Tag: Movies
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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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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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