X-Men: The Last Stand vs. Dark Phoenix

[RobertX]

Here's one thing I'm not sure about: what is the difference between Jean Grey become the Dark Phoenix in the latest X-Men movie and the one in the third X-Men movie?

Both were bad, like traitor bad, not quality bad, you know...

So what are the differences?

[RodneyYouPlonker]

I'm not sure what happened, yes I have seen the movies but I'm no massive expert.  One thing I did read some time ago is that those earlier movies that they originally did, things happened later on in the more recent movies.  Things altered, time travel and all kinds of events changed things in the past and made it a different past completely.  You'll find that things that happened earlier on in the story, turned out, they never even happened at all because of all the alterations that went on due to Time Travel.  Take for example the events that happen in Back to the Future 2, when he returns back to his own time he comes back and everything has changed.

A bit like that really, if you're wanting to compare things then I would assume that those things probably didn't happen.  They might have happened in one way many years ago but an expert in X-Men will probably tell you about how everything changed due to what went on later at some point...

[LZA]

Kinda goes back to the discussion about the black female 007. Since they are all made up of Likstories, people can contradict all the time in an attempt to tell an interesting story.

Like the Star Trek reboots. Or even the different Superman movies... I'm not really a comic book fan, but I know people take some parts of the comic, then add their own artistic license. For example, Christopher Reeve Superman was regarded as Superman, when Henry Cavil killed Zod, people were upset since Superman doesn't kill. BUT, in the comic books, especially the early series, he was a lot more "human" than portrayed in the CR movies. Not to mention the Kingdom come comics which is like a reboot... Telling a different story.

I'm using Superman as an example of what may be happening here... Different points of view from the story teller..

[RobertX]

Hey guys.

While time-travelling, parallel universes, and stuff having to do with bending linear time appeals, I find them to be confusing plot element. Good for RodneyYouPlonker for bringing that time-travelling thing up.

Lesson learned: when it comes to movies, God doesn't have jurisdiction over what happens temporally; rather, it's the writers and the producers. Not trying to be funny, just that the lack of realism blows my mind

[RodneyYouPlonker]

Also something else I'm sure about, regarding X-Men that infact this "Dark Phoenix" movie isn't actually part of the main story.  From what I can gather the main story is like The Last Stand etc.. but this new one is more like a Spin-off of the main story.  Like Deadpool or Wolverine.  Dark Phoenix is more like centred around the character that the movie is focused on.  I haven't seen it yet though so I don't understand what's going on in this new one.  The original first 3 movies it was years since I saw them so can barely remember the plot.

I'm pretty sure that Dark Phoenix is infact "Spin-off" but could be wrong.  Deadpool was great I liked that but very comedy feel to it.  Deadpool is supposed to be where the future ends up and as far as I understand the most recent installment when it comes to all these mutants.