So 'Days of Future Past' and 'Apocalypse'
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ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 06:34 PM)
Or ANY attempt to save the mutant race is futile? Once again, ANOTHER film where there are no other X-Men and Wolverine/Logan is a 'broken, tortured' soldier?
When did the X-Men franchise turn into the TERMINATOR movies?!
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SgtHugoStiglitz — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 07:07 PM)
The trailer gave me the impression that it's been a significant period of time since
DOFP
. But I agree, there's been a near-extinction event for the mutants (including a successful one with literal Terminators everywhere) every couple of years and it's gotten quite stale. I hope at least few good decades came off the time-traveling to redo the timeline.
The only thing I think is inevitable, per the film's theme, is that eventually Wolverine's story would come to an end. You can only live so many lifetimes before it becomes all the more clear that you will eventually die alone in a world without a lot of good left in it.
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ForbiddenArms — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 03:12 AM)
X-Men always involved time-travel. It's like Star Trek. Star Trek has time-travel, but it's not the core of the franchise. Hell, I would be surprised if James Cameron took the idea of Terminator from X-Men. Since the Days of Future Past comic came before The first Terminator film was released.
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Elemental_Mind — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 11:39 AM)
I am confused about this movie being set in 2024, yet DOFP ended in 2023 with Jean, Xavier, Ice Man, et. al. all looking relaxed and happy in the School after Wolverine altered the past and brought on the new timeline for Apocalypse. How in one year (2023 to 2024) can such a drastic change happen to the X-men, letting alone Xavier being senile?
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thefilmguy7 — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 07:23 PM)
First Class is not a divergence. It's been stated by the producer and director that it was intended to be a prequel to the original films. Any continuity errors are just writing mistakes. They said that the timeline didn't fracture until Wolverine time travels in Days Of Future Past. Prior to that it was one chain. Yes there are definitely continuity issues that I'd love to be tied up but that's just human error. This x men series probably has the worst continuity of any franchise that I can think of.
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DennisReynolds — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 07:57 PM)
What you're saying is true. However, if one is looking for a FICTIONAL explanation as to why those continuity errors exist, Knowby's idea works. It plays by the rules established by the series.
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thefilmguy7 — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 11:37 PM)
It's sad that they screwed up the continuity so badly that fans have to try and scotch tape things together that were never intended to be. However I do totally understand the desire to seek out a logical reason for all of the errors. I have nothing against people trying to do that. For me, if it's not intended or part of canon then it just feels like disconnected fan fiction.
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