I can also understand why all comic book fans are cheering because Bryan Singer really gave a huge FUCK-YOU to those who screwed up the "Phoenix Saga", wiped everything clean and start over again.
So forget what you saw in "The Last Stand" and think of it as the movie chronology to be: "X-Men", "X2", "First Class", then "Days of Future Past".
(Spoilers ahead. You've been warned. Read at your own risk!)
The "Days of Future Past" supposedly tells the story of a dark future where the X-Men has fallen, the Sentinels has taken over and Showdowcat (better known as Kitty Pryde when she was young) is sent back to the past by Rachel Summers to prevent Mystique from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly and change the existing future.
Who is Rachel Summers? She is the daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers (Cyclops), who possesses the ability to manipulate time and temporarily transport a person's mind through time into a younger/older version/descendant/etc of themselves.
Rachel Summers
Now, considering Kitty Pryde was still a teenager when her character was introduced into the movie franchise, sending her back in time would, well, turn her into a sperm (or sort), right? So who should they send? Instead of going for the animated version where Bishop is sent back in time using a time machine, Bryan Singer decided to send his favorite X-Men, Wolverine, back! But just to pay homage to the alternate version, they decided to dump Bishop in the movie just for the heck of it! (I'm sure a lot of those moviegoers are probably wondering who the fuck is Bishop by now.)
Bishop
Since the movie is set in a future where Rachel doesn't exist, (and it's also easier to use a ready-have character than to introduce a new one), who do they use to replace Rachel? Kitty Pryde! But hang on a sec, Kitty Pryde only has the ability to phase in the first two X-Men movies. How and where did she get the ability to chronoskim another X-Men back into the past? Well, I bet the audience don't know and didn't care much because, let's admit it, Wolverine sells! That's all that matters, right?
But just to avoid making "Days of Future Past" look too much like a Wolverine-centered movie, they decided to throw in a few other mutants whose name the audiences probably wouldn't even know/remember and wouldn't even care even if they got killed by the Sentinels! (Yay~!)
It was at that point, (well, actually shortly after I saw Hugh Jackman's butt) that I stop caring and don't give two hoots anymore.
Ok, so how does the timeline works? If you noticed, no exact timeline was really given. In "X-Men", it was said the events took place in the "not too distant future". In "Days of Future Past" when Wolverine wanted to make the 'jump', it was mentioned that he's going back "50 years". Since "First Class" was set in the 60s(?), Magneto is still being held when Wolverine jumps back and Nixon is still the president, so we can safely say that the past is set somewhere around 1969 to 1974. I understand the need to push the past further from the original storyline, since they wanted to align the story with the events that happened in "First Class" but why does the future looks so far ahead?
Anorexic Sentinels?! Seriously!?!
What ticks me off the most (other than the Wolverine-centered theme) was how Xavier looks like he hasn't aged a day!!! Is he on botox or some shit like that?! I mean, heck, he looked much older when Wolverine jumped back to the future at the end of the movie, how the fuck did he managed to look so young in the screwed-up future?! Do they have like some energy drink that doesn't exist if the Sentinels weren't created?! If he's using it, why the fuck isn't he sharing it with Magneto?! The guy looked like he could really use some!
(To be continued...)
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