I don't know. X-men on the whole was a Solid film, it had really solid character development (to start off the series) for a crowded movie. It is flawed but I don't know specifically where it needs major improvement. I alway thought it might be running time. (IMO all Superhero origin should always have running time of 2hrs and 30min) I recall hearing that Singer's original running time for the film was that long but Fox nixed it.Durandal wrote:Actually, the first X-Men just was not all that great. The second one was awesome. The third one was, well, third-rate.General Zod wrote:X-Men managed to pull it off fairly well, especially since they had a virtual infinite pool of story ideas to pull off their movies from. Unfortunately changing directors in the third made it suck considerably, mainly because of the director shift, but in something like this I can imagine it would be good if there were an obvious direction planned for it, instead of simply adding in villain after villain ala Batman. Since a good deal of the popular superhero comics definitely have some type of direction they're heading for, or at least trying to work toward. Even Spiderman's not completely devoid of material that they couldn't have tied things in together with the previous movies a little more coherently with the Green Goblin arc and Harry going the vengeance route for his dad's death.
I'll agree with you that X2 was the best of the series. X3 on the other hand as I think of it more and more was just terrible. (I've been thinking of putting it in my worst sequels/films category)
) but the Spiderman movies are so heavy-handed with it! Yeesh!
