CLOSED: TDMMC Comic Book Movie Madness: Non-MCU Marvel Group 3

[Spider-Dan]

#6 Deadpool (2016)



A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal but ugly, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.

Director: Tim Miller
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller

#11 X-Men (2000)



In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Tom DeSanto, Bryan Singer
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen

#3 X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014)



The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman

#14 Hulk (2003)



Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.

Director: Ang Lee
Writers: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
Stars: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott

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Pick two to advance!

[Spider-Dan]

I went with Deadpool and Days of Future Past.  Both solid movies.

But Deadpool is an example of the type of thing I mentioned in a previous thread: the movie Marvel Studios would never make.  Marvel Studios makes good movies, but they are all 100% safe.  Deadpool was an entirely new kind of movie; a risk that paid off.  It's the second movie to save the X-Men franchise (after First Class).

[Tenshot13]

I went Deadpool and the first X-Men.  X-Men was one of the  trailblazers for Marvel movies.

[Dave Gray]

This was really hard for me.

I ultimately went with Deadpool and X-Men.

I really do like Days of Future Past and think it's probably a better movie than both these others.  But X-Men deserves a lot of credit.  It did a solid job of grounding such an absurd concept.  The beginning stuff with Magneto as a child bending the Aushwitz gates is still really powerful.  And he's such a reaonable villain .... a hero in some sense.  The fate of comic book movies hinged on that film.

And Deadpool, like Spider said is just not like other stuff.



No disrespect to Days of Future Past, though.  That movie is hella solid.

[Spider-Dan]

You know what?  You guys convinced me to change my vote from Days of Future Past to X-Men.

Days of Future Past is no better than 5th among the X-Men movies for me (behind Logan, X2, Deadpool, and First Class), and X-Men really ushered in the era we are in today.  X-Men and Iron Man are arguably the two most significant comic book movies ever made, and given that comic book movies now stand atop all genres in earnings, that makes them two of the most important movies ever made.

X-Men and Deadpool it is.

[Dave Gray]

Shout out to Ang Lee's HULK.  Ultimately I don't think it's very good, specifically some of the weird stuff with his Dad and the dogs and all that.  But I think the way that it was put together like comic book panels was pretty cool.  There was a great movie in there somewhere.  And I like the cast.  I think that Sam Elliot is perfectly cast. 

[Spider-Dan]

Voting has ended! Deadpool and X-Men advance to the next round.