X-Men Days of Future Past

I'm talking more thematically than anything else, and only in the MCU. Fox is never gone give Marvel back the rights to the X-Men. They are making far too much money off them.

 

All the same, the lawyers can say what they want, I count Quicksilver in DOFP and Ultron as the crossover point between the franchises, and have since they were casted.

 

I think it will become apparent very, er, quickly that the Fox Quicksilver and the Marvel Quicksilver cannot possibly be the same character.

 

I'll come up with some way to make it work.
Dammit, I can crowbar "Forbidden Planet", into Trek canon, I can sure as hell pull this off.

 

Hey, someone managed to cross over Star Trek and Here Come the Brides, so maybe it's possible.

 

There is currently a comic mini-series crossing Trek with Planet of the Apes, named (I shit you not), "The Primate Directive."

 

Barrel: Scraped.

 

But is the damn thing GOOD, man?!?!

 

I read the first issue of "Primate Directive" and it seemed to get off to a good start. The Klingon are exploiting a planet in a parallel universe that turns out to be, you guessed it, the Planet of the Apes. I've got the second issue but haven't read it yet.

 

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Star Trek novels are complete shite.

 

I actually read that one 25 or so years ago and, from what I can recall, it was okay. If you didn't know the show Here Come the Brides, you'd never even get that it was a crossover.

 

Yeah, but you need to shoehorn Magneto off the planet during Ultron then, otherwise in a merged-verse it'd be a short movie:

Ultron moves forward towards the shocked Avengers team...

Ultron: There are no strings on... Uh, what.. What is happening?
Stark: Uh, yeah Bolts, meet our new best buddy Magneto. His schtick is, well, you're smart, made of metal and not moving, so you figure it out. Oh? And that drum beat you hear? That's all your mini-me's getting ready for their scrapyard prom date. Guys, last film we had schwarma, what are thinking this time? Erik, what's your position on hummus? Are we for or are we against?
Magneto: I'm quite partial to currywurst...
Stark. Never tried it, something I will not be able to say tomorrow.

Roll Credits

Scene in Munich with the team eating currywurst.

 

I worked out the timeline that the entire first two waves of Avengers films actually squeezes between the gap between X2 & X3.

 

Nicely done, but here's a bit of trivia for you: in the early days of adamantium (the stuff Ultron is made out of) in the Marvel comics, it wasn't magnetic and therefore Magneto wouldn't be able to affect it.

 

If you pound a couple gigawatts into a magnet, even nonferrous things like wood and living tissue start to float.

 

I remember that. I'm not sure when Marvel decided ol' Maggy could affect any metal rather than ferrous based. I do remember a fairly early (80's I think) when he lifted a crap-load of gold.

 

Think they changed it so he could tear the metal out of Wolverine.

It is funny seeing how things have changed, iirc the X-Men were invisible to cameras at one point in their early days...

 

I read somewhere they gave him the ability to affect the entire EM spectrum in an attempt to make his power less lame.

 

That's definitely what happened to me, reading it at age 11 or so in Germany.

 

Finally got around to seeing this on HBO tonight.

Really fun flick.

According to IMDB, he and McKellan were both made up to look 20 years older than they really are.

 

Not anymore, he just dropped out.

 

Anybody watched the Rogue cut?

 

Have it, seen it. Eh, no big whoop.

There's a "break Rogue out of prison" sequence where Bobby dies. They need Rogue to take over for Kitty after she's inadvertently wounded by Wolverine. Makes little difference to the plot; you're just +Rogue -Bobby for the resolution.

 

Ah, good, I didn't wanna be double-dipped anyway.

 

Yeah, me neither.

 

I waited till the Rogue Cut to buy it to avoid the double-dip. Watched it last week.
Probably THE most superehero-y superhero film ever. Watching the Future X-Men working together against the sentinals was like reading a comic book action scene. This is why I love Brian Singer as an X-Director - he gets it. (Why he doesn't get Superman I'll never know).

My only problem was that I stopped reading X-Men many years ago (I got sick of it when it had 7 different books and 6.6 fucktillioan mutant characters). So I didn't know who Blink and Bishop were. I didn't realize flame-thrower guy was Havock, because Havock didn't throw flames in the comics. I was glad to see Colossus, but wondered why a 70s/80s core team member was barely a background cameo, and I had a big over kitty projecting minds thru time.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, I loved it!

Ellen Page, IMHO, is the perfect casting for Kitty, btw. As perfect at Huge Actman is for Wolvie.

 

^ Right, I stopped reading a while back, but Wanda's hiccup in 'House of M' storyline denuded the mutant population to 1% (or .1 or .00001%) of its original size. So has that reduction in the vast swathe of mutant population since changed again, and they number back in the millions of mutants?

 

Beats me. Did new mutants continue appearing after she de-mutated the existing population?

 

That was undone, and the mutants are all back.

EDIT:
Nah, that's too long, basically, Scarlett Witch and this other magic chick said "no more Phoenix", and that fixed it somehow.

 

Heh, thanks. Chick needs to cut down a bit on the caffeine. I was current through WWHulk, watched vid through 10 min summary of A vs X. Hm, uh, so Hope is new Phoenix, Cyclops and Emma are like gods, they still find a way to shoehorn Spidey with power-scale score of maybe a 6 into a mega role. Interesting 7 or so years. Hey, 'member that time when Thing fought Namor?

Sure, but they'd have to procreate like one of those tiny worlds that operates at really fast speed to make so many mutant babies over the course of a generation. Anyway, as our resident expert Dicky pointed out: reset to a large extent, and they've found new ways to keep things as confusing as possible.