Like, the other X-movies? The first two X-Men, then First Class and Days of Future Past. Though not having seen them in quite a long time, I'm not sure how well the original X-Men movies hold up.
Everything else is skippable.
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Everything else is skippable.
The problem of asking that question is that since all of the movies have continuity, you sort of need to watch them all but not all of them are good. X-Men 1 was weak but the series was still finding it's footing and it wasn't terrible. X-Men 2 is probably the best of the original trilogy. X-Men 3 is sort of garbage I think. All of the Wolverine movies are garbage. X-Men: First Class is pretty decent and I've heard good stuff about Days of Future Past.
Honestly, outside of Wolverine (and even then, only barely) and Deadpool, I don't personally think any X-Men characters are strong enough to support their own solo movie. They work well in group settings because the whole point is to see each of them work off each other, but individually? Again, outside of Wolverine and Deadpool, none of them have been able to support a solo book for long. They're all usually cancelled within a year. Cable was a weird exception, I suppose, but his book was strongest during the 90s, so that's not that surprising. But none of them really have a deep enough mythos of their own to sustain an ongoing book or potential solo movie. Few of them have key archnemeses of their own. As weak as many of the solo Avengers villains are (like Iron Monger or Malekith), there's at least enough history of solo stories to pull from. To make a really good solo X-Men movie, Hollywood would have to be more *gasp!* original! And that probably terrifies Hollywood.
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Yeah...that's kind of the double-edged sword of the continuity. In order to really appreciate what happens in Days of Future Past, you kind of HAVE to watch X-Men 3.
It's almost like you remember a movie that no longer exists.
Maybe at some point they'll make a Wolverine spin-off.
X-Men 3, from the summer where Brian Singer ruined two super-hero franchises.
I saw Days of Future Past without having seen First Class, and if I met a Shadowcat who suddenly had the powers to send me back in time, making sure I never saw X-Men 3 would be pretty high on my list of things to do. DoFP was fine, and you don't really need to have seen the others if you have any familiarity with the X-Men. It's your fairly typical time travel story.
I saw Days of Future Past without having seen First Class, and if I met a Shadowcat who suddenly had the powers to send me back in time, making sure I never saw X-Men 3 would be pretty high on my list of things to do. DoFP was fine, and you don't really need to have seen the others if you have any familiarity with the X-Men. It's your fairly typical time travel story.
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I thought they made Colossus a little bit too meaty. I mean, I remember him being tall and muscular, but not Juggernaut painted silver.
Well, I mean technically he was Juggernaut for awhile...
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Well, I didn't see a whole lot of light brown leather on him in the movie
Seriously, they made him more ridiculously swole than Vinnie Jones' Juggernaut. Here's what I expected the sizes of those two characters to be, and they swapped them.
I was going to say exactly this is my original response, but a)even with his mythos, the Wolverine movies have been a little weaksauce, and b) in the hands of the right writer, you MIGHT be able to stretch one or two characters into an interesting movie.Honestly, outside of Wolverine (and even then, only barely) and Deadpool, I don't personally think any X-Men characters are strong enough to support their own solo movie. They work well in group settings because the whole point is to see each of them work off each other, but individually? Again, outside of Wolverine and Deadpool, none of them have been able to support a solo book for long. They're all usually cancelled within a year. Cable was a weird exception, I suppose, but his book was strongest during the 90s, so that's not that surprising. But none of them really have a deep enough mythos of their own to sustain an ongoing book or potential solo movie. Few of them have key archnemeses of their own. As weak as many of the solo Avengers villains are (like Iron Monger or Malekith), there's at least enough history of solo stories to pull from. To make a really good solo X-Men movie, Hollywood would have to be more *gasp!* original! And that probably terrifies Hollywood.
I think I agree with @Covar on this. It only really affects the ending of DoFP in a small way (just Wolverine's perspective). If you know anything about the comics, you should be fine. Or better yet, save yourself time and a headache and just read a synopsis of X3.
Jean dies, Cyclops dies off panel because James Mardsen wanted to play a completely pointless character in Superman Returns, Xavier dies right around the time the special effects budget does, leaving a horrible Day-night transition, and 90% of mutants having the power of wire-fu leaping.
Vinnie Jones' Juggernaut was just undersized. Colossus is supposed to be 7 and a half feet tall all metal'd up.Well, I didn't see a whole lot of light brown leather on him in the movie
Here's what I expected the sizes of those two characters to be, and they swapped them.
Well, that is what happened in the comics themselves.
For a while they were more like "Wolverine and his amazing friends."
--Patrick
They joked about this during the Skrull Invasion, with a bunch of his teammates wondering if that was how he was seemingly on so many teams at the same time.
Spider-Man had the same issue after Wolverine's turn was up. I think he had like 3 books and two teams, plus showing up in the X-Men books sometimes.
Spider-Man was before and after Wolverine. At one point, Peter Parker was in Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, and Spectacular Spider-Man all at the same time, and on the Avengers and Defenders and a substitute on the Fantastic Four, and that doesn't include guest appearances in every book ever made.
As said in other thread, lot of time in flight today.
SPECTRE: really ties all of the Craig bond films together. I enjoyed it.
Antman: fun action romp that works because it doesn't take itself too serious.
The world according to Garp: I love the book, I love most of the actors in this, but there's still a lot lost in translation.
Mad Max: fury road. Yup, great movie.
Birdman: a really good movie, but... Man, I needed some time to recover from that.
SPECTRE: really ties all of the Craig bond films together. I enjoyed it.
Antman: fun action romp that works because it doesn't take itself too serious.
The world according to Garp: I love the book, I love most of the actors in this, but there's still a lot lost in translation.
Mad Max: fury road. Yup, great movie.
Birdman: a really good movie, but... Man, I needed some time to recover from that.
Still haven't seen the new Star Wars, and now it's left the local theaters. 
But thanks to Team Negative 1, I've seen the despecialized STAR WARS (when it was just STAR WARS. None of this "Episode IV" baloney.)
Han didn't shoot first. Han shot. Full stop. Greedo didn't do anything but faceplant into the table.
But thanks to Team Negative 1, I've seen the despecialized STAR WARS (when it was just STAR WARS. None of this "Episode IV" baloney.)
Han didn't shoot first. Han shot. Full stop. Greedo didn't do anything but faceplant into the table.
In case anyone didn't realize, Team Negative 1's project is different than the Despecialized version. TN-1 restoration was made from a transfer of an original 35mm print! (Details) Even the people behind the Despecialized version recommend this version to their own. (Facebook)Still haven't seen the new Star Wars, and now it's left the local theaters.
But thanks to Team Negative 1, I've seen the despecialized STAR WARS (when it was just STAR WARS. None of this "Episode IV" baloney.)
Han didn't shoot first. Han shot. Full stop. Greedo didn't do anything but faceplant into the table.
Blueray vs TN-1
I approve.
Thanks. I probably would've known if I'd gotten to the end with the station explosion.
Man, you can really see the difference in the X-wing explosion.
Sure wish it wasn't so blurry. Probably won't notice at 24fps, though.
--Patrick
I agree, I saw it when it was current and was really bored.
Huh. We watched it in Imax 3d and it blew us away, now we have the bluray but haven't watched it yet. I wonder if that's the case...
He looks like he could play "the younger version of Willem DeFoe" in some movie's flashback sequence, I'll tell you that.
--Patrick
