Rate the X-Men films!

[Puck Bond]

With the new one out in a couple days and since I just watched it tonight I'll ask what do you guys think of these movies?!

X-Men(2000)-6/10
X2: X-Men United(2003)-8/10
X-Men: The Last Stand(2006)-7/10

Something about this series never fully clicked for me...I'm not sure why though...I think I prefer my superhero movies to be more about one individual than a big group...however it does have its merits...loved Sir Ian McKellan and Rebecca Romijn Stamos the most and the 2nd movie is easily my fav of the three.

[Lazy Boy]

X-Men - 7/10
X2: X-Men United - 8/10

Bryan Singer's direction was fitting like a glove around the second film, so I'm a little disappointed in the change (and most reviews, which are okay, seem to agree, which has me worried).

[Monotreme]

X2 was not only the best X-Men movie, but is also one of the best comic book movies ever made. Singer directed the film with such careful precision and attention to detail. It's an ensemble piece but every character is perfectly developed. Style: Great. Plot: good. Acting: good. Action: Great. Effects: Great. It maintains the perfect balance between style, action and character development. The first one was also pretty good, but not as good as X2. I haven't seen X-Men 3 yet, but from what I've heard, it doesn't sound nearly as good as Singer's films.

[Cronos]

X-Men - 10/10
X2: X-Men United - 10/10
X3: The Last Stand - 9/10

loved all 3

[Sigur509]

X-Men - 8/10
X2: X-Men United - 9/10

[ilovemovies]

X-Men 7/10
X2 7/10

I'm quite excited for X-Man: The Last Stand. I have no doubt it will be great.

[TylerDurden182]

X-Men- 8/10
X2: X-Men United- 9/10

I am seeing X3 tonight at midnight.

[The Other]

Originally posted by Puck Bond
I think I prefer my superhero movies to be more about one individual than a big group... I'm the opposite. I find single "super-hero" movies like Batman and Superman boring partly because it's about one person and if they are boring, which they generally are, it's all about them and you have no other characters to fall back on...

Or something, I don't know.

[TylerDurden182]

Here are my revised ratings:

X-Men- 7/10
X2: X-Men United- 9/10
X-Men: The Last Stand- 5/10

[floydtheater07]

X-Men: 7/10
X2: 8/10
X-Men: The Last Stand: 4/10

[Lazy Boy]

Update

1. X2: X-Men United - 8/10
2. X-Men - 7/10
3. X-Men: The Last Stand - 7/10

[Shockwave]

X-men -8/10

X-men 2- 9/10

X-men 3 8/10 ( to me it had places where it was by far the best and worst in the saga)

[thedudeman69]

Xmen - 7/10
X2 - 9/10
X3 - 7/10

[FilmKing2000]

X-Men - 7/10

X2 - 8/10

X3 - 6/10

[bigred760]

Just saw the third movie so now I can put my two cents into the thread.

X-Men: 7/10 - Good movie with cool special effects and a story with a few twists and turns that keeps it going. The characters are introduced well and are, for the most part, ideally cast.

X2 - 9/10 - the best of the series. Everything from cool action, great story, well developed plot and characters, metaphors, twists & turns, and great performances from Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan, and the best out of Brian Cox.

X-Men: The Last Stand - 6/10 - an underdeveloped and detail-less story is what fails this movie. The characters are good, the finale and special effects (they kinda go hand in hand) are great, but everything leading up to it is flawed and handled poorly.

[go2]

x-1-7/10
x-2-10/10
x-3-10/10

[ilovemovies]

Now that I've seen The Last Stand I can say that all 3 movies are a 7/10.

The second is probably the best since it's the one that best develops it's story and characters (probably because it's significantly longer than the other two).

The first one probably follows in second place only because it does a better job of introducing the characters and story than the Last Stands does of finishing them (although it leaves it open for it to not be the end).

[HedwigX]

X-Men: 7/10
X-Men 2: 10/10
X-Men- The Last Stand: 9/10

[sarah1980]

X-Men-7.5/10
X2-9.5/10
X-Men-The Last Stand-9/10

[leafboy]

X-Men ***/****
X-Men 2 ****/****
X-Men zero/****

[zeppelin]

1. X2: X-Men United- *** 1/2
2. X-Men- ***
3. X-Men: The Last Stand- ***

I liked all of them, but I think the reason the second one is the best is because it didn't have the responsibility of either introducing a ton of characters or tying a bunch of loose ends. It was the only one that was really just allowed to be a movie on its own. Plus, I think The Last Stand felt really rushed and under-developed, as others have pointed out. But I still liked it.

[Sigur509]

X-Men: 8/10
X2: 9/10
X-Men- The Last Stand: 8/10

[HeavyFknMetal]

In order.

X2 - 8/10
X-Men - 7.5/10
X-Men: The Last Stand - 7/10

[dman476]

In order.

X2: X-Men United - 9/10
X-Men - 7/10
X3: The Last Stand - 6/10

[dannywalker17]

1. X-Men: The Last Stand (9/10 or A)
2. X2 (9/10 or A)
3. X-Men (7/10 or B)

[Badbird]

X-Men - 7/10
X2 - 10/10
X3 - 7/10

X2 is as perfect as a movie as you can get. The end left me speechless, and still hits me in the gut when I watch it now. Too bad it's bookended by two slightly above average movies.

[Hucksta G]

X2 (8/10)
X (7/10)
X3 (6/10)

[fooknasty]

X-Men 8/10
X-Men 2 9.5/10
X-Men 3 8.5/10

[AngelDust06]

X-Men: 7.5/10
X2: X-Men United: 8.5/10
X-Men: The Last Stand: 7.5/10

[screamer581]

X-Men-6.5/10
X-Men 2-8/10
X-Men 3-6/10

[Monotreme]

UPDATE:

X-Men - 7.5/10.
X2 - 8.5/10.
X-Men: THe Last Stand - 7/10.

[Hannibal21]

1. X2: X-Men United - 8/10
2. X-Men - 8/10
3. X-Men: The Last Stand - 7/10

[Mr. Fred Krueger]

X-men: 8/10
X2: 9/10
X3: 7/10

[CreeperBEATNGU]

X-Men (2/10)

This is a film that the studio had little faith in, the filmmaker had almost no knowledge of the source material going in, and the filmmaker has almost no talent; and I found all of that glaringly obvious. The characterization is almost non-existent, Singer's X-Men films function as bad episodes of the Wolverine show guest starring hackneyed versions of the X-Men, and for all the time wasted on Wolverine, they never came close to even getting him right.

X-2: X-Men United (3/10)

Singer is given a much larger budget and more time to work with, and still barely improves on his very, very weak opener. Characters are wasted left and right, the original group goes nowhere from film 1 to film 2, and even with over $100 mill to work with, they're even visually mediocre(to be generous). Other than Magneto and Xavior, there isn't very much at all that Singer got right. He went into this franchise knowing nothing about X-Men, and he left it knowing slightly more. He's a bland, point and shoot director that couldn't even make decent films with terrific source material layed out before him.

X-Men: The Last Stand (7/10)

Now that Singer is gone to go hack another comic book franchise to pieces on the big screen, a decent X-Men film finally gets made. Ratner's film still has more than its share of flaws, but many of them are left over from the previous films. This film should've been much in the mold of my favorite movie, The Return of the King. It should've been a culminative achievement, but Singer did such a horrid job on character development and all around direction in the first two that there's nothing to culminate, and instead Ratner is left with the task of cleaning up the past filmmakers mess. Under the circumstances, he did about as well as he could've. I finally get the sense that I'm watching a movie about a team, characters that I couldn't have cared less about and/or did nothing to help the team in Singer's films finally get actual personalities that make them worth caring about here, it also blows away Singer's films visually(which wouldn't take much). I finally got to see the mutants doing things along the lines of what I've been waiting to see for 6 years. This is still a very flawed film, but a fun one.

I think all of these are lenient ratings, especially with Singer's films.

[Monotreme]

... Wow. CreeperBEATINGU, that is by far the strangest and most unique assessment and opinion on the X-Men films I've ever read. Of course, I completely disagree with it, think that Singer is not only an extremely talented director but also that he did an amazing job on the first two X-Men films, find X2 to be the best comic book movie ever made, and think that Brett Ratner did a far worse job than Singer, but... to each his own, as they always say.

[Backstabba]

X-Men - 9.5/10
X-2 - 8/10
X-3 - 8/10

[CreeperBEATNGU]

Originally posted by Monotreme
... Wow. CreeperBEATINGU, that is by far the strangest and most unique assessment and opinion on the X-Men films I've ever read.

That's precisely how I feel whenever I hear someone laud Singer's work. I can't express enough how much abhor his direction, and especially the irrepaireable damage that he did to this franchise.

Whenever someone credits him with sharp direction and strong character development I can't help but think "where we watching the same movie?:confused:"

I can't believe someone could have such great source material to work with, yet come up with such flat, uninvolving films. X-Men was the only comic book I was a big fan of, and I can barely stand to make it through the first two movies because of him.

I'm not saying Ratner is stellar, but as far as I'm concerned, X3 had nowhere to go but up after Singer left(judging from the trailers, to go ruin another comic book franchise with SR).

[zombievictim]

Originally posted by CreeperBEATNGU
That's precisely how I feel whenever I hear someone laud Singer's work. I can't express enough how much abhor his direction, and especially the irrepaireable damage that he did to this franchise.

Whenever someone credits him with sharp direction and strong character development I can't help but think "where we watching the same movie?:confused:"

Well guess what I myself think Singer is one of the best directors working today. He took the Xmen franchise and made what should have been mediocre, and made it extraordinary. He handled the action scenes tremendously and always has a great eye for new talent. If someone like Ratner had taken the first one I can almost guarantee we would not have a franchise like we do now.

Sorry for that but whenever I see someone insulting a great filmmakers work, I gotta say something.

[Shockwave]

I liked X3 but it didnt have anywhere near as many "human" moments that X2 had, and when it did, it skipped by thhem wayyyyyyy too fast.

Still really liked the movie, but for me theres no contest which one was better done. (I dont blame Ratner, but the studio. They rushed that poor bastard and he got stuck taking the heat.)

[Terror Australis]

X-Men - 5/5
X-Men 2 - 5/5
X-Men: The Last Stand - 4.5/5

[Lazy Boy]

Originally posted by Shockwave
I liked X3 but it didnt have anywhere near as many "human" moments that X2 had, and when it did, it skipped by thhem wayyyyyyy too fast.

Too true.

My favorite little moment of all three films is still X2, when Pyro is looking at the family portrait in Bobby's house, and his reflection is shown in the glass. Really understated shot, and Ratner unfortunately didn't include too many of those (although there were some).

[Slim_JGE]

X-Men - 7.5
X2 - 8.0
X3 - 7.5

[Mr.HyDe807]

X-men- 8.5/10 (Very good beginning to the franchise!)

X-Men 2- 9.5/10 (Awesome movie with one of the coolest opening sequences ive ever seen)

X-Men 3-6-6.5/10 (An okay movie that couldve been so much more!)

[zombievictim]

X-men- 8.5/10

X-Men 2- 10/10

X-Men 3-6-5/10

[redorblue01]

X-Men - 8/10
X-Men 2 - 8/10
X-Men 3 - 5/10

Singer should've stayed. Superman Returns better be good.