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Okay, I know this is probably only of interest to me, but I'm wondering where X-MEN:DAYS OF FUTURE PAST falls in filing. Should it be considered the equivalent of X4, or the follow up to X-MEN FIRST CLASS under X-MEN Origins. Any and all comments, even snarky ones, are welcome.
 

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This IS a spell-binder. And I know nothing about the intricacies of the Marvel Universe.

The closest I could come to an answer is that I have Live Free and Die Hard filed as DH4 in my collection.

I also have the Bond films filed chronologically under "Bond" on my shelves.

But that is no help to you at all...

:biggrin:
 

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Personally, I would file them in order of release. Though that raises the question of what to do with The Wolverine- is it its own movie (under W) or, since it's directly connected to the most recent X-movie, is it filed as part of the X-Men series?
 

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Just to clarify, I have the X-Men movies filed as follows:X-MEN:X-MENX2X3X-MEN ORIGINS:DAREDEVILSELEKTRAWOLVERINE:WOLVERINETHE WOLVERINEX-MEN FIRST CLASSSo ... should the new one be X4, or follow X-MEN FIRST CLASS.It's A Puzzlement!
 

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TravisR said:
Personally, I would file them in order of release. Though that raises the question of what to do with The Wolverine- is it its own movie (under W) or, since it's directly connected to the most recent X-movie, is it filed as part of the X-Men series?
Yup!
 

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This really confuses me. How about it is the second X-Men film of the second X-Men trilogy?
 

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I'd go:

X-Men
X2
X3
First Class
Days of Future Past
and maybe have the Wolverine flicks next.

Daredevil and Elektra are not what I'd think of as X-Men films, so I'd have them elsewhere.
 

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I have The Wolverine separate since it is mostly a stand-alone title and the others as follows:

X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men: First Class
X-Men: Days of Future Past

I consider DoFP as more of a follow-up to FC that is informed by X1-X3/Wolverine rather than being a sequel to X3.

I will not own X-Men Origins: Wolverine
 

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PODER said:
Just to clarify, I have the X-Men movies filed as follows:
So ... should the new one be X4, or follow X-MEN FIRST CLASS.
It's A Puzzlement!
The events directly follow XM:FC (you have to know about young Charles and Raven, and about the climax of the earlier movie, and Wolverine's "F*** off" cameo is now treated as serious canon) and X3 (since Logan is surprised to see Scott & Jean), and follow X2, since we have to recognize Stryker AGAIN (o-kay, we get it, they go back a long way, can we move on now??)--
So, yeah, it's X-Men 5, and the two Wolverine movies officially Never Happened. More so the first one than the second one.
 

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Many thanks for the comments and suggestions. X-MEN FIRST CLASS has been moved up to X4, and DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is now X5.
 

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^ That's how I file 'em. You just had to know that, right?

But, in my filing system order that makes complete sense in my mind, in the specific group ("Comics") that these are filed in, Wolverine just happens to alphabetically sit right beside X-Men...I didn't think it any further.

I never much read the X-Men back in the day, haven't actually read a comic since the '60s, so they were never hugely prominent to me compared to other Marvel characters. I do quite like most of the movies though, I'd say at least 4 of them are better than average to very good comic-derived movies.

It just happens I'm watching them today and in the last few days. I started with First Class, then X-Men (it is cool to see them one after the other), and today X2 (that is the UK title, which mine are). The Wolverine ones are separate, in my mind.

So: watching order does not equal filing order, for me.
 

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Since this movie is really "X-Men 4: First Class 2: Origins, feat. The Wolverine," I have no choice but to build a robotic arm to periodically shuffle the Blu-ray box on my shelf so that it appears at the end of each X-franchise at least once a week. And about once a month, it will appear book-ended with Terminator 2: Judgment Day...
 

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I file it under "First X-Men movie since X2 which didn't suck ;)." It's kind of like the Abrams Trek movies, it's sort of a prequel, sequel, and reboot all at once. It's kind of X4 and FC 2. I guess it depends on your preference. I'm waiting on the extended cut, and maybe the boxed set after the next movie comes out, dear God, between the wait for that and the Middle Earth set, it's eternity.
 

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DAYS OF FUTURE PAST connects with the second WOLVERINE, so I would watch it after Wolverines adventure in Japan.

For me, all the films with the X-Men AND Wolverine are ONE series of films, so my order in the shelf is:
- X-Men
- X-Men 2
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- X-Men: First Class
- The Wolverine
- X-Men: Days of Future Past

I would ignore the alphabetical order because of W for Wovlerine, exceptionally ;)
 

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Production/release order is the way I go (with the exception of Origins: Wolverine, I just hide that somewhere behind other stuff). In The Wolverine, Logan's whole character arc is a follow-up to the events of X3 (including the bits with Jean). So The Wolverine should be watched sometime after X3. Also, the end credits bit of The Wolverine leads into Days of Future Past, so The Wolverine should be watched prior to that. The first three work as "first chapter". Then First Class, The Wolverine, Days of Future Past (and likely 2016's Apocalypse) are sort of the next chapter, one which is spread out over more history. First Class should not be watched (or filed) as the "first" film in the series. There are some continuity issues that go down easier if more time has passed between seeing that and the first X-Men. Also the narrative definitely flows from First Class directly to DoFP, so I wouldn't separate them by more than one movie. And The Wolverine fits perfectly in there (following up on X3 and leading into DoFP). I'd file them (and watch them) as:X-MenX2: X-Men UnitedX-Men: The Last StandX-Men: First ClassThe WolverineX-Men: Days of Future Pastand then hide Origins: Wolverine behind the lot (and forget its there)And the other Fox-owned Marvel Comics movies aren't part of this "FoX-Men Cinematic Universe". So I wouldn't mix them.
 

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I gotta say that finally seeing Days of Future Past actually all made this a little easier. If you're filing them chronologically via what happens in the main plot of the films, it goes like this:

X-Men: First Class
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (if you must - otherwise easily ignored)
X-Men
X2
X-Men: The Last StandThe Wolverine
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Apocalypse will follow on from there. Of course, you'd miss out on some of the references/gags in First Class not having seen the original first, but odds of initial viewings in that order are pretty low at this stage of the game. Presumably the Fantastic Four reboot will fit somewhere into the chronology as well.

P.S. There are a ton of continuity issues with this franchise no matter what you do. Days of Future Past took a shot at rectifying some, but mostly just cleared the slate for moving forward.
 

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It's interesting how this movie...
utterly ignores some aspects of X3 while embracing others, i.e. the demise of certain main characters. Also, the loss of X-powers due to the mutant "cure" is entirely shit-canned. So in the X-Men future, Professor X is clearly not dead, Magneto is fully magnetic... and yet Wolverine clearly remembers killing Jean Grey when she was the Dark Phoenix, and we have Ellen Page back as Kitty Pryde.
It doesn't even bother to explain any of these things. X-Men: Apocalypse looks to be First Class Part III, so it would seem these anomalies may never be addressed.
 

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