So, the X-Men, at least in film, have had their ups and downs.
More ups than downs mind you, but still enough variety to make a whole YouTube video about
it.
Which, as you may have guessed, is what I’m here to do today.
I’m going to go through the X-Men movies and decide if they’re good, bad, good-ish.
And by the end of this I’ll conclude what is the best X-Men movies and what is the worst.
In my own, probably biased opinion.
Anyway, let’s start.
So, X-Men 1: The First X-Men Movie is in my opinion the first serious superhero movie.
I didn’t say the first good superhero movie mind you.
We already had Superman, Superman II, Batman, Batman II.
But those were at time pretty corny and silly.
X-Men was the first to say, hey.
These movies don’t have to have over-the-top supervillains and superheroes who are just
there for truth and justice.
They have flaws, they have weaknesses that aren’t green rocks.
And X-Men pulled it off in a spectacular manner.
The characters are great and for the most part perfectly cast.
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto.
How did they get it so on point.
The visual effects are pretty awesome especially for 14 years ago.
Jeez.
It actually has a pretty interesting story and a message behind it about rights and equality
and that kind of stuff.
This was the first step in a great direction, and is still one of my favorite superhero
movies.
So, after X-Men, people were like: Hey, these movies can actually be pretty awesome.
Let’s make another.
And thus came X2: X-Men United.
They got most things the same: the director, the main cast, etc., which was smart.
However, they did make this film decidedly darker than the first, which is probably why
I like X-Men 1 more than X2.
That being said, X2 is still awesome.
The fight between Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike is one of the best scenes in a superhero movie
period.
Although Wolverine should honestly just have brought out some giant nail clippers.
Nightcrawler is great and is what I would consider the Quicksilver of this movie.
This film also makes the mutants more human and relatable than the first.
Overall, these first two movies were great.
The X-Men plane was flying high.
Then it crashed and burned.
X-Men: The Last Stand.
*sigh* Here we go.
ALright, this movie is bad, but before I get into that, let me say what I liked.
That throw-down at the end, that was pretty cool.
The scene where Magneto lifts up the Golden Gate Bridge was good.
Kelsey Grammer was well cast as Beast.
And that’s pretty much it.
Now what went wrong.
Firstly, the biggy.
Bryan Singer was like, hey, I made two awesome X-Men movies.
Let me ruin Superman.
It’s hard to believe that the guy who made these awesome scenes made Superman Returns.
Anyway, Superman Returns is for another time.
So who’d they give the third X-Men movie and one of the most iconic comic book storylines
to?
Brett.
Ratner.
His filmography isn’t great, but he did Rush Hour, which I really loved.
Besides that, for the most part, meh.
But this film was just urhg.
It didn’t do anything the first two X-Men movies did right.
It didn’t flesh out the new characters at all, quite the opposite.
The new mutants in this movie have become a joke.
The Juggernaut is quite the awesome unstoppable villain.
In this movie he has dialogue like this: *I’m the Juggernaut, bitch* This film had me bored.
The worst thing ever is to be checking your watch in a movie.
Guess what I was doing.
50% of the time I was watching the film, 50% my eyes were on my wristwatch.
Then there’s this cure for mutation, which isn’t a terrible story.
But then the Phoenix saga was just ruined.
Jean grey comes back and kills Professor X.
Psych!
Then they depower Magneto.
Psych!
I still don’t know how Professor X is still alive and Magneto has his powers back.
Are the effects of the cure not permanent.
Can Professor X bring himself back to life?
In that case, why did he put himself in a wheelchair?
Wha?
So that was X-Men 3.
Honestly, there are a few things to like about it, but in the end I myself would never watch
it again.
Now we come to X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Arguably the most hated X-Men movie.
Do I think it’s the worst film ever made?
Nope.
But it still has a lot of issues.
I just want to put this out there: if this whole movie had been about Wolverine’s times
in wars across history, it could have been so cool.
But they gloss over that in the opening credits!
Instead, most of it is just really boring and unoriginal.
The fight scenes aren’t terrible, but the visual effects look so cheap in more than
one spot.
Mostly a) this ladder, b) Professor X, and c) Wolverine’s frieking claws, the most
important visual effect in the movie.
They couldn’t just get Patrick Stewart.
I think the main thing I really hate this movie for is how they ruined Deadpool.
Personally, I think Ryan Reynolds would make an amazing Deadpool if the character was done
correctly, so it’s nice to hear that he has been cast in the upcoming movie.
But in this movie, they guy who is literally called, “The Merc with the Mouth” gets
his mouth removed!
WHY?
There was nothing of Deadpool in this movie.
No breaking the fourth wall.
No laugh-out-loud comedy.
Nothing that people love Deadpool for.
And then there was Gambit.
Fans were like, “Hey, Gambit’s in this movie!
Sweet!”
He comes in for about ten minutes total.
The scene where Wolverine gets his claws was pretty sweet, but this movie once again didn’t
have anything people loved the first two X-Men movies.
Those had themes and made the characters interesting.
Here it’s for the most part just loud noise or really boring scenes.
So as for this movie, I don’t think it’s as bad as everyone says, but it’s still
far from good.
At this point, X-Men was kind of a joke.
So Fox was like, hey!
Let’s get a talented director and cast.
Let’s explore the origins of two of the most popular X-Men characters in a pivotal
and interesting time-period.
And guess what?
They did.
First Class was a great way for X-Men to say, “We still have what you loved about those
first two movies!”
This film didn’t actually do very well at the box office, making $350,000 at the box
office, but later on people started picking up on it.
It’s really interesting to see how the X-Men really started, and James McAvoy and Michael
Fassbender nail it!
Professor X always seemed sort of Dumbledore-ish to me.
Like, I can’t relate to him at all, but I would look up to him if I was in that universe.
This movie, they make Professor X human and relatable and wounded.
Literally.
And of course Michael Fassbender as young Magneto was great.
Jennifer Lawrence was a good choice for Mystique and it was the role that launched her into
her Hunger Games stardom.
I don’t normally comment that much on a film’s music, but this movie had such an
amazing and engaging soundtrack.
That big missile submarine battle at the end was incredibly cool in my opinion, the whole
training montage was fun, and Kevin Bacon is great as the villain.
Is the movie perfect?
*baba noise* Not exactly.
I mean, the plot isn’t as good as other X-Men movies, and I wasn’t really on board
at the very beginning with some of the stuff, but from there it took off.
And that submarine lift.
Argh, so cool.
Overall, First Class was great and launched X-Men back into the awesomeness that it had
been in 2003.
So Fox then took a pretty big risk.
Just one movie ago they had almost killed the franchise with a Wolverine solo movie.
And then they decided to make another.
And honestly, I really dug this movie.
I know reviews haven’t been the most positive, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Does it have its flaws, yeah.
But it’s definitely not bad.
Wolverine is still the coolest X-Men and Hugh Jackman once again kills it in this role.
The action is really exciting, especially that train scene, the characters besides Wolverine
are cool, and it’s interesting to see Wolverine be vulnerable for the first time in forever.
What went wrong with this movie?
Well, it has a couple pacing issues, and it is really predictable.
But besides that, it’s an entertaining ride.
If you’re a Wolverine fan who wants to settle in for a good Wolverine solo movie, watch
this one.
And finally, X-Men: Days of Future Past.
If you’ve been subscribed for a while or at least have seen my DOFP review, you know
that I love this movie.
9.8 out of 10.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.
Take the best X-Men movies, mix them in a pot, and you get Days of Future Past.
It has everything I loved about First Class mixed with everything I loved about the first
two, mixed with everything I love about superhero movies now-a-days.
It has more of James McAvoy’s Charles Xavier, who is now taken to an even more wounded state,
once again literally.
The action is fun to watch, for once the movie isn’t all about Wolverine, and everyone
is awesome in their roles.
I could go through all the actors, but just look through the credits, and everyone is
amazing!
I legitimately cried in this movie, in a scene which I suppose I shouldn’t spoil here.
This movie took everything I loved about X-Men and added Peter Dinklage.
Boom.
Trump card.
And oh yeah, the Quicksilver kitchen scene.
Who watched that and thought it wasn’t awesome.
The answer is no one.
He was the most epic part in the midst of an extremely epic movie.
Also, as I was thinking about it, I had a funny thought.
In the movie Over the Hedge, there’s a scene that has pretty much the same premise as the
Quicksilver scene.
Someone going so fast that everything around them freezes and we see their point of view.
The Quicksilver scene is obviously a bit better, but it made me chuckle thinking about it.
So, now for the verdict.
Which is the best and which is the worst.
I think it’s a bit obvious that Days of Future Past is my favorite.
*applause* But the worst is a bit tougher.
Last Stand or Origins Wolverine.
In the end, even though it is really bad, The Last Stand does have a couple of moments,
and X-Men Origins Wolverine really doesn’t have much off the top of my head.
Everything is either “meh” or really bad.
So in the end, my conclusion is that X-Men: Days of Future Past is the best X-Men movie,
and X-Men Origins Wolverine is the worst.
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