X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer redux

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... I like it better than the first one, that's for sure. And not just because Storm looks to get impaled fifteen seconds in. (I love Storm. I could do without Halle Berry playing her.)

I really, really loved parts of XMFC -- the Charles and Erik show. The kids were boring, thinly drawn, and a general waste of screen time better devoted to the two leads. (Moira was a pretty prop and Mystique waxed and waned depending on whether she was with the kids or the grown-ups.) What I'm afraid of with the sequel is that the same thing is going to happen here: two great Charleses and two great Eriks, but now a cast of thousands led by Hugh Jackman's hairy chest to take away from what is essentially still a two-man play with good special effects. I suppose we'll see.