Quote Originally Posted by kurdt_the_goat View Post
I watched all of the X-Men movies recently and have to say, if their community is anything like ours, i bet there are countless threads on continuity issues and plot holes!
That said, i still enjoyed Days of Future Past, and next to The Wolverine i felt it was about a thousand times better.
I don't think that fans of other franchises are any less nitpicky than ours. But we generally don't hear as much vehement criticism over these films because, IMHO, they are generally better made films than Transformers. They are still generally character-driven stories (e.g. X-1 was Rogue's journey, X-2 for Wolverine etc.). The stories take themselves seriously, they're not throwing product advertising in our faces all the time, and the stories flow coherently without stalling the story with immature frat boy "humour", shameless gratuitious body shots etc.

Quote Originally Posted by XMan View Post
The official explanation from Singer was "X-3 no longer exists nor happened."
Yeah, but wouldn't that only happen in the new universe (Universe B) created from the collapse of the primary universe (Universe A) after thwarting Mystique's assassination of Trask? I can understand Xavier looking like his original self when we see him greeting Wolverine at the end when he wakes up in the 'future' (from 1973's POV), as he is now in Universe B and Universe A no longer exists. That was the objective of the mission to begin with; it was stated that Wolverine would be Universe A's sole survivor; the rest of the X-Men from Universe A were willing to sacrifice themselves to create a better Universe B. They mentioned it from the POV of "not remembering" the events of Universe A, but arguably the Univ. A characters would simply cease to exist (along with the rest of Univ. A) and be replaced by their counterparts from parallel Universe B. So I still don't understand how Xavier still looks like Patrick Stewart when we see him existing in the future world of Universe A, since in that reality, his body was destroyed.

Which also leads me to another question. We see both Univ. A and "pre-Univ." B Wolverines switching between each other, particularly in the scene when he encounters William Striker and momentarily reverts back to being Wolverine B before Wolverine A reasserts himself. We then see Wolverine being thrown into the river and then Universe A is destroyed. Then decades later, we see Wolverine A wake up inside Xavier's school for the first time since his drowning in 1973 and Xavier initially regards him as Wolverine B, but later realises and acknowledges him as Wolverine A.

Huh?! Did the drowning somehow surpress Wolverine A's consciousness, allowing Wolverine B to continue living up until that point, only to be replaced with Wolverine A? And while Xavier was glad to see Wolverine A's 'return,' doesn't that mean that Wolverine B is "dead"? Unless Wolverine B was a jerk and Xavier was glad to see the back of him. Or even weirder, if Wolverine begins alternating between being Wolverine A - who has all the memories of Universe A (future war with the Sentinels, Dark Phoenix etc.) happening, and Wolverine B, who would be completely oblivious to all this since it never happened in his world!