UPDATES!
I know I never had any time to finish up my Spider-Man 2 post, but I got +Nate AG to do that for me. You can expect that review in a bit. Also, I'm finished with all mini-series things. It's just too much. Therefore, I am done with God's Not Dead. If I never put a rating out of 10, I give it a 10 because of truth told, a powerful story, and non-cheezy lines like in previous Christian movies.
Which, that's a big improvement from the Christian movies I've seen. (I've seen quite a few because I'm a Christian myself) If you're not a Christian and wanna go see a Christian movie for any reason, see God's Not Dead. Enough of my updates and what-not. Oh, BTW's, my reviews will from now on be just reviews, because some of my posts have been basically the whole story. And that's pretty boring. Now, on to X-Men!
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Now, if you don't already know this, X-Men: Days of Future Past is the seventh entry into the mutants' story. There's X-Men to X-Men III, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, and The Wolverine.
As seen in the trailer for this movie, (see below) the world in the future is a desolate world; it is a barren wasteland because of the mass destruction done to it by the Sentinals. Sentinals are the machines that are designed to kill off the entire mutant race.
Well, they have done a really good job of it, because the entire mutant race is on the "brink of extinction," as Charles puts it in the trailer. But, of course, the machines have evolved beyond their programming. They have identified the humans that try to help the mutants, and they can identify the genes of any human being. This allows them to see if any human has the potential genes to make a mutant in the future, making those humans a threat to them. Therefore, they too are exterminated.
The camp in New York City holding mutants and humans alike somewhat resembles the concentration camps of the Holocaust in World War II. (apologies to my Jewish readers, if any) The prisoners are moving off to be killed, a very sad and depressing sight.
The film then shifts to the Blackbird, the X-Men's jet, landing in an abandoned monastery in post-apocolyptic China. The members who exit the Blackbird are Wolverine, (of course, and smoking a cigar [?]) Storm, Professor Xavier, and Magneto. We can tell by this bunch along with Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Ice-Man, Bishop, Warpath, Blink, and Sunspot that not many mutants have survived the Sentinal onslaught.
Xavier's goal is to send his conscience back into the past 50 years ago to warn himself and a much younger Magneto about the Sentinal creation. But, there's a problem.
"The mind can only stretch so much before it snaps. Your mind couldn't sustain the trip. I'm sorry Professor." These are the words of Kitty Pryde to Xavier, basically saying that her ability to send him back 50 years into the past would kill him. That's where Wolverine comes in.
Since his entire body can recover within seconds of injury, his conscience apparently has that ability, too. Therefore, Wolverine is sent back to 1973, embarking on his quest to save mutant-kind.
Along the way, we meet a lot of characters, old and new! Of course, we've got a young Xavier, (played by the awesome James McAvoy) a younger Eric, aka Magneto (played by Michael Fassbender), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Havok (Lucas Till), Toad (Evan Jonigkeit), and a bunch of others. I could go on forever, but, it would take up too much space. For all of the characters, go to this link:
In a nutshell, Wolverine succeeds, and time is reversed back to the days of the first X-Men movie, where every single hero is still alive. All of their memories are the memories of the past 20-30 years of the changed past. Wolverine, having been the only one to change the past, has no idea what happened within that 30 year time span.
Neither does Charles.
"It's good to see you, Charles."
"Logan. We did it."
"Yeah, I guess we did."
"You and me have a lot of catching up to do. Come on."
"You and me have a lot of catching up to do. Come on."
These are the last lines between Logan and Xavier, saying that their mission has been completed, and they're the only two who have any idea what happened in the alternate universe only they remember.
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