Yet again am appreciating your spoilery posts for movies I was dithering about. :P (Still haven't seen Winter Soldier, but do plan to!) This sounds like a lot of fun, and like it avoids a lot of narrative and characterization angles that usually bug me. I'm especially happy with what you're saying about Mystique. And Logan--I've always had a soft spot for him, between the being-played-by-Hugh-Jackman and the being Canadian and the tragic past that doesn't involve fridging any women. :D

Also McKellan/Stewart (it will be very interesting to me to see the older and younger versions juxtaposed, I think--and hopefully not as jarring as it was in the Star Trek reboot!) and time travel (whoo!) and avoiding some of the mistakes of the past (while, I'm sure, finding new and interesting ways to fuck up). I like very much that this is being billed as a sequel to both the first three X-movies and to XMFC, since I really did like the ones with the older cast. Well maybe not the last one so much, but definitely the earlier adventures.

Of course I come at this with very little knowledge of the comics--one picks the spouse's brain on occasion but still--but it's nice to hear that people who do know the backstory think it turned out pretty well! :D