User blog comment:Jamie/Episode 11 - X-Men Days of Future Past/@comment-1895174-20140617194124

This movie almost makes Bryan Singer's mistake of leaving the X-Men franchise for Superman Returns and the terrible movies that followed it worthwhile. A Sentinel movie in 2014 is more than just a good action movie. Singer was always a fan of tying social commentary into the X-Men movies, drawing on the Gay Rights Movement to inform his depiction of mutants' conflict with society at large (anyone who doesn't see the scene with Iceman's family in X2 or Beast's introduction in First Class as an "outing" wasn't paying attention). DoFP draws on a different issue, as it is a movie about precise, automated death machines patrolling the skies for an enemy who hasn't done anything yet at a time when you can watch the news and hear a story about precise, automated death machines patrolling the skies for an enemy who hasn't done anything yet.

Game of Drones. Starring Peter Dinklage.

Similar thing happened with Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Central to the film's plot was an algorithm that selected individuals that might present a threat to global stability and would then be taken out from, again, death machines in the sky. The New York Times has even gone so far as to call the movie part of ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2NnHEE-PP4 President Obama's pop culture legacy."]

Between those two movies, it's a great year for superhero movies. Which one's better? I'll give the edge to Cap, only because I can't nitpick it as much. Hopefully Guardians of the Galaxy is just as good, and put that movie Michael Bay wants us to think is about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in its place.

And something that doesn't get talked about enough: Those future Sentinels were horrifying. It's been a while since I've seen a better monster design.