Were the Fox X-Men films better than current capeshit?
Were the Fox X-Men films better than current capeshit?
Luke Morales
Eli Stewart
Nope. They were garbage too.
Charles Sanders
>making Cyclops a side character
>killing him off in 3
no they were shit
Leo Stewart
Some of them, absolutely. If you're talking like Dark Phoenix and New Mutants type shit then those are probably bad as shit like Eternals or Thor 2. So it's kinda mixed.
Chase Robinson
They had less CGI which is good and X2 had awesome and surprisingly brutal for PG13 fight with Lady Deathstroke.
Jaxson Martinez
yes
Adrian Gonzalez
Yes. Definitely.
They mostly weren't great movies, but way better than anything made in the last decade
Tyler Russell
This minute is perfectly executed from writing to direction to performances, etc. You know so much about these people, their history, their world, their conflict, their future, etc. with so little. MCU has never had a simple well executed scene despite their 6 billion dollars of green screen laser fights. It's embarrassing.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
That's why all modern superhero movies (any brand) are capeshit, but old stuff wasn't, even when it was bad.
Alexander Garcia
It depends. Better than the MCU? Absolutely, they were movies, not CGI videos. But they are still just summer blockbusters for kids and teenagers.
Nathaniel Murphy
It's tough being a Cyclops fan
She gets killed by having superhot liquid metal pumped into her body which then instantly solidifies. I can't think of many worse ways to go
Jackson Clark
Absolutely
Joseph Mitchell
Only first class is better then average marvel.
Bryan Swinger/Kinberg/Goldberg is ultimate shit
Jordan Campbell
yes
marvel films have cringe humor at least the xmen didnt have a witty 1-liner in every scene
Justin Stewart
X-Men was like the Coen Brothers to me, half of it is the peak of what they’re trying to accomplish and half is absolute dogshit. Not a lot of in between.
Kayden Nguyen
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart were honestly better than these films deserved, but I'm glad they're in it cause they're a joy to watch
Noah Harris
fpbp
Those movies literally ruined Rogue.
Jordan Hall
Yes. Anything made by DC after Nolan and By Marvel after Ironman has been cringe shit wihout any value
Joshua Collins
First Class is capekino desu. I wish Fassbender picked better films these days, I can't remember the last time I saw him in anything
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Jayden Smith
It depends.
Eli Turner
Hulk 2 was good
Josiah Baker
>Hulk 2
?
The one with Norton?
Passable. I've seen it once whe it was new
Joshua Ramirez
1 is good, 2 is kino. Rest are shit, but I'd probably watch 3 over most MCU shit
Nathan Jackson
Eli Turner
I'm going to be sad when Ian McKellen passes. He such a good actor, and down to earth too.
Jonathan Foster
X2 was a treat, peak Jackman especially during the Mansion scene.
Matthew Taylor
>he's 82 years old
i'm not prepared yet bro
Tyler Jones
Nobody likes Cyclops except self-inserting nerds.
Lucas Gonzalez
Brian Cox is a kino making machine
Easton Ortiz
They were trying too hard not to be seen as superhero movies, even making fun of the iconic Woliverine / X-men outfits. Also here's a short list of things that were also bad
>Love triangles
>Jean immediately falling in love with Wolverine few moments after she met him despite already having a partner
>Timeline / age fuckups with the newer movies best seen with Magneto / Charles
>Mystique being forced and pushed so fucking much despite noone giving a shit about her in the newer movies, also makes no sense retroactively with the old movies why she would work with Magneto, also obnoxious love plot with Beast
>Storm one of the leading X-men characters barely does anything
>Rogue is completely irrelevant after the first movie, has a romance plot with Iceman of all characters, despite it fitting more with Gambit who is a far more popular character
>Gambit being completely wasted in the awful Wolvering prequel film
>Bad CGI
>X3 and especially origins wolverine being unwatchably bad
The only movie i genuinely loved was Logan and it wasn't really an X-men movie
Nolan Richardson
The only reason they pushed Mystique so hard with the prequel movies is because they lucked into casting Jennifer Lawrence just before she became big thanks to Harvey so then they ended up pushing her as the star despite the fact she clearly hated doing them
Kevin Bennett
>X-men
>X2
>first class
>days of future past
>logan
kino
>last stand
ok, not great
>first two Wolverine spinoffs
shit
Didn’t watch the rest
Lincoln Taylor
>mutant power is adapting to things to survive
>doesn't adapt to this
This was the dumbest fucking thing
Carter Baker
The only good part of First Class was January Jones, and of course Fassbender.
John Thomas
It was either Cyclops or Wolverine as the male lead, they went with the guy who could actually act.
Jayden Howard
January Jones can't act to save her life, and desu the only reason she's got a career is because she's very pleasant to look at
Besides, First Class is much better than just her
Aaron Gonzalez
absolutely
X2 reigns supreme as the best capeshit movie of all time
Leo Ward
The only good X Men films were 1, 2 and Days of Future Past.
Owen Nelson
>desu
Filtered faggot is filtered.
Cooper Collins
Yeah but I'm not the one saying January Jones is a good actress, so baka desu senpai
Grayson Brown
>Yeah but I'm not the one saying January Jones is a good actress
Neither am I. I'm just calling you a faggot for getting word filtered.
Ryan Wilson
We will never have the Hellfire club again in it's lingerie glory.
Also, I'm glad Emma was just Shaw's cock sleeve instead of "bitch with a heart of gold" she's been the past 30 years.
Jackson Cooper
Correct. The Bryan Singer trilogy. Obviously he's credited on Apocalypse but it's well known he was barely present and a mess when he was.
Eli Miller
>they were movies, not CGI videos
take off the nostalgia goggles pal
Ian Watson
You're dishonest
Brody Davis
Speaking of Sebastian Shaw, Kevin Bacon was surprisingly good as him
Thomas Scott
cope
Cooper Lee
Disney will never make anything as good as X-2 or Raimi Spider-Man
Andrew Gomez
yes because not every single character was a sarcastic quipster
Jayden Barnes
they already did several times
Gavin Garcia
The original X Men trilogy generally had a good balance of practical effects to CGI, and certainly was nothing like the MCU which uses CGI and greenscreen in almost every shot. That one bit there is the most egregious thing about the first X Men and it's the only really poor effect
There's no excuses for Origins though. The leaked workprint is more watchable than the finished movie
Andrew Walker
I'll never understand why Days of Future Past gets more praise than First Class. It's really not that great.
Hunter Jenkins
>Future Past features robots that adapt to things to counter them.
>They're based on Mystique, whose powers have fucking nothing to do with this, not Darwin who literally has that power.
Owen Thompson
>quipster
It's only a matter of time before they introduce a hero with that name
Bentley Jenkins
It's got some good scenes, particularly the Quicksilver one, but otherwise I think most of the praise is just because it's a better sendoff for the original trilogy and its characters than The Last Stand was. I haven't seen it in years
Lincoln Bell
>all these nerds ITT
If you EVER open your mouth to complain about something not being like it was “in muh comics” you need to kill yourself immediately you pathetic fucking retards
No, I don’t care that they made Rogue a hot chick without the weird hair thing
No, I don’t give a fuck about Cyclops
No, I don’t care that they made Wolverine 6’3”
With the knowledge of what was to come after it, the X-Men trilogy (X-Men, X2, Logan) is THE most kino capeshit trilogy with the exception of the Dark Knight trilogy. Spiderfags fuck off, Spider-Man 2 is the only excellent movie from that trilogy. The other two are only middling good.
tl;dr
Fuck off comicsfag nerds nobody cares about your children’s coloring books
Gabriel Thompson
Yeah, it has it's moments for sure, but I felt it was a bit of a mess overall. I wish superhero moves would just stay away from time travel.
Lucas Lewis
>they made Rogue a hot chick without the weird hair thing
But Anna Paquin's not hot, plus Rogue having big hair is the best
You're right about everything else though
Tyler Green
X1, X2, First Class, DoFP, and Logan were good
Landon Hill
Time travel stories in general are often really hokey, unless they actually put some effort into thinking about them
Chase Long
I thought they sucked. They were too different from the comic books, and the characters were way too off. In the comics Phoenix had to die because she destroyed a planet and killed billions while she had essentially become a Celestial like Galactus that needs to feed on planets, but inside of a mortal body. In the X-Men 3 Phoenix raised up a bunch of water and turned a few people into dust. Oh no the peril! Just send a few tomahawks when the bitch falls asleep. Phoenix 2 in the reset was more menacing, but still nerfed.
And Kitty having the power of time travel because she can phase through matter? Fucking STUPID!
And X-23 could have cured Logan quickly with a blood transfusion to restart his failing immune system. Plus Logan was tall and slender when he should have been short, stocky, and almost gorilla-like.
Brandon Campbell
LOL...NO!!!
Special effects that were already bad and became a joke at the time, mischaracterization of the characters, all wearing black costumes for no reason and ororo without the classic costume, nothing different from what Kevin Feige continues to do today
Daniel Martinez
>They were trying too hard not to be seen as superhero movies
I actually kind of miss that