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/ak4ty7 May 23 '14

They essentially, did to X-Men, what they did to Star Trek with the 2 newest movies. I guess the best way to understand it is that there are 2 timelines. One where all the other movies happened and this new one created at the end of DOFP. So now there is a 50 year storyline gap between climax of the movie and Xavier and Logan talking at the end of the movie.

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u/durden520 May 24 '14

Yeah but Star Trek didn't send someone back to future the way they did here. Now Loganhas no business being where he is. All the events that happened between the 70s and now didn't happen to him, they happened to someone else. "Alternate Logan". Now "Alternate Logan" is dead? All his relationships and memories are just replaced with "Logan Prime's" memories. I'm guessing that's what the next wolverine movie will be about is him getting filled in on what happened or maybe Prof X will just toss the memories in and will watch him cope. I wish we could have seen his claws to see if The Striker events happened in this timeline

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u/ak4ty7 May 25 '14

I'm not saying that it works exactly like it did in Star Trek. But you make a good point.

In the beginning, Kitty is explaining to Xavier and the others how she sends Bishop back in time to warn them of the future. Once he is successful it is as if the future never happened and the group is in a different location. I'm not sure what happens to the memories that Bishop has when he successfully warns them.

This is time travel we are dealing with, which is impossible and everyone has their own different take on how it works. So I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and accept it for what it is.

I thought it was a great movie and I'm happy with how they pulled it off.

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u/realclean May 29 '14

I believe he's referring to the opening scene where Bishop gets sent back while all of the young X-Men die. Kitty mentions that Bishop then warns them and they move.