X-Men: Days of Future past

[Quasar]

[Dalty]

Makes me want to go grab my BluRay of First Class and refresh my memory.

[neglet]

Drooooooooool.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I saw a lot of people whining about this trailer when it first showed up, but I liked it.

[Quasar]

[Dalty]

The ghost of Steve Jobs says I am too foreign to enjoy that.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

[Dalty]

I can wait.

[omicron]

I am definitely interested. I am not a huge X-Men fan, but I like the combination of the First Class and the other X-Men series into one movie.

[Dalty]

I still have nerves that Vaughn isn't directing.

[Corporal_Hicks]

It is kind of alarming that Singer has been living/working off the goodwill of The Usual Suspects for almost 20 years now.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It really is. I liked X2 and about 3/4 of Superman Returns. Didn't care for Valkyrie. Haven even bothered with his beanstalk movie. I guess I liked the House episodes he directed. I remember thinking Apt Pupil wasn't really good or bad. It was just there. McKellen's good in it.

Scorsese doesn't have to market his movies with a "From the Director of Taxi Driver" line.

On the whole, I guess Singer's output has been better than Shyamalan's. There's a guy who has *really* been working off the goodwill of his early career as a director.

[Corporal_Hicks]

I was going to mention Shymalan, but now at you list Singer's work(s) I kind of think I prefer Shymalan's good ones over Singer's.

I really, really like Unbreakable and Signs. I've only seen The 6th Sense once and I thought it was good, not great.

None of those are The Usual Suspects, but in retrospect is X2 really *that* good?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It doesn't have as much replay value as I thought it would the first time I saw it. I still like a lot of it. It feels like a bigger world than the first one. The third one also felt pretty small. Every scene felt to me like it was filmed on a studio set.

The thing The Sixth Sense has going for it is solid kid acting. It's a rarity. Also, Willis is a co-lead. He works best when he's a co-lead or in the supporting cast. He hits the right notes, and he doesn't default to smirk mode.

I like Unbreakable, but I haven't seen it since I saw it in the theater. I like Signs right up until the last act. It's pretty dumb. It betrays the rest of the movie that came before it. The CG bad guy, the water allergy, the regaining of faith: all these things are bad. The thing that annoys me the most, though, is the "His lungs were closed!" bit. I'm not sure Shyamalan knows how asthma works. I'm a lifelong sufferer. I've been hospitalized for it a couple times. The whole bit rubbed me the wrong way.

[Dalty]

I hear that can bring on asthma.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Pretty much everything can bring on asthma.

[Dalty]

Laziness?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

You bet your note-smoking ass that laziness can bring on asthma.

[Dalty]

Saw the MTV clip of the opening. Pretty cool looking.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Here's this:

http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/04/27/x- ... d-sibling/

[omicron]

Was wondering how they were going to deal with QS in both movies.
That must have been a fun lawyer session on getting to decide who and what can be mentioned in regards to QS and SW...

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It's unclear if Fox'll be using the father/son connection between Magneto and Quicksilver. If they aren't going to, I don't know why they even bother with using the character. That's a big part of what makes him interesting.

I think the article's writer more or less said the same thing.

[Dalty]

I heard that the movie wasn't all that, and that secret last minute re-shoots are underway pretty intensively.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Don't you hear that about every movie?

[Dalty]

I think "It can't possibly be all that!" about a lot of movies, and am happy to be proved wrong.

This I heard from somebody. Then I heard it repeated on the quiet when discussing Singer's bigger current woes.