Trailer Tuesday: X-Men Days of Future Past

The X-Men We Have Been Waiting For?

Time for another edition of Trailer Tuesday! Take a Seat because this is a special one for me since today is my birthday.  I was hoping that we would have a full-length trailer of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy by now, but from what I hear that is actually going to be released later today.  I'm impatient and want to review something, so i figured I'd share a trailer that I really enjoyed and am psyched to see more.

I really get how much Magneto looks like a young Magneto from this poster.

The trailer I decided to review is for X-Men Days of Future Past.  This trailer came out a little while ago.  Since then, I watched an absolutely terrible The Wolverine which has me craving a good X-Men movie.  Now maybe you enjoyed The Wolverine to which I say SHAME ON YOU!  It wasn't the worst movie ever made, but it made no sense. He's mortal, but that just means bullets hurt?? Seriously, he got shot a lot and it barely slowed him down.  It left us with more questions than answers and makes me wonder if it will ever have happened in the universe that Days of Future Past is set in.  

Anyway, I digress, and without any further ado here's the trailer for this week:

Right from the beginning, this trailer has me hooked.  The music is perfect.  The tone is dark.  From what we can see, it starts in the future.  The inevitable war between the mutants and the humans is in full swing.  The mutants are wearing some sweet-looking armor and, honestly, I would love to just see that movie. The future war. Granted, I thought that about Terminator and eventually we got Terminator: Salvation.  I need to be careful about what I wish for.  

If you disagree here's approximately 3 words:  Naked. CG.  Arnold.

Back to the trailer, we're in the future.  It must not be going well for the mutants.  Professor X says that he had a "glimpse into the past."  Talking to Wolverine, again played by Huge Jacked-man, they are talking about a plan to send him back where he will attempt to change something in the past.  We can only assume that it has something to do with ending the war before it starts.  You know what?  This really does have a Terminator vibe to it.  

It looks imperative that you see X-Men First Class if you haven't already.  We meet again young Professor X and young Magneto.  The plan has something to do with bringing them together in the past and for some reason Professor X has gone kind of Grunge with long hair and a beard, although he is in his signature wheel chair.

And what does the blue "X" on his face mean?  ...You Are Here.

Obviously he's a long way from becoming the Patrick Stewart Professor X.  It will be interesting to see how the two end up talking and what the young X will need to do.  The trailer does a good job of not giving us too much about all that.  We get a little bit of the overarching story, but not too many details.   Those are my favorite trailers.  Leave me wanting more.

We also see some of the old cast.  Ice Man, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Storm, and some new faces. Lennifer Lawrence is also back as Mystique. From their expressions and reactions, things are really not going well for them and sending someone back in time might be the only way to save them all.  

Outside of the trailer there has been some other news released, including a picture of what the Sentinels will look like.  Sentinels are giant robots created by the humans to combat mutants.  These were featured heavily in the old X-Men animated TV show from when I was a kid.  

Did the Sentinel go on a diet to be in the real movie?

This will not be the first time that we see the Sentinels in the X-Men series.  Although, they look a little different, we saw the severed head of one in X-Men 3.  At the beginning when several X-Men were in a training simulation, Wolverine has Colossus throw him into the fog at some attacking foe.  He takes it down and all we see is the head come crashing down.

This is no time to... lose one's head?

Should I bother telling you that I'm excited about this movie?  For as much as we get to see, we really don't know much.  I know there is a comic out there about this story, but I won't be reading it.  I want to go into this movie ready to take it in fresh.  From what I hear, this story is a little different even in premise from the comic anyway.  

Maybe Professor X can send me into the future so I don't have to wait any longer for this one to come out.  I think I'm going to go watch the trailer again right now.  It is just that good.