Category: Movies
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix is Just… So Bad
These clowns managed to bungle up the Phoenix storyline not once, but twice. You’d think they’d have learned from their mistakes, but nope. They just went and made entirely new ones! X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the worst kind of bad movie: the boring kind. X3 was so bafflingly awful that at least it was somewhat…
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I Need to Rant About Godzilla Minus One
Sorry, X-Men. I’ll get back to you next week. Godzilla movies stand on a spectrum. There’s the cheesy monster-vs-monster action movies, and then there’s the genuinely compelling solo movies. The further down either side of the spectrum, the better the movie. In recent years, both sides of the spectrum have been occupied by separate countries.…
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The Spot (Across the Spider-Verse): To Be the Butt of the Joke
Spider-Man has one of the best rogue’s galleries in all of comic books. From Doctor Octopus to Green Goblin, from Vulture to Rhino, there was no shortage of great baddies to pick. Who did we get? The Spot. Some random baddie that only shows up every few decades as a background villain. And thank god…
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Logan is the Best Comic Book Movie Ever
Bro, I’m not gonna lie: I did this whole X-Men marathon just so I could talk about this movie. It is genuinely unfair how good Logan is. Literally every other X-Men movie pales in comparison. Every other comic book movie pales by comparison! I can’t even call it a superhero movie, it’s a straight-up western…
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X-Men: Apocalypse is Terrible
I wish I could say this was the last bad X-Men movie. But it’s not. In fact, the next movie is the last good movie, and it technically isn’t even an X-Men movie! ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ just feels unnecessary. ‘Days of Future Past’ made for a strong finale. Yet here we are with another film. Which…
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