Category: X-Men
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The Perfectly Timed Return of X-Men ’97
The original 1997 show, ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ is one of the all-time greats of super hero cartoons. Sure, it was only the second best comic book show on the air, but when first place was ‘Batman: The Animated Series’, second place is nothing to sneeze at. Unlike Batman, however, X-Men didn’t spawn an entire…
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Ranking All the X-Men Movies
Oh, wow, I just remembered that I’ve already done this before! But I hadn’t seen New Mutants – I don’t think it was out at that point – so this is fine. Besides, my opinions on the series have changed quite a bit. The Fox X-Men series was one helluva rollercoaster. You’ve got amazing films,…
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The New Mutants is a Failed Experiment
This movie was doomed to fail. First, there was the disaster that was Dark Phoenix. Then there was the Disney-Fox merger. And to top it all off, it came out in 2020. Under these circumstances, it would have taken the second coming of Christ himself to save it! Not that Jesus would have bothered. Not…
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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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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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