***SPOILERS
– You kind of have to have seen the movie to read this anyway. I
don’t run down the whole plot, so this isn’t so much my
recommendation on whether or not you should see the movie as it is my
thoughts on it as a whole. As far as my recommendation – go see it.
Everybody seems to love it. Everybody else, that is.***
I
don’t want to write this review because everybody else seems to
have loved this movie and I thought it pretty much sucked. Like,
worse than The
Last Stand
but not as bad as Origins:
Wolverine.
I
don’t feel bad or wrong for not liking this movie. I hate that I
don’t
like it because I wanted to love
it. But the things that weren’t good were unbelievably not good and
far overpowered the things that were good. That’s saying a lot
because the things that were good were almost perfect.
Before
I get any further, I want to make it clear that it has been a long
time
since I read
Days of Future Past. I
think I was in high school. I intentionally didn’t go back and read
it before seeing this movie because that is almost always a bad idea.
I’m pretty fuzzy on the particulars of the plot and I’m honestly
not sure how closely the movie sticks to the comic. I’ve heard it’s
close. I wanted to go back and read it before writing this, but it
looks like my trade is one of the many casualties of too many moves,
too many roommates, or flooding. By the time you read this I should
have a copy (it should be easy enough to get one right now, right?)
and will update if needed.
I’m
just going to dive right into my problems with the movie. While I’ve
mentioned how much I disliked it on Facebook, I have been saving
specifics for here because I’ve got posts to write. I can’t be
giving this stuff away for free, people.
Wait
a minute…