by aditya | Jan 30, 2021 | Archive
After X3 there was the idea floated around of a standalone movie showing Wolverine’s whereabouts afterwards, but it was decided to show his origin story first. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the least critically acclaimed X-Men movie prior to Dark Phoenix and also had...
by aditya | Jan 30, 2021 | Archive
Even though the X-Men Origins title wasn’t used again after Wolverine, this movie essentially served as an Origins movie for Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, and Beast. It’s phenomenal. We see Charles and Erik as children, the former a rich kid who pursues a life in...
by aditya | Jan 30, 2021 | Archive
Although X3’s sucking didn’t help matters, it was already supposed to be the last traditional X-Men movie. The idea afterwards was that we’d see prequel movies showing the origins of various characters, starting with the most popular one. X2 (and to a lesser extent,...
by aditya | Jan 30, 2021 | Archive
Well, let’s start off with the bad news. Bryan Singer did not return, and it was not because of the “Me, Too” movement. That happened over a decade later, but in the mid-2000s Singer chose to leave the X-Men franchise to director Superman Returns. Was it worth it? I...
by aditya | Jan 30, 2021 | Archive
We get to the granddaddy of them all. I’ve called Iron Man that with respect to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I have reviewed both Superman: The Movie and Batman. However, it was X-Men that gave birth to the comic book movie as a whole genre. Prior to it, we’d...
by aditya | Jan 30, 2021 | Archive
Wow. Bryan Singer said on the X-Men DVD bonus features how he only felt like he got to make half a movie. Although I praised him for keeping introductions to a minimum, in an ensemble superhero movie like that those will still take up enough time that the main plot...
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