PatrickStar
Trakanon Raider
- 1,529
- 558
X-Men: Days of Future Past.
- Thread starter Saban_sl
- Start date
Lanx
<Prior Amod>
- 60,662
- 132,808
should be universally agreed upon that xmen3 is horrible and did not happen.
Let's not pretend that the first two movies were good. They weren't. The first one was flat, lifeless and about as fun as watching someone try to put a square peg into a round hole repeatedly. The second one, was better than the first, but that does not make it good.
Days of Future Past was a legitimately good movie. Let's hope that Age of Apocalypse is at least the movie DoFP was. Please.
Lanx
<Prior Amod>
- 60,662
- 132,808
saying 3 was horrible, doesn't make 1 and 2 good. were they good? they were ok for the times. i mean b4 xmen(1999) the best comic book movie was batman(89) (though spawn could be a contender), xmen did not make me cringe that much. (stupid darth maul, stupid halle barry, stupid dialog... eh)
but marvel was broke and dc is always lul cuz it's dc.
was x2 good? it would have been good if spiderman didn't come out a year earlier, b/c spiderman was the start of "oh shit comic book movies are awesome" even then both of them were in the realm of "eh it's an xmen movie, so many actors, so many characters, what're you gonna do", x3 was just "holy shit, they're just blatantly trying to milk my money right outta me?"
but marvel was broke and dc is always lul cuz it's dc.
was x2 good? it would have been good if spiderman didn't come out a year earlier, b/c spiderman was the start of "oh shit comic book movies are awesome" even then both of them were in the realm of "eh it's an xmen movie, so many actors, so many characters, what're you gonna do", x3 was just "holy shit, they're just blatantly trying to milk my money right outta me?"
To be fair, the Donner cut is the good one.
But yes, the theatrical cut of Superman II is still pretty fuckin good.
Blackyce
Silver Knight of the Realm
- 836
- 12
Eh for me X1 and X2 are both good movies which I have watched several times over the years, I thought they nailed the characters pretty well (that Storm dialogue scene in X1 still is underwhelming though).
Wolverine Movies are more like the round peg in a square hole, or even cat woman for me. It does not seem fair to put X1 in the same category.
Wolverine Movies are more like the round peg in a square hole, or even cat woman for me. It does not seem fair to put X1 in the same category.
Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
- 14,107
- 30,198
Xmen 1 and 2 were bad movies sustained by good actors. X2 was passable because the action sequences were better and they focused on the actors who were worth watching. X3 was a total shitshow, from start to finish. Spiderman 2, Sin City, and Dark Knight probably set the bar for comic book movies, in terms of both being good and making bank. You have to go all the way back to Superman 2 to find the last universally hailed comic book movie that's still somewhat watchable in retrospect.
I would argue that Watchmen was fantastic, as well, but it was not a box office success. It was arguably the most visually stunning and it was extremely faithful to the source material. I think it will be one of those movies that stands the test of time, honestly.
I would argue that Watchmen was fantastic, as well, but it was not a box office success. It was arguably the most visually stunning and it was extremely faithful to the source material. I think it will be one of those movies that stands the test of time, honestly.
khalid
Unelected Mod
- 14,071
- 6,775
Yep, hipsters be hating. Both X1 and X2 were hits when they came out and very popular. Both of them are 80+ on Rotten tomatoes (not perfect, but rarely does a movie get 80+ if its shit) and they also have held up.
TrollfaceDeux
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
- 19,577
- 3,743
hugh jackman's body weren't that great in X1-X2 tho. that's like the first thing I noticed and it threw me off from the rest of the movies.
Doubtful, while I can see a lot of ways they could do a decent movie, I don't see Hollywood handling it well at all. Best they just don't touch that plotline at all.
Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
- 14,107
- 30,198
They were passable and X2 had what was (until the Quicksilver DOFP scene) one of the best comic book movie action sequences of all time. But can anyone honestly say with a straight face that either of those movies were better than Spiderman 2? Dark Knight? Sin City? Even within the same franchise First Class and DOFP were better movies and infinitely more rewatchable. Being a hater has nothing to do with it. They were just not that good, but they were entertaining for their time in a Tim Burton Batman 1 and 2 kind of way.
TrollfaceDeux
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
- 19,577
- 3,743
i must have watched DOFP 4 times by now and Quicksilver scene is spectacular and pretty much all the songs used in this movie were perfectly applied.
khalid
Unelected Mod
- 14,071
- 6,775
Comparing a movie to Dark Knight as the bar of what is a good movie is pretty crazy man.
Sure, they weren't as good as Dark Knight and maybe Spiderman 2, but I thought xmen-2 was better than Spiderman 1 and certainly FAR superior to the Tim Burton Batman's. X-men 2 I think is also much better than First Class, which had some awesome stuff (nazi hunting), also had some bunk.
Yes, DOFP is the best x-men so far, but that doesn't mean the other movies weren't good.
As far as the Quicksilver scene in DOFP, the conversations about that scene in the forums totally ruined it for me in the theatre for me.
Void
Experiencer
- 9,413
- 11,079
It isn't really fair to compare X1 & X2 to current movies either. Sure, compare it to Spiderman 2 or even Dark Knight, but comparing it to DOFP, Avengers, etc. is being unfair. They were very good (if not great) for the time they came out. Sure, they could have been even better, but compared to almost everything else we'd had for the past decade of similar background (I wouldn't include a movie like Blade here, even though I loved it, as it wasn't really so much a superhero movie), they were both damn good. I've watched them both a couple of times since, and while they aren't my favorite movies ever, I'm not sorry I watched them either.
Ten to twenty years from now they might have movies that just blow something like Avengers out of the water...but that isn't going to mean that suddenly Avengers is a bad movie. It's great right now, when it is fairly current, just like X1 & X2 were when they were current. Or at least very good.
Ten to twenty years from now they might have movies that just blow something like Avengers out of the water...but that isn't going to mean that suddenly Avengers is a bad movie. It's great right now, when it is fairly current, just like X1 & X2 were when they were current. Or at least very good.
Xarpolis
Life's a Dream
- 14,107
- 15,613
This is actually the first Blu-Ray that I ever purchased. I really loved this movie.
