X-Men Apocalypse: 10 Comic Book Mistakes The Film Should Avoid

10. Even More Confusing Time Travel Shenanigans

X-Men: Days Of Future Past should categorically not been a success. It followed up First Class, which did it best to put the franchise back on track, but the quality of the X-Men movies had taken a significant nosedive. And they thought the way to fix that was with an unnecessarily complicated plot about time travel, paradoxes, and fixing the future. Somehow, though, it worked €“ audiences turned their brains off just long enough to get past all the exposition, and settle for the sight of Wolverine on a water bed and hippie-haired Professor X. The time travelling set up came from the Days Of Future Past comic, and Age Of Apocalypse follows a similar premise. Namely that the future is boned, and somebody needs to fix it. In this case that someone is Bishop, who appeared briefly in Days Of Future Past, played by Omar Sy. He's the one who stumbles into the Apocalypse story and attempts to fix it, essentially acting the same as Wolverine does in DOFP; an unnecessary retread the new film should probably avoid.
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