I liked this better than X2, X3

[xmenfilesfan05]

X1 is the best. It's a science-fiction drama, it's sober and serious and tries to create realistic characters. X2 is far more of a traditional superhero movie, and XIII is just a live-action cartoon.

Go back and watch the opening of X1, until Logan's truck explodes. Then watch XIII and see how far the series fell.

I agree completely, X1 opening felt so authentic, so organic, so true that when I compare it to what X3 did, I grind my teeth in frustration.

 

[lordofthenerds]

Well, X1 was definitely the most serious and realistic feeling X-Men film, but in my opinion it lacked enough action and fun. X2 displayed a good balance between the two, one of the reason's why I like it better. X3 basically just felt like a fun popcorn movie, nowhere near the quality of the other two.

 

[TNC9852002]

Who's to say how much action and fun an X-Men movie is supposed to have?...

But anyway, I just want to get another X-Men movie made...It'd be cool to see a remake of X1 in about 15 years..

-TNC

 

[Sloth7d]

All of them could have been better IMO. They all focused on Wolverine too much. As much as I like him that took away from each film for me.
Nightcrawler didn't get enough action time. Come on after doing the white house scene why didn't they give him more action? Colossus had one line in both the movies he was in. Mutants like Psylocke and Quills recieved almost no screen time. And theres more,but I don't want to continue ranting here.

Thing is, I liked these movie, but I far from loved them.

 

[November Rain]

I also liked x-men better than the sequels

the graphic novelization of 2 was better than the film and i think it played too safe and spent far too much time on alkali lake which made the film feel like it was dragging with a fairly silly plot line. If you look at it logically, the cerebro plotline is far more deadly than the pheonix one and it should have never been the case.

the problems with the first film, i could handle because everyone loves wolverine and it's nice to give him the limelight in the first one. This should have been resolved in the next films but they kept with the same formula and i don't think that's a great idea. it should been more of a team film.

in the first film, plot and the majority fo character devolpment and representation was better. I do think that collosus and ice-man should have been on the team from the get go (as well as a stable kitty) but i guess that was more of a budget thing than anything else.

besides, wolverine's cage fight is the best character introduction in a superhero movie, bar none. You watch that scene and its the only genuine time you believe a comic character has come to life, and it's not an actor playing him. However the scene itself was its own downfall and the character could never recover from it and we got left with some puppy dog in the last stand, meh

initial great work from singer but he just played it well too safe in the second film, which should have been sentinel related and also had a proper danger room included (that resembled one from evolution).

 

[DieSmiling]

X-Men has it's strengths, one of the biggest being that it was simply the first. Look at Superman: The Movie, Burton's Batman, and Spider-Man. You just have an advantage if you're the first one, it makes you iconic.

 

[Sentinel X]

The first X-men is the best, its very x-menish. The threats are real and scary, the villains are cool, the mutants are unique, the discrimination against the mutants is very vivid...
I love it. Also it didnt seem so American, there seemed to be a wider range of charecters from all over the world. Oh and Mystique and Toad were awsome...
I also actually liked Storm in X1, she was the coolest there. Jean was cooler in X2 but still really liked her in X1 and I like Rogues story...and at least in X1 Cyclops was actually part of the movie

 

[Sloth7d]

Storm only even seemed like Storm in part 1. In part two she seemed like American Storm, she lost her accent. And in part 3 she was clearly Halle Berry. There was no Storm there.

 

[Havok83]

X2 was by far the best followed by X-men

 

[psylockolussus]

X2 is the best
X3 is my favorite
X1 is good but boring

 

[Angamb]

X1 boring? After X3, I'd love to see sequels like X1 much more than like X3.

 

[Havok83]

X1 took the longest to get going but that was necesary as it needed to set up the backstory and introduce the series. I didnt find it boring either, but it was the lightest on action. Thats not necesarily a bad thing. I think X2 was the best mix of X1 and 3

 

[david misas]

Ehh, I loved them all.

me too, i cant choose a favourite. i guess i have reasons to love each movie, so i wouldnt dare to compare them ...

 

[TruSake]

yeah, I feel the same way

 

[Ender Durden]

Okay, let me explain. To me, all I remembered from the X-Men was Wolverine. I didn't recongize him without the yellow spandex. I didn't exactly grow up on the X-Men. When I saw characters like Sabertooth, Toad and Mystique, you know mutants that look like mutants(of what i thought mutants would look like, i mean obviously mutant). Then X2, yes, Nightcrawler is my favorite German demon, but that was it. In X3, Angel, Beast and some of those who join the brotherhood, were obviously mutants. I know makeup and junk like that cost money. I hoped at at least some more obvious mutant (more main line characters were obvious mutants). The other reason, is because the storyline is straight forward. I'm not saying the others were bad, its just liked the first one better.

were u high when u started and wrote this thread?

 

[Mr. Socko]

The only thing that was great about the first film was the opening scene IMO. Everything else was just blah. X2 was a genuine spectacle.

 

[November Rain]

I've found a lot of people who believe in story driven comic book films to believe they are boring...

it's such a shame because this is the reason high quality comics don't properly get translated because the focus is more on the actions scenes. WHen it comes down to it, a smaller proportion of comics (especially with the arc introduction of late) have action being the centre of the theme. It's normally a by product of a well told story.

Sure an intense fight scene would have made the first film more memorable but it wouldn't have helped tell the story it needed to, I felt the action scenes were sufficient to get the story told, just like how fight scenes in the comics of the 60s may seem poor to today's standards but they also did enough to tell their higher quality stories

 

[Angamb]

Is true what you said about today's tastes.

A good movie need more drama/emotion/character development than action.

That's why X1 is the best movie. I hope X4 learn about this, and give us momments like X1's.

I would enjoy a large dialogue scene more than an action one like the X3 ones, really.

 

[*ANTHONY*]

X1 was best. It had great character development. The story was interesting. Plus, wolverine didn't seem like such a dam show off! Cyclops performance was best here, IMO. Plus he had most screentime.

 

[taintedFB]

True. X1 was Cyclops's most screentime and when he truly acted like a leader. What a bummer, that in X2, they had him disappear for three quarters of the movie! And don't get my started on X3. Still his performances in all 3 was the best and most consistent of the cast...

 

[snwboarder88]

X-Men did have greater emotional depth than X3, but don't forget that is was the first in the series. It had to introduce these characters, so it had to establish their characters, traits, beliefs etc.

Whereas in X3, because we already knew how each character behaved, all this character development wasn't needed as much. They had already established these characters, given them their distinct personalities.

In X2, we saw them evolve and grow. We saw how troubled situations affected them. The Jean/Scott/Logan relationship developed, and Storm became more confident.

And in X3, something big was happening. And these characters had a job to do. X-Men and X2 were leading up to X-Men: The Last Stand.

So to those who say X3 has no emotional depth to it: it works as a trilogy, the films lead on to one another. X-Men and X2 gave us the emotional depth, X3 gave us the well-deserved action.

Thats a Great way to sum up the Triology!

 

[N.Sef]

I shut off X3 after about the halfway point of the film, seriously I couldn't care less about what was going on and the fact that Cyclops was in it for about 5 minutes was just a wash for me.

Bryan Singer's first X-Men movie hit all the right marks for me. Here we didn't have just a mindless villian destroying the crap out of stuff, Magneto seemed genuine though he was largely misguided. I felt as though the first movie emphazised the idea of mutants being hated the most, like those rallies with Senator Kelly. All the characters got good screen time, and we weren't introduced to an army of forgettable mutants, rather we were given characters you could begin to care about and see their motivations for doing what they are doing.

X2 was a great movie as well, but in my opinion isn't as good because some characters got less screen time just because they weren't as 'popular' and as such were left as window dressing for the likes of Wolverine (not that I have any problems with Logan).

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Wolverine was actually an aggressive, bad-tempered, badass loner in X1. He seemed genuinely dangerous to be around. And tragic, haunted. By the sequels, he's a Hollywood action hero.

 

[Angamb]

absolutly true.

But everway, Hugh never was Logan, he hasn't the look, he is more a gentelman for me, and Logan was supposed to have a wild and dark look, not only having that look, but be a wild man, with few words. Not the leader he end being in X3.

 

[Argyle of Sock]

...It'd be cool to see a remake of X1 in about 15 years..

Maybe not a remake. A re-imagining, perhaps.

I've found a lot of people who believe in story driven comic book films to believe they are boring...

it's such a shame because this is the reason high quality comics don't properly get translated because the focus is more on the actions scenes. WHen it comes down to it, a smaller proportion of comics (especially with the arc introduction of late) have action being the centre of the theme. It's normally a by product of a well told story.

Sure an intense fight scene would have made the first film more memorable but it wouldn't have helped tell the story it needed to, I felt the action scenes were sufficient to get the story told, just like how fight scenes in the comics of the 60s may seem poor to today's standards but they also did enough to tell their higher quality stories

This is the exact same thing that happened to Hulk, another high-brow Marvel movie.