, which I appreciated greatly. 'DOFP,' which involves Wolverine going back in time and recruiting Professor X and Magneto to prevent a Sentinel-dominated apocalyptic world, is a much grander and more clever film that simultaneously ties together many of the older films while wiping the slate clean. ( From this point on, I'll be discussing specific scenes from the film, so stop reading here if you want to avoid spoilers.) It's a solid film that set the franchise back on the right path, which 'The Wolverine' admirably built upon. While I get sentimental about 'First Class,' I don't hold it up on any pedestal. Instead, we got 'X-Men: The Last Stand,' the Brett Ratner-directed follow-up that was so woefully disappointing it nearly derailed my love of comic book films. 'DOFP' is the X-Men film I've been waiting for for the last 11 years, ever since director Bryan Singer teased an epic follow-up to 'X2,' the sequel to his standard-setting original 'X-Men' film. So I was psyched to be able to bring my wife with me to the global premiere of the film in New York on Saturday. As you can imagine, our anticipation for 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' was sky high.

To say I have an emotional attachment to the 'X-Men' films would be an understatement. My wife and I at the premiere of the new X-Men film.

#DAYS OF FUTURE PAST MOVIE#

We tied the knot last August, a little over two years after that fateful date (our first movie after getting hitched: 'The Wolverine' - the day after our wedding). So it came as a bit of a shock when my date actually insisted on watching the new 'X-Men' movie, which happened to be 'First Class,' and proceeded to talk about her love of comic book films, among other geeky topics.Īt this point, I realized I had hit the jackpot. After dinner, I had planned an exciting night out at a trendy lounge nearby - in fact, reservations had already been made. It was back in the spring of 2011, our third date, and we had agreed to meet at a little seafood restaurant in the East Village. It's a tale I shared in a speech at our wedding, and one I'll share with CNET's readers. The film truly played a key role in my courtship with my wife, and our eventual marriage. This is not the idle claim of a comic book fanboy, nor do I claim to be an extreme-genre-film aficionado. 'X-Men: First Class' literally changed my life. Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Professor X (James McAvoy), and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past.'

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