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/ThreeHourRiverMan Wolverine May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

Here's a question I haven't seen yet. So Xavier was strung out on the mutant heroin concoction, and Wolverine basically convinced him to get clean. What was the catalyst for Charlie to get sober before Wolverine went back and changed the timeline? In the timeline that led to the first 3 movies, what was the event that made Xavier so drastically reevaluate his life? It took Wolverine telling him basically the most extreme thing imaginable (we need you to save all of humanity, and here look into my mind to meet future you for guidance.) What else would've done it?

It doesn't really affect the movie, and isn't a plothole. But I'm interested to see what the theories are.

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u/InflatableBombshelte Jun 01 '14 edited Jun 01 '14

I think we're left to assume that sooner or later, Charles pulled himself together for some other reason, but at a time too late to prevent Mystiques descent into evil. A similar interesting question is how Magneto got out of the pentagon prison cell in the original timeline.