![]() When Mystique shapeshifts into an Army Colonel in Vietnam, the name on her uniform is "Sanders", whose best-known creation is KFC.In the scene where Erik tries to kill Mystique with a bullet, his attempts to hit her with it are presented in slow motion, at one point curving the bullet around Charles' head.(Magneto was stuck in the Pentagon for a decade, and Xavier has been moping around the house since the start of The Vietnam War.) Even once the plot takes off, she's arguably the most active character. ![]() On a more meta level, Mystique is the only mutant back in the past who has been doing anything for the last few years.Blink's powers make her extremely effective in fighting the Sentinels, both in taking them out herself and assisting the others in fighting them.Storm is the first strike against the Sentinels because of her weather powers. ![]() Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: There are plenty of emotional, character-driven moments (especially with the younger Xavier) in between the spectacular action sequences.He's got more justified reasons than in most examples of the trope. Achilles in His Tent: 1973 Xavier gives up on his powers and his role as the leader of mutants, and refuses to cooperate with Wolverine without his aid, the entire venture is impossible.Abled in the Adaptation: Hank invents a serum that Charles can take which allows him to regain his ability to walk at the cost of his powers.Wolverine still wears his muttonchops even in the future scenes.Trask's hair helmet is very appropriate for the time period.Quicksilver's glam mop upset many fans in promotional materials, but it fits in with the era perfectly.Mystique rocks some hairstyles of the time in her human form and in one scene, masquerades as a black woman with an enormous afro.The younger Professor X still has a full head of hair, and sports a longer, hippie-style mane.Gets an Establishing Shot in Wolverine's wake-up scene, with a lava lamp and a waterbed. The '70s: Part of the film takes place in 1973, complete with the Porn Stache, Richard Nixon, bell-bottoms and polyester.20 Minutes into the Past: Half of this 2014 film takes place in 1973 thanks to Mental Time Travel.With nowhere else to turn, Professor X and Magneto band together for a final desperate plan: using a particular mutant's Time Travel powers to send one of their own into the past, and stop the war between man and mutant before it ever begins. In the year 2023, mutants have become an endangered species, hunted by the mechanical "Sentinels" of Trask Industries. ![]() An alternate version of the film with 17 minutes of additional footage was released on Blu-Ray/DVD in 2015 and subtitled The Rogue Cut. It is the first movie in the franchise to receive an Academy Award nomination (Best Visual Effects). The film is directed by Bryan Singer, of X-Men and X2: X-Men United fame, with First Class director Matthew Vaughn serving as a producer. The seventh installment in the series, it is a sequel to X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine AND X-Men: The Last Stand as well as both sequel and prequel to the original X-Men Trilogy, re-combining the semi-tangled film universe into a single narrative. ![]() X-Men: Days of Future Past is a 2014 sci-fi superhero movie in the X-Men Film Series, adapting the Marvel Comics story of the same name. ![]()
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