The New Mutants is the last of the X-Men movies (for now). You know they will be rebooting this franchise at some point. It doesn’t feature any of the traditional X-Men you know and love. It’s an entirely new cast with faces you haven’t seen before and powers that are new. When I heard that…
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I had seen X-Men Apocalypse in theaters when it came out in 2016. I remember it being a huge mess of a movie that didn’t make a lot of sense at the time. Re-watching it, I am happy to report that it was not as bad as I remembered. I’m unhappy to report that it…
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The Wolverine storyline was undoubtedly the most successful of the X-Men plots, except for maybe Deadpool. Logan gets three movies all to himself as well as his appearance in a few of the other movies. This doesn’t really upset me because I enjoy these movies immensely. For some reason Logan interests me the most. I…
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Dark Phoenix had so much potential! But alas, it was a major let down, particularly because Jean is one of my favorite X-Men. We begin the movie in 1975 with a young Jean causing a car crash that kills her parents. Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) comes to her rescue and brings her to Xavier’s School…
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When you have a winning formula, you tend to stick with it. So it makes sense that Deadpool 2 uses the same witty banter and nonchalant, no shits given attitude as the first movie. The movie opens with Wade AKA Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) on a job where he fails to kill his target. Later that…
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Logan is one of my favorite of the X-Men movies. It’s directed by James Mangold who has helmed other films like Girl, Interrupted and Walk the Line as well as 2013’s The Wolverine. Mangold’s tendency for a dark, brooding style is definitely present in Logan. The film opens showing Logan (Hugh Jackman) as a limo…
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Welcome to The X-Men Movies: Ranked! The X-Men film franchise has persisted for twenty years! I can’t believe it’s been around that long. Just for fun, I decided to watch all of the movies in order of release date. I will also attempt to rank each X-Men movie in terms of my favorites! Everyone loves…
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