Yes, I can. If it's a good creative choice we praise it. There have been many brilliant choices made and we've celebrated them. But these are dumb choices that only confuse everyone. There's no map or planning with the X-Men movie universe. It's just all over the place. Have you ever tried watching a marathon of the films back-to-back? It just makes one's head explode with the glaring continuity issues:
While I do think the movies do have some continuity issues because of poor planing, partly because I don't think they were expecting or planning for a franchise until X-men Origins and First Class came along. But I do have to say this, not all of the example you list, I view as continuity errors, to be honest.
* In X-Men Origins Emma Frost is a player, but suddenly she's also in the 1960s as a henchwoman fighting Magneto.
Emma was Kayla Silverfox's sister, and was only called Emma Frost in the promo. Emma Frost was given her proper debut in First Class. Similar to "Psylocke" and Trask in First Class. The Emma in Origins, was Emma in name only.
* Storm's a toddler in
X-Men Origins, but a teenager in the 60s, and somehow, magically, still a teenager in the 1980s.
Storm in X-men Origins was a deleted scene, and I'm mostly positive Storm in First Class was just a wink to fans like the Cyclops wink in the same scene. I don't think it was supposed to be taken as seriously in the films.
* Angel is in his 20s in X-Men: The Last Stand, but somehow he's still in his 20s in the early 80s.
* Jubilee is all kinds of different ages depending on when you catch her.
These admittedly are continuity errors. I thought he was going to more with them, but unfortunately it was lost on the cutting room floor. Those scenes could have really helped with character arcs and development.
* Meanwhile, Days Of Future Past undoes everything mentioned above, yet not really because we've already begun retreading themes that are supposed to be wiped out.
Not really. As fans, we're expected to "suspend our disbelief" to an extent with these films. I'm all for that. But FOX insults our intelligence with what is clearly a poorly thought out series of film sequences.
I think it goes to the point, They are picking and choosing what works from the previous movies while building a new franchise with the new characters.
Bryan said from the start, that this movie was supposed to be a accumulation of "six ‘X-Men’ films, yet a potential rebirth of younger, newer characters.This is the true birth of the X-Men. This is how it happens. "
That was the entire point of this movie. It concludes what the First Class trilogy started, and rectifies everything he wasn't able to do with X-Men 3 and some of the plot points he intended to handle in the first 2 X-Men movies, while setting the building blocks for something new. It was his Swan Song. But there are stark differences at the end of the movie.
- Mystique instead of being relegated to henchwoman role, she is now a hero and a teacher for the X-Men, instead of an assassin
-Magneto instead of being the typical villain of the X-Men movies like he was in all 6 movies, redeems, or attempts to redeems himself, now leaving room for other villains to be in the spotlight
- Weapon X which retcons all of X-Men origins: Wolverine, and builds for a more comic Wolverine persona.
- Professor X not being controlling of the X-Men (particularly Jean) and trying to make up the mistakes he made with Mystique (Days of Future Past) and Moira (Apocalypse)
- building up different portions of the X-Men universe with Caliban and his Morlocks, time travel, Sentinels, Apocalypse(or a slightly weaker/grounded version) exists
- Mutants are in a much more public light than they were in the first 3 movies, albeit still under controversy due to the events of Apocalypse
- The new cast having much more interesting group dynamic, or potential group dynamics. Cyclops isn't forced to be the strict, uptight leader he was viewed in the original trilogy, but he is still a leader in his own rights. Nightcrawler has a much more fun personality. Jean Grey is redeemed of her arc in Last Stand and leading to a much more faithful Phoenix arc that could potentially go into space. Storm was definitely underutilized in this movie, but I view her arc more akin to Ultimate Storm with elements of 616 Storm as opposed to a full on 616/Claremont Storm.
- potentially more comic like visual displays of powers and abilities, in multiple forms. Unfortunately for this movie it was small scale, despite going slightly bigger with this movie.
But one thing I have to say is the new cast has personality and potential to grow past what the Original Trilogy cast was able to do with their movies. They just need the right people to help oversee that growth and development, not only as actors but also as X-Men, if they are to be the new leading stars. Like how Joe Johnston set up the elements of the Captain America and the stories used for his movie, but the Russo Brothers took what he, Joss Whedon and previous directors but took it farther than they ever did. It could make for better group dynamics.
I do agree. They really have to plan out with where they are going next with the X-Men movies and franchise, because they have a good (or decent foundation), to build a new X-Men universe from this point on, as opposed to how Last Stand left it.
