As for the RFK stadium thing… my question isn’t so much whether you could lift a stadium using magnetic pull. As said above, I’ll buy there’s enough rebar etc. in it to do so. But he tugged on it from about 4 miles away (or so says Google).
The precision of it bothers me. Wouldn’t he also magnetically attract everything between hither and thither?
Is there any discussion in the books about how specific or extensive his magnetism can be? Could he get a letter opener off a desk 2500 miles away and have it make three 90 degree turns?
It’s not like he turns himself into a giant magnet. His powers include the manipulation of electromagnetic forces across the spectrum, sometimes down to the atomic level. As for the letter opener…depends on who is writing the book.
When I wrote the OP I did a search to make sure no one already started one and came across this old thread that talked about the movie when it was first announced back in 2012: Days of Future Past SDMB Thread. A lot of people weren’t looking forward to it. I know G0sp3l has already added his positive thoughts (his (or her) mind was changed!). But, I would love to hear what other people from that thread think of it now that it has come out, to mostly good reviews. Especially, the heavy detractors, like Czarcasm. Did you like it? Or do you still call it a flop?
I went back and read what I wrote and I still agree with it. I thought the movie would suck. It definitely did not. It didn’t stick to the source as much as I would have liked but it made it’s on place. That’s not saying it didn’t have any flaws, though. On the whole I’d give the worst grade imaginable, an A - -
Damn–I was all over that old thread…and am frustrated all over again at the narrow-mindedness of some of the other posters.
It is funny that originally Wolverine wasn’t even going to be IN the movie let alone a lead. When they first announced he was going to appear I hoped against hope it would be a huge fakeout and he’d get killed in the first few minutes.
Couldn’t she, in theory, morph into a Vietnam vet (or…Korean war? I dunno I’m godawful at history) who had his leg amputated, then morph back into J-law and get out of it?
And I wanted more of Blink! What a cool power and what an actress
I don’t think it would even need to be that complicated. She should just be able to alter her matter to push the bullet out of her body and that would solve it. It could just be that she’s better at surface level matter manipulation then doing detailed work on her insides.
Yeah, I’m not familiar with her at all but I think portals could be far more effective than they showed in that movie. Open a portal in front of a Sentinel and the other one directly facing a cliff wall, or 3 miles up in the air, or smack dab through another sentinel. How far is her range? Could she open a portal to the center of the sun? No Sentinel’s escaping from that.
I thought Magneto set it free to follow it’s original programming in that scene, so it’s just killing any mutant it sees. A bit later you see one of the Sentinels attack Magneto, and he disassembles it. My memory is a bit hazy on that scene, so I might be misremembering some details.
Quicksilver was a major pleasant surprise, as I wasn’t a fan of his character design when I first saw it. Overall I liked it a lot. It bugged me a little that future Wolverine’s mind time travelled into the new future. So the Wolverine that lived through all those decades was just erased?
That’s an interesting point. Of course, in this reality, that Wolverine had a similar life in that he ended up as a main part of the X-Men. But, that makes me think of another story that would have been fun!
I realize this is far too “Time Travel Does Funny Things” for a blockbuster movie, but it would make a fun comic! But! What if instead of arriving in his body at the Mansion, Wolverine arrives in his body where he is a Horseman for Apocalypse. And, then the FADE TO BLACK.
The next story opens up with Wolverine being saved from his watery grave by Apocalypse (forget that Stryker stuff) Wolverine in this time line never crosses paths with Professor Xavier and the X-men, instead gets his Admatium from Apocalypse and he helps attempt to take over the world in all the bloodthirsty ways that is possible, until at the end right when all of the pieces of in place for Apocalypse’s domination the other timeline Wolverine arrives in the body to see what has happened. Again, FADE TO BLACK.
The next story is when Wolverine goes back to the X-Men and, somehow, convinces them that he is not an agent of death, but wants to take down Apocalypse. Hijinx ensue. That would be fun!
So someone was saying upthread that at the end of this movie basically X3 never happened. Right?
But Jean Grey was dead at the end of both X2* and X3. So shouldn’t she still be dead (and Scott Summers an unshaven whiny angst-monster pining for her) at the end of this movie?
*okay, so the Phoenix whatamacallit had possessed her unbenownst to us. But shouldn’t that still be the case?
She was showing signs of Phoenix all through X2, with her glowing eyes and the phoenix shaped glow underwater at the end. X3 screwed all that up and I believe they are rebooting that whole movie. Having her turn gray (heh, get it) instead of glowy was only the first of many mistakes.
So Phoenix could still be in there, and just develop more slowly than being released all at once by dying so traumatically (my fanwank). Wolverine can also tell Charles “WHATEVER IT WAS YOU DID TO JEAN, UNDO IT, BUB.”
If that makes any sense at all. I’m just glad to hear she’ll be in the next one, as one of the younger group. Hopefully the same child who is more powerful than Charles himself at age 12.
