X-Men Films Power Rankings
Like the Marvel Studio Power Rankings only films on Blu Ray/home media will be considred and updated when new films are released to these platforms.
List items
-
After leaving X3 weeks before principle photography, director Matthew Vaughn stepped into First Clas with just slightly more time to prep.
Vaughn recasts the X-Men into the spy genre (60's James Bond) using it to tell the origin of the X-Men but more importantly the friendship of Charles and Erik.
An X-Men film for the first time has a sense of fun to it, using the 60's setting as a way to show the camp side of the comic color pallet.
-
This is an overlooked and underappreciated film in the superhero movie canon. Yes, the CGI hasn't aged particulairly well but as the film that started this new age of comic book movies, it's importance cannot be understated. More surprisingly, it's so well structured. Having the enviable position of introducing the world of the X-Men.
Using David Hayter (yes Solid Snake) script, director Brian Singer makes an introduction to the world of mutants that takes its time to show the right parts. Using Logan and Rogue as audience surrogates, Singer introduces the world of the x-Men and dose a prett good job.
Anchored by two elder statemen in acting in Ian Mckellen and PAtrick Stewart, the film finds a sense of gravitas and histroy that the number of CBM that come later utterly lack.
-
Based on the Claremont miniseries, The Wolverine is the film we deserved the first time.
Director James Mangold's wealth of inspiration from Clint Eastwood to Wong Kar-Wai ground the film. The Wolverine is character driven to the end, making the expansive and comic booky mecha finale kind of dumb and stand out as the film being brought to heel of block buster splendor.
This is a super hero film that isn't about saving the world, it's about one man chosing to live again.
-
Capatzlizing on the good will established in The Wolverine, Days of Future Past smashes together two seperate X-Franchise casts (with Wolverine at the head of course) in a film that both functions well on the emotional level and reposition the series going forward.
Honestly, it erased X3 and Origins Wolverine from the "cannon" that alone makes it just kind of great.
-
A critical apprasial of most franchise films will show that the second entry tends to be considered "the best".
X2 when it came out was a revelation. With no need to further introduce, Singer now using s script written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, and David Hayter plunges into the world of X-Men proper. Well more the military industrial complex respnse to militant mutant action.
In all the plot driven antics is an excellent arc for Logan that sealed Hugh Jackmans star appeal and status as the STAR of this series. Also found in there is the coming out scene for Bobby Drake, further linking the X-Men in the 21st century as the metaphor for LGBTQ rights struggles.
-
Honestly one could be quick and say it's a tie these two bottom films are terrible. Sadly I can't seem to mae that work.
But if there's one thing The Last Stand has over Origins Wolverine is it's at least kind of fun. It gets the majority of the dramatics wrong but it dose have Kelsey Gramer as Beast.
-
How not to do a spin-off or origins story would be an adequate sub heading to any disscusion of this film.
The worst kind prequel film that lacks an emotional arc and simply fills in plot points, masquerading as story.
If it weren't for Hugh Jackman's preformance there would be nothing worth watching in this film. Even than he's got another much better solo effort.
Load Comments