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Tag Archives: X-Men

Dark Phoenix review

15 Saturday Jun 2019

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Oh yeah… the X-Men… I remember the X-Men…

by Thom Yee

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Dark Phoenix images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

I hate X-Men: Apocalypse.

I hate its little face. I hate its guts. And I hate the way it ruined the X-Men franchise.

Though to be fair, X-Men: The Last Stand did that first.

And that’s really the story of the X-Men on the big screen: Generally okay movies ruined by a few bad installments. For every couple of decent ones — X-Men and X-Men 2 — and even some good or great ones — X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past — there’s an X-Men: The Last Stand or X-Men: Apocalypse to set things back and screw everything up for those that try to follow them. Even the Wolverine and Deadpool movies were both almost tanked before they could start by X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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Deadpool 2 review

26 Saturday May 2018

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FFUUUUU—

by Thom Yee

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Deadpool 2 images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Deadpool’s never really been my kind of comicbook hero.  He’s dangerous, unhinged from reality and doesn’t take life seriously, but not in a frightening, Joker kind of way.  Deadpool’s more of an annoying, won’t-shut-up, Spider-Man type, only, unlike Spider-Man, he’s not masking his own insecurities or expressing himself in a way he can’t in real life.  No, Deadpool’s just annoying, and he constantly f*cks with people because that’s who he is on the inside, and I don’t really like that kind of character (or person).  For a long time that was fine too, the only type of person that liked Deadpool was a certain type of comicbook nerd, a subset of a group of people nobody in reality cared about or wanted to spend any time around anyway, but then, all of a sudden, Deadpool was, like, the biggest deal in the world, the titular lead character of his own titular action-comedy movie, and played by one of the most comically handsome and spastically charming men in the world.  And by the end of all of that, I didn’t really like Deadpool much more. Continue reading →

Logan review

11 Saturday Mar 2017

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Ew… no! Blood! Unngh!

by Thom Yee

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Logan images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

The last time we checked in on a Wolverine movie was in 2013’s The Wolverine, a small, self-contained little story where Wolverine travelled to Japan and was charged with the care of the rich heiress and granddaughter of a soldier whose life he saved in World War II that quickly and drastically grew less small and less self-contained when that same soldier wound up betraying Wolverine in a bid to steal his youth-imbuing healing factor. I know that’s a bit more than a spoiler (and a really long and convoluted sentence), but, frankly, eff that movie and its weird Viper-snake-ladies, its ridiculous Silver Samurais, and its jump-right-off-the-rails-of-sanity third act after its much more even-toned first two [acts]. Besides The Wolverine’s bullet train sequence, there is almost no reason to see that movie, at least not in its entirety. Continue reading →

X-Men: Apocalypse review

04 Saturday Jun 2016

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Let slip the dogs of war, and just cry, Havok

by Thom Yee

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X-Men: Apocalypse images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Sometimes I still can’t believe what a genius thing that early ‘90s X-Men cartoon wound up being.  It’s not like it was all that good (in fact it was laughably bad on a regular basis) but it ended up being an unexpectedly strong introduction to many of the bigger, crazier concepts and tropes of superhero comicbooks, and for a generation of ‘90s kids (like me), it was the key gateway to all the time-bending, cosmos-spanning stories that comicbooks, and the X-Men especially, specialize in. In many ways it laid the foundation for the superhero movies we’ve, by and large, enjoyed in the 21st century.  Plus, that theme song: Continue reading →

Deadpool review

20 Saturday Feb 2016

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So DMX’s entire rap career really was a joke

by Thom Yee

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Deadpool images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

For most of their published lives in North America, comicbooks have been seen as a medium primarily for kids, but for the last 15-20 years, the truth is that comicbooks haven’t really been for anyone. At first, comicbooks were mostly bought for children, tossed around and then thrown away, but after the Marvel explosion of the ‘60s, they expanded their reach to a wider audience, affected and were affected by the [counter] cultures of the times, and would even become collector’s items as the writers and artists that created them wrote stories of increasing sophistication. That trend towards sophistication kept going, however, as the stories became more realistic, more grim and gritty as they stopped being written for kids, and in doing so they lost their chance to pick up a generation of young new readers, and today it’s pretty much just the freaks that have continued to read comicbooks into their adulthoods (like me) that still buy them.

Or maybe everyone’s just been waiting for the movie. Continue reading →

Simul-Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

31 Saturday May 2014

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by Thom Yee and Grace Crawford

What Thom Thought 

It was worth it just for Iceman.

Images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Let’s be honest with each other, you and I. For once in our lives.

Now when it really matters. If only this one time.

If only about the X-Men.

There’s never been a truly good X-Men movie. I’m not just zeroing in on The Last Stand or the Wolverine movies. While they all vary in quality, none of them are very good. First Class comes close, but it’s still a little off.

As one of the few people in the world who grew up with but never grew out of reading comicbooks, I’ve come into superhero movies already familiar with most of the groundwork being laid, and already aware of the continuities being established and messed with. And as GOO Reviews’ resident comicbook historian/nerd, I’ve thought about superhero movies a lot more than any one person probably should at any point in their lives.

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Simul-Review: The Wolverine

03 Saturday Aug 2013

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by Thom Yee and Grace Crawford

The Wolverine images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

The Wolverine images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Thom:  If you asked me who my favourite member of the X-Men is, I would say Cyclops, a character I understand because he grew up shy and unsure of himself and became a hero through discipline and belief in a worthy cause.  He’s also got a great design; if you see him in a comic book, that distinctive visor — something he needs to wear at all times to not kill anyone just by looking at them — tells you right away what his power is.   If you asked me who my second favourite X-Man is, I would say Colossus, because he’s another example of great character design.  If you asked me my third, I would say Sunspot — who’s more of an extended member as he was never a full-on X-Man — for the same reason (and I love Kirby Krackle).

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X-Men: First Class

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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by Thom Yee

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X-Men: First Class images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Remember childhood? Baseball? Dinosaurs? Weird Al? Those things you were supposed to like seemingly just because you were a kid, but you really never liked them at all? For me, a comic-book-nerd kid, X-Men was that thing (though I didn’t like those other things either). To me, the appeal of the X-Men never reached beyond the obvious attraction of a bunch of cool-looking characters with different powers. While that was cool, I always liked the Avengers and Justice League-related characters a lot more, and I think that’s down to the fact that I could buy in to the basic idea of standing up for truth and justice more than I could X-Men’s persecutional allegory. I can see it’s there, it’s a conceptual characteristic very obviously worn proudly and prominently by the series, and it’s apparently a big part of why the franchise has reached so many people, but I just never felt it. I just never understood the central conceit that people in the Marvel universe would draw a line between mutants born with powers and people who got them from serums or accidents or suits of armour. They both have powers; they’re both saving lives and fighting bad guys; why would it matter how they got their powers?

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