X-Men: Days of Future Past panders but it doesn't pander too much. A lot is told from exposition even more so than a Christopher Nolan film as there really aren't visuals for certain scenes, just actors acting in a horribly rushed manner in fear of fans not having patience for a long film, as well as producers fearing of smaller box office revenue as a result of less replay times in theatres. It would've been cool if there were single shots instead of soap opera camera shooting to fix this problem, but I dunno. Singer's not a terrible director like many others around, but he rushed a bit with this film.
X-Men is simple. Done over 11 years. 1 plot hole. 1 simple plot. Not a lot to complain about. Acceptable.
There's a lot of stuff to turn people away from the one year budget X-Men: Days of Future Past, but there's also a lot to keep them in. 2012 superhero films that put me off with this were Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises, but oh well.
It's sort of sad that we've gotten to the point where scripts don't make sense by themselves, as sequels and aren't even crack fiction, yet audiences allow directors to get away with it.
Fans did it for Thor, its sequel and Avengers, so we let them get by with it in X-Men, and its sad.
We don't really care about the stories.
They team up.
They have a lot of cast, letting 15,000 get jobs on this project, having a staff work on CGI for many futuristic towns or even the stadium.
That in itself is a good story and I really hope it makes it on DVD/Blu Ray extras.
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