This post makes little sense, sorry.

[st_aurafina]

We're home from seeing X-Men: Days of Future Past, and all you can hear in the house is the tappity tap of keys. We stepped in the door, and I said "To the internet!" Actually, I took a nap. But lilacsigil was sitting in the dark tapping away when I got up.

I am having all kinds of nostalgia for the years I've been in this fandom, the movies that have come and gone, the friends I've made as the canon expanded and expanded, and it's really lovely. Sloppy and emotional hugs for everyone, okay?


OMG THIS WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER! THIS MOVIE HAD EVERYTHING! THIS MOVIE WAS EVERYTHING I WANT IN AN X-MEN MOVIE!

I have a lot of feelings! I am not feeling particularly critical right now. I'm sure there will be things I won't like on later viewings but right now everything is happy fangirl and nothing hurts. I cried in the cinema which was totally unexpected - first I welled up a little, then I cried, and by the end it was ugly crying with snot everywhere, and it was for reasons totally fannish.

- Raven! The whole movie turned around her, and her decisions, and there was no romance (as such, apart from mild allusions), just her and her own identity and the way it changed, and it was about family and ethics and trust and everything was beautiful and can we have Irene one of these days please omg? I loved her played by Rebecca Romijn, I love her played by Jennifer Lawrence, and I am so happy. So happy.

- Charles, you big nonce. It's actually my RP headcanon that opioids shut down telepathy, so I didn't even really need the handwavy not!heroin storyline, though I liked how it worked in with Hank's storyline and how he's still trying so hard to fit in, despite his amazing blue sideburns when he was in his Beast form. Anyway, Charles! You big nonce! James Macavoy is just so good. I lost my shit when he was talking to his older self. All snot and blubbering.

- I am so glad that Kitty got to be heroic and noble and brave, bleeding into a bucket and keeping Wolverine in the past. I was sad when I heard she wasn't the one going back in time, and more than a little narked that it would be the ever-present Wolverine who was going back instead, but Hugh Jackman dialled things back a notch and as is always the case, Wolverine works best in an ensemble.

- Can we talk about the bong? The bong that appeared in the future not so cunningly disguised as a vase? The Professor sits there solemnly while the students look and look away and desperately try not to think "Was that a bong? Does the Professor even know what a bong is?"

- I was not prepared for how much I enjoyed Peter Maximoff's storyline, but wow! Evan Peters was great - droll and hyperactive in turns, and the scene in the Pentagon kitchen was amazing. I like andraste's theory that he ages faster than his sister. I liked the casual mention that his mother knew a guy who could manipulate metal.

- The thing I enjoy about Bryan Singer's X-Men movies is that we see people using their powers in interesting ways - Peter vibrating the glass in Erik's cell, Blink and the way her team used her portals so smoothly in combat, Erik threading metal through the Sentinels so he can walk them like puppets. I liked that there was no explanation for Kitty's new abilities - makes me want to write about how she figured it out, which was probably by working it all out using high-order physics and suppositions that being able to phase through matter probably has stuff to do with tachyons and other theoretical particles. Because Kitty is smart.

- the apocalyptic future was perfect and all the cameos were perfect and the Sentinels were horrifying. I had been worried because comics!verse Sentinels aren't all that scary, but even the clunky seventies Sentinels were well done. The future ones were just awful - Sarah Connor Chronicles-awful.

- Erik really can't change, can he? Or at least, he changes very slowly - it was totally in character for him to do the stupid, megalomaniacal things he did in this movie. But it made me sad to see that Charles can change, Logan and Raven can change, but Erik is just left behind. It's going to change the way I see him in the earlier movies now.

- Peter Dinklage was all kinds of amazeballs. I hope he gets cast in everything. He did so much with Trask, and his Mystique as Trask was all kinds of heartbreaking.

- When Logan woke up in the new future, I was a wibbling mess. Then there was Jean, and I think I was sobbing outright. And then there was Scott, and my OT3 was alive and omg, they're all going to fall into bed together tonight and Scott is going to be all cranky because he doesn't know why Logan is being weird and Jean is going to know why but not understand it but be happy for Logan anyway and Logan is going to be all blissed out on how they smell and how long it's been and everything is beautiful right now in my head canon. *still wibbling hours on*

- um.

- I'm actually pretty tired despite the nap.

- Going to read other people's thoughts more now. Not in a weird telepathic way, though that would be cool.

ETA things I remembered last night:

- The hover chair right at the start! And then it was Erik levitating it!

- How much I was bawling in the final battle in the future as each person in the room grimly got up one at a time and left to fight the Sentinels. It was so quiet and desperate and brave and waaaaaaaaah.

- Apparently there was also a giant spliff on the ashtray next to Raven's photograph. I am going to look out for it next Wednesday when we go for a rewatch.

- It occurs to me that Alex is of an age to be Scott's dad. This is troubling and intriguing at the same time.

- SCOTT! SCOTT! SCOTT/JEAN/LOGAN!!!




For future reference, and because the release of the movie is all over the place, I've collected a bunch of review posts here:

lilacsigil: here.

andraste: here.

selenak: here.

sineala: here.


OMG, I can use my X-Men icons again. And my X-Men tag. And there's an uptick in kudos, because people are reading more X-Men fic. comicstore_news is full and plump like a happy chicken. And, and, and!

Comments

[lilacsigil]

BABY CHARLES ICON ♥

I'm going to use my Magneto icon just because he was so, so wrong in this movie. The wrongest.

Also, damn your happy OT3, it made me cry again and my nose is already sore.

[st_aurafina]

Crying and crying and crying and crying!

[lonelywalker]

Charles! You big nonce!
Indeed!

I love that idea about Peter aging faster. (Why is he Peter? We already have a Peter! Stop Anglicising everything, TPTB!)

THERE WAS A BONG???

Kitty was so incredibly badass. And Blink's powers were amazing onscreen, used so well. A++ TEAM.

[st_aurafina]

I don't know why he's Peter! It's a terrible idea.

There was a bong! Or at least, I think it was a bong? Apparently there is also a giant spliff on the ashtray next to Raven's photo, but I missed that the first time around.

[retsuko]

I'm seeing it tonight and so not actually reading your spoilers, but YAY I'm glad it's good and can't wait to chat about it after! XD

[st_aurafina]

I hope you enjoyed it, if you got to see it!!

[ruuger]

I already saw it last week, but my reaction post is still languising in my drafts because I keep getting all wibbly about the movie's endig every time I try to write the post. I should probably finish it...

The thing I enjoy about Bryan Singer's X-Men movies is that we see people using their powers in interesting ways

Yes, this. My issue with a lot of the recent comic book movies has been that the fights are really boring, because it's basically just characters hitting at each other in different ways (or throwing large things at each other), but the fight scenes here were all different, and all characters behaved differently in them.

they're all going to fall into bed together tonight and Scott is going to be all cranky because he doesn't know why Logan is being weird and Jean is going to know why but not understand it but be happy for Logan anyway and Logan is going to be all blissed out on how they smell and how long it's been and everything is beautiful

SOMEONE MUST WRITE THIS!

[andraste]

I'm not sure mine was a review so much as documentation of all the things that caused me to make squeaking noises/cry during the film *g*\

I am having all kinds of nostalgia for the years I've been in this fandom, the movies that have come and gone, the friends I've made as the canon expanded and expanded, and it's really lovely. Sloppy and emotional hugs for everyone, okay?

Yes, this. I love that every few years when a new film is released, we all seem to circle back around to this fandom and squee in unison. (Well, if it's any good. And this one was the BESTEST EVER OMG.)

The bong that appeared in the future not so cunningly disguised as a vase?

HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT?!

The Professor sits there solemnly while the students look and look away and desperately try not to think "Was that a bong? Does the Professor even know what a bong is?"

I imagine that any future student caught with drugs gets a long, gentle talk from the Professor about how this is not the best way to deal with your problems. Meanwhile, the rest of the staff think he is too lenient about this kind of thing and Hank conspicuously does not say anything at all.

I was not prepared for how much I enjoyed Peter Maximoff's storyline, but wow! Evan Peters was great - droll and hyperactive in turns, and the scene in the Pentagon kitchen was amazing.

I just love the way everyone is freaking out - understandably, since Erik + kitchen full of sharp things + guards with plastic bullets is likely to be a mess all around - and he just casually solves their problem with as much slapstick as possible.

The thing I enjoy about Bryan Singer's X-Men movies is that we see people using their powers in interesting ways - Peter vibrating the glass in Erik's cell, Blink and the way her team used her portals so smoothly in combat, Erik threading metal through the Sentinels so he can walk them like puppets.

I love that they are smart about their powers - and smart about other people's powers as well. (Full marks to Logan for figuring out that Charles should be able to talk to himself in the future telepathically.)

Peter Dinklage was all kinds of amazeballs. I hope he gets cast in everything. He did so much with Trask, and his Mystique as Trask was all kinds of heartbreaking.

I cannot believe I forgot to squee about Peter Dinklage in my post, because yes.

It occurs to me that Alex is of an age to be Scott's dad. This is troubling and intriguing at the same time.

If we take the first Wolverine film into account, the timeline actually makes a heck of a lot more sense that way. (Insofar as anything that involves the timeline and the first Wolverine film makes any damn sense. Which it does not.)

[redcirce]

Yay at this movie! I was very pleasantly surprised as the last X-Men entry I saw was X3. (Though the last Wolverine movie was pretty good) IA that that kitchen scene was amazing! I was a bit skeptical about why they chose Pietro but the scene was super good. And I was also sad that Kitty wasn't the one going back, though I wasn't surprised they did it the way they did. I wasn't as jazzed about Kitty's new powers not being explained, because I found it distracting that they just plopped it in and there's no real connection between phasing and time travel.

I also know it doesn't fit the themes of the movie but I would like to see Irene with Mystique at some point.

(Also I was really happy to see Bishop, and Sunspot, though I was desperately hoping for Rachel Summers...)

[realpestilence]

Your review was what made me risk going to see this movie-I'd had serious reservations from the previews, with their "Wolverine saves the world via his awesome" angle. But he was thankfully not as centric as it looked like, and he was actually fairly mature in this movie, who'd have thought? I like the character well enough, but not when other characters' storylines I like better get sacrificed to his awesomeness.

I read some reviews and wonder what movie they saw.