UPDATE: Vietnam War Protesters In Latest X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Production Photo

Bryan you sneaky bastard

I can do snow peas, but that's it. I tried okay. I tried.., gave them a chance. They just didn't work out for me; not my taste.

Does anybody remember anything like this happening in the Day of future past X-Men comic?

the past events on the storyarc were really short and simple. Of course this movie would bring new stuff to make it more interesting.

The story arc only had Kitty talking with past X-Men, a scene of Mystique and her brotherhood planning the attack and then the x-men going to Washintong DC to stop them with a final fight.

The movie needs something more juicy than that, dont u think?

UNCLE SI CAMEO

I actually think (and I posted this in another thread) that kitty will go back in time with bishop and find wolverine and the younger xmen and they will try to stop an assassination of some kin that would lead to the creation of the sentinels.

The future story arc from the comic will actually be the present timeline where the sentinels are featured and are ruling the us and putting mutants in internment camps.

many fans are already expecting a final scene like that.... so lets see what happens.

Freaking Hippies! Gusto was there but probaly doesn't remember much, he ate some bad acid and shrooms.


To this day it is unclear how many children were spawned by him from this fateful day!

Sigh. Here we go again. comicb00kguy bitching about everything.

I love the Citroen DS but...SHOW ME SOME SENTINELS!!

Yep, that's Montréal. We get few big productions here but we got that one. Cool!

The original story (published in 1981) was set in 1980 so the Vietnam war had been over for 5 years.The clip above is likely depicting the Paris peace talks between the Nixon administration and Hanoi that led to the withdraw of US forces from Vietnam in early 1973.

Btw, those talks only came about because Nixon unleashed B-52's on Hanoi
during Operation Linebacker 2 over the Christmas 1972 period that forced the little bastards to sit down at the peace table. Had to US unleashed such hell in anytime between 1965 and start of TET in 1968 the results of the war would have been very different.

Of course after we left, the commies broke their word and invaded South Vietnam in 1975.

By that time, Nixon had resigned and President Ford was barred by Congress from sending US air support to back our allies.

Basically,the US was sick of the war and washed its hands of the whole affair.

This scene along with the photo of the Nixon White House is ment to depict the general state of mind of the US Government leadership in 1973, which in real history
was paranoid about the American way of life falling under an attack by the Soviet Union from the outside and the "New Left" (which included Hippies,militant blacks,feminists,gay rights activists,ecologists,anti nuke protestors) that were challenging the long held norms of American life.

Its well known that that mind set is what drove Nixon to abuse his executive powers
in protecting the "Silent Majority" from the Left.

If Nixon abused his powers against Anti-War protestors and Civil Rights activists how do you think he would react to a militant mutant liberation movement under Magneto?

Its clear the Nixon administration is pushing mutant registration and Magneto is planning to kill him which would set in motion a chain of events that would lead to Trask and the Sentinals.

It's nice to see a social commentary in this movie, something that has been sorely missing from this pathetic franchise. I want to see how society fears and hates mutants, not hear about it through hearsay. All the characters talk about being feared and hated but we never f--king see it!!!!