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X-Men Days Of Future Past – The best of yesterday and tomorrow

Little did Bryan Singer expect how the X-Men franchise would grow to be a series with a fan following on par with Star Trek and Star Wars, creating a fan base consisting of both fans of the long running comic books and the less discerning moviegoers walking in for a decent summer blockbuster. To think, this was at a time when comic book movies were still frowned upon thanks to the massive debacle of Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin. However, after the critical and commercial success of the first two instalments, Singer left to make Superman Returns and took with him one of the stars of the franchise, James Marsden. Thus, the final instalment X-Men: The Last Stand instead went into the hands of Brett Ratner, and instead of getting an epic conclusion to the trilogy adapted from the Dark Phoenix storyline, we got a largely middling finale that was a commercial success, but critically, not so much, what with random characters showing up, old characters getting killed off, and to add insult to injury, Vinnie Jones’s (in) famous line “I’m the Juggernaut…b***h” getting immortalized for all the wrong reasons (Memes) .Continue reading “X-Men Days Of Future Past Movie Review: The Best of Yesterday and Tomorrow”