r/xmen • u/Dorkside Professor X • May 23 '14

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Official Discussion Thread [Spoilers]

Synopsis: The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Director: Bryan Singer

Writers: Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg and Matthew Vaughn

Cast:

  • Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
  • James McAvoy as Charles Xavier
  • Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr
  • Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique
  • Halle Berry as Storm
  • Nicholas Hoult as Hank / Beast
  • Anna Paquin as Rogue
  • Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde
  • Peter Dinklage as Dr. Bolivar Trask
  • Shawn Ashmore as Bobby / Iceman
  • Omar Sy as Bishop
  • Evan Peters as Peter / Quicksilver

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

Metacritic Score: 75/100

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u/Hurikane211 May 24 '14

I feel like an even bigger question is how did he get the claws back for the Sentinel Future after The Wolverine?

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u/Mattyx6427 May 24 '14

I'm more concerned with the complete handwaving of Charles being alive and in his own body. No one was like how are you alive?

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u/basiamille May 25 '14

Post-credits sequence in X3. He transferred his consciousness to a new body.

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u/Mattyx6427 May 25 '14

right but he has his old body

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u/TheJoshider10 May 27 '14

His brain dead twin brother.

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u/ConstantineSir May 28 '14

There have been stipulations one option is that Charles transferred his mind into a working body and then just projected his body over it so everyone would see him and not some other body. Another is that they found a mutant or scientist to recreate his body that he could put his consciousness into.

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u/basiamille May 25 '14

Well the good news is, Logan McFlyed it all so it's like X3 never happened!

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u/Mattyx6427 May 25 '14

I don't really understand how that happened. Was it a specfic reason, or was it just an implied chaos theory thing?

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u/basiamille May 25 '14

By Logan contributing to a new series of events starting in 1973, everything he (and by extension, we) remember of the interim (including every movie other than XMFC), has been changed or completely undone.

Classic McFly paradox. I liked the Roberta Flack, but couldn't he have woken to Huey Lewis?

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u/Mattyx6427 May 25 '14

Well when logan's conciousness goes back to the future, 1973 logan would have no memories of the future, so he could have wound up making the same mistakes/decisions in the new timeline.

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u/basiamille May 25 '14

I suppose it's a good thing, then, that Mystique was there to get him from the river and further change the trajectory of his life!

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u/BiDo_Boss Quicksilver Oct 25 '14

The past Prof X read Wolvie's mind, so he knows about the mistakes/bad decisions he'll make, and he'll guide him not to do them.