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TheOneAboveAll
TheOneAboveAll - 6/4/2013, 6:59 AM
Bryan you sneaky bastard
Logan5
Logan5 - 6/4/2013, 7:42 AM
I can do snow peas, but that's it. I tried okay. I tried.., gave them a chance. They just didn't work out for me; not my taste.
gambgel
gambgel - 6/4/2013, 7:45 AM
movie gets more interesting yet.
astromerc
astromerc - 6/4/2013, 7:51 AM
Does anybody remember anything like this happening in the Day of future past X-Men comic?
astromerc
astromerc - 6/4/2013, 8:00 AM
THis looks like he is giving it the X-Men: God loves man Kills treatment. Which means he is once again is refusing to use the comic as a guide, just the Wiki. Fvck you Singer!
gambgel
gambgel - 6/4/2013, 8:10 AM
the past events on the storyarc were really short and simple. Of course this movie would bring new stuff to make it more interesting.

The story arc only had Kitty talking with past X-Men, a scene of Mystique and her brotherhood planning the attack and then the x-men going to Washintong DC to stop them with a final fight.

The movie needs something more juicy than that, dont u think?
THIS
THIS - 6/4/2013, 8:37 AM
UNCLE SI CAMEO
Newbus
Newbus - 6/4/2013, 8:40 AM
crashrendar - "Dofp lasted 2 issues. That's not enough to create a movie on. Singer is good with this franchise. It might suck as all marvel sequels seem to be doing (except for x2, which was great), but it has potential to be good. I think wolverine will be sent back to stop the sentinels from destroying the future, which is basically the story."

So where does Vietnam fit in with the Sentinels? Like where did the Cuban Missile Crisis fit in the with emergence of mutants? These events are shoehorned to enhance give the plot some gravitas. Next the Xmen will called to prevent 9/11?
ElDarkside
ElDarkside - 6/4/2013, 8:57 AM
I actually think (and I posted this in another thread) that kitty will go back in time with bishop and find wolverine and the younger xmen and they will try to stop an assassination of some kin that would lead to the creation of the sentinels.

The future story arc from the comic will actually be the present timeline where the sentinels are featured and are ruling the us and putting mutants in internment camps.
ElDarkside
ElDarkside - 6/4/2013, 9:01 AM
I'm really interested in how older Patrick Stewart Xavier is included in all this since jean gray vaporized him.

On another note: wouldn't it be cool to have Cyclops be the narrator for the entire story, but not actually unloved in the action. Then the last scene, after the younger xmen stop the assassination and the sentinels are not made, it changes te future and then we see Scott is still alive, along with Xavier and jean...

Yeah that sounds cool...
gambgel
gambgel - 6/4/2013, 9:29 AM
many fans are already expecting a final scene like that.... so lets see what happens.

Odin
Odin - 6/4/2013, 9:47 AM
Ah, the good old days.
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 6/4/2013, 10:25 AM
Sigh. Here we go again. Yet another classic comic story ass-raped by an ignorant director who has absolutely no respect for the source material. Could the original story remain one of the favorites of X-Men fans because it was a great story on its own merits?

It honestly wouldn't bother me if this was the Age of Apocalypse, another of my favorite X-Men stories, because that storyline is a lot larger-scale and allows a lot more room for a director or writer to do their own thing within the basic parameters of the storyline. DOFP is only two issues, and just doesn't have the same flexibility in its storyline. It's well-suited to cartoon series adaptation, where it can (and does) make for a great two or three part storyline. I'm more concerned that this is going to be another colossal failure.
jlabatman
jlabatman - 6/4/2013, 10:32 AM
Freaking Hippies! Gusto was there but probaly doesn't remember much, he ate some bad acid and shrooms.
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To this day it is unclear how many children were spawned by him from this fateful day!
astromerc
astromerc - 6/4/2013, 10:42 AM
@gambgel

No, I don't.
CaptainAmerica
CaptainAmerica - 6/4/2013, 10:45 AM
Sigh. Here we go again. comicb00kguy bitching about everything.
lvcl
lvcl - 6/4/2013, 10:56 AM
Bishop travels back in time for smoking weed at Woodstock with Xavier, Eric and Singer

FOOM
FOOM - 6/4/2013, 11:49 AM
I love the Citroen DS but...SHOW ME SOME SENTINELS!!
TheBeard
TheBeard - 6/4/2013, 11:50 AM
stupid hippies

TheBurnSays
TheBurnSays - 6/4/2013, 12:25 PM
Yep, that's Montréal. We get few big productions here but we got that one. Cool!
WarnerBrother
WarnerBrother - 6/4/2013, 12:48 PM
The original story (published in 1981) was set in 1980 so the Vietnam war had been over for 5 years.The clip above is likely depicting the Paris peace talks between the Nixon administration and Hanoi that led to the withdraw of US forces from Vietnam in early 1973.

Btw, those talks only came about because Nixon unleashed B-52's on Hanoi
during Operation Linebacker 2 over the Christmas 1972 period that forced the little bastards to sit down at the peace table. Had to US unleashed such hell in anytime between 1965 and start of TET in 1968 the results of the war would have been very different.

Of course after we left, the commies broke their word and invaded South Vietnam in 1975.

By that time, Nixon had resigned and President Ford was barred by Congress from sending US air support to back our allies.

Basically,the US was sick of the war and washed its hands of the whole affair.

This scene along with the photo of the Nixon White House is ment to depict the general state of mind of the US Government leadership in 1973, which in real history
was paranoid about the American way of life falling under an attack by the Soviet Union from the outside and the "New Left" (which included Hippies,militant blacks,feminists,gay rights activists,ecologists,anti nuke protestors) that were challenging the long held norms of American life.

Its well known that that mind set is what drove Nixon to abuse his executive powers
in protecting the "Silent Majority" from the Left.

If Nixon abused his powers against Anti-War protestors and Civil Rights activists how do you think he would react to a militant mutant liberation movement under Magneto?

Its clear the Nixon administration is pushing mutant registration and Magneto is planning to kill him which would set in motion a chain of events that would lead to Trask and the Sentinals.
WarnerBrother
WarnerBrother - 6/4/2013, 1:02 PM
I don't see DOFP as abusing the original storyline.Rather, since this is a period piece,
I see it as an attempt to inject a real historical figure into the action to raise the stakes higher then they would be if they used a made up one like Senator Kelly.

You can use a made up political figure if the time travel goes to the present, but it would make no sense if you went into the past.

The basic parameters of the story are that an X-Man travels from a dystopian future to warn the X-Men of the past to prevent an assassination that sets that future in motion.

It seems that Singer is still doing this so I don't see how this is abusing the storyline.
gambgel
gambgel - 6/4/2013, 6:06 PM
@blkyank

Well said, man. Some fans act like they already saw the movie and know all the events and subplots.

Just because the movie adds some new characters and Nixon doesnt mean that it wont have anything to do with the original storyarc.

It will have two time periods, two casts, sentinels and time travel. How is all of that totally different from the comics?

Even the tv shows did their own version. Thats the magic of the story. The themes and main elements dont change.
fullmetal
fullmetal - 6/5/2013, 2:24 PM
It's nice to see a social commentary in this movie, something that has been sorely missing from this pathetic franchise. I want to see how society fears and hates mutants, not hear about it through hearsay. All the characters talk about being feared and hated but we never f--king see it!!!!
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