X-Men Days of Future Past v Edge of Tomorrow

X-Men Days of Future Past

Plot Summary

The goodies and the baddies in the future team up together to fight these machines invented by a midget from the 70's. 

So the saga continues and who really knows where it began or left off. But where Marvel gets it right is that these films are no longer for the comic book nerds that spend their days masturbating to pictures of She-Hulk on the internet. For the ladies you have Hugh Jackman getting his kit off within 10 minutes and you can hardly hear the dialogue from the sound of virgina's opening up like the water tanks on top of the Towering Inferno. For the guys you had January Jones in X-Men Origins strolling around in white lace underwear. In this one their are brief spells of Jennifer Lawrence at her upmost suppleness, Famke Jansen in something low cut, Halle Berry in a leather suit, crikey just thinking about it is enough to give you a nose bleed. 

Plot Hole

There's a great scene when some kid runs around a room super fast and redirects bullets, slaps coppers etc. Then he disappears for the rest of the feature. I'm sorry but why didn't they just take him along, because without wanting to give away spoilers, it all goes tits up in the end and he could have sorted it all out in seconds. By the way there's probably a team of nerds out there waiting to put me right on this, don't write in, I don't actually care.


PETER METER - AVERAGE JOE

Edge of Tomorrow

Plot Summary

Tom Cruise gets sent into battle aliens from the future. Only he dies then wakes up having to live the whole ordeal over and over again. The only way to break the cycle is to be really nice to everyone, including Ned Ryerson. (If you've seen Groundhog day that's a great gag).

I have to say Emily Blunt looks like she is bang into her Yoga. When she teams up with our Tom you see her perform a very elegant position coming from the 'Plank' to the 'Up dog' position. There's some wonderful ariel shots of Big Ben and at one point Tom Cruise even has a pint of ale in an English boozer. It makes me wonder if he really did have a pint or if they just gave him some cold tea in a tanker. That's what they do in Coronation Street you know.

Plot Hole

At one point they land a helicopter right in the middle of Square and Tom Cruise gets debriefed on what's going on. He gets straight off the helicopter and gets put in a car without being accosted once by a homeless person. Now I know we are to suspend disbelief, but are we really supposed to believe that you can walk 20 yards in Trafalgar Square without being asked for change, a cigarette, or to purchase the latest Big Issue? It just doesn't hold water I'm afraid.

PETER METER - BIG JOHNSON