Sentinels, robots that were created for the purpose of hunting down mutants were released in 1973. 50 years later the Sentinels would also hunt humans who aid mutants. Charles Xavier and his X-Men try their best to deal with the Sentinels but they are able to adapt and deal with all mutant abilities. Charles decides to go back in time and change things. He asks Kitty Pryde who can send a person's consciousness into the person's past to send him but she can only send someone back a few weeks because if she sends someone back further it could harm them. So Logan decides to go back himself because he might be able to withstand it. So Charles tells him that it's Mystique who's responsible because when she learned about the Sentinels she sought out Bolivar Trask the man who created them and killed him. She would be caught and studied and her ability to change was somehow added to the Sentinels which is why they can adapt. Logan must go to the younger Charles and ask him to help; problem is... Written by

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Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier recounts how humans created sentinels to hunt and kill mutants. While they at first only hunted mutants, they later began targeting humans who held a probability of becoming mutants. The resulting events have created an apocalyptic wasteland in which only a handful of mutants have survived, facing extinction should they be found by the sentinels.

Three strange objects are ejected from a large airship and crash to the ground. Warpath realizes that the sentinels have found them and leaves with Blink to warn the others, including Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop, Iceman, and Kitty Pryde. Bishop immediately requests that Sunspot give him some energy in the form of fire, which he absorbs and channels into his advanced rifle. Bishop takes off with Kitty Pryde as the others form a ring of defense against the invading sentinels. The sentinels drill into the mutant's base, their bodies having the ability to rearrange into different forms and tools. They break through and Sunspot engages the first, drenching it in flames. Colossus engages the second, getting knocked to the ground by the towering sentinel. Warpath tries to help but is knocked away. The third sentinel intercepts Bishop and Kitty. Bishop fires a large energy blast at the sentinel, barely affecting it. Blink appears via the use of her portals and makes an exit for the two fleeing mutants. She then opens up a portal for Iceman to assist against their foe. Iceman uses his ice slide to outmaneuver the pursuing sentinel, encasing it in a thick wall of ice. Kitty and Bishop arrive at a safe room, where Kitty has Bishop lie on a table. She puts her hands around his head as he loses consciousness.

Meanwhile, the sentinels are getting the upper hand in the fight. When Colossus throws a punch that is caught by a sentinel, Colossus' metal skin begins to form over the sentinel as well. It becomes clear that the sentinels are able to absorb and replicate mutant powers. Both Colossus and Warpath are killed by the sentinel they are fighting. The sentinel fighting Sunspot begins to form a protective cocoon of ice around itself, using the powers of Iceman. It breaks through the gout of flames keeping it at bay and strangles Sunspot to death. Subsequently, the sentinel fighting iceman encases itself in fire to melt itself free from the ice, using the powers of Sunspot. It breaks through the ice and grabs Iceman by the neck. Iceman's frozen head slides across the floor and the sentinel steps on it. The sentinels proceed to melt down the door to the room Kitty and Bishop are hiding in. But as they enter, Kitty says "Too late, assholes!" Just before the sentinels can kill the two, everyone in the scene disappears.

The remaining future mutants, Wolverine/Logan, Storm, Professor X/ Charles Xavier, and Magneto/Erik Lensherr, disembark from their jet to greet the group of mutants that we just saw die and subsequently disappear. It is revealed that Kitty Pryde's mutation has evolved to allow her to send someone's consciousness back through time. During the sentinel assault in the previous scene, Bishop's consciousness was sent back through time to his younger body. He warned the others of the impending sentinel assault so they could leave before the sentinels ever arrived. Bishop and Kitty disappeared from the opening sequence because that reality had been erased and the time line altered. Kitty explains to the four arrivals that they have done this many times before. Each time the sentinels attack: Warpath spots them, the mutants make a line of defense to buy some time, Kitty sends Bishop back through time with the warning of the attack, and the mutants of the past flee before the attack can ever take place.

Professor Xavier then exclaims that he is aware and has come up with a plan to send his own consciousness back through time to the point when the sentinels were first unleashed. We learn that in 1973, Mystique assassinated Bolivar Trask, the creator of the sentinel program. This murder spurred the humans to further the sentinel program. Mystique is later captured and it is through the study of her DNA that the sentinels of the future are born. Her unique DNA allows the sentinels to adapt mutant powers for their own use. Professor Xavier plans to go back in time to stop the assassination of Bolivar Trask and in turn, prevent the anti-mutant tide that leads to the creation of the sentinels. Kitty says, however, that she can only send someone back a couple of weeks or a month into the past, not decades. She warns that the mind can only be stretched so far without breaking. Wolverine volunteers to go back, his healing ability allowing him to survive the procedure. He must go to the past and convince a broken Charles Xavier to take up arms and work with the man that he hates, Erik Lehnsherr. It is only together that they can find Mystique and prevent her from assassinating Trask. Kitty carries out the procedure, warning Logan that while his consciousness is in the past, his body will stay in the future. Only when his consciousness returns from the past will the timeline change. His mind staying in the past is contingent upon his body existing in the future and Kitty remaining at his side. Logan will have a limited amount of time before they are found by the sentinels of the future; he must complete his mission before then or all will be lost.

Logan wakes up and finds himself in bed with a woman. He looks outside and realizes that the procedure has worked; it is 1973. Seconds later, three thugs burst through the door as Logan is getting dressed. Apparently, he was supposed to be guarding the someone's daughter instead of sleeping with her. He asks if they would believe that he was from the future at which they scoff. He extends his bone claws and the henchmen pull out guns and begin shooting him. He heals from his wounds and proceeds to take out the men, stealing their car.

The next scenes introduces us to Bolivar Trask, who is trying to convince members of Congress to fund his sentinel program. He tries to convince the panel that mutants are a threat to humanity. The committee does not share the Trask's belief,, stating that if mutants have been among humankind for some time now, they have existed peacefully alongside their fellow humans. They decide to not provide the funding.

In a US military camp in Vietnam, a high-ranking army officer walks into a segregated tent to find a man named William Stryker preparing to take a group of mutants into custody. The army officer says that these men are going home. Stryker flashes around a document claiming to be part of a special outfit who is transferring the mutants to a Trask Industries facility, informing the army officer that he doesn't have jurisdiction. The officer counters that he does, transforming into the shape-shifter Mystique. She begins to take out all of the men in tent in hand-to -and combat with some assistance from the mutants. Before she can kill Stryker, one of the mutants intervenes and knocks Stryker unconscious. This mutant is Havok from the previous film in the series and he asks about the whereabouts of Magneto. Mystique responds that she's on her own now. The mutants board a plane home while Mystique walks away in disguise, claiming that there is still work to be done.

Logan drives up to the dilapidated and overgrown Xavier mansion. Hank, also known as Beast, answers the door in his human form. Logan asks to see Charles but is rebuffed by Hank. He forces his way in, exclaims that he and Hank will be good friends in the future, and punches Hank right in the face. Blue fur appears on Hank as he transforms into the Beast. He begins to throw Logan around, giving him a good beating before being stopped by Charles. Despite being paralyzed by a bullet to his spine, he's walking around normally. Logan pleads his case to Charles only to be ridiculed by the drunken and disheveled young man. Logan asks Charles to read his mind, but Charles can't. Beast/Hank explains that he developed a serum to control his mutation and keep his beast form at bay. From this, he then developed a serum to cure Xavier's paralysis. A side effect of taking the drug, however, left Charles unable to use his mutant ability to read and control minds. Logan is able to convince him nonetheless, after revealing secrets of Xavier's past that he had never told anybody. Charles refuses to help Logan and it is clear that he is a broken man, depressed and filled with the guilt of losing his friends, students, and most of all losing Raven/Mystique. Eventually, he agrees to assist Logan for the sake of Raven herself. One problem still exists: they need to enlist the help of Magneto, whom Charles absolutely loathes. Magneto is being kept underneath tons of concrete in a prison at the Pentagon, having already served 10 years in prison for the alleged killing of John F. Kennedy.

We cut to Mystique disguising herself as Bolivar Trask to gain entrance to his personal office. She pores through documents and discovers that Trask has been experimenting on mutants and killing them. She pulls a file regarding an event at which Trask will be present with members of the Vietnamese government and asks Trask's secretary to type up his itinerary.

To break Magneto out of prison, the group enlists the help of Pietro Maximoff/ Quicksilver. He uses his ability of ultrafast movement to almost instantly do whatever he chooses. The group arrives at the Pentagon and Hank uses a piece of equipment to interfere with the surveillance cameras. Quicksilver steals a guard's uniform and makes his way to Magneto's prison, where he vibrates his hands at a resonant frequency of the glass ceiling to shatter it. The two make their way to a kitchen when they confront Logan and Charles. Charles punches Erik the moment he sees him with Erik commenting that it was nice to see him. Just then guards burst through the door and draw their weapons. Erik asks Charles to use his powers to stop the men but Charles replies that he can't. The guards open fire and Erik readies to kill them, ignoring Charles' pleas for him not to kill the guards. Before anything can happen, we experience a scene from the perspective of Quicksilver with time almost standing still. He uses his enhanced speed to comically knock out the guards and redirect the bullets in flight.

Charles, Erik, Hank, and Logan are aboard a plane en route to Paris to stop Raven from assassinating Trask. Things get heated between Charles and Erik as Charles accuses Erik of taking the things that were most precious away from him. Erik in turn asks where Charles was when they came for Angel, Banshee, Azazel, and Emma Frost. He shouts that they were taken, experimented on and killed and that both he and Charles were supposed to protect them. (It is implied that Trask was responsible.) During this heated exchange, Erik almost causes the plane to crash before calming down.

In a French nightclub, Mystique seduces a Vietnamese army official whom she plans to impersonate to get to Trask.

Back on the plane, Erik says that he was not the one who killed JFK. He claims that he was trying to save him, his reasoning being that JFK was a fellow mutant. Erik apologizes to Charles about how things have played out during the last decade and the two begin to play chess.

Trask enters a conference room full of officials of various governments and tries to convince them of the threat posed by mutants. He is trying to get funding for his sentinel program since the US government has rejected him. During the presentation, he demonstrates how his robots are made without one ounce of metal and goes on to describe how they have the builtin capability of discerning mutants from non mutants. He pulls out a hand-held detector that can sense the Mutant X gene in people; it begins to go off. Mystique's cover has been blown -- she has disguised herself as the Vietnamese officer she seduced -- and she begins to take out many of the men in the room. Enter Logan, Charles, and Erik, who stop Mystique just before she can shoot Trask. Charles tries to explain everything to Mystique and persuade her to drop the gun. She is defiant and Erik strips the gun from her. He then does the unthinkable and aims it at her. She is a threat to all mutants because her DNA can lead to the creation of the sentinels of the future. Erik believes that it is too risky for her to remain alive. Raven pleads with Charles to use his powers to stop Erik, unaware that he is powerless. Meanwhile, upon seeing Stryker who was also at the meeting, Logan begins to lose himself emotionally as he has flashback to the experiments performed on him during the Weapon X Program; he falls into a sort of coma as his connection between future and past is disrupted. His body in the future thrashes and extends its claws, injuring Kitty Pryde, who struggles to reconnect the link through time. Logan comes to in Paris, doesn't recognize anyone or know where he is, and is told by Charles that someone gave him some bad acid. He passes out again.

Hank tackles Erik but fails to stop him from firing the gun. Mystique jumps out the window but Erik is able to guide the bullet to follow her; it hits her in the leg. Outside, crowds of people with cameras capture a wounded Mystique running away. They witness as Magneto levitates outside and drags Mystique to him, the bullet still stuck in her leg. He pulls the bullet from her body, ready to finish her off with it when a transformed Beast attacks him. Onlookers watch in horror as Beast strangles Magneto underwater. Mystique uses this time to escape the area and seek medical treatment. Magneto restrains Beast using some metal ornaments from the fountain and makes an escape as well. Logan regains consciousness -- memories intact this time -- and he and Charles rendezvous with Hank and leave for the mansion to plan their next move.

The media is now in a panic because of the footage of mutants creating mayhem in public. In a tense, crowded Oval Office meeting, Richard Nixon gives Trask the green light to proceed with his sentinel program. Trask says that he can have eight sentinels operational soon. Nixon want to hold a press conference to unveil the sentinels and reassure the American public that he can protect them from the mutant threat.

In a crowded Metro station, Mystique ambushes Magneto, pressing a knife to his throat. He claims that he no longer wants to kill her. He notes that their previous encounter left Mystique's blood on the pavement, which Trask has undoubtedly already obtained. They go their separate ways.

Upon entering the mansion, Charles' legs give way and he falls to the ground and starts hearing people's thoughts. Hank rushes to get him his serum. Charles says that he doesn't take the serum to walk, he takes it to stop the voices he keeps hearing. He is tired of having to feel and hear all of the pain that mutants and humans are experiencing. Logan convinces Charles to not take the serum, exclaiming that he needs the professor to have his powers; it's the only way to find Raven before she can make another attempt to kill Trask. They proceed to use cerebro to try and locate Raven but Charles is overwhelmed by all the noise he has been keeping out for the past 10 years. Logan pleads with Charles to try and read his mind. He does so and sees all of the pain and trauma that Logan has experienced through his lifetime. He sees glimpses of the future and has a telepathic conversation with his future self. His future self reassures Charles that there will always be pain but that it is his gift to use that pain to help others. He shows a younger Charles images of what he will accomplish and how he will use his power to bring hope to others in their most dire times. This is just what Charles needed to bring him focus. He tries locating Mystique again

Back at a Trask facility, a preliminary analysis of Mystique's blood holds promise for Trask who demands that she be captured. They will need to harvest her brain tissue, spinal fluid, and bone marrow. Outside, the Mark I sentinels are loaded aboard a train for their trip to Washington DC; Magneto sneaks aboard the train before it departs. While in motion, Magneto rips the metal from the tracks as they pass over them. He manipulates the metal into small strands which he feeds throughout the metal-less bodies of the sentinels.

At an airport, Charles uses random people as avatars to urge Mystique to stop her mission. Charles is not yet strong enough to mentally stop Mystique as she resists his mental probes. He fails to stop her and he, along with Hank and Logan, depart for Washington DC for the press conference.

Magneto enters a secure facility holding two large ball bearings. He uses the bearings to incapacitate three guards and opens a vault. In the vault we see several artifacts: Havok's X-Men suit, one of Angel's wings, and Magneto's helmet. He is here for the helmet, which he takes.

Cut to the future, where Kitty is losing a lot of blood. Standing guard outside, Warpath spots multiple sentinel ships heading their way. The mutants make their preparations for a final defense; Kitty, Iceman, Professor X, and Wolverine shelter inside while the others guard outside.

Back in the past, Magneto levitates a sports stadium and moves it towards the press event on the White House lawn at which President Nixon will present Trask's sentinels. Hank, Logan, and Charles are there amongst the crowd trying to find Mystique. Nixon addresses the nation and drops the curtains, unveiling the sentinels to the public to much applause. Charles finally spots Mystique impersonating a secret serviceman and freezes her in place before she can pull her gun. Charles has a conversation with her telepathically, trying to persuade her that she was not always so quick to kill and that the Raven that he knew was incapable of doing so. All of a sudden the sentinels roar to life to the shock of Trask and the others. They fire at the police cars and it is apparent that Magneto is controlling them. Trask, Nixon, and other VIPs flee to an underground bunker.

Simultaneously, the battle in the future is erupting as well. Storm uses lightning and wind to crash some of the sentinel transporters. Bishop shoots his rifle through portals created by Blink to take out a few sentinels. Magneto takes the X-Jet and modifies in into an explosive, using Storm to charge it with a bolt of lightning. It explodes sending shrapnel everywhere, decimating much of the sentinel force. Magneto is wounded in the resulting explosion by a piece of shrapnel in his abdomen. The mutants take a sigh of relief, believing the battle to be over. It is not, however, and a sentinel sneaks up behind Storm, stabbing her and throwing her off a cliff as more sentinels flood the mutant stronghold.

In the past, Magneto arrives at the press event and drops the stadium around it. He has created a concrete barrier around the White House to prevent any escape. Charles is pinned by debris in the chaos. Magneto posts seven of the sentinels atop the stadium walls to guard the perimeter and leaves one to engage Wolverine and Beast, ordering the sentinel to do what it was designed to do. The sentinel identifies the two as mutants and attacks. Wolverine is unable to inflict any damage against the sentinel with his bone claws and merely distracts it long enough for Beast to jump on its back and rip out its circuitry. While this is going on we see that Nixon, Trask and company are locked securely in their bunker. Trask's mutant detector begins to go off. Before anything can happen, the room begins to shake; Magneto is ripping the safe room from its foundation.

In the future, the mutants are dying one by one. Colossus is killed by being ripped in half by multiple sentinels. Bishop is bombarded by three of them with energy beams, overcharging him until he explodes. Warpath is killed after a sentinel grabs him, slowly moving the mutant's face into the path of its energy beam. One sentinel forms diamond skin like that of Emma Frost to overcome Sunspot's flames and cuts off one of his arms. He fights back but is flanked by another sentinel who stabs him with claws that resemble Lady Deathstrike's. Magneto, realizing the end is near, uses the last of his strength to apply metal reinforcements to the entrance of the building. Before the sentinels can kill him, Blink transports him inside. As the last line of defense outside, Blink puts up a valiant effort to hold the sentinels at bay but is stabbed by many of them. The sentinels then begin breaking through Magneto's barrier and Iceman leaves to reinforce it with ice.

In the past, Wolverine charges at Magneto. In defense, Magneto hurls debris at Wolverine and stops his assault with a large block of concrete to the back. He then proceeds to force rebar all throughout Wolverine's body, lifting him in the air and throwing him hundred of meters into the Potomac River, where he apparently drowns. Beast is thrown from the back of the sentinel into a wrecked car. Magneto has now fully excavated the metal safe room and ripped off its door. He aims news cameras at himself and addresses the world. He explains that the sentinels were created out of fear for how dangerous mutants could be. He says that they should be scared and proclaims that a new order will be established with mutants in control, threatening to kill everyone in the safe room. Nixon emerges from the safe room, urging Magneto to kill him if he wants but to let the rest of the people go. "Nixon" is actually Mystique in disguise with a gun behind her back. The sentinel targeting Beast rips through the car and is ready to finish him off but Beast is able to inject himself with his serum in time to change back into normal. The sentinel thinks Hank isn't a mutant anymore and proceeds to find new targets, Magneto and Mystique are in its sights. The sentinel charges and Magneto begins tearing the robot limb from limb. Mystique uses this moment an takes a shot at Magneto with the metal-less gun. He is hit non-fatally in the neck causing him to lose focus. She is able to knock him out during his brief moment of weakness and remove his helmet. Charles uses his power to pacify Magneto and it is obvious he has lost. Attention now turns to Mystique who is aiming her gun at Trask saying that he is a monster for the cruel things he has done to her friends. Xavier stops her and makes one final plea to Mystique, saying that he has hope that she will do the right thing. He points out that right now she is a hero in the public eye. He relinquishes control over her, saying that the future is in her hands now.

In the future, the sentinels have breached the room and killed Iceman with energy beams. They confront the last of the survivors and fire killing shots at the group, which includes Xavier, Kitty, and the still unconscious Logan. Just before the shots can reach them, everyone on screen disappears. Mystique has dropped the gun in the past and decided not to kill Trask. Magneto remarks that if he is turned in, they will kill him. Xavier agrees and releases control of him, allowing Magneto to levitate and flee. Newspapers run headlines saying that a mutant saved the president, that the sentinel program was being shut down, and that Trask was being indicted for treason.

Flash to the future where Logan is waking up at the mansion. He hears schoolchildren outside and realizes that the plan worked. He is surprised to see Storm, Iceman, Rogue, and Beast all alive. He encounters Jean Gray. He is awestruck that she is real and doesn't understand why she is alive. Scott Summers appears and is dumbfounded by Logan's happiness at seeing them all. Logan sees Xavier and tells him it worked. Xavier welcomes him back and begins to explain what has happened in the years from 1973 to the future that Logan has missed.

In a voice-over, Xavier explains that events can cause ripples through the river of time and when enough ripples are created, the flow of the river can be changed. Back in the past we see that Logan's body was recovered by military personel. He comes back to life aboard the boat with an army official asking William Stryker what he would like to do with him. Stryker replies that he will take him. As the scene cuts away we see that it is actually Mystique disguised as Stryker.

In a post-credits scene, a skinny bluish mutant, robed and hooded, stands atop a structure. Hundreds of people are bowing to him and chanting his name -- En Sabah Nur -- as he uses his powers to levitate ancient pyramids into place. We see four people on horseback covered in black as the scene fades to black: Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen.

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I must admit, the trailers didn't have me convinced - and after the sour taste 'Jack the Giant Slayer' left in my mouth, I was sceptic. I really dug Matthew Vaughn's approach with 'First Class' (who had a tough task rebooting the franchise after the lacklustre 'Last Stand' and the generic, dull 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine') and I wouldn't have minded him returning at all. But as it turns out, Bryan Singer (yes, I dare speak his name) still has a few tricks up his sleeve. For its sheer scale and epic storytelling alone, 'Days of Future Past' is fantastic.

It's a shame there's so much controversy surrounding this film, but I guess whoever chooses to deprive himself willingly of such a pleasure must be fully aware that he does so at his own expense. Because this is the kind of film that made me fall in love with movies in the first place.

Yet (despite my 10-star review), it's not perfect. And it's not 'The Usual Suspects' with mutants - how could it be; this is simply not that kind of film. But I have to say that pretty much my only gripe with this movie is that it has too many characters and that some of them don't get enough screen time (or actually, there's not too many characters: there's just too many great actors playing those characters � but then again, that's half of the fun). Of all the X-men films, this has the most complex plot � and also the most interesting. Different time-lines are tricky to do and can be rather hard to follow, but thanks to a (very!) clever script with a great part for Logan, we never get lost. And that's the best news: sorely missed in the last instalment (except for a hilarious cameo), the franchise has Hugh Jackman back. And of him at least we do get to see a lot, since he really leads us through this film (giving his best Wolverine performance yet along the way). If Logan can be called the heart of the X-men, then Charles Xavier must be the mind while Magneto and Mystique provide the - slightly twisted - soul, and seeing them all together again brought a broad, stupid grin to my face (which only got broader whenever Quicksilver appeared on screen - for reasons you will have to find out for yourselves).

What really sets the X-men films apart from the ever more derivative comic-book adaptations � at least as far as I'm concerned � is that I always genuinely cared for the characters, and 'Days of Future Past' is no exception. I love loud, spectacular action movies as much as the next guy, but if I don't get to care for the protagonists � what's the point? The reason I gave this 10 stars, and what is so exceptional these days, is that what we get here is a complex, smart Fantasy/Sci-Fi thrill-ride that respects its origins as much as it embraces the future, while never - ever - forgetting that its first job is to entertain the audience. For finding that perfect, rare balance between character-driven human drama and no-holds-barred popcorn action spectacle, 'Days of Future Past' deserves my 10-star rating (which is a first for me: I've never given 10-stars to a comic-book movie).

So my verdict: If you like to get your minds blown by something with true heart and soul, this massive 'mutant' of a film is upon you, and all you have to do is give in to the X-citement. Enjoy the ride.

Favorite Films: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls054200841/

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With its mind-boggling premise and jaw-dropping cast, X-Men: Days Of Future Past blasts into cinemas bearing the weight of great expectations. Surely this mash-up of X-Men past and future has the potential to be the best superhero blockbuster our world will ever see? Well, yes and no.

To be strictly objective, Days Of Future Past can occasionally come off as a little too earnest, its enormous cast of characters getting somewhat lost in the grinding of its narrative gears. But, when it works (which is most of the time), Days Of Future Past comes pretty darn close to nerdvana � this is a smart, rich film that effectively mines its source material (both the movies and Chris Claremont's classic 1981 storyline in the comic books) and its incredible cast for emotion, power and depth.

Flash forward to the bleakest of futures. X-Men we have known � led by perennial frenemies Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Erik Lensherr/Magneto (Ian McKellen) � are being hunted mercilessly by a horde of intelligent, death-mongering robots known as Sentinels. With little hope for survival, the desperate X-Men decide to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back in time to the 1970s. There, he must find the younger Charles (James McAvoy) and Erik (Michael Fassbender) � several years estranged after the traumatic events of X-Men: First Class � and get them to change the future before it can happen.

Sounds simple enough? Not really. Days Of Future Past frequently threatens to fall foul of its complicated puzzle-box of a narrative, one that involves time travel, quantum physics and a swirling mess of characters, action and motivations. There's Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), creator of the Sentinel programme, whose assassination in the past by Charles' pseudo-sister Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) brings about the dystopia of the future. There are prison breaks, astral projections, and several grisly mutant deaths. Truthfully, this incredibly ambitious mix of character, plot and spectacle could very easily go horribly wrong.

What's so impressive about director Bryan Singer's return to the franchise is how well he weaves all the disparate threads of his narrative together. This is emphatically not the Singer who gave us mediocre misfires like Superman Returns and Jack The Giant Slayer. Rather, this is the work of the Singer who made his mark with films like X1, X2 and The Usual Suspects, all of which featured a masterful blend of wit and wisdom, character and story.

In Days Of Future Past, Singer skilfully plays on the schism that opened up between Erik and Charles at the end of First Class to add welcome depths of emotion to the high stakes already in play. The deep, difficult relationship between the two men has always been the fulcrum of the series, and Singer allows it to breathe and grow. With the help of McAvoy and Fassbender (not to mention Stewart and McKellen), some of the best actors in the business, the director makes it possible to believe that resentment can give way to forgiveness, and vice versa, often in the blink of an eye. McAvoy, in particular, gives a shudderingly good performance as a man called upon to help others when he's lost his own way.

With such an enormous revolving cast of characters, Singer even manages to give many � though not all � of them their hearts and souls. (Alas, Storm/Ororo, we will never know ye!) Thrust into the unlikely role of mentor to the broken, heartsore Charles, Wolverine must find a different sort of strength and ingenuity within himself. Jackman plays the role beautifully, anchoring the two timelines with charm and gravitas. Though still something of an awkward fit for her part, Lawrence, too, plays Raven's dilemma very well, as she wavers between Charles' offer of hope and Erik's often bloody single-mindedness.

But Days Of Future Past doesn't just mire itself in the toss and tumble of its characters' emotional journeys. Singer throws in a few crackerjack action sequences, opening the film with a heart-stopping massacre that very effectively underscores the dire threat posed by the Sentinels of the future. Crucially, Singer also finds the time and space within the darkest shadows of his story to have a little fun, judiciously tossing quips and sight gags into the mix � particularly in a tour de force prison break sequence, in which the preternaturally speedy Pietro Maximoff (Evan Peters), better known to comic aficionados as Quicksilver, literally runs away with the entire show.

Make no mistake about it, this is a behemoth of a film that won't go down well with everybody. Newbies will almost certainly find themselves lost, bewildered, and perhaps even bored. Singer's tale sprawls in so many directions that, if you're not at least marginally invested in the characters, it could prove to be a trying experience.

But, for everyone else, ranging from casual fans to enthusiasts and obsessives, Singer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg have crafted something truly remarkable. Steeped in history and lore, both of the cinematic and comic-book variety, Days Of Future Past feels like a dark love letter to the spirit of that original band of mutants and the message of hope, tolerance and humanity that has always accompanied their attempts to find their place on Earth.

Most remarkably of all, Days Of Future Past practically radiates a bravery and freshness that you'd never expect from the seventh film in a blockbuster franchise. Instead of playing it safe and sound, Days Of Future Past mashes up past, present and future, sweeping up a lot of what has been taken for granted in the X-Men cinematic universe and, well, chucking it out of the proverbial window. The ending of this film truly opens up an intriguing plethora of narrative possibilities that stretch in any and all directions. On the strength of this outing, that's something to be anticipated, rather than feared.

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I was so intrigued about this movie. I had a terrible feeling of disappointment because First Class was absolutely fine and riveting. That one was even better than X-Men 2 (the last one directed by Brian Singer before this). So I tried to went to see this with low expectation. And what a wonderful entertainment and surprising thoughtful story I found here. Days Of Future Past is the best X-men movie so far for two main reasons:

Fans of the original trilogy and First Class will definitely enjoy this one thanking its nostalgia and its perfect and well balanced mix between the original characters and the new ones (with just a few ones who maybe deserved more credit, but is not at all a problem for the movie). & This movie delivers a surprising top notch entertaining with a potent story and some good twists that help to live up expectations mixed with terrific special effects and cinematography. 3-D is very cool here.

The actors are fantastic. Fassbender and McAvoy still delivering amazing performances meanwhile Stewart and Mckellen give their reflections in the same excellent way that in the trilogy. Hugh Jackman finally finds his character as a true important one in comparison with the last movies. Wolverine/Logan finally has a proper treatment in this movie that will help anyone who could be annoyed with his solo adventures to love him again. They are the five main stars of the story with the inclusion of a spectacular and skillful Mystique (impressive Jennifer Lawrence who steals almost every scene of hers) who is undoubtedly the sixth one. The other actors made good performances and make possible the transitions of the story until the amazing finale.

It has been so many comparisons with The Avengers. Let me tell you something with all my respect. I found this one truly better. X-Men: Days of Future Past will please the fans and moviegoers and will inject fresh blood and joy to the franchise. This is a terrific time at the movies. Don't miss the opportunity to see it.

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2014 has proved to be a successful year so far for Marvel with 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' and the most recent 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'. Bryan Singer returns for the most recent X-Men after being absent for the past four films, and what a return he has made. 'Days of Future Past' is truly an impressive and spectacular instalment in both the 'X- Men' franchise and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, combining the casts from both the original trilogy and the prequel allowing the audience to view the 'X-Men' in the past, present and future. The action scenes are intense and spectacularly choreographed with some fantastic heroes and foes fighting both against and alongside each other. As a personal opinion, 'Days of Future Past' is the best film to have graced the Marvel film franchise and one of the greatest superhero films of all-time. A visually stunning and exhilarating flick that combines the best elements of the series to create a fantastic and entertaining film.

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OMG!!! This movie cannot be simply described in words. If you loved X men first class then this movie is a treat for you. This is a movie even non-x men fans will enjoy. Go see this movie guys. Your mind will be blown. I've already seen this movie and looking forward to see it again.

Hugh Jackman does the best wolverine ever. He became the wolverine i wanted to see on screen for ages. The interesting chemistry between James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender is more enjoyable than ever. But jennifer lawrence and Evan Peters at Quicksilver steal the movie. Quicksilver may not look so cool but he is the coolest guy in the whole movie.

Believe me, this movie is worth your bucks. Moreover there are a bunch of new x men characters introduced in the movie which make it more enjoyable.Bryan Singer has done complete justice to this movie. And there is one scene just halfway through the movie which is worth watching fifty times. I am thoroughly excited to see the next entry entry in series which is being called Apocalypse.

The only shortcoming in the movie is the runtime which feels a little less being only 130 mins. Rest of the movie is a jigsaw which fits together in a wondrous puzzle.

So you must go to see this movie. Every element is in a balanced form. Even the soundtrack is fitting.

Happy watching !!!!

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holifeno from Paris, France
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The Parisian premiere was yesterday and therefore, I actually did see the movie and let me tell you this: all the waiting and fuss around this movie is well worth it and well deserved. It is a great movie, easily relatable in many ways.

I won't say a word about the acting. When you have established actors such as McAvoy � who repeatedly stole the screen with his heart-clenching performance � and Fassbender, along with their older 'counterparts' � McKellen and Stewart � you are in for a treat when it comes to the acting performance itself. No surprise there.

This movie is a great movie in the sense that it finds its source in the very core of humanity's struggles, and shows that Xmen's themes � much like Marvel's latest movies � are still very relevant in the world today. You will see that yourself.

The movie is action packed. There is no irrelevant scenes � I tend to judge movies by the ratio of irrelevant scenes per minute in it � and there is no break between action scenes and more emotional, storyline scenes. You won't be bored.

But along with the action, and the acting, there is also the usual dose of humor found in most Marvel movies, without being out of place and without cutting the pace of the movie in itself. There, Hugh Jackman will provide you with a few laughs, or at least, will bring a smile to your face.

The cinematography in itself was excellent. Excellent use of the 3D. Great camera work � at some point, you will be rather amazed by the use of slow mo and 3D.

So, why not 10 out of 10 then? Because of the score. If the soundtrack was good, it didn't match what I got used to with the recent Marvel movies. Good score but not as good as I expected it to be. Maybe it was because we were all more focused on the fast-paced action scenes and the storyline in itself rather than whatever was playing behind. I might need to go back and watch it again once it's out for general public to really appreciate the little details that I might have missed in a cinema filled with excited fans.

But over all, it was an excellent, entertaining and relevant Xmen movie. A good movie. A great Xmen movie. Full of Easter eggs for more hardcore fans as well. The waiting was worth it.

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Sal Bando from United States
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Days of Future Past continues the work of X2 as genre-defining. I have to classify it as a work of art/comic book pulp fiction. The characters, effects, and story are outstanding. Everything in this movie is exceedingly better in the sequel then even the first two films and First Class. Like X2, the acting is superb and the dialogue is rich. Every character feels believable. No cartoonish villains, every side of the issue is presented by people who believe they are the ones who are in the right and the underlying message of tolerance and bigotry only add to the depth of this film. What's better then its predecessor X3 in every way. It restores the sense of epic adventure and grand-scale storytelling that's been absent from far too many of most alleged blockbusters.

This film is far more sophisticated and has a better story than any X-Men movie to date. Here, the characters previously introduced but under used are utilized in a comprehensive and cohesive manner, and the newly introduced characters are blended in seamlessly with the story. The music is very good as is the special effects. The budget clearly hit the screen fully and there are truly some amazing sequences to behold. The cast-selection is still perfect.

Overall, this is one of the best genre films of all-time.

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tardieu-felix from Paris
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Right now, I'm still trying really hard to find out one bad thing from the X-Men movie I've just seen:

The characters maybe ? No: every single character is perfectly represented,interpreted (in particularly with a stunning James McAvoy and an impressive Michael Fassbender) and useful to the story. Maybe the plot then ? No: you'll get easily into it, because it is very well written for the screen, meaning you will be transported as Bryan Singer seems to know perfectly how to put in place a very cinematic puzzle. Emotions ? You will get some, as long as you loved the original X-Men characters. The soundtrack ? It is spotless and superbly fitting. Visual Effects ? Always there when we want them to be, and not when it is unnecessary. Action scenes ? You'll be amazed, thrilled and captivated when you will realize that every single scene has a purpose, whether it has some action or simple emotions and character's development.

All these qualities put together are forming a very classical but excellent & accomplished movie, completed by a skilled sense of cinematic continuity that we didn't have since Singer left the franchise (at least until X-Men First Class). In other words, you should not be afraid to see this movie, because if you don't want to be disappointed, I can tell : you won't be.

But is the future of this X-Men movie truly set ? This is something you'll have to figure out by yourselves, and this until the very end of the credits...

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Jonathan Edge from United Kingdom
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X-Men: Days Of Future Past' serves as a sequel to both 'X-Men: First Class' (which is excellent) and 'X-Men: The Last Stand' (which is pretty bad). Now, I used to be a pretty big X-Men fan a few years ago, but after the disappointments of 'X-Men: The Last Stand' and 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', I kind of just stopped caring about the franchise, even though the subsequent two movies were actually very good (the aforementioned 'X-Men: First Class' and then 'The Wolverine'). That being said, I was still looking forward to 'Days Of Future Past', what with it being the return of the old 'X-Men' crew, and I was also moderately familiar with the 'Days Of Future Past' comic. I was just expecting it to be good though, but it turns out not only is 'Days Of Future Past' the best X-Men movie yet, it's also one of the best comic-book movies ever made.

In 'Days Of Future Past', the X-Men of the future are facing extinction due to the sentinels which threaten to wipe them all out. They send Wolverine back in time to 1973 where he must recruit Professor X, Magneto and Mystique in order to change the course of history so that the X-Men may survive.

First things first, this is a time travel movie, and time travel movies normally either go very well or very badly. 'Days Of Future Past' marks an occasion where it goes very well, as the time travel logic in this movie is very well thought out and makes perfect sense, I can't pick any holes in it. This movie even manages to validate 'X-Men: The Last Stand' and 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', which is something that I thought could never be done. It even feels weird just saying that, because righting the wrongs that those movies made is a huge, monumental task, yet this movie pulls it off perfectly.

For a movie that's crowded with so many characters, it's surprising that all of the characters included feel meaningful and aren't shoehorned in. We have Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine, and there's not much to say about him that hasn't already been said. He is Wolverine, the role is made for him and he absolutely owns it. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are incredible as Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr respectively, their characters have an amazing relationship and the two of them are just phenomenal at pulling it off. We also have the future X-Men cast with the like of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan and Ellen Page, and while they have a lot less screen time they're still great. I was surprised at how prominent a role Jennifer Lawrence had as Mystique, over the past few months I've had a growing dislike towards Jennifer Lawrence but I can't deny that she is great in this role. Then we have all of the new characters, like Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), Bishop (Omar Sy) and Blink (Bingbing Fan), all of whom are great. But there is one new character who is greater than all, and that character is Quicksilver.

Quicksilver in this movie is perfect. In fact, it's worth seeing this movie just for him. He doesn't have a huge amount of screen time and it comes fairly early on in the movie, but he is the best part of this film by far. There is one particular sequence with him in a kitchen, and it is jaw-droppingly beautiful. The visuals in the scene are gorgeous, the music is perfect, and it's both hilarious and stunning. The way that Quicksilver's super speed effect has been done is amazing. Some people thought the costume looked goofy, but I think it works perfectly well considering the time period and the personality of the character. I've been a big fan of Evan Peters for a while, and he is great in the role, he is very entertaining and has a great screen presence. I never thought I'd be saying this, but I doubt Marvel will be able to produce a better Quicksilver in 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron' than the one that's on display here.

But you know what I think all this great quality comes down to? Bryan Singer. I'm pretty sure Bryan Singer is just the perfect X-Men director. Even though up until now I thought 'X-Men: First Class' was the best of the X-Men franchise, it didn't really feel like the X-Men in the way that 'X-Men' and 'X2′ did. 'Days Of Future Past' nails that X-Men dynamic while still being an exceptionally good movie. Part of that X-Men dynamic comes from John Ottman's amazing score, as it's so good to finally hear his X-Men theme again.The action scenes are incredible, especially the opening one which uses some of the new mutant powers phenomenally, especially Blink's. The movie is very well paced, I never grew bored and I didn't want it to end.

'Days Of Future Past' also surprisingly has a lot of very funny humour in it, but it's not humour that's just forced in for the sake of it, it all feel natural and within the confines of these characters. This film nails the comic book movie aspect; it has a plot which is clearly very serious yet it is still silly enough to remain a comic book film, unlike movies like 'Man Of Steel' and 'The Dark Knight' which go so dark that they just completely ditch the comic book aspect. There are also a few nice references that fans of the comics will get, which is just a small example of the great fan service this movie does for readers of the 'X-Men' comics.

'Days Of Future Past' made me remember why I was such a big X-Men fan. It rekindled my love for the characters and story lines, and like I said above, it's one of the best comic book movies ever made.

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bthivet from Paris
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As a well known director one says, to make a great movie, you have to (as a director) believe your movie is the best ever made. In today's blockbuster standards, we do not see that at all. What I see when I watch a Marvel/Disney movie (just for the example), I feel as a spectator that directors want to make an entertainment movie, with an absolutely needs of huge action and explosion scenes, with a crescendo structure ending with a KABOOM (what an illustration^^). That's great, that make good blockbusters � but not great. I had high expectations with this movie, and yet I am not an X-Men fan and Bryan singer disappointed me a lot of times - but the trailer gave me chills and as French, I really wanted to see Omar Sy in a super-production (stupid but true).

Anyway, after seeing it, with 2500 X-Men fan in Paris, I was divided. In fact, I expected something else entirely. There is some plot holes, monotonous parts� However, after thought a lot about it, I have to say that is a masterpiece in super heroes' movies. Why? Because it is very different from what we see today, we are not waiting for a finale with explosions, characters just keep moving so the finale do not overdo it but is still very impressive visually. Plus, this movie is very human paradoxically: it speaks about usual mutants themes, but the very point of the movie is can we change, whether it be the past or our vision of the present. The intelligence of the movie is not to focus on changing the past but on writing the present.

But the most important thing that makes this movie great is that Bryan Singer loves this franchise and more than making a great blockbuster, he wanted to make a great movie relying on the characters. He was convinced of making the best movie ever and even if it is not the case, I felt it, so despite all is defaults, X-MEN DAYS OF THE FUTURE PAST is a great movie, maybe, one of the best super-hero movies ever made.

I advise you to stay till the end of the credits, the scene is just awesome.

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were performing in a touring production of "Waiting for Godot" when Bryan Singer approached the actors about reprising their respective roles as Professor X and Magneto. According to McKellen, both men were utterly shocked as they thought they'd passed their roles on to James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, and would never play the characters again. Both Stewart and McKellen were delighted to return to two of their most popular roles, and to work with the younger actors playing the same characters as well.
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According to Peter Dinklage, Bryan Singer picked him to play Bolivar Trask because of his height: "With my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant. I can't move metal or anything, but I thought of it as self-loathing. Deep down, Trask is quite sensitive about that aspect of himself."
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In the original comic storyline, other Marvel heroes other than the X-men are wiped out by the Sentinals such as Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Iron Man, Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and the Silver Surfer.
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Including his cameo in X-Men: First Class (2011), this is Hugh Jackman's seventh portrayal of Logan/Wolverine, which raised his own record for the most times a comic book character has been played by the same actor in theatrical films. He is also the only actor to appear in the entire X-Men film series.
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When Wolverine wakes up in the past, the woman in bed with him calls him Jimmy. According to the comics, Wolverine's name at birth was James Howlett (as his birth father was Thomas Logan, he inherited that surname).
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The filmmakers selected the "Days of Future Past" storyline because it would allow the filmmakers to reconcile any continuity dissonances within the "X-Men" film series. The time-travel element also allowed actors from the original film series and the intended reboot that was X-Men: First Class (2011) to appear in the same film together.
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The script called for Logan to wake up in 1973 in boxer shorts. Hugh Jackman vetoed this in favour of waking nude: "In Australia, if you're next to a really good-looking girl, you're not getting out with boxer shorts on or briefs or anything!"
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Ellen Page is the first actress to play the role of Kitty Pryde more than once. Though the character had appeared in three X-Men movies prior, each time, she was played by a different actress.
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According to Bryan Singer, he could only get the film started with confidence once Hugh Jackman and Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen agreed to return.
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The addition of Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver to the cast sparked wide discussion over the direction of the character who is also slated to appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Quicksilver had been discussed previously as a potential character in both X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and The Avengers (2012), but legal complexities over the license to the character resulted in his omission from both films. However, in May 2013 both Marvel and Fox Studios announced a resolution to the previous legal issues, and that Quicksilver would appear in this film as well as an Avengers sequel, though under certain parameters: no reference to Quicksilver's membership in the Avengers can be made in an "X-Men" film, and no allusion to his relations to the X-Men or Magneto (the character's father) can be made in an "Avengers" film; the rights agreement between Fox and Marvel even goes so far as to stipulate the character cannot be referred to as a "mutant" in any Marvel film. Additionally, the day after the announcement of Peters's casting, Marvel and Fox entered into a legal standoff over provisions of the rights agreement for the character, including the issue of whether Peters would be allowed to portray Quicksilver in any other film outside the "X-Men" franchise, possibly necessitating a second actor to play Quicksilver in any Marvel film, resulting in two different versions of the same character appearing in two competing film series. Ultimately, Fox and Marvel decided to cast different actors in the part for the "X-Men" and "Avengers" films, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the role in the latter sequel, thus preventing any connection between the two franchises and keeping the X-Men confined to a separate universe from those of the Marvel cinematic universe.
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The original 'Days of Future Past' comic mentioned time travel from the year 2013, the same year in which filming began. In the film, the "future" action is implied to take place in 2023.
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This is the sixth time that Patrick Stewart has appeared in an X-Men film; Stewart had made an uncredited appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and appeared in The Wolverine (2013)'s credits scene.
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Young Xavier tells Logan to "Fuck off." This was the original scripted line for Hugh Jackman's cameo in X-Men: First Class (2011); however Jackman instead improvised the "Go fuck yourself" line.
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According to Bryan Singer, he had a two-hour discussion with James Cameron, director of the time-travel films The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), about how to make the time-travel concept feasible and workable within the film. The concepts the two discussed included quantum physics, alternate universes, and string theory.
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Quicksilver's slow-motion sequence was filmed with mostly practical VFX (high-speed photography and stunt rigs), with CGI used only for the objects in mid-air.
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Although their characters are father and son (although never explicitly stated in the film), Michael Fassbender and Evan Peters are only 10 years apart in age.
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Halle Berry's role as Storm had to be substantially reduced due to her pregnancy.
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Bryan Singer based the time travel in the film on string theory: "Until an object is observed, it hasn't really happened yet. The time-traveller whose consciousness travels through time I call The Observer, and until the Observer returns to where he travelled from, the result hasn't occurred yet. So he can muck about in the past and it isn't until he snaps back that the new future is set. As a result, we have parallel action, and there's underlying tension because there's always that threat Wolverine's consciousness could return to the future and leave the world in an even darker place."
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When Quicksilver asks Magneto if he knows karate, Michael Fassbender replies "I don't know karate, but I know crazy". This is a James Brown lyric in his early 1970s hit song "The Payback".
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For her role as Mystique, Jennifer Lawrence wore a special bodysuit. She had previously worn full-body prosthetics in X-Men: First Class (2011) but found that too uncomfortable.
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The dissertation Bolivar Trask reads from during his Senate committee hearing, which outlines that the emergence of Homo Sapiens lead to the extinction of the less-evolved Neanderthal ancestors, was written by Charles Xavier and was partially read to Raven in X-Men: First Class (2011).
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Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen had makeup applied to look twenty years older than their actual age. They had previously had digital makeup applied to look twenty years younger in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
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Although Anna Paquin's on screen time is only 3 seconds and she has no lines, she still was one of the top billed cast members during the ending credits. She does however play a way more prominent role in the director's cut of the film.
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Shooting went on under the working title "Hello Kitty." This refers to X-Men member Kitty Pryde.
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A life-size model of a 1973 Sentinel robot was constructed for filming.
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Production designer John Myhre described the future Sentinels as having evolved from machines into biomechanical weapons: "They are almost made up of magnetic plates slapped over one another, imagining that the plates could contract or grow, so the Sentinel can be skinny to get through a small space or the plates can open up to become a bigger shape. They have become virtually unstoppable - the ultimate version that can actually, in principle, stop the X-Men."
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An older version of Ink is visible in the Mutant Internment Camp scene early in the film. He is accompanied by an older version of Sabretooth.
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Peters described Quicksilver as someone who "talks quick, moves quick. Everything else is very slow compared to him, it's like he's always at the ATM waiting for the dude in front of him to finish."
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The release of the teaser trailer for this film ignited such interest, director Bryan Singer made the unprecedented move of recording an actual commentary track to it the following day, explaining the significance of certain scenes and offering more insight into what to expect from the film.
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The two teaser posters for this film are in the form of wanted posters, of Professor X and Magneto with an X over their faces. This was taken from the "Days of Future Past" comic, which prominently featured an image of wanted posters of mutant outlaws.
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Bryan Singer based Bolivar Trask on Adolf Hitler: "As Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat to bond the darker parts of Europe, he's doing the same thing with mutants. But he wasn't a six foot, perfect blond Aryan - he was a short, funny looking fellow!"
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Bryan Singer liked the painting in Trask's office and personally bought it after filming was complete.
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This is the fourth X-Men film to be based on a Chris Claremont "X-Men" comic: X2 (2003) was adapted from 'God Loves, Man Kills'

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) was based on 'The Dark Phoenix Saga'

The Wolverine (2013) was based on the 1982 Limited Series 'Wolverine'.


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Jason Flemyng was originally set to reprise his role as Azazel when Matthew Vaughn was still set to direct. When Vaughn left, the storyline was dropped in favor of the time travel/crossover storyline, and Azazel's role cut from the script to accommodate characters from the original "X-Men" film series.
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John Myhre hid X-symbols in the sets he designed for the film. They can be seen as follows: the badge seen in the future before the title sequence

the staircase at the X-Mansion

the design of the Pentagon kitchen (seen in an overhead shot)

the Cerebro hallway (a scene where the lights are turned on resembles a cross)

and the X-bar that traps Xavier in Washington DC.


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According to Bryan Singer, the mutants Rachel Summers, Psylocke, Deadpool, Nightcrawler, Gambit and Jubilee were meant to appear in the film, but were cut out for running time purposes.
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Bryan Singer and Peter Dinklage describe Bolivar Trask as a peace-lover: "He feels that humanity will go on fighting each other, unless they can find a common element to unite against; he sees the advent of the mutants as a way to unite people. He sees what he's doing as a good thing - his ambition is definitely blind. He's strove all his life for a certain respect and attention."
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Logan's 1973 apartment is colored in shades of yellow and brown, Wolverine's prominent uniform colors. The apartment is also decorated with samurai swords and a photo of Mt Fuji; this pays homage to his last film The Wolverine (2013) where he went on a trip to Japan.
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This is the first X-Men film where Professor X (Patrick Stewart) is not seen in his trademark suit. Bryan Singer felt it wouldn't work for the Professor to have a suit in an apocalyptic future.
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This film ties a record previously held by The Dark Knight Rises (2012) for the most Academy Award-nominated actors in a single comic book movie. While The Dark Knight Rises (2012) starred seven nominees with an additional nominee appearing via archive footage (eight in total), this film features eight: Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Lerner, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page and Anna Paquin.
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The film takes place in 2023 and January 1973.
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When fighting the Sentinels, Colossus pulls off his Super Dive attack from the "Marvel vs. Capcom" video games.
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The four main female X-Men in the principal cast - Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen Page, and Anna Paquin - are all Academy Award nominees. The six principal male cast members Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Peter Dinklage - are all Golden Globe nominees; Jackman, Fassbender and McKellen are also Academy Award nominees.
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Matthew Vaughn, who directed X-Men: First Class (2011), was supposed to return to direct this movie but he decided to decline to do Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Bryan Singer, the director of the first two X-Men films and a producer, was hired to direct.
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When Mystique stages a rescue of the mutants at the Vietnam War base, she does so in the guise of a colonel named Sanders. Colonel Sanders is the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Quicksilver's use of goggles is a homage to his nephew Speed (Tommy Shephard - he was raised by foster parents), also a speedster in the Marvel Comics.
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During Magneto's fight with the presidential guards, there is a painting behind him. This painting is Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People", made to commemorate the 1830 French Revolution, and a symbol of rebellion.
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Bryan Singer is a big fan of Peter Dinklage and his show Game of Thrones (2011). Dinklage's role of Tyrion Lannister inspired Singer to cast Dinklage as Trask.
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Chris Claremont, the writer of the original 'Days of Future Past' comic, was brought on as a consultant.
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When talking to Beast, Logan says he hopes he isn't a parent. Wolverine has sired a number of children throughout Marvel comic book history: He sired Daken Akihiro (Dark Wolverine) and he was cloned to create Laura Kinney (X-23) whom he treats as a daughter. In the "Ultimate Marvel" universe he is the father of Sabertooth and Jimmy Hudson (the second Wolverine), in the MC2 Universe he and Elektra give birth to Rina Logan (Wild Thing) and in the "Future X-Men" storyline he and Mystique sire Raze Darkholme.
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According to Simon Kinberg, this film is influenced by the time-travel films The Time Machine (1960), The Terminator (1984), Back to the Future (1985) and Looper (2012).
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According to John Myhre, the past Sentinel robots were inspired by 1970s molded plastics: "It was the idea of being inspired by 70s product design that helps out. We made them a little fun and stylish but also a little retro, and the key is they're not made of metal."
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During the scene in which Professor X attempts to use Cerebro for the first time in several years, while he is scanning through the 'voices in his head,' one voice in particular is heard not speaking or exclaiming in general but specifically addressing him (Prof X). One may presume this is the young child Jean Grey, a fellow psychic featured prominently in the comics and previous films.
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According to Simon Kinberg, this film unites ALL the future mutants: "It's this dysfunctional family and these desperate people who are outcasts in their own lives, and they come together, and that's not as emotionally satisfying as an outcast on their own."
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Costume designer Louise Mingenbach deliberately gave Peter Maximoff 1981-era clothes to display his irreverence and his outsider nature.
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Trask is an anagram of Stark (aka Iron Man). Both make weapons in the Marvel universe.
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Evan Peters plays the role of Quicksilver in X-Men and his Kick-Ass (2010) co-star, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, played the character Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
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A romantic subplot between Storm and Wolverine in the future (a nod to the "Age of Apocalypse" comic storyline, which heavily influenced this film) was filmed but cut for runtime purposes.
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According to John Myhre, the future environment is inspired by the architectural styles of China, India and Indonesia.
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Stan Lee was offered a cameo, but opted out so he could attend Fan Expo Canada in Toronto.
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Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender, who play the future/past versions of Professor Xavier and Magneto, have all played the title role in film adaptations of "Macbeth".
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This is the fourth adaptation of Chris Claremont's "Days of Future Past" comic. It had previously been adapted for X-Men (1992), Wolverine and the X-Men (2008) and The Super Hero Squad Show (2009).
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Hank McCoy develops a serum that suppresses mutation through dulling emotion, which he provides for Xavier and himself. This pays tribute to his debut appearance in X-Men: Evolution (2000), where he frequently takes a serum to suppress his rage and thus his bestial mutation.
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Angel, Azazel, Riptide, and Emma were intended to return, until they decided to go with the Days of Future Past story and killed the former Hellfire Club offscreen.
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This the first X-men film ever to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Visual Effects).
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During filming Bryan Singer had injured his vocal chords, and could only speak without doing further damage with a falsetto; thus, his orders on set led all actors to crack up at some point.
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When Xavier is seen sitting on his plane rubbing his leg, the reflection on the table surface resembles his older self.
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According to Simon Kinberg, the mutant scavenger is Nate Grey, the X-Man, thus making his first live-action appearance.
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Plot similarities to X2 (2003): the previous film begins with an assassination attempt on an unnamed President. The plot in this one revolved around preventing an assassination; first of Bolivar Trask, and subsequently of Richard Nixon. In the earlier film, the would-be assassin was Nightcrawler. In this film, it is Mystique, who in the comics is Nightcrawler's mother. Both also involve Xavier and Magneto joining forces to prevent the political fallout from the attempt.
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According to Simon Kinberg, the story's main theme is hope: "It confronts the notions of second chances. It's about characters that are lost trying to find themselves. In the other films, the characters had come into their own and knew who they were. In this one, they're all lost and they're trying to keep it together."
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Jennifer Lawrence was supposed to be in the top billed but as Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were included in the film they didn't have enough space for her in the top billed cast.
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Almost all of the promotional photographs and posters of Major Stryker had the blue enamel of his Combat Infantry Badge "corrected" to green. Blue is the color of the U.S. Army's infantry branch. It appears the right way in the film.
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The TV show on Hank McCoy's TV set is Star Trek (1966), specifically the episode "The Naked Time". This episode featured a means to travel through time.
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Because of a contract dispute over director Marc Webb, Sony (Columbia) agreed to place a mid-credits teaser for this 20th Century Fox film into Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). The scene, which was not included in the video release of that film, is unusual for a mid-credits teaser, in that it is actual footage from the film it is promoting (the scene in Vietnam with Stryker/Mystique).
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This is the second movie James McAvoy and Peter Dinklage have been in together. The first was Penelope (2006).
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When Hank hacks the surveillance monitors, one of the shows seen on the screen is Star Trek (1966). Patrick Stewart would appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) as the second Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard; moreover Picard would encounter and converse with his future self in the episode "Time Squared" on averting a disaster, and later on travelled back in time to stop the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
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The documents Mystique discovers in Trask's office mention the names of crew members G Ferderber and E Kephart. Genevieve Ferderber was the film's set decorator and Elza Kephart was the Art Department clerk.
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John Ottman is the first composer to score more than one movie of the X-Men series and the first editor to edit more than one, having already done both on X2 (2003).
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In the Paris subway, a sign can be seen for "Victor Hugo Ave." Hugh Jackman appeared in Les Miserables (2012), based on Hugo's novel of the same name.
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Jamie Campbell Bower and Nico Tortorella auditioned for the role of Quicksilver.
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Bishop, Warpath, Sunspot and Blink are members of the Free Mutants in the comics. This group was led by Shadowcat.
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Shawn Ashmore and Adan Canto previously worked together on the hit FOX series The Following (2013) along with Kevin Bacon, who had starred in X-Men: First Class (2011).
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Comic book writer-artist John Byrne, who had worked on the "Days of Future Past" comic, is on record stating he was not approached for a cameo in the film. He says he would have declined, stating he disliked the films, and he'd feel "like he was in the Carrie (1976) prom scene".
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This is the only X-Men film that did not release the same year as a "Fast and Furious" film. Furious Seven (2015) was set to release in 2014 alongside this film, but was pushed to 2015 after Paul Walker's death.
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In X2 (2003), William Stryker, played by Brian Cox, mentions that he fought in Vietnam. In this film, a Bill Stryker, played by Josh Helman, was one of the soldiers in Vietnam.
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Simon Kinberg's original script reportedly followed the original storyline more closely with the character of Rachel Grey sending Wolverine back, but eventually replaced her with Kitty and upgraded her phasing/intangibility to being able to phase things through time.
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This is James McAvoy's third film, where curving bullets play a crucial role. The first one is Wanted (2008), where McAvoy is part of an elite group of assassins who use curving bullets as their primary technique. The second one is X-Men: First Class (2011) where a bullet deflected by Magneto causes McAvoy (Xavier) to lose his ability to walk. Finally, in this movie, a curving bullet is used as a plot element in the assassination of the U.S president and is the reason why Magneto is in jail, necessitating a rescue from McAvoy (Xavier).
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Young Xavier's alcoholism is presumably a reference to his mother Sharon becoming a drunk not long after the death of her first husband in the comics.
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When Matthew Vaughn was set to direct, Juggernaut was going to be the one who broke Magneto out of prison. Josh Helman had been cast in the role. When Bryan Singer took over directing duties, he decided to use Quicksilver instead, as Juggernaut had already been used in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Helman was recast as the young William Stryker. The announcement that Quicksilver would be in this film came after he was announced for Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), so his inclusion may have been Fox's way of asserting their ownership of the character.
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In the original comics Quicksilver was named Pietro Maximoff. His first name was changed to Peter in the film, not just to make him more American, but also to help make him more distinguished from the version of the character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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When Wolverine wakes up in 1973 and learns that his claws are bone, not metal and that he does not remember sleeping with the young woman whom he is in bed with. In "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" which took place 13 years after "X-Men: Days of Future Past", Wolverine gained metal claws made from Adamantium, replacing his bone claws and suffered permanent amnesia when being shot in the head by William Stryker.
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This is the third film in which Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) plays a time traveller, after Kate & Leopold (2001) and The Fountain (2006). This is however the first film where he travels to the past, while the other films had him travel to the future.
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At the beginning of the film, as the mutants and humans march down the corridor, a quick glimpse is shown of an older quicksilver from behind. He is directly in the center of the frame, and is easy to spot with the same hairstyle and hat his younger self has later in the movie.
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German Actress Renee Diamond was originally cast to play Blink, but dropped out before filming.
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The future Sentinels were given a different look to how they appeared in the 1992 cartoon series and in the comic books.
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The version of the American flag with the Trask Industries emblem (the curtain used to conceal the Sentinels during their unveiling at the White House) is reminiscent of the flags that were used by protesters during the 2000s decade, which were adorned with the logos and emblems of corporations that people believed had influence over the United States economy and high-ranking politicians.
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There appears to be a hidden Mickey a few seconds into the opening credits, when three bubbles join together to form a Mickey Mouse head. However the rights to this film are owned by Fox and it has nothing to do with Disney.
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In the comics, Bishop is of Aborigine descent. In the films he is portrayed by French actor Omar Sy, who is of Senegalese and Mauritanian descent.
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Warpath carries two knives in the film. In the comics they are made of the metal vibranium, but vibranium belongs to Marvel whilst adamantium belongs to Fox. It is thus likely that Warpath is using adamantium knives.
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There are actually three Summers brothers in the comics: Scott, Alex and Gabriel Summers, the brother who went rogue known as Vulcan.
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Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender have both appeared in Best Picture winners. McKellen appeared in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), while Fassbender appeared in 12 Years a Slave (2013), ten years later. The latter film also featured Benedict Cumberbatch, who appeared The Hobbit trilogy with McKellen.
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Len Wein: creator of the Wolverine character, plays one of the Congressmen at Trask's hearing.
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Newton Thomas Sigel: a disguise Mystique takes to escape from the Paris summit. Sigel is the cinematographer for all the Bryan Singer-directed X-Men films.
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Chris Claremont: one of the Congressmen at Trask's hearing. Claremont was the writer of the original 'Days of Future Past' comic and was brought on as a consultant.
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The cameos of Cyclops (James Marsden) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) were so tightly guarded that the actors as well as director Bryan Singer outright lied about their appearance in the movie to keep their return a surprise.
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Two of Peter Maximoff (Quicksilver)'s relations are implied but never outright stated in the film. He first remarks to Magneto that his mom used to know someone that could manipulate metal - in the comics, Magneto is in fact Quicksilver's father. This is further implied when Peter's Mother sees Magneto on television and reacts with horror and recognition. A deleted scene also addressed that Peter has a sister - Wanda Maximoff, also known as Scarlet Witch.
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The young mutant scavenging for metal at the film's opening is also the first person Wolverine sees in the restored timeline.
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When Magneto is retrieving his helmet you can see Havok's damaged X-Men uniform, one of Angel Salvadore's wings and the coin Magneto used to kill Sebastian Shaw all from X-Men: First Class (2011).
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Kelsey Grammer wanted to return as the elder Beast in a substantial role, but due to scheduling conflicts with Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) was unable. His cameo was added during reshoots to keep it secret.
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In the scene where Trask and Nixon discuss the implementation of the Sentinel program, an aide is seen switching off a tape recorder. This is a sly reference to the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap on Nixon's Oval Office tapes, long thought to have been deliberately erased by Nixon or his aides to cover-up politically damaging information. Former Nixon adviser H.R. Haldeman has said the erased conversation contained references to Nixon's involvement in the Kennedy Assassination--another subtle joke in the film, as Kennedy is revealed to have been a mutant.
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In the post-credits scene, the pan around to the front of the character building the pyramids reveals the silhouette of four individuals on horseback. These are the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, four super-soldiers he converted and enslaved.
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The cloaked teenage mutant in the post-credits scene is the mutant Apocalypse, a prominent X-Men antagonist.
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This is the only time in the entire X-Men series where Xavier uses another mutant's powers by controlling them. He controls Magneto for a moment to remove the debris that is laying on him.
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Bryan Singer filmed Quicksilver's scenes in a special format of 3600 frames per second. This means that Quicksilver will be moving 150 times faster than normal. The camera was used to record close-ups and movements of Evan Peters, as well as the guards he beat.
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When describing Mystique's capabilities to the President in the Oval Office, Trask tells him that she could take any shape including that of a colonel, a Secret Service agent, and even the President himself. That is the order of the key shapes she takes on during the film.
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Bishop is the first mutant Kitty Pryde sends through time. This is a homage to Bishop being a frequent time-traveler in the X-Men comics.
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DIRECTOR_CAMEO(Bryan Singer): when Mystique jumps out of the building and onto the ground below after attempting to kill Trask, Singer is a photographer, who is briefly seen holding up a camera.
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Originally the prison break scene was conceived with the unstoppable mutant Juggernaut in mind; he was meant to be a football player at the X-Mansion. However he was replaced with Quicksilver, whose power seemed more stylish and smooth.
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In the "Days of Future Past" comic it was Shadowcat who went back in time; in the film it's Wolverine. According to writer Simon Kinberg, Kitty was intended to be the time-traveller but it didn't work out: "Kitty in the era of young Magneto and Xavier would have been negative 20 years old. The reflex response to that was a character who doesn't age. Wolverine is the only character who would look the same in 1973 as he does in the future." Thus, Wolverine was picked for being an ageless immortal character who would bridge past and future.
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The appearance of the X-Men in the restored future segments resembles their appearance in the X-Men comics almost exactly. There are also hints at changes in relationships, as Rogue and Iceman are seen walking hand in hand, and Kitty and Colossus are seen teaching a class together (implying they're also a couple, as in the comics).
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Originally Josh Helman was going to be cast as a young Cain Marko/Juggernaut. But Juggernaut was written out of the film, and Helman was offered the role of a young William Stryker.
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Magneto claims John F. Kennedy was a mutant. According to Simon Kinberg, JFK's mutant ability is hypnotic charm.
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In her cameo, Rogue is seen wearing her trademark green jacket & pants from the comic books.
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Mystique rescues Havok, Ink and Toad from Stryker in Vietnam; later in the film when Magneto makes his broadcast, Ink and Toad are seen but not Havok. Havok was to be captured and used to test a prototype Sentinel. This was left out of the film for running time purposes.
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In the "Days of Future Past" comic Mystique tries to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly, which leads to the genesis of the Sentinel program. In this film Mystique remains the assassin, but as Kelly had appeared in X-Men (2000) her target is now Bolivar Trask, the actual creator of the Sentinel program.
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In the original cut of the film, when Wolverine injures Kitty Pride after encountering Stryker, Kitty was to bleed to the point she could no longer hold Wolverine in the past. To insure Wolverine can complete his mission, Iceman, Magneto and Professor X return to the X-Mansion which has been taken over by Trask Industries to rescue Rogue so that she can absorb Kitty's powers. Iceman would reveal that Rogue, long thought dead by Xavier, was actually being held in the one place he could never telepathically locate her--Cerebro. Iceman was to die in the rescue, and the Sentinels would follow the X-Jet back to China, leading to the final battle in the future. Portions of this sequence appear in trailers, as well as the extended "Rogue Cut" of the film.
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When Matthew Vaughn was going to direct, he was going to make the film a direct sequel to X-Men: First Class (2011) and have it set in the 1970s. Early ideas included an opening with the Kennedy assassination being caused by Magneto, and mutant encounters set in the Civil rights movement/the Vietnam War. When Singer took over, he integrated these concepts into a viral marketing campaign to set up the action of the film. In this alternate history, Magneto is arrested and imprisoned for the assassination of Kennedy, but maintains his innocence. The "Bent Bullet" Theory (a reference to the real life "Magic Bullet" Theory criticized by conspiracy theorists) holds that the Warren Commission determined that Magneto manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald's bullets to kill the President in retribution for the murder of the mutants Azazel and Tempest (from X-Men: First Class (2011), though in the film Tempest was codenamed Angel) by the CIA. Conspiracy theorists, based on Magneto's testimony, insist however that Magneto had tried to prevent the murder of Kennedy, and that the true shooter was not Oswald, but Mystique in disguise who, with the help of Emma Frost (also from "First Class") framed Magneto, and manipulated Jack Ruby into later murdering Oswald. The theory also posits that Mystique offered to double as Kennedy in an attempt to grab power, all of which backfired horribly, leading to anti-mutant hostilities.
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Originally Raven was to choose to go with Charles instead of Erik, and would appear in the altered future teaching a biology class with an older Hank; meanwhile Logan would be retrieved from the Potomac River by Stryker, thus bringing around the Weapon X story arc. The filmmakers felt this was too predictable and sad an ending, so it was changed to Raven simply escaping and making her own agenda (under Stryker's form), to make the ending more unexpected.
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Sir Patrick Stewart enjoyed James McAvoy's light-hearted performance as Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class (2011), and had wanted to try a similar performance with Xavier instead of keeping him grave and sober. He got his wish with this film: in the altered future, his Xavier is just a bit jollier.
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A sequence where Mystique returns to the X-Mansion following Xavier contacting her telepathically in the Paris airport was filmed but cut. In this sequence, Wolverine would explain the origin of the Sentinels and the Future War, and Mystique would have a romantic encounter with Beast, carrying over on a subplot from X-Men: First Class (2011). The scenes were cut for runtime purposes.
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Simon Kinberg said that in the unwritten back story, Bolivar Trask was part of the group responsible for attempting to assassinate the mutant American President JFK. Kinberg also said that Trask had militarian supporters in the US Government and that during the Vietnam War, any soldier with a higher than anticipated kill record would be subjected to tests by Trask Industries to determine whether they were a mutant. Those found to be a mutant were put into quarantine.
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The British movie magazine Empire had a front cover pulled out of production by Bryan Singer as it featured a photograph of Bolivar Trask in a straitjacket; Singer felt it gave the ending of the film away.
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When Mystique breaks into Trask's files, she learns that he has had several mutants tortured and killed for research. Among the mutant files she views are Azazel and Angel, who became her colleagues at the end of X-Men: First Class (2011), which explains her uncharacteristic empathy in this scene.
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The bullet wounds that appear on Wolverine's chest on his arrival to the 1970s is in the form of the Big Dipper. This is a homage to Hokuto no Ken (1984), whose protagonist Kenshiro has the same scar pattern on his chest.
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The film's future era is a homage to "Age of Apocalypse", an X-Men comic where the mutant Apocalypse makes a takeover of Earth (and which is to lead into X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)): much of the story is set in a dystopian future, and involves travelling to the past to erase this future

Magneto is allied with the X-men

Blink and Bishop appear as members of the future X-Men

Wolverine and Storm have a relationship going (seen in a deleted scene)

the changing of history results in Apocalypse's existence.


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The baseball stadium Magneto destroys in the film is the old Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial stadium. The Washington Senators played there until September 1971 and the Washington Nationals played there in 2005. Since the film takes place in 1973, it makes the stadium employee laying down chalk seem odd since baseball wasn't played there at that time.
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1973, the year Wolverine traveled back through time to, is 13 years prior to Wolverine gaining Adamantium claws and losing his memory, which happened in 1986 (X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)).
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Bryan Singer wanted Mystique's son Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) to be in the film, but he thought there were already too many characters as it was. Nightcrawler would appear in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).
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Even though she is featured prominently in the credits, Halle Berry is only in 22 minutes of the movie.
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The young Apocalypse's appearance is based on the appearance of the Engineers in Prometheus (2012), which featured Michael Fassbender and VFX supervisor Richard Stammers. Bryan Singer enjoyed that film and hired Stammers to work on this one.
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Magneto using Sentinels to attack the White House and attempt to assassinate the President before being stopped by Xavier's telepathy is taken from the Ultimate Marvel "X-Men" comics.
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Towards the end where the final battle is between the surviving mutants at the monastery in China, two Sentinels turn into a rock diamond form and rocky form. These forms are references to Emma Frost and Darwin from X-Men: First Class (2011), who have these abilities.
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After Logan reawakens at the mansion and encounters Jean Grey, Cyclops grabs his wrist as he reaches for Jean and one can clearly see Logan's middle finger half-extended from his fist.
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Continuing a trend to insert the X-Men characters into real-world historical events, this movie places them into the Vietnam War and 1973 Paris Peace Accords (and Magneto is indefinitely detained on suspicion of being involved in the 1963 Kennedy Assassination, but those events are not shown).
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The film contains references to Wolverine and the X-Men (2008), which adapted "Days of Future Past" as a major element of the show: The future Sentinels copy and adapt to mutant power

The future mutants in this film are share similar powers with the future mutants from that show (Warpath and Marrow are enhanced beings with knives, teleporters Blink and Vanisher, Sunspot and Firestar can control fire, super-strong fighters Colossus and Kamal, electric mutants Storm and Berzerker, Magneto and Polaris can manipulate metal), as well as featuring the Professor X, Wolverine and Bishop all of whom appeared in the movie.

A future mutant gets his mind sent back into the past (Xavier in the cartoon, Logan in this film)

Magneto gains control of the Sentinels.
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The same song plays when Logan wakes up back in 1973 and again when he wakes up in the new 2023 where the timeline is corrected
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The film contains references to X-Men (1992), which adapted "Days of Future Past" for the first time: Bishop is the first mutant sent back in time

a misunderstanding allows the assassin to escape and make a second attempt

and Apocalypse is hinted as waiting to appear.


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Warpath's death involves him leaping at a Sentinel before it kills him with a laser. This was Wolverine's death in the "Days of Future Past" comics.
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The events of this film end in 1973 and 2023, respectively. That will mean that in X-Men: Apocalypse (which takes place circa 1983), Wolverine should have no recollection of his involvement in preventing Mystique from assassinating Boliver Trask, nor any knowledge of the future, since the consciousness of that Wolverine was returned to 2023.
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In the movie, Magneto embeds metal bars into Wolverine to prevent him from moving and launches him into Potomac River. Wolverine's appearance (metal sticking out of his body) is a homage to an event in the comics where Magneto ripped the adamantium out of Wolverine's body.
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In the film, President John F. Kennedy is heavily implied to be a mutant. In the year previous to this film's release, James Marsden (Cyclops) portrayed Kennedy and Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth) portrayed his successor Lyndon Johnson in The Butler (2013).
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The red haired girl (Brianna Bone) who witnesses the stadium floating in the air could possibly be a young Jean Grey.
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Sir Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, who both play the same character, had previously starred in Gnomeo & Juliet (2011). In both films, Stewart's character is able to advise McAvoy's character at a crucial moment.
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In the Rouge Cut edition there are mentions of three of the maximoff children all three have superpowers. The children are quicksilver, scarlet witch and Polaris (half-sister). Polaris was mentioned when the mother of the children turns to Wanda (Scarlet Witch) and says "Go big your sister" and Wanda replies with "She bugs me"
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When helping Charles Xavier and Wolverine free Magneto at the Pentagon, Peter Maximoff is seen wearing a Dark Side Of The Moon t-shirt. Magneto is being freed prior to the X-Men travelling to the Paris Peace Accords that took place in January 1973, but the Pink Floyd album wasn't released until March of that year.
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Quicksilver used modern ear-hook style headphones, which were not available in the seventies.
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When Magneto levitates RFK Stadium, it seen with a baseball diamond and configuration. In 1973 RFK Stadium was not being used as a baseball venue as the Washington Senators had moved to Texas following the 1971 season.
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A 747-400 jetliner can be seen in a 1973 scene. This variant of the 747 did not fly until 1988.
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The film is set in 1973, but the private jet with tail number N540EA is a 1975 Gulfstream II. Actually, it is a Gulfstream IIB, which was not approved by FAA until 1981 and uses the Gulfstream III wing (see the winglets) which was not available until 1979. The original Gulfstream II was introduced in 1966.
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The first publication of a DNA sequence was in 1977 for a bacterium, the real development of DNA sequencing started in 1990.
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Mystique is shot with a taser in Jan 1973, but the first taser was not around until 1974.
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When they were loading the Sentinel onto the train, there was a shot of a military guard with an M16. His helmet was of a modern PASGT style, not the style used in 1973, which would have been the Vietnam era M1 model.
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The 1973 events of the film are implied to take place in January, as this is when the peace accords in the film were actually held. When Quicksilver is first visited in his basement, he is listening to "Hello Hooray" by Alice Cooper, from the album "Billion Dollar Babies". Billion Dollar Babies was not released until the latter days of February 1973.
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When they were touring the Pentagon it was obviously daylight outside. Yet, when the security monitors were taken over they said it was regular television feed. In fact, they were showing Sanford and Son. This can't be since in 1973 this would have been the second year it was on television. And thus, would only be on at night and not syndicated.
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The purple seats in the lower ring of the upper deck of RFK Stadium were installed in the early 1990s. In 1973, these seats were light blue. Also, the 400s only go as high at 471, there is no section 483.
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The ad in the stadium for Mountain Dew features a version of the logo that was not in use until 1980.
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We occasionally see Paris event scenes shown as if bits of newsreel or shot by one of the TV cameras. However, these are in a modern 16:9 screen format rather than the more squarish 4:3 format of 1970s TVs.
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Flyover of Trask building in 1973 (on the night Mystique finds mutant autopsy reports) the corner of the roof has two cell phone panel antennas.
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Though the movie is set in 1973, When Magneto flies in RFK Stadium over the cityscape of Washington DC, he looks at a Washington National Cathedral with a completed west end (not finished until 1976) and the scaffolding on the central tower to stabilize the damage from the 2011 earthquake.
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When they are about to play chess, Charles's King and Queen are on the wrong starting squares.
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When the young Professor X goes back to his room after rejecting Wolverine's request for help, it shows his room littered with alcohol bottles, as well as a picture of Raven (in human form), with an ash tray with a rolled joint in it sitting slightly behind it to the right (but in plain view). The camera then cuts to a close up of Raven's picture, but this time there is nothing behind it, the night stand had been cleared off for the close up.
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When Star Trek is playing in the background, the episode playing is "The Naked Time." At first we hear a comment that the chronometer is going backwards, then were hear the discussion regarding the intermix formula being only theoretical. In the episode broadcast these events happened in the opposite order.
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The 747-400 jetliner shown briefly before the 1973 airport scene has the blue, orange and gold livery of Singapore Airlines on the body but with the Pan-Am logo on the tail.
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When Raven is hit by the bullet after diving out of the special meeting room she is struck in the leg on the inside of her right calf. Later in the French hospital we see the bloody gauze and bandage on the outside of her right calf, however Erik pulled the bullet out of her leg and so there was no exit wound on the outside to require a bandage there or to cause bleeding.
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(at around 42 mins) After accessing the last entrance of Magneto's cell, Quicksilver bends down to slide in non-metallic food plate. Here, in this shot we can clearly spot a metal watch buckled over his wrist. In the next shot it disappears.
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(at around 46 mins) Xavier is talking to Magneto - all the time the first door they came in to the kitchen by has remained open and there is nothing to be seen. Seconds later the door is closed and as the guards enter there is now a stack of colored crates stacked against the wall in the corridor behind them.
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(46m40s) In the Pentagon Kitchen - as the door opens, two guards enter the kitchen, then two more guards mysteriously appear from the side of the screen, but were not seen to enter the room.
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(at around 46 mins) In the Pentagon Kitchen - as the door opens, two guards, both in full uniform, enter the kitchen, but a third guard (with no security jacket) appears from the side of the screen, as if he had just entered with the other two.As the previous two guards, who were knocked out by Wolverine, were both wearing jackets, it couldn't have been either of them. Also, a fourth (no jacket) guard appears, in front of the two jacket-wearing guards, though no other guards were seen to enter the room.
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When Quicksilver is breaking Magneto out of the Pentagon, after breaking the glass they wait for the door to open, as soon as it does they burst through the hallway to the elevator sending all the guards crashing to the ground, but when it shows them in the elevator you can briefly see back down the hallway to the door they came from but all the guards are missing. Also when it shows them go through the hallway it is solid white, but the shot from the elevator shows a black and white striped hallway.
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When the Pentagon is shown, the caption says "Washington, DC." The Pentagon is in Arlington, Virginia.
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Major Stryker is shown wearing a Silver Star ribbon with "V" device for valor. The V device is not awarded with the Silver Star.
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The story in 1973 takes place over the course of some ten days or so in January and includes scenes in Paris and Washington, DC. These locations are normally rather cold in January, but the scenes set in those cities indicate a milder temperature. (For example, no one ever wears any winter clothing.)
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When Magneto and Mystique met in the French subway, Victor Hugo station, we can see that it's a kind of a big hub, in the reality, this station is located in a district where very few people use it, even fewer in 1973.
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When Magneto is on the train he sends rails into the train car to takeover the Sentinels. He is doing this from the top of the train. The Sentinels were not originally made of metal so how does he see where they are? He would be able to sense the train cars but not the Sentinels inside.
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Though this film is set after the events in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), as evidenced by the absence of Jean Grey and Cyclops who died in X3, older Professor X is present in his original body - which was destroyed by Phoenix/Jean Grey.
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The entire plot hinges on Trask creating Sentinels that can absorb and use mutant powers. To do that, he obtains Mystique's DNA. However, Mystique can only mimic the appearances of others, not the powers. Trask would need Rogue's DNA to give the sentinels the ability to absorb mutant powers.
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The newspaper that Wolverine prevents Magneto from picking up has the headline "Peace Treaty to be signed in Paris". The article then proceeds to describe the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 in the past tense.
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AKAs Titles:
Argentina - X-Men: D�as del futuro pasado
Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) - Х-�œен: �”ни на о�‚минало�‚о б�Šде�‰е
Brazil - X-Men: Dias de um Futuro Esquecido
Canada (French title) - X-Men: Jours d'un avenir pass�
Chile - X-Men: D�as del futuro pasado
Germany - X-Men: Days of Future Past
Germany - X-Men: Zukunft ist Vergangenheit
Estonia - X-mehed: Tulevase m��daniku p�evad
Spain - X-Men: D�as del futuro pasado
France - X-Men: Days of Future Past
Georgia - X-adamianebi: momavlis ganvlili dgeebi
Greece - X-Men: �—μέ�ε�‚ εν�Œ�‚ ξε�‡α�ƒμένο�… μέλλον�„ο�‚
Croatia - X-Men: Dani budu�‡e prošlosti
Hungary - X-Men: Az elj�vend�‘ m�lt napjai
Israel (Hebrew title) - X-Men: he'atid she'haya
India (alternative title) (Hindi title) - X-Men: Maha Sangram
Italy - X-Men - Giorni di un futuro passato
Japan (English title) (alternative transliteration) - X-Men: Future & Past
Japan - X-Men: Fy�ch� & pasuto
Lithuania - Iksmenai: Praejusios ateities dienos
Mexico - X Men: D�as del futuro pasado
Mexico (alternative title) - X-Men: D�as del futuro pasado
Peru - X-Men: D�as del futuro pasado
Poland - X-Men: Przesz�‚o�›�‡, kt�ra nadejdzie
Portugal - X-Men: Dias de Um Futuro Esquecido
Romania - X-Men: Viitorul este trecut
Serbia - X-men: Dani budu�‡e prošlosti
Russia - �›�Žди �˜к�: �”ни мин�ƒв�ˆего б�ƒд�ƒ�‰его
Slovenia - Mozje X: Dnevi prihodnje preteklosti
Turkey (Turkish title) - X-Men: Ge�mis G�nler Gelecek
Ukraine - �›�Žди Iк�: �”нi мин�ƒлого майб�ƒ�‚н�Œого
USA - X-Men: Days of Future Past
USA (director's cut) - X-Men: Days of Future Past the Rogue Cut
USA (informal title) - X-Men: First Class 2
Vietnam (alternative title) - X-men: Ngay Cu Cua Tuong Lai

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