I saw this Sunday night and it was a good movie, but trying to rectify everything from the original trilogy and those Wolverine films, and it starts to fall apart. If you think about this movies plot afterwards, it falls apart bad.
What was the point of Magneto trying to kill the President on live tv? What did he think would happen, the future timeline would be better? The only thing I can think of was that he couldn't and wouldn't let anyone other than himself be the mutant who starts a revolution, and that's why he had to take out Mystique and the President.
Was it really necessary to kill off everybody else from First Class basically?! I mean Angel, Azazel, and Typhoon are fine and all, but they just had to say Emma Frost and Banshee were lost/killed too?! I know January Jones wasn't the best, but they certainly could have recast with another buxom blonde and Banshee is just as important to the X-Men mythos.
So Moria was just gone? Hell they could have said she took off after Charles became addicted to the drug to help him walk, a throwaway line or something. I'm surprised we didn't get a line that she was killed/experimented on b/c she was friendly with the mutants.
JFK was a mutant and that's why he was assassinated?! What was his power, that he was charming and a slut?
Doesn't the Wolverine Origins movie say that Wolverine and Victor Creed were hanging out in during this era? Ugh...
So Kitty has a secondary power that is now a physical power to send people back in time, uh.....yeah. Marvel, please don't carry this crap over to the comics. I mean they could have created a new character whose power was the ability to travel back in time or send somebody back.
This was Kitty's storyline, and they had to give it to Wolverine, it just infuriates me. I hate the Wolverine has to still be front in center in both timeline/trilogies.
I know the quick Wolverine scene in First Class was funny, but it messed everything up by saying that everything had to be connected when they could have just a had a fresh start. Oh well...
My idea as to how Jean and Cyclops were still alive was that when young Charles looked into Wolverine's mind, he saw/learned of their fates, and he handled Jean's powers differently, instead of putting mind blockers in b/c she couldn't handle said power, he worked with her and helped her control the power, therefore she didn't go crazy and kill Charles, Scott, and then beg for Wolverine to kill herself.
I think Singer/Marvel owes us a corrected timeline that we can see what stuck and what didn't and why. I enjoyed the Wolverine movie (the last one) and now that movie could still happen, but Jean was the impetus for it.
So Beast had created a formula that suppresses the mutant gene that allows him to transform like the Hulk and the Professor to walk, so the whole point of the third movie was... This was a major plot hole here, b/c why didn't Beast just whip up something for Rogue to help her out and let her lead a somewhat normal life where she can be with somebody physically.
This movie was a good action film, but again, it doesn't hold up at all if you think about it too much afterwards.
Moral of the story is if Singer doesn't like it he will just erase it to make it his own.