24:30 Charles is a twin, but when he and his twin were developing in the womb and Charles' mutant gene developed and activated first, his immense psychic ability actually drained away the consciousness of his twin, leaving him a blank slate. The twin, as you can imagine, has the same mutant power but only one of them had the chance to develop. When Jean killed Charles in his original body, he used his powers just before dying to transfer his consciousness to his twin's body since it was just a blank husk. This was the reason they kept his twin's body alive all these years, and he knew he could do this and told the nurses there that if that body ever wakes up, it will be him not his twin

Re: Mystique being captured but being free in the first movies, the story is that Mystique was captured and imprisoned for decades, then escaped a lot colder and murderous to hook up with the older Magneto. The scientists meanwhile spent years afterward perfecting the Sentinals with their research from Mystique.

"All those years wasted fighting each other Charles. To have a precious few of them back." I am a huge fan of their friendship and I'm glad they put those scenes in throughout the franchise

To your point about Pietro, in the comics he's portrayed as a pretty irritable jerk because he explains that even a normal conversation for him feels like standing in line at the DMV. Life is just torturously slow for him.

“What else explains a bullet miraculously curving through the air?” Fun line from him as the actor also in “Wanted” where they literally do it all movie

The film was a box office and critical success, making $770 million dollars against a $200 million dollar budget and holds 92% on RT, considered to be the best X Men Movie Ever made.

Fun fact: Wolverine didn't originally have a healing factor in the comics. He just kept showing up again fine two or three pages after having the bub beat out of him. Eventually fans were like "How does he keep coming back so quickly?" and the authors decided healing quickly was one of his powers.

I feel like The reason Eric hasn’t “figured out he makes everything worse” is because that’s been his goal the whole time. Charles wants to coexist and prove that mutants aren’t a threat to anyone and should be treated as equals but Eric believes that they aren’t equals and that there can’t be coexistence and wants to force Conflict between the two. everything he does in this movie is in service of that, Mutants need to rule the world and humans need to be afraid. So news coverage of him doing murders in Paris and dropping stadiums on the white house is kind of the coverage he’s after

I'm surprised no one mentioned it in the comments. So Charles looks like himself because the body he inhabited was his twin brother's. It's not really something you would know unless you read the comics. But that's the plot hole. Not really a plot hole but just something they didn't explain for people who aren't familiar with the comics.

The quote about the "bullet miraculously curving" also feels like a jab at Wanted which also starred James McAvoy.

Evan Peter's as Quicksilver is such a amazing edition to cast of X-Men days of future past

“I don’t want your suffering, I don’t want your future” That and the entire scene that follows between the older and younger Charles Xavier is so powerful. Absolutely love it. I’ve seen this movie about 6 or 7 times and I tear up every time that scene plays.

Peter Dinklage's normal accent is "American" so what you hear in this movie is the real him. He was using a British accent in GOT.

This movie is literally the infinity war of the xmen movies such a great movie hands down. Its rare you get a good ending like this and the only reason we got a good ending is cause logan wasnt allowed to be connected to the other movies and the past movies are inconsistent and seem to be a whole other timeline.

Talking about Quicksilver, one of the best comic book issues ever was one where, Quicksilver and his team were each had a turn talking to a psychiatrist, and Quicksilver talked about how incredibly frustrating it is having to deal with slow people all the time.

I laughed at "it's so interesting seeing Peter Dinklage with an American accent" because he's from New Jersey. He was actually one of the few GoT cast members from the US. But something the has always bothered my about the baseball stadium scene. If Eric/Magneto lifted it off the foundation the way he did and moved the entire stadium, how did the stadium cameras still work? You can actually see he turn the cameras to him, which doesn't get me as they have metal in them but how do they turn on and air what is happening if they aren't connected to a power source?

This is probably my second favorite X-Men movie behind Logan. Does it make the timeline incredibly messy? Yes. Do I care? Not really. It's just such a good, satisfying ride and a nice way to rework the ending of X3.

For what it is worth, I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Rogue cut.

I think a Rogue Cut "reaction" would be cool. Instead of it being a full on first time reaction, it would be more like a "What does Natalie notice this time" video, which can be a totally different thing.

“It’s sad cuz he’s like an addict, but he’s addicting to numbing the pain and the sadness…” Addicts everywhere would like to point something out to you lol

One of the best x-men movies. The ending was very satisfying. I feel bad for logan though. He's the only one that remembers how messed up the future was before and remember seeing his friends killed.

Nat - this story is based thematically on an actuall story in the comic books done way back in 1981. It was amazing and foward thinking then, and influenced so much of our "time travel" stories and rules in those stories today.

Nat: "It's SO WEIRD hearing Dinklage with an American accent!" Me, watching Elf repeatedly over the holidays: "Just wait until she hears about the South Pole elves."

This is my most favorite X-men movie but I'm still saddened by the fact that all those tortured and dead mutants got nothing in return. I guess I wanted it to go dark in a way that after he was exiled and imprisoned, Erik finds Trask again to make him pay especially considering it was his team that got annihilated. Seeing Azazel in those files was really shocking tbh.

It was super cool seeing this movie for the first time. The fact that they made a movie mixing the new and the original cast is so cool!

the character that appears in the post credits scene is "Apocalypse" (the world's first mutant).

The post-credits scene was depicting En Sabah Nur (translation: the first one)... more commonly known as Apocalypse. It generated massive hype for the movie, but fell short of the massive expectations of fans who were familiar with the comic or animated series version of Apocalypse, who was scarily powerful.

When you said Dinklage’s American accent was good 😭 tbf when I heard McAvoy in a movie with a Scottish accent I thought he was American from wanted and really said “his Scottish accent is pretty good.”

Despite First Class being made as a prequel, the series going forward treats it like a soft reboot with Days of Future Past more or less erasing the events of the original timeline. That's why there are so many inconsistencies. (That and poor planning)

As a Mohawk man I really enjoyed the small cameo of Warpath, and the fact even at the end he draws his knifes and attacks, knowing he will die but does it anyway.

It's good watching others react to the films we've loved. That's why ever since I subscribed to this channel, I would take the time to watch the movies here that I've never watched yet before, just to watch your reactions to it afterward. It's crazy.

A great movie and one of the best in the franchise, so many things come together in this film to make it what it is and genuinely give us the best full xmen (as opposed to a single character focused movie) movie to date. Props to Jennifer Lawrence for actually committing to her character and fully going Mystique makeup for this movie, wish she did it in the other ones too.

Fun fact in the original storyline from the comics it was Kitty Pryde who was sent back in time not Wolverine. I like Wolverine but he gets an inordinate amount of focus on the movies. There are other X-Men characters who have equally as compelling story arcs.

Great reaction as always. Not sure if there are other comments about this, but Charles doesn’t “freeze time” - he freezes people in place by stopping their mind basically. He can’t freeze the sentinels - they’re robots.

We grew up on X-Men in the early 90's. The cartoon, the cards, the games and this is the best in the film series to me.

Rogue Cut is slightly better but it's not a huge deal - I think it improves some of the pacing and flow but do Rogue's scenes really matter to the story? not in the slightest

The Sentinels in this movie are way scarier and deadlier than in the comics. This movie is one of the few times when they actually improve upon something in the comics. In the comics, the Sentinels were often rather goofy and too easily taken down. Heck, there was one time in the comics where a Sentinel simply dropped dead because a random beam of light overloaded its sensors. This movie is also surprisingly accurate to the comics. The main difference is that Mystique was trying to assassinate Senator Kelly, not Bolivar Trask. Kitty sent herself back her younger self rather than sending Wolverine. And in the comics the Sentinels only took over the US, not the entire world. Still, this is one of the greatest comic book movies ever made. In fact, 2014 was a really great movie year. What I also love is that this is (and MAYBE X3) the only movie that does justice to Storm and shows her being a great leader and uses her powers in an interesting way (like creating a massive blizzard to slow down the Sentinel carriers, charging up Bishop and combing her power with Magneto's to take down a horde of Sentinels). The whole teamwork the mutants show against the future Sentinels is really creative and effective. Also, Charles can't freeze time. He can just put people's minds on pause. Also, Magneto throws the stadium on the White House specifically because he believes there's no chance of humans ever accepting mutants. So he attacks the president to make an example and trying to inspire mutants to revolt.

Finally! My favorite X-Men movie!!! Really fun to flip back and fourth between the original cast and the First Class cast. The scene between Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy is still one of all time favorites from the comic book film genre! Stay smooth and Stay gold pony boy!

The body that Charles Xavier uses in the future, as Patrick Stewart, is the body of his twin brother who was the "brain dead" guy in the coma, thats why he looks the same after he got now to smithereens by Jean. I think they slightly alluded to that in X-men 3 but it was easily missed.

Nat, no need to apologize for anything lol. It wasn’t even a mistake, and you don’t owe us anything. Thanks for your awesome content. Keep it up!

I’ve been waiting for this one! This was my first X-Men movie because I saw a snippet of the Quicksilver scene that drew me in. Still my personal favorite

Magneto cheat sheet: “Is he gonna lift. . .?” He absolutely is.

there's a definitive edition of this movie called "The Rogue Cut" that adds a few extra scenes that better explain certain plot points and really ties the whole X-men series together in a nice way. 11/10 recommend :D

Natalie: "... A mutant built the Pyramids..." Which is about 50,000 times more believable than freaking ALIENS building the damn things!!

Yay, my favorite X-Men movie. When I saw the Quicksilver scene in the theater I couldn't stop laughing. Seriously. My friend sitting next to me was starting to get uncomfortable. That scene just hit the sweet spot for me.

One of the most beautiful parts of the whole film... "I'm now going to do a monologue about continuity issues in previous films"

Idk if someone told you already, but there's a "Rogue Cut" version of the movie with additional scenes where Iceman and Magneto go to bring Rogue back so she could take Kitty's place because Logan cut her and she was to injured to keep the connection with him. Really good scenes and nice to see Rogue again in the future.

Two interesting details about the portal mutant “Blink” from the comics: 1) The character literally died in the second issue she appeared in and was never revived, though she is temporarily replaced by an alternate universe version. 2) The actress who played her in this movie was later busted for tax fraud in China then was literally “disappeared” by the Chinese government and hasn’t made a single public appearance since 2018 when she was caught.

For the rogue cut, it benefits for the storyline, has less plotholes and just makes more sense and I feel like would be easier to follow, however there aren't many new scenes and not THAT much different. However I would still watch the rogue version, I think it would help for future movies

I was excited by this movie since I watched its first trailer. I think Bryan Singer, the director, made it like a great farewell of the old cast, taking the new ones the roles.

Just so you get it, in x men last stand the unconscious body in the video with the doctor is Charles identical twin brother, born brain dead because charles' mind was so powerful, and thats the body he transferred his consciousness into the instant before Jean killed him

I've watched a couple reactions to this, but I realized that epilogue is just not going to be the same for someone who hasn't been watching and loving the X-Men series for years. Who suffered through #3 and some bad spinoffs, and saw the pretty-good-but-still-not-the-same _First Class._ Who gave up on seeing that world and those characters again. Then this ending comes along and grabs your heart, and unwrites those years of losing the original XMU characters. It's a dream.

The Return of the Queen! I'm glad you guys took time off, both you and Cameron deserve a vacation. That being said, I'm so glad to see you posting videos again and can't wait for what you guys are doing next. Happy New Year, Nat!

I know it's a kids show but i would strongly suggest you to watch the entirety of Avatar the last airbender and show us your reaction. I will only say that you will lose nothing from doing it. It's the best animated show i have ever seen, try it with you haven't i'm sure you will like it :)

Not quicksilver related but I remember a Swamp Thing conic I read as a kid and he described each of the justice league in his own way. Of the Flash; There is a man who moves so fast, it must seem the world is a gallery of statues to him”. I always found that so beautiful and heartbreaking.

The Rogue Cut does make the story more interesting. The end credits scene shows a young Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), an immortal mutant born in ancient Egypt, and was transformed by Celestial technology into an advanced form of cyborg able to completely control the molecular structure of his body.

Never saw the Rogue cut. I imagine there's more Rogue in it. But this is the best X-Men movie out of the bunch. So, I can't imagine it's much better. BTW, this is another timeline from the films before X-Men: First Class.

OMG Nat, I wasn't expecting to see you this week. Nice! So about the Rogue Cut, you didn't mess up. Watching the Rogue Cut is actually more interesting after watching the theatrical cut. To see how much was changed and what wasn't was fascinating to me. It'll be interesting to see your reactions specifically to what was changed and how the filmmakers handled it.

I like that comment about you talking about inconsistencies in this movie. That pretty much sums up the X-Men cinematic universe films relating to each other.

So good to have some nat reactions back hope you had a good couple holidays!!!

It’s weird. I really liked this film but because the ending was such a satisfying resolution to the storyline it kind of killed my interest in seeing any additional “team” X-Men movies. I anticipated, watched and enjoyed Logan and Deadpool 1-2 but I just couldn’t muster the energy to get excited for Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix even before the reviews came out

Also the body he moved into in X-3 was his twin brother. They don't explain that in the film, but I believe it happens in the comics.

Lol, Nat tripping on Peter’s American accent considering he’s from New Jersey that’s just his normal voice.

every time i watch one this videos im mesmerized by the fact that Natalie made through almost 20 years of entertainment experience without watching any of it. like wth were you doing girl??

My favorite X movie! It was great to see you finally get to watch this. Such a great movie. I for one would LOVE to see your reaction to the Rogue Cut as well… it makes a great movie even greater. Happy New Year!!

I would very much love to see your reaction to the Rogue Cut. But I'm also kind of glad this is out, because frankly I don't even remember the theatrical cut. But yeah, in general always go for extended cuts or director's cuts when you can.

27:51 that "bonk" sound effect tho 😂

I appreciate you talking about The Rogue Cut right away. I enjoy your vids, and while I wish I was watching it already, I'm more than willing to watch this, like, comment, already subbed, for the potential we see Rogue Cut in the future. Keep it up, Nat, thanks for sharing yourself with the world!

Most of the questions you have about inconsistencies is because the things you think happened in the future, changed the moment they went back in time so the first three x men movies essentially didn't happen the moment they changed time. I hope that helps!

Yesss I’ve been waiting for u to do this🔥🔥🔥

Everytime I looked for one of your posts and nothing was there, I smiled at the thought of the fun you were having and how much you guys had earned it.

Quicksilver was a difficult character in the comics. I think the movie treatment was brilliant, if a little overpowered. The music in his big scene was "Time in a Bottle", a 1973 hit by Jim Croce. Jim was a genius who was taken from us far too young. This was his biggest hit during his lifetime, but perhaps his more enduring legacy was "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown".

I think a separate Rogue Cut video would be great. I've always preferred it to the theatrical.

The X-Men world can be confusing, especially when, primarily in the early movies, the origins of some mutants and the relationships between them were changed from the comics, and then (sort of) corrected in later movies.

The reason Professor X looks the same despite having switched bodies is explained in Xmen 3. When you see Moira McTaggert she is caring for Charles's twin who was born without consciousness. When he "died" he transferred his own consciousness into his twin.

14:24 "It's kind of _creepy_ when he does it _slowly."_ He's not _doing_ it slowly. Remember, Quicksilver's power is that he can move, speak and _think_ at supersonic _speeds._ Wolverine is extending those claws at the _normal_ speed, but this is what it looks like from _Quicksilver's_ perspective.

@26:35, the thought of killer robots designed to hunt down people is terrifying. If something like this were to happen in real life I would be running for the hills. That said in some versions of the X-Men lore, the Sentinels realize that there is no exist standard template for a human being. Because each one of us has within our cells subtle mutations - we are all mutants. Once the Sentinels realize this the entire human race is deemed mutants and put on the hunt list. Since most people don’t have superpowers, very shortly the only people left in the world are mutants with great offensive powers. Talk about unforeseen consequences.

Eh, the Rogue Cut’s not necessary. It’s pretty good but the theatrical is fine. Not to say don’t watch it, go ahead. Kitty being able to send someone’s mind back in time is an extension of her phasing power I still remember watching this movie for the first time, watching Charles tie his arm and get out a needle and being like “Whoa! Whoa! WTF?!” And then sighing in relief when Hank says it’s a serum to treat his spine Trask was technically in X Men before. In Last Stand played by Bill Dukes as the head of the DHS and aid to the president during the war with the mutants. First name never said. On top of that, the giant robot they were fighting in the danger room in Last Stand had a more comic accurate Sentinel look. Or at least the head did. In the comics it actually is the case that Quicksilver’s perspective is everyone else going super slow. He compares it to being stuck behind someone who’s taking forever at an ATM, all the time The screenwriter speculated that Kennedy's mutant power manifested as a telepathic form of persuasion. The inconsistencies started with First Class. Remember in Last Stand when Xavier and Erik meet young Jean? Charles was already bald, yet still walking, and Erik was with him, implying their time as allies was a lot longer than depicted in FC. And in the first movie Charles says Magneto found some way to block his telepathy, not saying it’s the helmet, yet in FC he clearly sees Erik wearing it and knows he can’t get past it I’m sorry, it’s hilarious to me that you went so long thinking he was freezing time and not just the people. Like even in first class when he freezes a guy at the water fountain the water is still going 😂 It was his twin brother’s body he took over The look of the rebar in Logan is reminiscent of a moment in the comics when Magneto rips the adamantium out of him. Jean has always had red her. Though it was more vibrant when she was Pheonix En Sabah Nur with his _Four Horsemen_ in the background. His name translates to “The First One.” It’s not the name he’s generally known by. You’ll learn it.

Love this movie! Days of Future Past and Logan are my favourite X-Men movies.

18:57 the way that I see it (to make it make more sense) is that when Logan changes the future, it makes a new varient of the timeline

Should've watched the Rogue Cut of the movie, the context and changes it adds really flow better and make the movie better in general, not that the theatrical version is bad. The scene from the Rogue Cut switching back and forth from the two versions of Magneto is really cool.

Ah shit we're here! Days of Future Past! :D

Yes please post the Rouge edition because it’s always good to see another point of view of how the movie should have gone as well

Blink is the female mutant that was making the portals, she was in one comic book the Phalanx Covenant , before the second junior X men team started their comic book, Generation X . The New Mutants were the first junior X men team in the 1980s and Generation X was the one from the 1990s. The Phalanx Covenant was about a force attacking mutants and Blink did something to save everyone. they featured her in the tv show, The Gifted , that was on Fox in the 2010s.

I remember watching this on a date in the cinema. Being an X-men fan all my life, the scene when wolverine looks at Jean at the end, couldn’t stop crying. Not the best look for a first date 🤦🏻

Quicksilver in the comics was known for being a jerkass. He explained it once as how everyone gets annoyed at the supermarket being behind that slow customer who can't find their wallet, etc. Everything feels like that to him when he's not running flat out!

Me : OMG Magnito is soooo OP, he lifted an entire stadium. Natalie : Ericaaa, have you learned nothing. 😂

Fun Fact: In the comics, Mystique has sons with both Xavier and Logan in the future and they travel back in time to the modern era. The comatose man Xavier "jumps" into in X3 is supposed to be his twin brother, explaining why he looks the same.

I believe the explanation for Charles surving to this film after his body was destroyed in The Last Stand is that he had an identical twin brother than was brain dead but still allive, and he has taken over that body, which you see him wake up in an end credit sceen of The Last Stand, I think it is why Charles appears to give up fighting Jean in his death sceen, because he is transferring his own consciousness to his brother's body

Just found your reactions. Please do the Rogue cut! It's the best Xmen movie ever imo. It actually wraps ALL of the characters storyline up in a good way.

In the extended edition, Shadowcat was mortally wounded when Wolverine started flailing. There's a whole side mission to get Rogue out of the X-mansion to take over

I'll say this - Natalie, *NEVER* apologise for working to a schedule that allows you to have reasonable personal time. You provide a source of entertainment that we all enjoy, but while you try to entertain us, we all appreciate that you have a life to balance. If ever there's a time to recognise that people on Social Media, be it KZfaq, Instagram or whatever, are people who take time out of their lives for our entertainment, most of who are balancing that alongside their actual jobs, and need to be able to relax, rest up and take time like the rest of us do then it's in a post-Covid world. Taking time off and watching the movies in a way that suits your schedule is your right and if that's what works best for you, keep on doing it. You can always watch different versions at another time and react to them and their differences. I'm sure that most of your subscribers and viewers are reasonable people, it always seems that way.

I would actually really enjoy seeing your reaction to both versions of this movie. I saw the theatrical version in theaters and loved it and then saw the Rogue Cut the following year when it became available on Blu Ray. It became a different experience and I enjoyed catching all the new scenes and differences and would like to know your thoughts on seeing both. Most react channels will usually pick one version and never get around to the other.

My general "rule" when watching movies is to go for any extended/unrated/director's cuts, if there is one... While it isn't always the case, the extended versions are generally better, if for no other reason than they have additional scenes. You have nnnooooooo need to apologize though, especially for taking time off over the holidays 😊

That mutant at the end is named Apocalypse. He is the first mutant to ever be born. He is a villain that is basically immortal because he has his own lazuras pits in his temple. He creates his own 4 Horsemen. One of them is Angel, Warren Worthington 3. Warren is the mutant from Last Stand with the wings. Apocalypse turns him into Archangel the Horseman of death.

As happy as I am to see your videos again, I'm super glad you got some much needed R&R. We all need time to recharge every now and then

"Disclaimer: I didn't see the Rogue Cut..." And many of us hadn't; but if the numbers are up and you release it here in KZfaq, it would be a pleasure to take that particular film ride with you :). As you've mentioned: it's a bit hard to keep up, not only with the chronologies but also with the versions. Some were released alongside the "original version", some were released years later... one can't be sure if the extended versions or the new cuts add something else to the original story unless one asks in advance if they are worth it, so yeah: it's comprehensible. But don't be too hard with your selection, basically if you are "reacting for the first time" to Marvel Films, you are following the path every single person had to follow when the films first came out: the theathrical version first, and later on the discovery of extended cuts XD. "Avoiding spoilers" also implicates not knowing how good the existing extended cuts out there really are. "It's less gross when the claws are covered in Adamantium" It should be noted too that with the Adamantium cover they pierce through the skin more easily, in theory XD. And the sound is more metallic, not bone going through flesh :P. "Erick! Why you think killing her is better?" Because he doesn't know (and has never been really convinced) of the "middle ground". If Mystique was the key to develop the Sentinels of the future, that danger will always be with her for as long as she lives. How do you really make sure there is no way shape shifting technollogy is developed around her skills? Erasing her from the map. That plan has several flaws, but Erick sees it in the short time: no Mystique, no powers, no threaths to the mutants. "Natalie Gold's funny unintended expression" If those are a lot, they could make a nice little clip for the end of the year; with any remarkable bloopers XD. Just saying :P. "How cool it would be some things of the past movies and the plot could be undone" Wait for it... And yeah! Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "retconning" that comics use whenever they want to undo crazy stuff or bring back characters meant to be dead XD. It's nicely done here, though, since many of the choices were not well received in the past movies and so far there has not been any film featuring the 2000's original cast, but it was nice to see them back (basically undoing several things of the past films). And Jean has always been a redhead, but yeah, the first films don't boost her hair color a lot XD. And that would be it, nothing much to add to this reaction; it was great :). See you in the next one.

In my opinion I find the theatrical cut to be a more concise story. It paces a lot better. The Rogue cut gives us back that great character and some new scenes, but overall I think it gets slightly too mired down in exposition.

There are similar robots in the comics called adaptoids. In the comics, they were made by M.O.D.O.K. (a former doctor and villain to the Avengers). After Tony Stark went broke, he bought his company and named it A.I.M. These Adaptoids took Inhumans powers and killed them [Mutants are born with powers, Inhumans were infected with a gas that gave them powers (Ms Marvel being one)].

28:54 Charles couldn't really have "frozen time" earlier. Because what he does isn't freezing time. He doesn't have time manipulation powers. He is a telepath, so what he does is probably freezing minds of everyone in an area. Which we see happen at the start of X2 - everyone was frozen, but the TVs kept functioning, and police officers kept trying to talk to their frozen colleagues through walkie talkies. He couldn't have done it earlier because Eric was still wearing his helmet, so he wouldn't be frozen, and would potentially kill all those men, if Charles gave him such an opportunity. Plus the sentinels wouldn't be frozen either.