Favorite X-Men Films Ranked

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
The X-Men animated series writers/creators' take on the films for the most part. Pretty insightful.

YouTube video

Interesting. But a bit too much praise for X1 & X2.

Although I like how the female creator gave her criticism of the way the females characters were used (at the end of the interview where they are talking about how Marvel should go forward with them).

It never actually crossed my mind how massively sexist those first 3 films were. And why? Well same reason Cyclops was always screwed over. It was for Wolverine to save the day.

I loved TAS x-men and Spider-Man. They don’t make animated series like they used to.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Interesting. But a bit too much praise for X1 & X2.

Although I like how the female creator gave her criticism of the way the females characters were used (at the end of the interview where they are talking about how Marvel should go forward with them).

It never actually crossed my mind how massively sexist those first 3 films were. And why? Well same reason Cyclops was always screwed over. It was for Wolverine to save the day.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/25/famke-janssen-x-men-replacement

Might be a bit biased here though since I liked her Jean way more than Sophie Turner's. lol Probably just boiled down to Janssen not being able to accept that her time as one of the X-Men was over and needed to try and shoehorn herself back into the conversation about the films, but still, they could've reused some of the old cast more than they did.

logan
dofp
x2
first class
thats all

i think for a phoenix story to work they have to stop nerfing cyclops. the emotional connection of that story has always been the effect the phoenix force has on the relationship of jean and scott. not that it has to be the main driving force but it has to be treated with respect for it to work in my opinion. they always sacrifice cyclops importance to make wolverine look cooler. thats something ive always hated.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Speaking of sexism, can't help but feel there might be a little truth to what Janssen (the older Jean Grey) said here, even though Cyclops and the like were also recast.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/25/famke-janssen-x-men-replacement

Might be a bit biased here though since I liked her Jean way more than Sophie Turner's. lol Probably just boiled down to Janssen not being able to accept that her time as one of the X-Men was over and needed to try and shoehorn herself back into the conversation about the films, but still, they could've reused some of the old cast more than they did.

I always thought there were ways to show glimpses of their future selves through Apocalypse or Phoenix.

Heck they could have had flashbacks in Logan.

That said Famke always had a hell of a lot more to do than Cyclops lol.

So I dont think they were intentionally sexist. I just think they chose their 1/2 main characters and didnt really care about the rest. But the fact that those characters were male meant it does come across as sexist.

I mean rewatching the animated series, Rogue and Storm were the teams powerhouses. But in the films Rogue & Cyclops really got the worst of it in terms of character/role and powerset assassination.

I mean just think of the end fight in X1... Rogue is the helpless girl they have to save. Storm and Jean Grey have no way to fly up, so bets they can do is send Wolverine up to save the day.... Now compare that to the animated series and its like facepalm

I was so disappointed when i saw X1 tbh because it was nothing like the animated series, it was so normal and nobody was represented how I thought they should've been save for Patrick Stewart as Xavier. No Sentinels, no cool costumes or powers really; and I know that last one is just a product of the time and budget but you don't do a first X men movie without Beast Jean Cyclops and Xavier having front and center roles

Originally posted by relentless1
I was so disappointed when i saw X1 tbh because it was nothing like the animated series, it was so normal and nobody was represented how I thought they should've been save for Patrick Stewart as Xavier. No Sentinels, no cool costumes or powers really;

Yeah exactly how I felt at the time.

Its kinda shocking to hear their source material was the animated series.

We can put it down to small budget and it being a big risk e.t.c. But thats no excuse to have all your main players on the bench. And even when the budget increased for X2, as entertaining a film as that was, nothing much changed in terms of team representation.

If their source material was the animated show, then they must have missed every episode that remotely featured Cyclops. He was a huge part of a LOT of episodes.

The less said about Rogue and Storm, the better.

Originally posted by -Pr-

The less said about Rogue and Storm, the better.

Lol

1. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
2. X2
3. Logan
4. X-Men: First Class
5. The Wolverine
6. Deadpool
7. Deadpool 2
8. X-Men: Apocalypse
9. X-Men
10. X-Men: The Last Stand
11. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I haven't seen Dark Phoenix, and may not for a long time.