I was thinking it would be an interesting way to introduce Rachel Summers but then that’s probably way too convoluted for a movie.
As with all time travel movies, you basically cannot delve too deeply into the potentially difficult to answer questions. If it seems to work on the surface then just roll with it.
How about the scene in Last Stand where we saw Charles and Erik still together when they first met Jean Grey? What timeline does that fit into? This was supposed to be sometime in the mid-eighties.
It’s possible, of course, that at some point between their breakup in 1962 and their ongoing opposition in the current era, there had been a period in the eighties when Charles and Erik were reconciled. I thought this movie was going to show that by having them reconcile in 1973 in order to retcon the Last Stand scene back into continuity.
Magneto has switched sides more times than Anne Heche.
I usually say that about Storm Shadow but it works here.
Perhaps he is the cinematic version of the Purple Man.
He has the power to cloud men’s minds so they will vote for him.
And the power to cloud women’s minds so they will sleep with him.
JFK could read and influence minds. Citation: The Professor Brothers - History Lesson (JFK) - YouTube
(Also flight)
Ok watched it, haven’t read the thread but - Blink can cut sentinels in half by closing portals (it happens in the opening), right? Why can’t she use that to destroy them? Or keep teleporting them far far away?
Also: president reveals new robot army looked strongly like Iron Man 2, and hero asleep and being attacked while simultaneously fighting in his “dream” looked strongly like The Matrix.
I was joking earlier with that citation, but apparently that is actually the power the moviemakers intended: http://www.empireonline.com/features/days-of-future-past-secrets-explained/p13
I think she can only teleport them to somewhere she can actually see and/or influence.
She did destroy several of them, she was just overwhelmed like everyone else.
Her power seemed to be an innate Portal Gun from like the game Portal but she could suspend them in air.
I’ve only seen her in the few parts of Age of Apocalypse that I’ve read, but couldn’t she create portals over a pretty good distance in the books?
No, in the final battle she opens a portal for Magneto to return to the sanctum.
I took it that her power was limited to close range or places she’d actually been.
I’m not sure why Magneto would have trouble with the sentinels. If he has fifty pounds of ball bearings, he can accelerate them to bullet speeds and shred sentinels with ease. Heck, he could take a mass of iron the size of a marble and flatten it to a razor-sharp disk and dismember sentinels at his leisure
Actually, what really vaguely annoyed me was the idea that once Mystique kills someone, she’s past the point of no return. It became increasingly laboured how she was beating people into unconsciousness yet not killing them. Considering the amount of violence she dishes out, the slope to actual killing seems particularly gentle.
And here’s something I might have missed-how the heck did they capture Magneto? And could they have built plastic guns in the 70’s? Great costuming, btw-I did enjoy some of the fashion choices.
By the way, if a supervillain wants to rip up Montreal’s Olympic Stadium and take it away for realsies, I say let him.
My girlfriend was chuckling at some of the recognizable Montreal locations, but aside from the stadium itself, I hadn’t noticed. Plus I was looking for Stan Lee.
I liked how “RFK” was preparing for a baseball game. Uh…surely not The Senators, as they were in Texas in 1973.
There was also the ongoing focus of Trask’s murder as a historical pivot. Okay, we know that if Mystique had killed him in Paris it would have led to the dystopia we saw. But even after they had prevented that event, everyone was still focused on sole task of keeping Trask alive - as if his death was the only possible path that led to the bad future. Once Mystique decided not to kill him in Washington, everything was resolved. Nobody was apparently worried that mutants attacking Washington might have triggered the same anti-mutant campaign (or an even worse one).