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Gibichung said:
You think they're gonna do the mask too?
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The mask already appeared in some promo arts. It's gonna be part of the suit that's for sure, I just hope that it's not nano-tech. I also beg them to let Hugh wear it for more than 2 minutes. Marvel has this weird habit of giving their heroes a mask, only to remove it every on and on in the middle of action to show audiences the face of the actor beneath it.
 
Gibichung said:
You think they're gonna do the mask too?
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Last year I was toying with the X-Men continuity and came up with this :
  1. X-Men
  2. X-Men 2
  3. X-Men : Last Stand
  4. X-Men : First Class
  5. The Wolverine
  6. X-Men : Days of Future Past (optimal conclusion)
  7. X-Men : Apocalypse (optional conclusion, I just like the final shot)
  8. Logan (optional conclusion, but must-see)
I skipped Wolverine Origins, Deadpool 1 & 2, Dark Phoenix, and New Mutants because they don't fit in.

X-Men '97 gave me the need to get another crack at the franchise but I didn't have a lot of time, so I went for an intensive peek and I came up with what I consider probably the best way for non-Marvel fans/non-initiated to have a shot at the X-Men saga :
  1. X-Men
  2. X-Men 2
  3. Logan
This makes a perfect trilogy, with little to no inconsistencies, there are only some nods to the first X-Men film and some references to the Weapon X program which can be found in the second installment. What's left is a great three-parter with the concept of family as the core theme.
 
One of my kids watched Infinity War last night. I spent the majority of the movie thinking maybe I haven’t seen this one. Almost nothing seemed familiar. Then the snap happened and I remembered it. That’s the MCU for me; it’s a fine bit of entertainment but most of it is immediately and completely forgettable after viewing.
 
DirtyCop1036 said:
I went for an intensive peek and I came up with what I consider probably the best way for non-Marvel fans/non-initiated to have a shot at the X-Men saga :
  1. X-Men
  2. X-Men 2
  3. Logan
This makes a perfect trilogy, with little to no inconsistencies, there are only some nods to the first X-Men film and some references to the Weapon X program which can be found in the second installment. What's left is a great three-parter with the concept of family as the core theme.
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Whether one loves Logan or considers it a middling, wildly overrated flick (guilty!), I think it's the clear outlier of the X-series, way out there with New Mutants. Whether one finds its tone serious and profound, or thinks it's mainly interested in having the appearance of profundity by throwing out deep-seeming sound bites like "there's no living with a killing" that it has zero interest in actually exploring (guilty!), it doesn't really connect with any of the other movies, nor will its timeline of Xavier accidentally killing the X-Men and no mutants having been born in decades ever be revisited. (I'll always be disappointed that the family the group seeks refuge with mid-movie is a bunch of randos, rather than a reformed and retired Victor Creed, with Liev Schreiber reprising the role. Also, the movie should certainly not have exceeded two hours.)

I'm confident that Deadpool and Wolverine, on the other hand, with its goofier tone and time-travel shenanigans, will fit in far more comfortably to the larger X/MCU saga, alongside such flicks as Days of Future Past, Deadpool 2, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (with its Xavier cameo), Loki, etc. Logan will come to be seen as what it always was: a grimdark outlier of an Elseworlds tale. IMHO, the only Fox X-movies that will really be considered essential will be X-Men, X2, First Class, Days of Future Past, and Deadpool 2. All the rest, while of varying degrees of quality, will be entirely optional.

:)
 
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