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>>X2 was good.
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>True...
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>>Nothing really good about X-Men, maybe the effects?
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>X-men was VERY GOOD considering this was the first jab at the
>X-men mythology....I think it's pretty much revisionist
>history (and fanboy snobbery) that u suddenly hear the
>whispers that the first X-Men wasn't good. But all you need to
>do is read those reviews and the reaction the comic book fans
>had when it was released. The ONLY thing people complained
>about was Halle's wig....That's it...
I've always held the same opinion of the movie. It was cool to see the characters on the big screen, but Halle's wigs were the least of my concerns. I was more bothered by the writing, "What happens to a toad, when it's stuck by lightning?"....."The same thing that happens to everything else". That's just terrible. At best, it's OK and that's without knowing that Sabretooth was a mindless brute and had no knowledge of Wolverine, but turned out to be his half brother lol
>>First Class was cool at first, but fell apart on future
>>viewings. Fassbender was really the only redeeming value.
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>Nah...that movie stands as arguably the next best X-Men
>following 2...U nitpicking...lol
Like I said, it was cool at first, but it didn't hold up to me. I didn't really point out anything for it to be nitpicking. Complaining about a movie because of a wig, would be nitpicking to me tho.
Comic book geekdom aside, I could point out a few parts that didn't make sense off the top of my head.
-Sebastian Shaw has the power to absorb energy and direct it back, it also kept him young. He looked younger IMO and it came across more as a lazy way to get Kevin Bacon to chew up more screen time than a legit power.
-Emma Frost could turn diamond hard, but a brass bed was hurting her. Maybe, I misunderstood, but I thought the diamond hard skin made her damn near invulnerable.
-Professor X was raised in upstate NY, but he was clearly British. Now I know it went to Oxford, but that doesn't make u British and we saw him as a British child lol
-He found Mystique in his kitchen. They had never met anyone else like them (mutants), but one night they stumble across each other in the KITCHEN. A shape shifter is hungry, what does she do, raid the kitchen in a mansion? Surely, that's the only way to eat for her lol Lazy as fuck.
Let's also not forget that Prof. X and Mystique show no signs of having grown up together in the two prior movies.
-And are we sure William Stryker isn't a mutant? In X2, which takes place in the early 2000s, Stryker was in his 60's. In the first Wolverine, he was in his mid 40s and the movie take place in the 70s, I thought. In this, Stryker is also in his late 50s, early 60s, but it takes place in the 60s. Bonus: in DoFP, he's in his 20s, some time in the 70s. Mad lazy.
-Darwin's mutant power is survival, he dies almost immediately lol
It's laughable how lazy the writing was. For the sake of argument, I'll say it was OK.
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>Bottom line, the only X-Men movie that sucked ass was X-3 and
>the first Wolverine....
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>The rest? They were VERY good to GOOD to OK...
Even if I agreed that only two sucked ass and a couple were OK, that's still not a good track record.
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