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I think the most terrifying aspect was how they just move on to the next target after a kill. Other villains would show some emotion after they get some kind of victory. The sentinels simply don’t, they kill and just walk away. That’s what sets them apart, they’re not exactly villains, they’re a force.
And they happened because of Mystique's dna that can adapt to anything thrown at them If they havent got her DNA, they wouldve been just robots but these are basically actual terminators
@@johnvlog1537 well the "weakness" of the movie sentinel is basically to hit them really hard lol. They are not indestructible per say, but yeah, they are scary.
@@Arpin_Lusene It seems like some superpowers are just too much for them to adapt to and they have to resort to overwhelming numbers to deal with such opponents. Clearly the nuke strike worked. It just couldn't kill enough of them. And even when they adapted to Iceman it still took 3 of them to gang up on him which means even a sentinel adapted to Iceman cannot take him on 1vs1.
I think the main thing that makes the sentinels work so well is because the movie is based on time travel, so you can do the worst case scenario to show the level of threat and then still have that one last chance
Thanks for pointing out this. It's disingenuous from the RU-vidr to compare 5m of movie that happen on a future that the heroes are trying to prevent, then to what's "actually happening". It's not like they killed a bunch of main characters and ended the movie. No one would ever do that. Oh wait.
@@IC-23 "All" hype for dead characters in comic book movies that are ongoing is mostly dead on arrival. I'd argue that having 1 year of an abrupt ending of a movie where a bunch of heroes die has more weight than 5 minutes of a future that isn't going to exist.
@@DenOftheBlackLotus Not when one of these characters is Spider-Man who was the latest and greatest (literally) character to join the MCU. It immediatelly cheapened the ending of IW for me, because it was obvious that they're bringing everyone back (except for the robot I guess, but who cares about the robot?).
Exactly it wasn’t like the heroes learn or realize something to take them out, their only choice was to try and stop them from ever being created in the first place
Kinda similar to Thanos. They had to cheat to win against him with knowledge of the future. I am still mad at how Endgame completely discarded Infinity War.
@@benbenklin Indeed, Endgame was a huge downgrade from Infinity War. All the character development Thanos had goes up in flames and we got robbed from what should have been a powerfully emotional fight between the heroes trying to bring back the ones they lost and the titan who sacrificed the one thing he loved because he believed he was doing the right thing.
In the timelines where the sentinels succeeded they actually did eventually lose... To the juggernaut. Apparently even with perfect killing machines, the Juggernaut is still unstoppable. So one timeline hilarious has the juggernaut killing the last sentinel while he is all alone on a now dead earth.
Yeah, the reason why the sentinels in days of future past were so terrifying was because they’re based off the super sentinel in the comics known as Nimrod. It was a lot like doomsday from DC. He could adapt and basically pick and choose what powers he needed in order to eradicate whatever mutants he was dealing with, and he had the same type of directive thinking and operation as Ultron cold and exact.
Probably not? From my limited knowledge, the Sentinels from Days of Future Past are able to beat the mutants because they basically adapt their powers based on the actual gene that the mutant they're fighting with has. Hulk doesn't have a mutant gene. He's pure gamma radiation. Same thing with Thor. He's the Norse God of Thunder. Even if one of the Sentinels were able to hypothetically gain the power of Mjolnir, Thor can just....control it. This was shown in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes when Absorbing Man absorbed Mjolnir and Thor just levitated him to space. Iron Man would also not have a problem, cuz...well, it's Iron Man. He has suits meant to take on heavy hitters. tl;dr: The Avengers will be fine.
Sentinels also induce fear into its opponents. When it repairs from a face punch, it make sure the opponent sees it. If it transforms, it waits enough for the opponent realise that the transformation has worked. It killed Storm and throws her backwards while looking at you. You get the idea.
@@hughjaenus2235 They'll come back more stronger and scarier. They not only adapt to damage but they adapt to any environment they're in and copy any abilities, skills and powers thrown to them
The movie brilliantly answered two problems at once. 1.) There are SO MANY X-Men. How do you highlight and feature as many as you can without slowing down the plot of the movie? 2.) How do you make the Sentinels a legitimate threat to the heroes? The solution apparently was to make the Mutants expendable. "Hey! It's that guy! I remember him from... and he's dead." :)
They made that with the third X-Men. That mutant that throws wooden sticks at you. I vividly remember his animated version. He showed up in the movie, I went “hey 🤓 it’s that guy that throw sticks out of his wrists…oh he is about to 😅….and Wolverine got him😒……that’s it? 🤔”
What makes them terrifying and entertaining is the very fact there's no comments, jests, no epic monologues or them telling you their grand plan as they laugh at your weakness. They walk in, adapt, kill you and walk straight unto the next. When they're done, they walk away. No words.
I love it when machines who are hyped up to be ‘’efficient killers’’ actually deliver on this description. Something that’s frustrating in the later Terminator movies is how much terminators are hyped up as advanced machines made specifically to kill yet fail so badly at this task by just throwing their target around or getting bullied the entire movie. The Sentinels actually felt dangerous. A machine so advanced that nothing can stop, quickly and efficiently goes for the kill and can’t be stopped no matter what.
I hate when terminators throw people around! It's so silly. 😂 If an actual terminator grabbed someone, that part of the body would be toast - broken, crushed or snapped off. And then the rest of the body would follow. No throwing around. I laughed so hard when the legless terminator in Salvation threw John away twice! Why would it do that if it has no legs to catch up to John before he recovers from the throw? Ridiculous. And it grabs him ever so gently to barely wrinkle his clothes.
It's something that was partially missing from Ultron too. The snark was fine considering the setup, and he did kill a little, but even with his army of robots the scale of destruction never felt as real as the Sentinels.
@@moriakpotatoNot just terminators, its a common trope in any big strong guy/monster/robot vs a smaller guy fight. Lots of throwing the protagonist across the room to show off their strength, when they had every opportunity to just crush their throat. Then the protagonist grabs a gun or some other plot device and gets the upper hand or escapes.
@@denisl2760But that's not exactly what happened in this movie either, the villain instantly killing the protagonist is something that would end the movie quickly, and leave nothing for the film makers to show in the rest of the movie or the later parts, in this movie they just showed this in upcoming future, and it didn't exactly happen, it's the same with others too, the only time they'll show protagonist dying quickly is either in a vision or time travel
The best way to describe these Sentinels would be "Efficient Cruelty". They are appropriately machine-like in their combat approach and general demeanor - with all the tactical efficiency that entails - but the methods in which they kill their targets can only be called _sadistic._ Like ganging up and tearing Colossus in half, slowly choking out Sunspot and Iceman, overloading Bishop's energy absorption and slowly lowering Warpath into its face-laser. The Sentinels are brutally skilled Mutant killers, but more than that they are inhumanly cruel butchers.
These things were so fucking Terrifying, they are mindless and they're not even made of metal so powerhouses like Magneto and Xavier can't even stop them
If Bullseye has titaniun sniper rifle & bullet, he can easily take out Magneto. That's why Magneto is very careful and has henchman. He knows his limit.
@@mystique666 not true one bit, Magneto can control EVERYTHING on the electromagnetic spectrum. meaning magneto can make radio waves, nuclear energy etc. in theory that segment at the end with storm and magneto should have just killed every sentinel made. it goes to show how they got them to be super sentinels
They're not even truly mindless considering how strategic these guys are (taking out the big hitters first, adapting to every power for each specific mutant they fight, sneaking, etc. Mindlessness can't pull this off anywhere NEAR as well, which is even MORE terrifying)
Let's put it this way, they wiped out everything on earth. Every human and every mutant. I'd say most threatening villain to date in X-Men. The only way they were defeated is by making sure they were never created. So technically they were never really defeated. The only villain to not be defeated by a conventional way.
These sentinels were hands down the most terrifying villain in a movie based on a Marvel IP. Bar none. You name it. Thanos, The Winter Soldier, Scarlett Witch, Kang. None of them felt like fighting them was altogether hopeless. Sure, they were tough, some heroes died and so on and so forth. But you knew there was the hope of beating them. Here, instead, the stakes on Wolverine's mission are through the roof, because you know the only hope for survival is to stop them from ever existing.
Earth would absolutely crush any Marvel cosmic empire if they had these. Imagine Loki and the Chitauri or Thanos' fleet showing up to Earth in the Avengers and they face a few thousand of these Sentinels.
The arogue cut as well as the beginning, something overlooked, as that the mutants not killed are rounded up and harvested to power the Sentinels' combat abilities. Especially Rouge who's power's used to help their adaptability.
I do not agree, they are very different. Sentinels are pure brute force, they represent oppression and hate. Ultron is a complex villain, like Thanos. He is not really bad, he understand the futur problems and want to impose his solutions by force. His intentions are good but the way he impose them are bad. If Ultron was just a brute, he would be bland, just as Thanos would be if he was just a bad guy. It work in x-men because Sentinels are not the villains of the movie, it's the hate that create them. These two movies have very different message.
@@pierrotA Thanos wouldn't have been bland tho if he was just what he was in the actual comics that made him famous, being a cosmic simp who went to great cosmic lengths for love, or at least what he thought love to be.
It was indeed crucial. How else would the mainstream audience grow to fear them? - "Hey, so we got these cool Sentinels and we want the audience to be frightened by them. How do we do it?" - "I have an idea. You see that mutant character a lot of people seem to know and love?" - "Yeah, what about him?" - "Tear him in half."
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The idea of sentinels are always just so odd for me. If they can make robots that can so easily kill mutants like storm and magneto, why not just have them go after other, actual threats to the planet?
Xenophobia mixed with greed and envy, they are afraid of mutatns for being born with gifts while people like captain america and spiderman are mutates which were made and not born with their gifts like mutants were so they hope they can replace those powers for their own.
To the people who make them, mutants are the biggest threat. Also in the Fox X men universe mutants are the only supernatural threat around so who else would they fight?
It's because at that period of time humans felt the biggest threats to the planet were mutants. There were people being killed by mutants at the time. Also, the sentinels eventually reprogrammed themselves as to hunt humans as well. Their programming originally had them hunting mutants however because humans can give birth to mutants, the sentinels deemed it necessary to remove all human life as a fails safe from the planet in order to 100% eradicate mutants.
It’s scary to see how a group of seasoned X-Men, with heavy hitters like Colossus and Ice Man struggle to even push one back solo. The comic version of Sentinels are huge and have strong lasers, but a robot mimicking and directly countering your powers is scary. I like to think they deployed a couple of the sentinel ships JUST for the mansion. It would’ve been a massacre. Great video. Cheers.
Ultron was pretty terrifying, he was still somewhat on the comedic side looking back. One scene that rivals the sentines was with wanda or Black window I dont remember actually but he basically talked about how he always comes back stronger and as he says that he literally demolishes his own body with a new and improved copy of himself. And the sound effects also were really adding to it. Fantastic scene.
Ultron isn’t supposed to be charismatic or funny. Ultron’s a cold uncaring, calculating machine who sees humans as inferior and nothing but a hinderance to earth. To give it a personality is to give it a more humanised feel, which contradicts its whole motive. A personality along the lines of how Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith would have been better suited for Ultron. What makes Ultron intimidating is that cold, blank expression it has. Disney just always has to have its villains be witty and funny, because that’s what tests well with market research, but this wasn’t a Bond villain, this was something entirely its own. A bit more research into the comics would have been good
@@JuhoSprite clearly not. When has Ultron ever been portrayed like that in the comics? This was nothing more than Disney exects, fearing that a pure killing machine as the villain wouldn’t be suitable for kids, so they made Ultron more marketable. In the end, the version they went with, ended up being generic, forgettable, unoriginal and childish. No respect for the source material.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Only Jean Grey could take them on but at this point in the timeline she was already dead at the hands of wolverine. They were truly undefeated in the entire movie
My first thought when seeing these sentinels was, "Nimrod". It invoked the same feelings of fear, but after the sentinels finished the job, even then I realized Nimrod was lacking.
This film still holds up today. And it is still an ever present fear of their return because of the butterfly effect they caused when meddling with time. They still get mystiques DNA, sure they shut the program down but all the blueprints are there for someone else down the Future to pick up where they left off. They are and ever looking presence over an uncertain future and that my friends is what makes them an effective villain and narrative gold to dig up later
You dont know how fast I clicked on this video. I watched this movie when I was like 10. And I was shocked at the power these guys had against the protagonist
Days of Future-Past Future Sentinels are akin to the original Terminator: menacing, ruthless, adaptable, nigh invincible, and emotionless. They are also, like you mentioned, in the uncanny valley with their towering bodies with elongated limbs (reminiscent of Slender Man imo), scaly, yet sleek skin (like a cross between a reptile and a panther), contrasting yellow eyes (similar to a wild predator staring back from the darkness), Also worth mentioning is these Sentinels having an intelligence through individual adapations and proficient pack hunting strategies. Despite them using mutant abilites to exterminate their targets (which provides trauma to the living heroes for seeing their dead friends' abilities being used against them and more drama for the audience), the Sentinels resume their orignal darkened forms when finished, which resembles their terrifying mass of shadows that continues its mutant extinction objective Of course, this also calls to the future legions of T-600s in the Terminator series. I haven't looked into if the original Days of Future-Past was inspired by Terminator, but it wouldn't surprise me. This also awed and creeped me out when I saw this in theaters. Definitely set the tone for the future protagonists and stakes for the past protagonists and the film. Didn’t get that feeling again until Thanos snapped the gauntlet. Great summary and great highlighting some of the great works of pre-merger MCU films before their memory fades.
These things were SO COOL. This is how you update a classic villain, looked nothing like the comic Sentinals but they were honestly one of the most memorable villains in comic book films.
The fact the sentinels continue advancing towards their prey without hesitation, despite their injuries and missing limbs, is what amplifies their terrifying and formidable nature.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and being super scared by these guys lmao. Just the way they just tore through those iconic superheroes so easily and ignored plot armor seemingly at all times, these guys were really out here killing mfs in multiple scenes like they were Terminators XD. Made the film so much scarier and engaging to watch.
The music tone in this was awesome how when they were all fighting the Sentinels and then when it got real and the Sentinel stop playing games and started adapting the music just dropped and that's when everyone was defeated I felt it in my spirit this is the type of movies I've always loved
One aspect that makes the situation feel hopeless is that we see a good number of these sentinels being destroyed but more just take their place. Just shows how easilly they can replace their losses despite so much effort needed to kill just one and the next wave quickly learns the mistakes of the previous ones that failed.
They're brutally efficient, possess an imposing stature, don't display any emotional response to either winning or losing, and use deliberate fear tactics. Like, they're efficient, but they take just long enough so that the victim can definitely tell what's happening. The sentinels in this movie were iconic demoralizers.
When I first saw those sentinels I was like, “wow, these things are menacing, strong and durable.” (I also have a thing for tall men, well guess machine here. Kinda made me feel something deep down that I didn’t wanna be feeling for machines that are just taking out my beloved heroes) 😅
That's one of those broken characters which basically has all powers of all characters combined, but with no empathy but just set on elimanating everyone
It's the Terminator effect. “It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!”
The design of the MCU Sentinels was very evocative of cosmic horror, especially when they showed the ability to not just adapt but copy mutant powers. I was surprised when they relatively easily defeated some of the most powerful mutants. It actually justified the time travel plot very well since that was essentially the only thing they could do.
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Very terminator esque. I mean the first movie, not the rest of the series. Just an unmoving and perfectly designed entity for one purpose only. I appreciate you touched on the horror element.
I feel like a prequel to the movie can work as a horror movie. Like a group of random average mutants stuck in an area and force to survive the sentinel
They're terrifying for a simple reason, they actually have consequences, and the time travel element allows that without full loss of a beloved protagonist. Only reason why we don't care about villains in most other movies is because we know they won't win. That no hero is going to die.
Days of Future Past is essentially the Terminator franchise with the roles reversed. Instead of the machines trying to kill the human leader before he formed the resistance, it’s the humans trying to kill the machines before they were created.
Something is just terrifying about a being that's sole purpose is to eradicate you, your friends, and your allies. Your buddy unloads everything he's got into it, it gives the time for everyone to realize it didn't do a damn thing, and immediately goes for the kill, and before the body even drops it turns to kill you next.
