# X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551 "2013-10-29T13:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/61 "2013-11-01T05:59:12Z")
I didn’t care for the trailer. Way too talky/angsty. Needs more SMASH. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/62 "2013-11-01T13:53:38Z")
I don’t want to be but a part of be is pretty stoked. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/63 "2013-11-01T14:24:06Z")
I am cautiously optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/64 "2013-11-01T14:38:39Z")
They probably won’t screw it up too badly. “Cautiously optimistic” pretty well sums it up for me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/65 "2013-11-01T20:21:30Z")
I suspect that Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen are being over represented in the trailer. I think in the movie they will mainly only appear in a framing story in the beginning and the end and the bulk of the story will be in the past withe the First Class actors and Wolverine. I am fine with that as I really liked First Class but just making a prediction. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/66 "2013-11-05T20:16:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Looking back at the comics from that era, i.e. the 1970s, there were a _lot_ of monster/vampire/werewolf titles… what the fuck? Marvel pushed the Comics Code Authority into a 1971 revision of its content rules by publishing an issue of _Spider-Man_ featuring a (for its time) very frank depiction of drug use and sending it into distribution without the CCA’s stamp of approval on the cover. It sold well enough to prove no-one much cared what the CCA thought anymore, thus showing the code’s managers they must adapt or die. When the code was rewritten, it dropped its ban not only on drug depiction, but also on horror characters (werewolves, mummies, vampires etc), and Marvel leapt on this chance to launch hybrid superhero/horror books on all those themes. _Werewolf by Night, Tomb of Dracula, Morbius the Living Vampire_ and many other such books were launched as a result. They were pretty popular for a while too and some - most notably _Tomb of Dracula_ - are still fondly remembered today According to Sean Howe’s _Marvel Comics: The Untold Story_, Stan Lee even considered (but ultimately rejected) a book called _The Mark of Satan_, which was to feature the adventures of the Devil himself. The CCA rules swept away in 1971 had their roots in Frederic Wertham’s _Seduction of the Innocent_ witch-hunt of the 1950s, which panicked comics publishers into creating the CCA and hobbling themselves with such ridiculous rules in the first place. DC’s main response to the 1971 rewrite was its famously “relevant” _Green Lantern/Green Arrow_ run discussing social issues such as racism, birth control and drug use (again) far more trenchantly than the old CCA would have allowed. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/67 "2013-11-06T00:09:41Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I didn’t care for the trailer. Way too talky/angsty. Needs more SMASH. Hulk isn’t in this one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551/68 "2013-11-06T00:16:13Z")
> [@Slade](#): > > According to Sean Howe’s _Marvel Comics: The Untold Story_, Stan Lee even considered (but ultimately rejected) a book called _The Mark of Satan_, which was to feature the adventures of the Devil himself. AFAICT, that promptly morphed into the _Son of Satan_ project, published in '73. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-trailer/672551.md?page=3)