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Originally Posted by Iceman

X3 got so screwed over with script changes, Halle Berry demanding the lead so they cut Cyclops, changing directors in the middle of the film, etc. Poor Brett Ratner isn't the best director but he inherited a mess and couldn't hope to have made much out of it. A stronger director and producer could have gotten it done right from the start but they were on a deadline to get it finished. The guys that did the rewrites didn't know what they were doing and no one cared.

I don't place all the blame on Ratner, as it takes more than one guy to make a movie (good or bad). Just like I don't give Whedon all the praise for Avengers.

My biggest problem with X3 was they tried to cram too much into the film. They were pulling from three separate comic plots that weren't even related to each other (and separated by a decade of real-time in one case). A lot of that probably came from the re-writes, especially if the other writers truly "didn't know what they were doing".

Add on top of that the continuity errors and it was a really rough viewing experience for me.

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Originally Posted by CMIII

Add in that Charles is standing in the X Jet when he meets Scott and a Teenage Emma Frost at some point after the Vietnam War. When Emma is an adult in November 1963 things get lost. I think Biff Tannen went back to October 1955 and changed things a bit

Those events weren't in X3, though. Xavier meeting Scott and teenage Emma in the late 70's was at the end of XMO:W and Emma as an adult in '63 was in First Class - films that came out after X3.

Also, the scene of Xavier standing when Scott and the others approached the Blackbird could easily have been explained by Xavier using his mind to create the illusion of him standing outside the jet. Granted, it's not the most elegant solution, but it works without messing things up further.

Of course, if DOFP retcons everything into FC's timeline, then any continuity errors in X1-X3 or Wolverine 1 & 2 are rendered moot.

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Originally Posted by Iceman

And cheaping out on Beast being blue all the time is lame. If they didn't want it they shouldn't have made it happen in the first film. Beast's thing has always been that he was insecure about his looks and somewhat afraid of the world. Give him a magical Hulk-like transformation that he can control and it's better than a costume change for secret identity.

I'm hoping Hank is using some kind of image inducer to hide his furriness. It's tech straight from the comics, sounds like something he might have invented, doesn't alter his existing/traditional power set, and saves $$$ on the SFX budget.