Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1713281-20140523065821

'This thread contains major spoilers for X-Men: Days of Future Past. If you haven't seen the movie, avoid this thread at all costs.'

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So, as a film the movie was great. Writing, acting, all top par. The teaser for X-Men: Apocalypse was also pretty cool, but not much to write home about. And the best part is that the movie addresses and fixes all the plot holes created by X-Men: First Class!

(So Many Spoilers Ahead)

...kinda. Yes, the movie "fixes" all the plot holes and questions created by First Class (and other problems) by essentially causing Earth-10005 to stop existing. Yes, Wolverine's exploits in the past rewrite history, and negate all history of the Earth-10005 timeline past 1973, or basically everything but First Class, and the "past" events of this new film. This still leaves a number of plot lines and questions without resolutions. For example:


 * Wolverine has metal claws in this film prior to travelling back in time, with no explanation
 * Charles getting his body back after the events of Last Stand
 * Bolivar Trask being a Caucasian dwarf in the movie, but being an African-America man of average height in Last Stand
 * The large number of claims about the origins of the school and X-Men team from the original X-Men film that were retconned/disregarded by the events of First Class

But I digress.

From a fan standpoint, this was cheap (although it does undo that God-awful travesty that is X-Men: The Last Stand). But from a studio standpoint, this was the perfect move for the series. They have completely wiped the slate clean for future writers and directors to do whatever they please without being tied down by the events of the previous films. That might not equate to good future films, but that not withstanding, the studio set themselves up for a long future.

Other things to note: The tie-in websites that were put up in the months prior to the film's release are all set in the Earth-10005 timeline, meaning that, among other things, Beast and Angel were both killed. 