Better Ending: Logan or Days of Future Past.

Aug 20, 2019 20:29:37 GMT thenolan said:

Aug 20, 2019 20:15:14 GMT bud47 said:

Logan was the better film and had the better ending. DOFP is highly overrated and is full of missed opportunities.

Regarding DOFP's ending, Mystique's reveal was thrown in as a "shock ending" at the last minute by a compulsive director with no regards for continuity or foresight. It served no other purpose.

How is DOFP overrated.Compared to which movie? I didn't even love DOFP as much as I did until I saw a worse execution of time travel with another marvel movie called Endgame, that missed more opportunities even for MCU usual immature standards.

Mystique's ending was not a shock ending, if you have watched many time travel movie or many twisted movies you would expect that type of ending.  The director doesn't want to make it easy, especially when its time travel. There could still be consequences for  violating nature like reserving time, that was the point of the ending. That is smarter to how simple and preditcbale  Endgame used time travel.

You are right that DOFP messed up the continuity but as a stand alone movie that was supposed to be the ending to the prequels, it was a pure gold. Logan was a breathtaking send off to the main character of the series.

Actually as a stand alone movie it loses half it's value, see without the weight of the original X-Men trilogy without First Class most of the weighty scenes in DOFP have little to no meaning, Mystique's relationships with everyone is nothing without the 4 other films of backstory, the devestation of the Sentinel's means little to nothing without the connection to the original trilogy of movies, Stewart & McAvoy speaking doesn't hold 1/4 of the meaning of impact without the prior performances of both actors in the role previously, like Endgame & IW are mostly carried by the built up emotional cache from the prior films of the MCU so to does DOFP, if you look at it as an isolated film what makes it "great" is lost, it makes up for some of the faults of the movie sure, but it turns good into ok, where as the past movies connections and the lack of continuity or sense of this film due to that turn a great film into a good film.

Also the Mystique as Striker thing was half baked, made obvious by the fact they didn't know what to do with that and ignore it in the very next movie, they didn't even write in a scene in Apocalypse of Mystique recognising it was Logan on a rampage suggesting some history we never saw that's inconsequential to the actual plot of the film, but atleast that doesn't make the Mystique reveal in DOFP a completely wasted moment.

DOFP did use the time travel makes it all better, but it does so stupidly also, stopping the Sentinels that did nothing between DOFP and The Wolverine somehow prevented Jean going psychotic and killing Cyclops, fair enough Mystique becoming a mutant icon and ushering a new sense of acceptance could have stifled the idea of a cure preventing Rogue from giving up her powers, but DOFP's ending is just stupid as Logan would return to the same time period consciousness left, as in he'd be in the future, atleast a decade on from where we last saw the X-Men, yet the movie ends with it being like it's 6 months on from The Last Stand at worst, no one moved on everyone was static from that point on, it's hilariously stupid and sad to a degree.

DOFP often gets lauded as a great film, it isn't it's a good film, hence it is overrated, it also did nothing new, it did nothing inventive, it did nothing spectacular other than having 5 tremendous performers 2 of which were in reduced roles with Jackman, McAvoy, Fassbender, Stewart & McKellan they carry much of the movie, Dinkleage wasn't bad but he wasn't great either imo, just wasn't given enough to do maybe, the performances carry the film, the actual film is generic and half baked.