After Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home is probably the most acclaimed MCU blockbusters in recent memory. Thanks to the multiverse, the Marvel cracker has spectacularly united the Spider-Man stars Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire in one film.
Almost 10 years before No Way Home, X-Men: Days of Future Past has practically already the blueprint for the successful concept of the Spider-Man film delivered. You can watch the 2014 X-Men film today at 8:15 p.m. on Kabel eins.
Check out the trailer for X-Men: Future is Past here:
X-Men Future is Past – Trailer 2 (German)
X-Men: Days of Future Past relies on bombastic superhero overkill
The plot of the sequel to X-Men: First Class takes place in a dystopian future where mutants imprisoned in detention camps and the earth will be ruled by the Sentinels.
Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) manages to to travel to the pastwhere the young versions of Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) plan an assassination attempt against Senator Robert Kennedy.
Through the various narrative levels linked by time travel, X-Men: Future is Past becomes superhero:inner overkill, in which over 20 known and new characters from the comic book franchise and brought together. So long before Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home, this X-Men installment was the forerunner of this kind of bombastic character extravaganza.
The Boys Season 3: Better (and Badder) Than Marvel?
Now available in full on Amazon Prime, The Boys Season 3 is better than ever. We talk about the highlights of the 3rd season, clarify why the superhero satire has made a big leap in quality and give an outlook on the already confirmed season 4.
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We end up discussing why The Boys is so superior to the MCU series at the moment. The Amazon series has outstripped the Marvel Universe in its specialty of all things: serial storytelling.
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