X-Men: Days of Future Past - Discussion Thread - SPOILERS

[Enterprise1701]

But then according to the Origins Wovlerine movie Styker picked up Wolverine and Sabertooth in Vietman yet in DOFP he hadn't met Styker yet.

It could be that the point when Wolverine met Stryker in the original timeline was slightly after the timeframe of their meeting in DOFP. It's a stretch but it can technically work.

I realized something. Maybe a reason that Sabertooth killed his commanding officer in 1973 despite successfully posing as a normal human for over a century was because he finally boiled over in anger about being drafted and deployed to Vietnam despite the Paris Peace Accords (signed on January 27 in real-life and conceivably in the movie as well) already being signed.

I am pretty sure Singer said he ignored X-Men Origins: Wolverine but I can't be sure.

He must have. The main story of Origins takes place in 1979 in accordance with the real-life Three Mile Island accident while Days of Future Past's main events take place in 1973 in accordance with the real-life Paris Peace Accords.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

Laura Shuler Donner has said they plan on ignoring X-Men Origins. Mostly because they want to free up Gambit and Deadpool for their prospective solo movies. Although in DOFP during the movie there were scenes from XMO in the flashback sequences and during the credits, XMO was listed as one of the films they had lifted scenes from. As well as X1, X2, X3, X First Class and The Wolverine.

I think Singer wanted XMO retconned so he can tell HIS version of Stryker giving Wolverine Adamantium and torturing him or whatever.

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Also Apocalypse is said to be the last of the First Class Trilogy
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=55854

 

[Set Harth]

Maybe a reason that Sabertooth killed his commanding officer in 1973 despite successfully posing as a normal human for over a century was because he finally boiled over in anger about being drafted and deployed to Vietnam despite the Paris Peace Accords (signed on January 27 in real-life and conceivably in the movie as well) already being signed.

As I understand it combat operations went on for two more months in some capacity. So there's a little wiggle room, though probably not much. ( We might also ask why no one in the film appears to be dressed like it's January. )

He must have. The main story of Origins takes place in 1979 in accordance with the real-life Three Mile Island accident

That's the main story of Origins, though. That material is preceded by a six-year gap which just so happens to fit neatly in between 1973 and 1979. ( And that's assuming the Origins Three Mile Island incident must have taken place in the same year as the one in real life. )

 

[Tyberius]

Maybe a reason that Sabertooth killed his commanding officer in 1973 despite successfully posing as a normal human for over a century was because he finally boiled over in anger about being drafted and deployed to Vietnam despite the Paris Peace Accords (signed on January 27 in real-life and conceivably in the movie as well) already being signed.

As I understand it combat operations went on for two more months in some capacity. So there's a little wiggle room, though probably not much. ( We might also ask why no one in the film appears to be dressed like it's January. )

He must have. The main story of Origins takes place in 1979 in accordance with the real-life Three Mile Island accident

That's the main story of Origins, though. That material is preceded by a six-year gap which just so happens to fit neatly in between 1973 and 1979. ( And that's assuming the Origins Three Mile Island incident must have taken place in the same year as the one in real life. )

Indeed there is plenty of wiggle room. You have a period from 1945-1975 where there were uniformed North Vietnamese actively engaged in combat operations. There quite likely still could have been combat after. In the 80s Reagan made retrieving MIAs his top priority, so presumably there were still POWs even then.

 

[Gaith]

Given that "Stryker" holds sway over DC cops at the end of DOFP, I highly doubt that Singer is finished with this younger incarnation just yet.

 

[Anwar]

Hopefully they get rid of him by the next one. There are other villains to X-Men than Magneto and their made up one (whose a combination of like 3 or so villains).

Why do they keep around Magneto and Stryker but kill off any other villains like Shaw?

 

[Gaith]

^ Yeah, yeah, we get it. But Mags isn't going anywhere - he's a compelling character and an excellent dark mirror for Charles. As for Stryker, he only had a small part in DOFP, and since we all agree to forget about XMO:W, he's only starred in one movie so far, and he puts a human face on the general military threat.

 

[Set Harth]

and since we all agree to forget about XMO:W

Who's "we", paleface?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Hopefully they get rid of him by the next one. There are other villains to X-Men than Magneto and their made up one (whose a combination of like 3 or so villains).

Oh, haven't you heard? He's planning on using Apocalypse for his next movie. I guess he took your advice!

 

[Anwar]

Yeah, and probably he'll find some way of sidelining Apocalypse so Stryker and Magneto can be the main villains.

 

[bbjeg]

It's sad I haven't seen the after the credits scene with Apocalypse until recently on DVD.

I don't know why I thought that was a MCU thing only.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

It's sad I haven't seen the after the credits scene with Apocalypse until recently on DVD.

I don't know why I thought that was a MCU thing only.

Which would be weird seeing as X-Men The Last Stand also did it which predates the MCU.

 

[bbjeg]

It's sad I haven't seen the after the credits scene with Apocalypse until recently on DVD.

I don't know why I thought that was a MCU thing only.

Which would be weird seeing as X-Men The Last Stand also did it which predates the MCU.

First Class, DoFP's prequel, didn't though.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

It's sad I haven't seen the after the credits scene with Apocalypse until recently on DVD.

I don't know why I thought that was a MCU thing only.

Which would be weird seeing as X-Men The Last Stand also did it which predates the MCU.

First Class, DoFP's prequel, didn't though.

But the Wolverine did.

 

[bbjeg]

Which would be weird seeing as X-Men The Last Stand also did it which predates the MCU.

First Class, DoFP's prequel, didn't though.

But the Wolverine did.

Where the MCU generally just does it, Fox is on and off with it.

 

[Gaith]

Right now, on Amazon: all 7 X-Men movies on blu-ray for $32. That's $4.57 per movie. Yow!


... Of course, since I already have FC, I'm only missing X1, X2, and DOFP. So, for me, it'd be about $11 per movie - still good, but not as irresistible.

 

[Set Harth]

Which would be weird seeing as X-Men The Last Stand also did it which predates the MCU.

First Class, DoFP's prequel, didn't though.

But the Wolverine did.

So did X-Men Origins: Wolverine. ( That one did the Avengers/Winter Soldier thing of having both a mid-credits scene and an after-credits scene. )

 

[Professor Zoom]

Right now, on Amazon: all 7 X-Men movies on blu-ray for $32. That's $4.57 per movie. Yow!


... Of course, since I already have FC, I'm only missing X1, X2, and DOFP. So, for me, it'd be about $11 per movie - still good, but not as irresistible.

But you also would have to get Wolverine Origins And The Wolverine. That is a cost I cannot bare.

 

[Greg Cox]

Finally got around to seeing this other day. A very fun movie, and an ingenious way to essentially erase the third movie!

 

[Anwar]

Finally got around to seeing this other day. A very fun movie, and an ingenious way to essentially erase the third movie!

It erased all the movies, aside from First Class.

I STILL don't get what was so bad about X3. I mean, if Singer killed off Xavier and depowered Magneto I doubt there'd be as many complaints.