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It was a bad movie. Why waste potential on undoing what simply can be forgotten?
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Retconning it doesn't mean they take the DVD's off the shelves and burn'em. People who liked that film can still see it as much as they want. That doesn't mean we have to accept what it did.
X-Men: First Class doesn't retcon it as much as it retcons X1 and X2.
Everyone who wants an X4 always has a list of forced ways of "retconning" X3 in order to move forward (cure is temporary, Cyclops didn't really die, etc.). All of that is completely desperate and heavy handed. No way you can tell a good story while having to appease a bunch of forced exposition. Make an X4, sure, but don't make the entire movie a way to undo what was done in X3.. just ignore X3 from the start.
That's not retconning, that's using what the movie establishes. Cyclops' body was never found so he could be brought back if he needed to, and the cure is temporary, as Magneto wobbled the chess piece.Everyone who wants an X4 always has a list of forced ways of "retconning" X3 in order to move forward (cure is temporary, Cyclops didn't really die, etc.). All of that is completely desperate and heavy handed. No way you can tell a good story while having to appease a bunch of forced exposition. Make an X4, sure, but don't make the entire movie a way to undo what was done in X3.. just ignore X3 from the start.
Everyone who wants an X4 always has a list of forced ways of "retconning" X3 in order to move forward (cure is temporary, Cyclops didn't really die, etc.). All of that is completely desperate and heavy handed. No way you can tell a good story while having to appease a bunch of forced exposition. Make an X4, sure, but don't make the entire movie a way to undo what was done in X3.. just ignore X3 from the start.
It didn't send the right message. She had chances to take a cure in the cartoons too, but she in the end didn't do it. It's who she is. Especially considering how mutants are a great analogy to homosexuality and being a minority , so basically you're saying if there's a cure for that you should take it by having Rogue take the cure. It was just insulting. Plus like someone said it's regression. She started to accept who she was in part 2 just for part 3 to throw that out. Her having thoughts about it make sense, it's good drama. Her taking it? It was Wrong.
You can't just ignore the deaths of Xavier, Jean and Cyclops, and the curing of Rogue, Mystique and Magneto. The general audience isn't that dumb, and neither are critics.
You need to move forward with most of those things still having happened, or you could possibly make the cure having been not what it seemed (there is a plot thread with Beast in First Class that suggests a possibility regarding mutant cures).
You're making things up again, Proto.^ Except that Beast can have girlfriend without killing them. He did in the comics, he does in the movies (Mystique in X-Men: First Class and even Storm at an early version of X-Men: The Last Stand).
^ Except that Beast can have girlfriend without killing them. He did in the comics, he does in the movies (Mystique in X-Men: First Class and even Storm at an early version of X-Men: The Last Stand).
That'd be stupid.
No.^ There was a lot of early versions of X3. Beast/Storm was in one of them. Wolverine/Storm was in another.
You don't know how movies work, do you? In order to accomplish that, you either don't make an X4 or make a complete Reboot. Which is much more needlessly complicated than moving on like the comics did.It'd be smart, considering how stupid the movie was.
^ Except that Beast can have girlfriend without killing them. He did in the comics, he does in the movies (Mystique in X-Men: First Class and even Storm at an early version of X-Men: The Last Stand).
Since 2006 that's all I've read.HAHA it is true that everyone's idea of an X4 includes undoing what X3 did (cure is temporary, Cyclops isn't really dead, and Xavier is in his twin brother's body).
HAHAHAHAHAHA