Movie Review: X-Men - Days of Future Past

Movie Review: X-Men - Days of Future Past

A few years ago, there was some worry that the X-Men film franchise was going to go the way of the Batman films.  X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were scattered messes that seemed thrown together and were sort of disrespectful to the source material and to fans of the comics and the films that came before it.  When talk of a fifth film surfaced, it wasn't a huge shock that Fox decided to go the reboot route.  Indie director Matthew Vaughn told the story of a young Xavier and Magneto and the first group of X-Men in the Sixties.  It gave fans hope that the franchise could still produce quality films.  Fans went crazy when it was announced that director Bryan Singer would be returning to the franchise and he would be bringing the popular story "Days of Future Past" with him.

Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Reboot it.  That was Sony's decision when a deal fell through with Sam Raimi to continue the story he'd been telling with Tobey Maguire.  Instead of another trilogy featuring the same cast, Sony decided to scrub what had came before and start a brand new series re-telling Peter's origin.  Fans of the original trilogy and Spidey fans in general were not huge fans of this decision.  Despite the lackluster response to Spider-Man 3, fans wanted to see what Raimi could do to sort of redeem himself and maybe give fans a concrete ending, something the third film lacked.  Sony went ahead with their decision casting relative unknown, Andrew Garfield, in the title role and Emma Stone as his love interest Gwen Stacy.  When the first film premiered in 2012, fans and critics responded pretty positively and Sony was able to take a victory lap.  Now, it's sequel time.